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Helping altar servers master their craft LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon has introduced a ministry to help altar servers master their craft and worshippers mind the Mass.

Seated to the right of the altar in a cassock and surplice, an adult master of ceremonies assists, guides and, when necessary, steps in for school age acolytes to promote a seamless rite.

“My hope is that every Sunday liturgy will be as beautiful and well orchestrated as possible so the people of God may worship without distractions,” said parochial vicar Father Roger Gustafson, who implemented the program in January, six months after his arrival at St. Hilary as a newly ordained priest.

His idea of extending the role of a master of ceremonies – typically reserved for more solemn liturgies – germinated last October during a visit to his childhood hometown of Atlanta.

Wowed by the “military precision” of the five altar servers at the 6 p.m.

Sunday Mass, Father Gustafson sought the secret to their perfect performance.

He found it in the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, who spends every SEE ALTAR SERVERS, PAGE 8

WASHINGTON – The head of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee Aug. 3 urged U.S. senators to take the federal money that goes to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and instead fund women’s health care providers that do not promote abortion.

“It has long been troubling to many Americans that the nation’s largest abortion network, performing over a third of all abortions, receives over half a billion taxpayer dollars a year,” said Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley.

“This concern has rightly grown in

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St. Hilary Parish parochial vicar Father Roger Gustafson recently implemented a new adult ministry, the Master of Ceremonies, aimed at assisting, guiding and, when necessary, stepping in for the younger altar servers. Pictured are master of ceremonies Mike Bentivoglio and servers Carly Yoon, 12, and Peter Quill, 12.

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‘This concern has rightly grown in recent years.’

CARDINAL SEAN P. O’MALLEY recent years,” he wrote in a letter to the senators.

The cardinal, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged senators to support S. 1881, a measure that would defund Planned Parenthood and its affiliates.

Later that day, the Senate voted 53-46 to stop efforts Republicans said Democrats were using to delay and ultimately kill S. 1881. According to an AP story, 60 votes were needed to enable the defunding measure to move forward.

The Senate action came just days before Congress was to begin its August recess. AP said the House is expected to vote on a similar measure when Congress returns.

Cardinal O’Malley’s letter followed the release in mid-July of videos of the organization’s officials filmed undercover by a nonprofit CaliforniaSEE PLANNED PARENTHOOD, PAGE 14

ROME – The canonization of Blessed Junipero Serra honors a famous missionary who was motivated by love of God, but it also is a call to recognize how the process of evangelization must respect peoples and their cultures, said the head of the Franciscan order.

Father Michael Perry, minister general of the Order of Friars Minor, will be present in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23 when Pope Francis canonizes Blessed Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan missionary who founded the string of famous California missions.

The pope’s decision to canonize Blessed Serra has provoked some controversy, mainly because of the impact of the missions on native peoples and cultures and because of claims that Father Serra used corporal punishment on the Indians who lived at the missions.

In an interview with Catholic News SEE SERRA, PAGE 14

Government funds 80 percent of Bay Area PP affiliates Planned Parenthood affiliates in the Bay Area receive more than 80 percent of their funding from the government, double the percentage of government funding for the organization nationally. More than half the government funding to the Bay Area affiliates is provided by the state Office of Family Planning, which serves 1.8 million low-income Californians. Story on Page 14.

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NEED TO KNOW NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is keynote speaker and principal celebrant for closing Archbishop Mass for Cordileone this two-day conference Aug. 21-22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The conference brings major pro-life and pastoral presenters from across the country. Fiorella Nash of London’s Society for Protection of Unborn Children is speaker for the event dinner. Visit www. canfp.org; info@canfp.org.

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A rally and vigil July 27 supported a family facing eviction from the house they rent in San Francisco’s Excelsior District.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS CELEBRATE: The Secular Franciscans of San Francisco are celebrating their 100th anniversary Oct. 3 with a 9 a.m. Mass at St. Boniface Church followed by a conference on “Franciscan Joy,” presented by Franciscan Father Jack Clark Robinson and Franciscan Sister Margie Will. For more information call Christine at (415) 240-3833. A $20 donation is suggested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please register with Pat at lucania9@yahoo. com Please bring food to share. Capacity is limited to 300 in the church auditorium at 133 Golden Gate Ave.

Family faces eviction from Excelsior home VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A family in San Francisco’s Excelsior District got a reprieve July 30, when a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled that a tenant was not properly served with a complaint for alleged non-payment of rent for the yellow house on London Street.

The case will now be continued and tenant Francisco Morales will fight the eviction in a jury trial, attorneys said.

The family of Vilma Morales and Morales is living on the edge financially, said St. James pastor Father Jose Corral, who said a prayer during a rally and vigil in front of the home July 27.

Francesco suffered a stroke three years ago and cannot work and Vilma makes very little, Father Corral said.

“They are extremely poor and they do not have a place to go,” said Father Corral, who witnessed the St. Anthony of Padua parishioners’ marriage 15 years ago. Vilma is involved in the Hispanic Charismatic movement and is part of a weekly intercessory prayer group at St. James, he said.

The rally was the latest in a series of rallies at the home which have attracted television and radio coverage.

The rallies are part of a campaign by San Francisco Organizing Project, the Bay Area arm of the PICO National

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“Starting this week SFOP/PIA will be holding a prayer vigil every Thursday with a family who is facing eviction.

Join us as we will pray with our most vulnerable community members and call for a more just society that cares for all of its people,” an email from SFOP sent before the July 27 rally noted.

The landlord, Jamie Lee, contends that the family did not pay all of its monthly rent of $3,200 rent and therefore can be evicted under state law, said Joseph Bravo, Lee’s attorney. That is disputed by the attorney for tenant Francesco Morales, Thomas Drohan of Legal Assistance to the Elderly.

The case is just one in a Bay Areawide trend of tenants being evicted for various reasons – and having nowhere else to go because of the skyrocketing cost of housing driven by the tech boom and real estate speculation in the Bay Area.

By connecting the family with Drohan, Lorena Melgarejo, community organizer for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said that she feels she has empowered them to defend themselves.

“The good thing is they are going to have their opportunity to go to court,” said Melgarejo.

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While San Francisco has tenant protection laws, many of those facing eviction in San Francisco do not realize their rights, she said. “What we are trying to do is to lift up this moral crisis we are seeing around us. Those who are poor, those who are less connected to resources – the marginalized are getting pushed out of our cities. There is a problem with that.”

Many are moving to Stockton and Merced where a home might cost $150,000 but there is little work, she said.

The July 27 rally at 606 London St. attracted community organizers from around the country who were attending a PICO National Network leadership training at the Jesuit Retreat Center in Los Altos that week. PICO is a national community organizing group, founded by Jesuit Father John Baumann in 1972, that works closely with religious congregations of many denominations to effect economic and social change.

“They wanted to be able to support the family and a lot of the training is about how do we put our faith into action and it was a great opportunity to do that,” said Jennifer Martinez, executive director of San Francisco Organizing Project, the local arm of PICO. “This family, they really didn’t know what their rights were,” said Martinez.

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Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: ‘Westward Ho!’ Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.

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San Francisco’s Archbishop Patrick Riordan in 1887 contacted Mother Mary WAKE UP THE WORLD ! Frances Clarke, the 2015 Year of Consecrated Life founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, about obtaining sisters to teach the school at St. Brigid Parish.

She consulted her local bishop, John Hennessy, Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa, about the request. He warned her that if she sent sisters so far away they would lose touch with the motherhouse, separate from their community and form their own. He predicted there was no way they could stay in contact with the Midwest congregation. But the bishop’s crystal ball failed him! Today, nearly 130 years later, there are still BVMs serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The original five sisters who Mother Clarke sent to open a school at St. Brigid created a close and lasting relationship between the BVM congregation and the people of San Francisco.

Three days following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake BVMs throughout the country received an urgent message from the motherhouse, “We are in dreadful suspense here about

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Schools where the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary have served in the archdiocese include St. Paul Grade School and High School for Girls, pictured in this 1916 archival photo. our California sisters. Not one word can we get to them or from them.” Two days later they learned their 15 sisters had taken refuge at the Presidio and were conducting classes under a large tent for the children made homeless by the earthquake, an “unruly lot.”

Mother Clarke had just two expectations of the sisters as educators: Teach students that God loves them, and help them develop the potential that is theirs. They fulfilled these expectations not only at St. Brigid Grade School and High School for Girls but also at St. Paul Grade School and High School for Girls, Most Holy Redeemer, St. Philip, St. Thomas More, and St. Monica. At the time BVMs began teaching the archdiocese also included their schools at St. Vincent, Petaluma; St. Gertrude, Stock-

Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Associates are pictured in a recent photo taken at St. Paul Church, San Francisco. From left: Sisters (Mary) Ann Cronin, Maureen Sheehan (Wenefride), Pat Rogers (Albertine), Kathleen McGrath (Johnine), Maureen O’Brien (Matteo), BVM Associates Katy O’Shea, Therese Gill (former BVM Marcellina) and Marilyn Highlander Pool.

SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY FOUNDING: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1833 ARRIVAL IN ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: St. Brigid Parish, Dec. 15, 1887 MISSION: Education CURRENT SERVICE: BVMs are ministering in parishes of the archdiocese, with six BVM Sisters and five BVM Associates in 2015 ton; St. Leo, San Jose. BVMs continued to be committed to the works of education responding wherever they

saw a need and in whatever forms served God’s people.

When influenza struck the nation in 1918 BVMs closed their schools in the archdiocese in order to care for the sick. Parishes became vast hospitals.

Convent kitchens served as dispensaries of soups and other provisions.

Only two sisters contracted the flu and the city rewarded all sisters with free public transportation. The history of this vulnerable joining together of sisters and people contributed to 69 young women traveling from San Francisco to Dubuque to join the BVM community.

In response to the call of Vatican II, BVMs broadened the definition of their mission. They understood the necessity of studying the problems SEE BVMs, PAGE 15

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‘Weekly supper for the hungry’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Gleeful might best describe sentiment at Table of Plenty for the work the ministry does as well as recent developments that brought the group official nonprofit charitable corporation status in June. Table of Plenty is a ministry of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, and has been preparing and serving firstclass meals to the hungry since Don Wright 2013. Notre Dame Sister Jeanette Braun, a religious for 58 years and at the helm since the first meal was served is Table of Plenty director.

Thursdays at 6 p.m. Table of Plenty welcomes more than 100 people, children included, to the new hall at OLPH. The group’s all-volunteer servers aged 15 to older-than-80 “serve each guest a delicious, warm meal with all the trimmings,” Sister Jeanette said. Volunteers arrive hours before “to transform religious education classrooms into a beautiful dining room with music, flowers, linen table cloths and flatware.” Sister Jeanette quoted a recent guest: “I love to come here. The food is always wonderful. You can feel the love in this room.”

Sister Jeanette noted that “one in four individuals is at risk of hunger on the coast” and that each seating, including special events each Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, costs but $2.80 per person. Funding comes from individual donations and an annual wine tasting. Partners in the effort have included Knights of Columbus, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Kelly Street Catholic Worker, K&L Wine Merchants, as well as other faith groups and good hearts too many to name here.

Volunteer Don Wright is Table of Plenty’s official baker. Don’s freshly baked pies, cakes, pineapple upside down cake and dinner rolls are a hit every Thursday with diners. “Our guests can hardly wait to hear what he has for them each week!” said Debbe Kennedy, media coordinator for the group. Just recently Don was honored with the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award, signed

by President Barack Obama, for his lifetime commitment to building a better nation through volunteer service. Don has been an Our Lady of the Pillar parishioner for 40 years. For information on joining or donating: tableofplenty.olp@gmail. com ; http://topdonation.eventbrite.com; http:// ourladyofthepillar.org/tableofplentyvolunteers; (650) 483-9037.

SHEPHERD SPEAKS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is keynote speaker and principal celebrant of the closing Mass for a two-day confer-

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UNPLUGGED: Hats off to St. Peter Parish, Pacifica, on their success with e-waste campaigns over the last four years, most recently July 11. “We have probably taken in about 12 tons of e-waste and kept them from getting into the landfill,” parishioner Vivian Queirolo told me in a note to this column. “It always amazes us how much is brought in each year. We’ve lost count of how many humongous TVs, laptops, printers, vacuum cleaners and such are dropped off.” The pope’s latest encyclical is not far behind this comment by an unnamed parishioner: “It feels really good to do a little good deed for our precious planet.” Doing the hauling for St. Pete’s was a group named Green Mouse.

SCHOOL DAYS: Sent on their way were seniors from Mercy High School, Burlingame at the school’s pinning ceremony where they receive alumnae pins from school alumnae and become members of the Mercy alumnae association. “We wish the Class of 2015 all the best as they begin college in the fall,” the school said.

Pictured is Jordan Gentry accepting her alumnae pin from Katherine Lacunza Pompili, a 1978 Mercy, Burlingame graduate.

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Archbishop joins Handicapables on group’s 50th anniversary “When they went on to college I continued to volunteer,” Treirweiler said. “I really enjoyed the entire group. I am a nurse so my life has always involved caring and helping others.”

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Full speed ahead as she has lived much of her life, Nadine Calliguiri saw fellowship as a very sound method for people with disabilities to support one another. Calliguiri, herself living with cerebral palsy, founded Handicapables for just that purpose. She was 28 years old at the time. The group is celebrating its 50th year in 2015 and meets monthly in the lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral for Mass and lunch.

“The Mass is the key to the whole organization,” Calliguiri, a daily communicant, told Catholic San Francisco at Nazareth House, where she has lived the last two years. “We wrap our sufferings, joys and hopes in it.”

Calliguiri first began to know handicapped people when she attended a training program for the disabled after graduating San Francisco’s Presentation High School in 1958. “I asked God to help me love these people,” she said.

“They often had nobody at home. They needed people, friendship.”

Volunteering has filled her life, and it was from visiting disabled patients at San Francisco General Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital and San Francisco’s Pomeroy Center that the Handicapables was formed.

Branches now exist all over the world. Unable to travel there herself, Calliguiri sent instructions on the work by mail to sites including Hong Kong.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was principal celebrant and homilist for the Handicapables 50th anniversary Mass June 13. “The archbishop was so full of joy,” said Calliguiri pictured to the archbishop’s left with flowers.

“He spoke with all of us. We were overjoyed to see him.” a group,” said Michele Trierweiler, a member of the Handicapables board of directors.

“We come together each month from all faiths, all walks of life,” Trierweiler said. “The love of God unites us.” Volunteers help the physically handicapped with transportation to and from the meetings and assist with serving lunch. “We receive a huge volunteer contribution from the San Francisco Fire Department to transport people every month.”

Treirweiler and her two daughters started to volunteer with the Handicapables when the girls were students at St. Gabriel School.

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Sister Taryn Ruth Stark professes perpetual vows LIZ DOSSA

Sister Taryn Ruth Stark professed perpetual vows as a Sister of Mercy on July 11 in Mercy Chapel, Burlingame. Mercy Sister Deborah Troillett, a member of the Sisters of Mercy Institute Leadership Team witnessed the rite. Father Richard Menatsi, executive director, Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa was principal celebrant of the Mass with many sisters, associates, friends and family in the assembly. Sister Taryn joins 3,100 sisters in the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.

“We rejoice with Sister Taryn as she commits through this perpetual profession of vows to centering her life on God,” said Mercy Sister Laura Reicks, president, Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community. “Her many gifts and deep commitment to her call are a witness to God’s presence in her (COURTESY PHOTO)

Sister Taryn Stark professed her vows in the presence of Franciscan Missionary Sister Laura Reicks, president of the Sisters of Mercy West Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows Midwest, July 11 at Mercy Convent chapel in Burlingame.

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Sister Taryn attended high school in Africa, the South Pacific and Europe later graduating from Whittier College in Southern California, She then returned to South Africa working as a finance officer for the South African Bishops Conference.

She met priests and sisters she admired, and religious life began to call her.

Later, working as a certified public accountant in Maryland, she searched the Sisters of Mercy: “I went to a web link that invited me, ‘Come and See for ages 18 to 40!’” Sister Taryn said. “It was a huge thing – not just a light bulb, but a huge stadium lighting up, knowing I can still do this.

I went through the discernment process, but I knew at that moment.”

As she considered Burlingame “home,” Sister Taryn entered religious life there making temporary profession in 2012 and serving at Mercy High School, San Francisco in roles including registrar.

“Choosing religious life is a mutual decision,” Sister Taryn said. “The community and I are both saying ‘yes,’ and there is continued discernment along the way As part of her ministry at Mercy, San Francisco, Sister Taryn talks with students: “I love spending time with them,” she says. “I tell them, ‘Find your passion!’ I’m trying to open their minds to try different things. Be adventurous! I help young women know that religious life is a road open to them. They can have the freedom to be centered in Christ and be a light for others.”

Sister Taryn is delighted to finally be home in her Mercy community and says the timing couldn’t be better. “Pope Francis has called on religious to ‘Wake up the world!’” she said. “What a wonderful time when you have a leader who is calling you! It gives me energy! I’m passionate about being a Sister of Mercy.”

DOSSA is communications manager for the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community.

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Father Francis Filice: A life of many chapters VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

If you wandered by the Panhandle in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district at the right time five years ago, you would see a sea of white and blue habits and a tall priest in his 80s saying Mass among the mostly young homeless gathered on the greenway just east of Golden Gate Park.

That priest was Father Francis Pasquale Filice who died a month short of his 93rd birthday at Nazareth House July 17, leaving behind his sister Gloria Pizzinelli, six children, 33 grandchildren and 32 greatgrandchildren as well as many who knew and loved him from the many different times and parts of his life.

Father Filice’s life was very unusual because the first part of his adult life was as husband, father and University of San Francisco biology professor and the last 36 years were as a priest – a priest whose creative mind and desire to spread the faith meant he was involved in a variety of ventures.

Father Joseph Previtali said in the homily at his funeral that his grandfather frequently prayed the prayer from St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians: “Jesus Christ is Lord!� “This was actually one of the main points of advice that he would often give – that whenever we feel bothered, attacked, upset in any way that we ought to proclaim out loud ‘Jesus Christ is Lord,’�

Father Previtali said. Father Filice would say “The devil who is bothering us has to bow down and worship the holy name of Jesus and when he has to do that, he goes away,� his grandson, parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay, said.

Father Filice’s first vocation as a husband and father: He was a University of San Francisco biology professor with a Ph.D. in zoology from UC Berkeley, married to his childhood sweetheart Barbara Fate Filice from 1947 until her sudden death in 1976. The couple was involved in the pro-life movement in the ‘60s and ‘70s and with the Monastery at Cristo Rey for many years before Barbara’s death.

Upon her death the sisters began praying for his vocation to the priesthood, Father Filice’s sister Gloria Pizzinelli and his son Michael Filice said.

A Spanish Jesuit priest, Father Segundo Llorente, was very instrumental, Michael said. “To me, it wasn’t totally unexpected. He was a very spiritual person,� his son said, noting his father had been a Third Order Carmelite since 1961. Father Filice, who had been a candidate for the permanent diaconate program when his wife died, entered the seminary to study for the priesthood in 1977 and was

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Father Francis Filice, his wife Barbara and his family in a photo taken before his wife’s death and his ordination. ordained a priest by Archbishop John Quinn May 19, 1979. In the mid-1970s, Father Filice also joined with Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio to found the St. Ignatius Institute of classic Catholic thought at USF.

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ALTAR SERVERS: New ministry helps servers master their craft FROM PAGE 1

weekend attending every Mass to instruct, inform and inspire the servers.

“When Father Roger brought this idea to me, I was skeptical, because I was set in my ways and saw no need for having a master of ceremonies at Sunday Mass,” said pastor Father William Brown.

“However, I decided not to be an old sourpuss, as Pope Francis says in his letter, ‘The Joy of the Gospel,’ and it has turned out to be a great blessing for the parish!”

Most of the congregation has greeted the new ministry with approval and appreciation, but not all.

“One or two have said they just don’t know what the master of ceremonies does, to which I reply, ‘If you see them doing nothing, then they’re doing their job well,’” Father Gustafson said.

Their job entails organizing the servers and answering questions before Mass, directing them and filling in as needed during the rite and providing

constructive feedback afterward. It does not usurp the servers’ role, he emphasized.

Candidates must complete an online child safety course and pass a criminal background check, paid for by the San Francisco archdiocese.

The roster includes eight men in their 40s to 80s, with another in training. Father Gustafson encourages women to apply.

“I feel good about being an active participant in my parish,” said Gordon McNally, a former altar boy and 20-year member of St. Hilary who debuted the ministry at the 7:30 a.m. Sunday Mass Jan. 18.

“I know my presence at Mass makes a difference to the priests (and) my fellow parishioners.”

Mike Bentivoglio, a parishioner since 1998 and master of ceremonies since April, finds the greatest reward in “helping the kids be successful because obviously they’re the future of the church.”

Carly Yoon, 12, who has altar served for four years and worked with four of the emcees in the past seven months, applauds the new ministers.

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“They keep everyone on track, always thinking ahead, indicating when we should carry (the Roman missal) over to the altar, having it ready and open to the right page,” she said.

The system comes in particularly handy during the summer when many regular servers leave on vacation and in the spring when the older ones are busy with class trips, retreats and graduation plans, said Leslie Kennedy, the mother of two servers.

“It helps smooth the transition when they bring in new children and incorporate younger ones,” she said.

One emcee proved his mettle when, with a sideways glance, he reminded a newbie to bring out and ring the bell for the Sanctus, recalled John Peitz, 10, who began serving a year ago to follow in his father’s footsteps, The new ministry has had its ups and downs, according to Peter Quill, 12, who joined his older sister at the altar three years ago.

“Sometimes, they take the fun jobs, like carrying the cross, which is my favorite part,” he said, “but always I definitely like interacting with the older people in our church.”

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Mercy Sisters celebrate jubilees: 50, 60 and 80 years in religious life science would be like teaching religion – showing God in all his creation,” she said. “Since I have been at St. Anne for such a long period of time, I have had the chance to watch the students grow ‘in wisdom, age, and grace.’”

Sisters of Mercy of the Mercy West Midwest Community marked jubilees at a Mass Aug. 1 at Mercy Convent Chapel.

Father Daniel Nascimento, pastor, St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, was principal celebrant. Sisters, family and friends recognized the dedicated lives and ministries of those who entered the Mercy Community in Burlingame from 50 to 80 years ago.

Sister Patricia Williams, RSM

50 YEARS Sister Eileen Pazmino, RSM

Sister Eileen was born in San Francisco and attended St. Charles/Holy Name, Mercy High San Francisco, and Russell College. She began the ministry of teaching third and fourth grades in the Bay Area at St. Gabriel’s, St. Peter’s, and Holy Name Schools.

She was school secretary of St. Peter’s School from 1986 to 1996 and has been executive secretary of Our Lady of Mercy School from 1996 to present.

“I am a deeply grateful woman, for my God has given so much to me - my family, good friends, my Mercy Community, and those with whom I have ministered,” she said.

Sister Krista Ramirez, RSM

Sister Krista was born in San Francisco and attended Holy Name School and Mercy High School San Francisco. She served at several Mercyconnected hospitals in California for 45 years and as bi-lingual resource nurse at Scripps Mercy in San Diego for seven years. Currently, Sister Krista is staff education resource coordinator for staff on the Mercy campus in Burlingame. “I have served in many departments, utilizing my two languages and the language of the heart, among many diverse ethnicities and always as a member of a team of valued and supportive colleagues in ministry,” she said.

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Back from left: Sister Helen Santillan, RSM, 50 years; Sister Krista Ramirez, RSM, 50 years; Sister Eileen Pazmino, RSM, 50 years; front left Sister Jane Meuse, RSM, 60 years; Sister Patricia Williams, RSM, 60 years. Sister Mary Martha Kiening, RSM, 80 years, and Sister Laurana Grose, RSM, 60 years, were unavailable for the photo.

Sister Helen Santillan, RSM

Sister Helen was born in Los Angeles and entered the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame. She became a licensed social worker with a degree from UCLA and worked at the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center in Venice, California, from 1988 to 2004. “Through my ministries, God’s plans for me have led me to serve for and with some wonderfully awesome peoples. I have come to see the merciful love of God for them in their most vulnerable as well as in their most triumphant moments,” she said.

60 YEARS Sister Laurana Grose, RSM

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Sister Jane Meuse, RSM

Sister Jane was born in Melrose, Massachussetts. Her ministry has been in elementary education since 1958.

She taught at Our Lady of Angels and St. Catherine schools in Burlingame. In San Francisco she taught at St. Gabriel and St. Peter Schools and then began at St. Anne School in 1988. “I knew

Sister Patricia was born in Los Angeles and entered the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame. She began her ministries with teaching in primary grades for 17 years: Holy Name and St. Gabriel schools in San Francisco. After studying pastoral care in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she worked at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynnwood, California, then at Catholic Charities training those who worked with the elderly.

She continued to work with older adult care and hospice in Palo Alto and Santa Clara until 2006. “Today I am aware that my call is God’s gift to me.

During these 60 years, I slowly became God’s gift to others.”

80 YEARS Sister Mary Martha Kiening, RSM

Sister Mary Martha entered the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame in 1935 and received her degree in nursing in 1948. She served as a nursing supervisor at St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco, and other facilities. She holds a degree in psychiatric nursing from The Catholic University of America and was key to the founding of McAuley Psychiatric Institute at St. Mary’s and the University of San Francisco School of Nursing. “I will never stop thanking God, with constant words of praise. My soul will boast of God,” she has written on the occasion of her jubilee.

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PORTLAND, Oregon – Believers cannot sit out the effort to restore creation after years of abuse, a speaker told diocesan social action directors during their annual Social Action Summer Institute.

“To be at odds with creation is to be at odds with God,” Dominican Sister Kathleen McManus, associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Portland, said in a presentation to the institute’s 275 participants. “And it’s to be at odds with our neighbor and with our deepest selves.”

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MILWAUKEE – The Archdiocese of Milwaukee is “turning a page on a chapter in our history – a terrible part of the history,” Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki said Aug. 3.

“Now, we must continue doing the charitable, educational and spiritual work of the archdiocese.

Our complete focus is on mission, but we must not forget those who have been harmed,” he said about the clergy sexual abuse crisis.

The archbishop made the comments in an interview a day before a $21 million settlement was

lic Diocesan Social Action Directors, the institute convened at the University of Portland July 19-23, focusing on the message of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

Sister Kathleen said that a heresy contrasting the physical and spiritual continues to emerge in the church, centuries after being condemned. The current version blocks some Christians from recognizing the environmental crisis, she explained.

“I know all of you are about the action part – praise God – but don’t forget the teaching and don’t forget the prayer,” Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample said during his homily, noting that acts of charity and love open people’s hearts to the Gospel.

Speakers and participants concurred with the pope in criticizing technology and overzealous economies for harming the environment.

“We have replaced the question ‘Ought we?’ with ‘When can we?’” Miami Archbishop Thomas G.

Wenski, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said in an address on the pope’s encyclical. “Something has gone terribly wrong in our relationship with the earth.”

Pope Francis, Archbishop Wenski said, is asking the world to adopt an “integrated ecology,” one that seeks the connections between nature and humans’ wellbeing.

Among other things, Archbishop Wenski suggested that diocesan building committees make sure they are putting up green buildings.

Patrick McCormick, professor religious studies at Gonzaga University, told the directors the Bible calls for communities of justice, peace and sustainability, in contrast to the empires of the ancient world, which used up resources.

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WASHINGTON – A seventh federal appeals court ruled Aug. 7 that there is no religious rights conflict with a process created for nonprofit religious organizations to get around a government mandate to provide coverage for contraceptives in employee health insurance.

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Pope: Divorced and remarried are not excommunicated CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Catholics who have divorced and are civilly remarried “are not, in fact, excommunicated – they are not excommunicated – and they absolutely must not be treated as if they were,” Pope Francis said.

Resuming his Wednesday general audiences Aug. 5 after a month’s break, Pope Francis returned to the series of talks he has been giving on the family.

It was the 100th general audience of his papacy.

At his last audience, June 24, he talked about the damage caused especially to children when couples fight and hurt each other. “Today,” he said, “I want to draw our attention to another reality: how to care for those who, after the irreversible failure of the matrimonial bond, have undertaken a new union.”

Without an annulment of the sacramental marriage, “such a situation contradicts the Christian sacrament,” which is meant to be an indissoluble bond, the pope said.

According to church teaching, in most cases such couples are not permitted to receive Communion. But bishops

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Young people react as Pope Francis arrives for his weekly audience at the Vatican Aug. 5. at the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family last October and preparing for the general synod Oct. 4-25 have been studying and debating possibilities for allowing some couples in some situations to return to the sacraments.

The church, Pope Francis said at the audience, must have “the heart of a mother, a heart that, animated by the

Holy Spirit, always seeks the good and the salvation of persons.”

The children of such couples suffer most and deserve particular care, the pope said.

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Particularly over the past few decades, he said, “the church has not been insensitive or lazy” when it comes to providing pastoral care to the divorced and civilly remarried.

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Pope designates Sept. 1 as World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Like their Orthodox brothers and sisters, Catholics formally will mark Sept. 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis has decided.

The day of prayer, the pope said, will give individuals and communities an opportunity to implore God’s help in protecting Pope Francis creation and an opportunity to ask God’s forgiveness “for sins committed against the world in which we live.”

Pope Francis announced his decision to add the annual prayer day to the Catholic calendar in a letter to Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and to Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

The text of the letter, dated Aug. 6, was released by the Vatican Aug. 10.

Pope Francis said he was instituting the prayer day for Catholics because he shares the concern of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who initiated a similar prayer day for the Orthodox Church in 1989.

Metropolitan John of Pergamon, who represented the patriarch at the public presentation June 18 of Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” had suggested there that all Christians join in prayer Sept. 1.

“This would mark a step toward further closeness among them,” he had said.

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Quoting his encyclical, he said, “living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.”

The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis said, will be a time for individuals and communities to “reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.”

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BISHOP SAYS PERSONAL STORIES IN HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI CHANGED HIM

NAGASAKI, Japan – A U.S. bishop who visited Japan for the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki said he is a changed man after having come face to face with survivors of the U.S. bombs.

Bishop Cantu “Pope Francis has talked about a culture of encounter, and I came to Japan to encounter the people here, to listen to the stories of the ‘hibakusha’ (survivors of the atomic bombings) and their wonderful pastors who have stood by their flocks,” Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, told Catholic News Service.

Bishop Cantu, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, said it was “tremendously moving” to hear the personal accounts of the hibakusha, including Sumiteru Taniguchi, an 86-year old bombing survivor who spoke at a citysponsored memorial service Aug. 9, the anniversary of the bombing.

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When the priests asked Pope Francis about “Laudato Si’,” his environmental encyclical, Pope Francis emphasized the need for everyone to work together to care for each other and for the environment. He offered his support to priests and other church workers who are encouraging people to defend the forests in Argentina’s Yungas and Chaco regions from encroachment by commercial soybean farms.

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SERRA: Canonization should be call to respect cultures, superior says FROM PAGE 1

Service July 31, Father Perry said, “When I first got word about the canonization, I had to stop and sit back for a moment.”

Father Serra’s missionary activity, he said, may have had “unintended consequences” and may have used methods contrary to the “sensibilities of people today,” Father Perry said. “I think we need to make sure this canonization is not simply a chance to validate maybe some bad things that happened, but to challenge us always to enter into a process of reform, of conversion and of authentic dialogue with cultures, with peoples everywhere.”

The canonization will be a blessing, he said, if Catholics “take a step back, take a deep breath and recognize that in history, at times, mistakes have been made. We’re human beings.”

Father Perry said he does not know for certain how Pope Francis learned of Father Serra, who was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1988. However, he said, the California missionary is a key part of California history as well as of the mission history of the Americas.

In November 2013, Father Perry wrote a letter to the “Franciscan family” marking the 300th anniversary of Father Serra’s birth, and it may have found its way to the pope, he said. “But I think the pope already had something in mind.”

Flying back to the Vatican from the Philippines in January, Pope Francis “caught us off guard – in a good way” – with his announcement he would canonize Blessed Serra in September during his visit to the United States, Father Perry said. The order had to scramble, he said, to collect and prepare the necessary paperwork.

The Catholic Church is recognizing Blessed Serra as a saint and holy man, the Franciscan superior said. “This man was in love with God” and “was convinced he had a missionary vocation to go and share what he himself had received – the mercy of God, the

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Left, girls who received their first Communion wait to have photos taken following Mass at San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission in Carmel May 17. The body of Blessed Junipero Serra is entombed near the altar. Right, a baptism conducted by California mission friars is shown in a sketch displayed at the Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala in San Diego July 27. forgiveness he received in his own life and the joy of the Gospel that he experienced, the joy of being a Franciscan.”

Blessed Serra, Father Perry said, “was a man of his time” and understood mission the way almost everyone in the church understood it in the 18th century and, in fact, basically until the Second Vatican Council.

“The missionary ideal of church was that salvation outside the church did not exist,” Father Perry said, the missionaries “felt this compulsion: They needed to share the good news, they needed to invite people to embrace the Gospel and become members of the visible church because this was the theology of the church at the time.”

In addition, he said, being a missionary in the 18th century usually meant working with or under a colonial government, like the Spanish colonial government in California.

“What I think we have to learn from this canonization is that the church follows the cross of Jesus Christ; the state has its own flag, but the church does not follow the flag; the church follows the cross,” Father Perry said.

The Franciscan leader said Blessed Serra’s letters make it clear that while he cooperated with the Spanish colonial authorities, he was “very concerned about the plight of the people he evangelized,” especially at the hands of the colonial forces.

“There were a number of instances where Serra himself stood up to defend the rights of the indigenous peoples,” Father Perry said.

Blessed Serra’s letters and documents about his work highlight the missionaries’ priority of preaching the Gospel, he said, but they also emphasize three goals the 18th-century Franciscans had in mind in running the mission communities where the native peoples lived.

First, he said, through education and practical training, the missionaries wanted to give the native people the skills they believed were necessary for “a dignified life.” As part of the colonial structure, they also were charged with training the people “to become taxpaying, cooperative citizens” of the Spanish crown.

A third goal was to ensure the indig-

enous people could “continue to dream and imagine who they were from their own culture, from their own experience,” Father Perry said. “I think this was an area that was probably more difficult for the friars.”

Still, he said, the fact that Blessed Serra and his companions learned the native languages was a sign of respect that demonstrates the missionaries’ desire to go out to the people, to meet them and understand them.

Although he was a famous professor and preacher in his native Mallorca and again in Mexico City, Blessed Serra felt driven to leave that life behind and set out for the missions, the Franciscan superior said.

He told his companions that he would no longer be known as a “maestro” of philosophy or even as “reverend,” but simply as “Brother Junipero,” Father Perry said.

“Junipero himself was trying to seek a way of humility,” he said. “He was trying to re-identify, reclaim in a sense one of the greatest qualities of Franciscan tradition for mission: to go humbly, to go simply, to not go with titles.”

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Cardinal urges senators to defund FROM PAGE 1

based organization called the Center for Medical Progress.

“The most recent revelations about Planned Parenthood’s willingness to traffic in fetal tissue from abortions, and to alter abortion methods not for any reason related to women’s health but to obtain more ‘intact’ organs, is the latest demonstration of a callousness toward women and their unborn children that is shocking to many Americans,” he said.

In two of the videos, top Planned Parenthood physicians describe how abortions are carried out to best salvage fetal tissue and organs for researchers and described a range of prices paid for different body parts.

A third video was of an interview with a technician talking about harvesting fetal body parts and included graphic footage.

A fourth video has now been released. A temporary restraining order issued by the Los Angeles Superior Court prohibits the Center for Medical Progress from releasing any video footage of interviews of officials from StemExpress, a California-based company that provides organs and tissue to researchers.

Planned Parenthood receives more

than $500 million of its $1.3 billion annual budget from federal and state programs. According to 2013 data, the latest available, Planned Parenthood says abortions represent 3 percent of the total services its facilities provide, which include dispensing birth control and doing some women’s health screenings.

In addition to Republicans in the House and Senate pushing for an end to federal funding of Planned Parenthood, several states have launched investigations into the organization.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement said that “allegations that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true.” She later apologized for “the tone” the physicians used in describing abortion procedures and also argued the videos had been heavily edited to distort the truth.

In his letter, Cardinal O’Malley added: “The Catholic Church comes to this issue from a perspective rooted in experience. Catholic charitable agencies and pregnancy help centers have helped countless pregnant women find life-affirming alternatives to abortion.”

Other Catholic leaders across the country have called for defunding Planned Parenthood.

In a July 31 statement, the Catholic bishops of Colorado set Aug. 28 aside as “a day of prayer and penance in response to Planned Parenthood’s horrific actions and all those involved in the procurement and use of aborted baby organs.”

“We call on all people of good will in Colorado and beyond to pray that those involved in research and medicine will fix their sights on recognizing the sacredness of life and refrain from putting human life at the service of science,” they said. “A society can only be considered socially just if it protects the most vulnerable among us.”

The bishops also noted that Colorado State University in Fort Collins was one of the entities that has used a procurement company to purchase fetal organs harvested during abortions.

Priests for Life announced Aug. 4 that a coalition of religious and prolife groups plan to lead a “Week of Prayer to End the Evils of Planned Parenthood” Aug. 22-29. Several suggested prayers for the week have been posted at www.PrayerCampaign.org.

Ohio state Rep. Bill Patmon is among local lawmakers calling for defunding of Planned Parenthood. At the Ohio Statehouse July 29, a crowd cheered as the Cleveland Democrat said he would introduce a measure to

strip state funds from the organization.

As an African-American, he also had sharp criticism for the Black Lives Matter movement, organized to protest what its leaders say are racist police tactics that target black Americans.

He expressed his outrage at the number of unborn black babies killed by abortion, compared to other races and labeled Black Lives Matter as hypocritical, saying the group needs to hold protests in front of Planned Parenthood facilities.

“What business is it of yours, Mr. Patmon, that 56 million unborn (are aborted),” he asked rhetorically. “It is my business, especially when 17 million of them are black women. 17 million – more than any other population (group) – 17 million that look and act and talk and are similar to myself. But even more than that, they’re Americans and they’re human beings!”

He also was critical of the term “African-American.”

“I’m an American. I’m American.

The Constitution applies to me. The Declaration applies to me. I don’t need any adjectives, just get out of my way.

No need for any adjectives,” he said.

Contributing to this story was Abbey Jaroma.

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Government funds more than 80 percent of Bay Area Planned Parenthood operations PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE

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Planned Parenthood affiliates operating in the Bay Area receive more than 80 percent of their funding from the government, with more than 50 percent distributed by the State of California’s Office of Family Planning which serves 1.8 million low-income Californians, according to Planned Parenthood’s annual reports.

Government funding of the Bay Area Planned Parenthood affiliates – which cover most of Northern and Central California – is double the percentage of government funding for Planned Parenthood nationally. Planned Parenthood, including headquarters and all its affiliates, received $528 million from the government in fiscal year 2013-14 which was 41 percent of its budget, according to Planned Parenthood’s 2014 annual report.

“Obviously, the state lavishes money on Planned Parenthood, resulting in the much higher percentages of government money at these affiliates as compared to the national average,” said Katie Short, vice president of legal affairs for the Life Legal Defense Foundation, a pro-life legal nonprofit. “And those percentages will probably go up, since the Legislature just approved a 40 percent increase in the reimbursement rate for abortions” in June of 2014.

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which includes San Mateo County, received 83 percent of its $93.5 million budget for 2013-14 from federal and state government sources. Planned Parenthood Northern California, which includes San Francisco and Marin counties received 84 percent of its $44 million budget from government sources. Overall, the seven California affiliates, with 112 clinics, averaged 76 percent funding from the state and federal government, according to information in federal tax filings and annual reports compiled by American Life League, a pro-advocacy group headquartered in Virginia.

Because the federal government is barred by the Hyde Amendment from allocating funds for abortion, most direct funding for abortion is state money.

Local affiliate’s budget largest in country

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte has the biggest budget of any Planned Parenthood in the country, with $93.5 million in revenues for fiscal 2013-14, according to its annual report and a June 2015 report by the American Life League’s STOPP Planned Parenthood on executive salaries. Government funding adds up to $77.9 million, or 83 percent of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s funding, according to its annual report.

Government funding $77.9 million of $93.5 million budget for 2013-14 Clinics and outreach centers in 16 California counties and 1 county in Nevada Clinics on El Camino Real in Redwood City and at 29 Baywood Ave. in San Mateo CEO Linda Williams’ salary in 2013 was $352,827

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A woman sits with a sign showing a baby as she attends a “Women Betrayed” rally to Defund Planned Parenthood on Capitol Hill in Washington July 28.

• Government funding $36.8 million of $44.1 million budget for 2013-14

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte operates a clinic on El Camino Real in Redwood City and another one at 29 Baywood Ave. in San Mateo. In total, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte operates clinics in 16 California counties and one in Nevada. The 16 California counties are Alameda, Fresno, Kern, Madera, Merced, Monterey, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tulare and Yolo counties. It also operates in Washoe County, Nevada.

Planned Parenthood Northern California, which operates in San Francisco, Marin County, and most of northern California, had annual revenue of $44.1 million in fiscal year 2013-14, according to its 2014 annual report. It received 84 percent or $36.8 million of its budget from government funding, according to its annual report for fiscal year July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014, the most recent annual report on its website. It is has the fourth biggest budget of all affiliates in the U.S., with Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul affiliates at second and third, according to the ALL analysis.

Planned Parenthood Northern California operates a clinic at 1650 Valencia St. and one at 1294 Potrero Ave. in San Francisco and another clinic at 2 H St. in San Rafael. It operates a total of 22 clinics in San Francisco, Marin, Butte, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Shasta, Solano and Sonoma counties.

Overall, the seven California Planned Parenthood affiliates, which operate 112 centers, receive just over 76 percent of their overall funding or $149.7 million from the government, according to American Life League.

The annual reports do not break down which funding is directly from the

• Clinics and outreach centers in 11 counties

BVMs: ‘Westward Ho!’ FROM PAGE 3

and needs of the communities they were serving. Realizing they had special competencies to resolve social problems and alleviate suffering they moved beyond the school buildings.

Sisters joined ministers in prisons, workers in soup kitchens, spiritual directors, special works of the archdiocese, pastoral, parish, ecumenical and archdiocesan councils. They collaborated with the laity to prevent

the demeaning of individuals and the exploitation of immigrants.

This Year of Consecrated Life is a challenge for all Christians to renew the year proclaimed by the prophet Isaiah (61:1-2), “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and release to prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the Lord.”

state. Much of the federal money is distributed by the state.

Government funds ‘dwarf’ other sources

“Planned Parenthood’s gross income comes from three main sources, which have historically split pretty evenly,” said Vicki Evans, archdiocesan Respect Life coordinator. These include income from clinic operations, contributions and bequests, and government grants and contracts. “Thanks to its extensive lobbying activities, government-sourced income now dwarfs the other sources.”

Short noted that Planned Parenthood’s political activism runs into the millions in political contributions. For instance, she said, “Planned Parenthood Mar Monte gave a total of $2.25 million in ‘05, ‘06 and ‘08 to defeat parental notification” ballot initiatives that would have allowed parents or guardians to be notified if a minor daughter was seeking an abortion.

Last year, the state budget increased abortion funding by 40 percent allocating an additional $5.5. million at the same time it continued a 10 percent cut in all other hospital and provider fees, which the California Catholic Conference president Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto said endangered access to care for all women and families participating in the Medi-Cal Program, calling it “insanely distorted health care” in a June 2014 statement.

“At a time when the state claims it is too poor to fully fund health care for nearly 10 million people, and women are struggling to find providers to give them basic medical care, the state returns a political favor by giving extra money to abortion providers,” Bishop Soto said.

• Clinics at 1650 Valencia St. and 1294 Potrero Ave. in San Francisco, 2 H St. in San Rafael • CEO Heather Estes’ salary in 2013 was $220,669 All information from 2014 annual reports of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte and Planned Parenthood Northern California except salary data from American Life League June 2015 report.

“These statistics demonstrate the stranglehold Planned Parenthood, with the connivance of the state government, has on the people of California – especially poor women,” said Eva Muntean, co-chair of the Walk for Life West Coast. which annually draws in excess of 50,000 people to walk for life in San Francisco near the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. “At the same time it makes all the more apparent the need for outreach like the Walk for Life West Coast, and it strengthens our resolve to be a voice of life and hope for women who might otherwise fall into their clutches.”

A National Day of Protest Against Planned Parenthood will take place Aug. 22, 9-11 a.m., at Planned Parenthood, 4th and H streets, San Rafael. San Francisco County: 1650 Valencia St. Lisa Hamrick, (415)-658-1793; San Mateo County: 2907 El Camino Real, Redwood City. Janet Healy, (650) 931-5467; Marin County: 4th & H streets, San Rafael.

Jeannie McCullough Stiles, (415) 4352325 or Mari Pautler (415) 789-9071.

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and wise pastoral accompaniment, knowing that no ‘simple recipes’ exist.”

As the studies and discernment continue, Pope Francis said, it is essential that Catholic pastors “openly and coherently demonstrate the willingness of the community to welcome and encourage” divorced and remarried couples and their families to participate in church life.

Prayer, listening to the word of God, attending Mass, educating their children in the faith, serving the poor and working for justice and peace should be part of their lives, he said.

Quoting his apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel,” Pope Francis told those gathered for the audience, “The church is called to be the house of the Father, with doors always wide open ... Everyone can share in some way in the life of the church; everyone can be part of the community.”

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Point of no return

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o say that the graphic revelations of the past few weeks about Planned Parenthood selling fetal parts, organs and tissue have been disturbing, would be an understatement. Even to those familiar with its business operations, the callousness of what goes on behind the scenes was a VICKI EVANS shock. Thanks to the speed of the Internet, outrage swiftly spread through the general public, resulting in the federal and at least a dozen state governments opening hearings on the matter.

The abortion community, being of a shoot-the-messenger mentality, immediately attempted damage control by deflecting blame onto the investigative journalists who broke the story. And in what is now the American way, parties named in the videos rushed off to the courts for injunctive relief and to stifle other’s freedoms of speech and of the press.

For 42 years, few questions were asked about what happens to the millions of fetuses who are by-prod-

LETTERS Los Angeles auxiliaries

As a San Francisco priest currently serving in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, I found it rather disconcerting that CSF would feature an article (July 24) about only one of the three fine priests appointed auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and the celebrity at that. No mention was given to Bishopdesignate Joseph Brennan, who has been indispensable in helping Archbishop Gomez in steering such a massive archdiocese, nor especially to Bishop-designate David O’Connell, who has spent the better portion, if not the majority of his ministry serving parishes in the poorest (dare I say, most marginalized) communities (in short, a priest cut from the very mold of Pope Francis).

All three men are very fine and accomplished priests, whom the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is eager to receive as auxiliaries, but, in this day and age (again, the age of Pope Francis), would it be too much of a stretch to look beyond media celebrity when noting the appointment of such important positions as bishops?

Father William Nicholas St. Rose of Lima Church Simi Valley

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People protest on a sidewalk Aug. 6 outside a San Antonio Planned Parenthood clinic that performs abortions. Federal and state lawmakers have called for an investigation of Planned Parenthood and defunding it after the organization’s top physicians were videotaped talking about ways to perform abortions to better salvage intact fetal tissue and organs to sell to researchers. ucts of abortion. It is now clear why the public would rather not know.

The post-abortive mother is rarely the person asking what will become of the fetal remains. She understandably prefers to walk away from the experience quickly and quietly.

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To justify the grisly disposition of the baby, Planned Parenthood relies on an informed-consent defense.

Realistically, the stack of legal documents presented to the woman for signature as she awaits surgery are frequently signed without under-

standing, under stress or even under duress. Consent may not always be free and informed, particularly when the consent form reads, “I agree to give my blood and/or tissue from the abortion as a gift to be used for education, research or treatment.” This would not automatically lead one to believe they were signing away the dismembered baby’s limbs, liver, heart, eyes, torso, brain.

What happens next will have a lot to say about what kind of a civilization we are. I see two choices. One is to be properly scandalized and then forget what we saw and move on.

The other is to finally comprehend what abortion is and what it does to dehumanize and commodify very small human beings and to stop the madness. Of course, Planned Parenthood argues that abortion is legal, as is being compensated for fetal parts supplied for research. No harm, no foul.

But there is something in the human soul that recoils at the sight of these “legal” activities. Hopefully, all people of good will will attempt to put aside ideology this time and cast a vote in favor of our shared humanity.

EVANS is Respect Life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Children of both heaven and earth

ecause, my God, though I lack the soul-zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven and a FATHER RON son of earth.”

ROLHEISER Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote those words and they, like St. Augustine’s famous opening in his “Confessions,” not only describe a lifelong tension inside its author, they name as well the foundational pieces for an entire spirituality. For everyone who is emotionally healthy and honest, there will be a lifelong tension between the seductive attractions of this world and the lure of God. The earth, with its beauties, its pleasures, and its physicality can take our breath away and have us believe that this world is all there is, and that this world is all that needs to be. Who needs anything further?

Isn’t life here on earth enough?

Besides, what proof is there for any reality and meaning beyond our lives here?

But even as we are so powerfully, and rightly, drawn to the world and what if offers, another part of us finds itself also caught in the embrace and the grip of another reality, the divine, which though more inchoate is not less unrelenting. It too tells us that it is real, that its reality ultimately offers life, that it also should be honored, and that

it also may not be ignored. And, just like the reality of the world, it too presents itself as both promise and threat. Sometimes it’s felt as a warm cocoon in which we sense ultimate shelter and sometimes we feel its power as a threatening judgment on our superficiality, mediocrity, and sin. Sometimes it blesses our fixation on earthly life and its pleasures, and sometimes it frightens us and relativizes both our world and our lives. We can push it away by distraction or denial, but it stays, creating always a powerful tension inside us: We are irremediably children of both heaven and earth; both God and the world have a right to our attention.

That’s how it’s meant to be. God made us irremediably physical, fleshy, earth-oriented, with virtually every instinct inside us reaching for the things of this earth. We shouldn’t then expect that God wants us to shun this earth, deny its genuine beauty, and attempt to step out of our bodies, our natural instincts, and our physicality to fix our eyes only on the things of heaven. God did not build this world as testing-place, a place where our obedience and piety is to be tested against the lure of earthly pleasure, to see if we’re worthy of heaven. This world is its own mystery and has its own meaning, a God-given one. It’s not simply a stage upon which we, as humans, play out our individual dramas of salvation and then close the curtain. It’s a place for all of us, humans, animals, insects, plants, water, rocks, and soil to enjoy a home together.

But that’s the root of a great tension inside us: Unless we deny either our most powerful human instincts or our most powerful religious sensibilities we will find ourselves forever torn between two worlds, with seemingly conflicting loyalties, caught

between the lure of this world and the lure of God. I know how true this is in my own life. I was born into this world with two incurable loves and have spent my life and ministry caught and torn between the two: I have always loved the pagan world for its honoring of this life and for its celebration of the wonders of the human body and the beauty and pleasure that our five senses bring us.

With my pagan brothers and sisters, I too honor the lure of sexuality, the comfort of human community, the delight of humor and irony, and the remarkable gifts given us by the arts and the sciences. But, at the same time, I have always found myself in the grip of another reality, the divine, faith, religion. Its reality too has always commanded my attention – and, more importantly, dictated the important choices in my life.

My major choices in life incarnate and radiate a great tension because they’ve tried to be true to a double primordial branding inside me, the pagan and the divine. I can’t deny the reality, lure and goodness of either of them. It’s for this reason that I can live as a consecrated, lifelong celibate, doing religious ministry, even as I deeply love the pagan world, bless its pleasures, and bless the goodness of sex even as, because of other loyalties, I renounce it. That’s also the reason why I’m chronically apologizing to God for the world’s pagan resistance, even as I’m trying to make an apologia for God to the world. I’ve lived with torn loyalties.

That’s as it should be. The world is meant to take our breath away, even as we genuflect to the author of that breath.

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

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Mary’s Assumption pertains to us

ike every doctrine of faith, Mary’s assumption into heaven, body and soul, is about us too. Mary is our model in faith, charity and perfect union with Christ. She teaches us how to live in a faithfilled and loving way.

Mary’s assumption teaches us how to live with hope even in dying, how to anticipate our eternal destiny. The solemnity of the Assumption, observed on Aug. 15, celebrates the completion of Mary’s transformation by the Holy Spirit, being taken to heaven not only in soul but also in body.

BROTHER JOHN Mary’s assumption brings M. SAMAHA, SM us hope because it reminds us that what happened to Mary is our destiny too. The preface of the Mass declares that the Assumption is “the beginning and the image of your church’s coming to perfection and a sign of sure hope and comfort for your people.”

We are the church. Mary’s bodily assumption is a harbinger of what will happen to us. What God has done for Mary gives us hope and comfort in what he will do for us.

St. Paul reminds us that even in this life, believers are already being transformed into the image of Christ. “All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory as from the Lord who is Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18). This transformation affects not only our souls but also our bodies. “... we groan within ourselves as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies” (Romans 8:23).

Our bodies will be conformed to the body of Christ.

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“He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorious body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself” (Philippians 3:21). This transformation results from Jesus’ victory over the power of sin and death in his own death and resurrection.

The opening prayer for the Aug. 15 Mass asks that “always attentive to the things that are above, we may merit to be sharers of her glory.” Living in tune with God as Mary did, we will also undergo the transformation of both our souls and our bodies.

The post-Communion prayer requests that “through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom you assumed into heaven, we may be brought to the glory of the Resurrection.”

When celebrating the solemnity of Mary’s assumption in 2010 Pope Benedict XVI offered this clear description in his homily. “... the mother of God is inserted to such a degree in the mystery of Christ that she shares in the resurrection of her son with her whole being already at the end her life, she lives what we hope for at the end of time. ...”

While admiring Mary in her glorious destiny, we are invited to recognize that the loving Lord has willed for our final destiny to live through faith in perfect union with him.

Our predecessors in faith professed their firm hope in “the resurrection of the body” in the Apostles’ Creed and in the Nicene Creed. We rarely think about the resurrection of our bodies. Yet this article of faith greatly encourages us, comforts us at the death of loved ones, and raises our awareness of the value of our bodies.

The assumption of Mary vividly reminds us that our lives have a special destiny with God. Enrico Manfrini’s “The Assumption” bronze in San Francisco’s Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption

MARIANIST BROTHER JOHN SAMAHA lives at the Marianists’ retirement facility in Cupertino.

A-bomb crew chaplain’s conversion

eventy years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the single most destructive weapon ever unleashed upon human beings and the environment – the atomic bomb – was dropped by an American B-29 bomber on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing approximately 80,000 people.

Three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 40,000 people.

“Blessing” the crews and its two missions, was the Catholic chaplain to the 509th Composite Group – the atomic bomb group – Father George TONY MAGLIANO Zabelka.

In a Sojourners Magazine interview, the late Father Zabelka explained, “If a soldier came to me and asked if he could put a bullet through a child’s head, I would have told him absolutely not. That would be mortally sinful.”

But in 1945 on Tinian Island in the South Pacific, where the atomic bomb group was based, planes took off around the clock, said Zabelka. “Many of these planes went to Japan with the express purpose of killing not one child or one civilian but of slaughtering hundreds and thousands of children and civilians – and I said nothing. …

“Yes, I knew civilians were being destroyed … Yet I never preached a single sermon against killing civilians to men who were doing it. …

“I was brainwashed! It never entered my mind to publicly protest the consequences of these massive air raids.

“I was told the raids were necessary; told openly by the military and told implicitly by my Church’s leadership. To the best of my knowledge no American cardinals or bishops were opposing these mass air raids.

Silence in such matters, especially by a public body like the American bishops, is a stamp of approval. …

“Christians have been slaughtering each other, as well as non-Christians, for the past 1,700 years, in large part because their priests, pastors and bishops have simply not told them that violence and homicide are incompatible with the teachings of Jesus.”

After years of soul-searching, Father Zabelka’s complete conversion from being a strong proponent of the “just-war theory” to a total pacifist was an-

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This museum representation of a nuclear bombing shows burned skin peeling and hanging from hands Aug. 6 at the Peace Museum in Hiroshima, Japan. nounced in a 1975 Christmas letter: “I must do an about face. … I have come to the conclusion that the truth of the Gospel is that Jesus was nonviolent and taught nonviolence as his way.”

Father Zabelka dedicated the rest of his life to teaching, preaching and witnessing to Gospel nonviolence.

In 1983 he and a Jesuit priest, Father Jack Morris, organized and participated in the “Bethlehem Peace Pilgrimage” starting at the nuclear submarine base in Bangor, Washington and ending on Christmas Eve 1984 in Bethlehem.

When Fr. Zabelka reached Maryland, I had the good fortune of hearing him personally share his inspiring story of conversion.

I strongly recommend reading Father Zabelka’s entire Sojourners Magazine interview by going to this link http://bit.ly/1LQtdFX. And consider ordering

from the Center for Christian Nonviolence (http:// bit.ly/1H37EeF) the excellent DVD “Fr. George Zabelka: The Reluctant Prophet.” Or just simply go to this link (http://bit.ly/1eAT5bC) to view it.

We can either choose to rationalize and condone violence and war, or we can help God build his kingdom of life and love.

In the biblical book of Deuteronomy, the author lays out a divine ultimatum for humanity: “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.

Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord, your God, obeying his voice, and holding fast to him.”

May we always choose life!

MAGLIANO is a regular guest on Immaculate Heart Radio’s “Bay Area Catholic” magazine show and is internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘This is the bread that came down from heaven … whoever eats this bread will live forever.’

JOHN 6:51-58 PROVERBS 9:1-6 Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven columns; she has dressed her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table. She has sent out her maidens; she calls from the heights out over the city: “Let whoever is simple turn in here; To the one who lacks understanding, she says, Come, eat of my food, and drink of the wine I have mixed! Forsake foolishness that you may live; advance in the way of understanding.”

PSALM 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad.

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Glorify the Lord with me, let us together extol his name. I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Look to him that you may be radiant with joy, and your faces may not blush with shame. When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him.

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

EPHESIANS 5:15-20 Brothers and sisters: Watch carefully how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise, making the most of the opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.

And do not get drunk on wine, in which lies debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and playing to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks always and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.

JOHN 6:51-58 Jesus said to the crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

Tasting the ‘living bread’

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arie is a extraordinary minister of holy Communion in her parish. Each Sunday she attends the 10 a.m. Mass. After Mass, she takes the Eucharist to a man named John.

John lives alone. According to Marie, she usually finds John sitting in his rocking chair by the living room window. His chair creaks as he sways back and forth. John’s hearing is bad. His eyesight is poor, and a heart attack has slowed down his activity.

Yet John’s 88-year-old faith is strong and vibrant.

Each Sunday John waits eagerly for someone. “That someone,” says Marie, “is Jesus, and I, a 22-year old college student am DEACON privileged to bring Jesus FAIVA PO’OI to John.” When Marie arrives with the Eucharist, John becomes an active participant. After taking off her coat, Marie sits down beside John. She reads the Sunday Gospel

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to him, and ends with a little reflection on the Gospel. Next comes the moment that John has been waiting for all week. Marie begins by praying the Lord’s Prayer with John. Then she holds up the body of Christ for John to see and says, “This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Happy are those who are called to his supper.” John answers in a soft but firm voice, “Lord I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed.” Marie then gives John holy Communion. After another prayer, Marie and John chat together for a while.

Then they hug, say goodbye, and promise to pray for each other.

This simple story illustrates the kind of faith Jesus invites us to have when he says in today’s Gospel: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven … My flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.” In this Gospel, Jesus makes it clear that he gives himself – his very flesh and blood – to us as our “living bread.” This “living bread” is not only a source of nourishment for the present, for our life in the risen Christ, but also a source of nourishment for our journey toward everlasting life.

The story of Marie and John reminds us that if the reception of Communion is to be a faith experience, it must be done within the context of prayer. The moment of receiving holy Communion can be compared to a diamond, and the time before and after Communion, can be compared to a gold band. A diamond is beautiful in itself, but when made the centerpiece of a gold band, it becomes incomparably more beautiful. The same is true of Communion. In itself, the reception of holy Communion is a beautiful moment, but it becomes incomparably more beautiful if we place it within a setting of prayer.

We might ask ourselves this question: Does our own reception of the Eucharist make us more loving in our lives, especially toward those who need our love the most, like John in the story? In other words, does our reception of holy Communion draw us closer not only to Jesus, but also to one another?

Our reception of the Eucharist can and should transform us. When we drink from the cup, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. When we eat the bread, we are sharing in the Body of Christ.

Let us give thanks for the gift of his divine self.

DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, AUGUST 17: Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. JGS 2:11-19. PS 106:3435, 36-37, 39-40, 43ab and 44. MT 5:3. MT 19:1622.

Apostle. RV 21:9b-14. PS 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18.

JN 1:49b. JN 1:45-51.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25: Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Louis of France, King and St. Joseph Calasanz, priest. 1 THES 2:1-8. PS 139:1-3, 4-6. HEB 4:12. MT 23:23-26.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18: Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. JGS 6:11-24a. PS 85:9, 1112, 13-14. 2 COR 8:9. MT 19:23-30.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19: Wednesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John Eudes, priest. JGS 9:6-15. PS 21:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. HEB 4:12. MT 20:1-16.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20: Memorial of St. Bernard, abbot and doctor. JGS 11:29-39a. PS 40:5, 7-8a, 8b9, 10. PS 95:8. MT 22:1-14.

John Eudes 1601-1680 August 19

Bernard 1090-1153 August 20

ship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. RU 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:1317. PS 128:1b-2, 3, 4, 5. MT 23:9b, 10b. MT 23:1-12.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21: Memorial of St. Pius X, pope.

RU 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22. PS 146:5-6ab, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10. PS 25:4b, 5a. MT 22:34-40.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. JOS 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b. PS 34:2-3, 1617, 18-19, 20-21. EPH 5:21-32 or EPH 5:2a, 25-32.

JN 6:63c, 68c. JN 6:60-69.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22: Memorial of the Queen-

MONDAY, AUGUST 24: Feast of St. Bartholomew,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26: Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 THES 2:9-13.

PS 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab. 1 JN 2:5. MT 23:27-32.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27: Memorial of St. Monica.

1 THES 3:7-13. PS 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17. MT 24:42a, 44. MT 24:42-51.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28: Memorial of St. Augustine, bishop, confessor and doctor. 1 THES 4:1-8. PS 97:1 and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12. LK 21:36. MT 25:1-13.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29: Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. 1 THES 4:9-11. PS 98:1, 7-8, 9.

MT 5:10. MK 6:17-29.

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OBITUARIES SISTER MARIE BARBARA BUCKLEY, SND

Notre Dame Sister Marie Barbara Buckley, 100 years old and a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur for 76 years, died June 25.

Born in Coalinga, the youngest of six children, “Kathleen Buckley Sister Marie was a very inBarbara dependent, selfBuckley, SND described ‘tomboy’ who intended to be a cowboy or a pilot when she grew up,” the Sisters of Notre Dame said in a statement.

She entered the Notre Dame Sisters after graduating Notre Dame High School, San Francisco later earning degrees in history and English from San Francisco

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State and The Catholic University of America.

“Sister enjoyed teaching all boys at Mission Dolores and all girls at her alma mater,” the sisters said.

“Sister Marie Barbara loved teaching and was always generous in working with students who needed extra help.”

Survivors include nieces Terri Brady, Mary Alves and Kathleen DaVilla and nephews Jesuit Fathers Thomas Buckley and Michael Buckley, Christian Brother Chris Brady, Phil Brady and Tom Brady.

A funeral Mass was celebrated July 17 at Notre Dame Province Center in Belmont with interment in Santa Clara Mission Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.

SISTER ELIZABETH MARY HAGMAIER, SND

Notre Dame Sister Elizabeth Mary Hagmaier, a Sister of Notre Dame for 68 years, died July 9.

Born in San Francisco, Sister Elizabeth graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Alameda and earned a graduate Sister Elizabeth degree as well as Mary Hagmaier, elementary and SND secondary teaching credentials from the University of San Francisco.

For 20 years, Sister Elizabeth served as teacher and counselor at Notre Dame/St. Joseph Notre Dame High School in Alameda where she enjoyed teaching children of some of her former classmates.

Sister Elizabeth served as director

of religious education at Treasure Island Naval Base and became a very familiar face and welcomed colleague at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center when she assisted in the Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Office.

“She was gentle and compassionate; she loved her own family and her Notre Dame community and was always mindful of issues affecting the larger world community,” the Notre Dame Sisters said.

Survivors include a sister-in-law Gina and nieces and nephews. A funeral Mass was celebrated July 30 at Notre Dame Province Center in Belmont with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.

Memorial contributions may be made to Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 15 REUNION: Holy Name School, all-class reunion, 10 a.m. open school, 11:30 a.m. Mass, followed by reunion festivities. Please pass the information on to siblings and classmates; register as a HN alumni, http://holynamesf.org/holyname-school-alumni/; join the Facebook page, Holy Name School San Francisco.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: The 50 years of this good work continues to be celebrated throughout 2015 with noon Mass followed by lunch, in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865; www.Handicapables.com.

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

PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco.

Chaplet of Divine Mercy is prayed at 3 p.m. All are welcome. www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

PRO-LIFE ROSARY: Pro-life rosary, every Saturday 10 a.m.-noon, 435 Grand Ave. South San Francisco praying for life and end to abortion. Rose Gomez, (650) 589-0998.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 5

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING: “Male and Female He Created Them,” a 2-day event about NFP with opening keynote address by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone who will also celebrate the closing Mass.

Archbishop Banquet speaker is Cordileone Fiorella Nash of the U.K.. www.canfp. org; info@canfp.org; (877) 33-CANFP.

CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Charles Puthota, pastor, St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco, Father Charles principal celebrant Puthota and homilist. (650) 756-2060; www. holycrosscemeteries.com.

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TUESDAY, AUG. 18 MUSIC WORKSHOPS: Sessions in sacred polyphony, 7-9 p.m., ending with leading song for the traditional Latin Mass, Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Classes are free. Advance registration required at www.starparish. com/chantworkshop.

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PASTA LUNCH: Immaculate Conception Church, Folsom at Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, noon, with meal of all you can eat pasta, meatballs, $10. Beverages available for purchase. A tradition of the local church for more than 50 years.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring various artists. Freewill offerings accepted at

DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated

and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

IGNATIAN SERVICE: Companions in Ignatian Service and Spirituality engages women and men, retired and semi-retired, who have a desire to serve the marginalized in our communities while deepening their spiritual foundations. Ignatian Companions integrate a personal journey of faith with conviction to act for justice. An information session will be held at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. Jenny Girard Malley, ignatiancompanions@gmail.com; www.ignatiancompanions.org.

THURSDAY, AUG. 20 MUSIC WORKSHOPS: Sessions in Gregorian chant, 7-9 p.m., ending with leading song for the traditional Latin Mass at Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, classes are free, advance registration required at www.starparish. com/chantworkshop.

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CHURCH ARCHITECTURE: An overview of church art and architecture of St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., free and open to the public. Visitors will be treated to a docent led tour of magnificent treasures in wood, stone, and stained glass throughout the interior and exterior of the church. Plenty of parking is available as is handicap access. Elizabeth Skelton, (415) 5175572; ourlabs@mac.com.

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SUNDAY, AUG. 23

THURSDAY, SEPT. 3

BEING CATHOLIC/MODERN: Award winning fiction author, Fiorella De Maria speaks on being Catholic and modern at Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7 p.m. Fiorella is a writer for London-based Society for the Protection of Unborn Children specializing in life issues from a feminist perspective. There is no charge but donations accepted, free parking in schoolyard behind the church.

Visit www.starparish.com; (415) 751-0450.

‘INTEGRAL ECOLOGY’: Concern for creation and the poor with Mary Evelyn Tucker and Jesuit Father John Coleman on Pope Francis’ new encyclical, 7 p.m., Xavier Hall - University of San Francisco.

Tucker unpacks the invitations and challenges of the encyclical with response from Father John Coleman followed questions and small group discussion.

RSVP to um@usfca.edu; (415) 4224463; visit www.interfaithpower.org/ usfclimateevents; parking in the Koret Parking Structure Southwest corner of Turk Boulevard and Parker Avenue.

SUNDAY, AUG. 30

FRIDAY, SEPT. 4

MISSA CANTATA: Singer participants in Star of the Sea’s Summer Workshops in Sacred Music perform the Mass in Dorian Mode by Herbert Howells with Gregorian chant propers in the context of the traditional Latin Mass, 11 a.m., Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Admission is free. Donations welcome. sven@ starparish.com.

REUNION: St. Cecilia School, class of 1970, Dominic’s Oyster Point, South San Francisco. Dave Lopez, dgl94127@yahoo.com; (415) 994-1834; Facebook, see “events” “SC Class of 1970-45 year reunion.”

‘LATE NITE CATECHISM’: San Damiano Retreat Center presents “Late Nite Catechism,” 2 p.m., St. Isidore Parish, Msgr. Cardelli Center, 440 La Gonda Way, Danville benefitting San Damiano. Tickets are $35/$45 with higher priced seating including premier seating and a wine and cheese reception at San Damiano following the performance. Kateri, (925) 837-9141, ext. 315; katerik@ sandamiano.org.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 5 PEACE MASS: Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue, San Francisco, 8:30 a.m., Father Patrick Driscoll, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

RETIRED PRIESTS LUNCH: St. Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Patrons’ Hall, St. Mary’s CaFather P. Gerard thedral, Gough O’Rourke Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. with tickets at $125 and larger sponsorship opportunities also available; (415) 614-5537. Father Gerry O’Rourke is celebrating his 65th year as a priest and his 90th birthday in 2015.

Grand series, 7 p.m. with panel on “Out of the Shadows - Human Trafficking in Our Midst,” Dominican Sister Marion Irvine will facilitate, open to all with time for questions and light refreshments, Gathering Space at the Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave. in San Rafael, between Acacia and Locust. RSVP (415) 4538303; CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org.

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Stefan Salinas’ St. Philip School mural

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ROOTS OF PEACE: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone visited and left God’s blessing with Roots of Peace founder Heidi Kuhn and the Roots of Peace team July 25 at their San Rafael headquarters. Roots of Peace has replaced land mines with fields of agriculture in war torn regions around the world for almost 20 years so far planting 5 million fruit trees where unexploded ordnance previously put residents at risk. Countries assisted include Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Iraq, Israel, Palestine and Vietnam.

NATIONAL PRO-LIFE RALLY: Father Al Uy Nambatac, pastor of St. Timothy Parish, and members of the pro-life community at a rally in San Mateo to call for an end to government funding of Planned Parenthood. The national rally July 28 organized by Students for Life of America included more than 50 locations across the country in response to the release of undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood leaders discussing the provision of fetal organs, tissues and body parts from their abortion clinics.

Empowering sexual integrity for individuals and couples, while building healthy, happy, and holy marriages

Male and Female He Created Them Marriage and Stewardship of the Body

13th Statewide Conference of the California Association of Natural Family Planning

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Archbishop Cordileone STEWARDS OF OUR BODIES: RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD AND THE SPIRITUALITY OF STEWARDSHIP. Archbishop will also celebrate the Closing Mass Two days with over 20 presenters, including:

Saturday Banquet Gala - featuring: Catholic Feminist and Author, Jennifer Robeck Morse

Chris Kaczor

Father Thomas Loya

Jennifer Lahl

Fiorella Nash: A path worth walking: Life, liberty and the rise of pro-life feminism

Ofrecemos presentaciones en Español también, incluyendo

Presentation of the 2015 Calegeri Award to Archbishop Cordileone, for his ‘unique and significant contribution to the people of California, advocating for NFP, and the values and principles on which it is based’

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Convert commissioned to paint new school mural CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Stefan Salinas’ signature style as an illustrator, seen last year after the publication of his children’s book, “Catholic Churches, Big and Small,” is turning heads instead of pages this time with a whimsical wall mural outside of St. Philip the Apostle School at 24th and Diamond streets in Noe Valley. Pastor Father Tony LaTorre commissioned Salinas, a friend and parishioner at Most Holy Redeemer, to paint the mural showing an academic procession led by “‘faith” and the Holy Spirit. Salinas’ collaboration with Father LaTorre is not the first one. Salinas designed and donated a large stained-glass depiction of St. Francis and the wolf of Gubbio for the parish chapel last year.

Included in the colorful scene are little historical, religious, regional and personal details, such as Father LaTorre’s “Scotty” dog and a Giants baseball (the pastor loves the Giants). There are golden poppies, symbolizing California, and shamrocks, a nod to the largely Irish congregation led by a redheaded altar girl who is stepping on a snake, a symbol of the triumph over Satan. Architectural details include the Golden Gate Bridge, Mission Dolores, St. Philip Church and St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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at St. Raphael’s, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and St. Anne’s. In 1987, Father Filice received permission from Archbishop Quinn to found the Holy Family Oratory of St. Philip Neri in the archdiocese and for three years until 1991 was chaplain at San Francisco State University. In 1991, he moved the oratory to Tijuana, Mexico, where he worked closely with the Missionaries of Charity and their orphanage returning to the archdiocese in 1996.

He was a graduate of St. Anne of the Sunset, Sacred Heart High School and University of San Francisco.

He was a co-founder of United for Life in the late 1960s; and in 1991 with the late Father Robert Cipriano founded Priests for Life. He served as chaplain at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Miley in San Francisco, and was in ministry to the men and women in the county jails in San Francisco and San Bruno.

In addition to remaining close to the Missionaries of Charity throughout his priesthood, and to the Carmelites, Father Filice was a chaplain to the cloistered Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and for many years led the Corpus Christi procession through the Haight-Ashbury.

He was a dedicated retreat master and confessor to many. As late as last October, Father Filice’s daughter Marian Previtali brought him to the Rosary Rally where a long line formed where the elderly but sturdy-looking priest with the walker heard confessions in the open air of United Nations Plaza.

When Father Filice’s condition worsened this summer, his sister Gloria suggested having the annual August family reunion at Nazareth House on July 11. Seventy-seven family members and a few friends came by. “People kept dropping in to see him,” Pizzinelli said. “He was fine, he was in his wheelchair. He was blessing everyone. He was telling everyone the most important thing was to get to heaven and the second most important thing was to have fun. He really enjoyed it.”