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Iraq: ‘As if hell has broken out and nobody cares’ like old news, yet things just get worse and worse here,” said Rev. White, who also directs the British-based charity, Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East. “It is as if hell has broken out here and nobody cares, that is, apart from you, our supporters, who never leave us and keep supporting us in every way,” he said. “The situation is so serious and it is very easy to feel forgotten,” he said. Iraq was thrown back into crisis in mid-June after thousands of armed members of the Islamic State moved from Syria through much of northern Iraq, killing both Muslims and Christians. On June 29, the Islamist militants proclaimed a “caliphate,” an Islamic state led by a religious leader, across the territories they had captured, including the city of Mosul, the ancient Christian heartland in Iraq. In late July, the Islamic State released a new video depicting the

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AMMAN, Jordan – With the world’s attention focused on Gaza’s increasingly desperate situation, some in Iraq feel that brutal Islamist militants can do whatever they want and literally get away with murder. Serving in some of the worst violence in Iraq over the past decade, the Rev. Andrew White, an Anglican canon at St. George’s Church in Baghdad, said more than 1,500 people were killed in late July in the violence in Iraq perpetrated by Islamic State extremists. “The Islamic State simply said we can do anything now the world is just looking at Gaza,” Rev. White wrote of the precarious conditions faced by Iraq’s historic Christian community. In a newsletter dated July 30 and made available to Catholic News Service, he said the radical group now controls huge swaths of eastern Syria and northern and central Iraq. “In reality that is true. Iraq seems

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‘Great War’ brought Catholics into society’s mainstream MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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WASHINGTON – World War I was dubbed “the Great War” because of the near-global scale of the fighting. Some called it “the World War,” and many had thought it was “the war to end all wars.” But its status as World War I was cemented when World War II commenced just 21 years after it ended. It was 100 years ago, on July 28, 1914, that World War I began in earnest. The United States didn’t enter into the war until 1917, playing a decisive role in its outcome, but U.S. Catholics were watching and worrying long before the nation – what was for many of them their adopted homeland – entered the hostilities. Catholics accounted for about 16 percent of the U.S. population at the war’s outbreak. Their numbers and proportion had grown because of immigration from many of the European nations and territories engaged in the conflict.

“There was a lot of anti-Catholic feeling in the country before the war, based on the large amount of Catholic immigrants coming into the country,” said W. John Shepherd, an associate archivist at American Catholic Research Center at The Catholic University of America in Washington, where he has worked for the past 25 years. “I think the war was very important to Catholics to show themselves and the rest of the country – anybody who’s paying attention – that they could be devout Catholics and loyal patriots,” Shepherd said. There are as many stories in war as there are participants. One participant was Robert O’Connell, a Connecticut lad who was one of Gen. John Pershing’s doughboys after training at Washington Barracks – now Fort McNair – and shipping “over there.” Once in Europe, he asked his kin to write, “but don’t expect me to write much. Censor is nuisance.” In October 1917, O’Connell said, “Some of the boys must have expected to begin

killing Germans the week after they enlisted and are disgusted with the Army.” Combat came soon enough. In July 1918, he was wounded. O’Connell, after being examined, was told to walk to a cave to get fixed up. “Cave was almost two miles farther along. I’d have walked 20, I think, to get some relief from those shells,” he wrote. “When you get this, I’ll be back with the company again, but I’ll have had this rest, anyway, just for a little hole less than half an inch deep.” Another story – like O’Connell’s, found in Catholic University’s WWI archives – is that of Adm. William Benson, the highest-ranking Catholic in the armed forces during the war. Born a Methodist in Georgia, he joined his wife’s Catholic faith after marrying. Benson never saw any combat during his military career. He became chief of naval operations, a post created by Congress before U.S.

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Led by Assyrian Catholic Bishop Mar Awa Royel, as many as 2,500 people rallied Aug. 2 in downtown San Francisco to call attention to the persecution of Christians by radical Muslim militants in Iraq and Syria. A second demonstration was planned for Aug. 8 at 11:30 a.m. at San Francisco’s U.N. Plaza. The worldwide day of protest included rallies elsewhere in the United States and organizers vowed this was just the ﬁrst of many public demonstrations to build support for Christians who are being killed and driven from their homes, their churches torched, by the armies of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria which earlier this summer gained control of northern Iraq and parts of Syria, challenging governments in both countries.

The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, has imposed radical Shariah law, ordered Christians to convert to Islam, pay a hefty religious tax or be killed. The San Francisco demonstration began with a prayer and speech by Bishop Royel of the California diocese of the Assyrian Church of the East, calling for justice and “a voice for our voiceless people,” organizer Ashur DeKelaita said. Supporters walked from Justin Herman Plaza to Union Square and back. Assyrian Catholics came via bus from the Central Valley and San Jose. Republican Rep. Jeff Denham of Fresno, whose district has 25,000 Assyrian Catholics, also spoke, criticizing leaders “for allowing a genocide to go on against the Christians of Iraq and Syria at the hands of ISIS without any action,” DeKelaita said.

Protesters against Christian persecution in the Middle East gathered at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco Aug. 2.

Jesuit: Advocating for refugees essential to Catholic identity CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The incoming international director of Jesuit Refugee Services, Jesuit Father Thomas Smolich, will spend the last ﬁve months of 2014 in the Bay Area preparing for a role he said is critical to the faith. “Accompanying and advocating for refugees is essential to our identity as Catholics,” Father Smolich said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco July 31, a week before his arrival in Berkeley to begin what will be a year of preparation for his new position which begins Nov. 1, 2015, at JRS headquarters in Rome. He will study French and work

on small projects at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University through December. JRS is an international Catholic organization with a mission to accompany, serve and advocate on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced people in 10 regions of the world including the Middle East, Central America, Africa and the Dominican Republic. It was founded in 1980 by Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe as response to the plight of the thouJesuit Father Thomas Smolich sands of Vietnamese people ﬂeeing their war-torn country in boats. “JRS goes where the need is greatest, to places

where others are unable or unwilling to go,” said Father Smolich, a Sacramento native ordained in 1986. He earned an MBA in ﬁnancial management from Stanford before serving as the director of planning, formation and vocations for the California Province of the Society of Jesus and later as provincial of the California province. For the last eight years he has been president of the U.S. Jesuit conference. Today, according to its website, JRS deploys 1,400 staff and volunteers including more than 70 Jesuits to serve nearly 1 million refugees globally with emergency services, health care services, human rights protection and pastoral care. SEE JESUIT, PAGE 15

George Wesolek honored posthumously with 2014 People of Life CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The U.S. bishops’ pro-life secretariat honored George Wesolek, recently deceased Archdiocese of San Francisco director of public policy and social concerns, with the 2014 People of Life Award July 28. “He understood well the church’s teachings on human life and dignity, and promoted the vision of the consistent ethic of life on a wide variety of issues across the spectrum,” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said in a statement. “He was a man filled with faith, a true gentleman, and above all, a loving father and husband. For all of George’s great dedication to the church, he was always first and foremost a family man, giving his first priority to his dear wife Geri and their four daughters.” Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley presented the 2014

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People of Life awards at a private awards dinner July 28 sponsored by the U.S bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities. Other honorees were the Little Sisters of the Poor and recently retired Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops director of social concerns and respect life Sheila Snow Hopkins. Cardinal O’Malley is chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. The People of Life Award recognizes Catholics who have answered the call outlined by Pope John Paul II in the 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”), dedicating themselves to pro-life activities and promoting respect for the dignity of the human person. It is bestowed in honor of their signiﬁcant contributions to the culture of life. “The passing of George Wesolek marks the end of a great deal of history in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, not just in terms of length of time but also

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St. Patrick’s Seminary to host Four Pillars Gala Sept. 13 On Sept. 13, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University will host its annual Four Pillars Gala on its grounds in Menlo Park, with 370 guests expected to attend. The festivities will begin with solemn vespers in the main chapel followed by a cocktail reception and dinner. Throughout the history of the gala, St. Patrick’s has honored a person or group of people they feel should be recognized for their work and dedication to the Catholic community and church at large. This year is no different. St. Patrick’s Seminary & University is proud to honor Antonio (Tony) and Lucille Sanchez-Corea with the Four Pillars Award the evening of the gala. 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. He has served as Chancellor of the Western Association and Founding Regent of the Sub-Priory of Our Lady of Philermo. Tony has always worked to bring his professional expertise and management talent to countless Catholic projects throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He has served as a member of the Real Estate Planning Board of the archdiocese as well as the Board of Regents of St. Mary’s Cathedral. As a founding member of the St. Patrick’s Seminary Board of Regents, he brought Vision 2000, the renovation of the library and the historic building including the students’

Antonio (Tony) and Lucille Sanchez-Corea will be honored with this year’s Four Pillars Award from St. Patrick’s Seminary & University. living quarters to completion “on time and in budget.” As a member of the Order of Malta Sovereign Council he created an internationally recognized balance sheet for the order’s accounts. He designed, and executed the new Conference Center for the Order of Malta, at Villa Aventine. He supervised the renovation of the “convent” residential apartment suites of the Fras of the Order in the Order’s Palace in the Via Condotti. Tony is a native San Franciscan who attended St. Monica School, St. Ignatius High School and San Francisco State College. He married Lucille Compagno Sanchez-Corea at St. Stephen Church in

1957. They have three children, Laura Hosking (Doug), Lisa Simpson (Justin) and Tony III (Karen) and seven grandchildren. All the families are actively involved in Catholic charitable projects and frequently work side-by-side. Lucille attended Holy Name School, Convent of the Sacred Heart High School and the San Francisco College for Women. She and Tony have worked together to pursue mutual goals for their family, the church and their community. Lucille was an active member of the Archdiocesan Committee for Truth and Justice. As a member of the Broadway Alumnae of the Sacred Heart Board of Directors, Lucille was a founder of the Broadway Alumnae Endowed Grant scholarship; she is an active member of the Little Sisters of the Poor Auxiliary. She has assisted Tony with his work for the Order of Malta, ﬁrst in the Western Association since 1988 and then in Rome for the last 10 years. Tony has served four archbishops for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. As in past years, seminarians will assist the gala Sept. 13 in a variety of ways including setting the dining area, welcoming guests, waiting tables and other efforts. Without their generous volunteer efforts, the event could not be possible. For more information please visit www.stpatricksseminary.org or call (650) 325-5621.

NEED TO KNOW AUG. 15 IS A HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION: Aug. 15 is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, body and soul, into heaven. It is a holy day of obligation. At the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, there will be a vigil Mass at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 14, with a candlelight procession and reception in the parish hall. On Friday, Aug. 15, Masses at the cathedral will be at 6:45 a.m., 8 a.m., 12:10 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate the 12:10 p.m. Mass. The dogma of the assumption of Mary into heaven was declared Nov. 1, 1950, in the encyclical “Munificentissimus Deus” by Pope Pius XXII, who noted the long church tradition of belief that because Mary was free of the taint of original sin, she was brought up to heaven at her death. ‘MARY OF NAZARETH’ FILM AVAILABLE FOR SCREENINGS: Viewing the movie “Mary of Nazareth” at a parish or school screening will enable Catholics to have a greater and a more profound understanding of the mother of God, said Anthony Ryan, director of sales and marketing for Ignatius Press, Catholic News Service reported. The film, released in theaters last January, follows the life of Mary from her childhood through the Passion and Resurrection of her son. The story of the Gospels unfolds through her eyes. Now the film is available to U.S. parishes and schools to host their own screening through Ignatius Press. Contact Diane Hanson of Ignatius by email at dhanson@ignatius.com or call (866) 431-1531 Ext. 5 or (734) 4551973. Visit www.maryfilm.com.

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Generics versus brand: St. Rita grad sorts it out TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

We all have remedies for the simple wound in our medicine cabinets. Among the very popular fixes are Neosporin and its generic counterparts. Grace Dailey, a 2014 graduate of St. Rita School, Fairfax, and soon a freshman at Branson School in Ross, put science to work to find out if the brand name’s claim of quicker results was on track. The experiment won Grace first place in her school science fair Grace Dailey and the Marin County Science Fair, as well as major recognition in the California State Science Fair. Her folks are Liz and Mike Dailey. I spoke with Grace via email. Grace told me when she had a choice, hers would be the generic. “They were less-expensive, and I figured, equally as effective,” she said. Neosporin’s claim of faster action put her to work comparing the brand name ointment to generic salves from Good Neighbor Pharmacy and CVS pharmacy. Grace used bacteria commonly found in soil that can cause skin infection if introduced to an open wound against the three. Results of her tests showed Neosporin’s claim held up. Active ingredients of the three products are all the same, Grace found out. Inactive ingredients varied with sodium pyruvate, which according to Neosporin de-oxidizes a wound, found only in Neosporin. Can that one ingredient be behind the better performance of their product over the others? Grace was told that in fact it can. While active ingredients do what you buy a product to do, inactive ingredients help in the overall “healing process” of a wound and can be a determining factor in outcomes. “I am fascinated by biology, medicine and people,” Grace said, noting that her plan is to pursue a career in medicine. “After reading a myriad of books about medical school and the lives of doctors and their patients, I feel it’s a profession that would be very satisfying and rewarding.” Grace’s uncle is a doctor and an aunt is a nurse. A great uncle, now deceased, was a kidney specialist, an area of medicine Grace finds interesting. “It would be an honor to follow in his footsteps,” she said. A trip to Peru was among summer activities for Grace. Neosporin mailed Grace a variety of its products and she took them with her to Peru to use and to share. AHOY: Michael Tuimavave, a graduate of Our CASA FUGAZI 678 GREEN STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133 TEL: 415.362.6423 FAX: 415.362.3565 INFO@ITALIANCS.COM WWW.ITALIANCS.COM

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JUST A THOUGHT: As a chancery grunt I have had the opportunity to work under the leadership of four archbishops: Archbishop John R. Quinn, Cardinal William J. Levada, and Archbishop George Niederauer all now retired and readers of this column, I am grateful to say; and Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who is shepherd now. Thanks to them all. Just from my distant knowledge of the post, I can say with conﬁdence that it is not an easy-day-at-the-office kind of job. Nazareth House in San Rafael is home to many of our retired priests including Father Kevin Gaffey, retired pastor, St. Anthony, Novato; Father Wilton Smith, retired pastor, St. Veronica, South San Francisco; Father Clement Davenport,

ANNIVERSARY: Happy 60 years married to Joan and Dave Belli who took their vows at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Daly City, Aug. 29, 1954. They will celebrate the milestone with their three children and spouses, as well as grandchildren. Thanks to daughter, Michele Meredith, for ﬁllin’ us in.

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Winning De La Salle coach, football program inspire movie MICHELE JURICH THE CATHOLIC VOICE

This is how a movie gets made. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I found the book in the Santa Monica High School football team locker room when I was cleaning it,â&#x20AC;? said David Zelon, who in addition to being the father of a football player, is executive vice president at Mandalay Entertainment Group. In spring 2009, in a place that â&#x20AC;&#x153;smells of testosterone and sweat,â&#x20AC;? he found what would become his latest ďŹ lm project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m 30 pages into it,â&#x20AC;? he recalled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and I felt like I found a needle in a haystack. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an amazing story.â&#x20AC;? The book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the Game Stands Tall,â&#x20AC;? recounts the amazing winning streak of De La Salle High School in Concord, coached by Bob Ladouceur. Upon meeting with its author Neil Hayes, Zelon learned there was an even more amazing story, one that the original book didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recount. Get a copy of the paperback, Hayes told him. It was in that story that Zelon, who produced the inspirational movie, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soul Surfer,â&#x20AC;? found the heart of the narrative of the Ladouceur ďŹ lm, which opens in theaters Aug. 22. In what Zelon described as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;perfect storm,â&#x20AC;? Zelon, the father of a high school star â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who would play four years at Harvard, on teams that won two Ivy League championships â&#x20AC;&#x201D; found a story that spoke to him. And, he hopes, to many more. De La Salle High School would run that winning streak to 151 games, over a dozen years, before losing. But the story told in â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the Game Stands Tallâ&#x20AC;? is much bigger than wins and losses. Ladouceur not only coached football at De La Salle, but teaches religion. For Zelon, ďŹ nding the right director was essential. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thomas Carter really ďŹ t the bill perfectly,â&#x20AC;? Zelon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He captured the raw emotion of sports in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Coach Carter.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge sports fan.â&#x20AC;?

Jim Caviezel portrays a De La Salle High School football coach in â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the Game Stands Tall.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coach Carterâ&#x20AC;? recounted the story of the Richmond High School coach who took his team off the court until the student-athletesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; grades improved. In casting the lead role of coach Ladouceur, Zelon said he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;looking for somebody who worked on multiple levels.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He needed to be somebody who understood sports,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He needed to understand iconic coaching. He needed to be athletic himself. He needed to have a basis of faith in his life so he would ďŹ t both sides and give us balance.â&#x20AC;? Jim Caviezel was the name that â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ&#x201A;oated to the top,â&#x20AC;? Zelon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He checked all the boxes.â&#x20AC;? Zelon and Carter ďŹ&#x201A;ew to New York to meet with Caviezel, who took them to a concert with him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went out and saw Johnny Mathis,â&#x20AC;? Zelon recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johnny Mathis gave this amazing concert. We shared this creative experience together. We bonded together.â&#x20AC;? Zelon found Ladouceur to be an interesting character. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to

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NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A U.S.-based international Catholic agency July 28 issued a plea for emergency funds to help tens of thousands of Christians forced to ďŹ&#x201A;ee their homes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These Christian families have arrived with only their clothes, having been forced to leave everything behind in Mosul,â&#x20AC;? said Raâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ed Bahou, who is the Catholic Near East Welfare Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regional director for Jordan and Iraq. As families were â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ&#x201A;eeing the city on foot,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;ISIS militants then stole whatever dollars they had in their pockets, even their passports and identiďŹ cation papers.â&#x20AC;? Bahou made the comments in a news release from CNEWA announcing the agency has launched a campaign to rush funds to the families. Islamic militants known as ISIS, or the Islamic State ďŹ ghters, have solidiďŹ ed their control over Iraqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secondlargest city of Mosul by imposing Shariah, Islamic law, and are ordering Christians to convert or pay a special tax or they will die.

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Syriac Catholic Archbishop Yohanna Moshe of Mosul and the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena â&#x20AC;&#x201C; themselves homeless â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the clergy, religious and villagers are trying to provide the basics, said the CNEWA release. It said refuge, especially in the villages of Alqosh, Bakhdida (Qaraqosh), Bartella and Tel Kaif, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;tenuous at best,â&#x20AC;? because the Islamic State has cut the electricity and water supply, and has announced its intentions to overrun the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These villages are in the hands of God,â&#x20AC;? Bahou said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;as ISIS says their next â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;giftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; will be the villages of the Ninevah Plain.â&#x20AC;? Msgr. John E. Kozar, who is president of CNEWA, said the agency will get the emergency funds to the bishops, clergy and religious, â&#x20AC;&#x153;who in the frenzy are courageously providing water, food, mattresses and medicinesâ&#x20AC;? to ďŹ&#x201A;eeing Christians. The world is â&#x20AC;&#x153;witnessing, at the hands of extremist thugs, the eradication of a cradle of Christianity in the cradle of civilization,â&#x20AC;? the priest said in a statement. He added that the agency will help the â&#x20AC;&#x153;shepherds of this ďŹ&#x201A;ock to tend their sheep, with the basics they need for survival now ... even if their ďŹ&#x201A;ock is dispersed.â&#x20AC;? The BBC reported July 28 that in a joint message, Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foreign minister and interior minister have offered Iraqi Christians asylum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are ready, if they so desire, to help facilitate asylum on our territory,â&#x20AC;? their statement said. SEPT. 12-14 MARRIED COUPLES Fr. Mark Wiesner

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IRONDALE, Ala. – A new West Coast studio currently under construction for the Eternal Word Television Network will be “of great benefit to EWTN’s programming efforts around the globe,” said Michael P. Warsaw, CEO of the broadcast organization. The studio is being built on the campus of Christ Cathedral of the Diocese of Orange. The almost allglass cathedral in Garden Grove is the former Crystal Cathedral made famous by the Rev. Robert Schuller, a popular televangelist. The cathedral complex was purchased by the diocese in November 2011. “The location of the facility gives EWTN a presence in an area of the country where the network will be able to execute programs that would be difficult to produce elsewhere, particularly for our Spanish-language channels,” Warsaw said in a July 24 news release. He said EWTN, which has its headquarters in Irondale, hopes to be broadcasting news, televised Masses and stories of faith from the studio by the end of the year.

The Orange diocese took possession of the cathedral property in September 2013. It then began an extensive renovation of the 34-acre campus and its seven buildings, upgrading them to meet modern earthquake and energy efficiency standards and to accommodate the large cathedral parish. The diocesan pastoral center, a Catholic school and a worship site called the Arboretum are now located on the campus. The diocese will consecrate Christ Cathedral sometime in mid2015. “As we transform the Christ Cathedral campus into a dynamic and inspirational center of Catholic worship and outreach, we are blessed to partner with EWTN to share our community’s energy and faithful witness with the world,” Bishop Kevin W. Vann of Orange said in a statement. “EWTN’s partnership will profoundly benefit our church, enabling us to share the love of Christ with millions across the world in multiple languages from the cathedral campus, here in Orange County,” he added.

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Bishops: Marriage ruling an ‘injustice’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia’s Catholic bishops said in a July 28 statement that “those with same-sex attractions must be treated with respect and sensitivity,” but reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s teaching that marriage should be between one man and one woman. Bishops Francis X. DiLorenzo of Richmond and Paul S. Loverde of Arlington issued the statement after a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, ruled 2-1 that Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. The bishops called the ruling “a fundamental misunderstanding of the intrinsic nature of marriage and is an injustice to Virginia voters.” In 2006, Virginians voted 57 percent to 43 percent to approve the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Virginia laws also prohibit recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states. U.S. Circuit Judge Henry F. Floyd said he recognized that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. “However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples

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WASHINGTON – The head of a Michigan-based tour company that leads trips to the Holy Land said the ongoing conﬂict between Israel and Hamas so far has not had an impact on pilgrimages he and his associates lead. “Everything is still functioning like in any other normal business day. The sector of tourism industry to the Holy Land is not affected,” said Steve Ray, a tour guide and CEO of Footprints of God in Ann Arbor, speaking to Catholic News Service in a phone interview after recently returning from a trip to the Middle East. John Hale, president of the Corporate Travel Service in Dearborn, Michigan, said that the ongoing conﬂict is a serious humanitarian crisis and “a very difficult situation,” but said it should not prevent anyone from traveling to the Holy Land. “Tourists are not the (ones being) targeted but everyone has to decide for himself as whether to travel or not” to the Middle East, he told CNS.

POPE SET TO VISIT PHILADELPHIA IN 2015

FARGO, N.D. – Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to attend the World Meeting of Families in the U.S. next year, even though the Philadelphia archdiocese still has not received official conﬁrmation from the Vatican. “Pope Francis has told me that he is coming,” the archbishop said July 24 before giving his homily during the opening Mass of the Tekakwitha Conference in Fargo. “The pope will be with us the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of that week.”

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NEW ORLEANS – A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans July 29 overturned a 2012 Mississippi law requiring doctors at the state’s only abortion clinic to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. There is only one abortion clinic in Mississippi, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which challenged the law, which the 2-1 ruling declared unconstitutional. Writing for the majority, Judge E. Grady Jolly stated: “Mississippi may not shift its obligation to respect the established constitutional rights of its citizens to another state,” a reference to the fact many women had to go out of state to obtain an abortion. The state law put an “an undue burden on the exercise of the constitutional right” as provided by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion virtually on demand across the country.

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CRS OFFICIAL: GAZA A ‘COMPLETE CATASTROPHE’

AMMAN, Jordan – A top Catholic charity official described Gaza as a “complete catastrophe” after nearly four weeks of ﬁghting between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas. “Gaza is on the brink of collapse at this point,” said Matthew McGarry, who directs the Catholic Relief Services’ operations in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. He spoke to Catholic News Service Aug. 4 in a phone interview from Jerusalem, describing the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, a coastal strip subject to Israeli airstrikes and artillery ﬁre. More than 1,800 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed and more than a quarter of the impoverished enclave’s 1.8 million residents displaced, according to Gazan officials. More than 60 Israeli soldiers have been in the Israeli operation, dubbed “Protective Edge,” seeking to destroy underground tunnels built by Hamas to carry out terrorist attacks in the Jewish state.

POPE: COMPASSION, SHARING, EUCHARIST STEPS ON PATH TO HEAVEN

VATICAN CITY – Going forward for Communion at Mass, Catholics must do so with a desire to imitate Jesus’ compassion for others and with a commitment to sharing what they have, Pope Francis said. “One who goes to the Eucharist without having compassion for the needy and without sharing is not right with Jesus,” the pope said Aug. 3 before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “Compassion, sharing, Eucharist: This is the path Jesus indicates for us in this Gospel,” the pope said as tens of thousands of people gathered to pray with the pope and listen to his reﬂection on the day’s Gospel, Matthew 14:13-21, which recounts the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and ﬁsh. “It is a path that leads us to face the needs of this world with brotherhood, but one that leads us beyond this world because it starts with God the father and returns to him.”

CARDINAL: SCANDALS CAUSING MORE GERMANS TO LEAVE CHURCH

MAINZ, Germany – A German cardinal warned that the number of Catholics leaving his country’s church is “alarmingly high” and urged an end to “scandals and vexations” involving clergy. “We’ve obviously suffered a loss of trust and credibility which has rarely happened so violently,” Cardinal Karl Lehmann of Mainz wrote in an Aug. 3 column in Faith and Life, the diocese’s weekly newspaper. “The church isn’t just another club, and all efforts must now be made to prevent more scandals through repentance and renewal.” The column followed the release of new church data showing that departures from parish and diocesan membership rolls slowed during the 2005-2013 pontiﬁcate of German Pope Benedict XVI but jumped to nearly 179,000 last year, from more than 118,000 in 2012. The “positive example” set by Pope Francis appeared unable to prevent “a high potential for disappointment among Catholics,” a German sociologist, Michael Ebertz, told the Catholic news agency KNA. Formal resignations from church membership were often “the ﬁnal stage of a long process of distancing from it,” he said.

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Pope Francis walks onstage with Giovanni Traettino, a Protestant pastor and his friend, in Caserta, Italy, July 28. Pope Francis said he knew people would be shocked that he would make such a trip outside of Rome to visit a group of Pentecostals, “but I went to visit my friends.”

Pope talks unity with Pentecostals CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – His voice breaking with emotion, Giovanni Traettino, a Pentecostal pastor in southern Italy and longtime friend of Pope Francis, welcomed the pope, “my beloved brother,” to his partially built church in Caserta. Pope Francis said he knows some people were shocked that he would make a special trip outside of Rome to visit a group of Pentecostals, “but I went to visit my friends.” Traettino told the pope his visit was “unthinkable until recently,” even though, he said, “even among evangelicals there is great affection for you. Many of us pray for you, every day.

Many of us, in fact, believe your election as bishop of Rome was the work of the Holy Spirit.” Pope Francis told the Pentecostals that “the Holy Spirit is the source of diversity in the church. This diversity is very rich and beautiful. But then the same Holy Spirit creates unity. And in this way the church is one in diversity. To use a beautiful Gospel phrase that I love very much, reconciled diversity” is the gift of the Holy Spirit. In addition to the visit, the pope fulﬁlled one speciﬁc request of the Italian evangelical community by recognizing the complicity of some Catholics in the fascist-era persecution of Italian Pentecostals and evangelicals. “Among those who persecuted and

denounced the Pentecostals, almost as if they were crazies who would ruin the race, there were some Catholics. As the pastor of the Catholics, I ask forgiveness for those Catholic brothers and sisters who did not understand and were tempted by the devil,” Italian news agencies quoted the pope as saying. The Vatican had described the visit as “strictly private” and, except for Vatican media, reporters were kept on the roof of a nearby apartment building. In the new worship space of the Pentecostal Church of Reconciliation, Pope Francis met with about 200 people, including members of Traettino’s congregation, other Italian evangelicals and representatives of Pentecostal ministries in Argentina and the United States.

Vatican upholds sign of peace but urges education CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The sign of peace at Mass has not always led to serenity among liturgists or within the congregations gathered each Sunday in Catholic churches around the world. After nine years of review, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has told Latin-rite bishops around the world that the sign of peace will stay where it is in the Mass. However, the congregation said, “if it is foreseen that it will not take place properly,” it can be omitted. But when it is used, it must be done with dignity and awareness that it is not a liturgical form of “good morning,” but a witness to the Christian belief that true peace is a gift of Christ’s death and resurrection. The text of the congregation’s “circu-

lar letter” on “the ritual expression of the gift of peace at Mass,” was approved by Pope Francis and posted in Spanish on the website of the Spanish bishops’ conference. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, conﬁrmed its authenticity Aug. 1. In 2005, members of the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist adopted a formal proposition questioning whether the sign of peace might be better placed elsewhere in the Mass, for example at the end of the prayer of the faithful and before the offering of the gifts. Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, current prefect of the congregation, and Archbishop Arthur Roche, the congregation’s current secretary, said Pope Benedict XVI had asked the congregation to study the matter and, after doing so, in 2008 it asked bishops’ conferences

around the world whether to keep the sign of peace where it is or move it to another moment “with a view to improving the understanding and carrying out of this gesture.” “After further reﬂection,” the letter said, “it was considered appropriate to retain the rite of peace in its traditional place in the Roman liturgy and not to introduce structural changes in the Roman Missal.” But that does not exclude the need for new or renewed efforts to explain the importance of the sign of peace so that the faithful understand it and participate in it correctly, the letter said. It asked bishops to study whether it might be time to ﬁnd “more appropriate gestures” to replace a sign of peace using “familiar and profane gestures of greeting.”

AIDS activists mark progress, warn about lingering HIV danger CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MELBOURNE, Australia – Catholic AIDS activists said they are encouraged by the steady progress being made against HIV, but warned against complacency. As some 18,000 delegates and visitors to yet another international AIDS conference made their way home from Australia in late July, there were no headlines about how the end of AIDS is just around the corner. There is no cure yet, conference participants heard, and unlikely to be one in the near future. Yet “there is more collaboration among the scientists than I’ve seen before, and more cooperation across disciplines, all of which gives hope for new discoveries,” said Msgr. Robert Vitillo, a special adviser on HIV and AIDS to Caritas Internationalis. Msgr. Vitillo praised as “a step for-

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Sister Hien Nguyen of Vietnam lights candles at a July 22 interfaith service at St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia. ward” a new approach to focusing on treatment as prevention. Using benchmarks that experts have dubbed the 90-90-90 strategy, the new global assault on AIDS aims to expand testing so that 90 percent of HIV-infected individuals are aware of their status. Of that population, 90 percent will receive regular treatment with anti-retroviral

drugs. And 90 percent of those receiving that treatment will achieve sufficiently suppressed levels of the virus in their bodies that they will be unlikely to transmit it to others. While the new strategy will not eliminate AIDS, Msgr. Vitillo and other activists hope it will transform the current public health emergency into a more or less manageable disease by 2030. “We haven’t given up on getting to zero, but 90-90-90 is a more realistic manner of reaching those goals,” Msgr. Vitillo told Catholic News Service. Officials warned that serious obstacles remain, however, even to meeting lowered expectations. Dr. Chris Beyrer, president-elect of the International Aids Society, told the conference’s closing session, “A wave of discriminatory laws and policies are setting us back toward exclusion: limiting rights, reducing health care access and aiding and abetting the virus.”

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‘Talk to us now’: Like good shepherd, church must seek out, help abused, says survivor CAROL GLATZ

‘The judicial process is hazardous,’ often with ‘poor outcomes.’ Criticism of the victim or a lack of support also represents ‘a grave danger to a very fragile person.’

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VATICAN CITY – Just as Jesus commanded pastors to leave their ﬂock to ﬁnd the lost sheep, the church must set out in search of all those who have been abused by clergy and offer them help, said one abuse survivor. Victims of abuse should be the focus of a new pastoral ministry since they are isolated, hurting, vulnerable to self-harm and suicide, and in need of Christ’s true healing, said Mark Vincent Healy, one of the six abuse survivors who met Pope Francis at the Vatican July 7. In his private meeting with the pope, Healy said, “I needed to tell His Holiness just how awful it is when there is no justice, no one listening on a humanitarian level,” and how all that isolation and guilt push people to suicide or self-harm and addictions. He also told the pope how much spiritual help both survivors and the church need. Healy spoke with Catholic News Service by telephone from Ireland July 25. The church needs a new evangelization “and a new mission based on Matthew 18, verse 12,” – the parable of the lost sheep, in which Jesus tells his disciples to seek those who are lost, he said. The church is “to be a light and is supposed to shine this light” where there is darkness, not passively expect those in need to “come into the light” and seek help, Healy said. It is even more imperative for the church to apply the “lost sheep” ministry to abuse victims, he said, since that passage of St. Matthew’s Gospel follows Jesus saying children are the greatest in the kingdom of heaven and his strongest condemnation is held for those who harm them. “That’s what the church’s response should be to this scandal,” he said. Healy said he told the pope about the scale of the problem of clerical sex abuse and why people won’t come forward. “The judicial process is hazardous,” he said, often with “poor outcomes.” Criticism of the victim or a lack of support also represents “a grave danger to a very fragile person.”

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Mark Vincent Healy shakes hands with Pope Francis at the Vatican July 7. Healy, one of six abuse survivors who met the pope during a private meeting, said victims of abuse should be the focus of a new pastoral ministry since they are isolated, hurting, vulnerable to self-harm and suicide, and in need of Christ’s true healing. He said he presented the pope with research showing that those who are abused are six times more likely than the general population to complete suicide. While he has been waiting for Ireland’s minster of mental health to follow through on promises to fund such research, he said he asked the pope if the Vatican would be prepared to do its own studies on the link between survivors of clerical abuse and suicide. Healy said such research is important for discovering the right kind of conditions and help that can “alleviate the distress.” Healy said the pope deﬁnitely “gets it” when it comes to recognizing and understanding the “unrelenting wounds” and pain survivors experience. This was evident not just in Healy’s 45-minute private talk with the pope, he said, it was also clear in the pope’s homily that morning at a special Mass for the six survivors. The homily was “a huge seismic shift,” he said, since the pope “admitted to so many of the dysfunctions” and hurt caused by abuse. Pope Francis underlining the vast,

severe and lasting effects of abuse runs counter to decades of defensive church legal arguments that sought to “deny and diminish” the real suffering abuse caused, Healy said. The need to help survivors didn’t get much attention when the crisis erupted, Healy said, because the church “went into survival mode,” responding to the allegations and lawsuits “like an international corporation or business” instead of like “the body of Christ.” Perhaps because lawyers took the driver’s seat when it came to navigating the crisis, the church’s initial responses centered on litigation insurance and juridical and legal processes, he said. The message of Christ being on the side of the marginalized and the Holy Spirit being present to help people in this world was “utterly corrupted. The ﬁrst response should have been: Who has been abused? What are their needs? What should we do to help them?” Healy said. While the church’s approach has improved in some places, abuse victims still need direct outreach, he said, because it’s often not easy for

them to recognize, communicate or come forward because of the trauma and its fallout. He said a child who gets abused is like an unsuspecting new homeowner: “You buy a new home. I give you the keys, but before that, I had it smashed up a bit inside,” Healy said. While it’s damaged inside, “to you it’s not; you’re happy thinking, ‘I’ve got my own home.’ And you don’t realize it’s a very broken place. It’s only later on in life that you start ﬁnding out,” he said. “The gift God gave them has been smashed up” and then that burden is so often carried alone by the survivor without the protection or support of family or the community, he said. Healy told CNS that the church needs set up “a rescue service and place for respite,” where survivors can hear others say, “We’re here now. Talk to us now. Don’t stay with these things on your own.’ This is the compassionate response.” “Protecting” people by hiding them is not the right approach, he said. In fact, Healy said he was very angry to ﬁnd there was no organized press event for survivors after their meeting with Pope Francis. While in Ireland, Healy understood an opportunity to talk to the press would be set up, though one organizer told CNS that while people were free to contact the press, nothing organized by the Vatican had ever been considered. Although at least two survivors wanted full anonymity, Healy said it was “important to be seen with His Holiness and not anonymously spoken of as nameless and faceless.” He said healing comes with becoming visible again, by being listened to.

Papal puzzler: Leo XIII anonymously published riddles in Latin CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Going by the pseudonym “X,” Pope Leo XIII anonymously crafted poetic puzzles in Latin for a Roman periodical at the turn of the 19th century. The pope created lengthy riddles, Pope Leo XIII known as “charades,” in Latin in which readers had to guess a rebus-like answer from two or more words that together formed the syllables of a new word. Eight of his puzzles were published anonymously in “Vox Urbis,” a Rome newspaper that was printed entirely

in Latin between 1898-1913, according to an article in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. A reader who submitted the correct answer to the riddle would receive a book of Latin poetry written by either Pope Leo or another noted Catholic ﬁgure. The identity of the mysterious riddle-maker, however, was soon revealed by a French reporter covering the Vatican for the daily newspaper Le Figaro. Felix Ziegler published his scoop Jan. 9, 1899, a year after the puzzles started appearing, revealing that “Mr. X” was, in fact, the reigning pope, the Vatican newspaper said July 20. In the pope’s hometown, Carpineto Romano, which is about 35 miles southeast of Rome, students at the middle school now named for him

have published 26 of the pope’s Latin puzzles in a new book titled, “Aenigmata. The Charades of Pope Leo XIII.” Three middle school teachers and their pupils said they have included puzzles they found, but which had never been published before. One example of the pope’s Latin riddles talked of a “little boat nimbly dancing,” that sprung a leak as it “welcomed the shore so near advancing.” “The whole your eyes have known, your pallid cheeks have shown; for oh! the swelling tide no bravest heart could hide, when your dear mother died,” continues the translation of part of the riddle-poem. The answer, “lacrima,” (“teardrop”) merges clues elsewhere in the poem for “lac” (“milk”) and “rima” (“leak” or “ﬁssure”).

Pope Leo, who headed the universal church from 1878 to 1903, had the fourth-longest pontiﬁcate in history, after being nudged out of third place by St. John Paul II. He wrote 86 encyclicals, including the church’s groundbreaking “Rerum Novarum,” which ushered in the era of Catholic social teaching. A trained Vatican diplomat and man of culture, the pope was also a member of an exclusive society of learning founded in Rome in 1690 called the Academy of Arcadia, whose purpose was to “wage war on the bad taste” engulﬁng baroque Italy. Pope Leo, whose club name was “Neandro Ecateo,” was the last pope to be a member of the circle of poets, artists, musicians and highly cultured aristocrats and religious.

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A midsummer day’s prayer

et me suggest that here, in the midst of summer, the reader give some thought to summers past. Recall good summer memories. Everyone has them – being swept ashore with the surf, floating in an inner tube on a lake, splashing around in the pool, catching lightning bugs, chasing butterflies. Memories of Fourth of July fireworks, band concerts, baseball games, amusement parks, bike rides, roasted marshmallows, hamburgers and hot dogs, thunder and FATHER WILLIAM lightning, reading on the J. BYRON, SJ porch, sailing, water skiing, summer jobs, hiking and just hanging out all come easily to mind if you close your eyes and look as well as listen. We tend to remember more readily the summer fun we came up with ourselves as “something to do,” rather than the events that were organized for us. But we will always be grateful for those trips and family outings that we, in later life, take pains to provide for our children and grandchildren. Some parents inevitably find themselves asking, “Is it worth the hassle?” as they deplete their supply of patience and exhaust their peacemaking skills during long automobile trips that are part of “the family vacation.” Yes, it’s worth it. The happy memories remain with those kids throughout their lives. How often do you hear them say, “D’ya remember when we ...?” Yes, you certainly do, and so much of what comes to mind are good summer memories. A midsummer recall of summers past sets the stage for a prayer of gratitude. I invite readers of this column to let themselves pray for a moment right now in words like these: Thank you, Lord, for summers past and summers yet to come. Thanks for all the fun – fun with a purpose, like those great days at camp, and fun for nothing else but the fun of it – in the attic, the cellar, the playgrounds, the farms, the meadows, and the woods. Thanks for summer rest, romance, and reflection. There were summer moments, Lord, when you came toward me, “walking on the waters,” in a sense, as I felt your presence in my life in summers past and caught a glimpse of your plan for me. I’ve deviated from the plan, I know, and I’m grateful for the midcourse corrections that your providence provided for me from time to time. Thank you also for the rains of summer, Lord, and the growth-inducing summer sun that produced the summer crops and flowers and all things fresh. Thanks for summer nights and summer sounds. For love songs and for everything that summer sings to me now by way of grateful thought and happy memory. If, as that wonderful old song reminds us, it is “summertime, and the livin’ is easy,” there is leisure time waiting to be filled with moments of spontaneous prayer. Star-filled night skies encourage it, as do wildflowers in the fields and waves rolling in on the shores. The churches are open, of course, and welcoming of summer worshippers, but the summer itself is a setting waiting to be used for grateful prayer that sustains us in our journey of faith. JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email: wbyron@sju.edu. The prayer included in this column is excerpted from his book, “A Book of Quiet Prayer.”

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The law of karma

n 1991 Hollywood produced a comedy titled “City Slickers,” starring Billy Crystal. In a quirky way it was a wonderfully moral ﬁlm, focusing on three, middle-aged men from New York City who were dealing with midlife crisis. As a present from their wives, who are frustrated enough with them to attempt anything, the three are given the gift of participating in a cattle drive through New Mexico and Colorado. And so these three urbanites set off to ride horses through the wilderness. The comedy part of the ﬁlm focuses on their inept horsemanFATHER RON ship and their naiveté about ROLHEISER cattle and the wilderness. The more serious part of the movie tracks their conversations as they try to sort through both their own struggles with aging and the larger mysteries of life. And one day as they are discussing sex, one of the three, Ed, the character with the least amount of moral scruples, asks the other two whether they would be unfaithful to their wives and have an affair if they were sure that they would never be caught. Billy Crystal’s character, Mitch, initially engages the question jokingly, protesting its impossibility: You always get caught! All affairs get exposed in the end. But Ed persists with his question: “But suppose you wouldn’t get caught. Suppose you could get away with it. Would you cheat on your wife and have an affair, if no one would ever know?” Mitch’s answer: “No, I still wouldn’t do it!” “Why not?” asks Ed. “Nobody would know.” “But I’d know,” Mitch replied, “and I’d hate myself for it!” There are volumes of moral wisdom in that answer. Ultimately nobody gets away with anything. We always get caught, not least by ourselves and by the moral energy inside the air we breathe. Moreover whether we get caught or not, there will always be consequences. This is a deep, inalienable moral principle written into the very fabric of the universe itself. Universal human experience attests to this. Nobody ultimately gets away with anything, despite every protest to the contrary. We see this articulated, for example, in the very heart of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and virtually all Eastern religions in a concept that is popularly called the law of Karma. Karma is a Sanskrit word which means action or deed, but it carries with it the implication that every action or deed we do generates

a force of energy that returns to us in kind, namely, what we sow is what we will reap. Hence, bad intent and bad actions will ricochet back on us and cause unhappiness, just as good intent and good actions will ricochet back on us and bring us happiness, irrespective of what is seen or known by anyone else. The universe has its own laws that assure this. Jesus was no stranger to the idea. It is everywhere present in his teachings and at times explicitly stated: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” (Luke 6, 38). In essence, Jesus is telling us that the air we breathe out is the air that we will re-inhale and that this is true at every level of our existence: Simply put, if we are emitting too much carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into the air we will eventually find ourselves suffocating on them. And this is true at every level of our lives: If I breathe out bitterness, I will eventually find myself breathing in bitterness. If I breathe out dishonesty, I will eventually find myself breathing in dishonesty. If I breathe out greed and stinginess, I will eventually find myself gasping for a generosity in a world suffocating on greed and stinginess. Conversely, if I breathe out generosity, love, honesty and forgiveness, I will eventually, no matter how mean and dishonest the world around me, find life inside a world of generosity, love, honesty and forgiveness. What we breathe out is what we will eventually reinhale. This is a nonnegotiable truth written into the very structure of the universe, written into life itself, written into every religion worthy of the name, written into the teachings of Jesus, and written into every conscience that is still in good faith. Where does this principle ground itself and why can it never be violated without consequence? The principle is inalienable because the universe protects itself, because Mother Earth protects herself, because human nature protects itself, because the laws of love protect themselves, because the laws of justice protect themselves, because the laws of conscience protect themselves, because God has created a universe that is moral in its very structure. Being moral or not is not something we can choose or not choose. We don’t have that prerogative because God created a morally contoured universe, one that has deep, inalienable moral grooves which need to be honored and respected, irrespective of whether we get caught or not when we cheat. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

LETTERS Headline, article misstate legal issue Re “Court may compel priest to break confessional seal in abuse case” (July 18): Please read the actual legal decisions you report on before you write headlines and articles like this. Your headline and article completely misstate the main legal issue decided upon in the case. The issue decided was not whether the priest may be compelled to testify at trial or be held in contempt. Instead, the issue was: May the girl testify at trial about what she told the priest in confession? The girl and her parents wanted her to testify at trial and the diocese’s lawyers sought to prevent her testimony with a pretrial legal motion. The trial court said she could testify. The intermediate appellate court in Louisiana said she could not. The Louisiana Supreme Court ultimately said the girl could testify as to what she said in the confessional. The Supreme Court reasoned that the privilege of keeping private what was said in the confessional belongs to the penitent and not to the priest. Any penitent is free to waive the privilege and tell anyone what they said in the confessional. Despite what you published in your article, the Louisiana Supreme Court never even came close to ruling on the issue of whether the priest’s testimony could be compelled at trial or whether civil contempt could be assessed because that was never an issue in the case.

Please, please have someone actually read the written opinion before you mislead your readers. On the secondary issue of whether the priest should be considered a mandatory reporter under two competing Louisiana statutes, the Supreme Court decided it was a mixed question of fact and law and said the factual record needed to be developed further. Therefore, it directed the case back to the lower court for more fact-ﬁnding. For example, the record showed that the priest may also have learned of the abuse outside of the confessional in joint meetings with the accused parishioner and the girl’s parents; meetings that would fall outside any confessional seal. Although the case may eventually concern the underlying tension between applying mandatory reporting child protection laws to things that priests hear in confession, that issue was not the subject of the case at hand. At some point subsequent in this litigation, it may be appropriate to raise the alarm about an unconstitutional impingement on the diocese’s First Amendment religious freedoms, but to do so now is premature and is not supported by the actual decision handed down. John Kavanagh Daly City The writer is a retired attorney.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught Peter, and said to him, ‘O you of little faith, why did you doubt?’ MATTHEW 14:22-33

1 KINGS 19:9A, 11-13A At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. Then the Lord said to him, “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the Lord; the Lord will be passing by.” A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the Lord—but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake—but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there was fire—but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound. When he heard this, Elijah hid his face in his cloak and went and stood at the entrance of the cave. PSALM 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. I will hear what God proclaims; the Lord — for he proclaims peace. Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him, glory dwelling in our land. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace

shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. The Lord himself will give his benefits; our land shall yield its increase. Justice shall walk before him, and prepare the way of his steps. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. ROMANS 9:1-5 Brothers and sisters: I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie; my conscience joins with the Holy Spirit in bearing me witness that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh. They are Israelites; theirs the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; theirs the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. MATTHEW14:22-33 After he had fed the people, Jesus made the

disciples get into a boat and precede him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. After doing so, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When it was evening he was there alone. Meanwhile the boat, already a few miles offshore, was being tossed about by the waves, for the wind was against it. During the fourth watch of the night, he came toward them walking on the sea. When the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were terrified. “It is a ghost,” they said, and they cried out in fear. At once Jesus spoke to them, “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.” Peter said to him in reply, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” He said, “Come.” Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water toward Jesus. But when he saw how strong the wind was he became frightened; and, beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught Peter, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” After they got into the boat, the wind died down. Those who were in the boat did him homage, saying, “Truly, you are the Son of God.”

Disciples in the storm

they encountered ﬁerce opposition. They were opposed by Jewish leaders, then by pagan cultures, and ﬁnally by the Roman government. The opposition increased in its intensity until it reached hurricane velocity and seemed to threaten their very existence. Matthew’s Gospel reminded the early church that its fate did not rest in human hands. There was no need to fear for their safety, for far superior to any storm they might encounter along the way was Jesus, the very one who had sent them out! If the early church needed that reminder, it is no less vital for you and me, and for all the other Christian churches in the world today, especially in the Middle East and parts of Southeast Asia where Christians continue to be persecuted for their religious beliefs. For the most part, you and I can worship God freely – where we choose and as we choose, without any fear of government intervention; nevertheless, this does not mean that the storms of adversity are no longer a part of our human experience. Quite the contrary! And when these storms come upon us, we still feel what the disciples felt that night in that boat. They felt helpless in the face of an impersonal force over which they had no control. But in the midst of the storm, Jesus came to them. He did not abandon them, and he will not abandon us.

When the storm of anger, sorrow and stress comes upon us, Jesus will be there with words of comfort. When the storm of temptation comes, Jesus will be there with words of strength. When the storm of guilt comes, Jesus will be there with the words of forgiveness. When the storm of discouragement and disappointment comes, Jesus will be there with words of encouragement and hope. In the midst of these towering waves and strong winds of life, the soothing words of Jesus will always be, “Get hold of yourselves, it is I. Do not be afraid.” So often, we are like the disciples in the boat. We do not recognize Jesus when he comes. (Remember, the disciples thought he was a ghost!) The problem for us, however, is that Jesus comes in such simple ways that often we don’t see him at all. And yet, in our times of adversity and personal storm, he does not forget us nor does he leave us alone. Instead, it is in the love and support of family and friends, in the kindness and compassion of the communities in which we live and work, in his presence in the Eucharist, in the Scripture readings and reﬂections that Jesus comes to us today.

MONDAY, AUGUST 11: Memorial of St. Clare, virgin. EZ 1:2-5, 24-28c. PS 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14. MT 17:22-27.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. RV 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab. PS 45:10, 11, 12, 16. 1 COR 15:20-27. LK 1:39-56.

Eudes, priest. EZ 28:1-10. DT 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd-36ab. MT 19:23-30.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 12: Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious. EZ 2:8-3:4. PS 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131. MT 18:1-5, 10, 12-14.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16: Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary. EZ 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32. PS 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. MT 19:13-15.

ost of us have never been caught in a storm at sea and probably never will. We have never had to look at the towering waves, fearing that our boat would sink. In this literal sense, this Gospel reading is foreign to our personal experience. But when we move from external circumstances to inner emotions, it changes, and all of us are able to relate to this story from Scripture. All of us can identify with the feeling of being overwhelmed by circumstances that are beyond our control. The focus of this Gospel story is not the event it depicts but rather the emotions which such a situation would evoke. The story spoke directly to the experience of DEACON the early church. Like the disFAIVA PO’OI ciples in the boat, Christ had sent them out. He had commissioned them to preach and to share his message with the world. In spreading the good news, however,

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

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

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13: Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Pontian, pope and martyr and Hippolytus, priest and martyr. EZ 9:1-7; 10:18-22. PS 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. MT 18:15-20. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14: Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr. EZ 12:1-12. PS 78:5657, 58-59, 61-62. MT 18:21-19:1.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. IS 56:1, 6-7. PS 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8. ROM 11:13-15, 29-32. MT 15:21-28. MONDAY, AUGUST 18: Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. EZ 24:15-23. DT 32:18-19, 20-21. MT 19:16-22. TUESDAY, AUGUST 19: Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20: Memorial of St. Bernard, abbot and doctor. EZ 34:1-11. PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. MT 20:1-16. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21: Memorial of St. Pius X, pope. EZ 36:23-28. PS 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. MT 22:1-14. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22: Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. EZ 37:1-14. PS 107:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. MT 22:34-40. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23: Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Rose of Lima, virgin. EZ 43:1-7ab. PS 85:9ab and 10, 1112, 13-14. MT 23:1-12.

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IRAQ: With focus on Gaza, Islamists can kill at will in a terrified nation FROM PAGE 1

group carrying out mass executions and warning Iraqi soldiers and others who dare to resist that they will be rounded up and killed. Rev. White and his congregation, in addition to numerous Catholic institutions, continue to provide support to tens of thousands of Christians forced to ﬂee the northern Iraqi cities of Mosul and Ninevah. The Islamic State extremists told the Christians they had three options: Convert, pay an Islamic tax or leave. “Even here in Baghdad, people are terriﬁed of what is happening around us,” Rev. White said, adding that many parishioners have left or are planning to leave Iraq’s beleaguered capital. “The Islamic State has established their hidden cells within Baghdad, and people are seriously under threat even though they are not in the areas controlled by the Islamic State,” he added. “The number of kidnappings here has soared, and people simply do not know what is going to happen next.” Archbishop Maroun Lahham, patriarchal vicar for Jordan in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, pleaded for prayers for Iraq, Gaza, Syria and Libya during a special Mass in the Jordanian capital, Amman, July 30. “The oppressors do not last. We ask God to remove the fear from the hearts of the oppressors so as to become a party that believes in peace and is capable of making peace,” Archbishop Lahham said in his homily, asking prayers for peoples’ survival. The Catholic leader underscored that violence only begets more violence and said the vicious cycle in the Middle East must be broken. “What is happening nowadays in

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Boys look at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 1. One Anglican official said more than 1,500 people were killed in Iraq in late July in violence perpetrated by the Islamic State extremists. Gaza in particular, and what is happening every day in Iraq, Syria and Libya happened in the past and now is being repeated – every time this situation is absolutely repeated without any change,” he said. “After reaching a cease-ﬁre, after the genocides, and after the demolition of houses the status quo will be restored, namely hostility, siege, injustice and fear in the heart of the

potential murderers; the fear with the belief that in the death of others is a means to maintain security, or merely a deceptive way of reassuring people,” he warned. “They are terriﬁed, that is why they kill.” The archbishop said God’s help is needed to change hearts into those who seek and are committed to making peace in these very troubled lands. “But we believe in the good, al-

mighty and just God. We pray for the survival of Gaza, Iraq, Syria and Libya,” he told the congregants gathered from Jordan’s many churches at Our Lady of Nazareth Church in Amman. “Our prayer for the peoples of Gaza, Iraq, Syria and Libya should continue until distress, death, and siege are eliminated, so they move in the direction of peace,” he said.

‘GREAT WAR’: World War I brought Catholics into society’s mainstream FROM PAGE 1

entered the Great War. Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels was convinced Benson was a trustworthy officer who would not challenge civilian leadership of the military. Benson retired in 1919 after the war ended. He was 64 and became one of the country’s most high-profile lay Catholics after his military career. After just a year as a member of the Knights of Columbus, he became a fourth-degree Knight. In 1920, Pope Benedict XV bestowed on him the military insignia of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He was the first president of the National Council of Catholic Men. He received the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal in 1927, and became chairman of the board for the Cardinal Gibbons Institute, the first high school in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, to educate African-Americans. For a church with a long-held justwar theory, it took war for the Catholic Church and its members to move more into the American mainstream. “However, it was an easy war for them to support, especially with the German atrocities against the church in Belgium, the execution of as many as 13 priests,” Shepherd told Catholic News Service. “There were also the German sinking of neutral, Allied ships, ships with neutral American passengers aboard, being killed, so there’s a humanitarian reason to oppose the German war effort. “But there’s a convenient reason for America to be against Germany, for

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This unidentified woman who was an overseas war worker poses for a photo during World War I in this undated photo.

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A group of newly minted Catholic chaplains pose for a July 31, 1918, photo at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Ky. The chaplains helped meet the spiritual needs of U.S. military service members during World War I. the Catholic Church to support the war effort. As a despised minority, it gives them a chance to show that they’re good citizens.” To that end, the National Catholic War Council was founded to support U.S. military efforts and oversee warrelated activities in the church. It was not the ﬁrst attempt by the U.S. bishops to inject themselves into the national conversation. The U.S. bishops had held plenary councils in 1852, 1866

and 1884, in part to deal with nativist backlash to the ongoing waves of Irish immigration. But with the Great War, there were Catholics in the training camps and the battleﬁelds, and those soldiers were every bit of deserving of spiritual care as their Protestant counterparts. Working with the Jewish Welfare Board, the YMCA and other organizations, the bishops joined in a “United War Work” campaign to support the war effort

and get Americans to buy war bonds. After the war’s end, these organizations coalesced into the United Service Organization, or the USO, which supports the U.S. military both at home and overseas. After the armistice was signed Nov. 11, 1918, a National Catholic War Council was no longer needed. However, then-Father John Burke, a Paulist, who for years before World War I had envisioned some kind of entity for the U.S. bishops to make their voice heard on temporal as well as spiritual matters, convinced the bishops to look beyond war to peace. And thus was born the National Catholic Welfare Council, the precursor to today’s U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and a model later adopted by other nations’ bishops as a way to lead the Catholic faith.

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JESUIT: Advocating for refugees essential to Catholic identity FROM PAGE 2

Unlike some other first responders to human crisis, JRS provides long-term assistance and advocacy to humans displaced by conflict or natural disaster. This includes urban refugees and those vulnerable to human trafficking. “To accompany means to be a companion,” the organization’s website reads. “We are companions of Jesus, so we wish to be companions of those with whom he preferred to be associated, the poor and the outcast. It is practical and effective action.” Father Smolich will travel to the Eastern Congo in early 2015 to work with refugees from that country’s war, as well as with refugees from Rwanda and other parts of Central Africa. By May he will be in Lebanon to work with JRS Middle East, currently the largest of the organization’s 10 regions. There, he’ll help respond to the needs of displaced people within Syria and of refugees in Beirut and Amman, Jordan. The final stage of his preparation will take

place in Rome where he will study Italian and work side-by-side with outgoing JRS international director Jesuit Father Peter Balleis. In June, Jesuit Father Alexis Prem Kumar, JRS Afghanistan director, was kidnapped by a group of armed men from a JRS school in Sohadat. His whereabouts are still unknown. “The church often is called upon to do dangerous work,” Father Smolich said. “I think one has to prepare for this as much as one can, but ultimately, realize that this is where we are called to be on the frontiers, and the frontiers are sometimes dangerous.” In a JRS press release issued on July 29 announc-

ing Father Smolich’s appointment, Father Balleis said that Father Smolich was the “right man” to lead JRS in a period of continued expansion. “Father Smolich understands what drives us, the importance of accompaniment and our closeness to refugees,” Father Balleis said. “The time he spends with ﬁeld staff before he takes over as JRS international director in Rome will allow him to experience the compassion and love which drive our projects.”

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FRIDAY, AUG. 8 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.

SUNDAY, AUG. 10 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Paul Fejko, organ and piano. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www. stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

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‘NUNS ON THE BUS’: Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service and an original of Nuns on the Bus, speaks about her new book “A Nun on the Bus: How Sister Simone All of Us Can Campbell, SSS Create Hope, Change and Community” at Kohl Mansion on campus of Mercy High School, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 7 p.m. Visit www.mercyhsb.com.

ORGAN CONCERT: Father Paul Perry plays compositions by Bach, Brahms and others, 12:30 p.m., St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Father Paul Boulevard at Perry Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. All are welcome; admission free. Program runs one hour.

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PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets second Thursdays except December 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572–1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

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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 has ministered to the homeless, hospital patients and staff, children with physical and emotional handicaps, people with addictions, and Native Americans in South Dakota. Visit www.mercy-center.org.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20 GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of the Cathedral. These sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Facilitator is Deacon Christoph Sandoval. Call Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. PASTA: A tradition of the old Mission, in historic Bernal Heights – the “spaghetti lunch” at Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St. just up from Cesar Chavez, noon. All the pasta, meatballs and salad you want, family style, $9. 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, AUG. 21 YMI BASEBALL GAME: San Jose Giants baseball and barbecue, Young Men’s Council # 32, San Jose Municipal Stadium 7 p.m. $30 adult/children 11 and under, $15 includes barbecue. Steve Cresci, (415) 346-5403; scresci16@aol.com.

SUNDAY, AUG. 24 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Shan Huang, trumpet, with Xiyan Want, piano. (415)

567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

SUNDAY, AUG. 31 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.

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.

SUNDAY, AUG. 17 YOUTH RALLY: Our Lady of Angels Parish youth ministry team presents “Let it Be Done” a welcomeback rally with special guest Jesse ManibuJesse san, 3 p.m.-7 Manibusan p.m. at the parish 1721 Hillside Drive just off El Camino Real, Burlingame concluding with Mass at 6 p.m. Youth, young adults and families welcome to kick off the new school year; $15 in advance, $20 at the door; RSVP youthminsitry@ olaparish.org; (650) 343-5809.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 5 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 by Mass and eucharistic adoration; Ray Frost, (415) 871-3893.

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.byzantinecatho-

SATURDAY, SEPT. 13 FOUR PILLARS GALA: St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park hosts this now annual event on the seminary compound. Evening vespers in the seminary chapel begins the event followed by a cocktail reception and dinner. 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. Visit www.stpatricksseminary.org or call (650) 325-5621.

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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.

THURSDAY, OCT. 9 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets second Thursdays except December, 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572–1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

FRIDAY, OCT. 17 3-DAY FESTIVAL: “Wizard of Oz” Fall Festival, Oct. 17, 18, 19, St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae. Enjoy carnival rides, games, food and drink, chili cook-off, pie eating contest, bingo, raffle, silent auction, and Auntie Em’s Country Store filled with handmade items and treats; Friday 5-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m.; (650) 697-4730; secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org.

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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. M.L.

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. J.F.

M.L. Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen. This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks. C.C.

FATIMA PRAYERS Lucia dos Santos was one of the three children to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Pray as Lucia dos Santos did for “miracles needed”. Three Hail Marys and one Our Father TPW