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Parish orders for Year of Faith banners are flying in. “That’s a good sign,” said Msgr. Michael D. Harriman, pastor of St. Cecilia Parish and one of the organizers of the archdiocesan Year of Faith marriage and family celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Aug. 17. The banners feature the church’s Year of Faith logo superimposed over a silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge and will be displayed in churches. Posters for the marriage and family morning of celebration also feature the logo. “We’re trying to bring people together to celebrate this Year of Faith and in particular marriage and family life,” said Msgr. Harriman. Mass will be celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at 9:30 a.m., followed

by light refreshments, games and speakers. The event concludes at noon. There will be two language tracks at the conference, Spanish and English. “This day is a way to learn and take back to where you gather together resources that you can use and spread the word during the Year of Faith,” wrote Laura Bertone, interim director of the Office of Worship, to parishes and schools in the archdiocese. Speakers will talk about the value of marriage and family “but also what they are going to be talking about is what each parish is going to take home with them,” Msgr. Harriman said. The focus will be on seven faith habits: Offer a prayer at mealtime, call upon the saints, reach out to help a neighbor in need, savor a few minutes of silence, ask for God’s

blessing each morning, receive the holy Eucharist for strength and nourishment, give thanks to God each night. “When we go back to St. Cecilia, how do we want the parish to celebrate the seven faith habits? Maybe what we really want to do is to concentrate on a prayer at mealtime,” he said. To support that, the parish could put a suggested meal prayer in the Sunday bulletin, Msgr. Harriman said. For reaching out to people in need, perhaps the parish will focus on a specific project with the parish Society of St. Vincent de Paul conference, he said. All parishes and schools are invited, as are individual Catholics, Bertone said. In 2001, Pope Benedict called for a Year of Faith as an invitation to “an authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord, the one savior of the world.” The year began on Oct. 11, 2012, and will end on Nov. 24, 2013, the Solemnity of Christ the King.

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Archbishop Cordileone receives pallium Pope Francis greets Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco after presenting him with a pallium during Mass marking the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 29. The pope presented woolen palliums to 34 archbishops during the liturgy. Archbishop Cordileone said receiving the pallium is “a tremendous honor and I’m very humbled, recognizing my unworthiness. It is not an honor to exalt someone, but is a sign of communion.” See story on Page 9.

Archbishop, US bishops decry marriage rulings San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said he was “very disappointed and very worried about the future of our country and the future of our children” after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and refused to act on California’s Proposition 8. In separate 5-4 rulings, the court said the clause

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defining marriage as between one man and one woman in DOMA was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and sent back to lower courts a challenge to Prop. 8, saying initiative sponsor Protect Marriage lacked legal standing to defend it in federal court. State officials had refused to defend the voter initative. “The court overturned a law that respects and

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WASHINGTON – The diverse coalition of faith, labor, business and civil rights activists who are trying to rework the nation’s immigration system celebrated the June 27 Senate passage of a massive reform bill. The bill moves to the House, where Speaker John Boehner has said he would not allow it on the floor unless a majority of Republicans support it, which they do not. Instead, the House is taking a piecemeal approach, with separate bills focusing first on border security. In a 68 to 32 vote, the Senate passed S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Competitiveness, and Immigration Modernization Act, which would massively ramp up enforcement on the southern border, adding 700 miles of fencing and doubling the number of Border Patrol agents, to the tune of $46.3 billion. The bill also provides a path to legalization and ultimately citizenship for many of the nation’s estimated

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WORLD YOUTH DAY PILGRIMS: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy will say Mass at World Youth Day in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, and is connecting with local Catholics from the archdiocese. Also planning to attend the event June 23-28 – the first WYD with Pope Francis – are a group of University of San Francisco students; four members of the Neocatechumenal community from St. Anthony of Padua/Immaculate Conception Parish in San Francisco; and Julio Escobar, Jaime Gonzalez and Edison Tapalla representing the archdiocese and joining with a group organized by the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity, who staff the Newman Center at San Francisco State University. If you want to share your WYD experiences with readers of Catholic San Francisco, email photos and information to Valerie Schmalz at schmalzv@sfarchdiocese.org (COURTESY NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST. FRANCIS)

SOCIAL JUSTICE GRANTS: Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty arm, announced grants to two California organizations. The California Catholic Conference is creating a Restorative Justice Network throughout the state in cooperation with Catholic dioceses and CCHD-funded community organizing groups. This is in response to the ongoing incarceration crisis in the state and the need to reintegrate offenders back into the community. The second California beneficiary, Birth Choice Health Clinics, will significantly expand its statewide operations of medical care for poor and marginalized women and families, particularly fathers, who might otherwise have recourse to abortion providers. BLOOD DRIVE: The 2013 Interfaith Community Blood Drive will be held Saturday, July 6, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard. Schedule appointment at www.redcrossblood.org, sponsor code: InterfaithCommunity or call (800) RED CROSS. Picture ID required to donate. If you have questions on your ability to donate, call (866) 236-3276.

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Visitors to Saint Francis Rest pet columbarium and hall of honor would be greeted by backlit stained-glass art pieces of St. Francis surrounded by the animals he loved so much. At right, the hall of honor would be reserved for service animals, many of whom give their lives protecting human safety. RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

What better testament to the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi than a sacred place perpetually honoring God’s animal kingdom and those who protect the animals, and in the heart of the city of St. Francis, no less? That is the idea behind Saint Francis Rest, a proposed animal columbarium – a vault with niches for funeral urns to be stored – that would be built in the church basement at the National Shrine of St. Francis in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Then-shrine rector Capuchin Father Gregory Coiro, then rector-designate and, as of July 1, Father Coiro’s successor Capuchin Father Harold Snider, and the Capuchins’ Western America provincial minister Father Matthew Elshoff outlined the plan in an article sent June 22 to Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and other archdiocesan leaders. “Probably no saint is more closely associated with animals in the popular imagination than Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century founder of religious orders dedicated to the service of the poor and the marginalized,” the Capuchin fathers wrote. “The reason people so closely identify him with the animals is because

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of his belief that all creation mirrors the beauty and love of God the creator, especially the birds of the air, the fishes in the sea, and the beasts upon the land, all of whom he called ‘brother’ and ‘sister.’ “In celebrating the connectedness of all creation, especially the close ties between human beings and the animal kingdom, Francis never lost sight of the uniqueness that people possess because only they are created in the image and likeness of God and only they can be the recipients of the graces of the redemption offered through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,” they wrote. “Francis’ love for all of creation was no New Age pantheism that says all things are part of God; rather, for Francis, creation serves as a mirror reflecting the presence of the creator.” St. Francis’ affinity with creation, especially the animals, is already a source of celebration at the shrine, with its mural of the Poverello preaching to birds and the blessing of the animals that takes place annually in Franciscan churches around the world on Oct. 4, his feast day. Installing a pet columbarium in the shrine “makes perfect sense,” the fathers said in their article. More than 500 people entered the shrine church on the weekend of June 15-16 to experience the blessing of the

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animals. Not all brought pets and not all were believers, but “all shared a common bond with God’s creation and his animal kingdom,” the fathers wrote. When Father Coiro announced the planned columbarium, the congregation burst into applause, “which prompted more than a few appreciative howls from the dogs in the pews.” The fathers believe the response indicated that there is an unmet need in San Francisco for a place to memorialize pets. They also believe “the columbarium will offer the opportunity to catechize and evangelize people on the proper understanding of creation and the role of animals in it according to sound Catholic theology and authentic Franciscan spirituality.” But more than anything else, the congregation’s response reflected animal owners’ love for their pets and service animals, the fathers wrote. “It is doubtful that you will find a blind person who experiences new freedom through their guide dog; or a child with seizures who can be monitored from injury more closely by the alert of a trained dog warning of impending seizures; or a surgical patient calmed by the presence of a companion animal who would not SEE SHRINE, PAGE 6

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San Rafael Dominican Sister Claire Maher, congregation’s oldest member, was 105 learning that she used the money from selling the cans at the recycling center to give to families in need, many began to bring bags of cans to her.”

Sister Claire Maher, a Dominican Sister of San Rafael for 83 years and at 105 years old the oldest member of her congregation, died June 18 at the sisters’ Our Lady of Lourdes Convent in San Rafael. Sister Claire, one of nine children, grew up in Iowa with her mother, whom she often described as “a gem with a deep love for each one of us” and her father, a farmer. In 1928 Sister Claire rang the doorbell of the San Rafael Dominicans and met with Mother Louis O’Donnell, major superior from 1887-1929. Sister Claire entered the community soon after.

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Sister Claire received her bachelor’s degree and teaching credential from Dominican College. Over the next 41 years, Sister Claire was a highly respected and beloved teacher and principal in Catholic schools in San Leandro, San Francisco, Reno, San Rafael, Oakland, Daly City and Monterey. Sister Claire was the founding principal of Our Lady of Mercy School in Daly City. “The banner on the school newsletter reads, ‘A Proud Past…A Bright Future,’” said former principal Arlene Fife. “Sister Claire was all of this to the school with values of academic excellence built on a strong spiritual foundation. She was a role model for me for how to be principal of a Catholic school.” As the story goes, Sister Claire worked the builder of the school from an offer of books for the library to books and building a new convent for the Dominican Sisters then commuting from St. Rose Academy Convent in San Francisco.

Sister Claire Maher, OP, pictured last year A former prioress of her congregation, Sister Claire also served for 26 years at their San Domenico School in San Anselmo. “All at San Domenico who knew Sister Claire when she lived here appreciated her amazing spirit,” said Sister Gervaise Valpey, president emerita of San Domenico. For many years Sister Claire served as alumnae moderator, gracefully keeping everyone connected, the Dominican Sisters said. “She was much admired by the students and families for her aluminum can recycling project. After observing her pulling cans out of campus wastebaskets, and

In 2002 Sister Claire moved to Our Lady of Lourdes Convent in San Rafael where she continued a ministry of loving attention to the sisters and staff, and a life a prayer for vocations to religious life and the needs of the world. She was well-known for her forthrightness, her gift for gracious hospitality, her love of celebration, and her active communication with an extensive list of friends, family and former students, the sisters said. Last year was a particular highlight for her, as she achieved her 105th birthday, and was able to attend the ribbon cutting for the Sister Claire Maher Preschool at Our Lady of Mercy Parish. Sister Maureen McInerney, prioress general of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael said: “Sister Claire was a gracious lady and most grateful for her family, her friends and her community. She gave thanks to God often for her vocation to Dominican life and all the ways God had blessed her throughout her life. Sister Claire truly lived a full life and was in mission until her last breath,” Sister Claire is survived by her sister Pauline, and many nieces and nephews and their families. A funeral Mass was celebrated July 3 at the Dominican Sisters Center in San Rafael with burial at St. Dominic Cemetery in Benicia. Contributions in memory of Sister Claire may be made to Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, Development Office, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael 94901.

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Deacon and wife have ‘gawn fishin’’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Deacon Jim and Pat Shea have retired to Grass Valley where Jim’s focus will be golf and trout, according to Jamie Casey of the San Mateo County Serra Club, where Jim has served as member and officer for more than 30 years. Pat and Jim met at St. Cecilia School and started dating as Pat and Deacon Jim Shea leaders of the parish teen club. They are longtime members of St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo and Jim has served as a deacon at St. Matt’s since 2005. “Deacon Jim Shea and his wife, Pat, have been very active in the life of the diaconate community of the archdiocese,” said Deacon Leon Kortenkamp, director of the diaconate for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “They have generously volunteered to host group meetings and participate in the planning of community events. Deacon Jim has regularly assisted at episcopal Masses at St. Mary’s Cathedral and has served as an adviser to a multiplicity of archdiocesan organizations. I congratulate Jim and Pat on their very well-deserved retirement and wish them every blessing in the years to come.” CAUSE TO CELEBRATE: At home even while away is Angela Alioto – especially when she is in Italy and close to or in Assisi where her favorite saint prospered in holiness and where he built his “little church,” the Porziuncola. Angela was the force behind the building of the Porziuncola in San Francisco that adjoins the National Shrine of St. Francis in North Beach Angela Alioto as well as the founder of the Knights of St. Francis of Assisi, almost 300 men and women who volunteer to assist at the local “little church.” Angela and the Knights are all very happy to welcome Capuchin Father Harold Snider as shrine rector. “We the Knights of St. Francis want to formally congratulate you on your appointment as the new rector of the National Shrine of St. Francis,” the Knights said in a recent note to Father Harold. The Knights are now in their fifth year guarding the Porziuncola,

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TIME AFTER TIME: The Salesian Boys and Girls Club of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish celebrated its “Old Timers” Mass and dinner May 5. Former club members Mike Cardella and Rich Azzolino did the cooking with John Monfredini as emcee. Lucy Marques was the 2013 Woman of the Year and the Father Trinchieri Award was given to club assistant director Randy De Martini. Pictured are Russ Gumina, executive director; Salesian Father John Itzaina, pastor; Randy De Martini. Archdiocese of San Francisco, presides over the liturgy. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass at 5 p.m. in the basilica. The Mission Dolores Basilica Choir directed by Jerome Lenk leads song. The cornerstone of Mission Dolores Basilica was laid in 1913 with construction finished on the church in 1918. Commemorations of the era will take place through 2018, said Gustavo Torres, development director. Call (415) 621-8203, ext. 11, or email gtorres@missiondolores.org.

IDO, IDO: Congratulations to Carol Elliott – parish nurse for Order of Malta and Holy Name of Jesus Church and Dr. George Maloof on their marriage April 12. “The happy couple met at the San Francisco Catholic Medical Guild, and are continuing to enjoy life together,” Carol told me. which is open every day but Monday 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Its Francesco Rocks gift shop is open every day. Angela was among the group from the Archdiocese of San Francisco present for Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone receiving a pallium from Pope Francis June 29 in Rome. Archbishop Cordileone installs Father Harold as rector July 21, in the shrine church. 100 YEARS: Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco, begins its 100th anniversary Sept. 7 with a prayer service at 11 a.m. Cardinal William J. Levada, retired prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and archbishop emeritus of the

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Young sisters to gather in Bay Area for national convention America representing more than 30 religious orders. Participants will pray, reflect and creatively imagine what the future ministry of Catholic sisters might look like given the growing number of people living in poverty or on the margins on society as well as the increasing intercultural reality. The sisters themselves represent this intercultural reality, and simultaneous translation will allow English- and Spanish-speaking participants to share in their own language. Religious life is in the midst of an historic shift, as the large novitiate classes of the 1950s and 1960s age and fewer women enter religious life today. On July 8, the sisters will participate in an

Under-50 Catholic sisters will gather at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont July 5-8 for the Giving Voice National Gathering. The sisters, most of whom are the youngest members of their religious orders, will pray and reflect on the future of mission and ministry in the church and society in the 21st century. Sister Yolanda Tarango, congregation leader of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word and a renowned theologian, will share her insights on the conference theme of “Mission and Ministry in the 21st Century.” The four-day national gathering will bring together vowed women religious from across North

outdoor interactive exercise to imagine “going on a mission” in smaller numbers in the future. Giving Voice is a peer-led grassroots national organization of Catholic sisters under the age of 50 that creates spaces for younger women religious to give voice to their hopes, dreams and challenges in religious life. The July conference is the seventh national gathering of younger women religious organized since 1997 and the first to take place on the West Coast. Previous gatherings have taken place in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee. For more information, visit www.giving-voice. org.

SI grad pursuing studies in conservation, environmental justice TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

St. Ignatius College Preparatory graduate Chris Jadallah is preparing for the wild world he’s being thrust into in a number of ways. Chris has been a volunteer at the San Francisco Zoo since 2008. He begins studies at UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources in just a few months. “I’m looking forward to my internship at the San Francisco Zoo where I will be working with the Nature Trail program, the program that I started volunteering on,” Chris told Catholic San Francisco in an email. “The zoo is a humongous part of my life that has helped shape me into the person I am today. I’m excited to work with young volunteers and give them the same wonderful experience I had.” Chris had his eye on Cal mainly because of its “opportunities for students interested in studying the environment and because I absolutely love the Bay Area and its incredible diversity,” he said. Wildlife conservation and environmental justice are areas he is interested in.

“I don’t have any specific career goals as of yet but I’m interested in any field where I can work with people while exploring my passion for animals and nature.” Plans for the one-time managing editor of the SI school newspaper also include getting involved with Newman Hall, Berkeley’s Catholic community. “A friend’s family belongs to that parish and absolutely loves it,” Chris said. In addition to his volunteering at Chris Jadallah the zoo, Chris stays busy in his free time “discovering new places in the city with friends, exploring the great outdoors, and traveling,” he said. Chris said it would be tough to narrow down what impacted him most at SI. “Wow, what a difficult question! I could go on for days about what I love about SI. So many teachers significantly impacted me, but Ms. Mary Ahlbach, my religion teacher for the past two years, holds a special place in my heart because of her love and support, sense of humor,

and inspired views of faith and justice. She is a true role model!” Chris’ Catholic faith “influences the way that I see the world and thus act,” he said. “Catholic social teaching influences many of my views and encourages me to be a more open, compassionate, and loving person dedicated to living with and for others.” Chris said he is ready for what might be ahead for him as an adult. “I fully embrace my role in the world and want nothing more than to make a positive difference and leave a legacy. SI has prepared me intellectually, emotionally and spiritually.” “My vision of the world is one where men and women of all different backgrounds live in peace and happiness in harmony with each other and the world. I plan to contribute to this world by being my authentic self and sharing all of my gifts and talents with the world. I would like to join the Jesuit Volunteer Corps or Peace Corps after I graduate and begin sowing the seeds for a better world.” Chris attended St. Matthew School in San Mateo. His parents are Charles and Janine Jadallah.

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SI Church tolls bells for gun deaths St. Ignatius Parish is tolling its bells daily for those who have died from gun violence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; part of the San Francisco parishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to raise awareness and inspire prayer for victims. In a note to parishioners in the Sunday bulletin of June 9, St. Ignatius pastor Jesuit Father Gregory R. Bonfiglio wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last month, the U.S. Senate was unable to provide the leadership necessary to pass any legislation to increase gun safety in our county. This despite 92 percent of the U.S. American public being in favor of some change.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christians are called to live the

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understand the true interrelatedness of all of nature and see the presence of the Lord in one of his unique and special gifts to humankind,â&#x20AC;? they wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Could one find a military man or woman in a war zone who will not express love for a trained dog who saved him and his companions from IEDs at the expense of critical injuries or its own life; or a police officer or his/her partner who will not dedicate his every waking moment to tend to the injuries of a service dog who has taken the bullet meant for him â&#x20AC;&#x201C; many of these dogs are actually considered sworn officers of the police departments in which they serve,â&#x20AC;? the fathers wrote. Funded by donations and interment fees at an estimated cost of $100,000 to $125,000, the columbarium would occupy what is now a catacomb-like empty space under the steps of the shrine church on Vallejo Street, divided by foot-thick arched concrete buttresses supporting the stairs and with part of the original 1849 church wall exposed. Visitors would pass through a glass entry door to arrive at an entrance hall featuring a back-lit stained-glass art piece of St. Francis surrounded by animals. The cremated animal remains would be interred in niches in an upper and lower hall. The niches would be designed to allow urns, pictures and small memorabilia to be permanently displayed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; each location a site of living history for the many families who truly mourn their deceased animal companions. The niches â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the goal is

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A catacomb-like vault under the church steps at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi would house a columbarium to memorialize beloved pets and service animals, in the spirit of the saintâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s animal kingdom. 1,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; would be in varying sizes and locations to offers families a range of choices to memorialize large or small pets or multiple pets. The hall of honor would be a special area reserved for animals who have served in the military, police agencies and search and rescue â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sometimes giving their lives in the process. A place of honor for â&#x20AC;&#x153;animals that lived and died in service of the human communityâ&#x20AC;? would show that animals not only serve as companions but also help us live safely, Father Coiro told Catholic San Francisco. Father Coiro said people who bring their pets to the shrine to be blessed â&#x20AC;&#x153;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be Catholicâ&#x20AC;? and religion will not be a factor for animal interment at St. Francis Rest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The animals have no religion,â&#x20AC;? he said. For more information, visit www. shrinesf.org/Columbarium/SF-Columbarium.html.

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ST. FRANCIS, Wis. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; In releasing between 6,000 and 7,000 pages of documentation related to clergy sexual abuse in the Milwaukee archdiocese, Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki hopes that a chapter in the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history can be closed and that healing for abuse survivors, their families and the church can continue. He expressed that hope in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love One Another,â&#x20AC;? his June 25 email communique to priests and others involved in ministry in the Milwaukee archdiocese, sent six days before the archdiocese posted the documents on its website: www.archmil. org. The material was posted July 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My hope in voluntarily making these documents public is that they will aid abuse survivors, families and others in understanding the past, reviewing the present and allowing the church in southeastern Wisconsin to continue moving forward,â&#x20AC;? he wrote. In early April, the archbishop announced that approximately 3,000 documents from priest personnel files, files of the bishops and vicar for clergy and other sources in the archdiocese would be made public by July 1 and called this planned release an effort to build â&#x20AC;&#x153;upon our commitment to transparency.â&#x20AC;? The announcement came a day before a scheduled hearing before Judge Susan V. Kelley in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the court overseeing the Milwaukee archdioceseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

release will have on Catholics and the general population. â&#x20AC;&#x153;News about this topic can shake oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faith. In fact, if you decide to go and review this material, prepare to be shocked,â&#x20AC;? he wrote.

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or family member, (is) ugly and unpleasant,â&#x20AC;? he wrote, adding he worries about the reactions of abuse survivors when confronted again with this material. The archbishop noted he also worries about the effect the document

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Speaker: Roe raised more questions about abortion than it resolved ANN CAREY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NOTRE DAME, Ind. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; In 1973, many people thought the U.S. Supreme Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roe v. Wade decision would resolve the abortion debate, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;in fact, it was no resolution at all,â&#x20AC;? said the associate director of the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abortion itself remains perhaps the most unresolved of all modern public issues,â&#x20AC;? Richard Doerflinger told participants in the Notre Dame Vita Institute. The decision raised more questions than it answered about the status of unborn human beings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both inside and outside the context of abortion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Doerflinger said in a June 19 lecture in which he analyzed 40 years of pro-life efforts since the high court legalized abortion on demand with its Roe ruling. The historic abortion decision and its companion ruling in Doe v. Bolton, also opened debate about the legal status of other vulnerable humans already born, including handicapped, elderly and terminally ill persons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In short, it (Roe) has forced us to confront the question of whether human life in general has dignity and inherent value simply because it is human life,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;or whether life has a sliding scale of value and can be set aside or diminished, depending on the apparent usefulness or burdens of that life.â&#x20AC;?

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Roe v. Wade and the national debate on abortion have raised the question of â&#x20AC;&#x153;who has a right to life (and who, therefore, has any human rights at all), and on what basis?â&#x20AC;? Doerflinger said. Thus, Roe v. Wade has affected other

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At pallium Mass, pope encourages archbishops to be ministers of unity CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Every bishop is called to be “a servant of communion,” working tirelessly to overcome divisions so that differences become a treasure and not a source of conflict, Pope Francis said. The Christian community should be “like a great mosaic in which every small piece joins with others as part of God’s one great plan,” the pope said June 29 as he celebrated the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul and bestowed the pallium on 34 archbishops from 19 countries. The pallium is a woolen band that symbolizes an archbishop’s unity with the pope and his authority and responsibility to care for the flock the pope entrusted to him. Archbishops wear the pallium around their shoulders over their liturgical vestments when celebrating the liturgy in their regions. A pope also wears one, although his is marked with red crosses, while an archbishop’s has black crosses. The archbishops, named in the past year, included: U.S. Archbishops Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco; Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis; Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore.; and Michael O. Jackels of Dubuque, Iowa; Canadian Archbishop Murray Chatlain of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba; and U.S.-born Archbishop Gintaras Grusas of Vilnius, Lithuania. Archbishop Cordileone said receiving the pallium is “a tremendous honor and I’m very humbled, recognizing my unworthiness. It is not an honor to exalt someone, but is a sign of communion.” Wearing red vestments to mark the feast of the martyred Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Francis said the role he and the bishops have in the church must be founded on faith in Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit. “Whenever we let our thoughts, our feelings or the logic of human power prevail, and we do not let ourselves be taught and guided by faith, by God, we become stumbling blocks,” he told the archbishops during the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. “Faith in Christ is the light of our life as Christians and as ministers in the church.” St. Paul spoke about “fighting the good fight,” which “is not one of those fights fought with human weapons which sadly continue to cause bloodshed throughout the world,” the pope said. The “good fight” of a Christian is giving one’s entire life to serving the Gospel. “The bishop of Rome himself is called to live and confirm his brothers and sisters in this love for Christ and for all others, without distinction, limits or barriers,” he said. Pope Francis said that when he gave the archbishops their palliums as a sign of communion, it was not a request for uniformity or for ignoring

POPE TO PRIESTS: BE GOOD FATHERS, GIVING SPIRITUAL LIFE, CARE TO OTHERS

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said the desire to be a father is ingrained in all men, even priests, who are called to give spiritual life, care and protection to others. “Something is wrong” if a man does not have the drive to be paternal, “something is missing in this man,” the pope said in his homily during a morning Mass June 26 in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives. Vatican Radio published a summary of his homily in Italian. “All of us, to exist, to become satisfied and to be mature have to feel the joy of paternity, even those of us who are celibate,” he said. “Paternity is giving life to others,” he said. For priests, “it will be pastoral paternity, spiritual paternity, but it is giving life, becoming fathers.” Being a father is a grace the Lord gives, he said, highlighting the fact that people address priests as “father.” “People want us to be like that – fathers – with the grace of pastoral paternity,” he said. The pope gave a special greeting to 82-year-old Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, the retired archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, who attended the morning Mass and the general audience afterward in St. Peter’s Square. The pope congratulated him, both during the Mass and at the audience, on his 60th anniversary of his priestly ordination and his 40th anniversary as a bishop. The pope commented on the large number of priests, more than 80, who accompanied the cardinal to Rome and the morning Mass, and had been ordained by the cardinal. During the morning homily, the pope told the priests that now it was up to them to continue the cardinal’s good work.

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Pope: ‘All of us’ equally important in the church CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The stability of the church requires that it be built on Jesus, but its beauty and strength also rely on the contributions of each and every Christian, Pope Francis said. “If someone tells you, ‘Go home, you’re not needed,’ that’s not true,” the pope told an estimated 50,000 people at his weekly general audience June 26. “No one is useless in the church. We are all needed to build this temple.” “We are all equal in the eyes of God – everyone,” he

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has created a five-person commission to review the activities and mission of the Vatican bank. The new pontifical commission, which includes two U.S. members, reflects the pope’s desire to ensure the bank’s activities are in harmony with the mission of the universal church and the Apostolic See, said a Vatican communique published June 26. The communique, issued by the Vatican Secretariat of State, said the commission’s aim is “to collect information on the running of the Institute” for the Works of Religion, the formal name of the Vatican bank, and to then present the results to Pope Francis. The commission, which has already begun its work, is part of the pope’s larger efforts to reform the central offices of the church, the statement said. The commission, which includes Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard law professor, and Msgr. Peter B. Wells, a top official in the Vatican Secretariat of State, is to have wide and unencumbered access to all “documents, data, information,” the Vatican said.

VATICAN TO COOPERATE IN CASE OF ACCUSED MONSIGNOR

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In the same way, the pope said, when Catholics go into a church, “we should remember our history, my history. Each of us should remember how Jesus met me, how Jesus has walked with me, how Jesus loves and blesses me.” But the church as the temple of God is more than a building, he said, it is Christ’s living body and is built not with material stones, but with the living stones of each of the baptized. “In the people of God, we are the church,” Pope Francis said. “With the gift of baptism each of us is a living stone.” sion of any employee who is the subject of a criminal investigation, he said June 28. The spokesman also said, “The Holy See has not yet received any request on this matter from the proper Italian authorities, but confirms it is ready to collaborate fully.”

THE SUPERFICIAL AND THE RIGID ‘MASQUERADE’ AS CHRISTIANS, POPE SAYS

VATICAN CITY – Christianity isn’t a school for teaching a superficial form of being nice to everyone, but it’s also not a boot camp where everything is rigidity, rules and long faces, Pope Francis said. “The Lord calls us to build our Christian life on him, the rock, the one who gives us freedom, the one who sends us the Spirit, who keeps us going with joy on his path, following his proposals,” the pope said June 27 during his morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae. According to a report by Vatican Radio, Pope Francis warned in his homily that too many people today “masquerade as Christians,” rejecting either the challenging teachings of Christ and his Gospel or rejecting the joy and freedom the Holy Spirit brings. “In the history of the church there have been two classes of Christians: Christians of words – those who say, ‘Lord, Lord, Lord’ – and Christians of action, in truth,” the pope said. The Christians who are all talk, he said, fall into two opposing categories: those he defined as “gnostics,” who “instead of loving the Rock, love pretty words” and follow a “liquid Christianity” without substance; and those he defined as “Pelagians,” who “believe that the Christian life must be taken so seriously that they end up confusing solidity and firmness with rigidity.” Both groups, he said, are missing the key connection to Christ, “the only one who sustains us in difficult times.”

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will visit a tiny Italian island to greet refugees and immigrants, pray for those who have lost their lives at sea and call for greater solidarity. The Vatican said Pope Francis was “deeply affected” by a recent tragedy in mid-June in which at least seven people drowned while they sought to stay afloat on a large tuna cage. They had been part of a group of nearly 100 immigrants jammed onto an inflatable raft sailing from North Africa. To pay homage to these and countless other victims over the years, the pope will make a half-day visit to Lampedusa July 8. He will take a short boat ride out to sea to toss a floral wreath into the water and pray for those who have lost their lives in their attempt to reach Italian soil. He also will visit with survivors and refugees on the island and celebrate an open-air Mass. He will use the occasion to support “the island’s inhabitants and make an appeal to everyone’s responsibility of taking care of these brothers and sisters in extreme need,” the Vatican said. The voyages often are made in dangerous and inhumane conditions, and the island’s infrastructure is overwhelmed by the large influx of immigrants.

POPE FRANCIS’ FIRST ENCYCLICAL TO BE PUBLISHED JULY 5

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ first encyclical, which he has said is largely the work of retired Pope Benedict XVI, will be published July 5. The Vatican announced July 1 that “Lumen Fidei” (The Light of Faith) will be presented at a news conference featuring Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation of Bishops; Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; and Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization. An encyclical on faith was long expected as the

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Pope Francis waves as he leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 30. The Italian bishops’ conference has called on Europe to recognize that Italy cannot handle the migration flow by itself. European bishops, too, have said the crisis requires the solidarity of all of Europe. Recent crises in North Africa have only intensified what had already been a steady flow of thoulast volume in Pope Benedict’s trilogy on the three “theological virtues,” following his encyclicals “Deus Caritas Est” (2005) on charity, and “Spe Salvi” (2007) on hope. In June, Pope Francis told bishops meeting in Rome that his first encyclical would be largely the work of his predecessor. “It’s an encyclical written with four hands, so to speak, because Pope Benedict began writing it and he gave it to me,” Pope Francis said. “It’s a strong document. I will say in it that I received it and most of the work was done by him and I completed it.”

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Prop. 8 proponents maintain initiative legal under California Constitution VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

California county clerks began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples under a U.S. Supreme Court action as defenders of Proposition 8 maintained that the California Constitution continues to limit marriage to between one man and one woman. A June 28 directive from Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. notifying county clerks and registrar/recorders that same-sex marriage is now legal in California came immediately after the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved its ruling on the constitutionality of Prop. 8. That action came after a U.S. Supreme Court decision June 26 declining to take up Prop. 8 proponents’ challenge to a trial court’s finding that the initiative is unconstitutional. Prop. 8 proponents quickly responded with an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the 9th Circuit’s action from taking effect. It was immediately rejected by Justice Anthony Kennedy with no additional comment. “It was an unexpected and somewhat stunning turn of events that the stay was lifted almost immediately,” said Carol Hogan, spokeswoman for the California Catholic Conference. “It just is a mess,” Hogan said. Under Supreme Court procedural rules, final disposition comes when the Supreme Court issues a mandate to the 9th Circuit, at least 25 days after announcing its opinion in the case, official Prop. 8 proponents ProtectMarriage.com said in a statement on its website. The 25-day waiting period is provided to allow parties such as Prop 8 proponents to petition the Supreme Court for a re-hearing of the case, the statement said. “People on both sides of this debate should at least agree that the courts must follow their own rules,” Andy Pugno, general counsel for ProtectMarriage.com, said. “This kind of lawlessness just further weakens the public’s confidence in the legitimacy of our legal system.” Prop. 8 proponents say that the

WHAT THE US SUPREME COURT DECIDED ON PROPOSITION 8: Ruled in Hollingsworth v. Perry that Protect Marriage, proponents of the initiative, had no standing to appeal on behalf of Prop. 8, even though the California Supreme Court granted the initiative proponents standing because both the California governor and attorney general opted not to defend it. Therefore, the high court vacated the ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and upheld the US District Court ruling that the law was unconstitutional. ON THE FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT: Ruled in United States v. Windsor that DOMA is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment Equal Protection Clause and that the definition of marriage resides in the states.

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voter-approved state constitutional amendment remains law. Because the U.S. Supreme Court refused to rule on Prop. 8, the last valid federal court decision is that of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The 2010 decision found that Prop. 8 violates the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, the same clause that Justice Kennedy cited in his majority opinion striking down the marriage definition clause in the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Under the California Constitution, the district court does not have authority to invalidate Prop. 8

WHAT THE JUSTICES SAID ON DOMA

statewide and therefore Prop. 8 remains law, said Chapman University constitutional law professor John Eastman. “There’s a provision of the state Constitution that says I have to keep enforcing the law unless it is ruled unconstitutional by a court of appeals or higher.” According to Article 3, Section 3.5, of the California Constitution: “An administrative agency, including an administrative agency created by the Constitution or an initiative statute, has no power: (a) To declare a statute unenforceable, or refuse to enforce a statute, on the basis of it being

uniformity and stability amply justified Congress’s decision to retain the definition of marriage that, at that point, had been adopted by every state in our nation, and every nation in the world.”

MAJORITY OPINION, WRITTEN BY JUSTICE ANTHONY M. KENNEDY: “DOMA undermines both the public and private significance of statesanctioned same-sex marriages; for it tells those couples, and al lthe world, that their otherwise valid marriages are unworthy of federal recognition. This places same-sex couples in an unstable position of being in a secondtier marriage. DOMA’s avowed purpose and practical effect are to impose a disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages made lawful by the unquestioned authority of the states. … The Constitution’s guarantee of equality ‘must at the very least mean that a bare congressional desire to harm a politically unpopular group’ cannot justify disparate treatment of that group.”

DISSENT, BY JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA: “… the majority has declared open season on any law that (in the opinion of the law’s opponents and any panel of like-minded federal judges) can be characterized as mean-spirited. The majority concludes that the only motive for this act was the “bare . . . desire to harm a politically unpopular group.” Bear in mind that the object of this condemnation is not the legislature of some once-Confederate Southern state (familiar objects of the Court’s scorn), but our respected coordinate branches, the Congress and presidency of the United States.”

DISSENT, BY CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN G. ROBERTS JR.: “Interests in

MAJORITY OPINION, BY CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: “We have

WHAT THE JUSTICES SAID ON PROP. 8

unconstitutional unless an appellate court has made a determination that such statute is unconstitutional.” “Our expectation would be that officials of the state would protect and defend the California Constitution, both Prop. 8 and other provisions,” said Austin Nimocks, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, co-counsel defending Proposition 8. “They obviously have not done that in this case to this point.” The California Supreme Court upheld Prop. 8 in 2009. Prop. 8 lawyers are studying the problem and “won’t know for some time” what options they will have, said Pugno of ProtectMarriage.com. A county clerk, citing Prop. 8, who refused to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple would have legal standing to defend the initiative in the courts, attorneys said. The two same-sex couples who contested Prop. 8 in federal district court in San Francisco did not file a class action suit, and therefore there is a case to be made that the district court ruling only applies to them, said Dale Schowengerdt, senior legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom. Other legal avenues are also being considered but not publicized, said Schowengerdt. Nimocks said “the marriage debate is going to do exactly what we thought it was going to do, and that’s continue in the courts, legislative halls and every place. And it’s going to continue for a good long time.” Another initiative campaign in California seems unlikely. “The people have had two opportunities to vote and have twice upheld traditional marriage, and I don’t imagine that the people particularly want to get into another difficult and gut-wrenching campaign,” Pugno said in response to a question during a conference call with reporters. “And second, with respect to the alleged dramatic shift in public opinion, remember the polls showed Prop. 8 losing handily prior to the election. Only so much can be interpreted from those polls with respect to this issue.”

never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to. We decline to do so for the first time here.” DISSENT, BY JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY JOINED BY JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO, JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR: “The court’s reasoning does not take into account the fundamental principles or the practical dynamics of the initiative system in California, which uses this mechanism to control and to bypass public officials—the same officials who would not defend the initiative, an injury the court now leaves unremedied. The court’s decision also has implications for the 26 other states that use an initiative or popular referendum system and which, like California, may choose to have initiative proponents stand in for the state when public officials decline to defend an initiative in litigation.”

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ARCHBISHOP: Despite court rulings, ‘our work remains unchanged’ FROM PAGE 1

enforces the principle that it’s in the best interest of the child to be raised by their mother and father. The state has an interest in protecting that right and supporting parents in raising their children,” the archbishop told Catholic News Service in an interview in Rome June 26, the day the Supreme Court ruled. Protect Marriage placed Prop. 8 on the 2008 California ballot as an initiative after the California Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage was legal. The state constitutional amendment won with 52 percent of the vote and was later upheld by the state Supreme Court. Seven million Californians voted for Prop. 8 and “many of them invested a lot of hard work and a lot of time and lots and lots of money against seemingly insurmountable odds,” said Archbishop Cordileone, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage. The archbishop was in Rome to receive his pallium from Pope Francis in a special ceremony June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The pallium is special woolen stole that signifies a metropolitan archbishop’s role as a shepherd of the Catholic community. In the case of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law could not define marriage as between one man and one woman but must respect the laws on marriage of the individual states in granting federal marriage benefits. “Today is a tragic day for marriage and our nation,” the archbishop and New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a June 26 statement on behalf of the U.S. bishops. “The court got it wrong,” the two

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco is pictured after an interview in Rome June 26. Speaking hours after U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, Archbishop Cordileone said he was “very disappointed and very worried about the future of our country and the future of our children.” prelates said. “The federal government ought to respect the truth that marriage is the union of one man and one woman even where states fail to do so. The preservation of liberty and justice requires that all laws, federal and state, respect the truth, including the truth about marriage.” Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Cordileone urged people to “stand steadfastly together in promoting and defending the unique meaning of marriage: one man, one woman, for life.” They also asked for prayers “as the court’s decisions are reviewed and their implications further clarified.” Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori said the court’s decisions were the “latest in a troubling trend of decisions by lawmakers, judges, and some voters which ignores the fundamental truth about marriage: It is the most valued, most important social unit in our society and as such is deserving of the protection and special recognition societies have afforded it throughout human history.” Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg, Fla., noted that the court’s rulings were no surprise and that

they had been anticipated by the U.S. bishops. He also said the court’s action will likely “be debated for a long time.” “The Catholic Church has a great interest in the definition of marriage since it is one of its seven sacraments,” he added. “We firmly believe that marriage is and can only be the union of one man and one woman. I pray that no civil legislation will ever require of us or any religion the freedom to define marriage for our own ecclesial purpose.” President Barack Obama applauded the court’s ruling against DOMA as “a victory for couples who have long fought for equal treatment under the law,” but also stressed the importance of “maintaining our nation’s commitment to religious freedom.” “How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision – which applies only to civil marriages – changes that,” he said in a June 26 statement. According to a study issued May 30 by the Washington-based Public Religion Research Institute, 62 percent of

U.S. Catholics support same-sex marriage; overall, 52 percent of Americans support such marriages and 43 percent oppose them. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said it was clear from the court’s rulings that “the ball has been moved down the field to a point where the pro-gay marriage side is in the red zone. Whether they can be stopped from crossing the goal line depends solely on the prospects of having a constitutional amendment affirming marriage as a union between a man and a woman.” No matter what the law is, education about why marriage matters is very important, Archbishop Cordileone said. “I’ve said all along that regardless of how the court decides, our work remains unchanged. We need to catechize our people about marriage,” Archbishop Cordileone told CNS. “Again, this change in the idea of marriage has been going on for a very long time. So even if the court issued a ruling that we like, we would still have a lot of work to do in helping our people understand what marriage really is, why marriage is important for the public good and why it’s essentially an institution to support social justice, justice for the sake of children.” The Archdiocese of San Francisco is stepping up its emphasis on marriage education with a recently concluded June week of clergy education focusing on marriage. The archdiocese also reinstated the Office of Marriage and Family Life, which was closed in a cost-cutting move in 2005. A director is expected to be in place this summer. In the Catholic schools, education about marriage “has been and continues to be a vital part of all high school religion curriculums,” said Maureen Huntington, archdiocesan schools superintendent. Valerie Schmalz contributed to this story.

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What do you think that Catholics can do in their daily lives to show the beauty of sacramental marriage? Asked after 5:30 p.m. Mass on June 26 at St. Cecilia Church, San Francisco

Griselda MacDonald

Anna Maria Mendieta

Ramon Marquez

Norma Poblete

Be one family with the kids, with the relatives, with all the people you can get around you so that it becomes family. I think couples are strengthened by relations with other people. GRISELDA MACDONALD

tant is to show the joy on their faces of how wonderful and privileged and an honor it is to have that special person that God has blessed. ANNA MARIA MENDIETA

The Catholic marriage is a definite plan of God so two people can join together in sickness and in health until death do they part. My husband passed away 23 years ago and I keep on going because I think this is my fate. I think that my husband is happy now that he is in better place in heaven because that is what I was praying for before he died. Especially I prayed in front of St. Joseph that

if possible he could have a good and happy death. Before my husband passed away, he prepared me. He told me that the only thing he regretted was that I would be by myself. I am happy I had a happy married life even though it was short. NORMA POBLETE

It would be important to pray together, show faithfulness, kindness and respect to one another. I think what would probably be very impor-

To live your Catholic life, to pray, go to church. Pray with your spouse, trying to be as prayerful at home with your kids as you can. RAMON MARQUEZ

Interviews and photos by Valerie Schmalz/Catholic San Francisco.

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IMMIGRATION: Bill passes Senate, moves to uncertain fate in House FROM PAGE 1

11 million immigrants who are here illegally. Other provisions would change the systems for family reunification immigration, for farm labor immigration and temporary workers; give young adults a quicker path to citizenship under the DREAM Act; and address problems with employer verification, immigrant detention and where enforcement raids are conducted. Vice President Joe Biden exercised his prerogative to preside over the late-afternoon vote, which was met by cheers of “yes, we can,” from the visitor gallery of the Senate chamber. The outbursts were quickly silenced, according to rules of Congress that prohibit any demonstrations.

Archbishop Gomez urges passage

Among those commending the Senate for completing the bill and for the bipartisan cooperation it took was Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, who urged the House of Representatives to do the same. Archbishop Gomez, who chairs the Committee on Migration of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said while the bishops disagree with elements of the bill, particularly “the unprecedented buildup of enforcement resources along the southern border, they see the legislation as an overall improvement upon the status quo.” In a statement, he said the current system causes much suffering among immigrants and their families. The Senate bill “would allow immigrants and their families to come out of the shadows and into the light and would protect families from separation.” Among changes to the legislation that the archbishop said the USCCB would seek as the House proceeds are making the path to citizenship “more accessible and achievable.” Traveling in Africa, President Barack Obama in a statement thanked the bipartisan “gang of eight” senators who wrote the bill and those who crossed party lines to pass it.

‘Consistent with key principles’

He said that as a compromise measure, “nobody got everything they wanted. Not Democrats. Not Republicans. Not me. But the Senate bill is consistent with the key principles for commonsense reform that I – and many others – have repeatedly laid out.” He called the bill’s border security plan of the bill the most aggressive in history. Its provisions also would provide an economic boost to the country,

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A group of immigrants and activists for immigration reform chant as they march on Capitol Hill in Washington June 26 to urge Congress to act on immigration reform. The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill June 27. Obama said. He urged people who care about the issue to keep a watchful eye as the bill proceeds. “Now is the time when opponents will try their hardest to pull this bipartisan effort apart so they can stop common-sense reform from becoming a reality,” the president’s statement said. “We cannot let that happen.” Obama added that “the clear majority of Americans who support reform – from CEOs to labor leaders, law enforcement to clergy” should reach out to members of Congress and urge them to “pass commonsense reform so that our businesses and workers are all playing by the same rules and everyone who’s in this country is paying their fair share in taxes.” Some groups working for comprehensive reform were blunt about what they consider the shortcomings of S. 744.

Young adult group disappointed

United We Dream, an organization of young adults who lack legal status because they were brought to the U.S. as children, issued a statement from coordinating committee member Evelyn Rivera, whose mother was deported six years ago after a traffic stop. “We are deeply disappointed by the compromises that negotiators agreed to in order to secure additional Republican support for the bill,” Rivera said in the statement. “We know these deals will only add to the pain DREAMers and our parents have experienced from border militarization and record deportations.” She lamented that “as the debate

unfolded GOP leaders kept moving the goalposts, insisting on more and more wasteful and excessive border security measures and launching attacks on our families.” “DREAMers are here to say to every single politician: We’re watching. No more. Enough is enough,” she said. The Detention Watch Network said that although the bill includes some positive provisions related to detention, the inclusion of an amendment to “dramatically expand border militarization and unprecedented levels of enforcement” will “bring the shadow of militarization to America.” It said some welcome reforms to detention provisions in the bill are overshadowed by “a vast expansion of enforcement that will lead to more immigrants being funneled into detention and processed for deportation” and will exclude people with criminal convictions from the legalization process and triple criminal prosecutions for border crossers. Being in the country without permission is a civil offense not a criminal one, though repeat border crossers are increasingly prosecuted under criminal statutes, making it nearly impossible for them to ever immigrate legally. As advocates gear up for the next part of the effort to get a bill approved and to the president to sign it into law, some planned to start with prayer.

Chicago church sends 100,000 postcards

In Chicago, the archdiocese’s immigrant ministry program planned

a Mass of thanksgiving for June 30 to recognize the bill’s passage. The archdiocese has collected 100,000 postcards to send Congress in support of immigration reform. Leith Anderson, president, National Association of Evangelicals, said after praying for bipartisan Senate legislation, “now it’s time to pray for bipartisan immigration legislation in the House.” The Rev. Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners, said the principles of the Senate bill “are drawn from the heart of the Gospel welcoming ‘the stranger’ as Jesus commands, protecting families as Christians must do, respecting the rule of law as Christians are biblically asked to do, and fixing and healing a broken immigration system that has shattered the lives of 11 million people, whom the Bible tells us to defend and serve.” Wallis said “the meaning of the Gospel in our times is at stake in this long-overdue effort to repair our corrupt and cruel immigration system. And the promise of an earned path to citizenship is in the best tradition of American democracy and diversity.” Robert Gittelson, president of Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, said for the faith community, particularly those in the coalition known as the Evangelical Immigration Table, the vote “was a serious step toward a moral and biblical solution, and we praise God for giving our senators the wisdom, leadership and compassion to pass this important bill. “We also recognize that much hard work remains, and passing this bill in the House will prove to be challenging. America is built on a foundation of justice and compassion; we pray that the House passes immigration legislation that reflects these values.” In Cincinnati, Tom Stieritz, director of Catholic Social Action for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, said on behalf of Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr that the bill, though imperfect, “is a step forward in finally establishing some law and order to our broken system and respecting the rights and family unity of migrants.” “Echoing the position of our bishops, thousands of Catholics throughout the archdiocese have asked our senators to support such reforms. ... By the end of this year, we hope to have an improved immigration system that restores order and promotes human dignity,” he said.

Archbishop: Immigration reform debate ‘defining moment’ BILL HOWARD CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DENVER – The nation’s heated debate over immigration reform this summer is “a defining historical moment for America” and “a moment for national renewal” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez told hundreds of attendees at the closing keynote address of the Catholic Media Conference June 21 in Denver. Archbishop Gomez called immigration reform “the most pressing issue that we face in American public life.” “I’m Mexican by birth and an American citizen by decision,” he said in an address titled “Immigration Reform and the Next America.” He noted that this issue is “more

than personal. For me, our national debate about immigration is a great struggle for the American spirit and the American soul. Immigration is a human rights test of our generation.” Archbishop Gomez asked attendees to take a step back from the debate and remember “our immigrant roots.” “Because we are an immigrant church, this debate over immigration is a debate about the future of the church and our Catholic people,” he said. “The Mexicans and other Latin Americans at the center of this debate – the millions whose fate is being decided by our politicians – are mostly fellow Catholics.” Archbishop Gomez, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catho-

lic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, said that reaching a decision on immigration reform is one of those major trials that a nation faces in its lifetime. “How we respond to the challenge of illegal immigration will measure our national character and conscience in this generation,” he said. “And in this historical moment, there’s a great role for the church to play.” Archbishop Gomez said that Catholics “have a moral obligation ... to contribute to these discussions. We need to help our neighbors see that immigration is about more than immigration.” Larger questions to ask, he said, include: “What is America?” “What does it mean to be American?” “What

will the ‘next America’ look like?” and “What should the next America look like?” Archbishop Gomez decried a culture of “name-calling and discrimination” that clouds the debate, as well as “criminal profiling based on race, random ID checks, commando-style raids of workplaces and homes, arbitrary detentions and deportations.” “The fact is that most ‘illegals’ are the people next door,” he continued. “They go to work every day. Their kids go to school with our kids. We sit next to them at church on Sunday. Most have been living in our country for five years or more. Two-thirds have been here for at least a decade. That’s what makes our response to this ‘crime’ so cruel.”

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Dual matrimony threatens conscience rights, religious liberty

ecently, a few of us were discussing whether separating civil marriage from religious or sacramental matrimony could be a compromise solution to the contentious problem we face concerning “traditional” vs. “same-gender” marriage. William May in “Getting the Marriage Conversation Right” responds this way: “The state and religions recognize the same reality that marriage unites a man and a woman with each other and any children born from their union. VICKI EVANS They just recognize it in different ways according to their competencies. The state regulates the public interest aspects–age of consent, distance in blood relationship, no other existing marriages, etc. Religions may have different qualifications based on the precepts of a particular faith.” The key is in whether we are recognizing the same reality, and the possibility of marriage between opposite-sex partners and same-sex partners is definitely not the same reality. Secretary of State John Kerry just made a statement at the United Nations echoing a line politicians love to use with respect to support for same-gender marriage. He said, “I join with my colleagues ... around the world in saying, no matter where you are, and no matter who you love, we stand with you.” Reducing marriage simply to “who you love” misses a big part of what marriage is. Love is not a policy interest of the state. It sentimentalizes the issue and ignores the fact that children have historically been and remain a fundamental consequence of marriage. This is how the human race survives and this is why marriage has always been a privileged institution. Since we no longer experience a shared morality, as has generally been the case in past generations, law is viewed as a teacher. If something is legal, it is presumptively right. Over time, the legal ethic becomes the cultural ethos of a society. (Abortion is a case in point). If the legal definition of marriage is changed for civil law purposes, expect religious marriage

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People demonstrate outside the Supreme Court building in Washington in this photo from late March, when the court heard oral arguments in two same-sex marriage cases. The court ruled as unconstitutional the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, in a 5-4 decision issued June 26. In a separate case, the court sent back to lower courts a challenge to California’s Proposition 8, the voter-approved initiative barring same-sex marriage. to be viewed as narrow, bigoted and just plain wrong. The culture begins to see itself in direct opposition to religious individuals and institutions, ushering in a wave of religious persecution and oppression. We see it happening already as private businesses are sued for discrimination when their owners refuse to serve same-sex weddings because of strongly held religious convictions. Conscience rights and religious liberty will be the first casualties of this civil/religious marriage compromise. And what will children be taught in their schools? If it’s a public school, will marriage be defined according to civil statutes? And if it’s a religiously affiliated school, will the definition be different? The result will be a confused, schizophrenic society. Good luck to future generations if this compromise is accepted. EVANS is coordinator of the Respect Life Office for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

LETTERS A society losing its moral compass Two pieces in the June 21 issue merit coupling and comment. One was an item announcing the death of Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, who, it was reported, founded and directed Georgetown University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Ethics and was a former president of The Catholic University of America. Dr. Pellegrino was quoted as saying “Medicine is a moral enterprise…and if you take away the ethical and moral dimensions, you end up with a technique. The reason it’s a profession is that it’s dedicated to something other than its own self-interests.” Against that backdrop, consider from another piece (“State policy changes would lead to ‘many more abortions,’”) the words of Beth Parker, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, regarding certain bills before the California Legislature, one of which would allow nurse midwives, nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform firsttrimester aspiration abortions. In support of that legislation, Parker wrote “…abortion has become a very routine, outpatient and low risk procedure.”

Does not Parker’s view of the proposed legislation reduce the practice of medicine to a “technique” lacking “ethical and moral dimensions?” We as a society must take stock. We are losing our moral compass. Can we not put aside the labels that separate us – conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican, secular or religious – and join hands to work toward what we all want, a free and just society based not on knee-jerk reactions to the issues we confront, but rather through rational consideration of those issues? Arthur Mangold San Mateo

Father Coleman’s article a missed opportunity John Collins’ comment (letter, June 7) spoke my mind as well. Father Gerald Coleman’s article (“Coming out as gay,” May 31) is an invitation and encouragement to gay people. What a shame! And I am appalled that instead of addressing the issue of being gay, and trying to correct and guide the “lost sheep,” Father Coleman is heading in the opposite direction. Gemma Hon San Francisco

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The cold, cold hearts of Catholics

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any Catholics have probably not even heard of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his death house for infants. That is so because the biased press refused to give it the coverage it deserved. But even if it had, after some initial shock, the infant killings are quickly forgotten. We now have cold, cold hearts. Gosnell did late-term abortions and some of the babies were born alive. He or someone in the abortion clinic would then “snip” their spines GEORGE to finish them off. He is WESOLEK said to have described one baby, born alive, as so big “it could walk to the bus.” He then made sure that baby never would walk anywhere as he snipped its spine. A cold, cold heart, indeed. Even this horror has become routine and common in our culture in the sense that public revulsion is muted. Just the smallest, most common-sense restriction on abortion is seen as a threat to the entire abortion establishment. Pro-choice politicians blink and nod at these “reprehensible” acts, and then quickly echo the Planned Parenthood message of unfettered access to abortion to protect women’s rights. In a surreal, Orwellian manner they point out that sordid clinics like this one would be commonplace without legalized abortion available to all no matter the age of the unborn baby. Pro-choice politicians will keep even late-term abortions legal and routine. A twisted, cold and callous message indeed. Our own federal representatives who call themselves “catholic,” House members (Nancy) Pelosi, (Jackie) Speier and (Anna) Eshoo adhere to this deadly message. They will not defy Planned Parenthood, which seemingly, owns a piece of them, and so they bow at the “sacred ground” altar of “reproductive freedom” and continue to gloss over these ghastly acts. So twisted with evil, so cold. Yet there are many Catholics who have voted for them and never challenged them on this life-and-death issue. President Obama, when a state senator in Illinois, voted against the “baby born alive” act, which would require immediate medical attention for babies born from a failed abortion attempt. He has publicly tied himself to the full agenda of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America which includes late-term abortions. He has clearly stated that abortion is essential for his daughters’ futures. Yet Catholics voted for him. Hearts calloused and cold. Sometime in the future, people will look back at this time in history and be amazed and horrified at the legal slaughter of so many millions of human persons. They will wonder why women felt that to be free, they had to have a “right” to kill their unborn children. They will marvel at the fact that the political establishment supported and paid for this death dealing. They will ask, “Where was the outrage? Where were the believers? Where were the Catholics?” Gosnell offered us a rare glimpse of the reality of death for these innocents. Many still refuse to notice that killing just before birth is as horrific as after birth. Unfortunately, Catholics, not unlike the general population, have become cold, callous and indifferent. They have not made the connection that caring for the least of our brothers and sisters includes these children. WESOLEK is director of communications and the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Deciphering the first 100 days of Pope Francis SANDRO MAGISTER

ROME – The first hundred days of the pontificate of Francis have led many observers to attempt an assessment of it. But there is already an element of evaluation in the immense and enduring popularity that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has enjoyed since the day of his election as pope. At every public appearance he is met with teeming crowds. In all of the opinion surveys the applause for this pope reaches the highest levels, which is also translated into a growth of trust in the Catholic Church. And what is even more astonishing is the benevolence with which he is looked upon by secular public opinion, which was particularly aggressive toward the church and the pope during the pontificate of Benedict XVI. Francis does not believe in the statistical measurement of success. “God does the statistics,” he said in what is perhaps the address most representative of his vision among those he has given so far: the half-hour improvised talk that he gave on June 17 to the many thousands of faithful from his diocese of Rome who were packed into the audience hall and the surrounding square: But at the same time he wants to be of the people, and knows how. Unlike Blessed John Paul II, who was extraordinarily adept at relating to the masses, Pope Francis knows how to win over individuals. When he makes his way through a crowd, he does not look at the whole but exchanges glances, gestures, words with one or another person whom he meets on his path. And if this happens only for a few, everyone knows that the same could happen for them. Pope Francis has the ability to make himself close to everyone.

A few elemental truths

His preaching is even more of the people. Made up of a few elemental truths, which recur incessantly on his lips and in a definitive sense are summarized – as he did in the cited discourse of June 17 – in a consoling “all is grace”: the grace of Christ who incessantly forgives even though all continue to be sinners, and thereby realizes “the greatest revolution in the history of humanity.” The preaching of Francis is original in its form, in which the written text is greatly superseded by spontaneous speech. But what appears to be the fruit of improvisation is in reality carefully studied, as can be intuited from his first appearance on the loggia of the Basilica of St. Peter, on the evening of his election as pope. The contents of his discourses, just like his actions, are all carefully pondered, including in their silences and omissions. And perhaps it is precisely in what he says and about what he is silent that there lies the reason for the favor that Francis enjoys also in the media and secular public opinion. In the first place, the call for a church that is “poor and for the poor,” which has become almost

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Pope Francis greets the crowd as he begins his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 19. Francis’ identification card and is confirmed by the simplicity of his everyday life, is one of those which all are inevitably compelled to appreciate, albeit for the most diverse reasons. Also impossible to contest are the frequent invectives of the pope against the potentates of global finance. As long as they are evoked in a generic and vague form, none of these real or presumed “strong powers” will feel actually attacked and provoked to react. And then there are Francis’ insistent reprimands against the career ambitions and desire for wealth – if not outright corruption – present in the ecclesiastical camp.

Silence on political matters

The element that, however, explains better than any other the benevolence of worldwide secular public opinion toward Francis is his silence in the political camp, especially on the minefield that sees the greatest opposition between the Catholic Church and the dominant culture. Abortion, euthanasia and homosexual marriage are terms that the preaching of Francis has so far deliberately avoided pronouncing. On June 16, on the day of the celebration of “Evangelium Vitae,” the vigorous encyclical of John Paul II against abortion and euthanasia, Pope Francis indeed spoke, but in disarmingly

brief and generic phrases, if they are compared with the formidable battle on a global scale fought by Blessed John Paul in that year of 1995 and the previous year, with its epicenter in the conference on population and development convened by the United Nations in Cairo. John Paul II and Benedict XVI after him exerted immense energy in opposing the epochal challenge represented by the modern ideology of birth and death, as also by the dissolution of the created duality of male and female. To this latter question Joseph Ratzinger dedicated his last great discourse to the curia, last Christmas Eve. The recent case of France, with the extraordinary reaction of intellectuals and of the people, Catholic and not, to the legalization of homosexual marriage, was the one on which Pope Francis was most anticipated to comment. But he did not say even a single word in support of the action of the church of France. It is to be expected that in the future Francis will continue to adhere to this reserve of his on questions that concern the political sphere. It is the pope’s conviction that such statements are the preserve of the bishops of each nation. He has told those of Italy in unmistakable words: “The dialogue with political institutions is your affair.” There is much that is risky in this delegation, given the pessimistic judgment that Pope Francis has on the average quality of the bishops of the world. But it is a risk that Francis is not afraid to face, convinced as he is – he has said so – that if the bishop is unsure, “the flock itself has the scent in finding the way.”

Vatican II rarely cited

There is, finally, another silence that has characterized the first hundred days of Pope Francis. It is the silence on Vatican II, which he has cited so far only rarely and marginally. The miracle is that almost all of the intra-ecclesial controversies on the interpretation and application of Vatican II, which had been particularly virulent with pope Ratzinger, have fallen silent. With Pope Francis, the Lefebvrist schism has gone to sleep and its resolution seems very remote, while on the other hand the supporters of the democratization of the church are singing the praises of the new pope. But if one compares the first hundred days of Pope Francis with the progressive “program of the first hundred days” delivered by Giuseppe Dossetti, Giuseppe Alberigo and Alberto Melloni to the cardinals of the two conclaves of 1978, and reprinted on the occasion of the conclaves of 2005 and 2013, it will be discovered that the current pope resembles, instead, a superior general of the Society of Jesus of the old school. MAGISTER is a Rome-based journalist and author and creator of the website http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it, where this article appeared June 24.

Remembering Father William Ahlbach PATSY GONZALEZ

When I learned of Father Ahlbach’s passing (obituary, June 21), I was filled with such a terrible sense of loss. Father has been my friend and pro-life hero for almost 25 years. We were specially bonded by our concern for the unborn and the plight of mothers that were fearful of bringing their babies into the world. It was a rare homily when you didn’t hear him preach about the tragedy of abortion that has taken millions of lives since Roe v. Wade. Often, his voice would crack with emotion when he came to this special issue regardless of how often – almost daily – he would preach it. They weren’t idle words. There is no doubt in my mind that many who sat in the pews took them to heart and may have been instrumental in transmitting this message among family and friends, possibly saving lives. When I had the opportunity to attend his noon Mass on many occasions, I would visit him in the vestibule after Mass to ask him to pray for a critical case at our center, when a mother remained abortion-minded after a visit. Those were moments when only prayer, not words, could make the difference. He lived what he preached. Because he was aware

of my involvement with a crisis pregnancy center in San Jose, he would enlist my help sometimes to assist an abortion-bound mother; he comforted and absolved grieving post-aborted women in the confessional, and even helped financially when a needy mother came to him for some financial assistance. I knew of cases in all these situations, particularly the ones he referred to me from the confessional that needed to process their grief Father Ahlbach through post-abortion counseling. Some years ago, he gave us his blessing after an early morning Mass before sending us off to save the unborn baby of a woman that had mentioned her intention to abort when she came to the church to pick up some food. She chose life. He brought my calling card into his confessional to give my number in case any of his penitents needed it. I would call to say, “Father, so-and-so called me for help and I just wanted to let you know that we are assisting her.” He didn’t have a clue who I’d be talking about because he never saw his faceless penitent through the confessional screen. He sought to go

beyond her absolution to practical help in bringing her further healing. Father Ahlbach is my idea of what it means to be a good priest. He preached life without judgment (though he once remarked that women would walk out sometimes when he brought up the subject in his homilies), loved and fed the poor, attracted children in spite of his formidable size and loved his priesthood that he humbly served. He was truly “in persona Christi.” Father Ahlbach, I grieve over the loss of your earthly presence but am consoled in knowing that there was a symphony of little voices that appealed for mercy at your judgment. The silent voices of these babies you fought hard to protect was replaced by your booming voice here on earth that will continue to resonate in the minds and hearts of the faithful who came to your Masses. Your work has not come to an end but will become even more fruitful in the presence of saints. GONZALEZ is a member of Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park, where she is a Gabriel Project “angel” offering help and pro-life support for women dealing with an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.’ LUKE 10:1-12, 17-20 ISAIAH 66:10-14C Thus says the Lord: Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her, all you who love her; exult, exult with her, all you who were mourning over her! Oh, that you may suck fully of the milk of her comfort, that you may nurse with delight at her abundant breasts! For thus says the Lord: Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent. As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms, and fondled in her lap; as a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; in Jerusalem you shall find your comfort. When you see this, your heart shall rejoice and your bodies flourish like the grass; the Lord’s power shall be known to his servants. PSALM: 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. Shout joyfully to God, all the earth, sing praise to the glory of his name; proclaim his glorious praise. Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!” Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. “Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you, sing praise to your name!” Come and see the works of God, his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

He has changed the sea into dry land; through the river they passed on foot; therefore let us rejoice in him. He rules by his might forever. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare what he has done for me. Blessed be God who refused me not my prayer or his kindness! Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. GALATIANS 6:14-18 Brothers and sisters: May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision, but only a new creation. Peace and mercy be to all who follow this rule and to the Israel of God. From now on, let no one make troubles for me; for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen. LUKE 10:1-12, 17-20 At that time the Lord appointed 72 others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers

for his harvest. Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this household.’ If a peaceful person lives there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you, for the laborer deserves his payment. Do not move about from one house to another. Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you, cure the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God is at hand for you.’ Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you, go out into the streets and say, ‘The dust of your town that clings to our feet, even that we shake off against you.’ Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand. I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom on that day than for that town.” The 72 returned rejoicing, and said, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.” Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky. Behold, I have given you the power to ‘tread upon serpents’ and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

Vocations: What are we praying for?

special priest who worked so well with the parish youth, the elderly and the sick. Yet, how many parents extend such admiration to encouraging their sons to consider the priesthood? We admire the religious sisters and brothers who taught us in school. Yet, how many encourage their children to consider the religious life in order to continue the work of those religious priests, brothers and sisters we remember so fondly? We admire, from a distance, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. Yet how many would be happy to hear that their daughter is interested in joining those sisters, and participating in their work with the poorest of the poor? In his “Confessions,” St. Augustine expresses the caliber of his spirituality prior to his conversion in a brief, laughable prayer: “Lord, grant me chastity … but not yet.” In praying for vocations, have we inadvertently adapted St. Augustine’s prayer for chastity into our own prayer for vocations? “Lord, grant us more priests … but not my son.” “Lord, call more men and women to the religious life … but someone else’s child,” “Lord grant us vocations … but not me.” Has this been our prayer over these past decades of declining vocations? When an entire generation has been praying, “Give us vocations … but not our children” are we really surprised to see a shortage of priests and religious? Has God, in fact, been answering our prayer all along?

Perhaps, what must happen before we see an increase in vocations is an examination of what attitudes we bring toward the priesthood and the religious life. What is the spirit behind our own prayer for vocations? Do we truly see such vocations as something we want our sons and daughters to enter? The Gospel reminds us that the great and abundant harvest needs workers. Let us remember that the first vocation directors of our church are the parents who raise their children in the faith. A vocation cannot be forced. However, for parents to at least let their children know that the priesthood or the religious life is an acceptable alternative (assuming they see it as such), our young people can then consider it as an option for their lives, because the seeds will have been sown in the harvest of the home. Let us re-examine how we encourage or discourage vocations. Let us resolve to foster vocations to the priesthood and religious life, beginning with our own children; planting what seeds we can so that the harvest may also yield worthy workers. Most important, let us pray that those whose vocations it is to be parents of children, raise their young ones to be open to whatever God calls them to, even, perhaps especially to service in the priesthood and religious life.

MONDAY, JULY 8: Monday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time; Bl. Peter Vigne, priest. Gn 28:1022a. PS 91:1-2, 3-4, 14-15ab. Mt 9:18-26.

THURSDAY, JULY 11: Memorial of St. Benedict, abbot. Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5. PS 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21. Mt 10:7-15.

SUNDAY, JULY 14: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Dt 30:10-14. PS 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37.

TUESDAY, JULY 9: Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, Chinese martyrs. Gn 32:23-33. PS 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b and 15. Mt 9:32-38.

FRIDAY, JULY 12: Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 46:1-7, 28-30. PS 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40. Mt 10:16-23.

MONDAY, JULY 15: Memorial of St. Bonaventure, bishop and doctor. Ex 1:8-14, 22. PS 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8. Mt 10:34—11:1.

SATURDAY, JULY 13: Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Henry. Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a. PS 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7. Mt 10:24-33.

TUESDAY, JULY 16: Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Ex 2:1-15a. PS 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34. Mt 11:20-24.

or the second time since Easter, our Sunday Gospel speaks to the subject of vocations. Many a vocation homily or reflection has included the words of this Sunday’s Gospel: “ … ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” Across the board, we have a tremendous need in our church for religious priests, sisters and brothers. Those entering formation are coming through neither fast enough or numerous enough to replace those who are leaving, retiring or passing away. The work for those currently serving in ministry is progressively increasing as the responsibilities continue to grow more and more abundant. FATHER WILLIAM The call to prayer reminds NICHOLAS us that the first duty in addressing the vocation crisis faced by the church is to pray for quality vocations to the priesthood and religious life. However, when we “ask the master” to “send out laborers,” what are we praying for? Catholics look to the parish priests for leadership and guidance. They speak highly of that

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

FATHER NICHOLAS’ website is frwcnicholas.com.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10: Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a. PS 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19. Mt 10:1-7.

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God’s vengeance versus mercy; R killing animals

The pastor of my church has preached for years about how loving, forgiving and merciful God is. But in the Old Testament, there are many occasions in which God destroys men or threatens their destruction (Noah’s ark and the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, the avenging angel with the firstborn in Egypt, etc.). So did the nature of God change after the birth, death and resurrection of his son? Or am I supposed to disregard the readings of the Old Testament? (Cherry Hill, N.J.) You raise a perennial question. Not infrequently, readers of the Scriptures point to what they see as a contradiction: a wrathful, violent God of FATHER the Old Testament versus the KENNETH DOYLE loving, compassionate Father of the Christian Scriptures. That, though, is an oversimplification and creates a false dichotomy. The Old Testament does not portray a primitive, warlike God who delights in destroying wrongdoers, and the Christian Scriptures do not present a “soft” God who refuses to judge and to punish sinfulness. Justice and mercy are twin attributes of the Lord of all ages. Think, for example, of the Lord’s nearly endless patience with the Israelites despite their recurring infidelities. Consider, too, the story of Jonah, whom God called to preach a message of repentance to Israel’s enemies in Nineveh; despite his reluctance, the Lord used him as a messenger of divine mercy. Then move forward to the New Testament and see clear warnings of God’s wrath against unrepentant sinners. In Matthew 23:13, for example, Jesus says: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter.” Paul is even more graphic, observing that those who do not obey the Gospel of Christ “will pay the penalty of eternal ruin” (2 Thessalonians 1:9). All sides of God’s personality are on display across the pages of the Old and New Testaments. That having been said, it’s a fair observation that, in the providence of God’s progressive revelation, compassion and forgiveness come across most clearly when Jesus arrives on the scene – both in the loving acts of Christ and in his words. (See, for example, John 14:12: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.”) What is the church’s teaching on killing insects, rodents or any of God’s creatures if they are doing you no harm? (I’ve seen children try to burn ants with a magnifying glass.) (Morrilton, Ark.) Genesis clearly states that human beings are stewards of the rest of creation and are commissioned (Genesis 1:28) to “have dominion over ... all the living things that crawl on the earth.” Yet the authority we exercise is not absolute. Animals give God glory, and we owe them respect. For a child to torture ants by burning them with a magnifying glass is a clear moral wrong and violates the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which says in No. 2418 that “it is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or to die needlessly.” Against the contention of some activists, however, the catechism does clarify in No. 2417 that “it is legitimate to use animals for food and clothing.” As to your question about killing insects or rodents, which, at the moment, might be doing you no harm, I would allow it under the rubric of dominion. Such animals can clearly inflict pain, can seriously disturb the tranquility needed for humane living and may, by their presence, contribute to unsanitary conditions that can lead to health hazards.

QUESTION CORNER

Q. A.

Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.

Contemplative sound bites

ecently I attended an institute on contemplative awareness at which James Finley was the keynote speaker. He brings some pedigree to the task. He has nearly 40 years of experience as a therapist, is a much soughtafter lecturer, has written extensively and deeply on the subject of contemplation, and, as a young man, for several years, had Thomas Merton as his spiritual director and mentor. He knows of what he speaks. I would like to share some of his insights with you by way of a collage of sound FATHER RON bites, each of which has a ROLHEISER certain “stand-alone” quality; but, when taken together, also shed some light on the nature of God, on the nature of contemplation, and on our struggles with both faith and contemplation. Here are some of Finley’s perspectives: – The mystics bear witness to the perfectly holy nature of human existence, to the fact that we are infinitely loved and held in existence by love, and that there are times when we momentarily glimpse and taste that in our lives. A mystic is a person who has been transformed by such an experience. – Anxiety comes from our estrangement from the consciousness of God’s love inside us. – Why do we spend so many hours trapped outside the richness of our own lives, living like persons standing outside our own houses looking in through the windows of our own homes? Or, worse still, why are we inside our own houses but in a mental condition that has us believing we are living outside? What must we do to wake up before we die? – Our lives are habitually pressured and so this is the perennial task: How do we, in the midst of our pressured lives, give ourselves over to the love that holds us? We cannot make a graced moment happen, but we can work at putting ourselves into a position where we offer the least resistance to be overtaken by a graced moment. – Contemplative awareness isn’t hard to find – it’s hard to not run away from. – Contemplative awareness is seeing things as they are. It’s resting in God. To be in contemplative awareness is to sit like “an unlearned child,” in a time of “non-thinking.” – By sitting still we can learn to be still. Contemplation depends upon fidelity: If you are faithful to your practice, your practice will be faithful to you.

– There are some simple rules for the practice of contemplation: Sit still. Sit straight. Have your eyes closed or lowered. Take slow deep natural breaths. Have your hands in a comfortable position. Then be present, open, and awake: Do not cling to nor reject anything that comes to you in thought. As a thought arises, let it arise, if it lingers, let it linger, if it passes away, let it pass away, but don’t let the thought carry you away with it. Move gently and slowly in prayer - don’t violate your body’s stillness. – A recommended exercise: Go to your room just before sunset some night for no other reason than to be there with God when the sun sets. Have absolutely no other agenda than to watch it grow dark. Sit for a full hour. Sit in the unrelenting sovereignty of the day’s end. Sit in radical obedience to the falling light. You’ll know solitude. – People who pray regularly generally do not pray well ... but they become persons who rely upon God to make their prayer well. And those who pray regularly will, like everyone else, still experience sadness and death, but sadness and death will no longer have a tyranny over them. – There is a difference between spiritual “sweetness” and spiritual “consolation”: “Sweetness” is feeling good while in prayer; “consolation” is the sense of having your heart enlarged (and that can be painful). – Quoting Gabriel Marcel: We know we love someone when we glimpse in that person something that is too beautiful to die. – Death is the eternal fertility of God. – Why do the Buddhists speak of “emptiness” in relationship to the concept of God? They do so to refer to God’s infinite simplicity, that is, God as God is before all the distinctions made about God. “Emptiness” is our standing before God’s ineffability, utterly overwhelmed by an over-fullness. – How can we be helpful in the face of others’ suffering when we feel so helpless to do anything about it? When persons share their fragility and pain with someone who hears with a true listening, those others uncover inside themselves the “pearl of great price.” And not least: – The generosity of the infinite is infinite. Among other things, this means that we must give ourselves over to a generous orthodoxy. – To be unknown by God is altogether too much privacy! – With God, a little sincerity goes a long way! OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology. San Antonio, Texas.

At one with our wounded warriors

he time the cyclists made riding day and night was astonishing, but so was the determination of the wounded troops with missing limbs and legs who propelled themselves and finished the grueling course. In five days, a group supporting the Wounded Warrior Project bicycled from California to Annapolis, Md., in honor of the wounded men and women troops who risked life and limbs for our security. Some of the riders included wounded troops. The organization says the FATHER EUGENE ride is “a unique four-day HEMRICK cycling opportunity for wounded warriors to use cycling and the bonds of service to overcome physical, mental or emotional wounds.” The Wounded Warrior Project “provides programs and services to severely injured service members during the time between active duty and transition to civilian life.” This remarkable event honoring these men and women must not be considered a one-time happening but repeated often. That’s because life is fickle and always changing. One look at the news confirms how true this is. An unforgettable tragedy one day is easily forgotten the next. We live in an

age of short-term memory, even though it’s true there are some things we would rather forget. Cycling across the U.S. to honor wounded warriors is more than an awesome feat aimed at supporting them. It is a cry for faithful and unending camaraderie. Those of us who have ever been down and out know the power companionship possesses in overcoming the worst of circumstances. I believe it is true to say that the greatest pain in life is not physical or mental, but the feeling of being alone, abandoned or forgotten. Camaraderie means saying, “I care for you, I am here for you, I am one with you and I will never leave you!” In the Bible, God tells us it is not good to be alone. The first lesson of creation is that we are social beings, we are meant to not only to be with one another but to be intertwined. We have only to think about those troops who carried cherished pictures of their wives and husbands and their children to learn how true this is. The pictures were more than photographs. They possessed the precious spirit of oneness. Even though a beloved was miles away, they resided in the heart, strengthening and enabling it to withstand the trauma of the moment. Wars destroy lives and limbs and minds. Dedication to wounded warriors counters this by encouraging us to unite our minds with theirs and to make them a part of us. More than just keeping their sacrifices alive in our memory, it is a loving embrace of comfort and strength.

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Good Shepherd 4th grade girls win 2 CYO basketball titles

Good Shepherd School fourth grade girls CYO basketball Purple Team members (above) are, front from left, Audrey Beaumont-Bent, Emma Bradshaw, Ellie Fentanes, Maya McKinney. Helen Eichensehr; middle, Katarina Duguay, Ava Marcic, coach Marcus Marcic; back, coach Kirk McKinney. Gold Team members (left) are, front from left, Leila Vuskovic, Lauren DeVry, Faith Conry, Iris Ormando; back, coach Marcus Marcic, Chavaone Griffin, Sydney Gallant, Nicole Lavorini, Cheyenne Arenson, coach Brian Arenson. Good Shepherd School, Pacifica, fielded two fourth grade girls basketball teams this year and both won their CYO division championships. The Blazers won all but one regular-season game. In championship play, the Purple Team defeated Epiphany11-0 to claim the division trophy, and the Gold Team beat St. James 6-0. Kirk McKinney coached the Purple Team, Brian

Arenson coached the Gold Team and Marcus Marcic co-coached both. Marcic said that he is “very proud of the girls and what they were able to accomplish. Hard work and a belief in each other as a team translated into a season I hope will springboard them into more successful and enjoyable basketball experiences.” Coach McKinney added, “All the girls showed heart,

determination and grit. We faced some tough competition, but they never once gave up. I am very proud of them all and am honored to have been their coach.” Coach Arenson commented about the gold team, “It was a big accomplishment to win the championship in spite of having four girls who had never played. Excelling at defense, improving with every game, the girls came together which made us proud.”

Around the archdiocese ST. DUNSTAN SCHOOL, MILLBRAE: First graders and teacher Anne Hahn had a surprise visit from San Francisco Giants mascot Lou Seal. The fun guest was there to celebrate classmate Al Naser’s 7th birthday and wrap up the school year. Pictures with Lou Seal, autograph posters for the class, Giants’ goody bags, pizza and balloons were all part of the hoopla. The first graders are Giants fans and attended a game at AT&T Park in May. They also keep a running tally of Giants wins and losses on the class bulletin board.

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME: Students from Mercy High School, Burlingame traveled to Phat Diem, Vietnam during spring break for what the school called a Faith Immersion. Accompanied by French teacher, Liz Barthe, and servicelearning coordinator, Jessica Mueller, the group

stayed on the campus of the Phat Diem Cathedral and collaborated closely with diocesan priests, sisters, and pre-seminarians who live on the cathedral compound. Part of the trip included teaching English to children, sisters, and pre-seminarians and developing solidarity with the people the students met while there. The women ate every meal with the Catholic community, washed dishes together, and prayed together during Holy Week. Pictured from left are students, chaperone and host, front, Gina Soberanis, Chastity Bonifacio, Cristina Molina, and back, Liz Barthe, Claire Unger, Jenny Valladares, Katie Cooper, Aly Lee, Marka Ballard, Ciara Fitzpatrick, Julia Deschaumes, Tuyen Nguyen. SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS: Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Duggan’s Serra Mortuary Kindness Scholarships: Esquivel San-

tana, St. Veronica School, Teddy Cordano, Holy Angels School, Colma soon to attend Archbishop Riordan High School; Dominique Mohler, Our Lady of Mercy School, Jordan Barnett, Good Shepherd School soon to attend St. Ignatius College Preparatory, and Ariel Guevarra, Our Lady of Perpetual Help School soon to attend Immaculate Conception Academy. “The award evolved from our mother, the late Madeline Duggan, who always exemplified kindness and compassion and would always be heard saying, ‘Thank you most kindly,’” Dan Duggan, president of the firm, said. “Our message to all the graduates is ‘kindness in life will reward you many, many times over.’” Pictured at the presentation at Our Lady of Mercy School are eighth grade teacher Kathryn Coddington; Kathleen Garcia, principal; Dominique Mohler; Dan Duggan.

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PENINSULA SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS NAMED

Mercy Sister Ellene Egan, 66 Mercy Sister Mary Ellene Egan died June 15. She was 66. A funeral Mass was celebrated June 21 at Mercy Convent Chapel, followed by burial in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Born in San Francisco, Sister Ellene attended St. Cecilia School and Mercy High School, graduating in 1964. Sister Ellene entered the Sisters of Mercy that same year, taking the name Sister Mary Ellene and professing vows in 1967. She continued her education earning undergraduate degrees from Russell College and the University of San Francisco and later a doctorate in education from USF. In 1979 she began 33 years of

ministry on the faculty of the University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions. Teaching and mentoring student nurses was a ministry she threw herself into with energy and great dedication, the Mercy Sister Mary Ellene Egan, RSM Sisters said. In 1991 she received the Teaching Effectiveness Award from the USF nursing school. She served as chairwoman of the board of directors of St. Mary’s Medical Center, San

Francisco, and was a member of the board of directors of Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In the last decade of her life, she was active in Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco, especially as a devoted and enthusiastic member of the choir. “She possessed a very practical mind and completed tasks with great energy and attention to detail,” the sisters said. “Ellene is also remembered for her honesty and candor, her compassion, loyalty and good sense of humor,” the sisters said. Memorial gifts may be made to the Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame 94010.

Students from Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco were among 18 winners of $1,000 scholarships from the Peninsula Scholarship Association. Victoria Vallecorse, class of 2013 St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco, and Matthew Boland and Paul Murray both 2013 graduates of Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo, received the honors June 11 from club president Rudy Bertolozzi in ceremonies at the group’s San Mateo headquarters attended by their families and more than 200 supporters of the program. Other recognized students included Carly Bertolozzi, Eric Valbusa, Haley Smith, Carlmont High School, Belmont; Nicholas Andrighetto, Woodside High School, Redwood City; Nicholas Cassin, Alyssa Hansen Hillsdale High School, San Mateo; Courtney Andreini, Half Moon Bay High School.

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SATURDAY, JULY 6 MASS: First Saturday at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m. Father Gabriel Flores, parochial vicar, Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco, celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060. Father Gabriel www.holyFlores crosscemeteries.com.

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HANDICABAPLES MASS: Father Kirk Ullery, chaplain, is principal celebrant of Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Lunch follows. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

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SATURDAY, JULY 27 MASS AND PROCESSION: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of 10 a.m. Mass closing novena to good St. Anne at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, San Francisco. Father Raymund Reyes, pastor, will be among the concelebrants. The Mass will include a procession with the Blessed Sacrament around the block. (415) 665-1600. www.stannesf.org.

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SENIOR DISCOUNTS: Discounted senior meals, 6:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, St. Mary’s Medical Center cafeteria, Level B, 450 Stanyan St., San Francisco. Lunch $5, breakfast 20 percent off all items. SENIOR YOGA: Gentle yoga class, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Hall, 2255 Hayes St., Room H2-07. Free. (415) 750-5800. AMBULATE: Indoor mall-walker program, 9-10 a.m., Stonestown Galleria, Center Court, 3521 20th Ave., San Francisco. Free. (415) 750-5800.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 7 MISSION DOLORES 100TH: Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco begins its 100th anniversary with prayer at 11 a.m. Cardinal William J. Levada, retired prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, presides over the liturgy. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass at 5 p.m.

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

SATURDAY, AUG. 17 YEAR OF FAITH: “Marriage and Family Celebration” beginning with Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and priests of the archdiocese at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Archbishop Francisco, 9:30 Salvatore J. a.m., followed Cordileone by refreshments and workshops on the topic 10:30 a.m.-noon. Everyone is invited and more information is available at www. sfworship.org or by calling (415) 614-5586. Call your parish to register for the day to accommodate the ordering of materials and such.

in the basilica. The Mission Dolores Basilica Choir directed by Jerome Lenk leads song. The cornerstone of Mission Dolores Basilica was laid in 1913 with construction finished on the church in 1918. Gustavo Torres, (415) 621-8203, ext. 11, or gtorres@missiondolores.org.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 8 ORGAN RECITAL: Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco, 4 p.m., second Sunday of every

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RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests, 11:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco: Proceeds benefit Priests Retirement Fund of Father Edmund the Archdiocese Shipp of San Francisco. (415) 614-5580. Email development@ sfarchdiocese.org for information regarding tickets and sponsorship opportunities. Retired Father Edmund Shipp, former pastor Good Shepherd Parish, Pacifica, is among the priests being honored.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 19 AUGUSTINIAN PERSPECTIVE: Augustinian monk Walter Hilton is the focus of Paulist Father Terry Ryan’s talk 9 a.m.noon, Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco. Coffee and treats begin at 9 a.m. The workshop is free but free-will donations welcome. (415) 288-3844.

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GOT LOVE?: What love is, the meaning of sex, and having great, fulfilling relationships: Expert Catholic speakers, Mass, powerful workshops, catered lunch, info tables, vendors, raffles, and confession available. Program most suited for high school through young adult age men and women. Registration is $30. Speakers include: Charlie Aeschliman, former Navy SEAL. on “Commando Catholicism and Spiritual Warfare”; Mary Bielski, national speaker and founder ALL4HIM, on “Exposing Lies, Unveiling Truth about Love, Sex and Relationships”; Matt Fradd, from Catholic Answers and featured on EWTN, on “Dispelling Sexual Myths, Manhood and True Freedom.” Day begins with Mass at 9 a.m. at Church of the Nativity just next door to Sobrato Pavilion, Nativity

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‘HOPE UNCORKED’: Catholic Charities CYO evening of wine, music by David Martin’s House Party band, and celebration benefiting Bay Area kids in need, 6:30 p.m., California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco. Tickets are $100/$75 for supporters 35 and under. Visit www.cccyo. org/hopeuncorked, call (415) 972.1246, or email mmontoya@cccyo.org.

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Catholic San Francisco invites you

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TRAVEL DIRECTORY

Travel with other Catholics!

to join in the following pilgrimages

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EASTERN EUROPE • Germany • Austria • Hungary • Poland

Oct. 8 - 18, 2013

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FATIMA, LOURDES, SPAIN October 13 – 23, 2013 with Fr. Frank Brawner

2,999 per person

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Visit: Lisbon, Fatima, Alba De Tormes, Avila, Segovia, Burgos Loyola, Lourdes

ITALY Departs San Francisco 11-Day Pilgrimage with Fr.

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Start in Rome (2 nights) and tour the Vatican, St. Peter’s Basilica, Sistine Chapel, plus enjoy a panoramic city tour of ancient Rome. Cruise (12 nights) on Holland America’s Eurodam featuring daily Mass: Visit ports in Cartagena, Spain; Gibraltar, British Territory; Cadiz, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; Vigo, Spain; Portland, U.K.; Cherbourg, France (near Normandy’s beaches); and Zeebrugge, Belgium. End with an included city tour and overnight in Copenhagen, Denmark! * Per person, based on double occupancy. Price based on inside cabin, upgrades available. Plus $299 tax/service/government fees. Airfare is extra.

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Visit: Rome, Assisi, Cascia, Manoppello, Lanciano, San Giovanni, Monte Sant'Angelo, Bari, Naples, Mugnano del Cardinale

THE HOLY LAND Nov. 12 - 22, 2013

FRANCISCAN FR. MARIO’S 2013 PILGRIMAGES HOLY LAND September 7-18

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Visit: Tel Aviv, Netanya, Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Tiberias, Upper Galilee, Bethlehem, Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Bethany & Bet Shean

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MARIAN PILGRIMAGE P ORT UGA L, S PA I N & FR A NCE

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ANNIVERSARY OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE – MEXICO

Mexico City, Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pyramids of Teotihuacan, Ocotlan, Tlaxcala, Xochimilco, Blessed Miguel Pro. Dec 9-14, 2013 cost $1,590 + $150 air taxes For detailed info & how to go for free please call: 1.800.421.7875 or (415) 324-9206 email: ruby@glory-tours.com