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‘WOULD YOU LIKE A ROSARY?’

Sapphire Whitaker of San Francisco reaches out to accept a rosary from Matt Barba Aug. 18 in downtown San Francisco. She said she learned the Hail Mary as a child from a homeless shelter worker in Santa Cruz.

(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Curbside Catholics evangelize on streets of San Francisco CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Office workers on their lunch hour, shivering tourists, local street folk and others crisscrossing the sidewalks near San Francisco’s Metreon complex Aug. 18 walked past – and a few around – the burly man in their path clutching a bouquet of colorful plastic rosary beads in one outstretched hand, a Chihuahua-dachshund mix named Buddy in the other.

“Would you like a rosary?” 51-year-

old Matt Barba asked the curious few who approached him, a mix of both practicing and non-practicing Catholics who said they were drawn to the rosary, the Divine Mercy sign propped up next to his white folding table, as well as the pigeon-chasing antics of Buddy.

The unassuming Barba is the founder of Curbside Catholics, the name he coined for a lay street ministry he launched just three months ago. The once wayward Catholic hopes to bring the “beauty, truth and richness” of

the Catholic faith to the public square like Jesus’ disciples did 2,000 years ago.

“My goal is to awaken people,” he said. “We’re not saving souls, we’re planting seeds.”

After a series of personal tragedies in his young adult life including the death of his mother and a health issue that left him on permanent disability, the cradle Catholic distanced himself from the church. God had become “like a spiritual ATM” – until, Barba said, the Eucharist and “the mercy

and love and patience of God” reeled him back in almost 10 years ago.

Barba and his small band of Curbside Catholics began stationing themselves on the sidewalks of some of San Francisco’s busiest neighborhoods this summer, fortified by a rotation of Dominican priests and brothers from St. Albert’s Priory in Oakland who have been evangelizing on the other side of the bay for a year.

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NEED TO KNOW PONTIFICAL MASS: The Solemn Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross will be celebrated Sept. 14 with a 6:30 p.m.

Pontifical Mass in the extraordinary form celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. For more information, email the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco at TLMofSF@gmail.com.

SUPPORT FOR WOMEN’S CENTER: Good Shepherd Gracenter, a licensed recovery center for women and a ministry of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, will present its second annual “An Art and Food Soiree,” Sept. 13 at SomArts Gallery, 934 Brannan St., San Francisco. The event will honor Teresa Mejia, executive director of the Women’s Building in San Francisco, for her long-lasting impact on improving the lives of underserved populations of women across the Bay Area; and Loreen Seid Jung, vice president and branch manager of Bank of the West in the Portola District, for her work teaching financial literacy classes to Gracenter residents. For tickets and information, www.gsgracenter.org/.

SCRIPTURE STUDY: St. Stephen Parish, 451 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco, will host Scripture study with Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, Tuesdays, 9-10 a.m., Sept. 9-Nov. 4, at the Marian Room inside the church. “Achieving a Heart filled with Gratitude: Gospel Spirituality of Today,” is scheduled Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30. “Achieving a Joy-Filled Heart,” including reflections on Pope Francis’ encyclical “Joy of the Gospel,” is scheduled Oct. 14, 21 and 28, and Nov. 4.

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FILM AIMS TO CHANGE PERCEPTION OF PRIESTHOOD: Father Robert Barron, rector of Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Ill., and creator of the “Catholicism” film series, says the church is facing a crisis and has created a film about the priesthood to counter the trend and inspire vocations.

“We’re currently experiencing the darkest period in the history of American Catholicism,” he said in an Aug. 6 news release.

“People are drifting away from religion at massive rates. They’re disenchanted with God and disappointed with the church.

The fastest growing group is the so-called ‘nones,’ those who express no religious affiliation.” He said the new film, “Heroic Priesthood,” aims to do for the priesthood what “Catholicism” did for the faith in general. “If young men glimpse the radical, resplendent, and ultimately heroic call of the priesthood, this film will have been a success,” he said. Watch the film free online at http://HeroicPriesthood.com.

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SHC seniors explore social enterprise on Lakota reservation Five seniors from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory are now back from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to one of the most impoverished and marginalized communities in the United States. As student-leaders for the Class of 2015’s Kiva Service Learning Project, the five – Ilene Jackson, Precious Listana, Charlene Louie, Sammi Pioli, Gavi Thompson – set out to learn from the Oglala Lakota or Lakota Sioux people, studying the factors that contribute to pervasive poverty on the reservation and exploring the use of microfinance to promote economic stability.

They returned from their trip with knowledge and firsthand experience to inform their project leadership in days to come.

Throughout their weeklong immersion, students stayed at a renewable solar energy organic farm where they learned about Lakota Solar Enterprises, a renewable energy company on the reservation. They observed traditional drumming and dance at the Crazy Horse Memorial while the partially completed, awe-inspiring mountain monument served as a stunning backdrop to the ceremony. They met the great-great grandchildren of chiefs Red Cloud, Big Foot and Sitting Bull, and reflected at Wounded Knee and Mount Rushmore.

Time spent on the reservation provided rare insights into the debilitating and cyclical effects of poverty on the Lakota community while bringing to light the strength and determination of their people. “The Lakota Sioux are a proud people who continue to embrace their culture as a means to mitigate every form of poverty in their community,” student leader Precious Listana said.

Honoring cultural traditions is one of the essential principles illustrated by the Lakota-owned and operated Native American Natural Foods.

Students met company founders and learned about their product, Tanka Bars, a 100 percent natural, real-food bar designed for people on the go.

Their mission honors their cultural tradition by aiming to “heal people and our mother earth by building

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s Kiva Service-Learning Project student-leaders are pictured on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota with instructor of social studies Abi Basch. The students visited Lakota Solar Enterprises to learn about renewable energy on the reservation.

a company that innovates new food products based on the traditional values of Native American respect for all living things by living in balance with mind, body and spirit.”

The company, a recipient of a microfinance loan, is the first from a native reservation to create a national brand. “Imagine the possibilities of funding other entrepreneurs to start businesses which in turn create jobs, provide income and promote economic growth and development for the reservation as a whole,” Precious said.

Inspired by the success of Native American Natural Foods, the students are excited to put their newfound knowledge in action as they

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CURBSIDE: Low-key lay evangelizers work city streets ‘to awaken people’ FROM PAGE 1

putting a humble and straightforward face for the church,� said Dominican Father Peter Junipero Hannah.

Curbside Catholics offer passersby free, unblessed rosaries and devotional material including “The 15 Promises of the Rosary,� said to have been revealed to St. Dominic by the Blessed Virgin Mary in the 13th century.

A devout 85-year-old benefactor in Wisconsin supplies rosaries to Barba at no cost. Most other expenses such as the printing of literature and signage, business cards and transportation currently come from his own limited pocket. He schedules each week’s encounters and participants, updates his website and Facebook pages, solicits donations and seeks new members all from an apartment he shares with his dog and a roommate in Glen Park.

It devours most of his monthly disability payment and virtually all of his time, but he’s happy. “God willing, this is my job now; I see this as a lifelong vocation,� Barba said.

Barba says that faithful Catholics should want to share the treasure of their faith with others, not keep it “locked up and hidden away.�

Pope John Paul II said as much in his homily at World Youth Day in 1993: “Do not be afraid to go out in the streets and into public places ... like the ďŹ rst apostles ... to preach Christ and the good news of salvation in the squares of cities.â€?

Sapphire Whitaker of San Francisco squinted at Barba from a distance before holding both hands out in apparent awe to receive the rosary she was

(PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Matt Barba, holding his dog Buddy, talks to an unidentified Catholic man who said he had a rosary but had never read about the benefits of praying it.

Right, self-described “spiritual seeker� Bob Hanlon of San Francisco sits quietly on a wall near St. Patrick Church with a rosary from Barba. offered. Growing up in Santa Cruz, she said her family spent time in a homeless shelter where a volunteer exposed her to Catholic prayer. “I learned to say the Hail Mary,� said Whitaker. “When I saw him (Barba) I realized how much I miss it.� She picked up instructions on “How To Say The Rosary� before moving on.

Curbside Catholics is free of confrontation and spectacle. “We don’t approach anyone, we invite others to approach,â€? said Barba. “If someone approaches you in San Francisco, the ďŹ rst instinct most people have is to back away.â€?

People often open their hearts to them willingly, retelling a tragic event or past or expressing a need for an unhealed trauma, said Barba. “We know we have

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Inspired by the philosophy of Father Robert Barron of Word on Fire ministry, who believes the most effective way to evangelize is to ďŹ rst get people to fall in love with the beauty of the faith, Barba is scouting for Gregorian chant practitioners and Catholic artists to help express that beauty to the secular world he says is badly in need of it.

Curbside Catholics is in full unity with, and obedience to, the Roman Catholic Church, said Barba, and is served and endorsed by two spiritual advisors, Benedictine Mother Dolores Hart and Dominican Father Brian Mullady.

Street evangelizing may be his calling, but it isn’t always a dream. People bla-

tantly ignore him. Many smirk as they pass and loud grumblings about church scandals aren’t uncommon. “We do not have the power to convert hearts,� he said. “That is God’s work.

We simply allow ourselves to be utilized so that the Holy Spirit can work through us, to reach the hearts of those who are receptive.�

Someone like Bob Hanlon? The self-described “spiritual seekerâ€? tells Barba he was raised and educated in the church but now prefers to meditate and pray. Still he lingers at Barba’s table, accepts a rosary and sits quietly for few minutes ďŹ ngering the beads. “Go to a church and have it blessed,â€?

Barba suggests.

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Planets aligned in Priory science teacher’s universe TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Now in his 37th year teaching science, Woodside Priory’s Paul Trudelle sees no end in sight. He holds a degree in biology from Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, and a graduate degree in secondary science education from San Francisco State.

His teaching career began as a Jesuit volunteer at Labre Indian School in Montana.

“Now I teach high school physPaul Trudelle ics and middle-school earth and space science,” Paul told me in an email. “Other years I have taught chemistry, biology, astronomy, theology, and physical science.” Now in his 32nd year at the Priory, he and his family have lived on campus for all of that time.

Paul looks to the future even keeping what he calls a “mini-Exploratorium” modeled on the treasured San Francisco site in his classroom.

“My dream is to have an entire lab room full of science gadgets and demos just like the real Exploratorium,” he said. He looks to expand the telescope collection as well as put to work the many astronomy, earth science, and physics apps he’s come upon over the summer.

That said, Paul still relies on classroom techniques he’s known for decades including review.

Students verbally go over their homework, lab questions and project ideas for the first three to five minutes of class each day in groups of two or three while Paul walks around the room checking homework and checking in.

“Students ask each other for clarification and note difficult problems they would like to address in class,” Paul said. “During the first month, I also ask them to teach what they have learned in class to someone at home for at least 10 minutes.

It’s amazing what questions are generated and what they remember long-term if this done correctly.”

With iPads now in the picture, Paul will ask students to summarize in a few sentences what they have learned each day and include at least one ‘Please Clarify?’ or ‘What If ?’ question and email it to him. He said it helps him know what to re-teach.

Paul’s long stay at the Priory has a lot to do with its healthy learning environment. “Students feel comfortable and accepted at Priory where ‘all are welcome,’” Paul said. “Kids generally feel they can be themselves in our small classes.

Teachers are respected as professionals.”

“I try to enjoy the many little moments full of

DECADE LATER: St. Robert School graduates of 2004 gathered Aug. 3 in San Bruno Park for the opening of a time capsule they sealed and stashed under a stage in the school basement 10 years ago. Contents included a school yearbook, letters to one another, a school uniform and items from the classroom. “It was a great day organized by our class president, Annette Molina,” said Kevin Carey, the alums’ teacher in 2004 and now a member of the faculty at Junipero Serra High School. Pictured standing from left are classmates Brian Noce, Allison Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Bendick, Kevin McAlindon, Nicki Topper, Kevin Daniele, Jackie Nevarez, Brian Presta, Joe Ivani, John Cuddy; next row from left, Annette Molina, Justine Cordon, Bonnie Pino, Erin Bouey-Suen, Francesca Oliva, Ali Orloff, Danica Smerdel, Jessica Harders. At front is Bentz Valiao. humor and student questions in and out of the science classroom,” Paul said. “A special and rare joy occurs when a class walks out still discussing the lesson of the day or when a lab elicits even more questions than it answers.”

BATTER UP: Jeremy Gory, John Denning and Ethan Ott. Good hearts come in all age groups as was shown in June when 9-year old baseball players from Redwood City’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Pius parishes teamed up with less able players from Little League’s Challenger Division. “Our boys learned a valuable life lesson on this day – empathy,” said Ed Gory, the Redwood City Cardinals coach. “We helped out a team of disabled kids play baseball in Foster City. Cardinals were their ‘buddies’ for the day.” Ed said “All of the Cardinals coaching staff are dedicated to teaching these boys life lessons and team building skills which will be beneficial to them in their future.”

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Parishes answer sudden call to help resettle refugee family CHRISTINA GRAY

There are an estimated 20 million refugees worldwide and the US is the largest refugee resettler in the world, receiving up to 90,000 refugees a year. In the US, the Catholic Church is the largest resettler.

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Four members of a family from Afghanistan who left their country only a week after receiving legal refugee status from the U.S., landed in the Bay Area on July 31 without relatives to greet them and little more than the clothes on their backs.

Within days, the couple and their two young sons, ages 2 and 4, were met with temporary housing, basic home furnishings, linens and bedding, clothing, food, toys, car seats and a couple dozen new friends thanks to an speedy emergency response led Catholic Charities CYO of San Francisco and parishioners at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon. “It caught us all off guard,� Christopher Martinez, senior program director for Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services, said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco Aug. 20. His job is to help welcome and resettle refugees who’ve applied for and received refugee status by the U.S. government because of religious, racial, political and other forms of persecution or threats of violence in their home country.

Martinez said there are an estimated 20 million refugees worldwide and the U.S. is the largest refugee resettler in the world, receiving up to 90,000 refugees a year. In the U.S., the Catholic Church is the largest resettler.

Catholic Charities, the social service arm of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, guards the conďŹ dentiality of the circumstances behind a refugee’s ight to ensure the privacy and safety, but Martinez said that the family was “directly persecuted for their beliefs to the point they were threatened with their lives.â€?

Martinez’s office typically gets 90 days to prepare for the arrival of one of the 18 or so resettlement cases that come his way each year. But this family got the green light only a week before the expiration of their visas.

A â€œďŹ‚ight pendingâ€? email was Martinez’s ďŹ rst notice of the family’s imminent arrival. “I wondered how

St. Hilary Parish school moms Michelle Doty and Joyce Raffo led what became a coordinated archdiocese-wide effort to resettle and welcome an Afghan refugee family. Pictured are emergency team members Christopher Martinez of Catholic Charities CYO; George Doty, son of Michelle Doty; Michelle Doty; Jane Ferguson Flout of Catholic Charities CYO; Joyce Raffo.

I was going to prepare for the arrival of this family by myself,� he said.

Fortunately he didn’t have to.

Though the refugees had relatives in Larkspur with whom they had intended to temporarily stay, they had not anticipated the family’s sudden arrival and had left town on an extended holiday. Martinez borrowed car seats from Star Community House, a residential family program run by Catholic Charities, and headed to the airport on July 31 to collect the family after their long journey. “What are those?� The husband, a skilled mechanic, who speaks English, translated his wife’s question.

She had never seen car seats before.

Martinez asked about their needs and observed some for himself – the baby had only one shoe after losing it on the journey, for instance.

After securing short-term housing for the family on Treasure Island Supportive Housing Program, he reached out to his Catholic Charities colleague

Jane Ferguson Float, director of community and parish engagement. Her job is to ďŹ nd ways to involve Catholic parishes, schools and communities in opportunities that support the work of Catholic Charities.

She asked the archdiocesan parish community for help, and got it.

The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael responded immediately with a check, as did St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco.

In Tiburon, pastor Father Bill Brown St. Hilary parishioners to help, and two parish school moms, Michelle Doty and Joyce Raffo, stepped up to coordinate donations from a half-dozen parish families, including a television, a stroller, a food basket and goodies for the kids.

St. Philip Parish in San Francisco donated beds from their old convent, and St. Patrick Parish in Larkspur stood ready to help once the family is settled.

Doty’s teenage son, George, a student at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, helped pack into trucks in the St. Hilary parking lot and Martinez delivered them to the grateful family. “There was so much care from the St. Hilary family,� said Flout. “They were heartfelt in their desire to help.�

Father Brown agreed. “No one asked if the family was Catholic – all they cared about was helping brothers and sisters in need,� he said.

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Students in clean uniforms and with freshly combed hair started school across the Archdiocese of San Francisco as August and summer drew to a close.

At Immaculate Conception Academy, school started Aug. 19 with an opening Mass and prayers for the school year as enrollment topped 300 this year, said director of development Celine Curran.

The Cristo Rey Network school offers a college preparatory curriculum and corporate work study program.

“Lord, we ask you to bless our new school year. May we be happy and learn new, interesting things.

Bless all our teachers and students, especially those, who are new to the school. Lord, bless our efforts and grant us your success,” the students prayed at the prayers of the faithful.

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Immaculate Conception Academy freshmen are pictured on the first day of school, Aug. 19.

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Across the archdiocese, enrollment held steady this year although kindergarten enrollment is down slightly, said Annette Brown, director of finance for the archdiocesan Catholic

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In all Catholic elementary schools in the three counties, 17,300 students were enrolled for the 2014-15 school

year. In the high schools, just under 10,000 students enrolled in Catholic high schools, Brown said. The four archdiocesan high schools, Junipero Serra High School, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Archbishop Riordan High School and Marin Catholic High School, had total enrollment of 3,450.

In San Mateo, five high schools had an estimated enrollment of 2,550. San Francisco’s seven high schools had estimated enrollment of 4,400. Marin County’s two high schools had 900 enrolled.

At the elementary school level, San Mateo County’s 22 elementary schools and one free-standing Catholic preschool had estimated enrollment of 6,850. San Francisco’s 29 elementary schools enrolled 8,450 and Marin County’s eight elementary schools enrolled 2,000 in grades pre-K to 8.

Marriage prep leader: Meet engaged couples where they are VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Marriage preparation is not only critically important to helping couples remain happy – and married – it is a window to bring or keep an entire family in the Catholic Church.

When 90 percent of couples who come to marriage preparation are openly sleeping with each other and somewhere between 60 and 80 percent are already sharing the same address, the Catholic Church’s teaching on abstinence, and its prohibition on artificial contraception, are tough sells, says Christian J. Meert of Agape Catholic Ministries.

Agape Catholic Marriage Prep begins by connecting with the actual couple, setting each couple up with a mentor instructor couple who works with them – not dumping a weekend’s worth of Catholic Church teaching and assorted life lessons on communication and finance on them and moving on, Meert said.

“It’s a matter of relating to the engaged couple,” said Meert. “Every couple is different. We have to reach out to them where they are.”

“Marriage preparation is a time of conversion,” said Meert, who with his wife Christine directs the office of marriage and family life for the Diocese of Colorado Springs as well as running Agape Catholic Ministries and its associated CatholicMarriagePrep.com. “We treat them respectfully where they are.

We give them all the information. It is up to them to make up their mind what they want to do,” he said.

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco has announced the establishment of an Archdiocesan Children’s Choir, said Christoph Tietze, music director, St. Mary’s Cathedral, who is overseeing the undertaking. “Archbishop Cordileone has sent out letters to all Catholic elementary schools, asking the principals to invite their five most promising singers to join,” Tietze said. The choir membership will not compete with school activities the singers might be involved in,

present their style of marriage preparation 7-9 p.m. Sept. 25 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in English at the same time as their colleagues, Rudy and Carmen Lopez, will make the presentation in Spanish. The presentation is designed for deacons, marriage preparation instructors and others interested in marriage preparation. It is not intended for engaged couples, although they are welcome to attend, said Ed Hopfner, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Marriage and Family Life.

The Meerts offer marriage preparation online, offering individual instruction to each couple over the Internet based on a one-on-one relationship between the engaged couples and a trained married instructor couple “faithful to the magisterium who live what they teach,” he said. Since 2004, Agape Marriage Prep has prepared 15,000 couples for marriage via the online program, Meert said. In addition, Agape offers live classes. They also will begin teaching live classes at the Archdiocese of Denver pastoral center, as the primary marriage preparation program for the Denver archdiocese, he said.

The Meerts don’t water down Catholic Church teaching on marriage, they just begin at the beginning, Meert said.

Literally. They start with the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis and present St. John Paul’s theology of the body, he said.

“There is an incredible longing for the unchanging truth because we live in a world of moral relativism which is destroying our society under the cover of respect or whatever,” said Meert.

Tietze said. The choir will be comprised of students third through eighth grades.

Singers recommended for the choir by their school principal and music teacher will receive an invitation. The choir will practice on Tuesdays, 4-5:30 p.m., at the cathedral and sing once or twice a month at the cathedral and other locations. Any talented singers in grades three through eight currently not enrolled in a Catholic school may also schedule an audition by calling Tietze at (415) 567-2020, ext 213.

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Young adults bear brunt of unemployment crisis ARCHBISHOP THOMAS G. WENSKI

Here is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2014 Labor Day message, written by Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, chairman, Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

This year Pope Francis canonized St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II. Both made immense contributions to the social teaching of the church on the dignity of labor and its importance to human ourishing. St. John Paul II called work “probably the essential key to the whole social questionâ€? (“Laborem Exercens,â€? No. 3) and St. John XXIII stressed workers are “entitled to a wage that is determined in accordance with the precepts of justiceâ€? (“Pacem in Terris,â€? No. 20).

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cially the long-term unemployed, are discouraged and dejected.

More concerning is that our young adults have borne the brunt of this crisis of unemployment and underemployment. The unemployment rate for young adults in America, at over 13 percent, is more than double the national average (6.2 percent).

For those fortunate enough to have jobs, many pay poorly. Greater numbers of debt-strapped college graduates move back in with their parents, while high school graduates and others may have less debt but very few decent job opportunities.

Pope Francis has reserved some of his strongest language for speaking about young adult unemployment, calling it “evil,� an “atrocity,� and emblematic of the “throwaway culture.�

The situation is even worse in other parts of the world, with young adult joblessness reaching up to three and four times the national average even in places like England and Australia. In some countries, three-fourths of young people who work have resorted to the unstable and sometimes dangerous informal economy in an attempt to make ends

Our younger generations are counting on us to leave them a world better than the one we inherited.

Pope Francis added to this tradition that work “is fundamental to the dignity of a person .... (It) ‘anoints’ us with dignity, ďŹ lls us with dignity, makes us similar to God ... gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one’s family, (and) to contribute to the growth of one’s own nation.â€? Work helps us realize our humanity and is necessary for human ourishing.

Work is not a punishment for sin but rather a means by which we make a gift of ourselves to each other and our communities. We simply cannot advance the common good without decent work and a strong

commitment to solidarity. Labor Day gives us the chance to see how work in America matches up to the lofty ideals of our Catholic tradition. This year, some Americans who have found stability and security are breathing a sigh of relief. Sporadic economic growth, a falling unemployment rate and more consistent job creation suggest that the country may ďŹ nally be healing economically after years of suffering and pain.

For those men and women, and their children, this is good news.

Digging a little deeper, however, reveals enduring hardship for millions of workers and their families.

The poverty rate remains high, as 46 million Americans struggle to make ends meet. The economy continues to fail in producing enough decent jobs for everyone who is able to work, despite the increasing numbers of retiring baby boomers. There are twice as many unemployed job seekers as there are available jobs, and that does not include the 7 million part-time workers who want to work full time. Millions more, espe-

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Historian: Bishop Hurley unsung peacemaking hero in ’68 SF State strike VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Mark Hurley is an unsung hero in one of San Francisco’s most volatile periods of recent history: the student strike at San Francisco State College in 1968 and 1969, says California historian William Issel.

Issel, who has written extensively about Catholic involvement in the history of San Francisco, said few people then or now realized the critical role that the native San Franciscan played in resolving the 1968-69 strike, which shut down the campus for five months.

The strike was led by the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front, supported by the radical Students for a Democratic Society and may be best known for the televised moment of newly appointed State College President S.I. Hayakawa

pulling out wires to the speakers on the sound truck demonstrators parked at the 19th Avenue corner of campus. “Bishop Hurley was able to develop a kind of communication connection with the student leaders of the Black Student Union and the so-called Third World Liberation Front,� said Issel, who taught at SF State from 1968 to 2006 and is currently a visiting history professor at Mills College. “It was through that personal connection and through what I call his moral authority which the students recognized that they finally asked him in February and March of 1969 to settle the strike – which he did,� said Issel, whose books about San Francisco include “For Both Cross and Flag Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco�

(Temple University, 2010).

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Bishop Mark Hurley, who grew up in St. Agnes Parish, had just been appointed an auxiliary bishop in 1968 when Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken tapped him to represent the archdiocese on a citizens committee created by Mayor Joe Alioto to resolve the student strike at San Francisco State College. Bishop Hurley, who was elected chairman of the committee, is pictured in this archival photo with committee members.

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HISTORIAN: Bishop unsung peacemaking hero in ’68 SF State strike FROM PAGE 9

Issel is writing a biography of Bishop Hurley, who served as Santa Rosa bishop from 1970 to 1987. He died in 2001. “I want to put the role of Bishop Hurley in the San Francisco State strike in the context of the changing and declining inuence of the Catholic Church in the culture of San Francisco,â€? said Issel.

The ‘60s and early ‘70s were a time of student and civic unrest across the country. At San Francisco State College, student demonstrations, student sit-ins and takeovers of administration offices on issues relating to the Vietnam War draft and treatment of African-Americans, roiled the campus from spring 1967 through 1969. With the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, and previous incidents of police called in to clear administration offices occupied by students, fears of further violence by both demonstrators and police gripped the college and the city when the Nov. 6, 1968, student strike began. “Already there had been some episodes of some

of the more aggressive police attacking and physically hurting some students,� Issel said. “At the time, there were all these radical students traveling the country and looking for opportunity. There were a number of students on the campus at the time who were egging on the police, and hoping by making things worse to speed up, quote, ‘the beginning of the revolution.’�

Bishop Hurley’s actions – including his behindthe-scenes negotiations that convinced the faculty union to take to the picket lines – averted what could have become a bloody confrontation, Issel said.

Bishop Hurley, who grew up in St. Agnes Parish, had just been appointed an auxiliary bishop in 1968 when Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken tapped him to represent the archdiocese on a citizens committee created by Mayor Joe Alioto to resolve the crisis. Bishop Hurley was elected chairman of the committee, Issel said. “Because he was so crucial in the settlement of the strike, I thought it was worthwhile taking a closer look at what he actually did as chair of this committee,� said Issel. “What I’ve discovered is he was also a moving force – he was the individual who was responsible for talking the faculty union into going

out on strike in order that they would then create a kind of barrier to the police moving into the body of the campus and possibly causing mayhem and riots worse than what had already happened,� Issel said.

Mayor Alioto was also anxious to avert violence and had a strong record with the unions, Issel said. Mayor Alioto promised Bishop Hurley if the faculty went on strike, the police, who were unionized, would respect the picket lines that circled the campus, Issel said.

When the entire fracas was resolved, students walked away with one of their key demands met: creation and funding of an ethnic studies department, Issel said. “Not only was that strike part of a new sort of initiative at San Francisco State that developed into the ethnic studies school – that strike generated a lot of copycat strikes across the country that were similarly important for these black studies and other ethnic studies programs that developed and have been operating ever since,� Issel said. “You can evaluate the desirability of these programs until the cows come in. It still remains a fact that they have been very important since as a feature of American higher education.�

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San Franciscans to vote in November on $15 minimum wage CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco, which according to a Brookings Institute report released earlier this year has the secondhighest greatest wealth divide in the country, will be presenting voters with one of the strongest minimum wage proposals in the nation this November.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, with the backing Barry Stenger of Mayor Ed Lee, unanimously voted this summer to place on the November ballot an initiative to raise the minimum wage to $12.25 starting on May 1, 2015, and increase it every July for three years, culminating in a $15 hourly wage by July 1, 2018. Wages would be adjusted by the consumer price index in subsequent years.

San Francisco last voted to raise the minimum wage in 2003 with 60 percent of voters approving the measure requiring for-profit and nonprofit businesses to pay $10.74-an-hour current minimum wage, according to a statement on the city website.

Despite the successful minimum wage increase in 2003, San Francisco wages have not kept pace with its skyrocketing cost of living, said Supervisor Jane Kim. “We have struggled with an ever-widening income gap that makes it difficult for employees to live where they work and support their families,” she said. In online search of San Francisco rentals, the average price for a one-bedroom

apartment is almost $3,000 a month; two-bedroom apartments go for $4,000 or more.

“In a time of economic growth, no worker should be left without a fair and livable wage,” Kim said.

Wage hikes are being crafted in other Bay Area cities that share some of San Francisco’s economic burdens. The city of Oakland will raise the minimum wage in March of 2015 to $12.25 for all workers, with cost-of-living increases and paid sick days. Richmond voters are expected to vote on a similar ballot measure in 2015, while Berkeley voters will do so in 2016. Cities from Emeryville to Albany to Hayward will also consider minimum wage legislation and initiatives by 2016.

These represent the first steps in a regional referendum to raise the minimum wage, guarantee cost-of- living increases alongside inflation, and ensure workers earn paid sick days.

“Economic inequality is a crisis for millions of low-wage workers. We have families choosing between food and medicine, between rent and clothes for their kids, and that is tragic,” said Roxanne Sanchez, President of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021.

Opponents say an increased minimum wage will stifle a growing economy and cripple many lowmargin operations such as the restaurant business and nonprofits. But proponents believe the measure is a simple matter of human dignity.

Barry Stenger, executive director of St. Anthony Foundation, said an increased minimum wage is important on several levels. The San Francisco agency set to open its new dining room Oct. 4 will voluntarily raise its own minimum wage for employees to $15 an hour by 2016.

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“It’s part of our strategic planning,” Stenger told Catholic San Francisco. “A living wage has social justice implications. Many of the people we serve are the working poor.”

Stenger said many cannot make enough money to support themselves and their families. He said the discussion of the issue is also important and can put light on the interconnectedness of social issues including wages, housing and basic human dignity.

“It is not an easy answer by any means,” said Good Shepherd Sister Marguerite Bartling, executive director of Good Shepherd Gracenter, a licensed recovery residence for women. “San Francisco presents a unique situation because of the high cost of living and the lack of affordable housing. Here many low-income persons work hard and strive to improve their life by getting off welfare and gaining honest employment. In justice, people need a decent wage in order to survive.

“I am in favor of helping persons do that while at the same time balancing the real needs of small businesses to continue to exist in San Francisco,” Sister Marguerite said. “Perhaps the increase in the minimum wage could be spread out over a longer period of time so that businesses could gradually absorb the cost and still continue to exist and offer employment opportunities to people.”

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LABOR DAY: Bishops say young adults bear brunt of jobless crisis FROM PAGE 8

meet. Pope Francis has said young people “call us to renewed and expansive hope, for they represent new directions for humanity and open us up to the future” (“Evangelii Gaudium,” No. 108). We need to do more to nurture hopefulness and provide our young adults with skills, support, and opportunities to flourish. We need to do more to nurture this hopefulness and provide our young adults with skills, support, and opportunities to flourish.

Meaningful and decent work is vital if young adults hope to form healthy and stable families.

Work and family life “must be properly united and must properly permeate each other. In a way, work is a condition for making it possible to found a family, since the family requires the means of subsistence which man normally gains through work” (“Laborem Exercens,” No. 10). Research is bearing out the consequences of neglecting this relationship: Marriage rates have declined by close to 20 percent in the last 40 years, and the birth rate is the lowest on record. Among young adults, the decline in marriage has been steeper, at 40 percent. Although not the only reason, many young adults, because they are unable to find decent work, are delaying marriage and starting a family.

Our challenge this Labor Day is to rise to the challenge of solidarity posed by Jesus when he commanded, “(L)ove one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another”

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At their best, labor unions and institutions like them embody solidarity and subsidiarity while advancing the common good. They help workers “not only have more, but above all be more ... (and) realize their humanity more fully in every respect” (“Laborem Exercens,” No. 20). Yes, unions and worker associations are imperfect, as are all human institutions. But the right of workers to freely associate is supported by church teaching in order to protect workers and move them – especially younger ones, through mentoring and apprenticeships – into decent jobs with just wages.

As a nation of immigrants, we recognize that a vibrant and just economy requires the contributions of everyone. Those who come seeking decent work to support their families by and large complement, rather than displace, American workers. But we need to fix our broken immigration system to stop the exploitation and marginalization of millions of people as well as address the development needs of other countries. In doing so we would also level the playing field among workers, provide more opportunity for all who can work, and bring about a needed “change of attitude toward migrants and refugees” (Pope Francis, “Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees”).

Supporting policies and institutions that create decent jobs, pay just wages, and support family formation and stability will also honor the dignity of workers. Raising the minimum wage, more and better workforce training programs, and smarter regulations that minimize negative unintended consequences would be good places to start.

In doing this we follow the lead of Pope Francis in rejecting an economy of exclusion and embracing an authentic culture of encounter. Our younger generations are counting on us to leave them a world better than the one we inherited.

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Aug. 13 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the iconic priests in the history of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Father Peter C. Yorke (1863-1925). Fighter for causes including Irish liberty, worker rights, religious freedom and Catholic education, the son of Galway seafarers was adopted by the archdiocese in 1886 and, after earning a licentiate in theology at Catholic University of America, appointed secretary to Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan. The accompanying photo from the Yorke family archives shows the young priest, apparently early in his career in San Francisco, Yorke family historian Paul Yorke of Vancouver, British Columbia, told Catholic San Francisco. Father Yorke’s accomplishments included defeating the anti-Catholic American Protective Association in the 1890s and rallying Teamsters behind church social teaching during a bloody labormanagement battle in 1901. Father Yorke invoked Pope Leo XIII’s defense of labor in the 1891 encylical “Rerum Novarum,” Archdiocesan archivist Deacon Jeff Burns writes in “A History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.” Deacon Burns writes that in a Sept. 21, 1901, speech, Father Yorke answered those who questioned why a priest was involved in a labor struggle: “As a priest my duty is with workingmen, who are struggling for their rights because that is the historical position of the priesthood and because that is the Lord’s command.” Father Yorke was pastor of St. Peter Parish in the Mission District from 1913 until his death in 1925 on Palm Sunday – a day commemorated annually as an Irish and labor memorial.

Father Peter C. Yorke is pictured with Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan in this photo from the archdiocesan archives.

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The young Father Peter C. Yorke is seen in a portrait family historian Paul Yorke dates to the late 1880s, the period when the Irish-born priest was adopted by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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14 NATIONAL SPECIAL US COLLECTION URGED FOR MIDDLE EAST

WASHINGTON – The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference Aug. 19 asked Catholic bishops across the country to take up a special collection for humanitarian needs and pastoral support for Christians and other victims of violence in the Middle East.

Amid the ongoing crisis in what is “the cradle of Christianity,” the Catholic Church “mourns the terrible suffering of Christians and other innocent victims of violence in Iraq, Syria and Gaza who are struggling to survive, protect their children and live with dignity in dire conditions,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky.

Emphasizing “the extraordinary nature of this crisis,” he urged the bishops to have parishes in their dioceses hold the collection the weekend of Sept. 6-7 or Sept. 13-14 and to send the contributions as soon as possible to the Office of National Collections at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA PUT ON HOLD; FLORIDA BAN OVERTURNED

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court put same-sex marriages in Virginia on hold Aug. 20, one day before the ban was scheduled to be lifted.

On Aug. 21, a federal judge in Tallahassee, Florida, struck down a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in that state, saying it violated the guarantees of equal protection and due process provided in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

“We are sadly disappointed by the court’s decision to reject marriage as the union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife,” said an Aug. 21 statement from Florida’s Catholic bishops. “The decision fails to adequately consider that marriage unites a man and a woman with any children born from their union and protects a child’s right to both a mother and a father.”

CELEBRATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

WASHINGTON – To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on African American Affairs will release a series of resources to highlight the achievements of the civil rights era and its connections to the Catholic Church, the bishops announced.

Over the next 12 months, resources will highlight the Mississippi Freedom Summer (June to August 1964); the Civil Rights Act (July 1964); the March from Selma to Montgomery (March 1965); and the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act in August 2015.

The resources will help promote dialogue among parishes, schools, Catholic groups and others by examining how these events helped pave the way to the current multicultural relations. The project also aims to promote dialogue among generations on the meaning of the historic legacy, and provide an opportunity to discuss the social teachings of the church.

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LCWR LEADERS HOPE VATICAN WILL RESOLVE ISSUES

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Members of the national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said their “deepest hope” is to resolve the issues between them and the Vatican doctrinal congregation in a way that honors LCWR’s mission and integrity.

The board issued the statement after the close of LCWR’s annual assembly Aug. 12-15 in Nashville.

The leaders of orders of women religious took part in the assembly under the continuing doctrinal assessment by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which cited “serious doctrinal problems which affect many in consecrated life.” The assessment called for the organization’s reform to ensure its fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality.

LCWR the members offered direction to the group’s national board and president for their work with Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, appointed in 2012 to implement the doctrinal assessment by providing “review, guidance and approval, where necessary” of LCWR’s work.

After the assembly was over, LCWR’s national board of 21 members took part in a private three-day meeting that began with a one-hour session with Archbishop Sartain. The group in the statement issued afterward reiterated members’ belief that “ongoing conversation with church leadership is key to building effective working relationships that enable both women religious and church leaders to serve the world.”

In his remarks during the opening session, Archbishop Sartain told the 800 women in the audience he was there “to be with you as a brother and a friend.”

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Foley lauded for living his faith through his reporting CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROCHESTER, N.H. – Slain journalist James Foley, who sent images and copy from different war zones, was described as living his faith through his work.

The Associated Press reported that at a memorial Mass Aug. 24, Bishop Peter A. Libasci of Manchester, New Hampshire, lauded Foley for bringing important images of war and oppressive regimes to the rest of the world.

Foley was kidnapped in November 2012 while covering the war in Syria. The Islamic State posted a video on the Web Aug. 19 showing him being beheaded, saying it was in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq.

Vatican Radio reported Aug. 25 that the Holy See’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, sent a condolence message on behalf of Pope Francis to Foley’s family. The message was read by Bishop Libasci at the end of the Mass at the family’s parish, Our Lady of the Rosary.

The AP described the memorial Mass as packed, with people standing three deep in the back and sides of the church.

Bishop Libasci asked the crowd to follow the words of the Prayer of St. Francis: “It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

AP said Bishop Libasci observed that Foley went back to covering conflicts in the Middle East after a previous kidnapping in Libya in 2011. He was released after 44 days that time.

“Jim went back again that we might open our eyes,” the bishop said, “that we might indeed know how precious is this gift. May almighty God grant peace to James and to all our fragile world.”

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U.S. journalist James Foley speaks at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill., after being released from imprisonment in Libya in 2011.

AP said Bishop Libasci urged people not to think of vengeance. “Look at what it’s done already,” he said. “Look at the heartbreak.”

The Foleys plan a funeral for their son on Oct. 18, on what would have been his 41st birthday.

Pope Francis phoned Foley’s family on Aug. 21, engaging in a conversation of longer than 20 minutes with several members of the family, through a translator, and in Spanish with one family member.

Father Paul Gousse, pastor of the family’s parish, Holy Rosary Church in Rochester, New Hampshire, told Catholic News Service in an Aug. 22 phone call that the Foleys told him they were especially struck by the pope’s outreach to them at a time when he is grieving himself. The wife of the pope’s nephew and their two young children were killed in an Aug. 19 car crash in Argentina.

HHS issues rules for opting out of mandate CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – In new actions related to the federal contraceptive mandate, the Obama administration has announced rules allowing religious nonprofits and some companies to opt out of coverage they oppose on moral grounds, and the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has won a permanent injunction against enforcement of the mandate.

Greensburg Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt praised the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania for its ruling recognizing the “basic religious freedom” of the diocese and related entities.

“The injunction allows the diocese to continue our ministries to educate children and assist the many people in need in our communities without interference by government edicts that are contrary to our core beliefs,” he said Aug. 21.

On Aug. 22, the Obama administration issued new rules it has described as a “work around” to offer religious employers who are not exempt from the mandate a new way to opt out. The rules also provide some for-profit companies a way to opt out.

After an initial review of a summary of the new regulations, Catholic and other religious leaders were critical of them, including the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, who said they “would not broaden the ‘religious employer’ exemption to encompass all employers with sincerely held religious objections to the mandate.”

“Instead, the regulations would only modify the ‘accommodation,’ under which the mandate still applies and still requires provision of the objectionable coverage,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky.

The accommodation he described is a way for nonexempt, nonprofit employers to direct a third party to provide coverage they find morally objectionable.

As part of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requires nearly all employers to cover contraceptives, sterilizations and some abortion-inducing drugs for all employees in their company health plan. It includes a narrow exemption for some religious employers that fit certain criteria.

Employers who are not exempt must fill out a self-certification form – known as EBSA Form 700 – to direct a third party, usually the manager of an employer’s health plan, to provide the contested

coverage.

Many religious employers who have sued over the mandate argue that even filling out Form 700 makes them complicit in providing coverage they find objectionable.

In rules announced by HHS Aug. 22, the administration has made available a new course for nonprofits that object to the process for the accommodation and has proposed extending to certain for-profit companies the third-party accommodation previously created for nonprofits.

The new rules were designed in response to recent court rulings, including the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. It said that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, closely held companies may be exempted from the contraceptive coverage requirement as a religious right.

The HHS statement said the rules “balance our commitment to helping ensure women have continued access to coverage for preventative services important to their health, with the administration’s goal of respecting religious beliefs.”

Under the new rules, nonprofit organizations seeking to use the accommodation may simply “notify the Department of Health and Human Services in writing of their religious objection to providing contraceptive coverage. HHS and the Department of Labor will then notify insurers and third-party administrators so that enrollees in plans of such organizations receive separate coverage for contraceptive services, with no additional cost to the enrollee or the employer.”

A proposal to handle companies covered by the Supreme Court ruling, such as Hobby Lobby, would allow closely held for-profit employers to follow the same accommodation that has previously been available to nonprofit religious organizations, the release said.

In Greensburg, Bishop Brandt said the District Court recognized “that allowing the government to enforce the mandate would “cleave the Catholic Church into two parts: worship, service and ‘good works,’ thereby entangling the government in deciding what comprises ‘religion.’”

“I realize this legal battle is not over,” the bishop said. “The government has already indicated it will appeal this decision. ... I anticipate this issue will not be resolved until it is addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

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RETIRED POPE BENEDICT XVI CELEBRATES MASS

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People displaced by violence sit outside St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church in Ankawa, Iraq, Aug. 14. A typical day for many Iraqi Christians encamped at Ankawa, near Irbil, would probably involve another round of struggle against desperation, frustration, anxiety, boredom and fear.

Displaced Iraqis face daily struggle against desperation, boredom SIMON CALDWELL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANCHESTER, England – A typical day for many Iraqi Christians encamped at Ankawa, near Irbil, would probably involve another round of struggle against desperation, frustration, anxiety, boredom and fear.

In email exchanges with Catholic News Service, Sahar Mansour, 40, who lectured in chemistry at the University of Mosul until June, described life in the camp and surrounding settlements of Iraqis who fled advancing Islamic State fighters.

She said the day might begin by waking under the plastic cover of the makeshift tent that has become home.

Then it would be time to pluck the damp clothes, the only set the camp residents own, from a nearby hedge or tree where they were hung to dry after being washed the night before. Most people then join the long line to use a latrine.

Breakfast would follow. This is often prepared by young volunteers among the displaced. Humanitarian assistance from the international community means that food is at last reaching the more than 70,000 displaced Iraqis who live in at least six centers around Ankawa.

The displaced Iraqis appear to be living everywhere.

One of the camps is in the frame of a huge building that is under construction, and others have grown up around the local churches – often the first places the new arrivals turn for help.

Many families are living in and around St. Joseph’s Chaldean Catholic Church, while about 650 families live within the boundaries of a Syriac Catholic church.

Mansour visited the Syriac Catholic church Aug. 12 and found that the priests and nuns there were “doing their best to respond to the needs of the people” amid a scene of overcrowding and distress.

“The situation is almost a tragedy,” she said in a mid-August email to Catholic News Service. “The place is too small to contain these families. You see people sleeping in the church, (the) hall, outside the church, under the trees. Others have set up tents to protect them from the heat of the sun and in the park in front of the church.”

“The thing that made me depressed is that diseases are spreading among kids,” she said. “The elderly people cannot cope with the heat, a lot of them were fainting, and deaths are being recorded.”

She said children were crying, while mothers were mourning for lost infants and fathers stood around helplessly.

“It is very painful ... when a woman loses a child in front of her eyes,” Mansour added.

But she added the displaced know that they must not give in to the temptation to despair: They sustain

CITY ‘EMPTY’ OF CHRISTIANS

Mosul, Iraq, is now completely empty of Christians as is Qaraqosh, a town dating back to 1,000 years before Christ and inhabited by mostly Christians for 2,000 years. More than 100,000 people are displaced from Mosul alone.

“They all fled at the same time without taking anything” with them, secretary to Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham, Father Rami WakimFather Wakim, told Catholic News Service in Beirut. themselves as much as possible by the hope that they will eventually be rescued from their awful plight.

Mansour said those in the camps were encouraged by the arrival of humanitarian assistance, including medicine. First aid stations have been set up to treat the weak, sick and injured. Cars also have been provided to take medicine and treatment to those too ill to walk.

Those in the camp must decide how to use their time productively while waiting for their land to be liberated from the Islamic State militants.

Many of the younger camp residents have volunteered for the work that needs to be done to make their camps inhabitable and to care for those who need help the most.

Latrines are being dug around the camps, and portable toilets are being transported in to help to halt the spread of diseases such as cholera and typhoid.

The displaced Iraqis are making use of the professional skills they have. Barbers, for example, offer haircuts to all of the displaced and a chance for men to shave.

Some of the youths, meanwhile, have volunteered to arrange games and activities for the many children struggling to adapt to life inside the camp.

On one hot evening, paddling pools were filled so that younger children could both play and cool off.

St. Joseph’s priests continue to celebrate Mass and administer the sacraments as well as tend to the needs of those camped there.

On Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption of Mary, the Christians joined a Marian procession near a statue of Mary by the entrance of Ankawa camp. It was one of the few moments of festivity in the camp, with small reserves of chocolates and sweets shared among children while people prayed and sang hymns, and women “trilled” to express their devotion.

Mansour said the church workers’ main job has been “to help people to forget their grief and sorrow and to make them look forward to the future, hoping that one day God will change their lives and make it better.”

VATICAN CITY – With “spiritual freshness and joy” despite his physical frailty, retired Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass and met briefly with his former doctoral students at the Vatican Aug. 24.

“It was very beautiful,” said Salvatorian Father Stephan Otto Horn, president of the “Ratzinger Schulerkreis” (Ratzinger Student Circle), which has met annually since the 1970s for theological discussion on a topic of current interest.

“There is one thing we still regret and that is that the Holy Father (Pope Benedict) could not be present for our theological discussions,” Father Horn told Vatican Radio Aug. 26. Even as a cardinal and as pope until his resignation in 2013, he joined his former students for the meeting.

Pope Benedict, however, continues to choose the topic to be discussed each year.

This year, the late August meeting in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, focused on the theology of the cross.

The group, which has now expanded to include younger theologians specializing in the writings of Pope Benedict, joined the 87-yearold retired pope for Mass Aug. 24 in the chapel of the Teutonic College inside the Vatican.

Father Horn described the liturgy as a “beautiful, solemn Mass” with Pope Benedict giving a homily about the day’s Gospel.

Unlike in 2013, neither Vatican Radio nor the Vatican newspaper provided quotes from the homily.

POPE MARKS UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY, PRAYS FOR PEACE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis lamented “tension and conflict” in Ukraine and prayed for “peace and tranquility” there on the country’s Independence Day. The pope made his remarks Aug. 24, after praying the Angelus with a crowd in St. Peter’s Square.

“My thoughts go in a particular way to the beloved land of Ukraine,” he said, “to all its sons and daughters, to their yearning for peace and tranquility, threatened by a situation of tension and conflict that continues unabated, causing so much suffering among the population.”

Fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces continues in the eastern part of the country, having killed more than 2,000 and displaced more than 30,000 over the past several months.

“Let us entrust the whole nation to the Lord Jesus and to the Madonna, and let us pray together above all for the victims, their families, and all those who suffer,” the pope said.

In an off-the-cuff addition to his prepared remarks, Pope Francis mentioned a letter he had received from a Ukrainian bishop, recounting “all the pain” of the people there.

“Let us pray together to the Madonna for this beloved land of Ukraine, on its Independence Day,” he said, then led the crowd in reciting the Hail Mary.

ZAMBIAN PRELATE: CHURCH WITHOUT WOMEN RELIGIOUS ‘WOULDN’T BE THERE’

LUSAKA, Zambia – Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu told Catholic nuns from eastern and central Africa they deserve a commendation for doing a difficult and challenging job for the marginalized.

Archbishop Mpundu, president of the Zambian bishops’ conference, celebrated Mass Aug. 19 for delegates to the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa, meeting in the Zambian capital.

“You can imagine a church without women religious, it wouldn’t be there. You are found where not even a bishop can be,” he told them. “You die on your feet. When a sister goes to bed or is sick, she must be really sick.”

He said bishops were at times called to quell disagreements that arose between parishioners and nuns, but he described such things as issues that happen within the family of God. “We give thanks to God for your presence, your charisma,” Archbishop Mpundu said.

“You do a tremendous job that really your work is being appreciated by God’s people ... please forgive our shortcomings, which are many.”

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Charity, forgiveness keys to Korean reunification, says pope FRANCIS X. ROCCA AND SIMONE ORENDAIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SEOUL, South Korea – Pope Francis told Korean Catholics that the reunification of their divided peninsula as well as the harmony of South Korean society depend on the practice of Gospel virtues, especially charity and forgiveness.

God’s promise to restore unity and prosperity to “a people dispersed by disaster and division ... is inseparably tied to a command: the command to return to God and wholeheartedly obey his law,” Pope Francis said.

In a homily Aug. 18, during a Mass for peace and reconciliation at Seoul’s Myongdong Cathedral, Pope Francis said Jesus asked people “to believe that forgiveness is the door which leads to reconciliation.”

“I ask you to bear convincing witness to Christ’s message of forgiveness in your homes, in your communities and at every level of national life,” he said.

“Thus our prayers for peace and reconciliation will rise to God from ever more pure hearts and, by his gracious gift, obtain that precious good for which we all long,” he said.

The Mass was closed to the public.

Guests included South Korean President Park Geun-hye, women who were sold into sexual slavery during World War II, North Korean defectors, those whose families were kidnapped and

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Young women wait for Pope Francis to arrive to celebrate the closing Mass of the sixth Asian Youth Day at Haemi Castle in Haemi, South Korea, Aug. 17. taken to North Korea and 12 clerics from various faiths.

Before the Mass, the pope met with seven “comfort women,” who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese before and during World War II. One woman gave the pope a butterfly pin symbolizing their call for justice, and the pope wore the pin during the Mass.

Outside the clergy changing room, near a portrait of Mary, was a crown of thorns made of barbed wire from the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas.

“My visit now culminates in this celebration of Mass, in which we implore from God the grace of peace and reconciliation,” Pope Francis said

from an altar decorated with rows of pink and white roses. “This prayer has a particular resonance on the Korean peninsula. Today’s Mass is first and foremost a prayer for reconciliation in this Korean family.”

The pope suggested the need for reconciliation lay not only between South Korea and the communist North, which have been divided since the end of the Korean War in 1953, but within South Korea itself, the world’s 13thlargest economy, where prosperity has brought increasing inequality.

“God’s urgent summons to conversion also challenges Christ’s followers in Korea to examine the quality of their own contribution to the building of a truly just and humane society,” he said.

The pope urged Korean Catholics to “show evangelical concern for the less fortunate, the marginalized, those without work and those who do not share in the prosperity of the many” and to “firmly reject a mindset shaped by suspicion, confrontation and competition.”

“Let us pray, then, for the emergence of new opportunities for dialogue, encounter and the resolution of differences, for continued generosity in providing humanitarian assistance to those in need, and for ever greater recognition that all Koreans are brothers and sisters, members of one family, one people,” he said.

Pope talks airstrikes in Iraq, his health, possible US visit FRANCIS X. ROCCA

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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM SEOUL, South Korea – Pope Francis said the use of force can be justified to stop “unjust aggressors” such as Islamic State militants in northeastern Iraq, but he declined to endorse U.S. military airstrikes against the militants and said such humanitarian interventions should not be decided on by any single country.

The pope also said he was willing to travel to the war zone if necessary to stop the violence.

Pope Francis made his remarks Aug. 18 during an hourlong inflight news conference on his way back from South Korea.

The pope’s words on Iraq came a week after his representative in Baghdad welcomed President Barack Obama’s decision to use military force against Islamic State positions.

Asked about the airstrikes Aug. 11, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, the Vatican nuncio to Iraq, told Vatican Radio: “This is something that had to be done, otherwise (the Islamic State) could not be stopped.”

That statement surprised many because, since the pontificate of St. John Paul II, the Vatican has stressed that military interventions for humanitarian purposes should have the support of the international community.

When a reporter on the plane asked Pope Francis whether he approved of the airstrikes, he replied: “In these cases where there is unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor. I underscore the verb ‘stop’; I don’t say bomb, make war – stop him. The means by which he may be stopped should be evaluated. To stop the unjust aggressor is licit, but we nevertheless need to remember how many times, using this excuse of stopping an unjust aggressor, the powerful nations have dominated other peoples, made a real war of

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Pope Francis, still wearing a yellow pin commemorating the victims of last April’s ferry disaster, walks down the aisle to answer questions from journalists aboard the papal flight from Seoul, South Korea, to Rome Aug. 18.

The pope showed little concern for his longevity, predicting with a laugh that his pontificate would last ‘two or three years, and then to the house of the Father.’ conquest. A single nation cannot judge how to stop this, how to stop an unjust aggressor. After the Second World War, there arose the idea of the United Nations. That is where we should discuss: ‘Is there an unjust aggressor? It seems there is. How do we stop him?’ But only that, nothing more.”

Asked whether he was keeping an excessively busy schedule, the pope admitted that “one of my neuroses is that I am too attached to my habitat,” so he has not taken an out-of-town vacation since 1975.

The pope said he regularly takes the equivalent of a vacation, however, by taking it easier at home: “I change pace, I read things I like, I listen to music, I pray more, and that makes me rested.”

But he admitted his decision to call off a planned June 27 visit to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, one of several appointments he had canceled due to ill-

ness, came after “very demanding days.

Now I should be a bit more prudent.”

The pope showed little concern for his longevity, however, predicting with a laugh that his pontificate would last “two or three years, and then to the house of the Father.”

In the meantime, to guard against the temptation of pride in his immense popularity, “I try to think of my sins, of my mistakes.”

Asked about other possible foreign travel, besides officially announced trips to Albania in September and Sri Lanka and the Philippines in January, Pope Francis said he had received invitations to Spain and Japan but that nothing had been decided yet.

The pope said he would gladly visit China “tomorrow,” even though the Vatican has not had diplomatic relations with Beijing since shortly after the China’s 1949 communist revolution. The two sides have struggled over issues of

In his Aug. 18 press conference aboard the papal flight from Seoul, Pope Francis reported progress on a future encyclical on ecology, saying that Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, had delivered a first draft just a few days before the pope’s departure for South Korea.

The pope said the draft encyclical was about one third longer than his 50,000-word apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium,” but that it would be shortened by removing the more debatable scientific hypotheses or relegating them to footnotes.

“An encyclical like this, which must be magisterial, must rely only on certainties,” he said.

“Because if the pope says the center of the universe is the earth, not the sun, he errs.” religious freedom, including the pope’s right to appoint bishops, and Chinese authorities have frequently arrested Catholics who reject government control of the church.

“We respect the Chinese people,” the pope said. “The church asks only the liberty to do its work, no other condition.”

The pope said he “would like” to attend the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September 2015. He also noted that Obama and the U.S. Congress have invited him to Washington, D.C., and that the secretary-general of the United Nations has invited him to New York.

“Maybe the three cities together, no?” he said, adding that he could also visit the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico on the same trip – “but it is not certain.”

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The aging shepherd stands firm BROTHER LARRY SCRIVANI, SM

Fifth in an occasional series marking the birth bicentennial of Joseph Sadoc Alemany, the Spanish-born Dominican missionary priest who served as the first archbishop of San Francisco (1853-1884).

Archbishop Joseph Sadoc BICENTENNIAL 1814-2014

When Joseph Alemany reached 25 years as bishop, his clergy organized a day-long celebration for Sunday, July 29, 1875. Solemn high Mass in the morning was followed by lunch with his clergy. Then at mid-afternoon he received the laity at his residence until vespers. After vespers the celebration moved to the cathedral basement where he was greeted by the Catholic lay organizations. Finally, the long day ended.

A long day it was indeed. After lunch, Alemany had retired upstairs and fallen fast asleep past the hour for the reception. Awakened, he joined his guests belatedly and joked about having been caught napping. In simple fact, after 25 years as bishop, Joseph Alemany was an old man. At 61 he was beyond the male life expectancy for those days. His years in the saddle had been hard ones.

In the saddle was quite literal. Only seven years before “El Obispo Caballero” had to give up travel on horseback when a mount reared up and then fell on him breaking his leg. At the reception, the laity presented him with $5,000 and a “fine coupe with a pair of horses.” The gift was intended to lighten his load.

Instead, he sold the coupe and pair giving the proceeds to the Orphan Asylum with this comment: “The Archbishop’s carriage is the horse cars of this city.”

That is the side of Joseph Alemany the public liked to remember: folksy, simple and saintly. But not everyone saw the bishop in that light.

A severe economic depression gripped California from 1873 to 1879. Blame was aimed at the rich. The press found scandal that as a “corporation sole” Archbishop Alemany alone held title in trust to all Catholic property. In contrast, Protestant churches were owned by their congregations. The press saw this as

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ny. Sources “entitled to credence” held that Alemany had realized that a change would, “abate various antagonisms that have been growing in the diocese, incident to its cosmopolitan character.”

Further, “proud dissenters” explained that the American occupation of California had “alienated the Archbishop” who lacked a “prudent and liberal policy to THE SERIES SO FAR harmonize the different elements of the Catholic community.”

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Regarding the expectation that the new pope would be “more liberal,” Prendergast cautioned: “There seems to be no good reason why there should be any important changes in regard to doctrinal matters.” (This was 1878).

Then, after the lid had come off the boiling pot, conditions in Natchez obliged Elder to decline the appointment. Five more years would pass until Rome announced that the next Archbishop of San Francisco would be Patrick William Riordan, a priest of Chicago.

‘The Jesuits,’ it was said, had ‘driven Alemany to retirement’ because the newly elected Pope Leo was more liberal than Pius IX, who had appointed the Dominican.

(PHOTO COURTESY BROTHER LARRY SCRIVANI, SM)

This little-seen portrait of Archbishop Alemany in old age came to the archives of the archdiocese through the chancery and likely hung in someone’s office or at a parish, says Marianist Brother Larry Scrivani. The image is oil applied to a photograph made at a San Francisco studio no later than the 1960s. Brother Larry asks that anyone with information on the provenance of the image contact him at scrivani@juno.com. a scheme for Alemany to enrich himself. A political cartoon depicted Alemany selling church real estate to New York’s infamously corrupt “Boss Tweed.”

Shortly after his jubilee, and owing to his declining energy, Alemany asked the Holy See for a coadjutor (an auxiliary bishop with the right to succeed to the see). Finally, in 1878, the Holy See announced that Bishop William Elder of Natchez, Miss., had accepted.

Local headlines deliciously announced “Alemany’s Abdication.”

“The Jesuits,” it was said, had “driven Alemany to retirement” because the newly elected Pope Leo was more liberal than Pius IX, who had appointed Alema-

MARIANIST BROTHER LAWRENCE SCRIVANI lives in Cupertino. His email is scrivani@juno.com.

10 secrets to happiness

he past five years have seen a growth in interest in studies on human happiness. Numerous books have been published on the topic, not least Sonja Lyubomirsky’s “The Myths of Happiness,” which has become for many a secular bible for happiness and meaning. In a recent book, “Called to Happiness,” Sidney Callahan critically evaluates many of these studies. Whatever the merit of these studies, all of us nurse our own secret dream of what will bring us happiness and often that fantasy is at odds with what we know to be true at a deeper level. What FATHER RON will make us happy?

ROLHEISER In a recent interview for the Argentine weekly Viva, Pope Francis weighs in on this topic, submitting his own “Top 10 Tips” for happiness.

What are Pope Francis’ tips for happiness or, as he puts it, “for bringing greater joy to one’s life”?

In presenting these, I will be faithful to his captions but, because his commentary on each one was rather lengthy, I will risk synthesizing his central point in my own words: 1. Live and let live.

All of us will live longer and more happily if we stop trying to arrange other peoples’ lives. Jesus challenged us not to judge but to live with the tension and let God and history make the judgments. So live we need to live by own convictions and let others do the same.

2. Be giving of yourself to others.

Happiness lies in giving ourselves away. We need to be open and generous because if we withdraw into

ourselves we run the risk of becoming self-centered and no happiness will be found there since “stagnant water becomes putrid.”

3. Proceed calmly.

Move with kindness, humility, and calm. These are the antithesis of anxiety and distress. Calm never causes high blood pressure. We need to make conscious efforts to never let the moment cause panic and excessive hurry. Rather be late than stressed.

4. A healthy sense of leisure.

Never lose the pleasures of art, literature, and playing with children. Remember that Jesus scandalized others with his capacity to enjoy life in all its sensuousness. We don’t live by work alone, no matter how important and meaningful it might be. In heaven there will be no work, only leisure, we need to learn the art and joy of leisure not just to prepare for heaven but to enjoy some of heaven already now.

5. Sundays should be holidays. Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for family.

Accomplishment, productivity, and speed may not become our most valued commodities or we will begin to take everything for granted, our lives, our health, our families, our friends, those around us, and all the good things in life. That is why God gave us a commandment to keep the Sabbath holy. This is not a lifestyle suggestion, but a commandment as binding as not killing. Moreover, if we are employers, the commandment demands too that we give our employees proper Sabbath time.

6. Find innovative ways to create dignified jobs for young people.

If you want to bless a young person, don’t just tell that person that he or she is wonderful. Don’t just admire youthful beauty and energy. Give a young person your job! Or, at least, work actively to help him or her find meaningful work. This will both bless that young

person and bring a special happiness to your own life.

7. Respect and take care of nature.

The air we breathe out is the air we will re-inhale.

This is true spiritually, psychologically and ecologically. We can’t be whole and happy when Mother Earth is being stripped of her wholeness. Christ came to save the world, not just the people in the world. Our salvation, like our happiness, is tied to the way we treat the earth. It is immoral to slap another person in the face and so it is immoral too to throw our garbage into the face of Mother Earth.

8. Stop being negative.

Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self-esteem. Negative thoughts feed unhappiness and a bad self-image. Positive thoughts feed happiness and healthy self-esteem.

9. Don’t proselytize, respect others’ beliefs.

What we cherish and put our faith into grows “by attraction, not by proselytizing.” Beauty is the one thing that no one can argue with. Cherish your values, but always act towards others with graciousness, charity and respect.

10. Work for peace.

Peace is more than the absence of war and working for peace means more than not causing disharmony.

Peace, like war, must be waged actively by working for justice, equality, and an ever-wider inclusivity in terms of what makes up our family. Waging peace is the perennial struggle to stretch hearts, our own and others, to accept that in God’s house there are many rooms and that all faiths, not least our own, are meant to be a house of prayer for all peoples.

Offered with apologies for whenever my own thinking replaced that of Pope Francis.

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

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Congress threatens to marginalize pro-life views RICHARD DOERFLINGER

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s part of their longstanding pro-life effort, the nation’s Catholic bishops and the grassroots mobilizing network assisting them, the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, have urged Congress in recent years to do two things: Maintain longstanding and widely supported policies against federal funding and promotion of abortion; and protect the conscience rights of those who respect human life in our health care system.

This month both goals came under attack, from two of the most extreme legislative proposals I have seen in over three decades of public policy work. Their enactment would create a “perfect storm” of policy against unborn human life, pushing pro-life convictions to the margins of public life. Both bills are advanced using titles and slogans that mask what they do.

The first is the “Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act,” (S. 2578). It has little to do with either women’s health or “corporate interference.” It’s been called a response to the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision, which upheld the religious freedom of familyowned businesses that object to covering abortifacient drugs and devices in their health plan. The bill’s supporters say they are defending women’s “access” to the contraceptives they want. But as leaders of the U.S. bishops’ conference explained in a letter to the Senate, “the bill ranges far beyond that decision, potentially attacking all existing federal protections of conscience and religious freedom regarding health coverage mandates.”

The operative text of the bill never mentions contraception. It says that when a federal law or regulation requires inclusion of any item in health plans across the country, that mandate will override “any other provision of federal law” – including the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that protected Christian families in the Hobby Lobby case. Such mandates will apply to all kinds of health plans, not just employer plans, and will override everyone’s religious freedom – including the freedom of women themselves, some of whom may not want their health plans promoting “free” late-term abortions, for example, to their minor daughters. And yet the bill is supported by 58 out of 100 U.S. Senators – all 55 Democrats and three Republicans. It was blocked from coming to the Senate floor in July, but supporters may try again soon.

The other bill, which makes the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision on abortion look tame by comparison, is called the “Women’s Health Protection Act” (S. 1696). It would knock down almost every state or federal law that seeks to restrain or regulate abortion, by demanding that the law treat abortion as a routine “women’s health procedure.” The unborn child would be given no greater respect than a decayed tooth or a troublesome tumor.

Is this bill committed to women’s health? Well, it says that even if a pro-life law “significantly advances … the health of women,” it must still be knocked down, unless “clear and convincing evidence” shows there is no way to serve women’s health that is “less restrictive” of abortion. In other words, women’s health is not the goal – maximizing and “mainstreaming” abortion is. Alarmingly, this bill has 36 sponsors and just received a committee hearing.

How can such extreme proposals receive serious attention in what some call “the greatest deliberative body in the world”? One answer is that, in a very politicized midterm election year, legislators think this is what we constituents want. I hope we will tell them that just isn’t so. For help contacting your elected representatives, see the action alerts at www.nchla.org.

DOERFLINGER is associate director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. For more on the bishops’ pro-life efforts see www. usccb.org/prolife.

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Inmates exchange the sign of peace during Mass April 14 at Sullivan Correctional Facility, a New York state maximumsecurity prison in Fallsburg, N.Y. Pope Francis proposes that prisoners – through reparation, confession and contrition – should be able to return to society.

The forgotten men and women of America’s prisons This unsigned editorial, originally titled “Prisoners Dilemma,” from the Aug. 4-11 issue of the national Catholic weekly America was redistributed by Catholic News Service as an example of current commentary from around the Catholic press. The views or positions presented in this or any guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of Catholic News Service, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops or Catholic San Francisco.

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he evidence is piling up that too many Americans are wasting away in prison. The National Academy of Sciences, for example, recently concluded in a major two-year study that the United States “has gone past the point where the numbers of people in prison can be justified by the social benefits.” Other groups, like Human Rights Watch, the Brennan Center for Corrections, Corrections Today and the University of Chicago Crime Lab, have also raised their voices. Pope Francis, in his address to the International Criminal Law Association May 30, called for major reforms of criminal justice systems.

Here are some basic statistics. Having quadrupled in the past four decades, the prison population in the United States today is 2.2 million, or about one of every 100 adults. This rate far exceeds that of other Western democracies.

Maintenance for each prisoner costs taxpayers $30,000 a year. Over half of inmates are locked up for nonviolent offenses. According to “Nation Behind Bars,” a recent report by Human Rights Watch, nearly one-third of those serving life sentences do not have the possibility of parole, and more than 40 percent of all federal criminal prosecutions are for immigration offenses. For every 100,000 Americans in each of the following groups, according to the report, there are 478 white males, 3,023 black males, 51 white females and 129 black females in prison.

Too often the system fails to treat prisoners as human beings; each person has a right to fair trial and punishment and equal protection under the law. President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke for “the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.” The forgotten men and women of today are the 2.2 million in prison, committed by a public that too often bases its understanding of prison life on films and television and has been fed tabloid headlines about these “monsters” from the moment of their arrests through their trials. The surge in imprisonment began in the late 1960s with President Richard M. Nixon’s campaign for “law and order.” The accusation of being “soft on crime” replaced the “soft on communism” of the 1950s and has continued to influence American politics.

Many people have presumed that a correlation between crowded prisons and a reduced crime

rate points to a significant cause-and-effect relationship, but recent research paints a more complex picture, according to a report this year from the National Research Council. The report concludes that the “magnitude of the reduction” of crime due to imprisonment is “highly uncertain” and “unlikely to have been large.”

The criminal justice system has changed significantly over the past 40 years. People are doing more time than ever before. Sentences have grown longer thanks to legislatures that want to appear tough on crime, most notably through mandatory minimum sentences and “three strikes” laws. States have also farmed out prison management to private contractors who run the institutions for profit. More convicts mean more money for their investors.

Families bear the consequences of incarceration. In the last two decades of the 20th century, the number of children with incarcerated fathers in the United States shot up from 350,000 to 2.1 million. In addition, former inmates have a hard time finding work or housing, and families can crumble as the behavior of children is influenced by the jail time of their parents. New laws must address the new reality.

Drawing from the Scriptures and the collective experience of the people of God, Pope Francis proposes that prisoners – through reparation, confession and contrition – should be able to return to society. Increased penalties, Francis said to the Criminal Law Association, do not solve social problems or reduce crime rates; in fact, they “may give rise to serious social problems.” Furthermore, he explained, “criminality is rooted in economic and social inequality” and in organized crime that exploits the most vulnerable. “A society that is governed solely by market laws and creates false expectations and superfluous necessities,” he said, “discards those who are not at the top and prevents the slow, the weak or the less gifted from taking an open road in life.”

The reformed prison of the future, aided by public and private high schools and universities, should educate inmates not just with job skills but with the liberal arts, instruments for moral rejuvenation. Sentences must be shorter.

There should be alternatives to incarceration for those who suffer from addiction or mental illness. Elderly or ill prisoners who are not likely to re-offend can be released. Prisons must be evaluated on their success or failure in reducing recidivism. Judge Richard A. Posner writes in the New Republic (June 9): “The worse the treatment meted out to prisoners, the more recidivism there is, and thus the more crime.” Our country must transform the prison from a trash can where we dump offenders to an instrument for the public good.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

He turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.’

MATTHEW 16:21-27 JEREMIAH 20:7-9 You duped me, O Lord, and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed. All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of the Lord has brought me derision and reproach all the day. I say to myself, I will not mention him. I will speak in his name no more. But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.

is a greater good than life; my lips shall glorify you.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus will I bless you while I live; lifting up my hands, I will call upon your name. As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied, and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. You are my help, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy. My soul clings fast to you; your right hand upholds me.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

PSALM 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory, For your kindness

ROMANS 12:1-2 I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.

MATTHEW 16:21-27 Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay all according to his conduct.”

Carrying the wounds of Christ

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n the 1977 comedy film “Oh, God!” George Burns plays the part of God, appearing as a kindly old man with thick glasses and a funny hat. John Denver plays Jerry Landers, a supermarket assistant manager.

God tells Jerry that he has been selected to be his messenger to the modern world.

Hesitant at first, Jerry begins timidly to share the message with others, which gets him into a lot of trouble. Finding himself on the verge of losing his job, he says to God: “Preaching your word is costing me my job!” God replies, “That’s not a bad trade, is it? Lose your job and save the world.” Toward the end, as God takes his leave never to FATHER CHARLES return, Jerry asks him how PUTHOTA he can talk to him in the future. God says: “I’ll tell you what, you talk. I’ll listen.”

In this modern parable, Jerry cannot resist God. Had he refused to do God’s work, it would have amounted to going against his own happiness. Despite pain and humiliation, he is given the grace to persevere. Strangely – and paradoxically – his suffering at one level does not negate

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

Jesus calls us continuously to be his disciples and prophets. Nothing can deter us from cherishing the abiding conviction that it is he who appoints and anoints us for love and service. peace and fulfillment at a deeper level. Jerry’s conviction of mission flows from a personal experience of God, a God who respects him deeply and dialogs with him in a tender, even humorous way.

Time-travelling to 7th-century B.C., we meet another Jerry – prophet Jeremiah. A reluctant prophet, he is opposed and vilified, and yet he feels impelled to persevere in God’s work. God dupes him big-time! Jeremiah is clueless at first about the suffering his prophetic work entails.

Who wants to speak the harsh message of “violence and outrage” to others? He does not want to speak in God’s name anymore, but then God’s word “becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.” On the one hand, he cannot do God’s work; on the other, he cannot but do it.

He is sustained, though, by a heartwarming and intimate relationship with God. We jump centuries forward to the prophet par

excellence, Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God, who fulfills the deepest longings of people. Embodying God’s love and mercy in his words and deeds, he turns people away from hypocrisy and hard heartedness. The tide will turn against him.

He will have to suffer and die if the world has to live, something Peter does not understand, but Jesus stays focused on his redemptive mission.

His intimate relationship with his father will sustain and strengthen him.

Jesus offers his followers paradoxically a path of suffering leading to a life of fulfillment and peace: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Paul interprets his master’s message: “offer your bodies as a living sacrifice …. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind ….”

Jesus calls us continuously to be his disciples and prophets. Nothing can deter us from cherishing the abiding conviction that it is he who appoints and anoints us for love and service.

Sinful and seared, carrying the wounds of Christ in our bodies and souls, we grow in the grace and privilege of carrying the mystery of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.

FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1: Monday of the Twentysecond Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 2:1-5. PS 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102. LK 4:16-30.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2: Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 2:10b-16. PS 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14.

LK 4:31-37.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3: Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor. 1 COR 3:1-9. PS 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21. LK 4:38-44.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4: Thursday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 3:18-23. PS 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. LK 5:1-11.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5: Friday of the Twentysecond Week in Ordinary Time. Blessed Teresa of

Calcutta. 1 COR 4:1-5. PS 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40.

LK 5:33-39.

Claver, priest. 1 COR 6:1-11. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. LK 6:12-19.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6: Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 4:6b15. PS 145:17-18, 19-20, 21. LK 6:1-5.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10: Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 7:25-31.

PS 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17. LK 6:20-26.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. EZ 33:7-9. PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. rom 13:8-10. MT 18:15-20.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11: Thursday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 8:1b-7, 11-13. PS 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 23-24. LK 6:27-38.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8: Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. MI 5:1-4a or ROM 8:28-30. PS 13:6ab, 6c. MT 1:1-16, 18-23 or MT 1:18-23.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12: Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1 COR 9:16-19, 22b-27. PS 84:3, 4, 5-6, 12. LK 6:39-42.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9: Memorial of St. Peter

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13: Memorial of St. John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor. 1 COR 10:14-22. PS 116:12-13, 17-18. LK 6:43-49.

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Books provide depth, context to 1989 Jesuit murders in El Salvador REVIEWED BY AGOSTINO BONO

The Jesuits were university professors and administrators inspired by a 1968 call from the Latin American bishops for the church to become the ‘voice of the voiceless.’

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“LA VERDAD: A WITNESS TO THE SALVADORAN MARTYRS� BY LUCIA CERNA AND MARY JO IGNOFFO. Orbis Books (Maryknoll, N.Y., 2014). 186 pp., $20. “BLOOD AND INK: IGNACIO ELLACURIA, JON SOBRINO AND THE JESUIT MARTYRS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AMERICA�

BY ROBERT LASSALLE-KLEIN. Orbis Books (Maryknoll, N.Y., 2014).

376 pp., $34. “La Verdad� and “Blood and Ink� mark the 25th anniversary of the brutal military assassination of six Jesuits in El Salvador, revisiting the case from different but converging perspectives.

Both share the same overall conclusions and make convincing cases for calling the six priests martyrs as the social commitment that made the Salvadoran military consider them subversives and terrorists sprang from their deep faith. Murdered with the priests were Julia Elba Ramos, their cook and housekeeper, and her 16-year-old daughter.

Neither book provides new facts.

Decades ago, even Salvadoran and U.S. government officials admitted that the executions were done by an elite U.S.-trained battalion. But the books offer a profound Catholic context for what happened and provide perspective for judging a very difficult period in Latin American church history.

Although the assassinations occurred as the Cold War was evaporating elsewhere with the breakup of the Soviet Union’s empire in Eastern Europe, it was still alive and well in Latin America. During the Cold War many Latin American countries were ruled

by U.S.-supported right-wing governments meant to prevent Marxism’s spread in the United States’ backyard.

These governments developed what became known as the national security state, a governing system in which human rights, civil liberties and the formation of stable democratic institutions took a back seat to an anti-communist mindset that considered subversive almost anyone criticizing their government or questioning the huge social, economic and political inequities in society.

A main result in this heavily Catholic region was the political assassination of many priests, religious and laypeople whose social and pastoral work was guided by the Gospel values rather than Marxist ideology or a Communist Party’s political program. The vast majority of these assassinations were done by government security forces.

Looking for a Sign?

Within this context, six Jesuit priests were dragged from their residence at the University of Central America in El Salvador in the early morning hours of Nov. 16, 1989, and brutally murdered. Ramos and her daughter, Celina Mariset, who had stayed overnight at the residence, were both eliminated by the killers so as to leave no witnesses.

The Jesuits were university professors and administrators who felt the university had to do more than educate the children of the elite. As the books point out, they were inspired by a 1968 call from the Latin American bishops for the church to become the “voice of the voiceless.�

They wanted the university to grapple with the reality of a country where the majority of the population was poor and marginalized. So the school started job training programs, did sociological surveys that tapped the views of the entire population, organized public forums to discuss national issues and even made efforts to mediate peace between the government and leftist guerrillas ďŹ ghting a civil war.

Of the two books, “La Verdad (Spanish for “the truth�) is the easier read. It tells the moving story of Lucia Cerna, who also was a housekeeper for the

Jesuits and who saw the 1989 events from a building next to the residence.

She, her husband and 4-year-old daughter stayed the night because it was dangerous to return to their home in a neighborhood where the military and guerrillas were ďŹ ghting. Although she didn’t see the actual killings, she heard the screams of the Jesuits and the shots and saw soldiers jubilantly surrounding the dead bodies.

After giving sworn testimony in El Salvador, she was whisked to the United States for her safety only to be pressured for several days by FBI agents to change her testimony incriminating Salvadoran soldiers.

Supplementing Cerna’s story is Mary Jo Ignoffo, history professor at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. She provides the historical, political, socioeconomic and theological background to the narrative. “Blood and Ink� mixes retelling the event with a scholarly treatise about the theological underpinnings of the UCA Jesuits. Robert Lassalle-Klein, associate professor of religious studies and philosophy at Holy Names University in Oakland, concentrates on the writings of Father Ignacio Ellacuria, university president, who was killed, and Father Jon Sobrino, well-known theologian, who escaped death as he was out of the country on a speaking trip.

The author shows how the two developed their own nuances to liberation theology and saw in the poor and oppressed Salvadorans the face of Christ and regarded them as a cruciďŹ ed people needing to be taken down from the cross.

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Father Clement Davenport dies on 90th birthday ‘I wanted to be with people, and God has helped me do that in so many ways’ try Division. He and his nine assistant chaplains ministered to approximately 30,000 Army personnel.

Father Davenport was awarded the bronze star with three oak leaf clusters for acts of bravery, two air medals, two Army commendations and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He retired from the military in February 1971 as an Army chaplain as full colonel, remaining in the active reserve. In April 1971, Father Davenport was given his first pastorate, at St. Peter Parish in Pacifica.

In 1976 he was named pastor of the Nativity in Menlo Park where he served for 23 years, retiring in 1999. During his years there, he also ministered as adjunct chaplain to the San Francisco 49ers. After retirement, he initially lived at St. Matthew Parish for six years and then returned to live at Church of the Nativity. He was at Nazareth House for the past year.

Looking back on his life, Father Davenport wrote in his memoirs: “My thing is that I always wanted to be a parish priest. I wanted to be with people, and God has helped me do that in so many ways. By being in the Army I certainly was with people, being in the hospital I was with people, being in a parish I am with people.

I feel that God has been good to me. More than 60 years in the priesthood. I’ve always been with people. That’s all I always wanted to do.”

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Some of longtime Church of the Nativity pastor Father Clement Arthur Davenport’s best stories from the pulpit were about his military service as a chaplain in the Vietnam and Korean wars.

Father Davenport died on his 90th birthday, Aug. 19. His funeral Mass was scheduled for Aug. 25 at Church of the Nativity.

Father Davenport recalled boarding the troop ship with Father Clement 3,000 soldiers on its way to the Davenport Korean conflict in 1952: “I got on the first day, as a priest, and I said, ‘Now I’m in such-and-such stateroom, if anyone wants to go to confession.’ I figured a few kids would want to come. Well, I went for 36 hours straight hearing confessions. The guys would come in and get me for chow and I would go eat and go pee and then go back to hear more. These kids were scared. They were going to war,” Father Davenport wrote in his memoir, “Father Lucky: Trust in Jesus: The Remarkable Stories of a Priest, His Passions, and the People Who Moved Him,” available in the Church of the Nativity parish office and on Amazon.

One of three boys born in Oakland to Clement Joseph and Mina Poston Davenport, Father Davenport attended St. Joseph’s College in Mountain View before entering St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park. He was ordained by Archbishop John J. Mitty in 1948.

But entering the seminary was not actually in his plan when he took the entrance exam for St. Joseph’s minor seminary – it was just a chance to skip class, he said.

Initially assigned to Holy Name of Jesus Church, he was commissioned a U.S. Army chaplain in 1950 and was called to active duty in Korea with the 820th Aviation Engineer Battalion in 1952 where he served for a year. He then served at St. Bernard Parish in Oakland, followed by St. Philip Parish in San Francisco, and also began two years as chaplain at St. Mary’s Hospital. Beginning in 1960, he served for five years as associate pastor at Church of the Nativity, then moved to St. Thomas the Apostle and

Father Clement Davenport, an Army chaplain in the Korean and Vietnam wars, was awarded the bronze star with three oak leaf clusters for acts of bravery, two air medals, two Army commendations and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. also was chaplain at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Miley in San Francisco.

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This month the Hilton Foundation is implementing a women’s leadership development program in Tijuana, Mexico, where the Archdiocese of Tijuana struggles to minister to 2.2 million Catholics, Dominincan Sisters of Mission San Jose announced. Tailored to Catholic sisters in active ministries, the three-year educational program will be offered initially to a 20-sister cohort. Participants will receive business, finance, marketing and technology training to strengthen their organizations and sustain their ministries.

Partners in the collaborative effort funded by the Hilton Foundation include the sisters, the Tijuana archdiocese and the Jesuit Universidad Ibero Americana. Sister María Reina Perea, OP, the U.S. Dominican project director, said, “Every day Catholic sisters work to fill a tremendous gap in health, human and social services – yet the majority are unable to move on to higher education due to limited finances in their congregations.

For information on the program, visit www. hiltonfoundation.org. Founded in 1876 in San Francisco, the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose are an international congregation of Catholic women, dedicated to serving “the young, the poor and the vulnerable” in the U.S. and Mexico. The sisters’ ministries in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, include Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco and affiliated K-8 parish schools St. James and St. Anthony-Immaculate in San Francisco. The sisters distribute funds to urban Catholic schools through their Vision of Hope program in the archdiocese and the dioceses of San Jose and Oakland. Contact Margaret McCarthy, development director, at (510) 933-6309; mmccarthy@msjdominicans.org. Visit www.msjdominicans.org.

OBITUARIES MERCY SISTER JOSEPH MARY GALLI, 89 – LONGTIME HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN

Mercy Sister Joseph Mary Galli died June 8 in Oakland. She was 89 years old and a religious for 60 years.

Born in Switzerland, Sister Joseph Mary harbored a vocation to religious life from age 4, the Mercy Sisters said.

She came to San Francisco in 1949 entered the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame in July Sister Joseph 1954 and professed vows in JanuMary Galli, RSM ary 1957.

Sister Joseph Mary ministered at San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Medical Center for 33 years primarily as a chaplain in the pastoral services department. “She brought much comfort and peace to the hearts of many patients and employees who sought her counsel and looked forward to her visits,” the sisters said.

Sister Joseph Mary retired to Marian Oaks in Burlingame, the sisters’ retirement home, in 2003.

“She was mystic, deeply wrapped up in God, and would sit for hours in chapel in contemplation,” the sisters said. “She was a very holy, prayerful person.” In 2012 declining health prompted her move to Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland where she died.

Sister Joseph Mary is survived by her sister, Mary Boscacci and nephews Eugene and Joseph Boscacci. A funeral Mass was celebrated June 16 with interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.

Memorial gifts may be made to the Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame 94010.

FATHER PAUL MANISCALCO, SDB – SALESIAN FOR 79 YEARS

Father Paul Maniscalco, a Salesian of Don Bosco for 79 years, died Aug. 12 at age 98.

Father Paul was born to Catherine and Lorenzo Maniscalco on February 20, 1916. Of 12 siblings, Father Paul leaves two brothers, Dr. Joseph Maniscalco of Novato and John Maniscalco of Bogotá, Columbia. Born and raised in San Francisco’s North Beach, Father Paul was baptized, received first Communion and was confirmed Father at Sts. Peter and Paul Church. An Maniscalco early call to the religious life led Father Paul to join the Salesians of Don Bosco as a novice in 1933, and he was ordained to the priesthood in 1944.

Father Paul spent his early priestly life in schools and formation houses in the United States and Canada. He spent 17 years at St. Mary’s Home, a youth residential program in Edmonton, Canada.

For 22 years he was at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Surrey, British Columbia and then in parish ministry at Sts. Peter and Paul in his later years.

His principal ministry was hearing confessions on request and every Saturday. For years he celebrated the sacrament of reconciliation with the San Bruno Catholic Prayer Group. In whatever parish he worked, he was spiritual director of the Legion of Mary.

Father Paul remained in remarkable health well into his 90s – an after-dinner walk up Telegraph Hill to Coit Tower was a daily ritual until a few years ago.

The funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 19 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, with burial at the Salesian cemetery in Richmond.

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September 9, 7 a.m.-8:30 p.m.~ Sing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen as contemplative practice, through the Ear to the Heart.

This gentle, contemplative practice of listening and singing the music of Hildegard together is led by Devi Mathieu and requires no previous experience with the music of Hildegard or with medieval music. Suggested offering, $10-20.

Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, (415) 457-7727; info@santasabinacenter.org.

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Saint Philip the Apostle School San Francisco Noe Valley Location

ST. MATTHIAS PARISH REDWOOD CITY

Keyboard (piano) skills desired

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Interested applicants: Send cover le er and resume to Mrs. Remy Evere Saint. Philip the Apostle School 665 Elizabeth Street San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 824-8467 FAX (415)282-0121 Email: remy.evere @saintphilipschool.org

The Archdiocese of San Francisco will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation. The Archdiocese of San Francisco will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Catholic applicants are given first priority, but all applicants are seriously considered.

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

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Say prayers 3 days.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

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St. Jude Novena May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us.

St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

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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.

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Alzheimer’s Patients, September 10, 9:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m. ~ Contemplative Day of Prayer led by Patricia Bruno, OP, includes presentation, personal and shared reflection and Eucharist. No reservations required. Suggested offering, $20.

Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, (415) 457-7727; info@santasabinacenter.org.

Assisting in several classes for the 2014 - 2015 term Instructional Aide Extended-Care Aide Part-time Librarian & Aide Positions open immediate

Large 300sf Bedroom

Some furnishings, plenty of parking

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SUNDAY, AUG. 31

by Mass and eucharistic adoration.

Ray Frost, (415) 871-3893.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Christoph Tietze, organist, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

ART: Mixed media works by Jesuit Father Bob Gilroy at Mercy Center Art Gallery, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame through Aug. 31, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

The artist is a graduate of Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He works for St. Francis Mission, a Roman Catholic institution founded and staffed by Jesuits along with Franciscan sisters and lay colleagues. Visit www.mercy-center.org.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca.edu.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 4 MASS AND TALK: Capuchin Father Carmine Cucinelli, rector of the Italian Shrine of the Holy Face of Manoppello speaks on the shrine’s beginnings after 7:30 p.m. Mass, St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Street, East Palo Alto. Ray Frost, (415) 871-3893.

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.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 6 ‘LOOKING EAST’: Come to Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco for Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m.; luncheon at noon and a talk

by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor, at 1 p.m. All are welcome throughout the day. Series continues first Saturdays of the month. Parking is in St. Monica Church lot. Visit www.byzantinecatholic.org; call (415) 752-2052; email OLFatimaSF@gmail.com.

PEACE MASS: Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, 9 a.m. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniafasquelle@ gmail.com.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 ‘CONVERSATIONS WITH JESUITS’: Jesuit Father Gerald McKevitt, on St. Ignatius Church’s 100th anniversary and the Jesuit vision for schools the order founded in San Francisco. Talks are in St. Ignatius Church, Parker Avenue at Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Fromm Hall just behind the church, 10:50-11:45 a.m. Talks are free and open to the public with free parking in all USF lots. Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195; faloon@usfca.edu.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 6 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Charito Suan, pastor, St. Elizabeth Father Charito Parish, San Suan Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 13 FUTURE SAINT BIO: Talk on life and work of Opus Dei’s Venerable Alvaro del Portillo, who will be beatified Sept. 27 in Spain, 7:30 p.m., Showcase Theater at John Coverdale the Marin Civic Center, followed by a 30-minute video and interview with John Coverdale, professor, Seton Hall University Law School and author of “Saxum,” a biography of the future saint. For more information, contact Michael Sangervasi msangervasi@gmail. com; (650) 592 0292; Menlough Study Center, (650) 327-1675.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 5

TUESDAY, SEPT. 9

MASS AND TALK: Capuchin Father Carmine Cucinelli, rector of the Italian Shrine of the Holy Face of Manoppello speaks on the shrine’s beginnings. 10 a.m., St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave. at Fulton, San Francisco followed

SCRIPTURE STUDY: Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher on achieving gratitude and a joy-filled heart as well as reflections on Pope Francis “Joy of the Gospel,” 9-10 a.m., Marian Room of St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd

THURSDAY, SEPT. 11 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets second Thursdays except December 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Worner Center,

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‘CHILDREN AT THE BORDER’: A presentation on the immigration crisis and a Christian response at St. Dominic Parish hall, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 6:30 p.m. (415) 567-7824; info@stdominics.org.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 13 ‘FOUR PILLARS GALA’: St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park hosts this now annual event on the seminary compound with some 400 guests expected. Evening vespers in the seminary chapel begins the event followed by a cocktail reception and dinner. The evening’s namesake award will be presented to Antonio and Lucille Sanchez-Corea.

Both are San Franciscans with Tony attending St. Ignatius College Prep and Lucille Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. They have been married for 57 years. “They have worked together to pursue their mutual goals for their family, the church and their community,” the seminary said. Tony is a Knight Grand Cross of Grace and Devotion in Obedience in the Order of Malta and has served for 10 years on its Sovereign Council.

Lucille has assisted him with his work for the Order of Malta, first, in the Western Association since 1988 and then in Rome for the last decade. Visit www.stpatricksseminary.org or call (650) 325-5621.

2-DAY SALE: St. Peter antique and collectibles show, St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., turn at Linda Mar Boulevard, Pacifica, offering a variety of high quality antiques and collectibles including costume jewelry, kitchen collectibles, furniture, coins and silver, Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Admission is free, donations accepted, and free parking; www. stpeterantiqueshow.com, Dale or Charleene Smith at (650) 359-6910 or email stpeterantiqueshow@gmail.com.

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SOLEMN HIGH MASS: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is principal celebrant of a Pontifical Mass, 6:30 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. Arranged by the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco: email TLMofSF@gmail.com.

ORGAN RECITAL: Mission Dolores Basilica’s Second Sunday Organ Recital Series, Robert Train Adams, director of music, St. Stephen Episcopal Church, Orinda, 4 p.m., free admission, Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St. at Dolores, San Francisco. (415) 621-8203; www.missiondolores.org. Suggested donation $10.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 16

are available in the Don Bosco book store downstairs from the church. Frank Lavin, franklavin@comcast.net; (415) 310-8551.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 19 WEEKEND ENGAGED ENCOUNTER: San Francisco Catholic Engaged Encounter weekend at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park. Take time to prepare for your marriage. All faiths welcome; scholarships available. Visit www.sfcee. org; email or catholicsfee@gmail.com; Dave and Lorraine Hayes, (650) 619-0689.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 21

SCRIPTURE STUDY: Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher on achieving gratitude and a joy-filled heart as well as reflections on Pope Francis “Joy of the Gospel,” 9-10 a.m., Marian Room of St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco. SaintStephenSF. org; vwong-ststephen@att.net.

CHAMPAGNE BINGO: Sts. Peter and Paul Parish gym under church at 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square Park, 1-5 p.m. Doors open 12:30 p.m., free parking. Tickets at $25 include champagne, hot lunch and two bingo cards. No tickets sold at door, adults only. Gig, (415) 370-5851; church bookstore, (415) 421-0809. Sponsored

by Holy Name Society.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 18

TUESDAY, SEPT. 23

DON BOSCO TALKS: The Sts. Peter and Paul Don Bosco Study group continues to study his remarkable life 7-8:45 p.m. in church auditorium across from Washington Square. St. Frances de Sales spirituality moved Don Bosco to call his congregation Salesians. No reading is necessary for attendance and participation, although copies of the book used

PUBLIC DISCUSSION: St. Matthias Social Justice Ministry hosts the League of Women Voters who will present the pros and cons for propositions on the November ballot, 7:30 p.m. St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road off Edgewood, Redwood City; Evie Dwyer (650) 368-9372 for more information and directions.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27 POST-INCARCERATION: San Francisco ReEntry Bay Area conference 8 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, on the problem recently released inmates have with continuing to commit crimes. Offenders and their families are invited, admission is free.

Register at www.ReEntryAction.org, escobarj@sfarchdiocese.org or call Julio Escobar, (415) 614-5570.

PARISH ANNIVERSARY: Holy Angels Parish, Colma celebrates 100 years with a centennial dinner in the Parish Hall, $50.00 per person. Celebration also includes festival with food, games, and entertainment Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and a Mass of Thanksgiving Oct. 5, 1 p.m. with San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy, principal celebrant. Call (650) 755-0478, visit www.holyangelscolma.com.

THURSDAY, OCT. 2 PHANTOM CONCERT: Franc D’Ambrosio, longest running star in the title role of “Phantom of the Opera,” performs an outdoor “Concert for the Piazza” an evening celebrating the sixth anniversary of the Knights of St. Francis of Assisi on Vallejo Street in front of the National Shrine of St. Francis and the Porziuncola Nuova, 7:30 p.m. The singer has played the Phantom more than 2,300 times.

Watch for ticket information on www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com as well as Knights of Saint Francis and Francesco Rocks on Facebook.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 1: Youth Rally and Youth Mass, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Judah at Funston, San Francisco, Auxiliary Bishop a day of fun William J. Justice and prayer for youth focusing on the lives of the saints. Mass is at 2:30 with San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice as principal celebrant and homilist. Families are welcome to attend. Registration: http:// sforeym.org/node/317.

FRIDAY, NOV. 21: Faith Formation Conference, Santa Clara Convention Center, liturgy, workshops, and exhibits for catechists, parish leaders, parents, youth and young adults.

Registration: www.faithformationconference.com.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 20: OnFire NorCal Jam, 7 a.m.-9 p.m., Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.

NorCal kickoff for youth and young adult ministry with Mass, speakers, a concert, and access to rides at the park. Registration: www.onfirenorcal.com/

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 29, 2014

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July

HOLY CROSS COLMA Baby Li Yvonne Abela Cordelia E. Abigana Lorraine Jelincich Adams Helena M. Ahlf Michael A. Amorose Delcie M. Anibale David Solis Aniel Lourdes C. Arcilla Mimi C. Arrais Marc A. Baires Jorge L. Bañuelos George Barcala Hanneh Bazlamit Georgette Marie Beainy Lawrence Becerra Etta V. Beller Lena M. Beltramo Frances Marie O’Brien Bignardi Jose M. Boada Fosca Cortopassi Bustos Alice M. Plagnacou Carrozzi Ellen M. Cordero Anthony Stephen Daluz Marina L. de Mesa Graciela Delucchi Jeanne Dihartce Charles J. Dowd Anne Duffy Jean Marie Estrada Teresa Favrat Joan Marie Kircher Fiorillo Joanne Marie Fitzpatrick Juventino Reyes Galang Jesus Garcia Armando Garcia Gonzalez Zenobia Gordon-Fields Florence E. Green Sonia G. Green Agnes Nalani Harkness Joan Gavin Hogan Timothy Sterling Holt Rita Hudson Hood Carolyn Huertas Ronald Vincent Jackson Kristina P. Kavanaugh Madeline King Joan A. Lagan Thomas Lara, Jr Maximino Mejia Ledezma

Nancy Y. Leslie Carmen Lopez Efrain Gonzalez Loza Rosario T. Macapinlac Richard V. Manning Chereith Ann Martinez Benjamin R. Martinez Mary McAuliffe Grace Muzio McGilvery Eugene F. McMahon Frances McLaughlin Mecchi Mary M. Medina Nidia E. Melendez Roberto Leonardo Mercader, Jr. Robert F. Milani Elsie Miller Juan Morales Maureen Theresa Murphy Merlyn Nabong Charles E. Nicholas Ann Geraldine O’Neill Miguel Antonio Ocampo Mallorca Consuelo J. Oliveros Jose F. Oliveros Rogelio D. Padua Kalolaine T. Pahulu Rhona Labao Palencia Herbert H. Parker Aminta Del Carmen Vega Pasquier Angelina R. Pieralde William D. Pieri Guido Podesta Robert Joseph Podjarsky Ramon (Ray) Puccinelli Mary Rainsford Maria Ramirez Mauricio Rayala Wilfred W. Robinson Esther Alicia Rodriguez Dennis Rosario Hani I. Saadeh Hind Saleh Fernando Sanchez Theresa Ann Scardino Kenneth D. Schillig Margaret F. Segale Patria Rayos Serrano Anna Soo Norma A. Soriano Edmond R. Soulie John L. Squeri Myra R. Stratton Rev. Msgr. Joseph P. Sullivan Francis Syme

Luis A. Takana Jesus M. Tello Marino Tognetti Janet E. Terranova Tolliver Rev. Msgr. Sami Totah Gloria Underwood Robert James Vaughn Hubert E. Ward Raymond L. Ward Beatrice C. Weiller Maria Remedios S. Williams See Chin Wong Raymond E. Zeno

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Margaret Matilda Hooker Mary S. Houweling Ignacio Padilla Maria De la Luz Sandoval Lawrence E. Stahl

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Jack C. Barrow Phyllis C. Bell Muriel H. Blak Patti Burke Anita F. Corbett Michael Charles Cunningham Vladia Maria Cutler Albina Fiandro Arlene Freitas Edwin B. Gardner Diane M. Gardner Jean F. Hedemark Agnes Kennedy Catherine Jordan Knopf Victor Petreshene Felix Virgil Pioli Jim Reilly Edna Reilly Betty Reilly Peggy Rolandson

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Patricia Anne Rivera Olivia A. Silveira

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, September 6, 2014 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am – Rev. Charito Suan, Celebrant – St. Elizabeth Church

LEARNING TO LIVE WITH GRIEF – Saturday, September 27, 2014 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 9:30 am-12:00 pm – Sr. Toni Lynn Gallagher, RSM

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.