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Father Corral installed as pastor of Our Lady of the Pillar

Father Jose Corral is introduced to the congregation July 23 as the new pastor of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay. Father Corral, who is well known for his leadership in the Catholic charismatic movement and has served at St. Finn Barr, St. Timothy and St. James parishes in the archdiocese, said he has a goal of bringing “stability to the parish and even more unity.” See story on Page 6.

VATICAN CITY – God did not choose perfect people to form his church, but rather sinners who have experienced his love and forgiveness, Pope Francis said. The Gospel of Luke’s account of Jesus forgiving the sinful woman shows how his actions went against the general mentality of his time, a way of thinking that saw a “clear separation” between the pure and impure, the pope said Aug. 9 during his weekly general audience. “There were some scribes, those who believed they were perfect,” the pope said. “And I think about so many Catholics who think they are perfect and scorn others. This is sad.” Continuing his series of audience talks about Christian hope, the pope reflected on Jesus’ “scandalous gesture” of forgiving the sinful woman. see pope, page 18

Daughters of Carmel offer healing, spiritual guidance Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Beneath the leafy trees on the grounds of St. Patrick Seminary & University, members of a new order of religious women dedicated to healing and spiritual direction live in a small convent that Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blessed this spring. The Daughters of Carmel are an open contemplative order, members of the Carmelite family, who spend most of their days in silence. The Daughters of Carmel are also charismatic, with a deep reliance on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They offer healing retreats, and personal spiritual direction that is designed to heal, said Sister Maria Theofila, prioress. “Our task is to help people encounter the presence of the living God,” Sister Theofila said of the order’s apostolate. “There are so many who want to find God,” said Sister Mary Jacinta, and they ask “how they can have this personal relationship with God.” People experi-

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The Daughters of Carmel are pictured in front of their convent at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University. From left, Sister Maria Aurelia, P.Karm; Sister Salverina Regina, P.Karm; Sister Mary Jacinta, P.Karm; Sister Maria Theofila, P.Karm.

ence pain that needs to be healed, sometimes deeply inside themselves, she said. “Sometimes your attitude is caused by your past life,” Sister Jacinta said. “We try to heal from all the past life, the things that hurt us.”

In his homily at the Mass March 19, the feast of St. Joseph and the anniversary of the order’s founding in Indonesia, Archbishop Cordileone told the sisters their healing work and their prayers are needed here. “We have so many Samaritans in the world, so many who are yearning, who are lost and cannot find their way,” Archbishop Cordileone said, telling those at the Mass in the Daughters of Carmel convent’s little chapel that it is “a blessing for us to have them here in our archdiocese. We need them here.” “The Holy Spirit is the foundation and the source of everything,” the Daughters of Carmel website states. Worldwide there are 152 Daughters of Carmel. There are four religious sisters at the convent in Menlo Park. “To personally experience and live the loving and saving presence of God and to bring others to the same experience can only be done by the power of the Holy Spirit which is channeled and see daughters of carmel, page 8

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Three archdiocesan religious education teachers blessed this summer with joining a Holy Land pilgrimage through Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley will return to their classrooms in the fall with a fresh perspective to share with their students. “There is nothing like being where Jesus walked, lived and spread the Word,” said Kacey Carey, director of religious education for St. Bruno Parish in San Bruno. LEGATUS MEETING: Legatus is lookShe said “his humanity was ing to establish a San Francisco chapevident” as they ate the foods he ter. Are you a Catholic business leader ate, walked the places he walked, who is interested in meeting with prayed in the gardens in which he like-minded peers on a monthly basis prayed and got a taste of the politito study, live and spread the faith? You cal drama of the day. are invited to St. Mary Star of the Sea “The words of the Bible jumped Church, 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito, off the page and came alive for us,” on Thursday, Aug. 24, for Mass at 6 she said. p.m. with confession available from Carey, with Marin Catholic High 5:30. A cocktail reception follows at School theology teacher Michelle 7, and then dinner and a presentation Fontaine and St. Catherine of Siena by EWTN’s Father Leo at 7:30 at The Parish, Burlingame, director of Spinnaker, 100 Spinnaker Drive, Saureligious education Sylvia Chiesa, salito. Melissa Jagel, mjagel@legatus. were given places on the June 14-28 org, (818) 257-3340. Visit www.legatus. pilgrimage by previous particiorg for membership requirements. pants. Former Mount Carmel pastoral associate Mike Morison created the “Discipleship in the Footsteps of Archbishop’s schedule Jesus” pilgrimage four years ago in Church Goods & Candles Religous Gifts & Books collaboration with Salesian Father Biju Michael, president of the SaleAug. 18: Faculty talk, seminary sian Pontifical University in Jerusalem. Their program is an intimate, AUG. 20: Rededication Mass, St. prayerful experience that includes Veronica Parish; dinner with young priests, Menlo Park 5 locations in Californiaprivate Masses in the holy places where Jesus was born, raised, preached, died and rose again. Aug. 21: Seminary rector installation Your Local Store: The opportunity to experience Mass 369 Grand Av, S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 what is sometimes called “the fifth Near SF Airportpriests - Exit 101 Frwy @ Grand gospel” – that is, the geographical AUG. 23: Chancery meetings; and historical background of Scripdinner, Benedict XVI Institute, Menlo Park www.cotters.com cotters@cotters.com ture – was “life changing,” Fontaine said. AUG. 24: Chancery meetings; Benedict “Sure, we can read the Bible and XVI Institute board meeting know cognitively about Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee and AUG. 26: Parish visit and rededication Jerusalem, but to be there physiMass, St. Augustine cally makes Jesus’ incarnation all the more real,” she said. “Our God AUG. 30: Chancery meetings became flesh and dwelt among us.” “I highly recommend this trip,” AUG. 31: Presbyteral council executive said Chiesa. “In addition to the committee; chancery meetings

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Participation in the pilgrimage counts toward basic certification in the archdiocese’s master catechist program, she said, and makes teachers “better in the classroom.” Understanding that the $3,290 cost of the trip would be a reach on a teacher’s salary, Morison wrote to alumni from the previous three years about what he felt was a “calling” to make it available to our religious educators. Collectively alumni donated the funds to provide three full scholarships to Carey, Fontaine and Chiesa. Fontaine said the experience of watching baptisms in the Jordan River, praying together in Elijah’s cave and listening for “God’s still, small voice,” will enhance her ability to describe these geographic and cultural features to the students in her parish and school and in the adult faith formation groups she leads. Morison and Father Biju plan a separate pilgrimage next year just for religious educators.

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Daily Massgoers pray for homeless man who died outside church Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Part of Mission Dolores custodian Raju Kumar’s routine is waking up the men who sleep overnight against the walls of the basilica. Pastor Father Francis Garbo calls them “our evening parishioners,” and says he believes the homeless men feel safer tucked against the side of the church. On Aug. 2, one of those men, known as Dennis, died shortly after waking up, probably around 7:30 a.m. According to the San Francisco medical examiner’s office, Dennis’ legal name was Assad Deiche. He was 48 years old and apparently a resident of San Francisco, although that was not certain. No other information was immediately available, the office said. The day after his death, Father Garbo, Kumar and the “7:30 Mass group” prayed for “Dennis” at the daily Mass held in the Mission Dolores chapel and walked to the spot where the homeless man was found lifeless.

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Mission Dolores pastor Father Francis Garbo leads a small group in prayers for the dead near the church wall where a homeless man was found dead after a morning Mass Aug. 2. They held a short prayer service, lifting the traditional Catholic words of prayer for the dead as cars and

trucks passed noisily on 16th Street. “Receive his soul, and present him to God the most high,” Father Garbo

and his regular congregants prayed. “Eternal rest grant onto Dennis, O Lord, and perpetual light shine on to him. May he rest in peace.” For those who attend Mission Dolores, the homeless who gather can be difficult to deal with as their tents spread out on the sidewalk, as one man noted, but as the small group listened and nodded Father Garbo said the down and out men feel safer outside Mission Dolores Basilica. “Somehow they choose the side of the church. Somehow they know they will be safe,” Father Garbo said after the five-minute prayer service. “People say, ‘I want to die inside the church.’ Dennis died at the side of the church.” “Let us show them love,” Father Garbo said of the homeless. “Let us not look onto the other side or pass by. When we see them, let them see our concern. Some offer food, some offer money but we can offer prayers.” A city and county census earlier this year found about 7,500 homeless, with more than half living on the street.

Celebrate our retired priests at the St. John Vianney Luncheon on Sept. 29 The seventh annual St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests of the archdiocese and raising funds for their support will be held Sept. 29 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The funds that are raised through the luncheon help to cover retired priests’ unreimbursed medical expenses, including assisted living and skilled nursing care. Since the first luncheon in 2011, more than $1.5 million has been raised.

“In addition to the critical monetary support, this luncheon also provides an opportunity to show gratitude to these men for their unyielding devotion to those they serve,” said Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. “Take a few minutes and think about the priests you’ve known – pastors and their associates, teachers and family friends” said archdiocesan vicar for clergy Father Raymund Reyes. “These men have occupied

very special roles in all of our lives. They have been present for the most sacred moments of life and have always been there in times of need. “As they age now in retirement, I hope you will join me in supporting them as they have supported us,” Father Reyes said. “Please find time in your schedule for this annual luncheon. If you haven’t attended in the past, I encourage you to join us. You’ll find it’s time well spent with our retired men.”

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St. Patrick’s Seminary & University announces its 10th Annual Gala, taking place on Saturday, September 9 on the beautiful grounds of the seminary in Menlo Park. This special evening begins with solemn Vespers in the Main Chapel. The evening then continues with tours of the seminary’s historic campus, a cocktail hour, alfresco dining under the stars, a silent auction, and an exciting raffle – all to benefit St. Patrick’s Seminary. The evening concludes with the introduction of the seminarians of St. Patrick’s and a serenade of the Salve Regina This year’s gala will honor Walk for Life West Coast and its co-founders, Dolores Meehan & Eva Muntean. Walk for Life West Coast was established in 2005 in San Francisco to let people know that “Women Deserve Better than Abortion.” Over 7000 gathered at Justin Herman Plaza that first year, listened to speakers, and walked prayerfully along the scenic Embarcadero to the Marina. They continue each year, on or near the January 22 anniversary date of Roe v. Wade, to peacefully fill Market Street in defense of women, families, and the unborn, spreading the Walk’s message: “Abortion Hurts Women.” The Walk is now the second largest pro-life event in the country and one of the most meaningful weekends of the year for young Catholics, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the entire Bay Area to celebrate life at its earliest stage. Accepting this year’s award for Walk for Life West Coast will be Dolores Meehan and Eva Muntean. Dolores and Eva met in the 1990’s, while ministering to men dying of AIDS at the Gift of Love hospice in Pacifica, founded by the Missionaries of Charity sisters. Together they promote this event that inspires thousands of people every year to come together to defend the unborn, and for that, they are our 2017 Gala award recipients.

Please support St. Patrick’s Seminary by attending this event or by purchasing a raffle ticket for a chance to win $25,000 or a 2017 Lexus is200t. All proceeds benefit St. Patrick’s Seminary mission of forming the next generation of priests. We are grateful to Putnam Lexus of Redwood City who has generously made the raffle prize possible. Only a limited number of raffle tickets will be sold. For more information about this event, or to purchase a raffle or Gala ticket, please go to our website at www.stpsu.edu/2017-stpsu-gala; or email advancement@stpsu.edu, or call (650) 289-3320.

Please attend the luncheon or donate directly to the Priests’ Retirement Fund. You may donate online at sfarch.org/PRFLunch or mail your gift to: Archdiocese of San Francisco, Priests Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. For more information, please contact Florian Romero at (415) 614-5537 or romerof@sfarch.org.

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Bill Isham, who retired in June after 41 years teaching English at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, says “I’m not sure what else I would have done with my life.” Bill actually held retirement out for a year having originally named 40 years as the point he would step back. “The truth is, I wasn’t ready to give it up last year,” he said. “I’ve been perfectly happy taking Bill Isham another lap.” Bill said he planned on teaching as a career as far back as high school in Detroit, Michigan where he grew up, landing a job at a Jesuit high school there right out of college. Bill’s first sight of San Francisco came while attending a coaching clinic here a few years later. He never looked back joining the SI faculty in 1976. SI helped Bill grow as a teacher, he said. “For the most part, I’ve been left to decide what to teach and how to teach. I was trusted to get the job done. If you can’t become a good teacher at SI, you probably won’t become a good teacher. The environment, resources and support are here, so there’s nobody to blame but yourself if you don’t get it done. I have loved being at SI. This has been my home. These have been good years.” Bill has taught freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Students throughout the years grew to respect Bill and learned how to write. Each day, freshmen wrote a paragraph. Students, chosen at random, shared their paragraphs with the class. They would be critiqued by classmates word by word. “I have no special corner on how to teach writing,” Bill said. “All I know is that the more you write, the better you’ll get.” Bill also coached football and baseball, moderated the Chess Club and the Conservative Students Coalition and served as a member of the President’s Advisory Board. He is a pilot having logged nearly 500 flight hours and 900 landings. Nearly every aerial photo featured in SI publications happened with Bill at the controls of a rented Cessna 172. He remains unsure about what retirement will bring. “I have been answering bells every school day since kindergarten,” Bill said. “I’m afraid I’ll show up some Tuesday morning and wander into a classroom. I’m used to a certain routine that I’ll miss as well as the people around here, especially my colleagues in the English Department — men and women who have been generous, smart and kind. Besides the students, I’ll miss them the most.”

‘MODEL ELDERS’: The stars wearing these stars and stripes are Sisters of Mercy now enjoying life and ministry into their 90s. The nonagenarians live at Marian Life Care Center in Burlingame and were honored there July 4. Pictured from left are Sister Anita Iddings, RSM; Sister Edith Hurley, RSM; Sister Barbara Cavanaugh, RSM; Sister Rose Davis, RSM; Sister Joanne DeVincenti, RSM, and Sister Redempta Scannell, RSM. Not available for the photo was Sister Sheila Devereux, RSM. “They have in common a love of ice cream and a fierce loyalty to the San Francisco Giants, even in a losing season,” said event organizers Sister Corita Burnham, RSM, and Marian Oaks activities director Debbie Halleran. They call the sisters “model elders.” The sisters’ ministries have included serving in a mission in Peru, teaching, nursing, working with AIDS patients and ministering as a hospital CEO. Special thanks to SI’s Paul Totah for letting me lift text from his farewell piece to Bill in SI’s Genesis magazine for this chapter of Street.

BREAKING BREAD: At the stove was Lorraine Moriarty, executive director, St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo, with guests Mary Ann and Michael Pietro, Irene and Jim Shannon and Bishop Bill Justice enjoying Lorraine’s homeland New Zealand fare. The Pietro’s were winning bidders for the evening at Lorraine’s home at SVdP’s “Hands and Hearts Making a Difference Dinner” June 23, that raised more than $250,000 for SVdP work with the homeless. Pictured from left with Bishop Bill are Mary Ann and Mike and Irene and Jim. Lorraine by the way not only cooked but took the picture.

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Father Jose Corral greets a young parishioner July 23 after his installation as pastor of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay. Above, Father Corral is pictured with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

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Father Jose Corral was installed July 23 as new pastor of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, promising to continue to unify the San Mateo County coastside Catholic community. The rite of installation at the Half Moon Bay church included the new pastor’s introduction to the assembly, the reading of the archbishop’s appointment letter and the pastor’s introduction to

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The parish community had asked the archbishop in writing to appoint a native Spanish speaker as pastor. César Sánchez, a longtime parishioner at Our Lady of the Pillar, said “the entire community gives thanks to God and to Archbishop Cordileone for having finally sent us a pastor and one that will stay. That’s what I’ve heard from everyone.” Sánchez, added, “And we are going to take care of him and protect him.” He said the parish is made up of Latino, Filipino and Portuguese communities, among others, and the pastor “has to have enough charisma to work with everyone.” During Father Corral’s first two weeks of service, “what we have seen is a pastor that brings great desire to serve,” Sánchez, said. “The homilies really get to you – this is what I’ve heard from people.” He said Father Corral “has a lot of charisma, plenty of love to express the word of God – a person very connected to God.”

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Daughters of Carmel: Offering healing, spiritual guidance expressed throughout His various gifts, sacraments and charisms,” the website states. People can come to the sisters for spiritual guidance, both men and women, but the Daughters of Carmel are only able to offer women private retreats at the convent. In addition, the sisters lead several retreats for both men and women every year. The sisters are holding two Come and See Days in August and September as they seek new vocations. The Daughters of Carmel begin each day at 5 a.m. with an hour of prayer, followed by the Divine Office, daily Mass, 30 minutes of exercise, then breakfast at 8 a.m. From 9 a.m. to noon they work. They can socialize at lunch, then more work and prayer, with evening prayer from 5:30-7:30 p.m. There is total silence during breakfast and dinner and the “grand silence” lasts from dinner at 7:30 p.m. until after breakfast the next day. Each sister has her own room or cell so she can pray privately, Sister Theofila said. The Daughters of Carmel began in 1982 in Indo-

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From left, Felicity Desuasido (Immaculate Heart of Mary), Julia Granucci (Our Lady of Mount Carmel), Colleen Lucey (St. Matthew) and Lucy Coyle (St. Raymond) teamed up in the 4 x 800-meter relay in the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic National Championships in Lawrence, Kansas, finishing 15th in the 13-14 girls age group. In order to participate as a relay team the girls joined the Woodside Track Club – hence the green Woodside Wildebeest uniforms.

6 Peninsula Parishes/Schools League athletes compete at Junior Olympics Nationals Six athletes from the San Francisco archdiocese’s Peninsula Parishes/Schools League extended their track and field seasons this year, qualifying for and participating in the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic National Championships held July 24-30 in Lawrence, Kansas. Liam Pearl (St. Gregory School) competed in the 200-meter and high jump for the 13-14 boys age group. Finishing 34th in the 200 and 15th in the high jump, he will continue his

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Mercy SF ‘going back to our roots’ with new learning model Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Almost 65 years after the Sisters of Mercy opened an all-girls secondary Catholic school in the Sunset, Lakeside and Park Merced districts of San Francisco, Mercy High School is “future-proofing” its legacy with new leadership and a fresh vision linked to the charism of the founding order. “It is absolutely critical that our nation inspire young women to have a fierce determination to improve their world, because our world needs improvement,” said Scott McLarty, who was hired in June 2016 as Mercy’s first head of school following the retirement of the school’s longtime principal. Since then, McLarty, 38, has led the development of a new educational model called Social Advocacy Based Learning, a program designed to prepare students to succeed in the age of innova-

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LA archbishop: Our Lady of Guadalupe guide, protector for our times Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

It is in the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531 to a poor Indian convert that we can see God’s plan and care for America today, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in an important northern California address that tackled the “de-Christianization” of our culture. “At Guadalupe, the Mother of God came to be the Mother of the Americas,” Archbishop Gomez said at the Napa Institute Conference on July 27. The way forward in this time of cultural crisis is to turn to Mary, Archbishop Gomez said.

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A group of 72 parishioners from St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, traveled to Mexico in June to build housing for a poor family who lost everything in a flood.

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An extended Mexican family whose hillside home outside Tijuana was destroyed in a flood now has shelter thanks to the work of 72 parishioners from St. Charles Parish in San Carlos. The parish group, which included 28 high school teens, 18 college-age young persons and 26 older adults including pastor Father Dave Ghiorso, traveled together in a 14-van caravan to Mexico in June to build by hand three large roofed structures for the family during an annual four-day service trip. “It was a desperate situation,” Carlos DeMarchena, parishioner and mission sponsor, told Catholic San Francisco, describing the family who lost everything in the natural disaster. “But, imagine, in three days our group – by hand, because no power tools are allowed – poured a slab and constructed structures where there were none.” Each day began with morning prayer, he said. On the first day, one of the St. Charles “van groups” mixed from scratch the sand, rock and cement to form the structures’ concrete slabs while another group worked on the framing. By the end of the second day, walls went up as well as the roof frame and plywood siding with tar paper and chicken wire were added in preparation for the stucco, also made from scratch. On the third day, the roof went up. This is the 25th year that St. Charles has traveled to Mexico to build homes for poor local families as part of Amor Ministries, a San Diego-based nonprofit that organizes volunteer work-service trips for individuals and groups. Amor Ministries works with the Mexican government which asks for assistance responding to the housing needs of the country’s poorest people.

Amor handled the logistics of the group’s home for the week – a large gravel parking lot – but the group brought most everything else they needed including food and tools with them. They took showers in open air structures with water heated by the sun and camped in tents at night. The family was able to move into their new homes nearly immediately and the parish celebrated with a Mass upon their return. For more information visit amor.org.

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Dominicans, developers discerning virtues of new tech Can the Catholic Church help leaders in the tech community create new “disruptive technologies” that are both financially successful and committed to the human person and the common good? The Dominican Order, also known as the Order of Preachers, believes it can. “What happens when you put virtuous behavior and ethical design at the core of your business model?” said Dominican Father Eric Salobir founder of an international Dominican innovation and research network called OPTIC (Order of Preachers for Technology, Information and Communication) dedicated to ethical issue of disruptive technologies. “You might get less money immediately, but you build a much stronger, more sustainable and valuable business.” A “disruptive technology” is an emerging technology that displaces an established one, creating dramatic changes in society. Examples include the mobile phone, the Internet and the technology that facilitates secure online economic transactions. The OPTIC network initiates an interdisciplinary dialogue between leaders of the business and technology sector and Christian scholars who strive to think about the human person. Together they discuss and discern the advantages and pitfalls of disruptive technologies against the moral framework of Catholic social teaching. Father Salobir, the Vatican’s General Promoter of the Order of Preachers for Social Communications, launched OPTIC in Rome in 2012. New networks

Visionary leaders in the tech world have a broad view of the world and are solutionoriented. ‘The question then is, are those visions aligned with a real respect for the human being?’ Dominican Father Eric Salobir

The Vatican’s General Promoter of the Order of Preachers for Social Communications have been established since then in Switzerland, France, Canada, Mexico and a new network is in development in the San Francisco Bay Area. All are rooted in the age-old tradition of dialogue between science and wisdom. OPTIC believes disruptive technologies have the potential to greatly improve human living conditions in many areas, but groundbreaking innovations are often developed in high-performing private laboratories without reference to the humanities. OPTIC facilitates that connection. “What we have seen is that the tech community is pretty willing to build something with us,” Father Salobir told Catholic San Francisco on July 13 during a visit to the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy in Berkeley, where OPTIC hosted a panel discussion on artificial intelligence with speakers from Hewlett-Packard and McKinsey Global Institute.

Part of that receptivity may come from the reality of exploring ideas in the opportunistic, fastmoving tech world that Father Salobir called “a kind of new Wild West.” “They know they need some guidelines and a framework,” he said. “They don’t want us to give them the guidelines, but they are receptive to building them with us in order to open new doors.” Father Salobir said he has not found the tech community to be as materialistic and money-driven as it is accused. Visionary leaders, in particular, have a broad view of the world and are solutionoriented, he said. “The question then is, are those visions aligned with a real respect for the human being?” Father Salobir asked. “Trashy” implementation of even a very good idea can ruin a business, said Father Salobir, who as a textbook example used a “flourishing” San Francisco-based ride-hailing service he declined to identify but which is easily recognized as Uber. Uber stock plunged in June after CEO and cofounder Travis Kalanick was forced out by investors amidst allegations of a cutthroat workplace culture, revelations of sexual harassment, discrimination and questionable business tactics. Brian Patrick Green, assistant director of the campus ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and also a lecturer in engineering ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering, is working with Father Salobir to expand and coordinate the Bay Area OPTIC network. He believes OPTIC is an “absolutely crucial effort by the church to engage contemporary technology.” “The church is not technophobic and has always understood that technology is judged by morality,” he said. “Technology makes us more efficient at the courses of action that we choose, good or evil, and we should want to be efficient at doing good and inefficient at doing evil. If we are instead efficient at evil and inefficient at good we will live in a terrible world.” Father Salobir said that he has noticed that at least two things happen when business leaders connect with the church on the topic of technology through the OPTIC network. “First, it changes something in their minds about the church,” said Father Salobir, from something “dusty and old-fashioned” to something surprisingly relevant. “Secondly, we discover together that we have concerns and questions in common and can build some elements of solution together,” he said. “That to my mind is paving the way for a society which is more in accordance to the Gospel, more respectful of the integrity of the human being.” Visit optictechnology.org. To learn more about the Bay Area OPTIC network, email Brian Green at bpgreen@scu.edu.

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Bishops ask for peace after white nationalist rally turns deadly Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – In the aftermath of a chaos- and hate-filled weekend in Virginia, Catholic bishops and groups throughout the nation called for peace after three people died and several others were injured following clashes between pacifists, protesters and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 11 and 12. A 32-year-old paralegal, Heather D. Heyer, was killed when a car plowed into a group in Charlottesville Aug. 12. Various news outlets have identified the driver as James Alex Fields, who allegedly told his mother he was attending a rally for President Donald Trump. Reports say the car allegedly driven by Fields plowed into a crowd during a white nationalist rally and a counterrally the afternoon of Aug. 12. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said early Aug. 14 the “evil attack” meets the legal definition of domestic terrorism and suggested pending charges for Fields who was in custody and has been charged with second-degree murder, among other charges. He was being held without bail. The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, was one of the first to call for peace following the violence in Charlottesville late Aug. 11, which only became worse the following day. On the evening of Aug. 11, The Associated Press and other news outlets reported a rally of hundreds of men and women, identified as white nationalists, carrying lit torches on the campus of the University of Virginia. Counterprotesters also were present during the rally and clashes were reported. The following day, at least 20 were injured and the mayor of Charlottesville confirmed Heyer’s death later that afternoon via

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White nationalists are met by counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12 during a demonstration over a plan to remove the statue of a Confederate general from a city park. Twitter after the car allegedly driven by Fields rammed into the crowd of marchers. Two Virginia State Police troopers also died when a helicopter they were in crashed while trying to help with the violent events on the ground. “In the last 24 hours, hatred and violence have been on display in the city of Charlottesville,” said Richmond Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo in a statement on the afternoon of Aug. 12. “I earnestly pray for peace.” Charlottesville is in Bishop DiLorenzo’s diocese. Virginia’s governor declared a state of emergency Aug. 12 when violence erupted during the “Unite the Right” white nationalist protest against the removal of a statue of a Confederate general, Gen. Robert E. Lee. But the trouble already had started the night before with the lit torches and chants of anti-Semitic slogans on the grounds of the University of Virginia. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galves-

ton-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called the events “abhorrent acts of hatred” in an Aug. 12 statement. He said they were an “attack on the unity of our nation.” Other groups, including many faith groups, seeking to counter the white nationalist events showed up during both events. Authorities reported clashes at both instances. “Only the light of Christ can quench the torches of hatred and violence. Let us pray for peace,” said Bishop DiLorenzo in his statement. “I pray that those men and women on both sides can talk and seek solutions to their differences respectfully.” On Twitter, Jesuit Father James Martin denounced racism as a sin and said: “All Christians, all people of faith,

should not only reject it, not only oppose it, but fight against it.” Other bishops quickly followed in denouncing the violence. “May this shocking incident and display of evil ignite a commitment among all people to end the racism, violence, bigotry and hatred that we have seen too often in our nation and throughout the world,” said Bishop Martin D. Holley of Memphis, Tennessee, in an Aug. 13 statement. “Let us pray for the repose of the souls of those who died tragically, including the officers, and for physical and emotional healing for all who were injured. May ours become a nation of peace, harmony and justice for one and all.” Chicago’s Cardinal Blase J. Cupich said Aug. 12 via Twitter: “When it comes to racism, there is only one side: to stand against it.” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia called racism the “poison of the soul,” and said in a statement that it was the United States’ “original sin” and one that “never fully healed.” He added that, “blending it with the Nazi salute, the relic of a regime that murdered millions, compounds the obscenity.” On Aug. 13, Cardinal DiNardo, along with Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, issued a statement saying: “We stand against the evil of racism, white supremacy and neoNazism. We stand with our sisters and brothers united in the sacrifice of Jesus, by which love’s victory over every form of evil is assured.”

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Sister Teresa Maya, new LCWR president, brings bicultural view to role Soli Salgado Catholic News Service

ORLANDO, Fla. – A familiar Spanish saying defines the experience and worldview of Sister Teresa Maya, a Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word: “Ni de aqui, ni de alla” (“from neither here nor there”). Before becoming president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in 2016, Sister Maya collaborated with the religious conference in Mexico, an experience that taught her there are “two or three versions of the same story – whether it’s because there’s another language or cultural perspective or geography – and that’s important to keep in mind,” she said. Sister Maya, who is MexicanAmerican, made the transition to LCWR president Aug. 11, the final night of the conference’s annual assembly in Orlando. She will lead the organization as the rest of the U.S.

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President, Leadership Conference of Women Religious Catholic Church starts to tip from a majority-Anglo to a majority-Hispanic congregation. LCWR is an association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States. The conference has about 1350 members, who represent nearly 80 percent of the approximately 48,500 women religious in the United States Her position goes beyond simply

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vanced Studies Institute in Laguna, Mexico. At the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, she earned her master’s degree in systematic theology in 1991 and eventually went on to the College of Mexico in Mexico City, where she got her doctorate in Latin American colonial church history in 1997. “She’s a lifelong learner,” said Sister Glenn Anne McPhee of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, who met Sister Maya in the early 1980s, when she came to the United States as a high school student from Mexico. “She’s a very high-energy person. It’s contagious, and it’s only gotten better over time.” While studying at Yale, Sister Maya was a school volunteer in New Haven, Connecticut, working in innercity elementary schools with Latino children. The experience “changed my life forever,” she said. In 1995, she joined the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Mexico City, where she went through formation and professed her final vows in 2002. Their charism – the Incarnation, the actualizing of God’s love as their mission – sold her, even after a lifelong Dominican education and visits to six congregations. While serving as president-elect of LCWR, Sister Maya said, she learned about the “incredible potential” of collaboration between religious institutions and congregations. Right now, she said, LCWR is “owning its historical moment.” “The very fact that that this country has gone into this division and fear, I think it’s the world calling religious and our conferences to witness, to the welcoming of the stranger, to the unity of the diversity, to civil discourse, to being respectful even if we disagree,” she said. “I think there’s a mission in the moment that we need to own, and I see that being fundamental to the next few years.”

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Speaker sees ‘decisive battle’ being waged against marriage, family Christopher M. Riggs Catholic News Service

WICHITA, Kan. – Scott Hahn told a packed convention hall in Wichita that Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, had once predicted the “decisive battle” between the Lord and Satan would be regarding marriage and family. And that battle is being fought today, said Hahn, who gave three talks during the Catholic Family Scott Hahn Conference Aug. 4-6. One of the most popular Catholic speakers in the country, Hahn, who is a professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, told of how Italian Cardinal Carlo Caffarra had received the visionary’s prediction after writing her asking for prayers. The battle is not a modern one, Hahn said, adding that the battle was initiated at the dawn of history when Satan tempted Adam and Eve. “We need to recognize the importance of this,” he said. Hahn, whose talks centered on Mary and St. Joseph, said he first heard about Our Lady of Fatima on his fifth wedding anniversary. On the day they were planning a dinner celebration, Hahn said his wife, Kimberly, went into labor and instead of go-

ing to a five-star restaurant, they drove to a Grove City, Pennsylvania, hospital. To pass the time he turned on the television and heard the distinctive voice of Ricardo Montalban narrating a documentary about Our Lady of Fatima. “I was transfixed, but Kimberly was having contractions and said. ‘Would you help me and quit watching TV!’” In the documentary, Montalban talked about the miracles of Fatima and how they were witnessed by thousands, Hahn said. “I had never heard of any of it.” It was published in the Lisbon newspaper. “Nobody could deny the miracle of the sun!” That turn of events led Hahn, a former Presbyterian, and later his wife, to become Catholics. After he became a Catholic in 1986, which he discusses in his book “Rome Sweet Home,” Hahn said he began thinking about ways to build bridges to the church for “our separated brothers and sisters.” Mary was one of the challenges. But, she was the perfect follower of Jesus, Hahn said, she is the perfect model, adding that the faithful should follow Mary as she follows Jesus. “When we behold the Blessed Virgin, we behold the masterpiece of Jesus,” he said. “Jesus is the light of the world, but she is the perfect prism‚ she is Jesus’ most perfect work.” Mary was the last impediment to him becoming Catholic, Hahn said, taking years of study and struggle to overcome. And today the rosary is his

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Pope: Vacation time should be prayer time

VATICAN CITY – Summertime can and should be a time for extra prayer, a moment of peace that allows Christians to savor the joy of their relationship with Jesus and find new strength to reach out with love to others, Pope Francis said. Before reciting the Angelus Aug. 6, the feast of the Transfiguration, Pope Francis talked about the Gospel story of the disciples going up Mount Tabor with Jesus, “detaching themselves from mundane things” and contemplating the transfigured Lord. Today, too, Christ’s disciples need to “rediscover the pacifying and regenerating silence” that comes from prayer and meditating on a Gospel passage. “When we put ourselves in this situation, with the Bible in hand, in silence, we begin to feel this interior beauty, this joy that the word of God generates in us,” the pope said.

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VATICAN CITY – The celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Blessed Oscar Romero’s birth should be a time to reflect on what it really means to call someone a martyr, said Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador. Too many people in El Salvador “continue to call martyrs those who picked up arms and died following an ideal” in the country’s 12-yearlong civil war, the cardinal wrote in Blessed Oscar an article for L’Osservatore Romano, Romero the Vatican newspaper. The country’s real martyrs, the cardinal said, “never stained their hands with blood,” and they were “men and women who strove to love God and their neighbors.” The real martyrs of El Salvador are Blessed Romero, “the assassinated priests and the four U.S. women – three religious and a laywoman – whose lives were taken in December 1980,” he said, referring to Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan, a laywoman.

In addition, he wrote, “we all have a debt that we must begin to settle as soon as possible. We are obliged out of gratitude to God and love for the truth to redeem the memory of hundreds of anonymous martyrs, most of whom were humble campesinos.” “For us, martyr means witness,” he said. “We must walk with them in the name of Christ.” The article by Cardinal Rosa Chavez was published Aug. 10 in the Italian edition of L’Osservatore Romano, but was written for the newspaper’s Spanish edition, which published a special issue for Blessed Romero’s birthday Aug. 15. The archbishop officially promoting Blessed Oscar Romero’s cause for sainthood said he hopes the process will conclude within a year and Catholics around the world will honor St. Oscar Romero, martyr. “Keeping alive the memory of Romero is a noble task, and my great hope is that Pope Francis will soon canonize him a saint,” Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator of the Salvadoran archbishop’s cause, said in a homily Aug. 12 in London.

St. Peter’s request that Jesus call him, his moment of doubt and his subsequent cry for Jesus to save him, the pope said, “resembles our desire to feel close to the Lord, but also the fear and anguish that accompanies the most difficult moments of our life and of our communities, marked by internal frailty and external difficulty.”

Patriarchs say Mideast churches in danger

BEIRUT – Mideast Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs decried the desperate situation they face as shepherds of churches “whose existence is in real danger.” They categorized the continued displacement of Christians from the Middle East as “a genocidal project, a humanitarian catastrophe and a plague of the earth’s civilization.” “The time has come to make a prophetic cry” and to speak “the truth that frees us in the spirit of the Gospel,” the Council of the Eastern Patriarchs said in a statement Aug. 11, after an Aug. 9-10 meeting in Diman, Lebanon. “We, the custodians of the ‘small flocks,’ are hurting because of the exodus of Christians from their native lands in the Middle East,” the patriarchs said. They appealed to the United Nations and to “the states directly concerned with the war in Syria, Iraq and Palestine to stop the wars that have arisen, as are evident in the demolition, killing, displacement, revival of terrorist organizations and the fueling of intolerance and conflicts between religions and cultures.” They categorized as a “stain on the forehead of the 21st century” the persistence of the situation, “the inability to bring about a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region” and “the neglect” of the return of refugees, displaced and uprooted people to their homelands and property “in dignity and justice.” In a plea to Pope Francis, the prelates asked, “Who else but the Rock of Peter can we resort to?” “We are ready to heed the call to holiness by following the path of the faithful,” they said, but “we represent churches ... whose existence is in real danger.”

Pope: Cling to Lord, not fortune-tellers

VATICAN CITY – When passing through the storm of life’s difficult moments, Christians must latch on to Christ and not the false sense of security offered by psychics and soothsayers, Pope Francis said. Speaking to pilgrims before reciting the Angelus Aug. 13, Pope Francis talked about the day’s Gospel passage, which recounts the story of Jesus walking on water. Jesus tells St. Peter to come to him, but his lack of faith when walking on the water toward Jesus during a storm leads to him slowly to start sinking in the sea. Christians today, Pope Francis said, also can doubt the assurance of Christ’s presence when confronting life’s “turbulent and hostile waters.” “When we do not cling to the word of the Lord, but consult horoscopes and fortunetellers to have more security, we begin to sink,” the pope said. Pope Francis said the Sunday Gospel reading invites all Christians to reflect on their faith “both as individuals and as an ecclesial community, even the faith of all us here today in the square.”

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The woman, he said, was one of many poor women who were visited secretly even by those who denounced them as sinful. Although Jesus’ love toward the sick and the marginalized “baffles his contemporaries,” it reveals God’s heart as the place where suffering men and women can find love, compassion and healing, Pope Francis said.

“How many people continue today in a wayward life because they find no one willing to look at them in a different way, with the eyes – or better yet – with the heart of God, meaning with hope,” he said. But “Jesus sees the possibility of a resurrection even in those who have made so many wrong choices.” Oftentimes, the pope continued, Christians become accustomed to having their sins forgiven and receiving God’s unconditional love while forgetting

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Embracing our ancient faith

icholas Owen was canonized 364 years after his death. Such is often the case with the Catholic Church, charged with curating a 3,000-year treasure trove of saints and stories, rovers and relics. Owen’s tale is unlike any other. Born in Oxford, England, in the mid-16th century, his devout family prepared him well for his remarkable life’s work. His father was a carpenter who taught him the trade. Two older brothers became priests, bringing the Christina sacraments to a hungry Capecchi community. There was much to be done in Elizabethan England, a dark and frightening time when Catholics were persecuted and priests were incarcerated or hanged. A “papist” caught converting an Anglican could be charged with high treason. Owen was determined to do his part to defend his beloved faith despite considerable physical limitations: He was slightly taller than a dwarf, suffered from a hernia and had a crippled leg. Still, he embarked on the most dangerous of missions, building priest holes into Catholic homes across the country. For 18 years, he constructed these hiding places to conceal priests from “pursuivants,” as they were called – priest hunters who collected tips and searched exhaustively for men in Roman collars. Owen built priest holes in walls, under floors and behind wainscoting. He hid them in fireplaces, attics and staircases. Some took the form of an apartment or chapel in a secluded part of the house or in the roof space, where Mass could be celebrated, vestments could be stored and a priest could retreat in case of emergency. The work demanded everything of Owen – the strength of his mind, his muscles and his convictions. He broke through massive structures and thick stones. He climbed through underground passages and discovered impenetrable recesses, enmeshing the priest holes in labyrinths. He worked by night to reduce the chances of being caught, always alone. He used the alias “Little John” and accepted only staples of food or clothing as payment. He kept each place a secret, never disclosing to one the location of another. Eventually, in 1606, Owen was captured and tortured to death. Father John Gerard, a Jesuit priest whose escape from the Tower of London was masterminded by Owen, wrote fondly of the martyr: “I verily think no man can be said to have done more good of all those who labored in the English vineyard. He was the immediate occasion of saving the lives of many hundreds of persons, both ecclesiastical and secular.” No one knows just how many priest holes Owen made. Some may still be undiscovered. Pope Paul VI canonized him in 1970. Today his name pops up randomly online, trending on places like Reddit’s “Today I Learned” tab. We can honor him simply by attending Mass, especially by taking advantage of the availability of daily Mass. To learn Owen’s story is to appreciate Catholicism anew, to crack open its rich history and astounding breadth. My friend Eileen made a concerted effort to do this by enrolling in the Archbishop Harry J. Flynn Catechetical Institute here in St. Paul, Minnesota. For two years, she and some 200 classmates met every Monday night to unpack the catechism, absorb guest lectures and engage in small-group discussion. “I’m more sure that the Catholic faith is true,” she told me, “that I’m Catholic because I really believe it, not just because I grew up in the church.” What a journey: Teachings that underpin tales like Owen’s, faith and reason together, stirring the soul while igniting the intellect, prodding us toward our better, braver selves. Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.

Our utmost in dealing with our faith

he complexity of adulthood inevitably puts to death the naivete of childhood. And this is true too of our faith. Not that faith is a naiveté. It isn’t. But our faith needs to be constantly reintegrated into our persons and matched up anew against our life’s experience; otherwise we will find it at odds with our life. But genuine faith can stand up to every kind of experience, no matter its complexity. Sadly, that doesn’t always happen and many people seemingly leave their faith behind, like belief in Santa and the Easter Bunny, as FATHER ron the complexity of their adult rolheiser lives seemingly belies or even shames their childhood faith. With this in mind, I recommend a recent book, “My Utmost, A Devotional Memoir,” by Macy Halford. She is a young, thirtysomething, writer working out of both Paris and New York and this is an autobiographical account of her struggle as a conservative Evangelical Christian to retain her faith amidst the very liberal, sophisticated, highly secularized and often agnostic circles within which she now lives and works. The book chronicles her struggles to maintain a strong childhood faith which was virtually embedded in her DNA, thanks to a very faith-filled mother and grandmother. Faith and church were a staple and an anchor in her life as she was growing up. But her DNA also held something else, namely, the restlessness and creative tension of a writer, and that irrepressible energy naturally drove her beyond the safety and shelter of the churches circles of her youth, in her case, to literary circles in New York and Paris. She soon found out that living the faith while surrounded by a strong supportive faith group is one thing, trying to live it while breathing an air that is almost exclusively secular and agnostic is something else. The book chronicles that struggle and chronicles too how eventually she was able to integrate both the passion and the vision of her childhood faith into her new life. Among many good insights, she shares how each time she was tempted to cross the line and abandon her childhood faith as a naiveté, she realized that her fear of doing that was “not a fear of destroying God or a belief; (but) a fear of destroying self.” That insight testifies to the genuine character of her faith. God and faith don’t need us; it’s us that need them. The title of her book, “My Utmost,” is significant

to her story. On her 13th birthday, her grandmother gave her a copy of a book which is well known and much used within Evangelical and Baptist circles, “My Utmost for His Highest,” by Oswald Chambers. The book is a collection of spiritual aphorisms, thoughts for every day of the year, by this prominent missionary and mystic. Halford shares how, while young and still solidly anchored in the church and faith of her childhood, she did not read the book daily and Chambers’ spiritual counsels meant little to her. But her reading of this book eventually became a daily ritual in her life and its daily counsel began, more and more, to become a prism through which she was able to reintegrate her childhood faith with her adult experience. At one point in her life she gives herself over to a serious theological study of both the book and its author. Those parts of her memoir will intimidate some of her readers, but, even without a clear theological grasp of how eventually she brings it all into harmony, the fruit of her struggle comes through clearly. This is a valuable memoir because today many people are undergoing this kind of struggle, that is, to have their childhood faith stand up to their present experience. Halford simply shows us how she did it and her struggle offers us a valuable paradigm to follow. A generation ago, Karl Rahner famously remarked that in the next generation we will either be mystics or unbelievers. Among other things, what Rahner meant was that, unlike previous generations where our communities (family, neighborhood and church) very much helped carry the faith for us, in this next generation we will very much have to find our own, deeper, personal grounding for our faith. Macy Halford bears this out. Inside a generation within which many are unbelievers, her memoir lays out a path for a humble but effective mysticism. The late Irish writer John Moriarty, in his memoirs, shares how as a young man he drifted from the faith of his youth, Roman Catholicism, seeing it as a naiveté that could not stand up to his adult experiences. He walked along in that way until one day, as he puts it, “I realized that Roman Catholicism, the faith of my childhood, was my mother tongue.” Macy Halford eventually re-grounded herself in her mother tongue, the faith of her youth, and it continues now to guide her through all the sophistications of adulthood. The chronicle of her search can help us all, irrespective of our particular religious affiliation. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Letters Inspiration and clarity

Thank you for the inspiring coverage of the life and funeral of Archbishop John Raphael Quinn in the July 13 edition. He led the Catholic Church through some troublesome times with Christian charity, care and dignity. The picture from 1987 meeting of Archbishop Quinn and St. Pope John Paul II with the Golden Gate Bridge and the fog in the background is classic San Francisco. Thank you for the interview with Jesuit Father George Schultze, president and rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University. It clarifies many of the concerns I expressed earlier about the future of the seminary. He foresees an active seminary proclaiming charity and truth. There is new faculty to replace the Sulpicians who departed. Father Schultze mentions three big concerns: 1) The student body of seminarians is about 60, compared with more than 100 reached briefly a few years ago; 2) the WASC review said that about 80 seminarians are needed to provide sufficient financial support to maintain the viability of the seminary, without using money from the endowment; 3) he said that the seminary is recruiting students from distant dioceses to bring the student body population up to sustainable numbers. (These will replace seminarians from the local diocese that chose to depart, San Jose). Father Schultze also pointed out a further prob-

lem: the need for priestly vocations, a nationwide issue. We pray for the success of his efforts and of the seminary. Stuart MacKenzie San Bruno

Include more inspiration from the pope

I was so disappointed to see only two small references to our Pope Francis in Catholic San Francisco issue of June 22. I have really appreciated the summaries of his sermons from the daily Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae that you have sometimes printed in the paper. They inspire and teach us to be like Jesus. The love and admiration for Pope Francis, among people of all faiths and even with no faith, is enormous. We lament the falling attendance at Mass, but we do not speak about or celebrate our most popular pope. Please do include more of the pope’s inspiring messages. And tell us of his deeds. Did you know the pope, who had already provided showers and barbers for the homeless in the Vatican, has recently installed washers and dryers for them also? This is good news. They will know we are Christians by our love. Phyllis Hall San Francisco

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Sunday readings

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time ISAIAH 56:1, 6-7 Thus says the Lord: Observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed. The foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, ministering to him, loving the name of the Lord, and becoming his servants – all who keep the sabbath free from profanation and hold to my covenant, them I will bring to my holy mountain and make joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. PSALM 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 O God, let all the nations praise you! May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us. So may your way be known upon earth; among all nations, your salvation. O God, let all the nations praise you!

May the nations be glad and exult because you rule the peoples in equity; the nations on the earth you guide. O God, let all the nations praise you! May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you! May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him! O God, let all the nations praise you! ROMANS 11:13-15, 29-32 Brothers and sisters: I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them. For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. For

God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. MATTHEW 15:21-28 At that time, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” But Jesus did not say a word in answer to her. Jesus’ disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.” He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But the woman came and did Jesus homage, saying, “Lord, help me.” He said in reply, “It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” She said, “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.” Then Jesus said to her in reply, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And the woman’s daughter was healed from that hour.

The election of the gentiles

he election of the Gentiles is one of the great mysteries of Divine Providence in the economy of salvation. Jesus proclaims in our Gospel for this Sunday: “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Further, he declares: “It is not good to take the bread of the children (the Jews), and to cast it to the dogs (the Gentiles).” St. Jerome tells us that “the Gentiles are called dogs because of their idolatry; who, given to the eating of blood, and dead bodies, turn to madness.” And St. Anselm explains further, “The Jews were born sons, and brought up by the Law in the worship of one God. Father Joseph The bread is the Gospel, its Previtali miracles and other things which pertain to our salvation. It is not then meet that these should be taken from the children and given to the Gentiles, who are dogs, till the Jews refuse them.” And yet Our Lord chooses to work the miracle of salvation for the Gentile woman. In this way, having been rejected by the Jews in the persons of the Scribes and Pharisees, Christ then turns to the Gentiles in the person of the Canaanite woman. St. Paul explains this mystery to us in his Letter to the Romans: “For if the loss of (the Jews) be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from

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the dead?” Notice the detail that the belief of the Jews in Christ will bring about the general resurrection at the end of the world! St. Paul continues: “For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief: So these also now have believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.” The Gentiles receive the joy of the Gospel because the Jews have rejected it. This is a great mystery: the Gentiles, to use another image from Paul, are a foreign branch grafted on to the Tree of Salvation. And yet, the Holy Spirit teaches us, in the end the Jews will accept Christ! This dynamic of proclamation from Jews to Gentiles and finally back to the Jews is symbolized in the ritual of the traditional Roman Liturgy, as interpreted in the beautiful liturgical commentary of St. Albert the Great, the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Mass begins with the Missal on the “Epistle side” of the altar. The singing of the Epistle by the subdeacon, facing the altar, “towards the east,” facing Jerusalem to the east of Rome, symbolizes the preaching of the prophets, and especially St. John the Baptist, who proclaimed Christ to the Jews. Then the Missal is moved to the “Gospel side” of the altar and the deacon sings the Gospel facing the side wall of the church, “towards the north,” facing the pagan Gentiles to the north of Rome. This action symbolizes the proclamation of the Gospel by the Church to the Gentiles. The Missal stays on the “Gentile side” for almost the whole Mass, but at the end it returns to the side of the Jews, to symbolize what St. Paul prophesies in our second reading: their final acceptance of Christ at the end of the world!

The Canaanite woman in our Gospel is a true model, then, for how we are to approach Jesus Christ and His preaching. “Wonderful are shown the faith, patience, and humility of this woman,” writes St. Jerome, “faith, that she believed that her daughter could be healed; patience, that so many times overlooked, she yet perseveres in her prayers; humility, that she compares herself not to the dogs, but to the whelps.” We must especially imitate her profound humility. St. John Chrysostom marvels at her humility: “He calls the Jews children, she calls them masters; He called her a dog, she accepts the office of a dog; as if she had said, I cannot leave the table of my Lord.” Her great faith, patience, and humility wins for her the Heart of Jesus Christ, Who was moving her secretly by His grace: “O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt.” Remigianus unfolds for us the full symbolism, then, of this event: “This woman figures the Holy Church gathered out of the Gentiles. The Lord leaves the Scribes and Pharisees, and comes into the parts of Tyre and Sidon; this figures His leaving the Jews and going over to the Gentiles. This woman came out of her own country, because the Holy Church departed from former errors and sins.” In order to be saved, we also must imitate this Canaanite woman, going out from the errors of our thoughts and deeds, and approaching the Bread of Life with faith, patience, and humility, accepting with full confidence all the teachings of Our Holy Mother, the Catholic Church.

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of St. John the Baptist. 1 Thes 2:1-8. Ps 139:1-3, 4-6. Mt 5:10. Mk 6:17-29.

Father Previtali is enrolled in doctoral studies in sacred theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas-Angelicum, Rome.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, August 21: Memorial of St. Pius X, pope. Jgs 2:11-19. Ps 106:34-35, 36-37, 39-40, 43ab and 44. Mt 5:3. Mt 19:16-22. Tuesday, August 22: Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Jgs 6:11-24a. Ps 85:9, 11-12, 13-14. 2 Cor 8:9. Mt 19:23-30. Wednesday, August 23: Wednesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Rose of Lima, virgin. Jgs 9:6-15. Ps 21:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Heb 4:12. Mt 20:1-16. Thursday, August 24: Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle. Rv 21:9b-14. Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18. Jn 1:49b. Jn 1:45-51. Friday, August 25: Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Louis

Saturday, August 26: Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17. Ps 128:1b-2, 3, 4, 5. Mt 23:9b, 10b. Mt 23:1-12. Sunday, August 27: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. Is 22:19-23. Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6, 8. Rom 11:33-36. Mt 16:18. Mt 16:13-20. Monday, August 28: Memorial of St. Augustine, bishop, confessor and doctor. 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b10. Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. Jn 10:27. Mt 23:13-22. Tuesday, August 29: Memorial of the Passion

Wednesday, August 30: 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 31: Thursday of the Twentyfirst Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 3:7-13. Ps 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17. Mt 24:42a, 44. Mt 24:42-51. Friday, September 1: Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:1-8. Ps 97:1 and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12. Lk 21:36. Mt 25:1-13. Saturday, September 2: Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:9-11. Ps 98:1, 7-8, 9. Jn 13:34. Mt 25:14-30.

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Ecumenism, influence envy, etc.

efending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of the Catholic commentariat to defend the madcap analysis of America’s alleged “ecumenism of hate” that appeared last month in the Italian Catholic journal, La Civiltà Cattolica (edited by the Jesuits of Rome and published after vetting by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See). The more sober-minded defenders admit that the article, jointly authored by Jesuit Father Anthony Spadaro, and Rev. Marcelo Figueroa, contains george weigel errors of fact and tendentious interpretations of recent history – but then go on to suggest that it raises important questions. How, though, are serious questions raised, much less clarified or answered, by falsifications of both history and contemporary reality? Other defenders of the Spadaro/Figueroa article, less chastened by the self-evident fact that the article would receive a thumping “F” in a freshman religious studies course at any reputable college, have taken the occasion of the article to scrape their various boils and indulge in the very Manichean division of the ecclesial world into children of light and children of darkness the article condemns. One of these boils involves a project I helped launch and in which I’ve been engaged for over two decades: The study group known as “Evangelicals and Catholics Together.” A post Spadaro-Figueroa editorial in the National Catholic Reporter charged that ECT, as it’s widely

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known, is a prominent example of “Catholic complicity in the politicization of faith”; that the participants in the original ECT statement, from which the study group takes its name, were on the “outer conservative edges” of their communities “before the landscape fades to irrational extremes”; and that the original statement “ill-served” Catholics, evangelical Protestants, the cause of the Gospel and the health of American public life. Moreover, the NCR grimly warns “bishops and those who staff their offices” against conceding to “the visions of ideologues in think tanks and institutes with an absolutist and narrow agenda.” For in doing so (by, presumably, embracing the ECT agenda) these bishops and staff “have squandered their standing and credibility in the wider culture.” Oh, dear. Where to begin? ECT is an ongoing project, which has now produced nine joint statements, with number 10, an explanation of Christianity to its contemporary cultured despisers, coming soon. Five of the first nine – on justification, Scripture, the communion of saints, the universal call to holiness and the Blessed Virgin Mary – were entirely theological in character and had nothing to do with political controversies. Those that touched on contested issues – the statements on the sanctity of life, on religious freedom, and on marriage – set the discussion of public policy in an explicitly biblical and theological context (as, indeed, did the initial ECT statement the NCR editorial deplores). The five theological statements measure up well against similar documents from other ecumenical dialogues of the past half-century; an honest Catholic liberal, Notre Dame’s Lawrence Cunningham, recommended all the ECT statements for “the per-

tinence of their concerns and the sophistication of their theological argument.” From the very outset of our joint work, ECT participants have made it clear that we speak from and to our various churches and ecclesial communities, not for them. We have also scrupulously described our differences, with a concern for expressing the “other’s” views accurately. But don’t just take my word for it. Get the book that collects the first nine ECT documents and explains both the genesis of the project and of each statement: “Evangelicals and Catholics Together at Twenty: Vital Statements on Contested Issues,” edited by Timothy George and Thomas G. Guarino (Brazos Press). Read it. Then compare what you read with the NCR editorial. In his June address to the U.S. bishops, Archbishop Christoph Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, appealed for a church that listens more, “even to those with whom we disagree,” because the honest engagement of differences helps us all “propose the ...Gospel in a more persuasive, life-changing way.” True enough. The honest engagement of differences in service to evangelical vigor is not advanced, however, by the systematic misrepresentation of others’ views, by the puerile bullying of bishops, or by indulging in spasms of influence-envy. Moreover, the nuncio’s welcome appeal to become a church of missionary disciples – Pope Francis’s “Church permanently in mission” – will only be answered if we see today’s challenging, but evangelically exciting, situation clearly; and such clarity of vision requires something other than lenses ground in the 1970s. Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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my ambassador, most worthy of my trust,’” Archbishop Gomez said. Archbishop Gomez said American culture has become an alien landscape for Christians. “In the last decade, it is like we all woke up to discover that American society is being progressively ‘de-Christianized,’” Archbishop Gomez said. Founded as a Christian nation, America has in many ways never lived up to those values, with slavery, “the tragic mistreatment of native populations; ongoing injustices like racism, and the million or more abortions performed each year,” Archbishop Gomez said in his talk titled “The Marian Heart of America: Our Lady of Guadalupe and our ‘Post-Christian’ Society.” Still, Archbishop Gomez said, “The promise of America – what still distinguishes this country from all the rest – is our commitment to promoting human dignity and freedom under the Creator. At the heart, this is a Christian commitment.”

And that is changing, Archbishop Gomez said. “We face an aggressive, organized agenda by elite groups who want to eliminate the influence of Christianity from our society,” he said. “My friends, we do not have the luxury to choose the times we live in. These are hard times,” Archbishop Gomez said. “There is no denying it. But the saints remind us that all times in the church are dangerous times. “For me, the question is not really, how are we going to shape our times?” he asked. “The better question is, how does God want us to shape our times? What is the path that Jesus Christ would have us follow in this moment in our nation’s history?” Archbishop Gomez said that path began in Guadalupe in 1531. “The apparition at Guadalupe was not a random occurrence,” he said. “There are no coincidences in the Providence of God. Our Lady did not appear only for the Mexican people. The Blessed Mother told St. Juan Diego at Guadalupe, ‘I am truly your

compassionate Mother; your Mother and the Mother to all who dwell in this land and to all other nations and peoples.’” Millions were baptized in Mexico and throughout the Americas within a few years of the Blessed Mother’s appearance. “A great wave of holiness swept through the continents, raising up saints and heroes of the faith in every country,” Archbishop Gomez said. The archbishop noted that St. Junipero Serra sailed for the New World aboard a ship called Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, arriving at Veracruz and walking 300 miles to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, where he spent the night in prayer and consecrated his American mission to the Blessed Mother. “Guadalupe is the true ‘founding event’ in American history,” Archbishop Gomez said. “And that means it is the true founding event in the history of our country and in the history of all the other countries in North and South America. We are all children of Guadalupe.”

archbishop Chaput: Christians living in ‘really privileged moment’ FROM PAGE 12

organized around the themes discussed by Archbishop Chaput in his book “Strangers in A Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a

Post-Christian World” (Henry Holt and Company, 2017). In urging both engagement and Christian hope, Archbishop Chaput did not sugarcoat American culture he described bleakly as one where one

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Registration and Refreshments Welcome and Session 1 – Eve

Saturday September 16

9 am 9:30 am 11:15 am 12:45 pm 1:15 pm 3:00 pm 4:30 pm 5:00 pm

Gathering Session 2 - Sarai and Hagar Session 3 – Deborah and Jael Lunch Session 4 – Ruth and Naomi Session 5 – Hannah Wrap-up Closing Ritual and Blessing

Toinette M. Eugene PhD Dr. “Sister” Toinette Eugene has been a longtime friend and supporter of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco. She is a theological ethicist who is well known both locally and nationally for her academic expertise, publications, and presentations in the areas of Black Catholic Theology, social spirituality, and for her leadership in responding to issues of cultural diversity, and sexual and domestic violence. Dr. Eugene holds a PhD in Religion and Society, and an MA in Theology and Education earned at the Graduate Theological Union and at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California. Her BA degree is in English Literature from the University of San Francisco. Photo by Debra Greenblat

Cost is $30 per person and includes refreshments on Friday evening, lunch on Saturday, and course materials Pre-registration required at www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org/registration.html Payment by check or cash due in Shipwreck office no later than September 11, 2017 For directions and parking visit www.stpauloftheshipwreck/contact.html St. Paul of the Shipwreck • 1122 Jamestown Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94124 • 415-468-3434 Rev. Daniel Carter, Pastor • Rev. Mr. Larry Chatmon, Deacon • Rev. Mr. Sergio Gomez, Deacon

third of men and 40 percent of women will someday experience an anxiety disorder, where nearly half of men have contracted a sexually transmitted disease, and where “the birth control pill and the separation of sex from procreation have altered the fundamental meaning of sex.” In the conflict between religious liberty defined by natural law and erotic liberty espoused by gay activists and many others, those who believe in biblical values of family and marriage are labeled bigots, he said. The rapid advances of technology are too much for most people to absorb and the practical American talent for getting things to work is carried to extremes, he said. “Technological man sees the world not as a gift of God – with its own purpose and meaning, to be treasured and stewarded – but as a collection of dead material to be organized and used,” Archbishop Chaput said. “And that ‘utility attitude’ eventually spreads to the way we treat the environment, other living creatures, other people, and our own bodies and selves.” As an antidote to pessimism, he urged his audience to read Pope Francis’ “great text,” the apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium,” “The Joy of the Gospel.” The pope “reminds us how vital it is to believe in Christ’s victory and to lift up our hearts,” Archbishop Chaput said. “We need to see the world and its problems as they really are. Otherwise we can accomplish nothing. “But we can’t let the weight of the world crush the joy that’s our birthright by our rebirth in Jesus Christ through baptism,” he said. “If we cling to that joy, if we cling to God, then all things are possible.” Archbishop Chaput continued, “It’s part of our American DNA to want a well-crafted strategic plan to get the church back in the ‘influence game,’” Archbishop Chaput said. “There’s no quick fix for problems we behaved ourselves into, and the culture we have is a culture we helped make with our appetites, distractions and compromises.” When he turned to more specific advice, Archbishop Chaput said he tells young Catholics the most important thing they can do is very basic. “I tell them to love each other, get married, stay faithful to one another, have lots of children, and raise those children to be men and women of Christian character,” he said. “The future belongs to people with children, not with things. Things rust and break. But every child is a universe of possibility that reaches into eternity, connecting our memories and our hopes in a sign of God’s love across the generations. That’s what matters. The soul of a child is forever.” Archbishop Chaput said the “first task of modern life is to unplug, to make room for the conversation that the church has traditionally called prayer.”

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Catholic san francisco | August 17, 2017

Mercy SF: School ‘going back to our roots’ with new learning model’ FROM PAGE 10

coeducational Jesuit schools for almost 15 years and was an adjunct professor of Catholic Studies at De Paul University in Chicago. He said that he is unaware of any other Mercy school that uses a similar model. And though it is a big change, he considers it in many ways an “act of retrieval.” “We are going back to our roots as a Mercy school, back to the innovative techniques that were prevalent 30, 40 years ago at the school using the technology of the day in ways that helped prepare young women for the world that they were entering,” he said. McLarty, a doctoral candidate at the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership, believes Catholic schools can help “future-proof” themselves by becoming more nimble institutions. “I’m sick and tired of seeing Catholic schools close year after year all over the country,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve been asking deeply enough and profoundly enough what it will take to be sustainable into the future and how we can more effectively educate young people.” McLarty said it is a “very Catholic idea” to find inspiration, knowledge, technique and skill outside the world of education that is relevant to education. He borrowed from a very powerful model in the business world – the startup – to develop the new Mercy model. Startups create a “minimally viable product” and get it out there quickly so you can learn what works and what doesn’t, he said. “We want to create a culture at Mercy High that encourages experimentation and rapid iterations so that we can ourselves learn and so that we can model that for our students,” he said. “We’ll need to be just as adaptable or we aren’t going to be around in another 65 years.” McLarty has been out in the Mercy community and beyond talking about Mercy High’s new vision and said “it’s proving to be very effective in all sorts of ways.” Just after Easter, the school received the two largest single financial gifts in its history from separate anonymous donors: one for $600,000 and the other for $1.7 million. The school will translate the gifts into $1.7 million in financial assistance for lowerincome students in the 2017-18 school year.

Social Advocacy Based Learning Mercy High School, San Francisco, associate head of school Dan Meyers provided these examples of Social Advocacy Based Learning projects for the coming school year. Plants vs. Humans: Students study a particular plant in depth and ask, “What if this plant did not exist?” A public presentation requires students to develop advocacy skills around preservation and stewardship of the environment. Building the Kingdom of Heaven: Students will work to answer the question, “What is the kingdom of heaven and how can we build it?” Students design homilies, religious education, RCIA

Restorative Justice

and Sunday school activities to demonstrate that vision. United Nations to the Rescue: Students leverage math skills to analyze a particular nation’s need for aid. Analysis will be translated into visuals for presentations and letters to the U.N. secretary-general in which they advocate for more aid for their assigned country. I Am NonViolence: Students help create a culture of nonviolence

Responsibility

Rehabilitation

SAVE THE DATE

Friday, September 8, 2017 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

A Conference on Re-entry: Best practices, resources and a Call to Action, JOIN US! Our goals:

 Offer formerly incarcerated people and families with incarcerated loved ones the best resources available to support their needs.  Network and build positive relationships among Bay Area advocates and community service providers supporting re-entry services and crime survivors.  Social reintegration panel discussions, opportunities and steps to support people in re-entry and as well as healing for crime survivors.

by learning positive communication strategies and habits and putting into action a habit encouraging nonviolence that can be practiced daily and shared with the school community. Seeing NonProfits: Trigonometry/pre-calculus honors students use math to help the visibility of a local nonprofit organization, partnering with the nonprofit to identify a visual design need and using math software to create a brochure, video, logo and other media.

Reintegration

FREE EVENT

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & LUNCH REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! Please register online at: www.ReEntryAction.org

EVENT CENTER

St. Mary’s Cathedral 1111 Gough St., S.F., California

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Formerly incarcerated youth and adults; families with incarcerated loved ones and Crime Survivors, Non-profit advocates and providers working with incarcerated people; law enforcement professionals, probation and corrections staff; victim services; educational; religious and social institutions; department of justice agencies; health services; housing employment and legal rights.

INVITE OTHERS TO JOIN!

This Re-entry Conference and Resource Fair brings together approximately 250 participants each year. Reentry discussions, opportunities and strengths, help us create new awareness, dialogues and learnings in this field. Make this event even bigger this year and invite others to join!