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Turnout for marriage celebration ‘great sign of hope,’ archbishop says VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Nearly 1,000 married couples and their families attended the first-ever archdiocesan Marriage & Family Celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral Aug. 17. “Your presence is a great sign of hope and vitality in our archdiocese,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone told the families who nearly filled the cathedral for a 9:30 a.m. Mass and attended brief talks in Spanish, Vietnamese and English for about an hour afterward. The event was part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s celebration of the Year of Faith and a renewed emphasis on building up marriage and family life in the archdiocese. “It is true that no family is perfect. All families experience tensions and conflicts to some degree,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily. “But if a family seeks to the serve the Lord, then the Lord will care for them as his children.”
God’s endorsement of marriage and family can be seen in the fact that Jesus, the son of God, placed himself under the authority of human parents, his creations, the archbishop said. “This is the wonder of God’s lovewhen God’s love is shared in a family, even where there are hurts, where there are bumps in the road, nonetheless, the family remains the greatest gift that God has given us after the very gift of his son Jesus Christ,” the archbishop said. He preached the homily in both English and Spanish. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont, parishioner Cheryl Amalu attended along with much of her family: her husband, younger children, married daughter and son-in-law and grandchild. “Our pastor asked us to come and check out what might be useful to our parish family ministry,” Amalu said. Parishes were asked to send parishioners who could return and share ways to nourish family life in the
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Egypt’s crisis deepens Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi shout slogans against the military and interior ministry during a protest in front of Al Istkama mosque in Giza Square, south of Cairo, Aug. 18. Nearly 1,000 people have been killed in violence between Egypt’s security forces and Morsi supporters. Egypt’s Catholic Church published a list of 58 destroyed or damaged Christian churches, as well as a commentary by the country’s leading Jesuit criticizing the West’s characterization of “poor persecuted Muslims.” More coverage on Page 12.
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Civil rights: 50 years post-march, where is nation’s and church’s voice? PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – The news clipping files from early August 1963 are full of articles about Catholic and interfaith organizations encouraging their members to take part in the Aug. 28 civil rights March on Washington. The National Catholic Liturgical Conference, the Archdiocese of New York and the Minnesota Committee on Religion and Race, for instance, urged their members to participate in the massive gathering at which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech about racial harmony. One of the 10 chairmen for the event was the direc-
tor of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice. Some of the prominent photos from that day featured Rev. King sharing the stage with clergy of various faiths. The 50th anniversary of the march this summer comes at a time when unease about race is again in the news, and more for the work that needs to be done than for the progress made over five decades. Since a Florida jury July 13 acquitted white/Hispanic George Zimmerman of murder and manslaughter charges in the death of African-American Trayvon Martin, organized protests around the country have sought to shine a light on the pervasive sense of distrust that African-American
men, in particular, face on a regular basis. In highly personal remarks after the verdict, President Barack Obama, Catholic theologian Father Bryan Massingale, a professor of theology at Marquette University, and Attorney General Eric Holder spoke or wrote about their own experiences of racebased bias. In a July 30 column for HNP Today, newsletter of the Holy Name Province of the Franciscans, Father Paul Williams wrote of recently being carjacked at gunpoint outside a Delaware church by an African-American young man. Though Father Williams is himself African-American, he wrote that he struggled with fear
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when approached soon after the crime by another black young man. “Racial profiling of minorities dehumanizes people who are basically good and law abiding, and instead are seen as criminals or potential criminals,” wrote Father Williams. “It makes a mockery of our belief in blind justice. As an African-American male, I don’t have the luxury of seeing all young black males in such a negative light. I know better.”
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What’s been harder to find amid the Trayvon-related reaction is strong public responses from the Catholic Church, SEE CIVIL RIGHTS, PAGE 25
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NEED TO KNOW ALTAR BOYS NEEDED: Respectful, responsible, and reverent Catholic boys, who have already made their first confession and received their first holy Communion, are invited to become altar servers at the traditional Latin Masses celebrated at Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, at Eighth Avenue. These boys must have completed fourth grade and not yet have begun high school. Permission in writing from their parents or guardians is required. Practices will be arranged to suit the schedules of the boys and Father Mazza, pastor. Printed materials will be provided. Instruction on the holy sacrifice of the Mass will be given. Latin pronunciation lessons will be part of the process. The boys will need to memorize several Latin prayers. Only those willing to serve at daily 7:30 a.m. Masses, Sunday 11a.m. Masses, funerals and weddings, and other special days should apply. Parents should apply for their sons to Father Mark G. Mazza through email frmgm2012@yahoo.com or call the rectory, (415) 751-0450, ext.16. CATHOLIC TV NEWSCASTS TO START: EWTN, the Catholic television channel, is starting a 30-minute Catholic TV news program airing live Monday thru Friday from Washington, D.C. The first newscast is set for Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 3 p.m. Pacific Time, with anchor Colleen Carroll Campbell delivering daily news and commentary from a Catholic perspective. Rebroadcasts: MondayFriday, 6 and 11 p.m. EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast channel 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. Comcast carries EWTN on channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on 74 in southern San Mateo County. SHRINE MUSIC DIRECTOR: Vincent Stadlin is the new music director and composer in residence at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco. He is charged with developing a choir and a consistent musical program for worship and will oversee all musical, theatrical and artistic events at shrine facilities. If you are interested in becoming a member of the shrine choir or have an outside individual or group perform, contact Stadlin at (415) 986-4557 or by email at music@shrinesf.org. Stadlin will begin his ministry during the celebration of the 11 a.m. Mass on Sept. 1, with a reception to follow.
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Mission trip: Young teen girls coach soccer in rural Nicaragua TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Tackling life’s tough stuff has begun early for soon-to-be eighth graders Allison Phillips and Michaella Kumli. The longtime friends have just returned from service as volunteer soccer coaches of indigenous children in Nicaragua. Allison attends St. Stephen School. Michaella is a student at Convent of the Sacred Heart School. Their parents are Kathleen and James Phillips and Sue and Kurt Kumli. Michaella and Allison have been playing soccer since kindergarten and became friends in fourth grade. The sport has been an important part of both their lives. “It just became what we did,” the girls told Catholic San Francisco via an email they composed together. “It gave us something to focus on that was positive. Our team is like a second family because we all get along. So much of soccer is relying on each other.” On the field they play the same positions – midfield, forward, and half back –“but Alli plays on the right and Michaella plays on the left,” they said. “Soccer has taught us teamwork, and sportsmanship,” the girls said. “It also teaches you to ask for help.” Both made it clear with exclamation points that their favorite soccer player is Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan. Michaella and Allison already participate together in school charity programs and food drives as well as coach younger children in their soccer club. The idea for the volunteer coaching trip came from one of their coaches who works with a nonprofit called ViviendasLeon, based in San Francisco and, according to its website, working “to alleviate rural poverty in Nicaragua.” While the Spanish they have learned in school was an assist in communicating, onsite classes in the language and living with people who only spoke Spanish helped more, they said.
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Longtime friends Allison Phillips and Michaella Kumli have just returned from service as volunteer soccer coaches of indigenous children in Nicaragua. They are pictured in the town of Goyena, Nicaragua, where they helped coach from 60 to100 neighborhood children each day over five days. The children they coached numbered from 60 to100 each day and ranged in age from 5 to 15. “We used a mix of Spanish and hand signals,” the girls said. “We learned Spanish soccer vocabulary in class to help us out on the field.” The routine for the eight-day trip was rigorous from rising at 6:45 a.m. to lunch at about 1 p.m. They also participated in agroforestry, an effort to create more sustainable land-use systems. “We had to battle pigs who were trying to eat the plants that we were planting,” they said. Allison and Michaella brought back strong images of living conditions in the town where they volunteered. “In Goyena people live in houses made from sheets of stacked metal and tarps,” they described. “They had dirt floors. Animals were so thin that you could see all their bones.” They saw children playing next to a school by huge fields being sprayed with pesticides. “They didn’t even know that it was bad,” the girls said. Allison and Michaella did not go to Goyena empty-handed. They brought shin guards, cleats, jerseys and soccer balls with them. Allison sent out an email to her class and people responded with bags of donations. Michaella talk-
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Mission possible: Hawaii trip transforms Marin youths LIDIA WASOWICZ PRINGLE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Who says teens can’t find faith to be fundamental, fulfilling and fun? Just ask the newly formed youth group at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley, which recently discovered the rich rewards of religion at an impoverished Hawaiian church. The 20 high school students and six chaperones came home transformed July 1 from a week-long mission at the 115-year-old St. Rita Parish in Nanakuli, Oahu, where the “aloha� spirit spreads freely among the largely destitute native congregation and affluent mainland visitors favoring the off-the-tourist-beaten track. “At first, I believe because of the shyness, the youth from Hawaii and the youth from Mill Valley didn’t mix as well as we hoped, but after a few days they all became very close,� said Father Alapaki Kim, St. Rita pastor. The captivating cross-cultural liturgies, contagious community-building attitudes and compassionate outreach programs sampled by the travelers have left an enduring, spiritually enhancing impression. “The trip affected my relationship with Jesus and my fellow parishioners much more than I thought possible,� said Zach Thomas, 15, of Mill Valley, a junior at Tamalpais High School and member of the Mount Carmel youth ministry since its inception last year. “I was happier to go to church the week after we got back than I had ever been in my life, and I look forward to Sundays.� His newfound appreciation of Mass stirred as he received the ritual welcome hug, kiss, lei and community greeting at St. Rita, strengthened during rites incorporating Hawaiian language, music, culture and Catholic traditions and settled in for good at a candlelit ceremony of washing feet in a show of humility and equality. “As we sang, there was crazy energy in the air,� Thomas said. “I’ve never seen teens so lively about church events.� Whether surfing, canoeing, hiking, feeding the homeless, cooking in the
Youths and chaperones from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Mill Valley, and St. Rita Church in Nanakuli, Oahu, Hawaii, gather at St. Rita during a June mission trip by the Our Lady of Mount Carmel youth group. underground imu or praying, the Mount Carmel adolescents drew inspiration from their hosts’ focus on faith, family and friends. “On the mainland, it’s more about rugged individualism, but over there, it’s all about community,� said Thomas, who maintains contact with his extended “‘ohana,� or family, through social media and already looks forward to the next get-together planned for summer 2014. As does Danielle Tirpack, 17, of Mill Valley, a lifelong Mount Carmel parishioner, recent youth group member and senior at Tamiscal, an independent study school. Having overcome initial fears of being “brainwashed� and immersed in too much religion, which “turns off us teenagers,� she pronounced the Hawaii experience “a perfect balance.� “We had reflection time which brought us all closer (and) a place to analyze our world with God,� said Tirpack, one of seven girls on the immersion tour. “We had a chance to learn and apply new life lessons.� The most moving, meaningful and memorable ones, she said, centered around serving the homeless in the
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The vision of an 11-year-old girl proudly parading in a dress discarded by the donor stayed with Tirpack weeks later as she looked at $200 outfits with her mom. They left the store without making a purchase. “We are delighted that the teens returned with what they said was a life-changing experience,� said Scott Chapman, a longtime supporter of St. Rita who helped chaperone the youth. He and wife Celeste had proposed the destination for the mission with the fourfold purpose of shared spirituality, cultural appreciation, service to the needy and leadership development. “Hopefully, those experiences lead to a greater recognition of Christ’s presence in our own homes and school hallways,� said Jonathan Lewis, former director of religious education at Mount Carmel who had championed greater teen parish involvement before moving to Washington, D.C., earlier this year. The end result was such a success, 40 families already have expressed an interest in next year’s cultural exchange, said youth ministry mentor and chaperone Venessa Dixon, who spearheaded the trip financed by student-led fundraising ranging from car washes and bake sales to bingo and ladies’ nights and a luau in the church parking lot. “I can honestly say this trip forever affected and touched every one of us who went,� she said.
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later was seen in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance.” Today, Frances leads song at St. Cecilia Parish and sings for the extraordinary form Latin Mass at Star of the Sea Parish. She is also available for private engagements and concerts. “In truth, thanks to being launched into a life of music by Riordan high school’s drama department – I really can’t help singing,” Frances said. “Riordan was part of what launched my music and performing vocation. I am grateful and want this marvelous program to continue into the future.” Proceeds from the evening of course benefit the drama program at Riordan led by Valerie O’Riordan who is the touchstone for tickets and more information: voriordan@riordanhs. org; (415) 587-5866; www.riordanhs. org/lucky13.
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Born in Santa Rosa, Cammy Blackstone says she brought her heart to San Francisco. Many of us know Cammy from her 20-year radio and television career at KNBR, KFRC, KTVU Channel 2 and Fox Sports. On Sept. 2, however, she is mainly an Archbishop RiorCammy dan High School Blackstone mom helping out with emcee chores at the “Archbishop Riordan High School Alumni Theater Show.” Cammy’s son is a sophomore at the school. “I have been blessed to have both my boys go to CathoFrances lic schools in San Peterson Francisco,” Cammy, current deputy director of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission, told me. “We love Riordan.” Also on the bill is Hill Street Blues star and 1963 Riordan alum Joe Spano and a parade of entertainers who got their starts on the Riordan stage including soprano Frances Peterson. “Imagine what a thrill it will be for me to be upon the Archbishop Riordan High School stage once again,” Frances told me. Frances grew up in St. Gabriel Parish, attended Presentation High School and later Santa Clara University, San Francisco State, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music ending up with “a degree in opera,” she joked. Her first role at Riordan in 1984 was playing the title role in “Hello, Dolly!” at age 15. “People in the general public thought I was a woman in my 50s,” Frances remembered. She also played the Mrs. Lovett lead in “Sweeney Todd” and
HOUSE SPEAKER: Marin Congressman Jared Huffman made a special visit to St. Anselm School May 2 to speak to students in the fifth and eighth grades. Tom McInerney, parent of eighth grader Joey and with some pull in the political ranks as former mayor of San Anselmo, arranged the event. Congressman Huffman’s district extends from Marin to the Oregon border. Students found out what a congressman’s typical day is like; bipartisan politics; homeland security and terrorism; and how Jared balances the needs of his family with those of his constituents.
FATHER GRAMPS: Father Andrew Johnson celebrated Mass June 22 on a side altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome with his grandsons as altar boys. Father Johnson was in Rome for Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s reception of the pallium from Pope Francis. Jacob Johnson, left and Luke Johnson were in the Eternal City on an altar server pilgrimage from St. Margaret Mary Parish in Oakland. The lads are the sons of Father Johnson’s son Cyrus and his wife, Rebecca. “Being a priest is the greatest gift God can give you,” Father Johnson, ordained in 2004, said. “Being a grandparent is next best thing.” ANNIVERSARY: Jack, Joe and Katie Ravetti surprised their parents, Patty and Joe Ravetti, with a 25th wedding anniversary dinner party July 20. Patty and Joe’s family, their wedding party, and friends from near and far were aboard for the good time. Patty is an alumna of Our Lady of Mercy School and Mercy High School, San Francisco, and Joe is an alumnus of St. Cecilia School and Archbishop Riordan High School. They were married on July 24, 1988 at Our Lady of Angels Church, Burlingame. Pictured from left are Patty, Joey, Jack, Joe and Katie Ravetti.
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Portland-bound Riordan grad looks ‘to help and serve’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Trevor Peralta is burning what you might call an Oregon Trail to the future. Contrary to the route’s history though, the 2013 Archbishop Riordan High School graduate’s exploration begins in the Pacific Northwest at the University of Portland, where he earned a President’s Scholarship. Trevor grew up in San Francisco’s Sunset District and attended St. Gabriel School. Trevor Peralta His parents are Brenda Labutan/Peralta and Alex Peralta. Trevor’s major at University of Portland is political science with a minor in German. He likes to read – especially about history, philosophy and politics – and to take on “any kind of sport that is out there.” “I hope to go on a study abroad program in Austria for my major,” Trevor told Catholic San Francisco via email. He was also accepted to the University of Portland’s Army ROTC program. “Many of my family members have served in the military, and I am open to having a career
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Parish members are invited to the Parish Social Ministry Institute on Sept. 14 as part of the Catholic Charities USA national conference at the the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. The institute is intended for those in parishes who are called to lead congregation-wide parish social ministry initiatives, collaborations, programs or committees. Participants will learn and practice strategies for providing vision and direction to their parish social ministry, engaging parishioners, advancing the ministry and grounding the ministry in faith. Jesuit Father Thomas J. Massaro, dean and professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and Santa Clara University, will give the keynote address on the importance of spiritual development, networking
there,” he said. “I might also use my major to go into public/government service.” Trevor expects to be at home at his new school. “I could see myself being there for the next four years,” he said. “I really appreciated their efforts and interest in me. I am excited to go to the University of Portland and have new experiences.” At Archbishop Riordan, Trevor wrestled and ran cross country. He was president of the Academic Quiz Bowl team and the Amnesty International Social Justice Club, and the communications chairman of student government during his senior year. A Riordan Close Up trip to Washington, D.C., in junior year helped him learn more about the history and government of the United States, and on a New Orleans immersion trip he helped with the ongoing reconstruction of the city and experienced its rich culture and history. His experience at Riordan instilled a deep respect for the school. “I am not sure if a single word can describe my time at Riordan,” Trevor said. “I made a lot of good friends and learned a lot about myself. It is now a completed chapter in my life story. I learned something from every teacher, lessons both inside and outside of the classroom. A student must be willing to learn. I want to thank all my teachers for what they
and skill development in parish social ministry and will ground participants in Catholic teaching. Susan Stevenot Sullivan, associate director for education and outreach in the U.S. bishops’ Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, will lead a session on two distinct but complementary ways of putting the Gospel into action: social justice, addressing root causes of problems; and charitable works, addressing immediate needs. The institute is open to the public, and tickets are still available. The rest of the conference is also open. Visit http://2013annualgathering. catholiccharitiesusa.org. For the institute, there is an optional 7:30 a.m. Mass followed by breakfast before the program begins at 9. Registration is $95, lunch included.
taught me; all of them were inspirational and good role models in their own way.” “My Catholic faith has taught me a lot and has no doubt shaped who I am as a person,” he said, noting its lesson to be “thankful for everything in my life, even the smallest aspects.” “I learned that there are things greater than me in this world, and because of that I shouldn’t be focused so much on myself,” Trevor said. He looks to push himself “to help and serve others” and “not to judge others based on what they think or do, what they look like, or their spiritual beliefs.” Trevor is fueled for the days ahead. “I feel prepared to start making my way in this world,” Trevor said. “I believe we should all strive to be the person this world needs, not one that it creates.” Trevor is aware that day to day the world is in crisis. The struggle between “mindfulness and mindlessness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness,” has his attention. “This struggle is the one that affects us the most, but can also be decided by the smallest actions, such as when eating dinner, you can either ask your family how their day was or play ‘Angry Birds’ on your iPhone. In the end, the choice is in your hands.”
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 23, 2013
CSF creates Content & Community role RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Christina M. Gray has joined the staff of Catholic San Francisco in the newly created position of Content & Community Development, with a split role between the print and digital operations of the CSF media group. As part of the paper’s newly formed Local Content Team, Gray is assigned, among other responsibilities, to cover parishes, including K-8 schools, in Marin and San Francisco Christina M. Gray counties; the diaconate; and faith in action in the diverse social justice, charitable and mission activities of the apostolic church, including archdiocesan ministries, parishes, religious communities and apostolates in our 500,000-strong, three-county ecclesial communion. Gray, a Los Angeles native, is a longtime resident of Nicasio and a parishioner at Old St. Mary in that rural Marin County community. She has spent more than 20 years as a marketing communications professional in the Bay Area helping to extend the reach and influence of companies, organizations and individuals through effective brand management.
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A screenshot of the mobile version of the paper’s eEdition, scheduled to launch in the fall. “I feel blessed to be able to bring the skills I have used in the corporate world into service for the Catholic Church,” said Gray. “Between the inspiring leadership of our new pope and the digital tools now available to us to share our faith, it’s an especially exciting time to join a communications ministry.” Gray’s print responsibilities include developing two new editorial-advertising products for annual or biannual publication: Faith in Action, focusing on social justice, charitable and mission activities of the local church; and Care for Creation, focusing on local angles on Pope Francis’ vision of the environment and human development. Gray, who has extensive experience developing the design, content and marketing strategy for organizational publications, websites, and social media programs, will help coordinate the editorial, design, marketing and business activities in the CSF media group’s digital initiative.
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To expand the paper’s evangelizing mission into the digital arena, the group is partnering with Olive Software of Aurora, Colo., to produce a digital replica of the Catholic San Francisco print edition; a digital version of the archdiocesan directory, updated three times a year; and a high-quality archive of CSF content since the paper’s launch in 1999. The replica, with versions for desktop, mobile and iPad, is scheduled to launch Sept. 10 and will include a regularly updated selection of local, national and world Web content at the same location. It will be offered to all users at no cost. New local content that reflects, inspires and nourishes the Catholic community is the crucial ingredient in the digital initiative. Gray is assigned to play a key role in developing content both for readers who have a relationship with the print paper and for those who get their news and information mainly on screen – an ever-widening majority of younger Catholics. The effort will require a commitment to audience involvement at every stage, from surveying readers to determine the content they find valuable, to policies for publishing user-generated content to managing comments on stories. The Olive Software products are efforts to bridge the CSF media group’s print and digital operations. Gray is also assigned to a long-term effort to develop a digital-only publication entirely separate from any print model. This publication will position our Catholic content entirely in the digital stream, with a focus on video, conversation and community and continually updated, shareable news and information. The official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the flagship of the CSF media group, Catholic San Francisco is charged with sharing in the mission of spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ through credible reporting, a regular publication schedule and home delivery to all registered parish members. The paper’s professional staff covers all aspects of the apostolic church – public celebrations, the sacraments, teaching, witness and charity – fostering communion, integrating toward unity and giving voice to Catholic thinking on all ethical and social questions. In addition to Catholic San Francisco, the CSF media group includes the paper’s website, catholicsf.org; the three Olive Software publications under development; the archdiocesan directory; and San Francisco Católico, a newspaper distributed biweekly to churches with Spanish Masses.
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STATE HIGH COURT DENIES PROP. 8 CLAIM
The California Supreme Court refused to take up a claim by Proposition 8 proponents that the amendment remains valid under the state Constitution. The move effectively ended the legal fight over same-sex marriage in the state, but one Prop. 8 proponent said it “does not end the debate about marriage in California.” The ruling Aug. 14 rejected a petition by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the official proponents of Prop. 8 asking the California Supreme Court to order the state’s county clerks to enforce the state’s marriage amendment. The argument maintained that the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26 decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry did not rule on Prop. 8’s constitutionality, and that the 2010 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in that case does not apply statewide. “Elected officials should enforce the law,” Alliance for Freedom senior counsel Austin Nimmocks said in a statement on the organization’s website. “Though the current California officials are unwilling to enforce the state Constitution, we remain hopeful that one day Californians will elect officials who will. It is unfortunate that the California Supreme Court chose not to decide the important, still-unresolved questions about the enforcement of Proposition 8, the law of the land in California. Regrettably, an executive branch that has turned a blind eye to the enforcement of its state’s Constitution has silenced more than 7 million Californians who clearly expressed their views about marriage. The court’s decision today, however, does not end the debate about marriage in California.”
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Gov. Brown vetoes bill to pay women to sell eggs for research VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation to allow women to sell their eggs for medical research, saying in his veto message that “not everything in life is for sale nor should it be.” The bill, AB 926, was sponsored by the fertility industry’s American Society for Reproductive Medicine and opposed by a broad coalition of pro-life and pro-choice organizations, including The Center for Genetics and Society and the California Catholic Conference. It easily passed both houses of the California legislature and Brown had been expected by many to sign the legislation. California allows women to sell their eggs for reproduction but not for medical research. Women can earn from $9,000 to $50,000 for donating eggs, according to state senate legislative analysis attached to AB926. Payments can go as high as $100,000, according to The Center for Bioethics and Culture which has campaigned against egg donation for more than a decade. In his Aug. 13 veto letter, Brown cited the unknown health risks of the invasive procedure used to extract oocytes from a woman’s ovaries. Women are allowed to sell their eggs for reproductive uses in California but six years ago the California legislature barred compensation for the sale of eggs for research. Researchers funded by Prop. 71’s California stemcell research institute also may not pay for eggs for research. “The questions raised here are not simple; they touch matters that are both personal and philosophical,” Brown said. “In medical procedures of this kind, genuinely informed consent is difficult because the long-term risks are not adequately known. Putting thousands of dollars on the table only compounds the problem,” Brown wrote. “We at the CBC are thrilled with the governor’s veto of AB 926,” said The Center of Bioethics and Culture President Jennifer Lahl. The CBC produced a 2011 film, “Eggsploitation,” documenting severe
‘In medical procedures of this kind, genuinely informed consent is difficult because the long-term risks are not adequately known. Gov. Jerry Brown Putting thousands of dollars on the table only compounds the problem.’ health consequences of paid egg donation. In the bill analysis, opponents noted the lack of research into the effects on women who donated eggs citing overstimulation of the ovaries by the use of synthetic hormones, resulting in loss of fertility, cancer and even death. “The governor heard our concerns about the health and well-being of women, and demonstrated leadership in protecting women in California,” Lahl said. California Catholic Conference executive director Ned Dolejsi praised Brown’s veto and said, “We agree with the governor’s wise analysis that ‘in medical procedures of this kind, genuinely informed consent is difficult.’” He said the conference opposed the bill “because it would have put women’s health in jeopardy and would have created a marketing dynamic designed to exploit women who are most in need of resources – college students, immigrants and women with economic challenges.” Bill sponsor Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, DConcord, argued that repealing the ban on paid egg donation was just giving women equal access with men to compensation as research subjects. In addition, proponents said the lack of available eggs is hindering embryonic stem-cell research because it requires women’s eggs to artificially create embryos in the lab. Massachusetts and South Dakota also bar compensation for egg donation, according to Bonilla.
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Effect of ‘nones’ on US, social, religious fabric debated MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – While there is a growing sense that more Americans profess no religious preference than in past generations, researchers are still trying to judge for themselves the meaning behind the numbers their research has generated. Even the title of a study unveiled Aug. 8 during a luncheon forum at the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project – “American’s Weakening Ties to Organized Religion, 1973-2012: Generations & Politics” – could itself be open to debate. The study’s authors, sociology professors, Michael Hout of New York University and Claude S. Fischer of the University of California-Berkeley, said their research suggests that older Americans are dying off, they are being replaced in the population by younger Americans who are not as religious. This demographic trend, they said, accounts for about 60 percent of the increase of “nones” – those who described themselves as atheists, agnostics, or have no particular religious preference – in the U.S. population, which they set at 20 percent of all Americans. Much of the other 40 percent, they added, can be traced to the rise of the “religious right” and its political stands on social issues, leading many Americans to say, according to Fischer, “If that’s what religion means, count me out.” But Gallup Organization editor-in-chief Frank Newport, another panelist at the Pew luncheon, said the numbers may mean that nones are “freer” than in past years to disclose their attitude toward religion. The Hout-Fischer study revealed that more than half – 51 percent – of the nones say they pray at least once a month. On the other hand, only10 percent say that are looking for a religion that is right for them. But it is not as if nones have traded organized religion for some other faith system. The highest percentage for any kind of replacement cited was 30 percent, and that took in such varied concepts as yoga-as-religion, “spiritual energy,” reincarnation, and belief in some kind of “evil eye.” Panelist Greg Smith, the director of Pew’s religion surveys, noted the rate of religious affiliation has historically had peaks and valleys depending on one’s age group, with affiliation bottoming out once grown children are on their own for the first time, with spikes for the marriage and child-baptismal years. The affiliation numbers slide downward again until age 50 or so, then slowly climb as people age. But with 76 million baby boomers – the genera-
tion that first found it comfortable to express no religious identification – joining the ranks of senior citizens, “we might see a reversal of these trends” if they follow the patterns set by their forebears, Smith said. The impact on Catholics and Catholicism is equally unclear, given the number supplied in the Hout-Fischer study. Those who identified themselves as Protestants since 1973 have dropped from 62 percent to 50 per-
cent. The dip among Catholics is much less, from 27 percent to 24 percent. But, Hout said, the current numbers should be much bigger. “The Catholics are in much more trouble,” he said. Based on birth rates, “by all rights, onethird of all Americans should be Catholics right now,” Hout added, saying the Catholic Church is losing members both to evangelical Protestant faiths and to the nones.
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Nuns’ group leaders say they hope for continued dialogue with Vatican CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ORLANDO, Fla.– Members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious announced Aug. 19 at the close of their assembly and national board meeting in Orlando that they were pleased with dialogue they had with the church official appointed to oversee their organization as part of a Vatican assessment and hoped for “continued conversations of this depth.” During the Aug. 13-16 annual gathering at the Caribe Royal Hotel and Convention Center in Orlando and a three-day national board meeting afterward, women religious met with Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, appointed by the Vatican doctrinal congregation last year to oversee a reform of LCWR. Last April, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said a reform of LCWR was needed to ensure its fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality. In a statement released Aug. 19, the sisters said the discussion with the archbishop gave them “hope that continued conversations of this depth will lead to a resolution of this situation that maintains the integrity of LCWR and is healthy for the whole church.” Archbishop Sartain addressed the assembly of 825 participants Aug. 13. He spent time during the gathering “to meet members, experience firsthand the conference’s annual gathering, and hear the members’ concerns about the doctrinal assessment finds and plan for reform,” the LCWR statement said. LCWR officers held three executive
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Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio, a former professor of spirituality who is a research fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, delivers the keynote address Aug. 14 during the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly in Kissimmee, Fla. sessions during which they shared with one another their impressions of the meetings that have already taken place between them and Archbishop Sartain, as well as the two bishops appointed as his assistants, Bishops Leonard P. Blair of Toledo, Ohio, and Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill. At the other executive sessions, they heard members’ response to Archbishop Sartain’s remarks to the assembly and also heard the direction members gave to LCWR for “next steps in working with the three bishop delegates.”
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Finally, LCWR invited Archbishop Sartain to a two-hour session with the organization’s 21 board members at the beginning of their national board meeting immediately following the assembly. LCWR said in its statement that the “session with Archbishop Sartain allowed a profound and honest sharing of views.” It noted that because of time limitations during the assembly, the archbishop did not have the time to answer many of the members’ questions.
“Clearly, however, he had been listening intently and heard the concerns voiced by the members, and their desire for more information. The extraordinarily rich and deeply reverent conversation during the board meeting gave us a greater understanding of Archbishop Sartain and we believe he now also better understands us.” The statement also noted that the LCWR leaders are uncertain about how their “work with the bishop delegates will proceed.” LCWR, which representing the majority of 57,000 religious sisters in the U.S, is granted canonical status by the Vatican. In interviews with Catholic News Service after the assembly, LCWR members said they valued the chance to discern what was being asked of them as they considered their way forward. Sister Catherine Bertrand, a School Sister of Notre Dame from St. Paul, Minn., said the value of the gatherings “flows out of the contemplative process” that begins at the regional gatherings. “It’s more about reflection, deep conversation moving toward action,” she said. Sister Mary Jo Nelson, a member of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters from Fort Wayne, Ind., said a key part of the gathering was “the deep listening in the sharing process at the tables trying to distill wisdom and insight in a group.” “The bottom line is that this is about discernment ... and something bigger than ourselves,” said Sister Bertrand.
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Pope to athletes: ‘Before being champions, you are men’ CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – With admiration and big smiles all around, the lifelong soccer fan Pope Francis met the star players and coaches of the Argentine and Italian national soccer teams hoping to compete for the World Cup in 2014. The teams were led to the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace Aug. 13 by Argentine captain Lionel Messi, a forward currently playing for FC Barcelona, and Italian captain Gianluigi Buffon, a goalie currently playing for Juventus FC. The two teams were in Rome to play a “friendly” match in the pope’s honor Aug. 14; the game has no bearing on the process of qualifying for the World Cup tournament. Pope Francis said he was relieved it was friendly, but it would still be difficult to know for whom to cheer. Claudio Cesare Prandelli, the Italian coach, said he was about to ask the pope if he would attend the match, but Pope Francis anticipated the question and told him that the Vatican security already considers him “undisciplined,” leaving the impression that it would be asking too much to have them arrange a trip to Rome’s Olympic Stadium. In a brief speech to the players, coaches and referees, Pope Francis encouraged everyone involved with professional soccer to maintain the spirit and passion of it being a game, a team sport. “Even if the team wins” the game, he said, without beauty, graciousness and team work, both the team and the fans lose. “Before being champions, you are men, human beings with your talents and your defects, heart and ideas, aspirations and problems,” Pope
Francis said. “Even if you are stars, remain men both in your sport and in your life.” He asked the players to take responsibility for the fact that for millions of people, young and old, they are heroes and role models. “Be aware of this and set an example of loyalty, respect and altruism,” he said. “I have confidence in all the good you can do among the young.” The pope, who follows soccer, knows that in Europe the game has been plagued by incidents of players and fans making racist comments about players from Africa. He told the players they must be models of inclusion, working to “permanently eliminate the danger of discrimination.” When teams are committed to good sportsmanship, he said, everyone in the stadium grows, “violence disappears” and “you’ll start seeing families in the stands again.” Pope Francis also asked the players to pray for him, “so that I too, on the ‘field’ where God has put me, can play an honest and courageous game for the good of all.” Buffon, who gave the pope a ball signed by all the Italian players, was asked if he thought meeting the pope might spur the miracle needed to ensure that Italy and Argentina make it to the World Cup finals. “Our job is to work hard to make sure we’re in the finals,” he said. “If Pope Francis does miracles, I think they’d be for more important things.” Buffon said the pope asking for the players’ prayers was another sign of his “humility and humanity.” “With a pope like this, it’s easier to be better,” he said. “He shows us the way, he warms hearts, he moves people’s souls” in a way that all the good they’ve talked about doing they would actually start trying to live.
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Bishop: Food scarce as strife drives Egyptians indoors CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – A Catholic bishop in Luxor, about 400 miles south of Cairo, said Muslims and Christians are afraid to leave their homes; because the shops are closed and no one is venturing outside, many are running out of food. Coptic Catholic Bishop Youhannes Zakaria of Luxor told Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, “I’m crying for all these simple people – Muslims and Christians – who live in the villages nearby and don’t have anything because their food supplies are running out and people are afraid to leave their homes.” “Even those who are well off can’t buy food because all the shops are closed,” he told Fides Aug. 20. “I’d like to go help them myself, but I can’t because I’m also forced to stay inside.” After Egyptian police and the military broke up camps of demonstrators protesting the ouster of President Moham-
The Muslim Brotherhood is going after Christians because ‘they think Christians are the cause of Morsi’s fall.’ COPTIC CATHOLIC BISHOP YOUHANNES ZAKARIA med Morsi, more demonstrations took place Aug. 16, including in Luxor. “After being chased from the center of Luxor, the pro-Morsi demonstrators arrived under my residence shouting, ‘Death to the Christians.’ Fortunately, the police arrived in time to save us. Now the police and the army have two armored vehicles parked here,” Bishop Zakaria said. While the death and destruction in Luxor hasn’t been as bad as in other parts of Egypt, the bishop said the homes of some Christians have been burned and it seems prudent for people not to go out if possible. “For security reasons,” he said, they have canceled the Aug. 22 celebrations of the Dormition of Mary, the Eastern
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equivalent of the feast of the Assumption. The bishop said the Muslim Brotherhood is going after Christians because “they think Christians are the cause of Morsi’s fall. It’s true that Christians participated in the demonstrations against Morsi, but 30 million Egyptians – most of them Muslims – took to the streets against the deposed president,” he said. “By attacking Christians, they want to throw Egypt into chaos,” Bishop Zakaria said. Father Fady Saady, a Coptic Catholic priest in the province of Luxor, said his church had suspended nighttime activities, including games for children and youth meetings, due to the newly imposed 7 p.m. curfew. He said Mass for the Dormition of Mary would be at 5 p.m., instead of the usual 8:30 or 9 p.m. “There is still a state of nervousness and thoughts that more difficulties lie ahead,” Father Saady told CNS by cellphone from his parish in the city of Naqada Aug. 20. He said Naqada had “so far” been spared the attacks seen on Christian churches, schools and homes elsewhere throughout Egypt. He said the latest attacks on Christians were worse than those that occurred throughout the 1990s “because (the Muslim Brother-
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Crusader-era hospital in Jerusalem restored JUDITH SUDILOVSKY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists have restored part of a 2,000-bed Crusader-era hospital run by the St. John of the Hospital order in the Old City of Jerusalem. Dating to the 11th century, the ancient structure was operated by members of the order, dedicated to St. John the Baptist and also known as the Knights Hospitallers, precursors to the Romebased Knights of Malta. The Hospitallers treated pilgrims of all faiths making their way to Jerusalem, according to historical documents. Written mainly in Latin, the documents helped archaeologists piece together the history of the building, which more recently, until about 13 years ago, had been used as a fruit and vegetable market in the Christian Quarter. For more than a decade, the site had been left locked and unused until the Waqf Islamic Trust, the building’s owner, decided to move forward with construction of a restaurant there. As with all new construction in Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority was called in to carry out a salvage excavation prior to the work. Located near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, the structure had been known to archaeologists mainly because of the mapping of Crusader remains in the area in the 19th century, said Amit Re’em, excavation co-director for the antiquities authority. “This was where the members of the St. John of the Hospital order lived.
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Israeli archaeologists have restored a 2,000bed Crusader-era hospital in the Old City of Jerusalem. This is where it started. This was the first place where they used an ambulatory service to bring in sick and wounded people to the hospital. They had riders on camels and horses,” Re’em said. Archaeologists found bones of camels and horses and a large amount of metal used in shoeing the animals during the excavation, but Re’em said he was unable to date the artifacts to either the Crusader era or to the later Byzantine era when part of the structure was used as a stable. The building collapsed in an earthquake in 1457 and remained buried throughout the Ottoman period.
The excavation gave archaeologists the opportunity to clean the exposed section of the building, ridding it of garbage that had accumulated. Workers scraped away layers of paint and plaster on the walls, exposing the original walls for the first time in perhaps centuries, he said. Overall, the entire building covers about 3.7 acres, Re’em said. Its great hall consists of massive pillars, smaller halls, rooms and ribbed vaults and stands more than 20 feet tall. Crusader-era accounts describe the hospital as being comprised of various wings and departments where patients were sent for treatment according to the nature of their illness and condition, much like a modern-day hospital. Re’em said. In an emergency the hospital could accommodate 2,000 patients. The hospital also functioned as an orphanage for abandoned newborns. Despite the Hospitallers’ seeming efficiency, their knowledge of medicine and sanitation was poor and the Arab Muslim population was instrumental in teaching them medical practices, he said.
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WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Millions of workers are being denied the honor and respect they deserve because of a lack of jobs, underemployment, low wages and exploitation, according to the bishop who heads the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Earlier this year, Pope Francis pointed out, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. ... It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family, to contribute to the growth of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own nation,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, in the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; annual Labor Day statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, millions of workers today are denied this honor and respect as a result of unemployment, underemployment, unjust wages, wage theft, abuse and exploitation,â&#x20AC;? Bishop Blaire said. The 1,200-word statement, dated Labor Day, Sept. 2, was available Aug. 6 on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops website, www.usccb.org. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The economy is not creating an adequate number of jobs that allow workers to provide for themselves and their families,â&#x20AC;? Bishop Blaire said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More than 4 million people have been jobless for over six months, and that does not include the millions more who have simply lost hope. For every available job, there are often five unemployed and underemployed people actively vying for it. This jobs gap pushes wages down. Half of the jobs in this country pay less than $27,000 per year. More than 46 million people live in poverty, including 16 million children.â&#x20AC;? In his message, Bishop Blaire quoted from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gaudium et Spesâ&#x20AC;? (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World), one of the more influential documents of the Second Vatican Council: â&#x20AC;&#x153;While an immense number of people
In a Labor Day column, Father Clete Kiley revisits Pope Pius XIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (1922-39) critique of economic theories he felt were driving an income gap between rich and poor. Read it at the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blog at http://usccbmedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/labor-dayreflection-income-inequality.html.
still lack the absolute necessities of life, some, even in less advanced areas, live in luxury or squander wealth.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;How can it be said that persons honor one another when such â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;extravagance and wretchedness exist side by sideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;?â&#x20AC;? he asked. Those words, Bishop Blaire noted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;seem to be just as true today.â&#x20AC;? Bishop Blaire also quoted from Pope Benedict XVIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2009 encyclical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Caritas in Veritate,â&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Charity in Truthâ&#x20AC;?), which also dealt in part with the specter of inequality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dignity of the individual and the demands of justice require, particularly today, that economic choices do not cause disparities in wealth to increase in an excessive and morally unacceptable manner,â&#x20AC;? Pope Benedict said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and that we continue to prioritize the goal of access to steady employment for everyone.â&#x20AC;? Bishop Blaire spoke of the importance of unions in his statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since the end of the Civil War, unions have been an important part of our economy because they provide protections for workers and more importantly a way for workers to participate in company decisions that affect them. Catholic teaching has consistently affirmed the right of
workers to choose to form a union. The rise in income inequality has mirrored a decline in union membership,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unions, like all human institutions, are imperfect, and they must continue to reform themselves so they stay focused on the important issues of living wages and appropriate benefits, raising the minimum wage, stopping wage theft, standing up for safe and healthy working conditions, and other issues that promote the common good.â&#x20AC;? The bishop also spoke about how workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; issues are tied to other issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;High unemployment and underemployment are connected to the rise in income inequality,â&#x20AC;? he said. Such inequality leads to an erosion of social cohesion, he said, and puts democracy at risk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pain of the poor and those becoming poor in the rising economic inequality of our society is mounting,â&#x20AC;? Bishop Blaire added. At its best, private enterprise creates â&#x20AC;&#x153;decent jobs,â&#x20AC;? contributes to the common good and puts people ahead of profits, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whenever possible we should support businesses and enterprises that protect human life and dignity, pay just wages and protect workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights,â&#x20AC;? Bishop Blaire added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should support immigration policies that bring immigrant workers out of the shadows to a legal status and offer them a just and fair path to citizenship, so that their human rights are protected and the wages for all workers rise.â&#x20AC;? At the end of the Mass, the congregation is sent forth to â&#x20AC;&#x153;go and announce the Gospel of the Lord,â&#x20AC;? he noted, and everyone departs with â&#x20AC;&#x153;a sense of mission to show one another honor by what we do and say.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;On this Labor Day, our mission takes us to the millions of people who continue to suffer the effects of the current economy,â&#x20AC;? he said.
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Millennials suffer high rate of unemployment LYNN LECLUYSE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – Emily Rolla, a 22-year-old graduate of the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, recently accepted a retail job at Target after trying unsuccessfully since December to get a job in her field of study. A double major in communication arts and German, Rolla has applied for jobs ranging from public relations, social media management and writing to teaching German. “I have had multiple second interviews but have always been passed over due to ‘lack of experience,’” she told Catholic News Service. Rolla is among the group of Americans ages 18 to 31 who are struggling to obtain jobs more than any other age group. Chuck Underwood, founder and principal of management at a consulting firm called the Generational Imperative Inc., said that for this “millennial generation,” the unemployment rate reached 18 percent during the height of the “Great Recession,” as compared to 9 percent for the nation as a whole. The recession lasted from December 2007 to about June 2009. “Many older, and more experienced, Gen-Xers and baby boomers lost their jobs and took lowerposition, lower-paying jobs that normally would have gone to entry-level millennials,” Underwood told CNS in a statement. “Employers, understandably, welcomed the Xers and boomers because their businesses were also fighting for their lives during the recession.”
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Founder and principal, Generational Imperative Inc. of the millennial generation were living in their parents’ home. This is the highest number in at least four decades, the study shows. In 2012, 63 percent of 18- to 31-year-olds had jobs, down from the 70 percent of their counterparts who had jobs in 2007. Demos, a New York-based public policy and advocacy group found that the U.S. economy will have to create more than 4 million jobs before young adults will be employed at levels similar to those before the recession. According to Underwood, millennials have gotten off to a very shaky start with employers and are the worst job-hopping generation in U.S. history. He said that the average 26-year-old millennial has already had seven employers. “Not only that, but employers consistently say that millennials enter their workforces with flawed senses of entitlement, unrealistic expecta-
tions about pay, position, and promotions, and demand flextime and instant vacation time, show up late for work, refuse to take ownership of their assignment and career, and don’t demonstrate the necessary independence and self-reliance that prior generations did demonstrate at that same age,” he said. Millennials are not just in competition with older generations – they also are in competition with one another. “After multiple years of a tough job market, the most recent graduating college classes may find that they are in competition for the same position with graduates from previous years,” said Anthony Chiappetta, director of the Office of Career Services at The Catholic University of America.
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said that planning ahead and acquiring business skills such as strong writing and public speaking capabilities is key for the millennial generation in today’s competitive job market. “I don’t think students understand that they have to start preparing to go to work when they reach the college campus as a freshman,” McHie told CNS. He also mentioned the importance of students being prepared for job interviews, something he said is often neglected. “Dress, eye contact, being on time, knowledge of the company and interviewer, passion about the job, turning off cellphone,” McHie said. “A good interview takes significant thought and preparation.” Laura Caporaletti, 21, will be in the Catholic University’s master’s program in business analysis next year. She believes the best way to land a job is through obtaining connections and networking. Caporaletti, who works at a law firm as a legal assistant, said her employment was based solely on the fact that her aunt is one of the attorneys at the firm. “I think it’s really difficult to find
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a job these days without some type of personal connection,” Caporaletti said. She also said part of the employment struggle for millennials could be based on the fact that so many qualified people are applying for so few available positions. “Neither one of my parents went to college, but now it’s the norm,” Caporaletti said. “We’re all intelligent, driven and ambitious, and it’s hard because a lot of (millennials) look the same on paper.” Some economists argue that minimum wage hikes play a major role in the shortage of job positions because they cause businesses to hire fewer workers or reduce the number of current employees.
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Worse off than millennials in general are black or Latino young adults, a phenomenon connected by some economists, such as Milton Friedman, to minimum wage. Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, argued that “the minimum wage law is most properly described as a law saying that employers must discriminate against workers who SEE MILLENNIALS, PAGE 17
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have low skills.” Numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that black young adults ages 16 to 24 had an unemployment rate of 28.2 percent in May, up from 24.9 percent in April. Robert Murphy, an associate professor for economics at Jesuit-run Boston College said minimum wage is relatively unimportant when looking at the bigger picture. Murphy said that level of education plays a more significant role in unemployment rates. He explained that recent statistics show unemployment rates for those with a high school education twice as high than those with a college education. He also attributed unemployment to a lack in demand and spending in today’s economy.
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With high rates of the nation’s minority youth unemployed, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Congressman Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., announced legislation in April aimed at increasing employment among at-risk youth. Called the Urban Jobs Act of 2013, the measure would provide federal funding to nonprofit organizations to carry out programming to prepare youth for employment. The bill was
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75 years after minimum wage set, workers still struggle ZOEY DI MAURO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – Seventy-five years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law a national minimum wage, many workers still struggle to support themselves and their families living at or slightly above that pay. “Jobs that are paid minimum wage take a lot of physical effort. You’re on your feet; you’re moving and working quickly. Imagine working that hard and not feeling like you can provide for yourself and your family – it is incredibly demoralizing,” said Judy Conti, an activist with National Employment Law Project. The current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour; had the minimum wage kept pace with inflation it would be at $10.74 per hour. Additionally, minimum wage for tipped workers hasn’t been raised in more than 20 years and remains at $2.13 an hour. Chanting “we can’t survive on 7-25,” many fast-food workers have organized walkouts in cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and New York City. The movement in Chicago called “Fight for 15” held protests Aug. 1 and has encouraged others in the city and around America to fight for living wages. “God bless these people,” said Conti. “They’ve got nothing to lose.” While
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Fast-food workers and their supporters rally in front of a McDonald’s restaurant in New York’s Union Square as they demand higher wages July 29. “We can’t survive on 7-25!” was one of the slogans chanted by the protesters, a reference to New York state’s minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. she believes the federal minimum wage should be increased, she also champions the workers for dealing with the problem directly. To her, raising low wages makes sense economically: “The more people you squeeze out of the middle class, the more no one has the money to buy
your products. Good wages is a virtuous cycle; it fuels an economy that works.” According to a poll by Rasmussen Reports, 61 percent of Americans favor raising the minimum wage to $10.10, the amount the Fair Wage Bill of 2013 proposes. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.,
has introduced the bill, which would change the tipped wage to $3 an hour, gradually raise the minimum wage to $10.10 and thereafter leave the future of minimum wage rate up to Department of Labor. The bill has not yet left committee. Kali Radke, 31, works part time at $8.25 an hour, a dollar above the federal minimum wage, while going to school for nursing. While she had been living in a shelter, she and her 9-year-old daughter now live in transitional housing in Fort Meade, Md. Because of the scarcity of full-time minimum wage jobs, many people she knows work multiple part-time jobs to support themselves. Even then, it’s easy to be let go if something like a child’s sickness prevents them from coming into work. “It’s an employers’ market,” Radke told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview. Though she hopes to get a managerial position, and eventually a job in nursing, she realizes that not everyone has opportunities for a career change. “Some people can’t go to school, but if you’re willing to put in 40 hours a week, you should be able to afford a crappy apartment and it’s just not possible.” Almost half of minimum wage SEE STRUGGLE, PAGE 19
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workers, 47 percent, are full-time employees over the age of 20. Twenty-four percent are parents, and more than a third are minorities, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank based in Washington. With an increase in the minimum wage “things would still be tight, but at least I’d be able to put a roof over our heads,” said Radke. Church teaching has long supported just wages and fair treatment of employees. For example, Pope Leo XIII issued his encyclical “Rerum Novarum” (1891) to address the difficulties faced by the working class in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. “Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner,” he wrote. Catholics also have been involved in furthering a just wage in America. “Msgr. John A. Ryan wrote one of the first pieces on (state minimum wage law),” said Michael Naughton from the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought, part of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. “There was a grave concern for people to be able to achieve their needs with the wages that they make.” Brian Engelland, an economics professor at The Catholic University of America, fears that increasing the federal minimum wage may not be beneficial to the overall economy: “It’s rough and inexact when it’s done on a national basis because there’s such a great difference between costs of living between, say, Mississippi and D.C. Fair wages should be done more on a regional basis.”
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However, he believes that local government as well as employees, employers, consumers and investors should actively promote and bargain for just wages that are realistic for their individual companies. “Because of the way we were created, we like to work and we’ll work whether we’re paid or not,” he said. “Consequently, humans do not do a good job in negotiations. We’ve gotta tip the scales toward human dignity so that the individual worker doesn’t get the short end of the stick.” “It wouldn’t be a bad idea” to have minimum wage laws legislated at a local level, “but the federal minimum should keep pace,” said Charlie Clark from St. John’s University in the New York borough of Queens. The majority of minimum wage employers, corporations like Wal-Mart, Target and McDonald’s, can afford a wage hike, according to the National Employment Law Project. Two-thirds of those employing minimum wage workers are not momand-pop stores, but large corporations with more than 100 employees. Seventy-eight percent have been profitable every year for the past three years, and 63 percent of these companies are earning higher profits now than before the recession. Much of that money is benefiting the higher-ups. “If you look at the data of labor productivity until the mid-1970s, wages went up with productivity,” said Clark. “Productivity increases now go to owners.” Still, debate on a higher minimum wage based on differing economic theories has prevented passage of any measure to raise it. Clark told CNS that for
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Portland archbishop confirms migrant workers ROCIO RIOS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
GRESHAM, Ore. – They come to Oregon’s fields with hope and faith. Each night, St. Anne Parish’s pastoral associate Corina Carsner visits a community of itinerant workers who come from California and other agricultural areas to pick crops during harvest season. She invites the workers and their families to participate in formation classes, which she leads at the camps. Many of the migrant workers gathered Aug. 5 for a confirmation Mass celebrated by Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample. The service was held at the Townsend Farm labor camp, where hundreds of people live during Oregon’s growing season. “This has been a great opportunity to bring this community closer together and closer to the church,” said Father Jose Luis Gonzalez, St. Anne’s pastor. “I wish they could come to the parish, but they work very hard and stay here, so we come to them.” Approximately 40 people were confirmed at the Mass, which provided a special break from grueling work schedules. Many of the residents work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, while bunking with eight or nine others in mobile homes. Volunteers from St. Anne helped set up the special Mass, celebrated under the canopy of an enormous horse chestnut tree. At the start of the Mass, migrant workers entered the ceremony space in a silent procession, with candidates in white. Their hands, which spend so many hours toiling in the fields, carried white Bibles, rosaries and candles. Archbishop Sample, who was installed in the archdiocese in April, has been a fast study of the second-most predominant language in his new home. He celebrated the entire Mass in Spanish. He started his homily by saying, “I’m sorry, I don’t speak Spanish. Patience please,” but the faithful who gathered under the tents understood his message that the Holy Spirit and their faith would give them the strength they need, especially during hard times. St. Anne’s parochial vicar, Father David Shaw, concelebrated the Mass with the archbishop and
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Migrant workers arrive for a confirmation service and Mass celebrated by Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., at the Townsend Farm camp near Gresham, Ore., Aug. 5. Itinerant workers from California and other agricultural areas pick crops during harvest season in the area east of Portland. Father Gonzalez, and Deacon Jose Gonzalez assisted. Father Shaw said he has loved being a part of this important tradition while he has served at St. Anne. Rocio Garcia said she felt honored to have Archbishop Sample come to the camp. “It made me feel like I was in my little village (in Mexico) where we received the sacraments in the field,” she said. “We received the catechesis in an outdoor camp like here.” Garcia’s daughter Alexandra was an altar server during the ceremony. In addition to teaching the formation classes, Carsner sponsored two confirmandi, Benito Carreno and Orlanda Santiago. Carreno, 18, said the once-in-a-lifetime celebration of his faith made him happy. About his sponsor, he said: “She always gave me
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Zingers, previously unused
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hen I began columnizing, in the Paleolithic Period when a correcting IBM Selectric II typewriter seemed the ne plus ultra of technology for scribes, I collected quotable quotes in a plastic box, for possible insertion into columns in the manner of my friend, Dr. George F. Will. Rooting around the yellowing scraps in that box recently, I came across a gaggle of zingers that went unused, but which it seems a shame not to share with readers and posterity. So, for a little summer levity, here we go: GEORGE WEIGEL On the perils of succumbing to political correctness: “There is no evidence that the fate of the last of the Gadarene swine was noticeably preferable to that of the first” (Charles Stuart, Christ Church don, deploring his Oxford colleagues’ argument that the college couldn’t be “left behind” in changing traditional practices). Getting the conversation started properly: “How doth truth prosper in thy parts?” (an old Quaker greeting). The evils of French revolutionary weights and measures: “If God had wanted us to use the metric system, he’d have given us 10 apostles” (an angry worker, struggling with metric tools). Rarely an argument lost: “He can persuade most people of most things, and above all he can
persuade himself of almost anything” (W.E. Forster on William Gladstone). The limits of openness: “An open mind, like an open mouth, should close on something” (G.K. Chesterton, of course). Beyond having a career: “But yield who will to their separation/My object in living is to unite/My avocation and my vocation/As my two eyes make one in sight./Only where love and need are one,/ And work is play for mortal stakes,/Is the deed ever really done/For Heaven and the future’s sake” (Robert Frost, “Two Tramps in Mud Time”). Telling look-a-likes apart: “(Anthony) Eden is the sheep striving to look like a man, (Harold) Macmillan the man affecting to look like a sheep” (SHAEF officer explaining to General Eisenhower’s staffers how to distinguish between two future British prime ministers). Staying sharp: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity” (Albert Einstein). Social ineptness: “Bore. A person who talks when you wish him to listen” (Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”). Good government: “When Dr. Johnson declared that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, he underestimated the potential of reform” (Roscoe Conkling, resigning from the U.S. Senate after President Garfield rejected Conkling’s machine
nominee for Collector of Customs of the Port of New York). On the right: “The function of conservatives is to extract the truth in each succeeding heresy” (Lord Hailsham). The education of the judiciary: “What are you going to do about crime?” New York mayoral candidate Ed Koch was asked at a senior citizens’ center in the Bronx during his first campaign to run the Big Apple. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Koch responded, “did you know that a judge was mugged last week? He called a press conference and said, ‘This mugging will in no way affect my judgment in matters of this kind.’” At which point an elderly lady stood up in the back of the room and shouted, “Then mug him again!” A culture without reality contact: “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men” (George Orwell). The earthen vessel of the church: “No merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight” (Hillaire Belloc on Catholicism). The right stuff: “How would you like to sit on top of 5 million parts, each of which was made by the lowest bidder?” (John Young, on flying the first space shuttle). Our task: “The Gospel must be preached by men. The angels have other duties” (plaque found in an old church).
state it, largely ignored. His feast day, March 19, usually fell in Lent and the statue was shrouded. Compare that fate to Mary’s, whose altars resembled florist shops. Over the years I tried to make up for the insulting oversight by personal devotion. Now that I am a woman of a certain age, my compassion has certain benefits: Joseph is the patron of a happy death. I can only hope the belated efforts of three popes to finally insert St. Joseph’s name into the eucharistic prayer will have a trickle-down effect in catechesis and on homilists. The Office of Worship suggests we need not purchase new missals, just pencil in his name. His name was permanently written on my heart decades ago. Blanche F. Smith Atherton
role of family,” Aug. 9) and was struck by the excerpt from Archbishop Cordileone’s homily. In it, he made the following comment: “It is that family built on that lifelong mutual fidelity of father and mother –that is the way that children are entered into the holy life. …” I imagine that the archbishop was using this as an opportunity to support traditional marriage and traditional families. I don’t know if he realizes how hurtful and damaging his comments can be. What about families with single parents? The widowed mother raising three kids? The single woman who keeps her child, rejecting abortion? The divorced father who is doing his best to raise his children as good Catholics? Are their families somehow “less”? Are these struggling parents denying their children the chance to “enter into the holy life” and putting their kids at risk? I’m sure the archbishop has the best of intentions, but life can take families down many different, unexpected paths. In promoting those families with a mother and a father as somehow “better,” or as being “necessary” to raise good, loving and holy children, Archbishop Cordileone is creating a tiered system in which some families will find themselves as second or third class. He needs to be very conscious of the power of his words, and that he’s speaking to many people that might not fit his definition of “family.” Jim Bridge Burlingame Editor’s note: The archbishop made this comment in the context of a homily, which, at this point, was meant simply to inspire people toward the good of family, and not cover all of the details of every possible ramification of the idea, as would be appropriate in discourse of a more academic nature. In other venues he has many times spoken of the heroic sacrifices many single parents make to give their children the best possible upbringing, and that they need and deserve our esteem and support. As two examples, the reader is referred to his interviews in the USA Today (www.usatoday.com/ story/news/nation/2013/03/21/archbishop-cordileonegay-marriage-catholic-church/2001085) and the San Francisco Chronicle (http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/06/16/sfs-archbishop-cordileone-why-heopposes-gay-marriage).
WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
LETTERS Church must be accountable
Re “UN should have no authority over Vatican,” letter, Aug. 9: While the reader is certainly entitled to his opinion, his commentary is an example of what is wrong with Catholicism in the minds of Catholics and nonCatholics alike. Whether or not the U.N. should have any say in what the Vatican does and that “the U.N. should be put on notice by the church that it has no authority in this matter whatsoever” is a moot point. The reader was responding to the article “UN asks Vatican to account for all sex abuse allegations” in the July 19 edition. The church is experiencing a crisis from which it has yet to recover (if it ever will) and needs to, and should want to, account for and accept all responsibility for this nightmare simply from a moral perspective. The victims were children and the perpetrators were Catholic clergy to whom the Catholic faithful entrusted with their children’s care. The Vatican may not be answerable to the U.N., but it is answerable to the Catholic faithful. The Vatican must be accountable to whomever of all abusers, victims, enablers, whether related to this problem or any other. In order for the church to have any credibility in the minds and hearts of the public, names should be published, abusers and enablers excoriated, defrocked, charged and jailed. Andrea Iida San Francisco
History of St. Francis Parish
Thank you for the article “Capuchin Father Snider installed as shrine rector” in the Aug. 9 Catholic San Francisco. Unfortunately facts of recent history are misstated. For instance, the “thriving parish” of St. Francis of Assisi was closed by then-Archbishop (John R.) Quinn in the fall of 1993 and the parish was suppressed. The church was reopened in 1998 by then-Archbishop William J. Levada becoming the national shrine in 2005. Chris Stockton San Francisco
Eucharistic prayers and Joseph
Yes, I did notice something different during Mass (“St. Joseph added to every eucharistic prayer,” Aug. 9): I thought it might be auditory hallucination when I heard St. Joseph’s name mentioned in the eucharistic prayer. That it had never been there seemed to me a major sin of omission. As a child I sang endless hymns to Mary, I crowned her statue, much fuss was made on her feast days. As for poor Joseph? He was, to under-
Worst column ever?
Tony Magliano’s column “Global Warming: We better take it seriously” (Aug. 9) is the worst column ever written in Catholic San Francisco, and I go back to the Monitor days. Mr. Magliano actually uses in his promotion of global warming, one of the most anti-Catholic, anti-family and anti-life organizations, the United Nations, in its defense. Global warming is not and has never been about the climate. It is about people and population control. People are the enemy according to the global warming crowd. One major reason why the United States is so advanced is because of fossil fuel – fossil fuel that is today infinitely cleaner than ever before. It is not the fossil fuel of 40 years ago. Our colleges and universities and the elite media have silenced any opinion that opposes the global warming crowd, but they are out there if Mr. Magliano is interested in the other side. Catholic San Francisco has done a disservce to its readers in publishing this column. It would be better if it were in the old Pravda. Stephen Firenze San Mateo
Families’ different, unexpected paths
I was reading the article about the St. Anne novena (“At St. Anne novena, archbishop highlights
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Why faith is indeed a light
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n “new” atheist and secularist circles today, faith is regularly ridiculed. It is presented as pre-scientific mumbojumbo, Bronze Age credulity, the surrender of the intellect, unwarranted submission to authority, etc. Time and again, the late Christopher Hitchens, echoing Immanuel Kant, called on people to be intellectually FATHER ROBERT responsible, to BARRON think for themselves, to dare to know. This coming of age would be impossible, he insisted, without the abandonment of religious faith. And in standard accounts of cultural history, the “age of faith” is presented as a retrograde and regressive dark age, out of which emerged, only after a long twilight struggle, the modern physical sciences and their attendant technologies. In accord with this cynical reading, the contemporary media almost invariably present people of “faith” as hopelessly unenlightened yahoos or dangerous fanatics. If you want the very best example of this, watch Bill Maher’s film “Religulous.” It was to counter this deeply distorted understanding of faith that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI composed an encyclical letter, which has just appeared under the name of his papal
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t is by now well known that Pope Francis gave an hour-and-a-half impromptu press conference on July 28 on his flight back to Rome from World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro. While the headlines focused on the pope’s comments on gays – “Who am I to judge?” – it is a serious error to reduce his message to this one point. FATHER GERALD The pope’s D. COLEMAN, SS single most revealing comment came in response about divorced and remarried Catholics. His answer provides the best and guiding window into his pastoral outlook. “Mercy,” he said, “is a larger theme than the question you raise … This is a time of mercy... If the Lord never tires of forgiving, we don’t have any other path than this one.” Certain catchphrases often represent a core emphasis. For John Paul II, it was “Be not afraid.” For Benedict XVI, it was “reason and faith.” For Francis, it is “mercy and compassion.” This moral and pastoral ethos explains the pope’s unwillingness to pass judgment on gays. Francis believes that it is time for the church to lift up its merciful face to the world. The Italian edition of Vanity Fair recently declared the pope “a miracle of humility in the era of vanity.” He is the pope who established a custom without denying a tradition when last Holy Thursday he washed the feet of inmates in a youth detention center in Rome, including two women, one of them a Muslim. A few
Countering modernism, the pope insists that faith is the proper, indeed the reasonable, response to the experience of the living God. successor and bears the title “Lumen Fidei” (“The Light of Faith”). The text – smart, allusive, ruminative, informed by a profound grasp of cultural trends – is, though signed by Pope Francis, unmistakably Ratzingerian. Though it is impossible in the context of this brief article to do justice to its rich content, I should like to gesture, however briefly, to a few of its principal motifs. The Holy Father’s move is to confront directly the sort of rationalistic dismissal of faith that I just outlined. Moderns, in love with the illuminating power of technological reason, have tended to view faith, not as light, but as obscurity. But the pope insists that faith is the proper, indeed the reasonable, response to the experience of the living God, who is not an object in the world, but rather the creator of the world. Precisely because he is the source of all finite existence, God is not one being among many and hence cannot be pinned down on an examining table and lit up with the harsh light of technological reason. The prophet Isaiah expressed this point with admirable economy: “Truly you are God who hides himself, O God of Israel, Savior.” Isaiah does not mean that God is a worldly reality that is, for the moment, hidden away, like the dark side of the moon; rather, he means that God is a reality which cannot, even
in principle, be seen in the ordinary way. Further, the hidden God is not an abstract force or a distant first cause. He is, instead, a living person, and this means that he cannot be manipulated, controlled, or analyzed in an intrusive manner. Therefore, faith or trusting acceptance is the only legitimate response to an experience of such a reality. The encyclical’s second move is to show how the darkness of faith, once embraced, actually turns into light. By accepting God’s overture, the faith-filled person finds the supreme value, which unifies and gives direction to the whole of his life; he basks in the light, which illumines every aspect of his existence. In the absence of faith in the one God, a person necessarily drifts from idol to idol, that is to say, from one fleeting value to another. One of the pope’s most brilliant observations is that idolatry, therefore, is always a type of polytheism, a chase after a multiplicity of gods, none of which can satisfy: “Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.” What an apt description of the spiritual state of so many in our postmodern condition. And how deeply congruent with the biblical notion that the rejection of God conduces automatically to a disintegration of the self. Notice that biblical
demons speak typically in the plural. The pope’s third major move is to show that authentic faith is liberating, and he does this by returning to St. Paul’s classic texts on justification. Famously, the apostle argued, in his letter to the Romans and elsewhere that salvation comes, not through works of the law, but through faith in what Jesus has accomplished. The Holy Father reads this, not in the Lutheran manner, as a demonization of “good works,” but rather as a reminder that real salvation comes by way of surrendering to God’s purposes. When we are convinced that our fundamental well-being depends on our efforts and the accomplishment of our plans, we lock ourselves into the cramped quarters of the sovereign self. But when we acknowledge through faith the primacy of grace, we move in the infinite and exciting space of God’s intentions for us. As all of the great spiritual masters have acknowledged, our lives are not, finally, about us, and in that realization, we find peace and joy. Dante expressed the idea splendidly: “In your will, O Lord, is our peace.” I think that this encyclical could best be interpreted as Pope Emeritus Benedict’s and Pope Francis’s challenge to the secularist ideology that has already enveloped Western Europe and that is now threatening our country. It is a reminder that faith alone can deliver us from the tyranny and sadness of the closed-in self. FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.
‘Who am I to judge?’
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Pope Francis, who has said he would like to see “a poor church for the poor,” reaches out to a child as he visits the Varginha community of Rio de Janeiro July 25. Father Gerald Coleman says the media has rightly dubbed Francis “the world’s parish priest.” months ago he gave an extraordinary homily in which he stated that even atheists could be saved. Francis speaks largely through gesture and example. Reactions to the pope’s “Who am I to judge?” call his response “a sea change,” “a big and dramatic change,” and “a much needed breath of fresh air.” Jesuit journalist James Martin went so far as to say that “anyone who says nothing has changed in the church today is nuts.” But what has changed is not found in the pope’s actual words, but rather in his tone. Missing this context for the pope’s remark on gays, some have seen the need to offer correctives and reminders. LifeSiteNews opined that the pope was not implying that “there is nothing wrong with being gay.. .(The) quote does not mean that the homo-
sexual inclination is not a problem at all.” These writers went on to say that the sex abuse crisis in the church was related to “an active gay subculture” (against every credible study on this subject, including one by a Vaticanappointed commission). They remind us that “just” discrimination against gays is appropriate. LifeSiteNews might want to re-read Benedict XVI’s 2005 interview with German journalist Peter Seewald. Benedict said that homosexuals are “human beings (who) deserve respect, even though they have this inclination, and must not be discriminated against because of it.” Francis’ concerns are of a larger nature than petty and demeaning commentaries. He has said that he would like to see a “poor church for the poor,” as he has demonstrated himself since
his election, e.g., in his obvious love of people, his walk through the slums of Rio, his commitment to the downtrodden and marginalized. The media has rightly dubbed Francis “the world’s parish priest.” It is not insignificant that the pope has made a clear choice to de-emphasize issues of sexual morality. Francis is not a naive person. In Rio he said that he wants “to see the church get closer to the people.” I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, the closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools and structures.” He is creating a substance change in tone and attitude. We know the church’s moral teachings on sexual activity outside heterosexual marriage. To bring this up again now is unnecessary because it misses the point of the pope’s vision of the human person. “If a person is gay, seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?” That is what he said, and then added, “They should not be marginalized.” Francis is calling us to look at people’s hearts and the totality of their lives. This is the part of Catholic teaching the pope emphasized by citing the catechism: Respect assumes non-rejection of persons and integration into society. Gays are our sisters and brothers. Who cannot notice here an echo of Jesus’ remark to the crowd ready to stone the adulteress? “The one who is without sin (should) cast the first stone?” Francis’ approach strikes a compassionate tone. If anyone is gay or lesbian, the important thing is to live in the light of God. This is Francis’ message. This should be our message, too. SULPICIAN FATHER COLEMAN is vice president, corporate ethics for the Daughters of Charity Health System.
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SUNDAY READINGS
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.’ LUKE 13:22-30 ISAIAH 66:18-21 Thus says the Lord: I know their works and their thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory. I will set a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations. They shall bring all your brothers and sisters from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries, to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their offering to the house of the Lord in clean vessels. Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the Lord. PSALM 117:1, 2 Go out to all the world and tell the Good News. Praise the Lord all you nations; glorify him, all you peoples!
Go out to all the world and tell the Good News. For steadfast is his kindness toward us, and the fidelity of the Lord endures forever. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News. HEBREWS 12:5-7, 11-13 Brothers and sisters, You have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children:“My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.”Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline? At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.
LUKE 13:22-30 Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will say to you in reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ And you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’ Then he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers!’And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
‘For I shall not pass this way again’
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here is a familiar quotation that says: “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good deeds, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to anyone, let me do it now. Let me not deter nor neglect, for I shall not pass this way again.” Those lines serve to remind us of the transient nature of life. Time does not stand still. It is constantly on the move. And once any part of life has passed us by, it is gone forever. We can never get it back again. A young woman told a story about a misunderstanding between herself and a friend. It wasn’t a big thing, but it drove a wedge between them, and DEACON they stop communicating. FAIVA PO’OI She said, “After a while, it was not the things said and done that kept us apart. It was the silence.” She was sure that someday
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one of them would break the silence, and they would be friends again. But each kept waiting for other. And in her words: “Somehow time ran out. I did not even know he was sick. It was a friend of a friend who told me he had died. Now there is nothing left but the silence. It is here forever.” This story provides us with the image of a person knocking on a door that, as Jesus said, can never be opened again. We all have days like that – mistakes we would like to recall, opportunities we would like to recover. We cannot relive the past. That door is closed and locked. We cannot spend more time with our children. They are grown now and live in other cities. We cannot visit our terminally ill friend. He is dead now. The door is closed. But there are many things that we can do. We can ask the forgiveness of someone we have hurt. We can visit and tell our living friends that we love them. We can spend less time complaining and more time being grateful. We can break the habit of criticism and judging people and instead cultivate the habit of love and praise. We can give roses to people while they are alive, and not wait until they are dead.
We can live only in the present, for the passing of time requires us to seize the opportunities of the moment. But if we fail to do that, the opportunities of the moment will slowly slip away, and someday be gone forever. Some of us boast about getting rid of problems when we come to Christ; however, the contrary is true. When we go to Christ, we take on problems. Being a follower of Christ offers us no escape from the stern demands of life. The pathway that leads to God is a narrow gate of good deeds, love, and mercy rather than of doctrine. Jesus taught that everlasting life belongs to those who are willing to endure hardship for the sake of faith, hope, and love of God and neighbor. The only things that last are those things bought at the price of suffering love. The life and example of Jesus encourages us to always strive to enter through the narrow gate! As our responsorial Psalm commands us to “Go out to all the world and tell the Good News,” may the Holy Eucharist empower us to enter the narrow gate.
Time. Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29. PS 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11. Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a. Lk 14:1, 7-14.
SEPTEMBER 7: Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:21-23. PS 54:3-4, 6 and 8. Lk 6:1-5.
DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS AUGUST 26: Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. Mt 23:13-22. AUGUST 27: Memorial of St. Monica. 1 Thes 2:1-8. PS 139:1-3, 4-6. Mt 23:23-26.
SEPTEMBER 2: Monday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:13-18. PS 96:1 and 3, 4-5, 11-12, 13. Lk 4:16-30.
AUGUST 28: Memorial of St. Augustine, bishop, confessor and doctor. 1 Thes 2:9-13. PS 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab. Mt 23:27-32.
SEPTEMBER 3: Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor. 1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11. PS 27:1, 4, 1314. Lk 4:31-37.
SEPTEMBER 9: Memorial of St. Peter Claver, priest. Col 1:24–2:3. PS 62:6-7, 9. Lk 6:6-11.
AUGUST 29: Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. 1 Thes 3:7-13. PS 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17. Mk 6:17-29.
SEPTEMBER 4: Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:1-8. PS 52:10, 11. Lk 4:38-44.
SEPTEMBER 10: Tuesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. Col 2:6-15. PS 145:1b-2, 8-9, 1011. Lk 6:12-19.
AUGUST 30: Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. St. Jeanne Jugan. 1 Thes 4:1-8. PS 97:1 and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12. Mt 25:1-13.
SEPTEMBER 5: Thursday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Col 1:9-14. PS 98:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. Lk 5:1-11.
SEPTEMBER 11: Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. Col 3:1-11. PS 145:2-3, 1011, 12-13ab. Lk 6:20-26.
AUGUST 31: Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:9-11. PS 98:1, 7-8, 9. Mt 25:14-30. SEPTEMBER 1: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary
SEPTEMBER 6: Friday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:15-20. PS 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5. Lk 5:33-39.
SEPTEMBER 8: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Wis 9:13-18b. PS 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17. Phmn 9-10, 12-17. Lk 14:25-33.
SEPTEMBER 12: Thursday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Col 3:12-17. PS 150:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. Lk 6:27-38.
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What would Jesus say?
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he saying, “you can’t make everyone happy,” is especially true of the remarks made about Pope Francis’ recent visit to Brazil to celebrate World Youth Day. Many praised him for being down to earth, humble and a breath of fresh air. And then there were others who criticized him for not saying more on women’s issues and questioned FATHER EUGENE whether he was HEMRICK all talk and no action. One went so far as to say that his remark about not judging gays is nothing new and that multiple Christians have said as much through the ages. The pros and cons that followed Francis’ visit confirm that we, like generations before us, live in contentious times. How might we react to these moments of contention? Being matter of fact might be one course of action to take, not letting our emotions come to a boil and allowing ourselves to concede that conflicting opinions are part of our times. We live in a new age of instant communication that encourages people to air their opinions instantly, be they ever so varied. We’re in an age of heightened awareness about human rights in which more people are speaking out against violations. It is true that Catholicism has detractors who are forever seeking something negative to say. It is equally true that they have existed from the beginning of the church and will always be part of its history. One positive way to react to this is to examine their comments, to learn whether some of them can teach the church better ways of practicing the new evangelization and help to convert naysayers. I must admit, when I read some of the negative comments about Pope Francis, I was angry. But then the thought hit me, “What would Christ say about this?” I believe he would have several different reactions. To those championing human rights, he would say: “Be true to your convictions, listen to your heart rather than the crowds, and purify your convictions continuously!” To detractors of the church, he would say: “How do you see the church? Is it as cathedrals, a bureaucracy and self-serving, selfish people, or do you see it as the people of God serving others because of their love of God? Have you dared to let this goodness and love touch you?” To those of us who are the church, he would say: “As I taught my apostles, there are difficulties in proclaiming me. This is the reality of being an apostle.”
One positive way to react to Catholicism’s naysayers is to examine their comments, to learn whether some of them can teach the church better ways of practicing the new evangelization and help to convert naysayers.
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Our need to give to the poor
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e need to give to the poor, not because they need it, though they do, but because we need to do that in order to be healthy. That’s an axiom that is grounded in Scripture where, time and again, we are taught that giving to the poor is something that we need to do FATHER RON for our own ROLHEISER health. We see this truth expressed in many religions and cultures. For example, a number of indigenous North American people practiced something they called potlatch. This was a festival, sometimes attached to the celebration of a birth or wedding, at which a rich person gave away gifts to the community. Its primary purpose was to ensure a certain distribution of wealth but also to ensure that wealthy individuals stayed healthy by being solicitous in terms of not accumulating too much wealth. Too much excess, it was believed, left a person unhealthy. This has been a perennial belief in most cultures. In Christianity we have enshrined this in the challenge to be charitable to the poor and we have classically seen our giving to the poor as a virtue, rightly so. Charitable giving is a virtue; but, for a Christian, perhaps it’s more obligation than virtue. When we look at the Law of Moses in scripture we see that a certain amount of giving to the poor was prescribed by law. The idea was that giving to the poor was an obligation, not a negotiable moral option. Simply put, the Law of Moses obligated people, legally, to give to
That too much excess leaves a person unhealthy has been a perennial belief in most cultures. the poor. Scripture abounds with examples of this. Consider, for example, these precepts and laws: – First of all, the Law of Moses assumed that everything we have belongs to God and is not really ours. We are only its stewards and guardians. We may enjoy it at God’s pleasure, but ultimately it’s not ours. (Leviticus 25,23) – Every seventh year, all slaves were to be set free and each was to take with him or her enough of the master’s goods to be able to live an independent life. (Deuteronomy 15, 14). – Every seventh year all economic debts were to be cancelled (the original meaning of the “statute of limitations”). – Every seventh year one’s land was to lie fallow and enjoy its own Sabbath. During that year, the land’s owner not only didn’t sow anything, he or she didn’t reap anything either. The poor were to reap whatever the fields and vineyards produced that year. – And, at all times, landowners were forbidden to reap and harvest the corners of their fields, with the intent that these edges were to be reaped by the poor. – Finally, even more radically, every fiftieth year all lands were to be restored to the original tribe or household who had first owned them. One’s “ownership” of property had a certain time limit. Things weren’t yours forever. Moreover doing all of this was not considered as virtue; these were laws, legal obligations. And there was a double intent behind these laws. On the one hand, they were intended for the health of the one
who was giving something away to the poor and, at the same time, they were an attempt to ensure that the poor did not become so destitute so that they would have to steal what they needed in order to live. We have much to learn from this as a society. For the most part we are generous and charitable people. We give away some of our surplus and, despite warnings from professionals who work with street people that this isn’t helpful, our hearts are still moved by those begging on our streets and we continue to slip them money (even as we don’t believe their claim that they need money for food or bus fare). For the most part, our hearts are still at the right place. But, we tend to see this as something we are doing purely for someone else without realizing that our own health is a vital part of the equation. Further, we tend to see this as virtue more than as obligation, as charity more than as justice. And perhaps it’s for this reason that, despite our good hearts and our generosity, the gap between the rich and the poor, both with our own culture and within the world as a whole, continues to widen. Millions and millions of people continue to fall through the cracks without the getting the benefit, in law, to reap the corners of our wealth and have their debts forgiven every seven years. We need to give to the poor because they need it, admittedly; but we need to do it too because we cannot be healthy unless we do this. And we need to see our giving not so much as charity but as obligation, as justice, as something we owe. On this deathbed, Vincent de Paul is reputed to have challenged his followers with words to this effect: It is more blessed to give than to receive – and it is also easier! OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas
Church teaching on gays and celibacy
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It troubles me that samesex couples who are in a committed relationship are expected by the Catholic Church to abstain from sexual relations. It seems clear that in many cases homosexuality is genetically driven; people did not choose this type of attraction, and to ask them to abstain from sex seems FATHER unrealistic, KENNETH DOYLE cruel and discriminatory. (This is quite different from the voluntary celibacy that our clergy embrace.) As I have gotten to know more gay men and women, it seems obvious that they are not evil people, and I feel sorry for them because of the “cards that they’ve been dealt.” To decree that they
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must have a sexless life because of their inherited genes doesn’t flow smoothly with our belief in a compassionate God. Thanks for any guidance you can provide. (Gambrills, Md.) You raise two important points with which I agree strongly, and the church does as well: Homosexuality is most often not deliberately chosen, and homosexuals are certainly not “evil people.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church, in No. 2358, observes that, “The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. They do not choose their homosexual condition; for most of them it is a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.” At the same time, however, the Catholic Church is guided by biblical teaching about right conduct. Among the scriptural passages on homosexuality referenced by the catechism (No. 2357) is Paul’s Letter to the Romans 1:27, which speaks of those who have rejected God’s truth in the following way: “Males likewise gave up natural
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relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.” Based on this and related biblical passages, as well as on the natural law regarding sexual complementarity and openness to the transmission of life, the church concludes in No. 2359 of the catechism that “homosexual persons are called to chastity,” which is to say, to a life of celibacy. Acknowledging that this is a challenging path, the church has established organizations such as Courage, a support group for gay Catholic men and women endeavoring to lead a Christian life. It strives to promote chaste friendships among its members in their common struggle. Perhaps it is helpful for someone with a homosexual orientation to see the life of celibacy as a free and obedient response to a divine call. Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY, 12208.
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MARRIAGE: ‘Great sign of hope’ FROM PAGE 1
parishes and in their homes, said St. Cecilia pastor Msgr. Michael Harriman, one of the main organizers. Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park, parishioners Monica Hendricks and husband Matt brought their baby and toddler “to celebrate marriage and family and to see the archbishop,” Monica Hendricks said. “We came as a family,” said St. Andrew’s parishioner Yeademin Fernandes, who attended with husband Stephen, and two teenagers, Cecilia and Daniel. “We wanted to attend the Mass.” Archdiocesan marriage ministries were well represented, including Marriage Encounter. Probably the largest group was the about 200 members of Couples for Christ, some of whom led singing before the talks. The Spanishlanguage marriage ministry Movimento Familias Cristiano encouraged families to come, said St. Charles Borromeo, San Francisco, parishioners Norman and Janet Arroyo, who attended with Sofia, 5, and Ivan, 7. The group organizes retreats, does marriage preparation and faith formation, said Cecilia AriaRivas of the archdiocese’s Spanish language pastoral ministry. “Every married couple is called to be a sacrament,” Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy said in a talk after the Mass.
At the archdiocesan Marriage & Family Celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Deacon Mario Zuniga of Mission Dolores Basilica Parish holds his grandson Antonio.
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St. Gabriel parishioners Steve and Gabe Lucey and children Clara, 9, John 7, Hannah, 5, and Mary, 2½.
St. Andrew parishioners Stephen and Yeademin Fernandes and children Cecilia and Daniel. Archbishop Cordileone encouraged families to pray the rosary and read the Bible together. “To persevere we need to use signs of God in our lives,” he said, giving examples of a picture of Divine Mercy or the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
St. Paul of the Shipwreck parishioners Daniel and Miriam and daughter Carmela, 16 months.
“When people walk into your house will they immediately know they are in a Catholic household? Are there reminders like a crucifix on the wall or a family Bible on the coffee table?” “Despite imperfections and hurts,
Holy Name of Jesus parishioners Mary Bong and Joe Tran. despite difficulties along the way,” Archbishop Cordileone said, “there surely is no greater blessing than to grow up sharing love and life in the context of a family so that one can know truly what it means to have loved ones.”
CIVIL RIGHTS: Anniversary ties to dialogue on race post-Trayvon FROM PAGE 1
observed Sister Barbara Moore, a Missouri-based member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, who participated in another famous civil rights event, the March 10, 1965, voting rights march in Selma, Ala. “I don’t hear anything, I don’t see anything from the hierarchy, and I’ve looked,” said Sister Barbara, noting that other religious leaders, particularly African-Americans, have raised the issue as a challenge Christians must face. Even in her St. Louis parish, where she said the pastor doesn’t typically shy away from speaking up on controversial issues, the topic hasn’t come up from the pulpit. “It’s very disappointing.” Sister Barbara told Catholic News Service that the subject was a prime topic of conversation among participants in a recent joint meeting of organizations representing black sisters, priests, deacons and seminarians. While she didn’t want to get into the specifics of a formal dialogue on the topic, she said, “the point was made that we haven’t heard from anyone in authority.” Deacon Royce Winters, director of African-American Ministries for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, told CNS he thinks that the country has made great progress in combatting racism since the late 1960s, but that the subject has faded from a position of importance in the country and in the church. “We in America seem to be pursuing our individual goals in life, but we have lost our sense of community, our sense of being connected to something greater than ourselves,” he said. “We have failed to consider our obligation to bring others along with us.” Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beau-
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Demonstrators holding signs march during the 1963 March on Washington. On the 50th anniversaries of key civil rights events, some observe that there’s still a long way to go toward eliminating racism in U.S. society. mont, Texas, one of about a dozen active African-American Catholic bishops in the U.S., told CNS that the U.S. hierarchy has been clear that racism is a sin – in a 1979 pastoral “Brothers and Sisters to Us,” a statement marking the pastoral’s 25th anniversary and recently in the context of supporting comprehensive immigration reform. But the topic is too easily avoided. “I don’t think race and ethnicity have been the subject of serious dialogue,” he said. “It’s like you have a two-story house where the floor upstairs is weak in some spots and unstable, so you walk around those spots, or you go very lightly across them,” said Bishop Guillory. “This is where the church can make a tremendous contribution. But you have to work at it. It’s not just going to happen.”
Racial hostility
He said he wrote about the topic for the upcoming edition of his diocesan newspaper, the East Texas Catholic. And he regularly has to deal with racial hostility in parishes around the diocese, he said, typically when a parish predominantly made up of one race begins to get an influx of new parishioners from another race or culture. Bishop Guillory in his article and in the interview with CNS drew parallels to the current unease over race and St. Paul’s admonition to the Corinthians to think of the diverse parts of the church as the intrinsically connected pieces of the body of Christ. “Paul uses the image of the body with its many parts to show that the body of Christ – the church – is one,” he wrote in his column. “Christ is the head of the body – the church. Cer-
tainly that image of Paul can assist us in healing our own divisions.” In Cincinnati, Deacon Winters’ office has organized an observance of the March on Washington anniversary. It’s also hosting an October workshop on “intercultural competence” for archdiocesan ministers. A second such workshop next March is planned for leaders of the Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky., archdioceses and the dioceses of Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. He said one approach he’s trying to encourage in the archdiocese is to stop thinking of programs of ministry to various ethnic groups as only being for the people of those groups. Instead, he said, “we have recognized we need to minister to everyone.” Retired Bishop John E. McCarthy of Austin, Texas, was also at the Selma voting rights march in 1965 and was active throughout the era in working for equal rights for laborers and other segments of society. He told CNS “it pains me to say there’s been a very obvious and slow retreat by the Catholic Church in the United States from direct involvement in the social justice issues of this time.” He lamented that the 25th anniversary of the bishops’ 1986 pastoral letter “Economic Justice for All,” passed “unnoticed,” and that the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council went by “without any type of national celebration or major programs to discuss it.” Bishop McCarthy said he believes part of the reason for the institutional church’s lower profile on issues such as racism is that “the church has been so badly wounded by its own internal problems.” “My hope is that as we come to grips with scandals, whether about sex or banks or butlers, we will regroup and remember our commitments to each other,” he said.
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Nurturing spiritual growth for Chinese-speaking women no means of nurturing or renewing their faith or spiritual lives for the lack of English. Since the retreats were more and more appreciated, and the number of participants kept increasing, I introduced them to Mercy Center. Once Sister Janet they saw the beautiChau, RSM ful, peace-filled and spacious campus, some of those women asked their husbands, or grown children (who originally were not interested in our retreats) to drive them from San Francisco to Mercy Center. Others managed to carpool, thus introducing new adults to our programs. I questioned a doctor and an
Mercy Sister Janet Chau wrote the following reflection on the Cantonese retreat and Cantonese spiritual formation outreach programs under her leadership at Mercy Center, Burlingame. The next retreat is Aug. 24, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. I started to facilitate retreats in Cantonese in 2004 for Chinese housewives in San Francisco with little English. Why did I do that? Don’t we encourage friends and relatives everywhere to come to the U.S. to renew or deepen their professional or spiritual practices because we have the richest resources? Unfortunately, many Chinese-speaking women, at least in the Bay Area, though living here for 20, 30 and more than 40 years, cannot benefit from these retreat programs, having
architect, both female, asking why they came to the Chinese programs since they have no problem at all with English. Their responses were: “What a difference in telling my deep story in my own language!” “To share something from deep within in my native language is so healing!” This ministry has been growing beyond my imagination, and I experience something similar to what our founder Catherine McAuley said: ‘ This is God’s work of Mercy. It is good to have it endure when I am gone!’ Four years ago I received a ministry grant from the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community to help train younger leaders who speak English and Chinese fluently. Fluency in both languages is important
in order to attend and profit from these training programs. However, this is not working out as I planned. Instead, because of the great enthusiasm of some very generous volunteer leaders who have been participating in our Chinese programs, we are starting to offer monthly spiritual gatherings in Cantonese. They include Scripture sharing, a book club, enrichment workshops, spiritual direction and retreats for women and men coming from all over the Bay Area. This ministry of spiritual formation in Chinese, particularly for women, is clearly God’s work of mercy. What a blessing and privilege to accompany people’s sacred journey in their native language. For more information, contact Mercy Center at (650) 340-7454.
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NOVENAS Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. M.R.
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Louise M. Davies, ‘angel of symphony’ Will you begin the symphony season this September with Tchaikovsky? Mahler? Beethoven? If you spend any time listening to the San Francisco Symphony, you have Louise M. Davies to thank. Her gift of $5 million enabled the building of the symphony hall which bears her name and her additional gift of $3 million endowed the symphony’s guest conductor program. Born in 1900, she spent her early years on the family ranch in Plumas County, and later lived in Oakland working as a stenographer and earning $25 a week. In 1924, she met Ralph K. Davies while visiting the Russian River and they married the following year. Her marriage to the former vice president of Standard Oil endured until his passing in 1971. In addition to the symphony, many other cultural, educational, medical and religious organizations were the beneficiaries of her lifetime of generosity. A devoted Catholic, Davies supported many institutions within our archdiocese, including the University
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attending Archbishop Riordan High School; Nataly Coreas and Michelle Perez attending Immaculate Conception Academy; Monique Molina, attending Mercy High School, San Francisco. Winners received Giants tickets and a cash award.
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On the boards at Riordan “Lucky 13: A Labor of Love Alumni Revival Fundraiser” at 7 p.m. on Sept. 2 reunites Archbishop Riordan High School thespians from over the decades. Above left is an image from the archdiocesan boys Catholic high school’s 1955 production of “The International Story,” and at right is a scene backstage in the 1960s. “I wanted to create an event that would bring together generations of Riordan alumni and fans of Riordan drama,” said Riordan drama director Valerie O’Riordan. Hosting will be Emmy-nominated actor Joe Spano ‘63, who plays FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell on the CBS police procedural “NCIS: Los Angeles” but rose to fame as a detective on “Hill Street Blues.” Cammy Blackstone, a Riordan mom, will co-host. The event will include the dedication of the Morris Script Library, honoring Marianist Brother Gary Morris ’64, now a Chaminade University professor, who amassed a huge collection of scripts and research material from 1978 to 1995. Brother Morris will resurrect his high school Tevye portrayal with “If I Were A Rich Man” from “Fiddler On The Roof.” Tickets for the event at the school’s Lindland Theater in San Francisco are available at www.riordanhs.org or at the door.
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Franciscan Father James Kyrie, 86 Franciscan Father James Kyrie died Aug. 3 at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland where he had lived for the last several years. Father Kyrie was pastor of San Francisco’s St. Boniface Parish from 1988-91. Born in Pakistan, he was invested in the Franciscan habit for the Province of the Netherlands on Aug. 1, 1948, in Bangalore, India. . Solemn vows were professed Father James Aug. 2, 1952, and he was ordained Kyrie, OFM in Karachi, Pakistan, on Jan. 6, 1957. He was 86 years old. Coming to the Franciscan Province of St. Barbara, he began his California parochial minis-
HONORING LOST CHILDREN AT PROJECT RACHEL MEMORIAL MASS SEPT. 14 AT HOLY CROSS
Losing a child is perhaps the greatest pain a parent can endure. To acknowledge that and to offer spiritual consolation, parents, family and friends are invited to a memorial Mass and healing liturgy Sept. 14 at Holy Cross Cemetery. The 11 a.m. Mass at Rachel Knoll in the Colma cemetery is a “celebration of all babies and young children who have lost life for any reason—through miscarriage, abortion or death in early childhood,” said Mary Ann Schwab, coordinator of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Project Rachel, a post-abortion ministry. “This loss may have been recent or many years ago,” Schwab said. Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice will celebrate the Mass in Spanish and English. All who attend are also invited to be guests of the program at a reception and light lunch near the Old Mausoleum adjoining Rachel Knoll, following the Mass. All priests of the archdiocese are invited to concelebrate and anyone who wants to join in
tries in 1977 serving in Stockton, Delano, Fresno, San Jose, Danville, San Juan Bautista, San Francisco, San Miguel. He was especially known for his work in Delano, where he was beloved by many, the Franciscans said. “Friar James was a gentle, quiet and unassuming friend wherever he went,” the Franciscans said, noting some of what he called “the best things I have loved in my life” including the people I loved in the ministry, fraternity, family; the places I have seen and the people I have met on my journey; the memories I have made along the way.” A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 10 at St. Elizabeth Church in Oakland with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.
prayer with these families is also welcome to join the liturgy. For more information, call (415) 614-5570.
40 DAYS FOR LIFE IN SAN RAFAEL, SAN FRANCISCO BEGINS SEPT. 25
40 Days for Life, a global prayer campaign outside abortion clinics, resumes here Sept. 25-Nov. 3 in San Francisco and San Rafael. Participants will pray outside the Planned Parenthood clinic at 1650 Valencia St. in San Francisco from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. and outside the Planned Parenthood clinic at 2 H St., San Rafael, from 7 a.m.-7 p.m., organizers said. “40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion,” according to the organization’s website. Hundreds of cities feature the prayer campaigns which run each fall and during Lent in the spring. For more information on the San Rafael effort, call (415) 328-6292 or email racawl@aol.com; on the San Francisco effort, sf40daysforlife@gmail. com or (510) 589-4421.
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SUNDAY, AUG. 25 EXTRAORDINARY RITE: Traditional Latin Mass, 11 a.m., Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco at Eighth Avenue., ample parking is available behind the church and in the Laurel School parking lot, entering through the gates on Eighth Avenue. The Roman Missal of 1962, published by Blessed John XXIII, is being used. Daily LatinEnglish missals are available for sale at the rectory. Father Mark G. Mazza, pastor, (415) 751-0450, ext. 16. Visit http:// sanctatrinitasunusdeus.blogspot.com/.
SATURDAY, AUG 31 WORSHIP AND ADORATION: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lumen Fidei, the Light of Faithâ&#x20AC;? with Carmelite Father Elisa followed by a healing prayer at St. Cecilia Church (lower church), 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco, 7 p.m., door opens at 6:30. (415) 242-4625, www. daughtersofcarmel.org. All are welcome.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4 SEPARATED, DIVORCED: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6 TAIZE: Taize sung prayer, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. 8 p.m. every first Friday. Visit www.mercycenter.org. FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal. PRO-LIFE: Volunteers to witness to the
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ALUMNI SHOW: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Archbishop Riordan High School Alumni Theatre Showâ&#x20AC;? with 1963 alumnus and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hill Street Bluesâ&#x20AC;? star Joe Spano as emcee. Celebrate the legend of Riordan drama Joe Spano with an all-star lineup of alumni performers who got their start on the Lindland stage. Evening includes reception, show and silent auction. Tickets start at $25: www. riordanhs.org/lucky13. Valerie Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Riordan, voriordan@riordanhs. org or (415) 587-5866.
MISSION DOLORES 100TH: Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco begins its 100th anniversary with prayer at 11 a.m. Cardinal William J. Levada, retired prefect of the Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Archbishop Congregation for Salvatore J. the Doctrine of the Cordileone Faith and archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of San Francisco presides over the liturgy. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass at 5 p.m. in the basilica. The Mission Dolores Basilica Choir directed by Jerome Lenk leads song. Gustavo Torres, (415) 621-8203, ext. 11, or gtorres@ missiondolores.org.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6 MORNING MASS: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, St. Sebastian Hall, Greenbrae, 7 a.m. Mass with talk following. Michael Pritchard is guest speaker, a big guy with a warm heart who truly walks Michael the talk. Today a Pritchard youth counselor and advocate, he had a long career as a stand-up comedian, members $8, others $10, (415) 461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., Sugaremy@aol.com. San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly, former president of Marin Catholic High School, returns to Marin as principal celebrant of Mass and guest speaker Nov. 1.
message of life outside of Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. An opportunity to pray, offer help and provide information verbally or with pamphlets according to the situation. Jessica, (650) 572-1468. www.sanmateoprolife.com.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 14 RACHEL MOURNING: Mass and healing liturgy, 11 a.m., on site of Rachel Mourning Shrine, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma, remembering babies who have died before, at or Bishop William after birth. San J. Justice Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant and homilist. Light lunch follows the Mass. Call Project Rachel Ministry, (415) 717-6428; or Respect Life Program, Archdiocese of San Francisco, (415) 614-5570.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 8 ORGAN RECITAL: Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco, 4 p.m., second Sunday of every month except December and January. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artist is Jerome Lenk, music
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ANTIQUE SALE: St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, antique and collectibles show, Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m.-3 p.m., www. stpeterantiqueshow.com, Native American art and jewelry, books and prints, coins and silver, vintage toys. Dale or Charleene Smith, (415) 602-6702 or (415) 602-6410, stpeterantiqueshow@ gmail.com. Proceeds benefit parish.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 15 PARKING LOT SALE: St. Isabella Church and school, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Reserve a space to sell new or used items or come look for treasures, bake sale and barbecue. Ginny, (415) 479-5609; or Siobhan, (415) 492-9445.
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 21 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Father Kirk Ullery, chaplain, is principal celebrant of Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Lunch follows. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 23, 2013
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28 GALA: St. Dunstan School’s 60th anniversary evening and dinner dance, 6-11 p.m., Green Hills Country Club, Millbrae, with auction and dancing. $100 per person.Mail to St. Dunstan School, Gabrielle O’Neil, 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae 94030, or contact Gabrielle O’Neil, (650) 201-9631; for program sponsorships, contact Lisa Disco, bldisco64@gmail.com.
MONDAY, SEPT. 30 GOLF: Capuchin Golf Tournament at Green Hills Country Club, 500 Ludeman Lane, Millbrae. Registration 10 a.m., noon tee-off for 18-hole scramble. Tickets at $300 include greens fee, cart, lunch, beverages all day, tee prizes, cocktails and dinner at the club. Dinneronly tickets $50. Proceeds benefit the Capuchin Franciscans Charities and Programs of the Province. Bill Mason, (650) 906-1040; Roy Nickolai; (415) 7606584, Chris Ronan, (650) 745-6330.
SUNDAY, OCT. 6 PRO-LIFE RALLY: Assemble at Geary Boulevard and Park Presidio Boulevard, San Francisco, 2 p.m.. Posters for rally will be provided. Ron Konopaski, (360) 460-9194.
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FRIDAY, OCT. 25
ASSUMPTA AWARD GALA: An evening honoring retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco featuring fine wines, gourmet cuisine, Archbishop live classical and George jazz music. Tickets Niederauer $150. Contact jcarrillo@stmarycathedralsf.org; (415) 567-2020. The event also serves as the opening of the Cathedral Festival of Flowers, Oct. 4-6. A beautifully designed and easy to use website will take you through the three days: www.cathedralflowers.org.
RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests, 11:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco: Proceeds benefit Bishop Ignatius Priests RetireWang ment Fund of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang is among those being honored. Call (415) 614-5580, email development@sfarchdiocese.org for information regarding tickets and sponsorship opportunities.
ing of sex, and having great, fulfilling relationships: Expert Catholic speakers, Mass, powerful workshops, catered lunch, info tables, vendors, raffles and confession available. Program most suited for high school through young adult age men and women. Registration $30. Speakers include: Charlie Aeschliman, former Navy SEAL, on “Commando Catholicism” and Spiritual Warfare”; Mary Bielski, national speaker and founder ALL4HIM, on “Exposing Lies, Unveiling Truth about Love, Sex and Relationships”; Matt Fradd, from Catholic Answers and featured on EWTN, on “Dispelling Sexual Myths, Manhood and True Freedom”; Patricia
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SUNDAY, OCT. 20 YOUTH MASS: Calling all youth! The Archdiocese of San Francisco is having a Youth Mass at 2:30 p.m. at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, San Francisco. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant and homilist. For more information, contact Ynez Lizarraga, associate director for youth ministry and catechesis, at LizarragaY@sfarchdiocese.org.
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AUGUSTINIAN PERSPECTIVE: Augustinian monk Walter Hilton is the focus of Paulist Father Terry Ryan’s talk 9 a.m.-noon, Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco. Coffee and treats begin at 9 a.m. The workshop is free but free-will donations welcome. (415) 288-3844.
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3-DAY FESTIVAL: “County Fair and Fall Festival,” Oct. 18, 19, 20, St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae. Carnival rides, games, food, drink, chili cook-off, pie-eating contest, raffle, silent auction. Champagne brunch on Sunday: Friday 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday noon8 p.m. Call (650) 697-4730 or email secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org.
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ROSARY RALLY: Rosary Rally, 2 p.m., United Nation Plaza, Market Street between Seventh and Eighth streets, San Francisco. Event is sponsored by Knights of Columbus, Legion of Mary, Immaculate Heart Radio, Ignatius Press and Spanish ministry of the
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 23, 2013
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July HOLY CROSS COLMA Maria Aida Aliaga Duane William Anderson George I. Arellano Jesus Arriola Cesar Talosig Bacal Eleanor H. Baiocchi Victor J. Baiocchi Maria A. Balance Marilyn A. Balancio Asuncion Baniqued Pablo Berroteran Charles Howard Byrne Anselmo V. Caballero Anaclita Lopez Cabatuan Moises O. Caldito Julius J. Camenzind Ann B. Camenzind Rosa Cassano Mario E. Cassulo Crisanto A. Castillo Philip A. Caulfield Diane Marie Chappell Leon Patrick Chevalier Gerald Christensen Lorraine Christensen Katherine C. Colzani Enes Brovelli Common Katherine Conde Viola Contino Baby Lucia Quinn Conway Baby Shae Nadia Conway Kevin Charles Conway Jesus Reyes Cruz
Leonor Cuadra Gloria A. Debrunner Iluminada Gabriel Devera Magdalena Dittmann Jackson Dulay Arthur B. Ellsworth Rosa Amelia Estrada-Abrego Amelia Faraldo Gayle D. Fernandez Jay William Fitzgerald John Flahavan Max Foster Beverly Anne Frazier Maria deJesus Frias Armida Frugoli Catherine Sue Gallagher Benny Joseph Garcia Prisca B. Garcia Alfonso E. Garcia Magdaleno Garcia Frank J. Giannini Albert F. Grant Carina Leon Guerrero Robert Brown Guevara Raymond Hollasch Rev. Stanley William Hosie, S.M. Chester Carl Ireton Sherida Carle Ireton James E. Jenkins Fr. John P. Kavanaugh Peter M. LaRocca, Jr. Ana E. Lenko Florence A. Lizardo Rocco (Rocky) Lombardi Olga Marina Lopez Jose Armando Luna Sr. Mary Thomas Magee, PBVM
Raymond C. Manion Constance Luna Martinez Joyce J. Masangcay Anjeel Masih George McAsey Daniel J. McBrady Edmond J. McCarthy Marilyn McCarthy Margaret M. McMahon Joseph B. Meehan Joseph F. Mizzi Francisco Antonio Monroy Kathleen Mooney Doris Nilsen Eleanor C. “Ina” O’Sullivan Edda (Dziewit) Palmieri Alfonso Paz Adoracion Y. Pelina Alfred J. Pereira Raymond Anthony Protti Lorraine Rappa Basilisa A. Redona Primo R. Repetto Rosa B. Reyes Charles A. Reynolds Kraig A. Rody Rosa Aurora Rojas Florence R. Rovai Peter Ryan Juliette J. Sabatou Olga L. Samuelsen David P. Santinelli James J. Schembri Gemma Scocci Mary Carmel Scott Joan Flanders Sexton Renato “Rey” Singson
Ida Sodo Raymond B. Spellacy Harold F. Sullivan Patrick Spencer Tekeli Luz J. Villanueva Susan Walker Margaret Wilturner Amayah Diana Wood Gertraud Wurnitsch Helen J. Young Pierina Zucconi
HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Adam S. Eterovich Similai Huhane Barbara Lynn Jonas Robert L Sans Tevita Fatani Tavake Uhila
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Pat Kopcrak
MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Robert Charles Ciocco Angelina Felizzari Helen Hennessy Lynn Marie Murrin
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, September 7, 2013 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Eduardo Dura, Celebrant
MASS AND HEALING LITURGY “In Memory of our Little Ones” Saturday, September 14, 2013 11:00 am – Outdoor Mass at the Rachel Mourning Statue Most Rev. William J. Justice, Celebrant A gathering and light luncheon will follow the Mass
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.