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The San Francisco faith community, local pilgrims and a handful of curious tourists filled the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco on July 21 for a formal, choir-led installation Mass celebrated

by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for its new rector, Capuchin Father Harold Snider.

Father Snider, who comes from the parish of Old Mission Santa Inez in Solvang, where he also served as Catholic chaplain for the federal prison in nearby Lompoc, was appointed shrine rector effective July 1. Father Snider replaces Capuchin Father Gregory Coiro, the shrine’s rector since 2010.

“My mission is to make the shrine’s peaceful presence and the spirit of St. Francis known to the people of San Francisco and beyond,” said Father Snider, noting with wry humor that when his appointment as rector to the Shrine of St. Francis (patron saint of San Francisco) was first announced, some well-wishers asked where it was located.

“We hope to present the face of Francis as the face of Christ,” he said.

“Our purpose is not to glorify Francis himself – Francis would be horrified by that – but to help others see the face of God in all creation as Francis did.”

Located in the heart of San Francisco’s historic North Beach district at the intersection of Vallejo and Columbus streets, the shrine is the former St. Francis Parish church established in 1849 for Gold Rush fortune-seekers who swarmed into the Yerba Buena settlement in the mid- 1800s. The building structurally withstood two major earthquakes and remained a thriving parish until 1998 when then-Archbishop William J. Levada converted St. Francis Church to a shrine in honor of the city’s patron saint. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops granted it the title of National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in 1999.

The second most densely populated city in the country is indeed a unique location for a shrine, especially one wedged into a busy neighborhood SEE SHRINE, PAGE 20

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People wave to Pope Francis as he arrives in the popemobile for the World Youth Day closing Mass in Rio de Janeiro July 28. See more World Youth Day news on Pages 11, 12, 14.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Pope Francis told a gathering of some 30,000 youth from his homeland that they are to “make a mess,” shaking up the comfort, self-satisfaction and clericalism of a church closed in on itself.

“What do I hope for from World Youth Day? I hope for a mess ... that the church takes to the streets. That we defend ourselves from comfort, that we defend ourselves from clericalism,” the pope told a group of pilgrims from Argentina.

“The church must be taken into the streets,” he said in the cathedral of Rio de Janeiro July 25.

Visiting one of this city’s notorious “favelas,” or slums, the same day, Pope Francis denounced corruption and a “culture of selfishness and individualism,” and called for a “culture of solidarity” in pursuit of social justice.

Pope Francis’ meeting with the youth of Argentina was not SEE POPE, PAGE 20

In fast-graying Marin, seniors lean on faith, family LIDIA WASOWICZ PRINGLE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Physical and psychological pain often tarnish the golden years, but seniors can brighten their circumstances by polishing their faith, buffing their family ties and glossing over their reluctance to seek assistance.

As California’s fastest-graying county, Marin mirrors and magnifies the trials and triumphs awaiting the state’s aging population.

“Isolation, loneliness and poverty are huge issues,” said Laurie Buntain, director of Catholic Charities CYO’s Marin Counseling Services. “We provide hope, but hope is hard to instill in seniors facing health concerns and the acknowledgement that life is finite.”

Marin, where a quarter of residents have passed their 60th birthday, has the state’s highest suicide rate, although the fatal lure of the Golden Gate Bridge to distressed people of all ages bears part of the blame, she said.

Eli Gelardin, executive director of the Marin Center for Independent

Living in San Rafael, which assisted 478 county residents over 60 last year, noted three major challenges facing seniors wishing to live on their own: – Obtaining information about available resources – Transitioning from hospital to home following illness or injury – Acquiring affordable, high-quality care “Often it falls on a family member to serve as the primary caregiver,” Gelardin said. “Then that individual gets exhausted, and the situation deteriorates for everyone.”

Resistance is common

A year and four months after moving into the Greenbrae home his parents have occupied since 1958 to tend to his mom, Marie, 91, who suffers from macular degeneration, hearing loss and kidney failure that requires thrice-weekly dialysis, and dad, Eugene, 92, who has Alzheimer’s dementia, 64-year-old retired butcher and widower Bob Lombardi feels “condemned.”

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“I’m stuck here, and I don’t know how to get out of it,” he recalled thinking while home alone with his father as his mother convalesced from brain surgery following a fall.

His attempts to hire help have failed to secure his parents’ approval.

“I must keep plugging away,” Lombardi has resolved. “I’m going to try to back off a bit, to make them see they need more help.”

Resistance to assistance is common among the elderly, said Kathleen Woodcock, director of community services of MCIL, which provides an extensive caretaker registry.

“This is the feisty, self-reliant generation that’s lived through the Great Depression and rejects the notion of entitlements,” Woodcock said.

She engages parishes, where seniors tend to gather, to spread the word about available resources.

As does Catholic Charities CYO, which sends churches a comprehensive guide of its services, ranging SEE SENIORS, PAGE 20

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WORLD DAY OF PEACE: “Fraternity, the foundation and pathway to peace,” is the theme of the 47th World Day of Peace, to be celebrated Jan. 1. Since the beginning of his Petrine ministry, the pope has stressed the need to combat the “throwaway culture” and to promote instead a “culture of encounter” in order to build a more just and peaceful world, the Vatican said in announcing the event July 31.As children of one Father, all human beings are linked to one another in fraternity, and only efforts that are born from a sense of fraternity can overcome the poverty, conflict, inequality, crime, fundamentalism and other ills facing the world today, the Vatican note said. World Day of Peace was an initiative of Pope Paul VI and it is celebrated on the first day of each year.

CCCYO SEEKS BACK-TO-SCHOOL DONATIONS: With a new school year already in the air, Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is at work gathering school supplies for children served in its programs. “Every kid loves to get new supplies for the first day of school,” CCCYO said. Donated items and cash gifts will allow kids living in emergency shelters and supportive housing programs to prepare for a fun-filled, successful school year. Programs include: 10th & Mission Supportive Housing, Canal Family Support Programs, Maureen & Craig Sullivan Youth Services, Rita da Cascia Community, SF HOME, St. Joseph’s Family Center, Star Community Home and Treasure Island Supportive Housing. To donate requested items, please contact the person indicated at each individual program below. All items needed and instructions for donating can be found at http://community.cccyo.org/donate/backto-school-donation-list.

CRS RICE BOWL BENEFITS LOCAL CHARITIES: The St. Vincent De Paul Societies of Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco counties received checks for $500 apiece and Catholic Charities CYO received $1,500 courtesy of donations to CRS Rice Bowl.

During Lent, the Archdiocese of San Francisco participated in Catholic Relief Services’ Lenten prayer and almsgiving initiative, CRS Rice Bowl, which is directed to helping the hungry and poor around the world. The cardboard boxes are filled with donations and then turned into the U.S. bishops’ international relief service by the archdiocese. “Every year, 25 percent of donations stay here,” in the archdiocese, said Carolina Parrales of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, noting that can be an incentive for parishes and local charities who are working to feed the hungry at home as well.

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it was not until 1950 that Pope Pius XII The feast of the Assumption of Mary into declared the dogma of the Assumption. heaven is celebrated by the Catholic Church In his declaration of the dogma of as a holy day of obligation on Aug. 15. That the Assumption, Pope Pius XII stated: means all Catholics who are able are re“Finally, the Immaculate Virgin, prequired to attend Mass. served free from all stain of original At the Cathedral of St. Mary of the sin, when the course of her earthAssumption, there will be candlelight ly life was finished, was taken processions to the shrine of the Asup body and soul into heavenly sumption at the end of the Masses glory, and exalted by the Lord and Catholics are encouraged to as Queen over all things, so make pilgrimages to the cathedral, that she might be the more fully said cathedral rector Msgr. John conformed to her son, the Lord Talesfore. of lords and conqueror of sin “The feast day of the Cathedral and death.”

Church is a wonderful opportunity The Assumption was regardfor Catholics of the archdiocese to ed as necessary “because Mary give God thanks for the great place had been elevated above sinful he has given our patroness beside mankind and therefore could him in heaven, to enrich apprecianot die,” noted James Hitchtion for our wonderful cathedral cock in “History of the Catholic church and to deepen our bonds Church: From the Apostolic as an archdiocesan family,” Age to the Third MillenniMsgr. Talesfore said. um,” (Ignatius Press, 2012).

Because Mary conceived and The Catechism of the bore the son of God, Christians Catholic Church states, “The from the earliest days of the Assumption of the Blessed church accepted the tradition Enrico Manfrini’s “The Assumption” bronze Virgin is a singular particithat rather than dying, Mary in St. Mary’s Cathedral pation in her Son’s Resurrecwas assumed body and soul tion and an anticipation of into heaven. However, there is the resurrection of other Christians. no mention of the Assumption in Scripture and

St. Joseph added to every eucharistic prayer VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Did you notice anything different during Mass?

In his first decree on the liturgy, Pope Francis declared that St. Joseph, the patron of the universal Catholic Church, should be included in the litany of saints in every eucharistic prayer.

St. Joseph “stands as an exemplary model of the kindness and humility that the Christian faith raises to a great destiny, and demonstrates the ordinary and simple virtues necessary for men to be good and genuine followers of Christ,” wrote Pope Francis.

Despite his critical role in salvation history as the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus, St. Joseph was not included in any eucharistic prayer until Blessed Pope John XXIII added him to the canon of the Mass in 1962, said Laura Bertone, interim director of the archdiocesan Office of Worship.

The canon became Eucharistic Prayer I when the liturgical changes of Vatican II added three other eucharistic prayers, Bertone said.

Pope Benedict XVI had set the change in motion, Bertone said, and Pope Francis promulgated

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the decree June 19. The Committee on Divine Worship for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops declared that “the revised prayers are approved and to be used immediately,” Bertone noted in a memo to priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

In the decree, Pope Francis wrote: “Exercising his paternal care over Jesus, Saint Joseph of Nazareth, set over the Lord’s family, marvelously fulfilled the office he received by grace.”

In Eucharistic Prayers II, III and IV, the text now reads: “that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with blessed Joseph, her Spouse, with the blessed Apostles ….”

This extension of the inclusion of Joseph into all four primary eucharistic prayers is now the typical edition of the prayer texts, and these words are to be used at all Masses using these prayers, Bertone noted in her memo.

And on a practical level, she suggested: “It is of course not necessary to purchase new Roman Missals or Misal Romanos. Instead, we suggest that you pencil in or add with a label of some kind “with blessed Joseph, her spouse” or “su esposo san José” (or “con su esposo san José” for eucharistic prayer IV) to the proper pages in the books.”

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At St. Anne novena, archbishop highlights role of family VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

God’s choice of St. Anne and St. Joachim as Mary’s parents shows the pivotal role that family, built on a loving marriage, plays in the plan of salvation, San Francisco’s archbishop said at the 106th St. Anne novena.

St. Anne and St. Joachim provided the mother of Jesus “with what she needed so she might respond to God’s call in her life,� Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said in his homily at the closing Mass of the novena at St. Anne of the Sunset Church in San Francisco. “It is that family built on that lifelong mutual fidelity of father and mother –that is the way that children are entered into the holy life-giving ways of God, by which they are made capable of living the life of faith true to the demands of the Gospel and therefore capable of love, of giving and receiving love,�

Archbishop Cordileone said.

Each year, the St. Anne of the Sunset novena draws more than a thousand people asking for the intercession of St. Anne and St. Joachim for cures of body, heart and soul and to give thanks for blessings. It concludes with an outdoor eucharistic procession around the large city block that contains the church, school, and other buildings. This year’s theme, preached by the Redemptorist Fathers who have conducted the novena for

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Archbishop Cordileone held the Eucharist for the outdoor procession of several hundred people that circled a large city block for the 106th St. Anne novena on July 27. nearly 100 years, was the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and drew enthusiastic response, said Redemptorist Father Ted Lawson.

The concluding Mass and eucharistic procession were held July 27, a day after the feast day of St. Anne and St. Joachim.

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In opposition, state officials maintain the district court ruling applies statewide and represents “a final determination that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.�

California’s governor and attorney general exceeded their legal authority in ordering county clerks to begin performing same-sex marriages, alleges a lawsuit filed by the San Diego County Clerk on July 19.

The California Supreme Court denied County Clerk Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr.’s request for an immediate temporary stay but will rule on Dronenburg’s request for an alternative writ of mandate ordering Gov. Jerry Brown, Attorney General Kamala Harris and two other top state officials “to execute their supervisory duties, which do not include control over county clerks issuing marriage licenses, consistent with state law limitations� or show cause why they will not do so.

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3 local priests ordained same day celebrate 25 years TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

April 9, 1988 was a day of days for Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski, Father William E. Brown and Father Thomas D. Moran. It was the day the three were ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop John R. Quinn at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Msgr. Padazinski serves as chancellor, vicar general and judicial vicar for the Archdiocese of San Francisco Msgr. C. Michael and holds a doctorate in canon Padazinski law. Msgr. Padazinski also serves as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force.

“It has been a great 25 years,” Msgr. Padazinski told me. “I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing than being a priest. With all of its challenges there are many blessings that come from being a priest that outweigh the Father William E. challenges that are inevitably a part of life.”

Brown Father Brown is pastor of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon. Family, St. Hilary parishioners and friends from parishes where he has previously served joined him at St. Hilary to commemorate the jubilee April 14. “It’s one of those frequent clichés, but I felt like time had flown by since my classmates and I had been ordained at Father Thomas St. Mary’s Cathedral by ArchD. Moran bishop Quinn in 1988,” Father Brown told me. Father Brown’s favorite ministry is the parish: “I wish God’s blessing on all young men considering this vocation, and hope they will open their hearts and minds to what may indeed be a calling, a calling that will bring joy to them and to the many people they will touch in their own ministry.” Father Moran is retired pastor of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos where he currently resides. Father Moran is a well-known labor chaplain and continues to be held in very high esteem in that area. He has served at parishes including San Francisco’s Church of the Epiphany, St. Kevin, and St. Gabriel; St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; St. Robert, San Bruno and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City. In addition, he is a former director of vocations for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

GRATITUDE: Was glad to speak with Sandy Dill

COME HOLY GHOST: It was a very happy day May 19 for brothers, Nicholas Nelson and Jake Collins who were both confirmed by San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy at St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael, with family and friends in attendance. Pictured from left with Bishop McElroy are Jenniffer Collins, Christopher Nelson, Margaret Nelson, Nicholas Nelson, Jake Collins, Mary Beth Holman. in church,” Sandy said about pastor, Father John Greene, noting parochial vicar, Father Michael Konopik is “great, too.” Sandy sends special thanks to “good family friend,” Father Ed Bohnert, now in residence at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto, who was a regular visitor to her husband when Bill was sick and “helped the family greatly.”

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ON HER WAY: All smiles and ready to step into classes at University of Massachusetts is Sheridan Devlin, here with her proud dad, Rhett, following Immaculate Conception Academy’s baccalaureate Mass June 6 at St. James Church. Graduation was June 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Also bustin’ at the seams is Sheridan’s mom, Elena Devlin. of St. Robert Parish, San Bruno, whose husband William Dill was among the early advertisers in Catholic San Francisco right up to his death from cancer May 1, 2006. Bill was a house painter, Sandy said, and she misses him every day. Sandy and Bill were married 42 years, 34 in San Bruno.

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Archdiocese names director of Marriage and Family Life TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

For better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, Ed Hopfner is all in as director of the Office of Marriage and Family Life Ministries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Hopfner comes to the archdiocese after serving for five years in a similar marriage and family life role for the Diocese of Oakland.

Marriage and family life work first piqued Hopfner’s interest while acquiring a graduate degree in theology from the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy in Berkeley. His way in was Blessed John Paul II’s theology of the body, a work he called “a catechesis delivered by Pope John Paul II on the nature of the human person, and our relationship to God, to other persons particularly in marriage, and to ourselves.” The teaching’s being accessible to “the modern person”

MARRIAGE & FAMILY CELEBRATION IS AUG. 17

The archdiocesan Year of Faith Marriage & Family Celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Aug. 17 begins with Mass celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at 9:30 a.m. Light refreshments, games and speakers in Spanish and English follow.

Speakers will talk about the value of marriage and family and how to nourish faith, family and marriage at home and in the parish and daily

impressed Hopfner greatly saying it “quite naturally led me into the areas of marriage and family.”

He also holds a graduate degree in chemistry and taught for “many years” at the high school and college level in Seattle. “The Ed Hopfner teaching experience is very important, as a big part of this job is teaching about marriage and preparing leaders to do the same,” Hopfner said.

A surprise to some may be that the new marriage and family life director is not married. “At least not at this point,” Hopfner said parenthetically in his email interview with Catholic San Francisco, admitting that being minus a bride does make the job more challenging. “I don’t have the immediate experience of marriage to draw on, to add ‘authenticity’ to what I have to say,” he

life. The focus will be on seven faith habits: offer a prayer at meal time, call upon the saints, reach out to help a neighbor in need, savor a few minutes of silence, ask for God’s blessing each morning, receive the Eucharist for strength and nourishment, give thanks to God each night.

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“Every couple should know about it, and have access to it as a tool for their family.”

“I’m here to serve the people of the archdiocese,” Hopfner said. “I will work to support marriage, married couples, and engaged couples for all the various communities who make up our local church, in any way that I can.” In addition to English Hopfner says he speaks Spanish “moderately well” as well as some German, French and Japanese.

There will be some crossover, too.

Hopfner said. “It is important to recognize that there is a great need for ministry to singles. There are now more single Catholics than at any time in church history so I hope to work closely with young adult ministries, for example.”

“Without marriages and their accompanying families, the church cannot thrive,” Hopfner said. “The future of any society is its children, and children are educated and formed in their families. The future of the church, and of society, depends on the family.”

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“Even though each particular marriage is unique, there are ways to make marriage work well that apply to everyone,” Hopfner said. “I’ve had the great fortune to speak in depth to many happily married couples – some married over 50 years – as well as to study what makes marriages successful, so I’m convinced that I am able to present couples with information that is well validated by experience.”

First up for Hopfner will be talking with people involved with marriage in the archdiocese and ascertaining what is understood as being needed in the outreach. “I know there is a marriage task force which has worked on the topic for nearly two years, and I will be working with them to implement their recommendations,” Hopfner said.

He will also be looking for help in marriage preparation and expanding the number of couples assisting there. Increasing access to natural family planning instruction is also on his agenda.

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Serra grad aspires to play Major League ball TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Paul Murray is hitting for average on the diamond and in the classroom at Western Kentucky University. The 2013 Junipero Serra High School graduate is a baseball scholarship student at Western Kentucky and while his major is so far undeclared his study interests are criminal justice and forensics. He is a graduate of St. Robert School, San Bruno. His parents are Terri and Joe Murray. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My biggest aspiration is to play Major League baseball,â&#x20AC;? Paul, who

calls himself a â&#x20AC;&#x153;utilityâ&#x20AC;? player as in â&#x20AC;&#x153;I play anywhere,â&#x20AC;? told Catholic San Francisco via email. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite player on the field now is Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout. He holds late Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio also in high esteem and the greatest of all time for him is Babe Ruth.

Infielder Tony Renda, a Serra and UC Berkeley baseball alumnus drafted in 2012 by the Washington Nationals, is a player Paul also looks up to. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has the heart of a champion and grinds each day to become better and has a purpose to everything he does,â&#x20AC;? Paul said.

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Paul said but family and Serra â&#x20AC;&#x153;have prepared me for what is to come.â&#x20AC;?

Paul sees himself and fellow young adults among what the nation needs to put first. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we need to continue to work on getting people back to work and opening up opportunities for college graduates. We need to continue to work to keep our country secure and strive for peace everywhere. I look forward to finding ways I can inspire people in this direction, as well as, being a good father and husband.â&#x20AC;?

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 9, 2013

A pope who ‘hates hypocrisy – he really hates it’ RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

He’s a world leader who hates greed, hypocrisy, abuse of power and the cultural flattening of globalization, drives the cheapest car available, shuns fancy clothes, makes his own phone calls, believes global warming is a real threat, thinks that being without a job is one of the worst things that can happen to a person, and is orthodox in doctrine but pragmatic to the point of disregarding the rules in how he makes decisions.

He’s Pope Francis as sketched by Jesuit Father Jesuit Father Thomas Reese to a Thomas Reese packed room of more than 200 people at the University of San Francisco July 28 in a talk titled “What Does the Papacy of Pope Francis Mean for the Church?” A senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Father Reese covered the March conclave that elected Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as bishop of Rome and watches the papacy as a senior analyst for National Catholic Reporter.

Cardinal Bergoglio’s decision to take the name Francis is key to understanding his papacy. Father Reese said Pope Francis shares the values associated with his namesake St. Francis of Assisi – care of creation, love for the poor, peace and inter-religious understanding and reforming the church.

Reforming the church is part of Pope Francis’ agenda, as is leadership on threats to the global environment. “He believes the science, that global warming is real,” Father Reese said. “This is going to be part of his agenda as pope.”

He noted that Cardinal Bergoglio and the Muslim imam of Buenos Aires were good friends, linking that fact to the story of St. Francis crossing a battlefield during the Crusades to spend the evening talking peace with the sultan opposing the Christian forces.

Dialogue and taking risks are core ideas for Pope Francis, Father Reese said.

“What Francis is encouraging is for all of us to listen to each other once again,” Father Reese said in response to a question after the talk. “I like the way he says go out and take risks. What I like about Francis is he says, ‘Hey folks, we’ve got to get out of the sacristy and into the streets, be with the people and preach the Gospel.”’

Father Reese cited Pope Francis’ statement that he prefers a church “that makes mistakes because it is doing something to one that sickens because it stays shut in.”

“This is very different than all this paranoia about orthodoxy and following the rules,” Father Reese said.

But Father Reese said Pope Francis is no social liberal by U.S. standards and is not going to change fundamental doctrine. Arguments such as women’s ordination and same-sex marriage are not on his agenda, he said, adding that by contrast the pope is a

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Pope Francis holds a boy during a visit with residents at a home in the Varginha slum in Rio de Janeiro July 25. The pope is “to the right of (Rep. Nancy) Pelosi on economic issues,” says Jesuit Father Thomas Reese. The Ford Focus-driving pontiff deplores “the reign of money” and the impact of globalization on local cultures, he said. “He’s not going to be popular on Wall Street.” scourge of the excesses of capitalism and “to the left of (Rep. Nancy) Pelosi on economic issues.”

Father Reese said this is a pope who “hates hypocrisy – he really hates it” and who once made a statement about the difficulty of denying Communion to public sinners that was in the context of injustice in Argentina, not of abortion.

“He was more worried about politicians getting Communion from him for photo opps,” Father Reese said.

“He hates ‘pretend’ Catholics who look pious in church but who are very unjust in the way they treat their workers,” Father Reese said.

The Ford Focus-driving pope deplores “the reign of money” and the impact of globalization on local cultures, Father Reese said. “He sees this as kind of an imperialistic invasion that enslaves nations and takes away their cultures,” he said. “Tough language – he’s not going to be popular on Wall Street.”

Father Reese speculated on Pope Francis’ requirements for new bishops and his ideas for reforming the Vatican bureaucracy.

The pope has signaled that in pastors he looks for those who are gentle, patient and merciful. They should be animated by an inner poverty and not have the psychology of “princes.”

“This is creating a different image of what it means to be a bishop, what it means to be a priest,” Father Reese said.

On reform of the Vatican Curia, Father Reese noted that conservatives look for reform that will make the church administration more efficient but others want change to go further.

Father Reese said the model of the Curia is based on that of a 17th-century absolute monarchy.

“We need to bring it kicking and screaming into the 21st century where it’s a civil service,” he said. “The Curia is staff to the pope and the college of bishops.

For me the most important reform of the Curia is to

stop making members of the Curia either bishops or cardinals.”

Noting that the odds are heavy against that coming to pass, Father Reese also argued that reform should include separation of powers into executive, legislative and judicial functions.

“The people making the rules should not be the ones enforcing them and passing judgment on them,” he said. “That’s not the way a due-process system works in today’s world.”

The pope commented on Curia reform July 29 to journalists aboard the papal flight from World Youth Day in Brazil.

He said everything he has done so far flows from the concerns and suggestions raised by the College of Cardinals during the meetings they held before the conclave.

The cardinals, he said, expressed “what they wanted of the new pope – they wanted a lot of things” – but a key part of it was that the Vatican central offices be more efficient and more clearly at the service of the universal church.

“There are saints who work in the Curia – cardinals, bishops, priests, sisters, laity; I’ve met them,” he said.

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that’s normal, because “a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.”

Catholic News Service contributed.

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Cardinal: Popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remark on gays reflects â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gentle, mercifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; approach CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Archbishop Cordileone said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the whole church owes a debt of gratitude to Pope Francis for reiterating the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love and welcome to all peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; but noted that the church will always teach that sexual acts outside the bonds of marriage are sinful.

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, a July 30 guest on â&#x20AC;&#x153;CBS This Morningâ&#x20AC;? to discuss the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impromptu news conference on a papal flight the previous day, stressed that Pope Francis â&#x20AC;&#x153;would be the first to say, my job isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to change church teaching; my job is to present it as clearly as possible.â&#x20AC;?

Cardinal Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was asked to comment in particular on the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remark: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a person is gay, seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? They should not be marginalized. They are our brothers.â&#x20AC;?

That remark, the cardinal said, reflects â&#x20AC;&#x153;a gentle, merciful, understanding, compassionateâ&#x20AC;? approach to church teaching which emphasizes â&#x20AC;&#x153;that while certain acts may be wrong, we would always love and respect the person and treat the person with dignity.â&#x20AC;?

He said the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words â&#x20AC;&#x153;may be something people find new and refreshing. I for one donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it is and I hate to see previous popes caricatured as not having that,â&#x20AC;? he said in the interview.

In the 80-minute news conference on the plane from Rio de Janeiro to Rome returning from World Youth Day, the pope also answered questions about women in the church, divorce and his own spirituality.

Answering a question about reports of a gay lobby at the Vatican, the pope emphasized that it was important to â&#x20AC;&#x153;distinguish between a person who is gay and someone who makes a gay lobby,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A gay lobby isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t good.â&#x20AC;?

Pope Francis said the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains church teaching about homosexu-

ality very well, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;one must not marginalize these persons, they must be integrated into society.

The problem isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t this (homosexual) orientation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we must be like brothers and sisters.â&#x20AC;?

The catechism states that people with homosexual tendencies â&#x20AC;&#x153;must be accepted with respect and compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.â&#x20AC;?

The church teaches that all sexual activity outside of the legitimate marriage of one man and one woman is sinful.

When asked if he was surprised by the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments, Cardinal Dolan said he was not. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What surprises me is that people are surprised,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The cardinal stressed that church teaching on homosexuality has not changed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we are rather cogent in our teaching weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re equally compelling in the mercy, the graciousness, the respect with which we say it,â&#x20AC;? he added.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said â&#x20AC;&#x153;the whole church owes a debt of gratitude to

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In a press release July 29, he said the catechism states that â&#x20AC;&#x153;these brothers and sisters of ours â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;must be accepted with respect, compassion and integrity.

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He said the Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith â&#x20AC;&#x153;stated this principle even more stronglyâ&#x20AC;? in its 1986 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.â&#x20AC;? The letter said violent malice toward homosexual persons deserves condemnation from church pastors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is, indeed, a sign of weakening of civilization when it is deemed acceptable to treat any segment of the population with anything less than the love and respect all deserve as children of God,â&#x20AC;? Archbishop Cordileone said.

He said â&#x20AC;&#x153;the church must be a place of welcome for people who experience same-sex attraction. The church must be a safe place where they can feel secure and loved in revealing their orientation to others. No one has ever denied this, but we need to do a better job of making this known and following through on it.â&#x20AC;?

Archbishop Cordileone said â&#x20AC;&#x153;the church must also be a community that assists her members in responding to the call to holiness. This is why the church has support groups for people who can benefit from such help in living virtuously in their relationships.â&#x20AC;?

The church does not judge individuals but does judge actions, â&#x20AC;&#x153;for we know that some acts violate human dignity while others make us more truly human according to the image in which God originally made us,â&#x20AC;? the archbishop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With regard to sexual acts, the church has always faithfully taught, and always will, the teaching she has received from her Lord, namely, that they find their proper order and purpose within the marital union of husband and wife, and outside of the bond of marriage they are sinful,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In a July 29 blog post, Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, CEO of Salt and Light, said the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments on the plane, â&#x20AC;&#x153;particularly about the divorced and remarried, women and homosexuals, must be read and understood through the lenses of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the outreach and concern of the church for those on the fringes, and the mercy, tenderness and forgiveness of a pastor who walks among his people.â&#x20AC;?

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British bishops: Church can’t accept gay marriage CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LONDON – The legalization of gay marriage cannot change Christian teaching on sexual morality, and the Catholic Church cannot accept marriages of same-sex couples, the bishops of England and Wales said in a document that was to be distributed in parishes July 27-28.

Catholics must “accept their calling” to be “out of step with popular culture” and “to live faithfully by the teaching we have received,” said the document, titled “The Narrow Gate.”

The bishops suggest how Catholics should behave following passage of the Marriage (Same-Sex) Couples Act, which became law July 17 and opened the door for same-sex marriages to occur as early as summer 2014.

The document was written and signed July 6

by Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. It presents Catholics with a mandate on how they should respond to a law which, the archbishop said, creates a sense that they are “strangers in their own land.”

Upholding church teaching that all sexual activity outside of the legitimate marriage of one man and one woman is sinful, the document stressed that marriage is a lifelong, faithful commitment “ordained by nature and by God for the creation of the family and future generations.”

“It is clear that the Catholic Church cannot accept the validity in church law of same-sex marriages,” the document said.

The law represents “the deconstruction of marriage as it has been understood for millennia” and “completes the privatization of marriage, so that its central content is whatever the couple wish to construct,” the document said.

“Marriage is no longer a truly public institution, at the basis of society. In passing this act, with widespread support among sections of our population, our society has taken a significant step away from its Judeo-Christian foundations,” the document said.

“Marriage is the place where sexual relations find their proper place and God-given purpose. Both as a natural, human institution and as raised by the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament, marriage provides the best circumstances for the birth and nurture of children and forms the most reliable links and supports between the generations,” it said.

The document acknowledged that the “intrinsic link between sexual relations and the procreation of children has in practice long been abandoned” and that there are other areas where church teaching conflicts with social norms.

“We try to present and live by Catholic teaching as given by God for the ultimate good for each person.

This may indeed lead us to feel, in these matters, out of step with popular culture. But that is our calling and not a matter for discouragement. Rather, with the confidence of faith, we stay resolute, encouraging one another and all who recognize the values we wish to uphold,” the document explained.

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The document suggested three principles to guide Catholics in their dealings with their families, with other Christians and with wider society.

The first is to “robustly and intelligently” present the teaching of the church on marriage, primarily through the faithful witness of their own lives.

The second is to “make every effort to accompany one another through the difficulties and trials of life,” especially with prayer and regular reception of the sacraments.

“The third principle is that we are always willing to engage in dialogue and conversation with those who see things differently,” the document said.

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‘Only losers’: Nuncio criticizes both sides in Syrian conflict

VATICAN CITY – In an effort to shake its image as a secretive, scandal-ridden institute and improve its relationship with the media, the Vatican bank has launched its own website. “It is an important part of transparency to launch a website,” said Ernst von Freyberg, president of the Vatican bank. The site for the bank – formally known as the Institute for the Works of Religion – went live July 31 at ior.va.

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UNITED NATIONS – The papal nuncio to the United Nations criticized the “persistent refusal” of Syria’s warring factions to negotiate an end to the country’s 28-month-long civil war.

Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt told participants in the Security Council’s open debate on the Middle East that the nations of the world must act to reverse the trend that results only in “more deaths, fear, hatred and destruction.”

“There can be no military solution for the Syrian conflict,” he said July 23.

“Regardless of this, parties to the conflict manifest determination, with total impunity, to shed yet more blood, to supply yet more weapons and to destroy more lives before they can be brought to the negotiating table.”

Archbishop Chullikatt blamed “outside influences and extremist groups” for continuing the devastating war. He said their involvement is seen as an “opportunity for political or ideological gains rather than as an appalling disaster that is engulfing Syria.”

“War can never more be considered a means of resolving conflicts. Yet war, when it occurs, can only be won through peace, yes peace won through negotiations, dialogue and reconciliation,” he said.

The archbishop expressed concern about the mounting death toll from the war, numbering nearly 5,000 people per month since March and approaching 100,000 in total since hostilities began.

Pointing to the plight of Syrian refu-

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An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp outside Mafraq, Jordan, July 18. The camp eight miles from the Syrian border holds roughly 115,000 Syrians who have fled from war. gees, the archbishop cited statistics that show more than 1.8 million people have fled to neighboring countries while another 4 million people, about 18 percent of the population, have been internally displaced. About 6.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, he said.

“Moreover, the challenges faced by neighboring countries in assisting and protecting refugees appear to contribute to further destabilization in the region,” he said.

He also addressed the Vatican’s concern for Syria’s Christians, who he said

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The archbishop concluded his remarks by urging the world body to “desist from hindering the long overdue negotiated settlement to this conflict.

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Pope tells bishops to shun ideology, empower laity FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

RIO DE JANEIRO – Reducing the faith to a worldly ideology, prizing administrative efficiency over missionary zeal, and exalting the role of clergy to the detriment of the laity are some of the major “temptations” undermining evangelization in Latin America, Pope Francis told church leaders from the region.

“The decision for missionary discipleship will encounter temptation,” the pope said July 28 at a meeting with the coordinating committee of the Latin American bishops’ conference, CELAM. “It is important to know where the evil spirit is afoot in order to aid our discernment.”

Pope Francis spoke with forceful words on the role of bishops, instructing them to lead without being authoritarian, to adopt “simplicity and austerity of life” and to care for their dioceses without ambitions for more prominent appointments.

“The bishop has to be among his people in three ways,” the pope said. “In front of them, pointing the way; among them, keeping them together and preventing them from being scattered; and behind them, ensuring that no one is left behind, but also, and primarily, so that the flock itself can sniff out new paths.”

In his four-page speech, Pope Francis spoke with frequent reference to the 2007 CELAM conference in Aparecida, Brazil, where, as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he played a major role in producing the meeting’s final document, which called for a “continental mission” in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Noting that “we are lagging somewhat” in pursuing Aparecida’s goals, he identified as a major hindrance a tendency to “interpret the Gospel apart from the Gospel itself and apart from the church,” for instance through the

POPE ASKS WYD VOLUNTEERS TO BE ‘REVOLUTIONARIES’

RIO DE JANEIRO – More than 10,000 volunteers cheered wildly when Pope Francis called upon them to become “revolutionaries.”

“I ask of you to be revolutionaries, to go against the current,” the pope said in his address to volunteers July 28 at the end of his visit to Brazil.

“I could not return to Rome without first, in a personal and affectionate manner, thanking each one of you for

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Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil July 24. In a speech to Latin American bishops July 28, the pope said the church is lagging on the promise of the 2007 Latin American bishops’ conference in Aparecida. lens of free-market capitalism or Marxism.

The pope said other common distortions of the faith include turning it into psychological therapy or esoteric spirituality, or emphasizing “outdated manners and forms which, even on a cultural level, are no longer meaningful.”

Pope Francis also warned against a “functionalism” that “reduces the reality of the church to the structure of an NGO (nongovernmental organization),” where “what counts are quantifiable results and statistics,” and efficiency takes precedence over mystery.

This temptation can arise, he said, when the church becomes self-centered and forgets that it is supposed to be a “bride, mother and servant, a facilitator of faith and not an inspector of faith.”

A related danger, the pope indicated, is that of clericalism, or making the ordained ministry of bishops, priests and deacons the standard and the model for the mission of lay Catholics.

Remedies include increased “oppor-

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But he also acknowledged that all that close contact made some people nervous.

Driving into Rio de Janeiro July 22, the pope’s car was mobbed by a crowd, yet the pope insisted throughout the trip on riding in a popemobile with open sides and wading into crowds to bless or hug people and kiss babies.

The pope said, “The climate was spontaneous,” just as he’d hoped.

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‘A time for mercy’: Pope discusses women, divorce

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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM BRAZIL – On the possibility of the Catholic Church ordaining women priests, Pope Francis said, “the church has spoken and said, ‘no,’” and the form in which Blessed John Paul II declared that was “a definitive formula.”

Blessed John Paul said that because Jesus chose only men as his disciples, the church was not able to ordain women.

However, Pope Francis said July 29 when he met reporters on his flight from Rio de Janeiro to Rome, the Catholic Church still has far to go in developing a real theology that explains the importance of women in the church and how it would be impossible for the church to live up to its role as mother and bride without the contribution of women.

“It is not enough to have altar girls, women readers or women as the president of Caritas,” he said. “Women in the church are more important than bishops and priests,” just like “Mary is more important than the apostles.”

Asked about any possibility that the Catholic Church would begin to allow Catholics who have been divorced and remarried only civilly to receive the sacraments, Pope Francis said he wanted to make it clear that divorced Catholics can receive the sacraments.

The problems begin when they marry a second time without having their first union annulled.

He said the annulment process needs to be reformed and streamlined, but even more importantly the Catholic Church needs to get serious about developing a comprehensive pastoral program for the family, and that was one topic he planned to discuss Oct. 1-3

POPE, WITH FELLOW JESUITS, PRAYS FOR ‘GRACE OF SHAME,’ HUMILITY

ROME – Celebrating the feast of St. Ignatius with more than 200 of his Jesuit confreres, Pope Francis prayed that he and all of them would receive “the grace of shame” for their failures and the humility to recognize that whatever good they accomplish is really done by the Lord.

Jesus told his disciples never to be ashamed of following him, but Jesuits are taught to look upon the crucifix and “feel that very human and very noble sentiment which is shame for not measuring up,” the pope said July 31 during his homily at the Mass in Rome’s Church of the Gesu, where St. Ignatius is buried.

with the commission of eight cardinals he named to advise him on the reform of the Roman Curia and other important matters.

The late Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, his predecessor as archbishop of Buenos Aires, used to say that he thought half the Catholic marriages in the world could be annulled because people marry “without maturity, without understanding it was for one’s entire life or because it seemed socially necessary,” the pope said.

Asked about why he speaks so frequently about God’s mercy, he said, “I think this is a time for mercy,” particularly a time when the church must go out of its way to be merciful given the “not-so-beautiful witness of some priests” and “the problem of clericalism, for example, which have left so many wounds, so many wounded. The church, which is mother, must go and heal those wounds.”

“If the Lord never tires of forgiving us, we have no other choice but to do the same,” he said. Pope Francis told the reporters that in the Gospel story of the Prodigal Son, when the young man returned after squandering his inheritance, “his father didn’t sit him down and say, ‘How did you spend the money?’ but he threw a party.”

And, the pope said, the father “didn’t just wait for his son, he went out to look for him.”

A Brazilian journalist asked Pope Francis why he did not speak out during his trip against proposals to liberalize Brazil’s abortion laws and to legalize gay marriage.

“The church already has spoken on these issues,” he said. “Young people understand perfectly what the church’s point of view is.”

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said the Mass was “very beautiful and very familial.” In his spirituality and spiritual tradition, he said, the pope sees himself as a “son of St. Ignatius” and feels “very close to the Society of Jesus.”

At the end of the Mass, the pope prayed at the tomb of St. Ignatius, before a relic of St. Francis Xavier and at the tomb of Father Pedro Arrupe, superior of the Jesuits from 1965 to 1983.

In his homily, Pope Francis prayed that Mary would “help us experience shame for our inadequacy before the treasure that has been entrusted to us, so that we would live with humility.”

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VATICAN CITY – One could say it all started with St. Peter’s fishing boat. One day, that humble vessel turned into a powerful pontifical fleet, particularly during the life of the Papal States.

While St. Peter’s boat was clearly used for fishing and helping Jesus preach to the crowds on shore, the papal navy was decidedly used for defense, conquest and commerce.

Historians believe the pontifical navy was established in the 10th century by Pope John VIII. Popes Nicholas V and Sixtus IV sent military ships against the Turks during the Ottoman wars, and the “St. Bonaventure” was commissioned by Pope Sixtus V to fight seafaring pirates in the 16th-century.

The armed frigates, corvettes, steamer ships and schooners were blessed with the names of the saints, the most popular being “St. Peter” and “St. Paul.” At least one was named for a female saint, St. Firmina, and one gunboat was called the “Immaculate Conception.”

The fleet was beefed up when the Papal States were under considerable threat, first by the French in the 18th century and then by burgeoning Italian nationalism in the 19th century.

Armed papal ships guarded the Italian port of Civitavecchia and cruised the waters of the Adriatic and Mediterranean seas in search of contraband. Three paddle steamers built in England joined the fleet in 1842 to run upstream the Tiber River, a major route for bringing commercial goods and materials to Rome.

Another paddle ship joined the ranks, and in 1848 the ships were

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The 1571 Battle of Lepanto between the fleet of the Holy League – a coalition that included the Papal States – and the Ottoman Empire is depicted in an early 20th-century illustration. Historians believe the pontifical navy was established in the 10th century by Pope John VIII. used to fight nationalist forces that sought to end the popes’ temporal power and establish a Roman Republic.

The pontifical navy came to an end with the end of the Papal States in 1870.

Even though the Holy See no longer had direct access to the sea, it still signed the League of Nations’ “Convention and Statute on the Freedom of Transit” of 1921.

Known as the Barcelona Convention, it gave landlocked territories, like the Holy See, the right to have its own ships and access to the high seas.

One world leader wanted to take

advantage of the Vatican’s right to sail a ship at sea.

In an attempt to bring desperately needed food and medicines to Europeans during World War II, the prime minister of Vichy France, Philippe Petain, wrote to Pope Pius XII asking him to allow the American aid to be transported on ships flying the Vatican flag in the hopes that its widely recognized neutrality would be respected.

Even though the pope was deeply concerned about bringing relief to the people, he was advised to scrap the idea by a secretary who reportedly quipped that not only would they have to hold an exam to hire a fleet admiral, the Vatican newspaper headline would scream: “From the Barque of Peter to the Vatican Fleet.”

The right to a papal flotilla was reaffirmed in 1951 when Vatican City State published an official decree on “The Maritime Navigation under the Flag of Vatican City State.”

The document codifies the rights and procedures for having ships that belong to Vatican City State, Vatican citizens or Vatican bodies so that they may engage in the maritime transport “of people or things heading toward or coming from Vatican City.”

It allows for a special department within the Vatican’s governing office to be dedicated to the administration and regulation of Vatican maritime transportation and is tasked with the registration of all Vatican ships.

Basically it provided the norms needed to comply with the earlier convention and made sure the Vatican would “be able to launch its hypothetical fleet or, in any case, allow for the navigation of ships sailing under the Vatican flag,” the Vatican newspaper said in a July 2010 article.

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The pope made his remarks July 27 in Rio’s Municipal Theater, to an audience representing what the Vatican’s official schedule described as the “ruling class of Brazil.”

“When leaders in various fields ask me for advice, my response is always the same: dialogue, dialogue, dialogue,” he said. “Today, either we stake all on dialogue, on the culture of encounter, or we all lose.”

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Jason Ortiz, a parishioner at St. Anthony/Immaculate Conception in San Francisco, not only attended World Youth Day but also got close enough to a good photo of Pope Francis, below left. Ortiz, who is on the left in the blue jacket in the above photo of California youth at World Youth Day, told Catholic San Francisco, “To say that this experience was an extreme blessing from God would still be undermining the wonders that the Lord has done for me.”

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Pope Francis in the popemobile along Copacabana Beach on his way to the Way of the Cross during World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro.

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A group of San Francisco-area Catholics is pictured at World Youth Day.

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World Youth Day pilgrims hold rosaries and icons as they wait for Pope Francis to arrive to the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro July 27.

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RIO DE JANEIRO – Pope Francis commissioned some 3 million young people to join forces and form what could be called Missionaries Without Borders.

“Where does Jesus send us?” he asked World Youth Day pilgrims July 28. “There are no borders, no limits: He sends us to everyone.”

On the white sand of Copacabana Beach – under partly sunny skies, a relief after days of rain in Rio – Pope Francis celebrated the closing Mass for the July 23-28 celebration of World Youth Day .

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Pilgrims and others walk to Copacabana Beach during World Youth Day celebrations where Pope Francis will later attend a prayer vigil with youth on July 27 in Rio de Janeiro.

Although retired Pope Benedict XVI had chosen the theme for the gathering – “Go and make disciples of all nations” – it was tailor-made for Pope Francis, who continually tells Catholics: “Go out. Go forward. Keep going.”

Jesus did not tell his disciples to share the Gospel “if you would like to, if you have the time,” the pope said. Instead, he commanded them to proclaim the Good News to the world.

Pope Francis told the pilgrims that if they did not share their experience of God’s love with others it would be “like withholding oxygen from a flame that was burning strongly.”

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Pope Francis kisses a baby while riding in the popemobile along Copacabana Beach on his way to the Way of the Cross during World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro July 26.

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Pilgrims attend the opening Mass of World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro July 23.

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People watch as Pope Francis speaks in the Varghina favela, or shantytown, on July 25 in Rio de Janeiro.

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Global warming: We better take it seriously

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eflecting on his new patron saint, Pope Francis said, “For me” St. Francis of Assisi “is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation; these days we do not have a very good relationship with creation, do we?”

No, we do not.

Consider the words of Pope TONY MAGLIANO Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, “Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change … loss of productivity in vast agricultural areas, the pollution of rivers and aquifers, the loss of biodiversity, the increase of natural catastrophes and the deforestation of equatorial and tropical regions?”

We remain indifferent to the poor relationship we have with creation at our own peril – and of the peril of our children and future generations yet to be born.

And of all the serious human caused threats to the natural world, none is more serious, or more urgent than climate change – especially global warming.

According to a new report from the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization titled “The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Climate Extremes,” the earth is warming faster than ever in recorded history.

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Adelie penguins walk on the ice at Cape Denison in Antarctica in this 2009 file photo. Tony Magliano cites compelling NASA evidence for rapid climate change: Oceans are warming, Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are decreasing, Arctic sea ice is shrinking, sea levels are rising.

The report states that the 2001-2010 decade was the warmest since modern meteorological records began around 1850. And that during 2010 – the warmest year ever recorded – Russia experienced a severe heat wave that killed approximately 55,000 people. It was also the wettest on record, causing massive flooding.

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration – http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence – 97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming trends over the past century are “very likely due to human activities.”

The current warming trend says

NASA is of particular significance because “most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.”

According to NASA the evidence for rapid climate change is compelling. In addition to dangerous human-induced rising temperatures, oceans are warming, Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are decreasing, Arctic sea ice is shrinking, sea levels are rising, glaciers are retreating, ocean acidification is increasing and extreme weather events are on the rise.

There is a way out of this. We still

op-ed section of The New York Times related the poignant story of a college-age woman who was shocked when her mother told her that she had an abortion 20 years earlier. The mother married the father of the aborted baby shortly after. They have been married for 40 years and raised two daughters who are well educated and apparently had happy childhoods. Both the mother and the daughter are strong, public advocates of women’s right to choose.

It is easy to empathize with the mother, even to the extent of endorsing her decision, perhaps without consciously thinking about it. Is it any wonder, then, that abortion is so widely accepted?

The mother revealed what drove her decision: shame, fear, and then silence. Are not those the same things that haunt us? We Catholics begin every Mass by acknowledging that we have “greatly sinned.” Yet our society, Catholics included, tends to be very condemning. We have a tendency to gloat with selfsatisfaction when another’s misdeeds are publicly paraded before us. An “unacceptable” pregnancy can expose a woman to shame, which breeds fear and silence.

Our faith informs us differently. A new human life is to be celebrated, even if its conception was outside of “acceptable” norms. The celebration extends to the community as well as the immediate family. We Catholics, institutionally and individually, can do much more than rail against abortion. Without compromising our firm belief that the

best place for a child is in a stable home with its mother and father, we can lovingly embrace a baby regardless of the circumstances of its conception. We can provide the “social womb” which a child needs to develop. We can ask God, “How?” And we can depend on the Holy Spirit to show us.

Arthur Mangold San Mateo Editor’s note: The Gabriel Project, which is active in many parishes in the archdiocese, provides crisis pregnancy counseling to expectant mothers. The project enlists the whole church in supporting the well-being of mother and child, including the spiritual needs of the mother.

have a little time to avoid an environmental nightmare. But we must act quickly.

Unfortunately, green is obviously not the U.S. Congress’ favorite color.

And President Barack Obama’s recent climate plan speech at Georgetown University was overall narrow and vague. While he promised tighter restrictions on new and existing fossil-fueled power plants, he failed to be specific.

Climate change and global warming must be treated as an unfolding emergency. What is needed is bold, comprehensive and quick action from U.S. and world political officials.

Dangerous nuclear and global warming fossil-fueled power plants need to be phased out with all due speed. And in the interim, these plants and other polluting industries need broad, tough anti-pollution regulations and restrictions.

Abundantly safe and clean solar, wind, and geothermal sources of energy need to be put on the fast track receiving enormous financial investments – to slow down and eventually reverse climate change and global warming.

We know from Genesis that “God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good.”

Before it’s too late, let’s begin to follow his master climate plan, and be responsible stewards of his good creation – for our sake, and the sake of those yet to come.

MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

LETTERS Every year can be a year of faith The list of seven suggestions for faith fostering practices by Msgr.

Michael Harriman in your article on the upcoming Mass Aug. 17 at St. Mary’s Cathedral (“Celebrate marriage and family,” July 5) left me thinking that it was a bit tame and not very likely to offend anyone but also mostly involved with private devotional exercises rather than active reaching out to others to foster more community participation in our parishes here. Why limit ourselves to a Year of Faith that will officially end in November when every year can be a year of faith? May we reach out of our comfort zone by speaking to someone who looks sad or always sits alone in church or is a newcomer or has a crying baby and looks tired or struggles up and down the stairs to Mass or even a same-sex couple? We have many “neighbors” in this world who could use kind words from us.

Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

Report on young sisters Thank you to Catholic San Francisco and to reporter Valerie Schmalz for an excellent feature about younger sisters (“Young nuns envision a future much smaller, but still bright,” July 19). Nicely done!

We just posted it on our Facebook page so our members could see it.

Carol Schuck Scheiber National Religious Vocation Conference Chicago

Shame, fear and silence A piece carried recently in the

Column on Greeley uncharitable The July 19 issue contains a new and wholesome concept of dialogue between a letter writer and the subject of her critique. Except for interaction between letter writers themselves this is a first for CSF and deserves praise. It must take considerable editor effort to accomplish.

It would be good if this policy were to continue with the next edition, since there is a particularly offensive column on July 19 by George Weigel (“Remembering An-

drew Greeley”). Weigel would never have dared to write such an insulting column about Father Andrew Greeley during his lifetime because Father Greeley was more than able to respond in kind. Writing so after Greeley’s death is cowardly as well as uncharitable. It deserves a printed apology from Weigel.

Weigel should be the last person to write about another columnist’s obsession, considering his own obsession in writing praises of one pope after another, often looking for minutiae as his topic. Admittedly he carved out this subject as his “beat.” Why should he not expect a similar “beat” from another journalist? That is not obsession. It is good business practice for any journalist.

Weigel may agree that if one senses an opportunity to correct an enormous wrong, one should use all of one’s talents to achieve that goal. Greeley did so, effectively, on a number of social concerns. It is a good guess that Weigel disagrees with most of the articles since their aim is to bring the church into the 21st century. Since these articles are timeless, why not reprint some of them in CSF to counteract Weigel’s influence?

Alex M. Saunders San Carlos

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‘The vocation of love’: Lessons from mom’s retirement

M

oving into a senior home can be the ultimate indignity.

With the hefty monthly bill comes a hundred little losses – of the car keys, of the backyard, of all the familiar nooks and crannies: ticks on the pantry wall tracking the kids’ upward ascent; the Christmas-tree corner; the candy drawer; the cat’s favorite window sill; the grandkids’ hide-and-seek spots; reminders at every turn of who you are, what you love and how you live.

Leaving it all behind at 80 CHRISTINA can feel like surrender.

CAPPECCHI That’s why the folks who moved into the local seniorhousing complex were so grateful to encounter my mom, zipping around in her floral blazers and coral capris, enchanting them with her cheerful heart and boundless energy, soothing them with her deep faith and listening ear. Mom led book clubs, Bible studies and currentevent groups. She brought in jazz bands and Boy Scouts, mayors and babies. She danced for them, cried with them and prayed with them, supporting them through the death of a spouse and, in the most sacred moments, ushering them through their passage into heaven.

What makes me proudest is that no one knew the residents better than Mom. She could name their grandkids and cite their wedding anniversaries.

She heard their stories and somehow, without writing them down, she remembered, commemorating difficult days by slipping notes under their doors and offering hugs in the hallways. She accepted their invitations to tea and admired their fine china. In her presence, they forgot about their walkers and worries. They felt like themselves again – younger, needed, vital.

So you can imagine the sadness that erupted when

she announced her retirement; after a dynamic career, it’s time to focus on her grandchildren and her volunteering. The cards keep pouring in – images of daisies, robins and teacups and, inside, heartfelt messages in shaky cursive, the kind that is no longer taught, where the tops of capital Ts wave and the Hs hook back.

“You always knew just what to say to comfort and help others,” wrote Donna and Norm.

“Thanks for all you did, always, to make our life here more pleasant,” Fred wrote. “We love you.”

A widow named Agnes reminisced about “the occasional stops along the hallways we roam when you would ask, ‘How is Norbert?’” and then lamented, “It seems everyone else has long forgotten Norbert.”

Meanwhile, Vera wrote, “Your unselfish giving in all areas to others surely is a response to God’s love in you.”

Her words make me think of Pope Francis’ first encyclical, “Lumen Fidei,” which illuminates the deeply woven braid of love and faith. “Those who believe are transformed by the love to which they have opened their hearts in faith,” the Holy Father writes. “By their openness to this offer of primordial love, their lives are enlarged and expanded.”

That expansion can happen at any age – for the new graduates just beginning their careers this summer and for the happy retirees, who help us see the future in expansive terms. We begin with the end in mind, considering today how we want to be remembered when we finish.

Truth is, my mom will never really retire – this is the woman who was nicknamed “Energizer Bunny” by our priest. A more apt term, for her, comes from the Spanish infinitive for retirement, jubilarse: to make jubilant. We can count on that.

Though her hours now look different, her core remains unchanged, as Pope Francis put it in his new encyclical: “a magnificent calling, the vocation of love.”

CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. Email www.ReadChristina.com.

LETTERS UN should have no authority over Vatican Re “UN asks Vatican to account for all sex abuse allegations,” July 19: The Vatican (church) is sovereign and should brook no questioning from the United Nations, which really has no authority to meddle with sovereign nations at all. In this mad world, gone too far for the idea of globalism, the U.N. seems to be getting much too full of itself. If it has a function at all, it is certainly not to demand a list of alleged wrongdoers in ongoing investigations.

We should remember what the U.N. is and how it was formed. It is dangerous to believe that its function is to assume any authority over individual, longstanding nation states; most of its members are small countries with little power.

After World War II, the idea of formalizing these allies into a global entity seemed appropriate and perhaps has served well in many ways; however in this case they have gone too far. The U.N. should be put on notice by the church that it has no authority in this matter whatsoever. There are far too many atrocities which it has chosen not to comment on or do anything about, which are screaming for assistance, all over the world.

Steven J. Catalano Manteca

Challenge of catechesis I must congratulate Catholic San Francisco for its July 5 issue because of two op-eds, which were among the best ever in the paper, even including The Monitor (which I sold regularly in front of a San Francisco church on Sundays, many years ago). These were by George Wesolek (“The cold, cold hearts of Catholics”) and Vicki Evans (“Dual matrimony threatens conscience rights, religious liberty”). All of their many points regarding life and marriage are precisely correct and indeed pertinent.

One of each of their concluding points, our indifference as Catholics, is illustrated pretty clearly by a

nearby news graphic on a national survey showing Catholics supporting same-sex marriage now at 54 percent compared to 38 percent a decade ago. Probably the main reason for this is the popular media.

But I think the underlying fault lies with our parish priests. Extremely few ever talk about these subjects in church homilies, and thus the vast majority of Catholics are not fully aware of the church’s principles on these matters. For example, probably not that many of us will have read the two fine columns noted above. I presume this apparent indifference or non-involvement by local parish priests is similar throughout the country. I think this must change, if the newer Catholics in our cities are to be catechized and our church is to survive.

Jerry Heckert San Mateo

Praying the ‘Hail Mary’ is salutary We all hear that constant hand washing protects as long as you do it for 20 seconds.

To remember that, people are told to sing the song “Happy Birthday.” I would suggest that instead of “Happy Birthday” being sung, mentally or physically, that the “Hail Mary” be spoken, either physically or mentally. With all the problems in this world, that recitation could be a good thing.

Gerald Studier San Rafael

Publish 2 Sunday readings in summer issues?

If it is important (and I think it is) to include the next Sunday’s readings in the paper, why are there not the next two Sunday’s readings in the summer issues?

Kathe Farrell San Francisco Editor’s note: Publishing two Sunday readings during our biweekly summer schedule has never been a policy of the paper. However, in a future readership survey to evaluate the paper’s content we will include a question about this.

The American way to change

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hirley Sagawa has been called the godmother of national service and volunteerism in America. She’s been at it for several decades shaping policy as a staff assistant to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, working at the Corporation for National and Community Service, serving as a staff member in the Clinton White House and currently as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

FATHER WILLIAM Her book, “The J. BYRON, SJ American Way to Change: How National Service and Volunteers Are Transforming America” is the best single source I’ve seen for information on the countless civilian national service initiatives that have sprung up in this country over the past few decades.

Her message is simple, direct and clear: The rights of citizenship ought to be accompanied by responsibilities and chief among them is citizen service.

Youth should regard service as a “rite of passage” she writes. They need a sense of purpose, as do adults, and a sense of purpose can be gained through service. “Having a purpose is as important for youths making choices about their futures as it is for people rebuilding their lives after a crisis or older adults finding a way to make their retirement years meaningful,” she says.

And then Sagawa adds this telling point: “Service is not the only path to purpose, but it is a well-walked one that can help Americans of all ages and backgrounds transform their own lives for the better.”

The transformation occurs not only in the life of the service provider but also in the community where the service is rendered.

This book is replete with examples of community improvements due to citizen service.

And even casual observers of our decaying urban infrastructure, the decline in the quality of public education, the rise of poverty and illiteracy, the neglect of the environment, and the health care needs of both infants and elderly, can see the need for more community service in these and other areas.

There is a new buzz in policy-formation circles about service opportunities as a remedy for the growing purposelessness among young adults. But there should also be efforts to acquaint retirees about the contributions they can make, particularly to the poor and to disadvantaged children, through voluntary service.

It is not well known that the founding motto of the American Association of Retired Persons was “To serve, not be served.” This has an evident link to the Gospel (Matthew 20:28) and should thus be useful in inviting Christians who are retirees to consider service.

Ethel Percy Andrus, founder in 1958 of the AARP, wrote then that older adults “have a responsibility to remain active in retirement ... to cooperate with responsible ... agencies concerned with programs and activities that will make our nation strong.”

She also argued that “we learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.”

That lesson, of course, should be shared with the young who, for their own good, eventually have to understand that the really good life is a life lived generously in the service of others.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email wbyron@sju.edu.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.’

LUKE 12:32-48

PSALM 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Exult, you just, in the Lord; praise from the upright is fitting. Blessed the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.

Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you.

Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

place that he was to receive as an inheritance; he went out, not knowing where he was to go. By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country,dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise; for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God. By faith he received power to generate, even though he was past the normal age — and Sarah herself was sterile — for he thought that the one who had made the promise was trustworthy. So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.

All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth, for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland.

If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one.

Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son, of whom it was said, “Through Isaac descendants shall bear your name.” He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead, and he received Isaac back as a symbol.

HEBREWS 11:1-2, 8-19 Brothers and sisters: Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.

Because of it the ancients were well attested. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a

LUKE 12:32-48 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms.

Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear

WISDOM 18:6-9 The night of the Passover was known beforehand to our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage. Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes. For when you punished our adversaries, in this you glorified us whom you had summoned. For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice and putting into effect with one accord the divine institution.

out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.

And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Then Peter said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?” And the Lord replied, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will put in charge of his servants to distribute the food allowance at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so. Truly, I say to you, the master will put the servant in charge of all his property. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, then that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish the servant severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful. That servant who knew his master’s will but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely; and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”

Servants awaiting the master’s return

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e can imagine the role of servants in the popular PBS series “Downton Abbey,” set in pre-World War I England. Many servants are needed. The bustle of “downstairs” is full of servant relationships in alliance, in crisis, with enmities, trust, mistrust and competition for status. Over them all, the steward tries to keep everyone working efficiently. The servants’ activities revolve around maintaining the household of the lord and his family upstairs.

Luke’s Gospel passage is a collection of metaphors about the life of servants “downstairs.” Living the Christian life is like being servants employed in God’s household, all of us having a job to do. We are SISTER ELOISE doing our work alone, but ROSENBLATT, RSM not as part of a community needed to keep the household running and humming along. Whether we imagine the household as the church, or as secular society, the master relies on servants with different roles to carry out their responsibilities faithfully.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

But unlike “Downton Abbey,” something is out of kilter with the household of Luke’s Gospel. The Lord is not present. This creates unease and uncertainty among the servants. The servant metaphors all turn on the question, “What do servants do when the master of the house is absent, certain to return, but no one knows when?”

Luke’s servants are all living in ordinary time. This is not a time of social crisis, as we find toward the end of the Gospels, where Christians face the end of the world. Luke’s reflection on servants comes smack in the middle of his Gospel, during “ordinary time.”

Faithfulness is measured by how servants behave in the humdrum of life, as they wait for the master’s return.

There is some humor that can be drawn from the warnings to those servants who misbehave. What sister has not threatened her brother, “Wait until mom comes home! You’re really going to get it!” And what brother has not countered, “When dad gets back, he’s going to be furious. I’m going to tell him what you did!” So, too, in Luke: “Just wait until Jesus comes back, and then you’ll catch it!”

The longest section in this Gospel is about the consequences for the bad steward who takes advantage of the master’s absence. This is the bad boss who misuses his authority, abuses his employees, and consumes the resources he is supposed to safeguard

for the master. Who of us cannot name an administrator who deserves to have this warning left as an anonymous note on his or her desk? Luke also distinguishes between two levels of guilt – between servants who know what God wants, and servants who are ignorant of God’s will. Christians who have knowledge of Jesus’ teaching will be punished more severely for their misdeeds than the non-believer who is ignorant of God’s will.

On the other hand, this is not a matter of specifically Christian ethics. The servants are judged on how they behave as human beings toward fellow human beings. Like the principle of Matthew 25, “when did we see you hungry, thirsty, in prison ….” Luke’s servant ethic is concerned with the way servants treat each other, and the way they carry out their responsibilities, whether in family, church, or society at large.

The ideal for Luke is the “faithful and prudent steward”– a man or woman in a pastoral leadership role, or the employee who does his or her job for the public, the state, the county, the city, the school, the hospital, or the social agency. Faithfulness means trustworthiness. Luke’s reward for faithfulness is not greater power over others, but greater responsibility for the common good.

MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, AUGUST 12: Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious. Dt 10:12-22. PS 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20. Mt 17:22-27.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 13: Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Pontian, pope and martyr and Hippolytus, priest and

martyr. Dt 31:1-8. Dt 32:3-4ab, 7, 8, 9 and 12. Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14: Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr. Dt 34:1-12. PS 66:1-3a, 5 and 8, 16-17. Mt 18:15-20.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 15: Solemnity of the Assump-

tion of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2. PS 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14. 1 Cor 15:54b-57. Lk 11:27-28.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16: Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary. Jos 24:1-13. PS 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22 and 24. Mt 19:3-12.

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On whining and weeping

K

arl Rogers once suggested that what’s most private within us is also most universal. His belief was that many of the private feelings that we would be ashamed to admit in public are, ironically, the very feelings which, if expressed, would resonate most deeply inside the experience of others.

But this isn’t always true in terms of our tears. Sometimes our private tears are only that, private tears, tears which are ours alone and which don’t resonate with the feelings of others but rather cause them an FATHER RON unhealthy discomfort. Why ROLHEISER don’t all of our tears draw empathy? Because not all tears are alike; there’s a difference between weeping and whining. The former is healthy, the latter isn’t.

Weeping is healthy. It’s a wholesome expression in the face of loss. Moreover, when we weep we are giving expression to a sorrow that speaks not just of some private loss and pain, but somehow too of that same sadness within the entire world. The loss we are mourning may seem a private thing, like the death of a loved one, but, if the focus of our grief is on the one lost rather than on ourselves, our weeping is essentially empathic. Our deep sadness then mourns a universal condition and connects us more deeply to the world, where death and loss spare no one. Everyone, ultimately, carries that same sadness. Whining, on the other hand, is mostly self-pity. Unlike weeping, its focus is not on what has been lost to tragedy but is primarily upon ourselves, our hurt, and our plea for sympathy.

To whine is to hold a private wound up for public viewing in order to look for sympathy, like a child showing a bruised knee to his mother. We can feel sorry of a bruised child, the propriety there is not offensive, but the scenario is not nearly as palatable when we are adults.

We cry tears for different reasons and we cry tears in different ways. In all tears, the question is: “Whom am I crying for, for someone else or for myself ? What is causing my tears, sympathy for someone, sympathy for something, or self-pity?”

That’s not an easy question to answer because our tears are invariably a mix of both altruism and selfishness. Rarely are our tears pure, without self-pity, like the tears that Jesus wept over Jerusalem or the ones Mary wept under the cross of Jesus. Our tears can indict us just as much as they can exhibit

empathy. For instance, Therese of Lisieux suggests that when we cry tears over a broken heart it is generally because we were seeking ourselves, rather than the other, inside that relationship. The tears are real, but they’re hardly noble. In a similar vein, Antoine Vergote, the renowned psychologist, suggests that the tears we cry when we feel guilty about doing something wrong are generally tears of self-pity rather than a sign of actual contrition.

True contrition, he contends, evokes something else inside of us, sorrow. What distinguishes sorrow from guilt is that, in sorrow, we weep because something we’ve done has hurt someone else. With tears of guilt, we’re crying because we’re feeling badly.

The difference between whining and weeping is often seen too in their aesthetics. Whining is invariably exhibitionistic, over-sentimental, and causes discomfort to those witnessing it. It fails to keep a respectful aesthetic distance. In essence, it’s bad art! We’ve all experienced this at times, at a funeral perhaps, where, however tragic or sad the occasion, someone’s tears were simply so raw and so exhibitionistic that we experienced them as somehow violating proper propriety. We felt uncomfortable for the person shedding those tears.

We experience this occasionally too to a lesser extent in bad popular art, where, in some song or film or novel, the sadness expressed is simply too raw, too sentimental, or too juvenile to leave us a safe space within which to view it and digest it. Again, the fault is in the aesthetics, bad propriety. Bad art leaves us wanting to shield our eyes so as not to embarrass someone else or it leaves us feeling like we have ingested too much sugar. That’s a second feature of whining; Beyond being self-pitying, it’s bad art.

And so we need to be careful about the tears we shed in public and the frustrations we express out loud. Of course, none of our tears are pure, we’re always crying too for ourselves. The same is true for our protests; There’s always some self-interest involved. But, with that being admitted, we should strive to do more weeping and less whining, that is, to insure that when we express sadness or indignation in public our tears and our anger are expressing more empathy than self-pity.

Karl Rogers is right: What’s most private inside us is also what’s most universal. That’s true too for our deep sadness, for our chronic heartaches, for a good number of our frustrations, and for many of the tears we cry. But it’s less true for our whining.

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

Look for the mercy of God, not his punishment

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he Bible” is the name of a TV miniseries that aired on the History Channel earlier this year and proved to be extremely popular. A husband and wife team produced it.

They are actress Roma Downey (of “Touched by an Angel”), and reality show producer Mark Burnett (who produced “Survivor” and “Celebrity Apprentice”).

The show became a powerful introduction to the Judeo-Christian biblical story, but its violence has unsettled quite a few FATHER JOHN people, including a good Catholic woman who CATOIR called me to say that she was frightened by the program’s depiction of God as a merciless tyrant.

I explained that the most important concept to remember when you’re studying Scripture is this: The New Testament is not the Old Testament. That’s an important distinction for any child of God to remember.

The literal depiction of God in the Old Testament can indeed be frightening. People living in primitive times often thought that every cruelty of nature was a form of direct punishment from God. Jesus, however, brought mitigating words of mercy, as he taught us about God’s love. We

must also remember that God’s mercy also is revealed in the Old Testament.

Remember that the words, “Do not be afraid,” and similar phrases of comfort, are repeated hundreds of times in the Bible.

Jesus taught us to interpret sacred Scripture with mercy. We must never forget that God is love and that justice must always be tempered with mercy. One of the best stories to exemplify this concept is the one about the woman accused of adultery in John 8.

“Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. “’Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?’” (It was a trap designed to trick Jesus into challenging the words of the Bible.)

Jesus calmly said, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Jesus was wise and compassionate in the way he interpreted the law. So, too, were many of the Hebrew sages. After the woman whom he saved was left alone, Jesus said to her: “Go, [and] from now on do not sin anymore.”

Fear is not a bad thing. We need to respect God’s almighty power. He is after all a God of justice, and life is consequential. But love, not fear, is the central message of the Gospel.

Long Mass time: Older couple asks, ‘What can we do?’

Q.

At our parish, so much of the Mass is sung that the Mass lasts more than an hour. Also, when it comes time for the readings, the lector walks all the way up from a pew in the congregation, and that creates further delay. Then there is a minute of silent reflective time after the readings, which I find tedious.

My husband and I (who are both of Social Security age) have no patience for such deliberate delay. Many parishioners have complained, but the pastor has dismissed our voice.

What can we do, short of joining another parish? (Cherry Hill, N.J.) Your question is a frequent one, reflecting the feelings of many parishioners, especially older ones.

FATHER Therefore, I think that it merits KENNETH DOYLE a longer-than-usual response.

While I understand your concern and trust that it flows from a deep Catholic faith, I have to tell you honestly that your pastor is being faithful to the thinking of the church. The church’s official “guidebook” on celebrating the Eucharist is called the General Instruction of the Roman Missal. That document makes a strong plea for periods of quiet within the liturgy.

In the Mass, the GIRM tells us, we are invited to silence at five particular times: in the beginning, at the penitential rite; at the start of certain prayers when the priest says, “Let us pray”; after each of the Scripture readings; after the homily; and after all have received Communion.

There is no “rule” as to how long each of these silences needs to be, and certainly discretion is in order.

The ordinary congregation at Sunday Mass is not a contemplative monastic community.

The GIRM directs that, at the conclusion of each reading and of the homily, “all meditate briefly on what has been heard” (No. 23). I would say that perhaps 30 seconds is appropriate at each of those points, with an even shorter period after the priest’s “Let us pray” (so that all present can call to mind their own prayer intentions before the celebrant “collects” them.)

The periods of silence, then, need add no more than about three minutes to a Sunday Mass, which seems a small price to pay once a week to ensure that the Eucharist receives the reflection it deserves.

There is a proverb that says, “The quieter you become, the more you hear.” Incorporating even these short periods of silence invites members of the congregation to hear with both their hearts and ears.

As for music at Mass, what the GIRM (No. 40) says is this, “Every care should be taken that singing by the ministers and the people is not absent in celebrations that occur on Sundays and on holy days of obligation.”

It is hard to escape the conclusion that at least some congregational singing is expected at every Sunday Mass, but the extent of that singing is discretionary.

Priests would be well-advised to follow an earlier recommendation in that same section of the GIRM (No. 40) that states that there should be “due consideration for the culture of the people and abilities of each liturgical assembly.” The goal should be to encourage as many people as possible to attend Sunday Mass and to have them worship productively.

Aware that a fair number of Catholics prefer a quieter celebration, many parishes have at least one weekend Mass where the hymns are fewer and shorter.

If you don’t find that in your own parish, it is entirely proper to seek another Catholic parish.

Whereas, at one time, Catholic parishes were strictly “territorial” (you went to the closest church), now parishes are largely “intentional” (you go where you’re comfortable with the priest, the congregation and the liturgy).

Celebrating the liturgy should challenge you to learn and to grow. It should comfort you, too, and bring you peace.

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SHRINE: Like Francis, seeing the ‘face of God in all creation’ FROM PAGE 1

with a colorful history – a bronze marker in the sidewalk, for example, reminds that this was once part of the notorious Barbary Coast of post-Gold Rush San Francisco.

Inside, pilgrims from near or far will find a candlelit haven of peaceful sanctity with beautiful Capuchin Father architecture, statuHarold Snider ary, hand-painted murals, stained-glass windows, holy relics of the Franciscan saints and an acclaimed pipe organ.

When asked how people find find or discover the shrine, Father Snider motioned out the church doors to the crowded sidewalk with a smile. “I often meet them right here passing by on the street, one person at a time,” he said.

“Jesus meets us where he finds us, but he never leaves us as he finds us.” The rector welcomes church pilgrims and visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

The shrine includes the Porziuncola Nuova, a replica of St. Francis’s Porziuncola church in Assisi, Italy, that was dedicated in San Francisco in 2008 by Archbishop Levada. Porziuncola means “small portion of land” and refers to the Benedictine chapel Saint Francis restored when he was a young man. Pope Benedict XVI named the national shrine and Porziuncola a holy site the same year. The shrine will soon also include St. Francis Rest animal columbarium and hall of honor, an acknowledgement of Francis’ affinity for animals and the natural world.

Born in Stamford, Conn., to an Italian mother and German-Irish father, Father Snider received a naturally inspiring indoctrination to Franciscan spirituality and generosity from his grandparents.

“I’m not certain they had ever read a

book about St. Francis,” he said. “But no one ever came to their door who wasn’t invited in or offered something.”

A big box of ripe tomatoes from the garden, a loaf of bread – “Whatever they had to share,” he said, “they shared.”

Father Snider said he knew he wanted to be priest from the time he was 6 years old. He recalled with delight the hooded brown robe and rope belt Halloween costume a relative stitched for him around this time. Still, his vocation didn’t fully present itself until decades later. After attending college on a ROTC scholarship, Father Snider became a captain in the U.S. Army, military intelligence. Having fulfilled his military obligation he entered the corporate world an insurance operations manager and became a member of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame.

It was there that he met the Capuchin friars and his life quickly changed course. He entered the Capuchin order in 1981 was ordained in 1989.

By the time he was 6 years old, Harold Snider felt the call to be a priest. That year his Halloween costume was a handmade brown robe and rope belt.

SENIORS: In fast-graying Marin, leaning on faith, family to get by FROM PAGE 1

from clothing and shelter to immigration and senior support, said Jane Flout, director of community and parish engagement.

As much as family and foundations, faith belongs in the stack of potential solutions.

Studies show although the number of Americans affirming a religious affiliation has dropped to an all-time low, those who do so appear to enjoy a longer, happier, healthier life.

“It is edifying to see how much attendance at Mass means to so many elderly people who attend (daily) even though it may be difficult for them to get to church,” said Father Mark Taheny, pastor of St. Sebastian the Martyr Parish in Greenbrae.

A full schedule of services and sacraments in the on-site chapel attracted LaVerne Dolan, 87, four years ago to Nazareth House in San Rafael, a senior-care facility owned and operated by the Sisters of Nazareth.

“When I found out they had regular expositions of the Blessed Sacrament and two daily Masses, I knew this was the only place for me,” said Dolan, a widow who moved to Marin from Southern California to be near her daughter.

The facility’s spiritually enriching amenities also sold Margaret, 87, and Leo, 92, Trembley, on their final stop in a long trial run of domiciles that followed her stroke and his congestive heart failure.

“We have a resident chaplain and all the Catholic liturgies we could want,” said Trembley, a former Daughters of Mary and Joseph sister who left the

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Eugene, 92, and Marie, 91, Lombardi are pictured together at home in Greenbrae, Marin County. Their son Bob, 64, a retired meat cutter, moved into his parents’ home a year and four months ago to care for them because they could no longer continue to live independently. order after 31 years to care for her widowed, debilitated father.

Blood bonds also ran strong in her husband’s household, where the close-knit family provided the 10 children and a live-in uncle with care, comfort and camaraderie.

“It was a good feeling,” Leo Trembley said.

Practicing core values

To create their own, the seven sisters at Nazareth House practice their core values of patience, com-

passion, justice, love, hospitality and respect on the 120 residents, ages 62 to 104, said Irish-born house superior Sister of Nazareth Catherine Maree Rea. “It’s the feeling here that is special,” said Lynetta Matteo, community relations director at the house, which offers a variety of levels of care and services, including use of the chapel for family baptisms and funerals.

Father Taheny advises seniors to plan and share their final liturgies with their children who, if unfamiliar with church rituals, may opt for services inconsistent with proper funeral rites.

He also recommends receiving the sacrament of anointing of the sick before entering the hospital, where distractions make it difficult to participate in the prayers.

From what Father Paul Perry, Catholic chaplain at Marin General Hospital, has seen, many patients are in no hurry to “make peace with God.” Bearing out his observations, a British study suggests increased longevity leads to postponement of retirement and religiosity. The research cites the example of 95 percent of Nigerians and 91 percent of Pakistanis attending church at least once a month, compared to 15 percent of the longer-lived Brits.

“Some of us think we’re here forever,” said San Rafael Dominican Sister Patricia Simpson, moderator of Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, a care center for sisters of her congregation with dementia and other infirmities. “I think we have to admit we’re aging and spend time in a relationship with God to help us prepare for the inevitable end.”

POPE: ‘The church must be taken into the streets,’ pontiff tells pilgrims FROM PAGE 1

originally planned, and forced a rearrangement of his schedule.

“I asked my organizers if there was a moment this trip at which I can meet with my fellow Argentines, please find it,” the pope said. He indicated that the meeting was a result of his own “personal request.”

Pope Francis told them his hopes for the event, and stressed that the church, that the life of parishes, must be taken into the streets.

“If not, the church becomes an NGO. And the church cannot be an NGO,” he said, echoing his very first Mass as bishop of Rome, in which he preached to the cardinal electors that “if we do not profess Jesus Christ … we may become a charitable NGO, but not the church, the bride of the Lord.”

Pope Francis said that the world “has made a cult, a god, of money. We are before a philosophy that exults material goods,” and that this striving for comfort and following the mundane must not seep into the church.

This philosophy, he reflected, “excludes” the youth and the elderly.

“We do not let aged people speak, and as for young people – it is the same. They do not have the experience and the dignity of work … Young people must be able to go out and fight for their values,” he urged.

“Care for the two extremes of life,” he said. As youth must be able to stand up for their values, so must “older people be able to speak out, to transmit their wisdom and knowledge.”

“You must not let yourselves be marginalized.

Faith in Christ is not a joke. The only sure way, is the way of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus.”

“Faith in God’s son, who became man and who died for me, must make a mess, must disturb us out of our complacency.”

“This is your protocol for action: the Beatitudes and Matthew 25,” he said. “Please, do not water down the faith. Stir things up, cause confounding, but do not diminish faith in Jesus Christ.”

Finally, Pope Francis thanked his countrymen for their closeness to him. He lamented that he could not be closer to them.

“At times I feel (encaged) … how ugly it is to be encaged” he said.

“Don’t forget to make a mess, to disturb complacency. Don’t forget the youth and the aged.”

In a speech in the Rio slum of Varginha, the pope stressed the need to alleviate material suffering but also said that “real human development” requires the promotion of moral values, to satisfy “the hunger for a happiness that only God can satisfy.”

The pope thanked residents for their hospitality and said they and other Brazilians could “offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced, because it is uncomfortable.”

The pope urged “all people of good will who are working for social justice” to “never tire of working for a more just world” and greater equality.

Echoing a famous revolutionary slogan, Pope Francis said “everybody, according to his or her particular opportunities and responsibilities, should be able to make a personal contribution to putting an end to so many social injustices.”

Compiled from CNA/EWTN News and Catholic News Service reports.

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Young sisters visit Presentation Motherhouse Just two weeks after the “Nuns on the Bus” national tour came to the Presentation Sisters motherhouse in San Francisco, another group of sisters came for high tea, said Rosana Madrigral, communications director for the motherhouse. These Presentation sisters and women in formation shared stories and experiences. They were in the Bay Area for the “Giving Voice National Gathering 2013: Mission and Ministry in the 21st Century,” which ran from July 5-8 in Belmont.

Then they spent several days at the Presentation Retreat Center in Los Gatos, and toured San Francisco with a stop to meet the sisters.

Sister Jessi Beck, a 32-year-old member of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Dubuque, Iowa, said, “Throughout our history, sisters have been called

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Sister Jessi teaches second grade at an inner-city Catholic school in Chicago and is a member of the Giving Voice conference planning team.

“Today, the needs are growing as the gap between the rich and the poor expands. Having the wisdom of my sisters in community and a support group of peer-age sisters in Giving Voice helps me to respond to the needs of our day.”

Giving Voice is a peer-led organization that creates spaces for younger women religious to give voice to their hopes, dreams and challenges in religious life.

The July conference was the seventh national gathering of younger women religious organized since 1997 and the first to take place on the West Coast.

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CCCYO offers ‘Cocktails and Compassion’ New in its form and accessibility is Catholic Charities CYO’s “Cocktails and Compassion,” a happy-hour fundraiser, Aug. 21, 5:30-9:30 p.m., at The Office above Churchill Bar, 198 Church St., San Francisco, benefiting HIV/ AIDS supportive housing. Catholic Charities CYO’s Assisted Housing and Health Programs include Derek Silva Community, Leland House, Peter Claver Community and Rita da Cascia/Hazel Betsey Community.

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“We’re always trying to attract

younger folks, but everyone is welcome – the more the merrier,” CCCYO said.

Also increasing the demographic that might attend is the price: $10 entry fee and no-host bar. “The price point is so much more accessible than our big, gala events,” CCCYO said.

A percentage of bar purchases will be donated to CCCYO facilities. The evening includes complimentary appetizers, music and specially crafted cocktails. Visit community.cccyo.org/ compassion.

CCCYO was one of the first organizations to respond to the spread of AIDS in San Francisco in the mid-1980s. Its assisted housing and health programs now serve more than 1,100 people annually and fill a crucial need in the continuum of care for people living with disabling HIV/AIDS in San Francisco.

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Presentation Sister Mary Thomas Magee, 94 Sister Mary Thomas Magee, PBVM, (baptismal name Margaret Mary) died July 3 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. A native of Oakland, Sister Thomas was born on April 28, 1919, and was a Sister of the Presentation for 77 years.

Sister Thomas earned a bachelor’s Sister Mary degree in English Thomas and education from San Francisco College for Women and a master’s in Library Science from Rosary College in River Forest, Ill.. Sister Thomas worked for three years in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

She spent 30 years as an elementary school teacher and librarian in St. Anne, St. Agnes, Epiphany, Star of the Sea in San Francisco and Our Lady of Loretto and Our Lady of Lourdes in Los Angeles.

Between 1960 and 1978, Sister Thomas taught and was librarian at Presentation High School in San Francisco, and St. Joseph Presentation High School in Berkeley and Blachett in Seattle, Wash.

After leaving full-time ministry, Sister Thomas volunteered her librarian skills for many years to local schools, colleges and parishes, as well as offering her services during the summers to libraries in other states. She published over 30 articles in various magazines and journals, as well as writing a book about the Presentation foundress, “Not Words But Deeds: A Life of Nano Nagle.”

A funeral Mass was celebrated on July 9 at the Presentation Motherhouse, followed by interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.

Memorial contributions to the Sisters of the Presentation are preferred. Contributions can be sent to Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco, 94118.

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Ladies of Charity national assembly to gather in San Jose The Ladies of Charity of Morgan Hill, Diocese of San Jose, and the Western Region will host the 13th annual Ladies of Charity in the United States national assembly at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose Sept. 20-21. The theme “Empowering Women/ Strengthening Families” serves to highlight the journey of serving women and bolstering families through advocacy, education and collaboration in order to achieve systemic change.

“We invite women throughout the country to join us as we usher in the fall season with a dynamic group of speakers and workshop leaders,” said Sister Camille Cuadra, DC, sister moderator for the Morgan Hill association. “This is an opportunity to come together in prayer and solidarity as we journey forward and create systemic change in our world today.”

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Dinner only is also available at $20 for adults, $10 for youth 12-18 and under 12 free. Contact or send reservations/payment to Youth Ministry Golf, Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, 94947, or call (415) 897-6862.

All proceeds benefit Youth Ministry Fund.

Day is sponsored by Youth Ministry Golf Committee and the Knights of Columbus, Our Lady of Loretto Council 3950.

SATURDAY, AUG. 17 YEAR OF FAITH: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marriage and Family Celebrationâ&#x20AC;? beginning with Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and priests of the archdiocese at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CaArchbishop thedral, Gough Salvatore J. Street at Geary Cordileone Boulevard, San Francisco, 9:30 a.m., followed by refreshments and workshops on the topic 10:30 a.m.-noon. Everyone is invited and more information is available at www.sfworship.org or by calling (415) 614-5586. Call your parish to register for the day for the ordering of materials and such.

SATURDAY, AUG. 10 RUMMAGE SALE: San Mateo Pro Life Rummage Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Alam-

THURSDAY, AUG. 15 REUNION: Archbishop Riordan High School class of 1953, 9 a.m. Mass with the student body in Lindland Theatre; reception immediately following. Please RSVP to Sharon GhilardiUdovich, sudovich@riordanhs.org, or (415)586-8200 ext. *217.

MONDAY, SEPT. 2 ALUMNI SHOW: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Archbishop Riordan High School Alumni Theatre Showâ&#x20AC;? with 1963 alumnus and Hill Street Bluesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; star Joe Spano as emcee. Helping alongside Joe Spano will be Riordan mom and San Francisco broadcast veteran Cammy Blackstone.

Celebrate the legend of Riordan drama with an Frances all-star lineup Peterson of alumni performers who got their start on the Lindland stage. Soprano Frances Peterson, who appeared in Riordan shows while a student at Presentation High School is among the soloists.

Evening includes reception, show and silent auction. Tickets start at $25: www.riordanhs. org/lucky13. More information: Valerie Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Riordan, voriordan@ riordanhs.org or (415) 587-5866.

SATURDAY, AUG. 17 HANDICABAPLES MASS: Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Lunch follows. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years. Call Joanne Borodin at (415) 239-4865.

FESTA ITALIANA: Washington Square, North Beach, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 1630 Stockton St. Continuous live music, Tarantella dancers, Italian food, wine, and beer. Vendors will be selling Italian related products and Italian imported products, a free, fun, family event open to the public. (415) 781-0166 or visit www.sfiac.org.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 7 MISSION DOLORES 100TH: Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco begins its 100th anniversary with prayer at 11 a.m. Cardinal William J. Levada, retired prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of San Francisco presides over the liturgy.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass at 5 p.m. in the basilica. The Mission Dolores Basilica Choir directed by Jerome Lenk leads song. The cornerstone of Mission Dolores Basilica was laid in 1913 with construction finished on the church in 1918. Contact Gustavo Torres at (415) 621-8203, ext. 11 or gtorres@missiondolores.org.

SUNDAY, OCT. 20

FRIDAY, OCT. 25

YOUTH MASS: Calling all youth!

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is having a Youth Mass at 2:30 p.m. at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, San Francisco.

Bishop William San Francisco Justice Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant and homilist. For more information, contact Ynez Lizarraga, associate director for youth ministry and catechesis, at LizarragaY@sfarchdiocese.org.

RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests, 11:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco: Proceeds benefit Priests RetireFather Kirk ment Fund of the Ullery Archdiocese of San Francisco. Call (415) 614-5580, email development@ sfarchdiocese.org for information regarding tickets and sponsorship opportunities. Father Kirk Ullery, retired pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, is among the priests being honored.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 14 RACHEL MOURNING: Mass and healing liturgy, 11 a.m., on site of Rachel Mourning Shrine, Holy Cross Cemetery,

1500 Mission Road, Colma, remembering babies who have died before, at or after birth. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant and homilist. Light lunch follows the Mass.

Call Project Rachel Ministry, (415) 7176428 or Respect Life Program, Archdiocese of San Francisco, (415) 614-5570.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 15 PARKING LOT SALE: St. Isabella Church and school, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Reserve a space to sell new or used items or come look for treasures, bake sale and barbecue. Contact Ginny (415) 4795609 or Siobhan (415) 492-9445.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 18 3-DAY FESTIVAL: “County Fair and Fall Festival” Oct. 18, 19, 20, St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae. Carnival rides, games, food, drink, chili cook-off, pie eating contest, raffle, silent auction. Champagne brunch on Sunday: Friday 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday noon–8 p.m. Call (650) 697-4730 or email secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org.

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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.

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Year of Faith cinema: Top 10 parables of faith on screen JOHN MULDERIG CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – With the church’s observance of the Year of Faith continuing, here in alphabetical order are capsule reviews of 10 films that engage with this often elusive topic in an accomplished and illuminating manner. Sometimes directly, in other cases only by subtle implication, these screen parables provide viewers with insights into the nature of faith – as well as its effects.

“Andrei Rublev” (1969) Russian production about a 15th-century monk (Anatoli Solonitzine) who perseveres in painting icons and other religious art despite the civil disruptions and cruel turmoil of his times. Director Andrei Tarkovsky visualizes brilliantly the story of a devout man seeking through his art to find the transcendent in the savagery of the Tartar invasions and the unfeeling brutality of Russian nobles. Subtitles.

“Babette’s Feast” (1988) Screen version of a story by Isak Dinesen, set in a rugged Danish fishing village in 1871, shows the impact of a French housekeeper (Stephane Audran) on two pious sisters who carry on their late father’s work as pastor of a dwindling religious flock. The conclusion follows the preparation and consumption of an exquisite French meal, with focus on its sensual and religious implications and its healing effect on the austere sect and the Frenchwoman who prepares it. Subtitles.

“Brother Orchid” (1940) Seriocomic tale of a gang boss (Edward G. Robinson) returning from a vacation in Europe to find his mob has a new leader (Humphrey Bogart), but he escapes being rubbed-out by hiding in a monastery where he works as a gardener while plotting his comeback – until he has a change of heart.

“The Fugitive” (1947) Underrated screen version of Graham Greene’s novel, “The Power and the Glory,” about an all-too-human priest (Henry Fonda) who is hunted down by a puritanical officer (Pedro Armendariz) after the Mexican Revolution proscribes the

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George Lopez, Adriana Barraza and Luke Wilson star in a scene from the movie “Henry Poole Is Here.” The 2008 film is a moving fable about a depressed loner (Wilson) who buys a rundown suburban home, and after some intervention – both human and divine – ends up with a new lease on life. free practice of religion. Menacing atmosphere may be inappropriate for young children.

“Henry Poole Is Here” (2008) Moving little fable of a depressed loner (Luke Wilson) whose life is changed when a warmhearted Latina busybody (Adriana Barraza) discerns a miraculous image of Christ’s face on his stucco wall, after which he slowly opens up to her and the other neighbors: an empathetic widow (Radha Mitchell), her sad child (Morgan Lily), a nearsighted grocery clerk (Rachel Seiferth) and the local priest (George Lopez).

“Lilies of the Field” (1963) When an itinerant jackof-all-trades (Sidney Poitier) stops to help a group of German nuns newly arrived in New Mexico, his cheerful generosity is disdained by the stern, demanding mother superior (Lilia Skala) until he builds them a chapel with the aid of the local Mexican-American community.

“The Miracle of Marcelino” (1955) A foundling left

at a Franciscan monastery in 19th-century Spain is spoiled by the attention of all the monks who raise him until, as a mischievous five-year-old (Pablito Calvo), the lad’s disobedience leads to a miraculous encounter with the crucified Christ. Directed by Ladislao Vajda, the Spanish production’s story of childhood innocence and the power of faith is told simply but with sincerity and good humor. Dubbed in English, the movie’s miracle may tax the credibility of some, but all can enjoy its picture of a child in unusual circumstances.

“Ordet” (1954) Challenging Danish production about different kinds of faith and various sorts of miracles, one of which restores a dead woman to life. Directed by Carl Dreyer, the austere narrative centers on a farming family troubled by the madness of a son (Preben Lerdorff Rye) who believes he is Jesus Christ until, regaining his balance, his faith in God achieves the miracle which brings the story to a positive though less than convincing conclusion some may find disappointingly ambiguous.

“Three Godfathers” (1948) After robbing a bank, an outlaw trio (John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr.) pause to help a dying woman (Mildred Natwick) deliver her infant son on Christmas Eve, then take the babe with them as they are pursued across a desert wasteland. The story may be unabashedly sentimental and the action romanticized, but its lyrical images and religious resonances celebrate the myth of the Old West and its rugged heroes with good hearts.

“Wise Blood” (1980) Screen version of Flannery O’Connor’s novel about a God-haunted young man (Brad Dourif) who on his way to Taulkinham, Tenn., to preach a new religion, meets such bizarre characters as a failed preacher pretending he is blind (Harry Dean Stanton), his mildly depraved daughter (Amy Wright) and a jovial evangelist (Ned Beatty). Director John Huston has made a powerful and provocative movie whose spiritual implications are as compelling as its artistic excellence.