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St. Matthew Parish teen Julia Tognotti is home from Nogales, Ariz., where she and her father David traveled as guests of the Kino Border Initiative on June 17 to deliver goods and speak with immigrant youth detained by immigration officials at the Mexican-U.S. border.

The Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Arizona, is a Catholic-run organization working to promote immigration policies that affirm the dignity of the human person and a spirit of binational solidarity.

Tognotti said the motivation behind her five-day trip to Nogales is more humanitarian than political. “I just wanted to go help make their journey in either direction a bit better,” she said.

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A pro-life demonstrator holds her child as activists gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 26 to celebrate the court decision striking down a Massachusetts law that mandated a buffer zone to keep pro-life demonstrators away from abortion clinics.

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Catholic San Francisco won seven awards for work published in 2013 in the 40,001-plus circulation diocesan newspaper category at the 2014 Catholic Press Association conference June 25-27 in Charlotte, N.C. Second place for best in-depth news/ special reporting went to contributing writer Araceli Martinez for “I love you very much,” her July 19, 2013, center spread on a couple’s grief over the loss of their son in a fatal shooting.

“Very focused storytelling, great vivid details. A narrow second,” the judges said of the article, which highlighted work by the archdiocese’s restorative justice ministry to address the roots and consequences of violence in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Honorable mention for best editorial on a local issue went to former arch-

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diocesan director of communications and public policy George Wesolek for “Retaking our streets.” The judges described the Jan. 18 commentary as “a heartfelt plea for a restorative justice approach to violence and crime.” Wesolek, who had been director of public policy and social concerns for the archdiocese since 1985, died of cancer April 28 at age 70.

Deacon Faiva Po’oi, who serves at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo and is one of five local Sunday Scripture reflection writers for the paper, won first place for best regular Scripture column. “Likeable combination of Scripture and analysis. Very informative and focused,” the judges remarked.

Deacon Po’oi’s March 15, April 26 and Nov. 8 columns were submitted for consideration.

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WASHINGTON – In a June 26 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics – meant to keep demonstrators away – violates First Amendment rights.

The decision, a victory for pro-life groups that may affect a 2013 San Francisco ordinance creating a 25foot buffer zone around reproductive health facilities, reversed an appellate court decision upholding a 2007 Massachusetts law that made it a crime for anyone other than clinic workers to stand within the yellow semicircular lines painted 35 feet from entrances of Planned Parenthood clinics in Boston, Springfield and Worcester.

Eleanor McCullen, lead plaintiff in the case, McCullen v. Coakley,

With one parishioner’s challenge to welcome the stranger, the annual Lenten soup and bread suppers at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco became a ministry that would grow to serve a weekly, homemade multicourse meal and warm Catholic hospitality to 100 men and women from all over the city.

The spark for the parish’s Wednesday Suppers was struck in 2001 when a parishioner at that year’s Lenten light meal commented, as program director Ron Pacheco Ron Pacheco recalled in a recent interview, that “we walk over homeless people on the way to this dinner.” The parishioner went out into the street and invited four or five people to join the meal.

Rising to the challenge, the parish then developed a dinner for homeless youth who had migrated to San Francisco and often found it a tough place to survive.

Eventually the needs of youth were served by other providers and the weekly supper at the Castro District

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parish attracted people of all ages, most of them from outside the neighborhood.

“All regulars,” Pacheco said. “We keep a list. As they fall off, new people are added. We keep the number at 100. They’re checked off and given a name tag. The intent was to develop a little community. The same people come. They sit with their Wednesday night friends. It’s a good meal; it’s a time they’re waited on unlike any other place.”

In the first days the church had just been remodeled and there was some resistance to offering such hospitality to the homeless, Pacheco said. But in time the community began to regard the guests not as unpredictable strangers but as “our homeless people.” The parishioners have for the most part adopted the program, with 30 volunteers and three collections a year.

The program provides a barber and podiatrist and distributes clothing and screens a movie monthly, and medical personnel are in-house weekly. More than 200 bag lunches are issued weekly for men and women to take away for another meal. “Nobody goes away hungry,” Pacheco said.

For more information, visit www.mhr.org/wed-suppers.html.

Volunteer Bill Terheyden greets guests at a table. Each table is assigned a volunteer, who serves as a waiter and cleans the table between courses.

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Guests register for Wednesday Supper at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco. The guest list is maintained at 100 and guests are given name tags before sitting down to a multicourse meal with a vegetarian option.

Left, guests Joy Odrobina and 13-month-old daughter Daley Morales arrive for dinner. “We love coming here, it feels like home to us,” Joy said. Right, guests Mickey and Anne Marie. Below, socializing with friends around the table is an important part of the weekly suppers.

Leftover food is served to those who wish to take some with them. Each guest also can pick up a bagged sandwich for a later meal.

Left, parishioner and volunteer Frank Woodeshick prepares soup for the meal’s first course. Center, Michael Schaffer removes homemade meatballs from the oven. Right, parishioner Ikuko Hotta and parish business manager Michael Poma set out dessert.

Photographer Dennis Callahan won an honorable mention in the category of best photo story originating with a newspaper, for “Feeding body and soul,” a June 7 narrative about the Wednesday supper ministry for the homeless at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco.

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NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST. FRANCIS: Business manager Chris Greenawalt walks through the historic shrine church closed through fall for renovations specified in a $400,000 gift last year from an anonymous donor. The hardwood floor and pews installed following the 1906 earthquake have been removed to make way for a new granite floor and refurbished oak pews with hydraulic kneelers. The shrine church dates back to 1849 when it became the city of San Francisco’s first house of worship for non-indigenous Catholics. Statuary and other precious artwork and furnishings were removed from the nave, alcoves and sanctuary and stored for safekeeping in back rooms during the duration of the construction project which is expected to conclude by Oct. 4 – the feast of St. Francis.

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Convert creates book on church architecture CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Readers who pick up a copy of “Catholic Churches, Big and Small” may spot their own parish among the 40 archdiocesan churches that make cameo appearances in a new children’s picture book written and illustrated by San Francisco visual artist Stefan Salinas.

Stefan Salinas The first page of the colorfully illustrated, 48-page book asks children of any age, “Have you ever been inside a Catholic church?”

Readers follow the fictional journey of a father, his two children and a nun as they explore the Catholic churches of a single city in a Pope Francis-inspired vintage Renault.

“I visited a lot of parishes to learn about this faith I was entering,” said Salinas, who was raised Unitarian and converted to Catholicism three years ago after completing the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program at St. Vincent de Paul Parish. He is now a parishioner at Most Holy Redeemer Parish.

A fine artist with a degree from the University of Houston, Salinas said he created the book as much for himself as he did Catholic children.

The making of the book was a big part of his Catholic education, he said. He spent more than a year visiting parishes in San Francisco, talking to pastors and parishioners, taking photographs and learning about the history of each church.

“I found a lot more diversity than I expected,” he said, in terms of artistic and spiritual expression.

In his story, Sister Barbara acts as tour guide to the family and readers.

She describes what happens inside a church and why, as the family visits big and small, simple and ornate churches.

The children learn about religious art and architecture that exists within their city – not identified as San Francisco but clear at least to adult readers – through church floor plans, artwork and furnishings.

Sister Barbara was named by Salinas after St. Barbara, the patron saint of builders and architects.

“I consider this book for adults too,” he said. “I’ve had many adult Catholics tell me they learned something they didn’t know.

Salinas talked with Catholic San Francisco at St. Philip the Apostle Church on June 11, a little over a month after the release of his self-published book,

with his friend and “technical advisor,” pastor Father Tony La Torre, at his side.

The pair sat in the small parish chapel under a large stained-glass depiction of St. Francis and the wolf of Gubbio. Salinas designed and donated the window artwork to the parish last year.

Salinas and Father La Torre leafed through the book, pointing to familiar, unnamed faces that appear throughout, such as that of Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, St. Vincent de Paul pastor Father Kenneth Westray or Church of the Visitacion pastor Father Thuan Hoang.

On a spread that shows the Cathedral of St. Mary on Geary Boulevard, Father La Torre is seen walking his dog Tennessee.

“It’s kind of like ‘Where’s Waldo’ for Catholics,” joked Father La Torre, who also identified his parish’s distinctive paschal candle on the page about church furnishings.

After moving to San Francisco 14 years ago, Salinas began attending Mass with Catholic friends on occasion and volunteered with Catholic organizations. He was drawn to the church, he said, but had no real intention of converting. The process of making the book helped change his mind.

“Before I became a Christian, the art and architecture of churches, particularly Catholic ones, drew me in,” he said. “That’s how the spirit started working.

“I unexpectedly became Catholic,” he laughed.

“Catholic Churches, Big and Small” is available at Books Inc., Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, the St. Mary’s Cathedral gift shop and Kaufer’s Religious Supplies. Visit www. churchesbigandsmall.blogspot.com.

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Teacher strived to engage students during four decades in classroom TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Karen Raccanello has taught Italian and Spanish in high schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for 43 years, the last 30 at Marin Catholic. I was happy to talk with her via email about her experience and what retirement might bring.

“Retirement begins a new chapter for me,” Karen told me. She said immediate plans include only time with “my family and friends, and to do Karen some volunteer work.”

Raccanello Karen’s first teaching assignment was as a substitute at Sacred Heart High School – now Sacred Heart Cathedral – in 1971. She then moved across the street to Cathedral High School for 13 years.

“I was asked in 1984, by Marin Catholic, to start an Italian program at the school,” Karen said.

The best moment as an educator, Karen said, is when students are “totally engaged in the moment” and bring “a fresh perspective to the topic or the activity.”

Karen said teaching “never gets easier” but no two days or classes are alike, guaranteeing a career that will never be boring.

Karen has tried to be “always searching for new ideas” to improve her skills as a teacher. She hopes she has been a teacher willing to admit when she’s made a mistake, modeled the behavior and attitude she wanted students to develop, and held students accountable compassionately.

Karen attended Catholic schools. “I am blessed that my teachers dedicated their lives to Catholic education,” she said.” After my parents, they were my first examples of church, and as such, they had a profound impact on how I would live my life. The amazing men and women who work in Catholic education today continue to spread Christ’s message of love, respect and peace.”

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SACRED SPACE: Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall, San Francisco Schools of the Sacred Heart, recently dedicated a campus chapel to retired Sacred Heart Sister Mary Mardel, a part of the schools as teacher and administrator for more than 40 years.

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STEP BY STEP: Michael Pappas, left, executive director, San Francisco Interfaith Council; Jack Sampior, Archbishop Riordan High School sophomore; and Riordan teacher John Ahlbach were among those out in force for the council-sponsored WinterFaith Walk around Lake Merced May 4. About100 people took the trip raising more than $13,000. Riordan’s 15 walkers raised $3,500 toward the total. Proceeds house and supply meals for homeless people during the year’s coldest months. come an effective agent of positive change in whatever career path he ultimately chooses. John’s folks are M. Suzanne and Philip A. Calandra of Foster City.

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Archdiocese’s Respect Life program: Diverse resources to support women ARE YOU CALLED TO SERVE?

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What’s the ďŹ rst thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “Respect Life program?â€? Nine out of 10 people will probably say “abortion.â€? But the San Francisco archdiocesan Respect Life program is so much more. Our ministries supporting mothers in unplanned pregnancies and bringing healing to those dealing with the aftermath of abortion are second to none and superior to most. The reason: They deal with the whole person on an ongoing basis in partnership with Christ.

For pregnancy assistance, look no further than The Gabriel Project, an archdiocesan-sponsored, parishbased ministry that can and should be exclusively promoted in our parishes. It is essential to distinguish The Gabriel Project from other ministries and crisis pregnancy organizations that help pregnant mothers in important but limited ways. Through the individual talents of parishioners, collaboration with other parish ministries and utilization of community resources, The Gabriel Project embodies the full range of support to pregnant mothers and their children.

When a pregnant mother calls our help line for assistance, the parish coor-

THE GABRIEL PROJECT: Fredi D’Alessio, program coordinator, (415) 614-5551; sfgabrielproject@gmail. com. http://sfgabrielproject.wordpress.com. Help line, 1 (800) 9102848.

PROJECT RACHEL: Mary Ann Schwab, program coordinator, (415) dinator of the participating church nearest to where she lives is contacted immediately. The coordinator contacts the mother to make an initial assessment of her situation. A parish volunteer or “angel� is assigned the responsibility for mentoring her throughout her pregnancy and somewhat beyond. The parish community responds by providing spiritual, emotional and material support.

Through prayer and action they assure the mother that she has their love and the love of Christ. If we ask a pregnant woman to respect, protect and love the life of her child, we must demand of ourselves at least a small share of the heroism we ask of her.

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Project Rachel ministry. Project Rachel is a program of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that offers hope, healing and sacramental reconciliation to those suffering the consequences of abortion by sharing the love and mercy of Christ. Unlike The Gabriel Project, Project Rachel does not have parish representatives per se as part of its structure but is implemented at the archdiocesan level.

When a call for help is received through one of our two dedicated phone

lines set up to protect the conďŹ dentiality of the caller, the client’s situation is assessed and guidance is provided. This may include referral to a Project Rachel program-trained, one-to-one mentor, a priest or spiritual counselor, or agencies and individual providers who share our values on the dignity of human life and sexuality and are willing to partner with us in planning spiritual reconciliation following emotional healing.

Other services currently offered include periodic trainings for mentors and priests, non-residential retreats for Spanish-speaking individuals, and in partnership with Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma, a biennial healing liturgy in memory of babies who have died from any cause including abortion.

Some who have participated in these informational programs have become part of our Project Rachel Committee.

Others provide outreach in the parishes and make referrals to the program.

EVANS is coordinator of the San Francisco archdiocese Respect Life program.

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Sisters’ Lantern Center a welcoming light in Mission LIZ DOSSA

Gathered around a table at the Lantern Hospitality Center in San Francisco’s Mission District, five women listen intently to each other. They select their words carefully to describe their lives in English.

“I worked nights from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. at a hotel where I was treated so badly,” said Eugenia. “I was so stressed, sad and angry. Then one day I told Sister Rosann, ‘I need help. Pray for me. I need opportunity.’”

Adult students full of hope lean into their futures here. They juggle work schedules, children and rides to come to a place of welcome. In celebrating their 150th anniversary in San Francisco, the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary wanted to mark their presence through a new ministry to the city’s marginalized. Sister Maire Sullivan found the site, a former Dominican convent, in 2006, and the Presentation Sisters gave a ministry subsidy to open the center. It was christened the Lantern, as the Presentation sisters’ founder Nano Nagle was known as the Lady with the Lantern, holding up her lamp to see her way through the dark streets of Cork, Ireland, visiting the poor.

The blue plastic sign at the Lantern Center’s entrance proclaims in large block letters, “ALL ARE WELCOME BIENVENIDOS.” In smaller letters, “English, computer and citizenship classes.” The classes are free.

“We put the word hospitality first,” Sister Maire said. “It’s a place where people can come and are welcome. Because when they feel at home they can learn English better.”

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Mercy Sister Joan Clarke, a volunteer at the Lantern Hospitality Center, is pictured with Lantern founder Presentation Sister Maire Sullivan, standing. people in as they are. We give service, but we learn a lot from people we serve.”

The center feels as open as a palm of a hand. The large, light main room is lined with shelves with student files, workbooks, and notebooks. Upstairs is a computer classroom where a computer teacher, Norma, the only paid staff person, teaches the computer basics. The budget is slim, and the main expense is the rent paid to the parish. “We are frugal,” admits Sister Maire.

At one of the rectangular tables, Mercy Sister Rosann Fraher leads her group with a gentle authority. As the women, all immigrants from Mexico and Central America, talk about their lives, she gives praise and encouragement, doling out paper dollars in response to a good question and the courage to ask it.

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Her student Flor from Nicaragua at 74 is delighted to finally focus on learning English after raising eight children as a single mom in San Francisco. Teaching those who want so much to learn English was Sister Rosann’s longtime dream. After years in teaching at St. Peter School, at St. Anne and as principal at Mercy High School, Burlingame, she was delighted to find that Sister Maire had founded the Lantern. She signed on as a volunteer and became a member of the board.

Eugenia finishes her story. Both her hard work learning English and the prayers have been fruitful.

“One week after I asked Sister Rosann for help, my dream came true. An opening for a bus person at the hotel restaurant came. I said to the manager, ‘Please let me try for one week. Please give me the opportunity. Watch me.’ I tried to speak a little more English.”

She pauses, smiling: “I got the job!”

Archdiocese’s longtime HR director retires Carl Feil signed on as director of human resources for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1996. He retires from his offices at One Peter Yorke Way July 8. His appointment here followed an almost 30-year HR career with Qantas Airways.

In a June 9 letter to priests Feil summarized the efforts of the office while under his leadership.

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planted, and lay foundations that will need further development.” Feil said he borrowed the words from late Archbishop Oscar Romero, whose dedication to human rights cost him his life.

The HR office has strived to integrate Gospel values with best organizational practices, as applicable and consistent with the U.S. bishops’ document “‘CoWorkers in the Vineyard of the Lord,” Feil said. Under Feil’s guidance the archdiocese developed several new plans to assist in parish management including parish pay guidelines, HR training workshops for pastors and location administrators covering a wide range of employment and benefits topics; a publication “HR Connect,” in 2002; and parish employee handbooks providing uniform personnel policies.

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In a note to chancery employees, Feil said: “I have found the work in this office to be very satisfying, enriching and at times challenging. … these were all opportunities that strengthened my faith and have given me opportunities to grow professionally and personally.”

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US APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS LEGALITY OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN UTAH CASE

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After issuing its decision June 25, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals immediately put its ruling on hold pending an appeal. The Utah attorney generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office said in a statement it planned to ďŹ le a petition with the Supreme Court.

The circuit court covers Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming. As a result, same-sex marriage bans in those states face being overturned in a court challenge.

No immediate reaction came from the bishops in the affected states.

Since the Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act in June 2013, 16 federal judges have issued rulings in favor of same-sex marriage.

In the most recent case, a federal judge in Indiana ruled that stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional. A federal appeals court issued a stay of the June 25 ruling by Judge Richard Young of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

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A municipal judge officiated over marriage ceremonies for the couples.

The bishops of Indiana and Missouri issued statements reiterating church teaching that marriage can only be between one man and one woman.

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BRITISH HIGH COURT REJECTS CHALLENGES TO ASSISTED SUICIDE LAWS

MANCHESTER, England – Britain’s highest court has thrown out three challenges to laws against assisted suicide.

Two of them involved cases in which severely disabled men said their right to privacy was being violated by the 1961 Suicide Act, which makes assisting a suicide a crime punishable by up to 14 years in jail.

A third man sought clarification about whether anyone who helped him to commit suicide in Switzerland, where assisted suicide is permitted, would face prosecution in Britain.

In a ruling published June 25, the Supreme Court dismissed all three – the third unanimously – and as a result exhausted a long battle by assisted suicide activists to change the law through the courts.

CHRISTIANS WITHOUT MARY IN THEIR LIFE ARE ORPHANS, POPE SAYS

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis told a group of young people discerning a religious vocation to never go it alone, but always stay by their mother, Mary.

“A Christian without Our Lady is an orphan.

Also a Christian without the church is an orphan.

A Christian needs these two women, two mothers, two virgins: the church and Our Lady,” he said June 28.

The pope spoke off-the-cuff to a group of young men from the Diocese of Rome during a brief moment of prayer at the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens.

He apologized for being late to the evening appointment saying he was so engrossed “in a very interesting conversation” with someone, that he lost track of the time.

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with laicization after a canonical process conducted by the Vatican Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith, the Vatican said in a written statement June 27.

The 65-year-old archbishop has two months to appeal the decision.

The Vatican City criminal court’s own trial of the archbishop will begin once the canonical process concludes, the statement said.

POPE: LOVE’S GIVING, NOT RECEIVING; IT’S BEST THROUGH ACTION, NOT WORDS

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‘From bad to worse’ Iraqi refugees line up to receive free food inside the Khazer camp on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, June 29. Archbishop Bashar Matte Warda of Irbil told Catholic News Service by telephone June 28 the situation was going “from bad to worse.” Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled shelling by extremist militants and were seeking refuge in the neighboring autonomous Kurdistan region, said Catholic leaders in northern Iraq, who expressed grave concern for the people’s fate.

“Forgive me! This is not acceptable. Punctuality must be respected,” he told them.

The pope told the young people that God had a vocation in mind for everyone, but that it was up to each person to “look for it, find it and then go on, keep going.” The best thing to do is always pray to Mary and keep her close when one needs to make a major life decision like the choice of one’s vocation, he said.

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VATICAN CITY – A Vatican investigation has led to the expulsion of a former Vatican ambassador from the priesthood in response to allegations of sexually abusing minors.

Polish Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, the former nuncio to the Dominican Republic, was sentenced

VATICAN CITY – Love is more about giving than receiving and is best expressed through action, not words, Pope Francis said.

God’s love, in fact, can only be experienced by people willing to let go of their egos and humbly let God take the lead, allowing him take their hand like a loving father with his children, the pope said in his homily June 27.

Celebrating the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pope Francis focused his homily on the heart of Jesus and his immense love.

“One can say that today is the feast of God’s love in Jesus Christ, of God’s love for us, of God’s love in us,” he said during an early morning Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

The pope said, “There are two aspects of love.

First, love is more about giving than receiving. Second, love is more about deeds than words,” he said, according to Vatican Radio.

Love is always given or transmitted to another, he said, and “love always gives life, fosters growth.”

But, in order to understand and experience God’s love, people have to be humble and childlike before the immensity of the divine, he said. God wants a “father-child relationship” with people and wants to assure everybody, “I am with you.”

“This is the tender affection of the Lord,” the pope said. “This is what he communicates and it gives strength to our tenderness.

“But if we make ourselves out to be strong,” he said, “we will never experience the Lord’s caress, the Lord’s caresses, (that are) so beautiful.”

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Synod document cites cultural and economic threats to family FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The working document for the October 2014 extraordinary Synod of Bishops offers a picture of the Catholic Church today struggling to preach the Gospel and transmit moral teachings amid a “widespread cultural, social and spiritual crisis” of the family.

The 75-page “instrumentum laboris,” published by the Vatican June 26, is supposed to “provide an initial reference point” for discussion at the synod, whose theme will be the “pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization.”

The document is based principally on comments solicited in a questionnaire last November from national bishops’ conferences around the world. But it also reflects comments sent directly to the Vatican by individuals and groups responding to the questionnaire, which was widely published on the Internet.

Topics in the working document include some of the most contested and controversial areas of Catholic moral teaching on the family, including contraception, divorce and remarriage, same-sex marriage, premarital sex and in vitro fertilization.

Bishops’ conferences responding to the questionnaire attributed an increasing disregard of such teachings to a variety influences, including “hedonistic culture; relativism; materialism; individualism; (and) the growing secularism.”

Recognizing that most Catholic couples do not follow the church’s teaching against the use of artificial birth control, the document says that “for many Catholics the concept of ‘responsible parenthood’ encompasses the shared responsibility in conscience to choose the most appropriate method of birth control.”

The document says the use of natural family planning, condoned by the church, encourages responsible decisions about family size while respecting human fertility and “the dignity of the sexual relationship between husband and wife.”

Bishops expressed particular concern with the “ideology called gender theory, according to which the gender of each individual turns out to be simply the product of social conditioning and needs” without “any correspondence to a person’s biological sexuality.”

The bishops see a need for better teaching of “Christian anthropology,” the document states. Noting that contemporary culture dismisses or misunderstands theories of “natural law,” which seek to “found human rights on reason,” bishops increasingly prefer to in-

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Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, one of three cardinals Pope Francis chose to serve as presidents of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, speaks during a press conference at the Vatican June 26. voke Scripture in support of Catholic moral teaching.

The document also points to economic factors behind Catholics’ disregard of that teaching: Cohabitation without marriage can be driven by financial need; youth unemployment; and a lack of housing.” A widespread “contraceptive mentality” reflects, in part, a shortage of “child care, flexible working hours (and) parental leave.” Long working hours and commuting times “take a toll on family relationships.”

“The church is called to offer real support for decent jobs, just wages and a fiscal policy favoring the family as well as programs of assistance to families and children,” the document states.

The document refers briefly to scandals over the sexual abuse of children by priests, which it says “significantly weaken the church’s moral credibility,” as do other forms of “counter-witness in the church,” including the lavish lifestyles of some clergy and unwelcoming attitudes in some parishes toward separated, divorced or single parents.

The bishops recognize the challenges of ministering to growing numbers of people in such “irregular” situations, including divorced Catholics who have remarried civilly without obtaining an annulment of their first marriage, leaving them ineligible to receive Communion.

Their predicament, which Pope Francis has said exemplifies a special need for mercy in the church today, has been a topic of unusually open debate at the highest levels of the church over the last year.

Many in such situations feel “frustrated and marginalized,” the document states, noting proposals for rendering the annulment process simpler and quicker

The complete text of the synod working document in English will be posted at: www.vatican.va/roman_curia/ synod/index.htm.

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– and warnings that such streamlining might obscure church doctrine on the indissolubility of marriage.

The document also notes proposals that the Catholic Church consider adopting Orthodox practice, which allows for second and even third marriages under certain circumstances.

On the other hand, some bishops and others “want to see more attention given to separated and divorced persons who have not remarried but have remained faithful to their nuptial vows,” and who often “have the added suffering of not being given proper care by the church and thus overlooked.”

The document draws a connection between family breakdown and a “crisis of faith,” noting that, with the increase in single-parent households, many children now miss experiencing the “love of a father, thereby making it particularly difficult to experience God’s love and him as Father.”

Regarding unions between partners of the same sex, bishops around the world “are trying to find a balance between the church’s teaching on the family and a respectful, non-judgmental attitude toward people living in such unions.”

“A distinction must be made between those who have made a personal, and often painful, choice and live that choice discreetly so as not to give scandal to others, and those whose behavior promotes and actively – often aggressively – calls attention to it,” the document states.

While opposing adoption of children by same-sex couples, almost all bishops said they would greet requests to baptize children living with such couples “with the same care, tenderness and concern which is given to other children.”

The document states that children of parents in “irregular” situations should also feel welcome in Catholic schools, where “words and expressions need to be used which create a sense of belonging and not exclusion ... fully aware that ‘irregular’ is a word applied to situations, not persons.”

“Children or young people are not to blame for the choices and living situations of their parents,” the document states. It adds that excessive rigidity in such matters runs the risk of “making an unjust distinction between different morally unacceptable situations,” for instance, by punishing children of an invalid marriage but not those whose parents “live a life of crime and exploitation.”

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‘Building a civilization of truth and love’ Following Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s talk at the March for Marriage June 19 in Washington, D.C.

does not change. If the law does not correspond to our nature, such that there is a conflict between the law and nature, guess which will prevail? And people will figure it out.

In our Catholic faith tradition, young people around the age of junior high school or high school receive the sacrament of Confirmation, normally administered by the bishop. At a Confirmation ceremony I celebrated recently in a large, Hispanic parish, two of the young people shared some reflections on what their Confirmation meant to them. They said that their Confirmation gave them the grace to go forth and “build a civilization of truth and love.” I could not have said it better myself ! And that, my friends, is why we are here. Both are necessary, both, together, if we wish to have a flourishing society: truth and love.

This is the legacy we have received from our ancestors in faith.

To my fellow believers in Jesus Christ I would call our attention to those first generations of Christians in the city of Rome, who were so often scapegoated by the powerful pagan Roman government. But when a plague would strike the city and the well-to-do fled to the hills for safety until the plague subsided, it was the Christians who stayed behind to care for the sick, at great risk to their own health and very lives. And not just the Christian sick: all the sick, regardless of religion, of how they lived their lives, or even what they thought of the Christians themselves. The historian Eusebius noted about the Christians of his time, “All day long some of them tended to the dying and to their burial, countless numbers with no one to care for them. Others gathered together from all parts of the city a multitude of those withered from famine and distributed bread to them all.” Likewise, the Emperor Julian complained to one of his pagan priests, “[They] support not only their poor, but ours as well.”

It is this kind of love and compassion in the service of truth, especially the truth of the human person, that has marked the lives of the holy ones of our own faith tradition and others as well: hospitals, orphanages, schools, outreach to the poor and destitute – giving without concern for getting anything in return, seeing in each human being, especially in the poor and destitute, a priceless child beloved by God, whom God calls to turn away from sin and toward Him, so that they might be saved. In 1839 Jeanne Jugan met one such priceless child of God, a blind old crippled woman whom nobody cared for. That night, Jeanne carried the woman home to her apartment, and put her to sleep in her own bed. From this profound encounter was born the Little Sisters of the Poor, who even today are loving, caring for and providing homes for thousands of elderly who deserve dignity as well as care. These are the very nuns who now face the possibility of being shut out of spreading the love of Jesus to the needy because of their refusal to comply with a health care mandate that violates their moral convictions, convictions which stand on the truth of basic human dignity.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, addresses several hundred supporters of traditional marriage during the second annual March for Marriage on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington June 19.

Let us, then, take our cue from the best our predecessors in faith have inspired, and not humanity’s frequent failings and sins. Like them, we now in our own time need to proclaim and live the truth with charity and compassion as it applies to us today: the truth of a united family based on the union of the children’s father and mother in marriage as the foundational good of society. Every child comes from a man and a woman, and has a right, a natural human right, to know and be known by, to love and be loved by, their own mother and father. This is the great public good that marriage is oriented toward and protects. The question is then: Does society need an institution that unites children to the mothers and fathers who bring them into the world, or doesn’t it? If it does, that institution is marriage – nothing else provides this basic good to children.

Yes, this is a foundational truth, and one to which we must witness by lives lived in conformity to it, and which we must proclaim with love. Love for those millions of loving single mothers and fathers who struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives and succeed in creating loving homes for their children – they need and deserve our love, affirmation and support. Love for the husband struggling with fidelity, for the woman who feels abandoned and pressured into abortion, for the teenager struggling to believe in the heroic vision of love that makes sense of chastity, for the single person who cannot find a mate, for the childless couple trying to cope with infertility, for the wife who finds herself nursing a sick husband in her marriage bed, for the young person trying to navigate through sexual identity issues and may feel alienated from the Church because of it, maybe even because of the sort of treatment received from those who profess to be believers. To all of you, I say: Know that you are a child of God, that you are called to heroic love and that with God’s help you can do it, that we

love you and want to support you in living your God-given call.

And let us not forget: We must also proclaim this truth especially with love for those who disagree with us on this issue, and most of all, for those who are hostile toward us. We must be careful, though, not to paint our opponents on this issue with broad strokes. There is a tendency in our culture to do this to groups of people the powerful don’t know and think they don’t like. We must not do that. We must recognize that there are people on the other side of this debate who are of good will and are sincerely trying to promote what they think is right and fair. It is misdirected good will.

But even those from whom we suffer retribution – and I know some of you have suffered in very serious ways because of your stand for marriage – still, we must love them.

That is what our ancestors in faith did, and we must, too. Yes, it is easy to become resentful when you are relentlessly and unfairly painted as a bigot and are punished for publicly standing by the basic truth of marriage as a foundational societal good; it is tempting to respond in kind. Don’t. For those of us who are Catholic, we just heard our Master command us in the Gospel proclaimed at Mass the day before yesterday: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Mt 5:44). We must not allow the angry rhetoric to co-opt us into a culture of hate.

Yes, we must show love toward all of these and more. Love is the answer. But love in the truth. The truth is that every child comes from a mother and a father, and to deliberately deprive a child of knowing and being loved by his or her mother and father is an outright injustice. That is our very nature, and no law can change it. Those with temporal power over us might choose to change the definition of marriage in the law even against all that we have accomplished through very generous participation in the democratic process, but our nature

We can take heart from what we see happening now in the pro-life movement. Back in the early 1970s, just before the Court issued its infamous Roe vs. Wade ruling, public support for abortion was growing rapidly. And as with marriage redefinition today, a generation gap opened up in the polls, leading many to predict that opposition to abortion would literally die off. That was the future; before long, it would not even be an issue. Instead, something unexpected happened. A relatively small band of faithful believers held the line on the sanctity of human life in the womb, and today, two generations later, the pro-life movement is flourishing like never before. We now have the most pro-life generation of young adults since the infamous Roe decision. People have figured out that it is a human life that is within the mother’s womb, and that abortion, yes, really does harm women; they’ve figured out that it’s good to cherish that human life and surround the mother with love and support so a truly happy choice can be made, the choice for life.

People, too, will figure out that a child comes from a father and a mother, and it’s good for the child to be connected to his or her father and mother. These truths may seem obvious to us, but they aren’t to everyone while in the heat of controversy. They will figure out this truth about marriage, though, because it, too, is in our nature, and it is a key to individual and societal flourishing. All we have to do is look around and see that our society is broken and hurting in so many ways; there is so much work to do to fix it and bring healing. Yes, it is very complex, and many different things need to be done: We need to fix our economy; we especially need to pay a living wage to working class families; we need to fix our broken immigration system; we need to improve our schools, especially those that are failing children from poorer families. Yes, we need to do all this and more. But none of these solutions will have a lasting effect if we do not rebuild a marriage culture, a culture which recognizes and supports the good of intact families, built on the marriage between a man and a woman committed to loving faithfulness to each other and to their children. No justice, no peace, no end to poverty, without a strong culture of marriage and the family.

This noble cause is a call to love we cannot abandon, that we will not give up on, and that in the end we know will triumph.

So take heart: The truth spoken in love has a power over the human heart. We are here today to March for Marriage, to pick up the torch, and pass on to a new generation the truth about marriage, not just the abstract truth, but the lived reality that makes a difference in children’s lives. So, my friends, we must not give up: The truth will not go away, and we will not go away. Let us take heart from the legacy we have received, let us place our trust in God, and let us go forth to build a civilization of truth and love.

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Speakers urge Americans to promote love and truth at March for Marriage JULIA WILLIS AND SARAH HINDS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Political and religious leaders encouraged Americans to promote traditional marriage with truth and love at the second annual March for Marriage.

Referencing the passage from the Gospel of Matthew, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, encouraged march participants June 19 to spread the message of the Gospel with love.

“It is easy to become resentful when you are relentlessly and unfairly painted as a bigot, and are punished for publicly standing by the basic truth of marriage as a foundational societal good,” Archbishop Cordileone told a crowd of several hundred. “It is tempting to respond in kind. Don’t.

We must not allow the angry rhetoric to co-opt us into a culture of hate.”

Co-sponsored by the National Organization for Marriage and the Family Research Council, the March for Marriage brought grass-roots activists to the U.S. Capitol to illustrate that a “majority of Americans still stand for marriage” as the union of one man and one woman, according to event organizers.

Citing traditional marriage as “the key to individual and societal flourishing,” Archbishop Cordileone explained the importance of creating a culture of marriage within the U.S. “Our society is broken and hurting in so many ways,” the archbishop said. “But none of the solutions will have a lasting effect if we do not rebuild a marriage culture, a culture which recognizes and supports ... marriage between a man and a woman committed to loving faithfulness to each other and to their children. No justice, no peace, no end to poverty is possible without a culture of marriage and the family.”

Rick Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, advocated for the dignity of all people as he explained that the movement in favor of traditional marriage “isn’t about hating anyone or anything.”

“This is a movement that is based in love for what is best for children and families in America,” Santorum said. “People from across the ideological spectrum will all admit that marriage between a man and a woman is best for raising children and building strong communities. We need to help rebuild marriage of men and women ... with respect for all people.”

Highlighting procreation as one of the key differences between a romantic relationship and a marriage, the former senator urged participants to become involved in the movement to “reclaim marriage for what it truly is.”

As the crowd prepared to march to the U.S. Supreme Court building, Archbishop Cordileone encouraged the event’s participants to allow love to guide their future efforts in the movement.

“This noble cause is a call to love for us, a call we cannot abandon that ... in the end, we know will triumph,” he said. “So my friends, we must not give up. The truth will not go away and we will not go away. Let us place our trust in God and

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Supporters of traditional marriage wave flags and signs on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington June 19 at the second annual March for Marriage. Several hundred participants walked from the National Mall to the U.S. Supreme Court where they heard speakers express support for marriage between one man and one woman.

‘I’m here to make sure that people my age have a better future.’

XAVIER KREBS, 13 Catonsville, Maryland

let us go forth to build a civilization of truth and love.”

Marchers, among them Father Rick Kosisko, said they felt encouraged in their stance for traditional marriage.

Joined by hundreds of supporters of traditional marriage at the U.S. Capitol June 19, the pastor of St. Pius X Parish in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, told Catholic News Service he was pleased to know that others felt it was important to show up in Washington to share their views about the sacredness of the bond between one man and one woman.

“We feel called to be here,” he said.

“I saw a joyful group there at the rally,” he added as he and about 20 parishioners from across the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, made their way to meet with congressional representatives to press for policies that support traditional marriage.

“I think it’s a foundation, and much like the March for Life, it will continue to grow.”

Mary Ellen Pellegrino, director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Greensburg, joined the Pennsylvania contingent. The group planned to meet with four elected representatives from Pennsylvania during their visit.

“We’re just here to tell them that we hope they will protect marriage, traditional marriage. I’m here because I want to champion the best interests of children,” she said. “In changing the definition of marriage, I think the children get lost.”

Several marchers likened the event to the March for Life. They expressed hope that the March for Marriage, organized by the National Organization for Marriage and the Family Research Council, will someday match the March for Life in influence and magnitude.

“This march is the seed of a movement that is global,” said Deacon Keith Fournier of St. Stephen Martyr Parish in Chesapeake, Virginia, more than five hours from Washington. He said the long drive was worth the effort.

“It’s good to see a grass-roots movement being raised here,” he said.

“We’re not protesting anything,” he continued. “We’re standing for something, something good and wonderful: marriage, and the right of children to have a mom and a dad. The pro-life movement began with events like this and we’ve made tremendous progress. So I’m very, very encouraged.”

The event was especially well attended by young people who wanted to make their voices heard.

Carrying the state flag of Maryland, 13-year-old Xavier Krebs of Catonsville, Maryland, joined the march with several of his peers. “I’m here to make sure that people my age have a better future,” he told CNS. “To make sure we do things God’s way. God says that marriage is between one man and one woman and that’s how it should be.”

Even under attack, family shows its importance, Vatican official says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The continuing strength of many traditional families around the world and the longing of many people to have such a family demonstrate that “despite past or even current challenges, the family, in fact, is the fundamental unit of human society,” said the Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva.

Addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council June 24, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said the family “continually exhibits a vigor much greater than that of the many forces that have tried to eliminate it as a relic of the past or an obstacle to the emanci-

pation of the individual or to the creation of a freer, egalitarian and happy society.”

Speaking just two days before the Vatican was to release the working document for October’s extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, the archbishop emphasized how important traditional families are for the development of the individual and for community development efforts.

Debates about “the nature and definition of the family” at the Human Rights Council and other U.N. agencies often give the impression that “the family is more of a problem than a resource to society,” the archbishop said. Yet “most people find unique protection, nurture and dynamic energy

from their membership in a strong and healthy family founded upon marriage between a man and a woman.”

And at a time when many countries are debating same-sex marriage, he said, “ample evidence has demonstrated that the best interest of the child is assured in a harmonious family environment in which the education and formation of children develop within the context of lived experience with both male and female parental role models.”

The Vatican, he said, firmly believes “the family and marriage need to be defended and promoted not only by the state, but also by the whole of society.

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On being perpetually distracted

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here’s a story in the Hindu tradition that runs something like this: God and a man are walking down a road. The man asks God: “What is the world like?” God answers: “I’d like to tell you, but my throat is parched. I need a cup of cold water. If you can go and get me a cup of cold water, I’ll tell you what the world is like.” The man heads off to the nearest house to ask for a cup of cold water. He knocks on the door and it is opened by a beautiful young woman. He asks for a cup of cold water. She answers: “I will gladly get it for you, but FATHER RON it’s just time for the noon ROLHEISER meal, why don’t you come in first and eat.” He does.

Thirty years later, they’ve had five children, he’s a respected merchant, she’s a respected member of the community, they’re in their house one evening when a hurricane comes and uproots their house. The man cries out: “Help me, God!” And a voice comes from the center of the hurricane says: “Where’s my cup of cold water?”

This story is not so much a spiritual criticism as it is a fundamental lesson in anthropology and spirituality: To be a human being is to be perpetually distracted. We aren’t persons who live in habitual spiritual awareness who occasionally get distracted.

We’re persons who live in habitual distraction who occasionally become spiritually aware. We tend be so preoccupied with the ordinary business of living

that it takes a hurricane of some sort for God to break through.

C.S. Lewis, commenting on why we tend to turn to God only during a hurricane, once put it this way: God is always speaking to us, but normally we aren’t aware, aren’t listening. Accordingly, pain is God’s microphone to a deaf world.

However none of us want that kind of pain; none of us want some disaster, some health breakdown, or some hurricane to shake us up. We prefer a powerful positive event, a miracle or mini-miracle, to happen to us to awaken God’s presence in us because we nurse the false daydream that, if God broke into our lives in some miraculous way, we would then move beyond our distracted spiritual state and get more serious about our spiritual lives. But that’s the exact delusion inside the biblical character in the parable of Lazarus and Dives, where the rich man asks Abraham to send him back from the dead to warn his brothers that they must change their way of living or risk the fiery flames. His plea expresses exactly that false assumption: “If someone comes back from the dead, they will listen to him!” Abraham doesn’t buy the logic. He answers: “They have Moses and the prophets. If they don’t listen to them, they won’t be convinced either, even if someone came back from the dead.” What lies unspoken but critically important in that reply, something easily missed by us, the reader, is that Jesus has already come back from the dead and we aren’t listening to him. Why should we suppose that we would listen to anyone else who comes back from the dead?

Our preoccupation with the ordinary business of our lives is so strong that we are not attentive to the one who has already come back from the dead.

LETTERS Honored to have worked for Msgr. Knapp Thank you for including the passing of Msgr.

Richard S. Knapp (May 18). I had the honor of working for him at three different parishes in food preparation services: Mission Dolores Basilica, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Redwood City and St. Rafael. A finer gentleman in his vocation you’d never find anywhere. All the lives he touched in his priestly career will always be remembered. He has earned his reward in heaven. The basilica, the Old Mission and all who knew him have him in our hearts.

Bob G. Huerta San Francisco The writer is a member of Mission Dolores Basilica Parish.

Long serving at Church of the Visitacion Re “Church of the Visitacion builds corps of altar servers,” June 20: Having taught at Our Lady of the Visitacion School from 1991-2003 the altar server program was one of the wonderful things I appreciated about the parish. They have always invited parish children to altar serve. Daughter of Charity Sister Margaret Mary did a fantastic job coordinating the servers to create a community where the altar servers represented both the school and religious education population effortlessly. Her annual trips to a Giants game with the kids was a huge hit. Please acknowledge, too, the earlier efforts of former pastors Father Joseph Marini, now deceased, and Father Tom Seagrave and so many others who along with Sister Margaret Mary and lay personnel ensured the altar servers at Church of the Visitacion truly represented the entire community. Precious Blood Father Jeff Finley, Father Dave Ghiorso and Bishop Tom Daly were once altar servers at this parish, too.

Joanne Bartolotti South San Francisco

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Given this truth, the Hindu tale just recounted is, in a way, more consoling than chiding. To be human is to be habitually distracted from spiritual things. Such is human nature. Such is our nature. But knowing that our endless proclivity for distraction is normal doesn’t give us permission to be comfortable with that fact.

Great spiritual mentors, not least Jesus, strongly urge us to wake up, to move beyond our over-preoccupation with the affairs of everyday life. Jesus challenges us to not be anxious about how we are to provide for ourselves. He also challenges us to read the signs of the times, namely, to see the finger of God, the spiritual dimension of things, in the everyday events of our lives. All great spiritual literature does the same.

Today there is a rich literature in most spiritual traditions challenging us to mindfulness, to not be mindlessly absorbed in the everyday affairs of our lives.

But great spiritual literature also assures us that God understands us, that grace respects nature, that God didn’t make a mistake in designing human nature, and that God didn’t make us in such a way that we find ourselves congenitally distracted and then facing God’s anger because we are following our nature. Human nature naturally finds itself absorbed in the affairs of everyday life, and God designed human nature in just this way.

And so, I think, God must be akin to a loving parent or grandparent, looking at his or her children at the family gathering, happy that they have interesting lives that so absorb them, content not to be always the center of their conscious attention.

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

Marching for Marriage

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ll day long some of them tended to the dying and to their burial, countless numbers with no one to care for them. Others gathered together from all parts of the city a multitude of those withered from famine and distributed bread to them all.”

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco was quoting from Eusebius, the fourthcentury historian chronicling pagan Rome. Having Christians around wasn’t the worst thing in the world. When a plague hit, KATHRYN instead of fleeing to the JEAN LOPEZ countryside as the well-todo pagans did, they would stick around and care for you when you were sick and forgotten – and they would care for Christians and pagans alike.

Archbishop Cordileone’s nod to history brought to mind images of the 80s. Even as the most vocal activists from ACT-UP were demonstrating in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Catholic schools around my New York City accusing the Catholic Church of hate, Cardinal John O’Connor would be ministering to men dying of AIDS in the arms of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.

But as we jump from headline to headline and from celebration to outrage, human stories often get lost unless used for propaganda. This is a predominant reality of our current culture.

What we hear about people is often caricature.

We opine about their decisions or activities without bothering to learn the facts. This is who we are as a tweeting, blogging, status-updating people.

And so, on the topic of what has become an annual March for Marriage in Washington, D.C., Archbishop Cordileone made the plea: “Please do not make judgments based on stereotypes, media images, and comments taken out of context. Rather, get to know us first as fellow human beings.” Or, perhaps, as Pope Francis put it in another not entirely unrelated context, “Who am I to judge?”

What Archbishop Cordileone goes out into a hostile public square to say is true and its silenc-

ing should not be tolerated. Instead, we should be joining him in the witness.

At the March for Marriage he said: “Every child comes from a man and a woman, and has a right, a natural human right, to know and be known by, to love and be loved by, their own mother and father. This is the great public good that marriage is oriented toward and protects.”

That’s not hate speech. That’s taking a moment to pause and consider why government would ever need to have anything to do with marriage in the first place.

There’s a lot of talk about love, obviously, in the marriage debate. But rather than talking about and politicizing love while adopting a tyrannical impulse as a substitute for democratic debate, Cordileone suggests that we conduct ourselves in charity in politics and in our daily lives, as we interact with people for whom the cultural changes that have swept through our society in recent decades have real-life, multigenerational implications.

The archbishop points to our modern reality: “All we have to do is look around and see that our society is broken and hurting in so many ways; there is so much work to do to fix it and bring healing.” In the renewal of a true and vibrant marriage culture, we will be on the road to peace, justice, and human flourishing.

We live in a fast-paced, short-attention-span time. So if we can take a news event and – in 140 characters, or a short video, or a quick conversation – use it to draw people into something deeper, we might impart a bigger picture than our computer screens, news debates, and certainly political campaigns typically lend themselves to. If we try to encounter people instead of bludgeoning them with opinions, or even with natural law, tradition and teaching, we might be surprised whom we meet and what good and beauty and truth we’re drawn to.

LOPEZ is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, editor-at-large of National Review Online and founding director of Catholic Voices USA. This column is based on one available exclusively through Andrews McMeel Universal’s Newspaper Enterprise Association and is reprinted with the author’s permission. She tweets at @KathrynLopez and can be reached at klopez@nationalreview.com.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

‘Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.’

MATTHEW 11:25-30 ZECHARIAH 9:9-10 Thus says the Lord: Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion, shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, meek, and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of an ass. He shall banish the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; the warrior’s bow shall be banished, and he shall proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

PSALM 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. I will extol you, O my God and King, and I will bless your name forever and ever. Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever.

I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. The Lord is good to all and compassionate toward all his works.

I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord, and let your faithful ones bless you. Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might.

I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. The Lord is faithful in all his words and holy in all his works. The Lord lifts up all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.

I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. ROMANS 8:9, 11-13 Brothers and sisters: You are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.

Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit that

dwells in you. Consequently, brothers and sisters, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

MATTHEW 11:25-30 At that time Jesus exclaimed: “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to little ones. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”

Giving Jesus a chance to bring joy into our lives

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rowing up, I didn’t think there was anywhere as cool or exotic as the Russian River. I believed the world pretty much ended in San Francisco, so going up to the wilds of Guerneville seemed to me like a great adventure.

Every summer vacation, my family would rent a cabin and then go and hang out by the river. We’d float around in inner tubes, watch other people catch fish, and wonder exactly what it was that lived underneath the surface of that murky water. For a kid from the suburbs, this was as good as it got.

I loved it because it took me to a different world and away from all of my worries.

And that’s true for all of us DEACON MICHAEL who go on vacation. We see it as a time to relax, to take MURPHY it easy and let go of those things that can make life seem so difficult. Everyone loves vacations because they help keep us happy and sane and give us the strength to keep going on.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

In this week’s Gospel, we don’t find Jesus recommending that we go on vacation to the Russian River, but he does make us an offer that’s just as good. Recognizing that life is indeed hard, Jesus is letting us know that we can go to him with our worries and concerns and all of those things that might be weighing us down. It’s in him that we can find happiness and sanity and strength. As Jesus tells us, “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” It’s a great deal, and one we should take him up on!

We sometimes mistakenly think that in following Jesus, life becomes more difficult. Depending on how we were raised, we might view our faith as merely a series of rules that complicate our lives. It’s possible we may focus too much on the idea of punishment and what will happen if we step out of line. We emphasize the crosses we have to carry at the expense of all else. And while following our Lord is not for the faint of heart, we see today that this dreary view of Jesus and his church is simply not accurate.

Instead, Jesus came to bring joy into our lives, to ease our burdens. If we give him the opportunity, he will take away all of our anxieties and worries. By offering us unlimited forgiveness,

we know that no matter how many times we fall, he’ll be there to help us get back up; so we can take a deep breath and relax. By offering us his unconditional love, we know that no matter how hopeless we feel, he’ll always be by our side; so we can rest easy. By offering us and everyone we love a share in his eternal life, we know that ultimately there is nothing in this universe that can defeat us or bring us down; so what can we possibly worry about?

And unlike vacations that take us out of our everyday world, Jesus is there to help us deal with the reality of life, not avoid it. He urges us to simplify, to drop the baggage that so often weighs us down. He wants us to let go of our frustration, our anger, our resentments. He shows us how trivial and temporary are things like career, wealth, and prestige. He reminds us of what’s truly important: family, friends and faith. Then, putting everything else aside and living his simple command to love God and love each other, we find that it’s true, his yoke is easy and his burden is light!

DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JULY 7: Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. HOS 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22. PS 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. MT 9:18-26.

TUESDAY, JULY 8: Monday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time; Blessed Peter Vigne, priest (GRC).

HOS 8:4-7, 11-13. PS 115:3-4, 5-6, 7ab-8, 9-10. MT 9:32-38.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9: Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, Chinese martyrs. HOS 10:1-3, 7-8, 12. PS 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7.

MT 10:1-7.

HOS 14:2-10. PS 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14 and 17. MT 10:16-23.

SATURDAY, JULY 12: Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. IS 6:1-8. PS 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5.

MT 10:24-33.

SUNDAY, JULY 13: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. IS 55:10-11. PS 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14. rom 8:1823. MT 13:1-23.

MONDAY, JULY 14: Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, virgin. IS 1:10-17. PS 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. MT 10:34-11:1.

THURSDAY, JULY 10: Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. HOS 11:1-4, 8e-9. PS 80:2ac and 3b, 15-16. MT 10:7-15.

TUESDAY, JULY 15: Memorial of St. Bonaventure, bishop and doctor. IS 7:1-9. PS 48:2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8. MT 11:20-24.

FRIDAY, JULY 11: Memorial of St. Benedict, abbot.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16: Wednesday of the Fif-

teenth Week in Ordinary Time.

Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. IS 10:5-7, 13b-16.

PS 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15. MT 11:25-27.

THURSDAY, JULY 17: Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. IS 26:7-9, 12, 16-19. PS 102:13-14ab and 15, 16-18, 19-21.

MT 11:28-30.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel 12th century July 16

FRIDAY, JULY 18: Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (USA). IS 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8.

IS 38:10, 11, 12abcd, 16. MT 12:1-8.

SATURDAY, JULY 19: Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. MI 2:1-5. PS 10:1-2, 3-4, 7-8, 14.

MT 12:14-21.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 4, 2014

REFUGEES: Teen hears young migrants’ stories BUFFER ZONES: Ruling called pro-life victory FROM PAGE 1

Catholic Bishops website, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on June 25 stating that 52,000 unaccompanied minors have been apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol since October 2013. In 2011, 6,000-8,000 unaccompanied minors were apprehended the entire year.

“Violence perpetrated by organized transnational gangs, loosely affiliated criminal imitators of gangs, and drug cartels, has permeated all aspects of life in Central America and is one of the primary factors driving the migration of children from the region,” said Bishop Seitz in the 16-page testimony. The U.S.-Mexico border represents a “test of our moral character,” he said.

In an email to Catholic San Francisco a week after her return, Tognotti said that she was like many Americans who don’t really understand what pushes these young Central Americans to make a long journey away from their homes and endure incredible hardships. Hearing their stories changed that.

“They know what they are getting themselves into,” she said. But they’re willing to take even the slightest opportunity to better support their families and escape the culture of violence in their countries, she added.

Tognotti reported that the migrants she encountered were grateful for the clothing, shoes and food, but also the kindness that she and relief workers offered them.

“I could see worry in all of their eyes, but they are a very strong people,” she said. “When I would greet them, some would respond with a surprised smile, a handshake and a nice response.”

Tognotti learned that though some of the minors who make the journey are orphans, most of them do have parents. She spoke at length in the Kino food kitchen with one of them, Brian, a 17-year-old from Honduras who arrived in Nogales the day before. He had traveled with other teenagers and young children to the U.S. border in a dangerous journey that took him over two months.

“He told me he knew the risks of his jour-

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In Nogales, Ariz., Julia Tognotti speaks with Brian, a 17-year-old Honduran who crossed the border after a dangerous two-month journey. ney and that death was a real possibility,” said Tognotti. But he said he would rather risk death for a chance to get to the United States, than stay in Honduras where he felt his death was near certain. He hoped to get to the U.S. where he could reunite with an uncle and get a job on a cattle ranch.

Brian scraped together money for his journey, telling Tognotti, that in addition to food and bus fare, he, like others, knew they would have to “pay” corrupt officials or Mexican drug lords for passage between countries. He traveled through Guatemala by bus, passed through Mexico on foot and jumped onto the rooftops of a network of moving trains headed north, avoiding immigration officials who would deport him. In Veracruz, a gang attacked him and stole everything but the clothes on his back. He slept on the streets and eventually found a job at a car wash that would fund his continued trip north.

Brian told Tognotti that there were hundreds of Hondurans that he met along the trip, some as young as 10. He only knew of four that made it all the way to Nogales.

Faith did come into the conversation. Brian told Tognotti, “If it is God’s will that I make it into the United States, then that is what will happen. If it is not God’s will, then so be it. I know that God will lead me in the right direction.”

CSF: Newspaper wins 7 Catholic press awards FROM PAGE 1

Photographer Dennis Callahan won an honorable mention in the category of best photo story originating with a newspaper, for “Feeding body and soul,” a June 7 narrative about the Wednesday supper ministry for the homeless at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco. “Nearly a perfect picture story,” the judges said.

Third place for best use of art or graphics went to production manager Karessa McCartney, editor Rick DelVecchio and contributing writer Deacon Dana Perrigan for “Men of Faith,” a March 15 center spread about Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, pastoral associate Michael Morison’s work to spark evangelization through the example of the spirituality of the U.S. moonrace astronauts of the 1960s and early 1970s.

An honorable mention for best multiple picture package was awarded to assistant editor Valerie Schmalz, Deacon Dana Perrigan, Dennis Callahan and Karessa McCartney for their Feb. 1 work on “Walk for Life West Coast draws record crowd.”

Schmalz won third place for best coverage of local politics, for her article “Parish, pro-life groups fight Planned Parenthood clinic in South San Francisco,” which highlighted a prolonged campaign of pro-life witness by members of All Souls Parish and others. The judges commented: “Reasons behind opposition to Planned Parenthood clinic a block from church and reasons from supporters who in the end prevailed to the surprise of no one.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 19, 2013

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 19, 2013

Jacob was 1 month old when he was captured in this photo with his older brother Carlos and his father Carlos.

Jacob and his mother Margarita were captured during a mother and son ball organized by Riordan high school.

Jacob with his maternal grandmother María Velazquez during a trip to Arizona

Jacob at 11/2 with his parents Carlos and Margarita Valdiviezo and his older brother Carlos

Jacob was proud of his role as a high school football receiver.

Jacob and his mother Margarita during a dinner in his senior year at Riordan high school

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Margarita and Carlos Valdiviezo are pictured at home in the Mission Disitrict of San Francisco.

‘I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH’ (PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Couple in pain and wondering why as they cling to their last words to their beloved teenage son, a victim of an unsolved shooting almost on their doorstep ARACELI MARTINEZ

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

t has been more than three months since the life of 19-year-old Jacob Valdiviezo ended violently and unexpectedly. For his parents, the pain is more present than ever.

“It’s very difficult. I remember him every day,” Jacob’s father Carlos Valdiviezo said, sobbing. “I work operating a grass cutting machine. And I stop to start crying. I get the idea that Jacob will come for the summer but later I see reality and I realize that I don’t have him.

“We are only left with a lot of photos as memories, Valdiviezo said, showing a gallery of pictures of his son: Jacob receiving his first Communion at St. Peter Church near the family’s home in the Mission District of San Francisco; Jacob playing; Jacob smiling; Jacob in his soccer uniform, Jacob with his only brother Carlos; and many more pictures that the family has all around their living room.

At about 3 a.m. March 30, after attending a party, Jacob arrived in front of the family home in the 1200 block of Bryant Street. A week earlier he had arrived home on break from Oregon, where he was a sophomore at Lewis and Clark College.

He was walking with Dom, his high school friend.

Both stopped to chat on the sidewalk in front of the Valdiviezo home, almost at the door.

Victim ambushed

Suddenly, in the darkness of the night, a Hispanic man in his 30s got out of a gray four-door sedan. The man approached Jacob and asked him if he was in a gang. He fired several shots from a handgun, one of

them striking Jacob in the head. This is the official version that the San Francisco Police Department gave through a brief report.

According to Jacob’s mother, Margarita Valdiviezo, a neighbor said the attacker left the scene in the sedan as if nothing had happened, stopping at the next corner and turning left.

It was Juan Ramirez – known as “El Güero” – a cousin living with the family, who was the first to hear the gunshots and run to see what happened. He found Jacob lying on the sidewalk.

According to the parents, the boy died at San Francisco General Hospital about an hour later.

Carlos Valdiviezo could not see his son outside his home where he was gunned down. “El Güero” would not let them go out and see.

Margarita had just had foot surgery two days before and she did not reach the scene before her son was taken away by ambulance.

‘Wake up, papito!’

When they arrived at the hospital, they were met by a doctor who said, “I’m sorry, he only has five minutes of life. Come to talk to him.”

“My son was unable to speak. He was miles away but breathing,” his father recalled.

“Wake up, papito! Wake up,” he repeated again and again.

“Only a tear ran down his cheek,” the father recounted with a profound sadness.

Margarita said she moved her son, trying to bring him back to life in his last minutes, saying, “Jacob, come on! Vamos! You can do it! Tú puedes! Come on, mi hijo! I love you very much.”

He no longer responded and his body grew cold.

“It is hard! Es duro! It’s hard!” Margarita whispered.

Those were the last words that Margarita and Carlos could give their son in the hospital bed where he was dying.

Since March 30, when tragedy knocked on the door of their house, these parents have been left to wonder why.

“Why us? I cannot explain why Jacob. I do not see a reason. He had friends of all nationalities. He had no prejudices. I do not understand what happened. For me who did it, was a coward who does not have feelings,” said Margarita, trapped in tears.

Nor did Carlos have any answers.

“I do not know,” he said. “My son was never involved in gangs. He played football.

“At home, we do not smoke. There were no violence problems. He took the best of the house. Here is peace,” he said.

Son of immigrants

Margarita and Carlos described their son as a model boy.

“He had a very sweet blood. Wherever he goes, people like him. Since he was little, he was smiles and smiles.

He had the smile of an angel,” Carlos said.

Jacob was born in San Francisco on July 2, 1993, in the bosom of a Catholic family, united and stable. He was the second son of Carlos and Margarita. Carlos works for a golf course in San Francisco and Margarita is dedicated to the home since suffering a disability. The couple has been married 25 years. Carlos is a Peruvian immigrant and Margarita is a Mexican immigrant who was brought by her parents to the Mission District when she was just 6 years old.

So Jacob grew up in the Mission and attended Catholic school St. Peter, where his mother Margaret had also attended. He was baptized and made his first Communion at St. Peter Church. He attended Archbishop Riordan High School and was studying economics at Lewis & Clark College, a private college in Portland.

In addition to being an honor student, Jacob was an athlete who played high school football as a receiver.

His school and sports performance earned him several scholarships that were helping him pay college tuition.

Crime under investigation

Officer Albie Esparza, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department, said there are no suspects in the case and no new information beyond the data disclosed after the crime occurred.

The Valdiviezos say that police have only told them that they are investigating.

Do the parents have hopes that justice will be served?

“I do not know and do not care,” Carlos said but then corrected himself. “Of course I would like that the person is arrested so he does not continue hurting other families and he pays for what he did.”

Margarita said she does not hold grudges. “I have faith and I leave it to God because in this world everything is paid in some way,” she said. “Do not ask for revenge because it leads to nothing. The person will pay in this world sooner or later. And if he has conscience, remorse is not going to leave him.”

Why so much violence?

These bereaved parents cannot explain why there is so much violence in the Mission, a neighborhood where they have made their lives and raised their two children.

“This violence is everywhere, across the country, in other states, in Richmond,” Carlos said. “One leaves home and does not know if (you) come back, if you find a madman on the streets. So one lives in that way.”

He also thinks that the lack of jobs, parks, schools, universities and vocational schools could be a contributing factor to violence.

And he thinks that not everything can be left to the authorities but that families should do their part.

“They should have more connection, more approach with the children, so that there are better feelings and there is no struggle between them. There must be a better treatment for children. Many parents insult them, yell at their children,” Carlos said.

Margarita intervened to say that education at home is worth more than what is taught in school. “The values come from the family, parents and union,” she said.

And despite the tragedy, the couple feels safe to live in the Mission.

A changed neighborhood

“I have 50 years living in the Mission,” Margarita said. “I’m here from the ‘60s and have seen how it has changed. I graduated from St. Peter in ‘67. If you went to the movies, you could walk the 24th street at 12 o’clock, 1 o’clock. The community was differ-

ent. People lived outside. In the summer, families sat on the sidewalks. All played in the street. You knew everyone. There was not so much violence. You did not hear about so many shootings in the news. If anything was heard it was about someone stabbed. Today one cannot walk in the early mornings as before.”

Julio Escobar, coordinator of the Restorative Justice Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said that so far this year, 14 boys have died because of violence. “Last year, by this time there were about 28 deaths,” he said.

He believes there is no single reason to explain crime and violence. It may be gangs killing for drug sales, or for stealing an iPhone or money.

“As a church, we focus on the guys who are already

‘He had a very sweet blood. Wherever he goes, people like him.

Since he was little, he was smiles and smiles. He had the smile of an angel.’

J. Cordileone took part in a vigil in memory of Cameron Myers, 20-year-old killed May 15 in the Hunters Point neighborhood.

The whole family suffers

The loss of Jacob has been hard not only for his parents but also for his only brother, Carlos, 24.

“Jacob was his younger brother,” said Margarita, sharing that Carlos, even in the midst of his own pain, gives her strength and comfort.

“That’s helped me,” she said. “He says do not worry mom. He’s fine. He is with God. I tell Carlos, I miss him, and he answers, ‘you have me!’”

Resignation and peace seem far away for Carlos and Margarita.

“You never resign yourself. I’m going to carry this all my life until I die,” Margarita said. “All I know is that I have to be strong for my son Carlos, my husband, for myself. Later my son and I will see each other again.”

Friends wept at funeral

CARLOS VALDIVIEZO Jacob Valdiviezo’s father

in jail so when they come back to the streets, do not reoffend in gangs; and those who are free, we ask them to focus on school; and to their parents to be active in activities with their children. Everything is in the principles, “he says.

But even applying all of this, Escobar thinks that boys who are not in gangs as Jacob Valdiviezo, just because they live surrounded by the gang environment, they risk being killed.

“The Mission is a very nice neighborhood but at late night or early morning can be very dangerous for young people,” he said The gangs of the Mission are Los Norteños, which operates on 24th Street, and Los Sureños on 18th and 19th streets.

The archdiocese has joined the fight against violence in the city, organizing marches and vigils in support of the young people killed. Archbishop Salvatore

“I feel very sad but proud,” Carlos said. “People comfort me saying he was a boy so different and what Jacob did at age 19, not everyone did. He achieved things that people 40, 60 do not. At his funeral people came from everywhere. Sheriff Mirkarimi (Ross), and the supervisor Campos (David) came. His friends wept for him. There is a boy, Darrell, who says Jacob’s death changed his life. Previously he spent his days just studying. Today he also takes time for fun, and lives from day to day.”

There is no particular memory of Jacob that Margarita takes refuge in.

“All the time he was very lovable,” she said. “He hugged me, squeezed me and threw himself on me with so much love.”

She said he always returned from Oregon without warning and his visits took them by surprise. “This time I asked if he was coming to the Easter break. He said no because the plane tickets were very expensive.

I told him I can pay for them but he did not accept my offer. And he took a Greyhound bus to Sacramento and a friend of his went to pick him up,” Margarita said.

Carlos said he will always remember him because of his two sons, he was the sweetest. “It was gooey, loving. He would go to bed and play with us. He lifted me off my feet, kidding around. And when Jacob worked in the summer, I used to borrow money, just kidding.

Lend me $20, Jacob. ‘Here, take it! he used to say. He did not know the word evil.”

“People tell me he is okay. And I know he is with God. He is an angel!”

Second place for best in-depth news/special reporting went to Araceli Martinez for her July 9, 2013, article on the impact of violence on one family.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 15, 2013

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 15, 2013

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MEN OF FAITH Space race astronauts who lived the Gospel still inspire, says Marin pastoral associate who befriended moon crews DANA PERRIGAN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Resplendent in a royal blue flight suit sporting a NASA patch above the heart, Michael Morison looked as though he might be getting ready to board a space shuttle for a journey into what Star Trek creators referred to as “the final frontier.”

But on this particular Saturday morning, Morison – a pastoral associate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Mill Valley and a chaplain with the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary’s Civil Air Patrol Squadron 157 in Santa Rosa – had a far different journey in mind.

For the next hour-and-a-half, Morison took the 25-or-so people gathered in the church’s O’Brien Room on a tour into the spiritual lives of America’s pioneering astronauts – those stalwart souls who competed in the mid-to-late 20th century space race with the Soviet Union.

“They were men of faith,” Morison, who has a master’s of divinity degree and is finishing his doctoral work in ministry at San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, told the group.

“But because of the so-called separation of church and state, this is a dimension of their lives that we were not exposed to. That story didn’t get told – and it needs to be told.”

Hoping to inspire ‘flight through life’

With decades of experience and study devoted to aerospace and religion, it is a story that Morison is uniquely qualified to tell. He does so in the

hopes that it will inspire and challenge those who hear it to explore where they are in their “flight through life.”

During his multimedia presentation titled “The Astronauts: Untold Stories of Exploration and Faith,” Morison reveals a host of religious events that occurred in space. From astronaut Alan Shepard’s urgent “Dear God, please don’t let me mess up” prayer during countdown on Project Mercury in 1961, to carrying a relic of St. Therese of Lisieux aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 2008, these events provide a rare glimpse into the role that faith played among men of science whose achievements were dependent upon the latest technology.

Many Americans don’t know, said Morison, that the first meal on the moon was bread and wine consumed by astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission in the summer of 1969.

Astronaut Edward White, the first American to walk in space on Project Gemini in 1964, carried a Christian cross, Star of David and crescent of Islam in his spacesuit pocket to honor those who subscribed to the three major faiths on Earth.

Apollo 14 lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell carried a microfiche copy of the Bible to the lunar surface.

“To look up at this kind of creation and not believe in God is, to me, impossible,” said astronautturned U.S. senator John Glenn. “It just strengthens my faith.”

When asked – in the event disaster struck during his mission –what he wanted said at his funeral service, astronaut Rick Husband said to “Tell them about Jesus – that he is real to me.”

“These wonderful things were going on,” said Morison, “but we didn’t hear about it.”

EPIPHANIES IN SPACE (PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

NAVY CAPT. EDGAR MITCHELL’S website describes his return trip on Apollo 14, NASA’s third successful moon landing mission, in 1971: “As he hurtled earthward through the abyss between the two worlds, Mitchell became engulfed by a profound sensation ‘a sense of universal connectedness.’ He intuitively sensed that his presence, that of his fellow astronauts, and that of the planet in the window were all part of a deliberate, universal process and that the glittering cosmos itself was in some way conscious. The experience was so overwhelming Mitchell knew his life would never be the same.’

Edgar Mitchell

Yuri Gagarin

RUSSIAN COSMONAUT YURI GAGARIN, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, said while orbiting Earth in Vostok I in April 1961, “I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

Reading Genesis in lunar orbit

Shortly after astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders took turns reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968, avowed atheist Madelyn Murray O’Hair sued NASA to prevent further public expressions of Christianity during space flights.

Although O’Hair lost her suit when the Supreme Court decided that the case was out of its jurisdic-

(PHOTO COURTESY MICHAEL MORISON)

Left, Michael Morison looks up a Scripture reference during his multimedia presentation titled “The Astronauts: Untold Stories of Exploration and Faith.” Above, Morison holds open a King James Bible inscribed by Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin. Below, an inspirational autograph by Irwin holds a place of honor in Morison’s collection of memorabilia on astronauts and spirituality.

Reading astronaut Jim Irwin’s autobiography ‘just raised the bar in terms of understanding what it means to me to live with God in my life.’

MICHAEL MORISON tion, NASA administrators cautioned astronauts not to flaunt their faith.

Expression of faith, as well as flights, continued.

Since the launch of Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was largely focused on demonstrating technological – as well as ideological – supremacy.

The finish line, as defined in a speech by President John F. Kennedy on April 20, 1961, was to land a man on the moon and bring him safely home again. Although America lagged behind the Soviet Union during much of the race, it was the first to cross the finish line on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon.

Like many people around the world, Morison and his family gathered around the television to watch the landing and Armstrong’s “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” on the moon.”

Moved by astronaut’s biography

It would be a pivotal moment for Morison. Several years later, he came across a copy of Apollo astronaut James Irwin’s autobiography “To Rule the Night.”

“It just raised the bar in terms of understanding what it means to me to live with God in my life,” said Morison.

Morison was also impressed by the spiritual impact Irwin’s space flight had on his life.

“During his walk on the moon,” said Morison, “he said that he most clearly felt God’s presence in his life. He felt that God wanted him to do more.”

Eighteen months after completing his mission, Irwin quit NASA and founded the High Flight Foundation ministry to share “the good news of Jesus Christ.”

Morison, who was teaching religion in a Catholic high school in Chicago, started using the book in his classes. He was intrigued by the perspective Irwin had attained as a member of the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.

“Irwin said that he believed that Jesus Christ

walking on the Earth was more important than man walking on the moon,” said Morison. “He said that if you understand this, you can put all of our human achievements into a proper perspective.”

Soon after that, Morison arranged to meet Irwin at his offices in Colorado Springs. It was the beginning of a friendship that would alter the course of Morison’s life. Encouraged by the former astronaut, Morison attended the Adult Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. He read a lot of books and spoke with other astronauts. Later, he developed a retreat program for youth, “The Highest Flight Academy – Spiritual Flight Training,” using the excitement of space exploration as a means of exploring faith.

Morison’s presentation at Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Saturday was modeled after part of a retreat he hosts, as chaplain, for U.S. Air Force Auxiliary cadets.

“I was blown away,” said Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishioner Jane Mraz, following the presentation. “Not only was it very informative, it was very emotional. I had no idea that faith was such a big part of the astronaut’s lives.”

Third place for best use of art or graphics went to production manager Karessa McCartney, editor Rick DelVecchio and contributing writer Deacon Dana Perrigan for a March 15, 2013, center spread about Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, pastoral associate Michael Morison’s work to spark evangelization through the example of the spirituality of the U.S. moon-race astronauts of the 1960s and early 1970s.

said she should be able to speak and offer advice to women going to these clinics. McCullen, a 77-year-old who attends Mass at St. Ignatius Church at Boston College said when the case was brought to the Supreme Court that she had helped many women decide against abortion.

The Supreme Court, in its opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, said the state law blocked public sidewalks that have been traditionally viewed as open for free speech. It also said the government’s ability to limit speech in those places is “very limited.”

The law in question was put in place in an attempt to prevent violent demonstrations or protests outside clinic entrances. It replaced a 2000 state law that kept protesters from approaching within 6 feet of a person who was within 18 feet of an abortion clinic – similar to a 2000 law in Colorado that the Supreme Court upheld that year.

The Supreme Court’s opinion distinguished protesters from those who “seek not merely to express their opposition to abortion, but to engage in personal, caring, consensual conversations with women about various alternatives.”

In a concurrence with the main opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia discusses what he sees as the court’s “onward march of abortion-speech-only jurisprudence.”

His concurrence was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.

He observed that the court’s majority opinion “carries forward this court’s practice of giving abortionrights advocates a pass when it comes to suppressing the free-speech rights of their opponents.”

He said that the opinion “has something for everyone,” by invalidating the law in question because it is inadequately tailored to circumstances, is “certainly attractive to those of us who oppose an abortionspeech edition of the First Amendment.”

But the main part of the opinion moves toward creating a version of the First Amendment that applies only to speech about abortion, he said. By concluding that a statute like the one overturned is not content-based and therefore not subject to strict scrutiny under the law, “the court reaches out to decide that question unnecessarily,” Scalia wrote.

Scalia cited ways in which he says the main opinion singled out abortion-only speech in reaching its conclusion that the law was unconstitutional. And he concluded that although he agrees with what the court decided, he thinks it unnecessarily addressed the issue of whether the law was sufficiently narrowly tailored.

“The obvious purpose of the challenged portion of the Massachusetts Reproductive Health Care Facilities Act is to ‘protect’ prospective clients of abortion clinics from having to hear abortion-opposing speech on public streets and sidewalks,” he said.

“The provision is thus unconstitutional root and branch and cannot be saved, as the majority suggests, by limiting its application to the single facility that has experienced the safety and access problems to which it is quite obviously not addressed,” he concluded.

Justice Samuel Alito also had a separate concurrence. In it he faulted the majority for concluding that the Massachusetts law is viewpoint neutral, but he nevertheless agreed that it is unconstitutional because it burdens free speech more than necessary to accommodate state interests.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, issued the following statement, welcomed the ruling.

“This discriminatory law barred these citizens from gathering on nearby public sidewalks, while exempting ‘clinic escorts’ trained to expedite women into the facility,” he said in a statement. “Clearly this was an attack on pro-life Americans’ freedom of speech, and we welcome the court’s decision to overturn the law.”

Dana Cody, president and executive director of Life Legal Defense Foundation, said in a statement that the court “is finally seeing through the real motivation behind these buffer zones – it isn’t to protect anyone, it is to silence the truth about abortion – it ends the lives of children and harms women. Roe (v. Wade) made abortion legal, not safe.”

He said the foundation will continue to challenge cases around the country that, “violate the rights of sidewalk counselors to communicate their life-affirming message to desperate women who think abortion is their only choice.”

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Good Shepherd girls basketball fights epic divisional battle DONNA FENTANES

Last year, Pacifica’s Good Shepherd School’s fourth grade girls fielded two basketball teams. Each team went the distance and won their respective division titles. This year, there was only one fifth grade team which moved up to Division I CYO basketball competition. Faced with unfamiliar teams, the Blazers went to work and won seven out of their eight games.

Their loss to St. John’s early in the season proved to consolidate the team, and they worked harder, winning the remaining games and taking a win in the semi-finals. But the Blazers were up against St. John’s Eagles again for the championship.

Remember those Warrior playoff games? Remember those last-minute shots that kept them in the series?

Yes, this little championship game between the Good Shepherd Blazers and the Eagles of St. John proved to elicit NBA-like excitement and energy.

The Blazers were the obvious underdogs facing a strong St. John team again. After their semifinal victory and in light of St. John’s trouncing of their semifinal opponent, Coach Marcus Marcic planned his attack.

Equipped with knowledge of the Eagles’ offense, he sought to bolster up the Blazers’ defensive strategy.

The Eagles annihilated their semifinal

The game was a slugfest: Turnovers, fouls, points lost and points made.

Back from left, Good Shepherd School fifth grade CYO girls basketball coach Marcus Marcic, Ava Marcic, Katarina Duguay, Ellie Fentanes, Sydney Gallant, coach Brian Arenson. Front from left, Helen Eichensehr, Emma Bradshaw, Audrey Beaumont-Bent, Maya McKinney. opponent, scoring 40 points, with the Eagles’ top contributor scoring 26. If the Blazers had any chance at winning, they needed to shut down the

Eagles’ scoring leader.

The Blazers had some extended practices the week before the big game. They were ready to go on Sun-

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day, May 18, to work their hardest to win a Division I title.

The game was a slugfest. There were turnovers, fouls, points lost and points made. The Blazers would take the lead but the Eagles would fly ahead. It was a white-knuckle ride for each 6-minute quarter. In the end, the Eagles prevailed 25-22. The Blazers successfully shut down the Eagles’ top scorer and held her to only a few baskets. Marcic commented to the Eagles’ team when his team received their second-place trophy, “I look forward to the battles that are to come playing (the Eagles) through the eighth grade.” This Good Shepherd Blazer team earned their right to remain in Division I CYO Basketball. Marcic added, “In their first year playing Division I, the girls more than exceeded expectations. They performed week in and week out, and relied on each other to battle all season. Each and every player contributed at critical moments to help win games for the Blazers. It was a great season and I look forward to playing an even tougher group next year in sixth grade.”

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Around the archdiocese PERMANENT DIACONATE FORMATION: The rite of candidacy for the archdiocesan permanent diaconate formation program was held June 20 at Our Lady of Mercy Church, Daly City, with 13 men admitted to candidacy for ordination. Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice presided. These men, with the support of their wives and families, have completed two years of the five-year formation program. They are progressing on their path of discernment and ministry toward ordination in 2017. Front from left: Edward Te, Juan Michel, Ricardo Cepriano, Bishop Justice, Bill McLoughlin, Abbie Nepomunceno, Sergio Gomez. Back: Deacon Rich Foley, David Rolandelli, George Khoury, Jimmy Salcido, Deacon Mike Ghiorso, Dino Ornido, Sal Campagna, Ferdinand Mariano, Olet Abad, Deacon Marcos Cobillas.

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FRANCISCO: Dozens of tykes on trikes circled the playground blacktop on May 29 during the school’s annual Trike-a-Thon, raising more than $1,700 to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Parents of students in the awardwinning school collected the funds and joined director Hope Peterson and her staff in coordinating the event designed to help teach youngsters about cycling safety and doing something positive to helping make sick children feel better.

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ST. DOMINIC CHURCH, SAN FRANCISCO: Nearly 100 young

parish computer programmers, graphic designers, and other high-tech professionals met in groups in the parish hall on June 7 to collaborate on software projects for evangelization during a parish-sponsored “Catholic Hackathon.” Hackathons are common, intensive events in the high tech world during which professionals collaborate on projects with the goal of creating usable software. The Catholic Hackathon was co-sponsored by OPTIC West, a San Francisco-based network of tech-world professionals who collaborate with Dominicans to integrate and promote Catholic values through

content distribution using social media, digital applications and web sites.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AT HOLY CROSS: Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is pictured at the Memorial Day Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, on May 26 with the Knights of Columbus Color Corps, which is composed of members of different Knights’ assemblies serving the archdiocese. From left, Gil Eliares, Good Shepherd Parish; Ed Vocal, Holy Angels; Stafford Williams, Church of the Epiphany; Bishop Justice; Manny Delos Reyes, St. Mary’s Cathedral; Larry Narvaez, Mater Dolorosa.

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Bishop Daly to celebrate Mass honoring St. Teresa’s 500th St. Teresa of Avila will be honored on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of her birth with liturgy and other celebrations Aug. 21-23 in San Jose.

Sisters and friars of the Discalced Carmelites of the Western U.S. said they are “celebrating all 500 years of her living spirit.”

Born in Spain March 28, 1515, and dying as a Discalced Carmelite Oct. 4, 1582, St. Teresa established the first monastery for the order in 1562.

San Jose Auxiliary Bishop

Thomas Daly is principal celebrant of Mass at the Diocese of San Jose’s Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph Aug. 22 at 2:30 p.m. Additional commemorations including music, exhortations and prayer take St. Teresa place throughout of Avila the three days.

“There will be prayer, of course, because that is the foundation of Carmelite life,

and gift presentations by each branch of the family that explore the contemporary expression of St. Teresa’s spirit, with music, poetry, art, film, theater, and yes, even dancing,” the Carmelites said.

The Carmelites said representatives from around the world will take part in the commemoration.

“Everyone is invited to celebrate this grand event with the Carmelites,” they said. “Come, and experience Carmelite joy. Meet friars, nuns, lay members of the order, and active Carmelite sisters

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Father Edwin B. Harris, SJ, named SI president Jesuit Father Edwin B. Harris, a 1963 graduate of St. Ignatius College Preparatory, was announced as the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new president June 16.

He succeeds outgoing president John M. Knight.

Father Harris, currently chair of SIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of trustees and superior of the SI Jesuit Community at the school, said Knight has â&#x20AC;&#x153;made a positive difference by his commitment to Jesuit educationâ&#x20AC;? noting he has â&#x20AC;&#x153;reached Father Edwin B. out to many segments of the Harris, SJ SI community, both inside and outside the walls of the school.

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As a Jesuit in formation, he taught in a Jesuit school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt my calling to the priesthood and to secondary education completely and absolutely conďŹ rmed during those three years of teaching,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teaching and, later, counseling gave me a chance to deal with students on a personal level as a pastor and not just deal with academic concerns. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I understood the importance of the priesthood and the pastoral dimension of my work.â&#x20AC;?

Father Harris was ordained in 1975. In 1985, he began three years service at SI working as a college counselor, serving on retreats and â&#x20AC;&#x153;working as an ordinary faculty member in the trenches along with my lay and Jesuit colleagues.â&#x20AC;?

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SATURDAY, JULY 5 ‘LOOKING EAST’: Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, Divine Liturgy 10 a.m.; lunch at noon and then a talk by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor, at 1 p.m. All are welcome throughout the day. Series continues first Saturdays of the month, parking in St. Monica Church lot. Visit www. byzantinecatholic.org; call (415) 752-2052; email OLFatimaSF@gmail. com.

SUNDAY, JULY 6 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Karen Beaumont, organist. (415) 567-2020, ext.

213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

MONDAY, JULY 7 PRO-LIFE: Witness to the message of life outside of Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave. off El Camino Real, San Mateo: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8:30 a.m-5 p.m.; Wednesdays 8:30 a.m.7 p.m. Contact Jessica to arrange your visit, (650) 572-1468. Pro-lifers pray, offer help and provide accurate information verbally or with pamphlets, according to the situation.

FRIDAY, JULY 4

SATURDAY, JULY 5

FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal Father Vito blessing with St. Perrone Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Raymund Reyes, pastor, St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant Father Ray and homilist. (650) Reyes 756-2060, www. holycrosscemeteries.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 12 DISCERNMENT DAY: Visit the Dominican nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, and get a chance to explore and see behind the veil of female religious life and experience the same hidden life of love that has been lived since 1206 A.D. RSVP by July 5 or for more information contact Sister Joseph Marie at vocations@nunsmenlo. org or visit www.nunsmenlo.org/vocationdiscernment-event. The day begins with Mass at 8 a.m. followed by Divine Office, adoration, rosary, conferences and vocation stories by Dominican nuns and friars.

SUNDAY, JULY 13 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Justin Takamine, bassoon, with

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REUNION: The Sisters of the Presentation have been educating San Francisco children and young women since 1854, perhaps you are one of them. Come and share your memories or make some new ones at the Welcome Back All Classes Reunion at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. The day’s activities begin with Sunday Mass at 10 a.m., followed by delicious brunch and more. For more details and to RSVP visit www.PresentationSistersSF. org and click on events.

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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.

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

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CONVERSATIONS WITH THE JESUITS: “Pope Francis and the Church” with Jesuit Father Tom Reese, 10:5011:45a.m., Xavier Hall, located in Fromm Hall directly north of St. Ignatius Church, Parker Jesuit Father Avenue and Golden Tom Reese Gate Avenue, San Francisco. Free and open to the public, free parking in all USF lots. Dan Faloon (415) 4222195; faloon@usfca.edu.

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HANDICAPABLES: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist at a Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, lower halls St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street Archbishop entrance. All disabled Cordileone people and caregivers invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne, (415) 239-4865.

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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.

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PRO-LIFE: Witness to the message of life outside of Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave. off El Camino Real, San Mateo: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8:30 a.m-5 p.m.; Wednesdays 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

Call Jessica to arrange your visit, (650) 572-1468. Pro-lifers pray, offer help and provide accurate information verbally or with pamphlets, according to the situation.

SUNDAY, AUG. 3 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Gabriel Dessauer of Germany, organist. (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. 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.

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.

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MONDAY, JULY 28

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recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www. stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

A retirees discounted group.

(Sorry, stairs up to the cozy meeting room.)

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CLASSIFIEDS TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CALL (415) 614-5642 | FAX (415) 614-5641 VISIT www.catholic-sf.org | EMAIL advertising.csf@sfarchdiocese.org

USED VEHICLE NEEDED

USED CAR NEEDED

CAR WANTED Private individual wants to buy a car, pick-up or SUV Willing to pay up to $15,000 PLEASE CALL GRANT AT 415 517 5977

Retired Senior needs used car in good condition, for medical appts. and errands.

Please Call (415) 290-7160 Email: notaryjohn@yahoo.com

HELP WANTED ELDERCARE AND CHILDCARE Liturgical Music Director ST. MATTHIAS PARISH REDWOOD CITY Part-time, 3 Masses per weekend Directing assembly, cantors, small choirs, and musicians Keyboard (piano) skills desired Salary based on experience, expertise, and Archdiocesan pay guidelines Send inquiries to: Fr. Craig Forner 650-366-9544 or cforner@aol.com

CARE COMPANION

HELP WANTED

Alzheimer’s Patients,

Provide Transportation, Dr Appointments, Errands

Home Care A endants/CNA’s wanted in SF & San Mateo area. Exp. Preferred.

Work one-on-one in client’s home. Compe ve pay rates.

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DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

ST. BARTHOLOMEW PARISH, SAN MATEO REPORTS TO: Pastor Pre-Kindergarten Head Teacher

40 hours/week PosiƟon Open Saint Philip Pre School Contact: Hollace Veldhuis at: Hollace.veldhuis@saintphilipparish.org Our School: Saint Philip Preschool is a Catholic preschool located in Noe Valley. Open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday we serve both part-time and full-time children. Our two classes rotate through a large open classroom, covered yard, and trike area.

Requirements: BA or AA in Early Childhood Education or related field. Minimum of five years of experience with four - and five-year old children. Current First Aid/CPR, health and fingerprint clearance.

Qualifications: ♦ Experienced with child-centered and teacher♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

directed strategies.

Active and enthusiastic.

Team player. Respectful and culturally sensitive.

Well organized. Good time management skills.

Professional and reliable. Shows good judgment.

Confident in a wide range of teaching activities-including circle time, outdoor play & field trips.

Responsibilities: ♦ Lead team in planning and implementing Pre-K ♦

♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

curriculum Support children’s social skills through positive guidance. Join in staff discussions of individual children. Design curriculum to promote prosocial behavior.

Set tone for open communication with parents.

Conduct parent conferences.

Lead parent orientation and parent meetings as needed.

Help parents set their child’s issues in a framework of child development.

Support community building.

Catholic applicants given priority, all applications seriously considered.

JOB SUMMARY: To develop, maintain, and administer catechetical programs for Children Grades 1-5, Children Grades 6-7, Children Grade 8 & Confirmation

QUALIFICATIONS: Master’s degree in religious education or related fields.

Strong leadership and administration skills Strong oral and written communication skills Strong computer skills PLEASE CONTACT Fr. Michael J. Healy frmike@barts.org or (650) 347-0701

Reliable, and Bonded with outstanding references.

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GERIATRIC HOME AIDE `

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NOVENAS PUBLISH A NOVENA

Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

Cost $26

If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call 415-614-5640 Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

Name Address Phone MC/VISA # Exp. Select One Prayer: ❑ St. Jude Novena to SH

❑ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin

❑ Prayer to St. Jude

❑ Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Please return form with check or money order for $26 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

FATIMA PRAYERS Lucia dos Santos was one of the three children to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared at Fatima, Portugal in 1917.

Pray as Lucia dos Santos did for “miracles needed”.

Three Hail Marys and one Our Father TPW

75TH ANNIVERSARY Ǥ ǯ

2013-2014 is the 75th Anniversary of Saint Philip the Apostle School!

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