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WASHINGTON – Catholic leaders, immigration officials and university presidents were swift and unanimous in their condemnation of President Donald Trump’s Sept. 5 decision to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals known as DACA. “In the past, the president stated that the Dreamer story ‘is about the heart,’ yet (the) decision is nothing short of heartless,” said Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich. “The Dreamers are now left in a sixmonth limbo, during which Congress is supposed to pass comprehensive immigration reform, a feat they have been unable to achieve for a decade,” he said in a Sept. 5 statement. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said congressional action is urgent. “In the meantime, we in the Catholic community pledge to continue standing with our immigrant brothers and sisters, assisting them in exercising their rights and assuring them that they are not alone,” he said. “I ask all people of good faith to join see daca, page 9

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Students attending local high schools under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program listen to DACA recipient Margarita Garcia tell her story during an interfaith prayer vigil in Redwood City Sept. 6. Garcia, an Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishioner, earned a master’s degree and is now an elementary school teacher.

Slovakian martyr aided local Salesian who escaped communism Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

A Slovak Salesian will be declared blessed Sept. 30 as a “martyr for vocations” and one of the priests for whom he sacrificed his life will be traveling to Bratislava, Slovakia, from San Francisco’s Corpus Christi Parish for the event. Salesian Father Titus Zeman will be beatified as a martyr for vocations because of the ordeal he underwent with great faith because of his efforts to help priests and young men who wanted to study for the priesthood escape the totalitarian Communist regime of Czechoslovakia in 1950 and 1951, after the regime closed all the monasteries and religious houses and transported the religious to concentration camps.

Salesian Father Titus Zeman (1915-69), who will be beatified this month as a “martyr for vocations,” aided in Salesian Father Aloysius Pestun’s escape from Communist Czechoslovakia in 1950 and 1951. Father Pestun, right, is a parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Parish in San Francisco.

“Even if I lost my life, I would not consider it wasted, knowing that at least one of those that I helped has become a priest in my place,” said Father Zeman, who died of broken down health at age 54 in 1969, five years after he was released from prison, according to a Catholic News Agency report. Salesian Father Aloysius Pestun, a parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Parish, plans to travel to Slovakia for the beatification – because Father Zeman tried to help him escape from the Iron Curtain country to complete his studies for the priesthood. Servant of God Titus Zeman was captured during his third trip to bring the young theology students and priests out of Czechoslovakia, one that included see father titus, page 12

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Need to know Marian consecration: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will consecrate the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Oct. 7, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco beginning with a rosary at 9 a.m., Mass at 10 a.m., and a eucharistic procession followed by Benediction and the Archbishop consecration. The consecration Cordileone “is not over at the end of the day but continues as a new state of grace for the people of the archdiocese,” the archdiocese said in an announcement heralding the event. This year is the 100th anniversary of the appearance of Mary to the children in Fatima, Portugal. Consecration to her Immaculate Heart was a request of Mary at that time. Updated details for parishes and schools on the consecration are available at www.sfarchdiocese.org/IHM or www.sfarch.org/IHM for the day’s details. OLL pilgrimage to consecration: Our Lady of Loretto parishioners will travel by bus to San Francisco on Oct. 7 as the archdiocese celebrates the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima at St. Mary’s Cathedral with a 9 a.m. rosary rally, 10 a.m. Mass and 11:30 a.m. procession and consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Buses will leave the church parking lot at 7:30 a.m., 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato. For details and registration, visit ollnovato/spiritual growth.org. Deadline for registration is Sept. 20. All-night adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ending Oct. 14 before the 9 a.m. Mass will conclude Our Lady of Loretto’s six-month Fatima celebration. A public Fatima rosary rally hosted by the parish’s Knights of Columbus will take place at Miwok Park, Novato Boulevard entrance, noon-2.

Archbishop cordileone’s schedule Sept. 17: St. Bartholomew Church, Mass, 11:15 Sept. 20: Chancery meetings Sept. 21: Chancery meetings; Finance Council meeting and dinner Sept. 23: Archbishop’s Circle retreat Sept. 23-4: Mater Dolorosa Parish visit Sept. 27, 28: Chancery meetings Sept. 29: St. John Vianney luncheon Sept. 30-Oct. 2: Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish and school visit

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Missionaries of Charity lead Fatima procession for peace after slayings Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Missionaries of Charity, friends and supporters, and parishioners of St. Michael Church in the San Francisco neighborhood of Oceanview walked through the neighborhood Aug. 27 after Sunday Mass, praying the rosary for peace and asking the intercession of Our Lady of Fatima after three people were killed within six months. Two of the three were shot in broad daylight, and all at the intersection of Broad and Plymouth streets, just one block from the Missionaries of Charity’s Queen of Peace maternity home and convent in San Francisco. This year is the 100th anniversary of the Blessed Mother’s appearances to three children in Portugal and her call to pray the rosary for peace. The archdiocese will mark it in a special way on Oct. 7 when Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone consecrates the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. “We wanted Mother Mary’s blessing on the area,” said Missionary of Charity Sister Sharon, noting the police and neighbors are working together, and the sisters have been attending community meetings. The procession concluded with adoration of

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‘Putting Christ at the center’ tops Catholic school priorities for 2017-18 Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Look for more emphasis on “putting Christ at the center” and a focus on helping Catholic school children understand reverence in the Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic schools. “We talk a lot about putting Christ at the center of what we do. There is no greater way that we put Christ at the center than during the Eucharist,” said new Catholic schools Superintendent Pamela Lyons in an interview with Catholic San Francisco Sept. 8 to discuss plans for the new Pamela Lyons school year. The 2017-18 school year is the first year of a three-year initiative around the Eucharist, Lyons said. Year one will include education for leadership and “challenging the schools to really look at their sacramental life and think of ways that they can increase the students’ participation at Mass, how often they are going. Maybe add (eucharistic) adoration.” The Archdiocesan Catholic schools will also work on the idea of reverence with students, Lyons said. “Starting to get them to understand when they go to Mass and when they receive the Eucharist it is a very different experience than anything else in their lives and they need to behave accordingly.” With an almost entirely new slate of administrators in the Department of Catholic Schools, Lyons said a top priority is getting to know each of the schools. A second goal, which overlaps, is data gathering in all areas. The schools department will set three- to five-year goals for the department by the end of the school year. “A goal is to set goals,” Lyons said. The goals will be in the areas of academic excellence, mindful stewardship, authentic Catholic identity and organizational vitality, Lyons said. A top priority is training and enrichment for the department administrators and for all those working in the Catholic schools, Lyons said. As for specific goals for the 2017-18 year, in addition to reverence as a theme, the Department of Catholic Schools will work with each of the elementary school principals to incorporate the recently implemented STAR testing into each student’s learning plan by creating “data binders.” STAR testing is frequent short testing on computers that is designed to analyze a student’s strengths and weaknesses so educators can adjust the student’s academic work to enhance and remedy those. The educational assessment program was rolled out last school year. “Each of the teachers is going to be creating a

data binder,” Lyons said, with specific information, which will be passed on with the child as she or he goes through the grades “to see growth.” Elementary school principals are reading “Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service” (Disney Institute 2011) about The Walt Disney Company’s approach to customer service, in a book study that began the week of Sept. 11. “One thing about Disney, everyone who works there buys into what Disney is selling. They make everyone welcome,” Lyons said. Lyons, who was associate superintendent and with the department as an administrator for nearly three years, assumed the superintendent position April 1. Through attrition and retirement, most of the positions in the department were vacant by July and Lyons revamped the department’s organization. As associate superintendents for elementary schools, Lyons hired former St. Brendan principal Carol Grewal as associate superintendent for faith formation and leadership, and former Oakland Catholic schools principal and curriculum expert Susana Lapeyrade-Drummond as associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Los Angeles transplant and former Carmelite Crespi High School principal Jonathan Schild interfaces with the four archdiocesan high schools

and with the 10 independent Catholic high schools as associate superintendent for secondary schools and student services. Melanie Morey, director of Catholic identity assessment and formation and associate superintendent for governance and administration, continues in her role. The Department of Catholic Schools is also boosting its visibility on social media, with a new Twitter account https://twitter.com/CatholicEdSF and a Facebook page, https://www. facebook.com/catholicedsf/. Lyons is taking over as archdiocesan Catholic schools undergo a leadership shift around the country with Baby Boomer retirements. Leadership has changed at one third of the Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the last five years, with 16 percent of schools getting new principals and presidents for 2017-18, Lyons said. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, she is leading a school district with 56 elementary schools including two archdiocesan, 46 parish, eight sponsored by congregations or privately owned; 14 high schools including four archdiocesan, 10 sponsored by congregations; and 21 preschools. Enrollment in the 2016-17 school year was 24,000 students.

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The school’s decision to remove some statues before the start of this school reflected school’s current strategic plan to become “more inclusive” to a student body that is about 80 percent non-Catholic. The school’s strategic plan adopted in 2016 describes San Domenico as “California’s First Independent Dominican School.” The San Domenico website says the school is “anchored by our 167-year old history and the Dominican spirit of inquiry” and the community is comprised of “families of many faiths including Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc., as well as families who do not follow any particular faith but appreciate the value of discovering a sense of the sacred in its many manifestations.” “By building on these two pillars of our identity, independent and Dominican, we have an opportunity to thrive as parents increasingly seek meaningful educational experiences for their children in order to best prepare them for a rapidly changing and unpredictable world,” the strategic plan states. Pinkson added that some of the media reports see san domenicos, page 8

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Q-and-A with Archbishop Riordan High School’s new leadership Archbishop Riordan High School was founded in 1949 with the mission of educating young men in San Francisco. The school and its work continues today with its Marianist roots, a growing enrollment and new programs. Catholic San Francisco Tim Reardon senior writer Tom Andrew Currier Burke moderated this Q-and-A with president Andrew Currier and principal Tim Reardon about the new school year. Both are in their first year at the school.

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AC: I really feel like this is a homecoming. Having attended an all-boys high school very similar to Riordan in Detroit, Michigan, I feel like I’ve been given the responsibility of caring for the high school I attended. Being given a leadership position at Riordan is an opportunity to engage any and all creative skills and leadership skills that I may possess. I really look forward to applying all of my experience and academic work here at Riordan. TR: I’ve been in Catholic education, either as a student or an educator, for more than 40 years, and 30 of those years were at St. Ignatius Prep. When I saw that there was an opening at Riordan, I got excited about the prospect of a new challenge at a place that I really believed in. I’m a San Francisco guy, who went to an all-boys high school, and I really believe in that model.

How do you see the division of leadership duties?

AC: Our plans will develop mutually and collaboratively as we discern the greatest needs for Riordan. I hope that our leadership can be marked as one of service and good will. We are intent on making a Riordan education the best it possibly can be. TR: I love working with Andrew. He has a good sense of humor and a perfect set of skills to run a school like Riordan. My job is to make sure that Andrew’s vision for Riordan comes to fruition. We have a highly qualified faculty and passionate faculty, so I just need to make sure that we’re all working for the same goals.

How important are the school’s Marianist roots?

TR: Most of my background has been with the Jesuits; however, there are many similarities between the two orders, especially with regard to the traditions in service, justice and peace. I’m particularly attracted to the Marianist focus on family. It ties in directly to the spirit of brotherhood that’s so pervasive on campus. I’ve also been drawn to the Marianist characteristics of adaptation and change.

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What do you like best about Riordan as you come aboard?

AC: I really appreciate the welcoming environment and the incredible potential. Riordan staff have been helpful and kind in making sure I feel at home. The boys are a terrific sign of hope for San Francisco as well. They are great young men. TR: There’s a great combination of experienced, longtime Riordan teachers working with young faculty members full of positive energy and fresh ideas. Everyone has been especially welcoming to me and very optimistic about the direction Riordan has been going the past few years.

What do you see as your biggest challenges?

AC: Some of the biggest challenges are ensuring we have enough boys to educate in a city with a declining population of school-age children. We have many contemporary challenges to face that threaten our Catholic approach to education including the permissiveness of drugs, the pressures to conform to secular cultural mores, and the diminishing of values. TR: A school that has such a diverse socioeconomic student body and provides financial aid to such a large percentage of students must be relentlessly mindful of financial sustainability. However, with Andrew’s leadership and John Ring’s amazing team in development, I’m confident that Riordan will continue to grow.

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items in our chapel, personal items in offices, and other religious iconography from various faith traditions,” she said. That figure got confused with the total number of statues on campus and it was reported in error that there were only 18 out of 180 statues remaining on campus, she said. “We are dismayed by the maelstrom caused by this recent news cycle and grateful for the outpouring of support from both Catholics and non-Catholics to the changes at our school,” she said. “Many parents, alums, faculty, staff, and community members have stepped up to voice their backing to retain our strong commitment to our Dominican Catholic education while at the same time remaining an independent school that is inclusive for all.” Mike Brown, communications director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said “the archdiocese and school leadership are discussing these important issues.”

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me keeping all vulnerable immigrants in our thoughts and prayers, extending to them our loving presence and visible solidarity.” The California Catholic Conference said “DACA students are not the so-called ‘bad hombres,’ an insidious label used to instill fear in others and feed the racism and nativism that unfortunately is rearing its ugly head in our cities. “Far from it, DACA eligible youth are high school graduates, in school or working on their GED. Many are now in college. They may be honorably discharged members of the armed services. No one convicted of a felony or serious misdemeanor (or three misdemeanors) can apply for DACA.” “These young people are working in businesses and professional jobs, harvesting our fields, building our homes, and providing many of the services of hospitality we take for granted,” the conference said. “They have placed their lives on the line to defend our liberty and freedom. Most importantly, they are giving back to the only nation they have ever known. They are the hard working good neighbors America needs to compete in the global economy of today.” Scott McLarty, head of school at Mercy High School, San Francisco, said the action impacts many in the school. “The people affected by this decision are not ‘illegal aliens’ – they are human beings, beloved children of God, and our neighbors,” he said. The rescission of DACA, announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, places an estimated 800,000 undocumented immigrants, many of whom were brought to the United States as young children and have known no other home, under threat of deportation and losing permits that allow them to work. From August through December, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the work permits of more than 200,000 DACA recipients, known as “Dreamers,” will expire and only 55,258 have submitted requests for permit renewals. The decision to end DACA is “a heartbreaking disappointment,” said Jeanne Atkinson, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network. She also said her organiza-

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Left, Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishioner Pasqual M. led a crowd of more than 200 gathered in downtown Redwood City with chants of “Si se puede,” or “yes we can” throughout the two-hour interfaith vigil and rally Sept. 6. The event coordinated by Faith in Action Bay Area included messages of hope from local faith leaders including clergy and religious from four local Catholic parishes. Right, a young woman attending the prayer vigil and rally held a sign that read “Undocumented and working for an education.” tion rejects and adamantly disagrees with Sessions’ “untested personal opinion that DACA is unconstitutional.” “Americans have never been a people who punish children for the mistakes of their parents. I am hopeful that we will not begin now,” said Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration. “I do not believe this decision represents the best of our national spirit or the consensus of the American people. This decision reflects only the polarization of our political moment.” Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, called the decision “malicious.” “One can’t hide behind the term ‘legality’ in rescinding DACA,” his statement added. “That is an abandonment of humanity, and abandonment of talented and hopeful young people who are as American as you and I.” Mercy Sister Aine O’Connor, who stood in front of the White House as the decision was announced, also took issue with Sessions’ remark: “Nothing is compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws.” “We do not see it as a compassionate act. It is a merciless act,” Sister O’Connor told Catholic News Service, adding that it was “an abdication of responsibility by the Trump administration.” The Ohio-based Ignatian Solidarity Network accused Trump of undermining “the dignity of un-

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“The Good Shepherd walks with us,” said San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. “We will walk with those who are afraid and say ‘keep going,’” he said. “We will work together so that people can walk through this dark valley and in the end see that the rain is over, the sun has come out and we can share the banquet of life together. That is our journey, that is our hope and that is where we are going.” Joining Bishop Justice were Father Ulysses D’Aquila, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Redwood City; Father Lawrence Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto; and Father Paul Rossi, passee daca, page 20

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Catholic judicial nominee grilled by senators on her religious views Kurt Jensen Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, spurred outrage about possible religious tests for judicial appointees when she questioned a Catholic judicial nominee Sept. 6 about what impact her faith Sen. Dianne would have on her Feinstein. interpretation of the D-California law. Reaction from Catholic leaders to the hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, nominee for a seat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. was swift, with a leading archbishop calling the Senate hearing “deeply disappointing.” In the hearing, Feinstein not only referred to Barrett’s speeches in the committee hearing, but also to a 1998

article by Barrett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, about the role of Catholic judges in death penalty cases. The Marquette Law Review article, co-authored by John H. Garvey, who is now president of The Catholic University of America, concluded that although Catholic judges opposed to the death penalty could always simply recuse themselves under federal law, “litigants and the general public are entitled to impartial justice, which may be something a judge who is heedful of ecclesiastical pronouncements cannot dispense.” Feinstein did not question Barrett about capital punishment cases, but rather the upholding of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal. “When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. And – that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of

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of echoing talking points from The Alliance for Justice, a liberal advocacy group that has prepared reports on all of Trump’s judicial nominees. The Alliance report on Barrett said she “has avoided definitive public statements on Roe v. Wade” but added, referring to the 1998 article as well as other “positions and philosophies,” that she held “the astonishing view that judges should place their religious beliefs ahead of the Constitution when carrying out their duties.” “Barrett (and I) said no such thing,” Garvey wrote. “We said precisely the opposite.” “I suspect what really troubled (the senators) is that, as a Catholic, her prolife views might extend beyond criminal defendants to the unborn. If true, the focus on our law review article is all the more puzzling. After all, our point was that judges should respect the law, even laws they disagree with. And if they can’t enforce them, they should recuse themselves.” The report also criticizes Barrett for signing a letter, produced by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, that criticized the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate as “morally obtuse.” Eric Rassbach, the Becket Fund’s deputy general counsel, issued a statement in response: “It’s not something you could sue her over, but Sen. Feinstein would break her oath to defend the Constitution – including the part about no religious tests – if she were to vote against Barrett because of her Catholic religious beliefs.”

people have fought for for years in this country.” Barrett addressed this issue early in the hearing, answering a question from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, by saying: “It is never appropriate for a judge to apply their personal convictions, whether it derives from faith or personal conviction.” Richard Garnett, also a University of Notre Dame law professor, said Feinstein’s line of questioning seemed to say “because you’re a Catholic, you can’t be believed.” Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, said the hearing was “deeply disappointing” since a number of senators failed to “simply consider the professional achievements of a nominee for the federal judiciary” and instead “challenged her fitness to serve due to her Catholic faith.” In a Sept. 8 statement, the archbishop said the line of questioning Barrett received was “contrary to our Constitution and our best national traditions, which protect the free exercise of one’s faith and reject religious tests for public office, they are offensive to basic human rights.” Garvey was among the first to respond in print to the hearing. “I never thought I’d see the day when a coalition of left-wing groups attacked a Republican judicial nominee for opposing the death penalty,” he wrote in a Sept. 7 opinion article for the Washington Examiner. Garvey and others accused Feinstein

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Steve Bannon slams church, bishops over immigration

WASHINGTON – Former White House strategist Steve Bannon criticized the Catholic Church and U.S. bishops for their views on immigration, saying “they need illegal aliens to fill the pews.” In an interview Sept. 10 on the CBS TV program “60 Minutes,” Bannon, a Catholic, told newsman Charlie Rose that the bishops have “an economic interest in illegal immigration.” He also criticized his former boss, President Donald Trump, for taking a step back hours after ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, when the president said on Twitter that he might revisit the decision in six months. “Trust me, the guys in the far right, the guys on the conservative side are not happy with this,” Bannon said. Bannon said the U.S bishops have been “terrible” about vhandling immigration because they can’t “come to grips with the problems in the church. They need illegal aliens. They need illegal aliens to fill the churches. That’s – it’s obvious on the face of it.” Bannon said immigration issues are not part of church doctrine and the bishops need to understand that “this is about the sovereignty of a nation.” “And in that regard,” he added, “they’re just another guy with an opinion.” In a Sept. 7 statement responding to Bannon’s interview, James Rogers, chief communications officer for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said it is “preposterous to claim that justice for immigrants isn’t central to Catholic teaching,” noting that the mandate comes directly from the words of Jesus, who spoke of feeding the hungry and welcoming the stranger. “Immigrants and refugees are precisely the strangers we must welcome,” he added, saying: “This isn’t Catholic partisanship. The Bible is clear: Welcoming immigrants is indispensable to our faith.” Rogers stressed that for anyone to suggest that the bishops’ recent statements on immigrants are for “financial gain is outrageous and insulting.” Catholic News Service

Study: US Catholic Church undergoing ‘ethnic transformation’ Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Catholic Church is experiencing an “ethnic transformation” as the cultural center of Catholicism shifts from the Northeast to the South and what was once an overwhelmingly white, non-Hispanic church becomes increasingly diverse, a new study has found. In 1992, 87 percent of Catholics were white and non-Hispanic, compared to 55 percent today. And 36 percent of Catholics under age 30 are white, non-Hispanic; but 52 percent are Hispanic, according to the American Values Atlas, released Sept. 6 by the Public Religion Research Institute. “The cultural center of the Catholic Church is shifting south,” the study added. “The Northeast is no longer the epicenter of American Catholicism – although at 41 percent Catholic, Rhode Island remains the most Catholic state in the country. Immigration from predominantly Catholic countries in Latin America means new Catholic populations are settling in the Southwest.” The study found that the Catholic Church is “experiencing an ethnic transformation.” Compared to 1972, when 69 percent of U.S. Catholics lived in either the Northeast or Midwest, those regions are home to only 46 percent of U.S. Catholics, with 54 percent living in the South or the West, according to the study. Dan Cox, the research director at PRRI, said political differences can be found within Catholics based on their ethnicity. “There are still really significant racial and ethnic divisions. White Catholics are fairly different from Latino Catholics,” he told Catholic News Service in a Sept. 5 telephone interview. “We see fairly insignificant differences where Catholics are on immigration,” he said. “On some of the social issues, there is more of an alignment – abortion and same-sex marriage. On abortion, you

see both groups little difference and a little more conservative on the legality of abortion. It’s really interesting because that’s where so much contention is nationally, but there’s more of an alignment between the white and the Latino Catholic factions. But on social welfare issues we see larger fractures within the Catholic population.” White evangelical Protestants, the single largest religious subgroup in the PRRI study, make up 17 percent of Americans today, but are more than double that strength – 35 percent – in the Republican Party. In all, 73 percent of self-identified Republicans in the study said they were white Christians. “What we’ve really seen over the last decade or more is that the Republican Party is becoming the white Christian party. That hasn’t changed” among Republicans, Cox told CNS. “Earlier, both (parties) were white Christian. “The ethnic and racial landscape has shifted. The Democratic Party has changed dramatically. The Republican Party has stayed the same, being predominantly white Christian.” The survey was based on 101,438 bilingual telephone interviews conducted between Jan. 6, 2016, and Jan. 10, 2017.

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Salesian Father Titus Zeman (1915-69), pictured second from right as a youth, endured a severe trial in Communist Czechoslovakia and was tortured and labeled a traitor and Vatican spy for helping young theology students and priests escape the regime. One of the escapees, Salesian Father Aloysius Pestun, a parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Parish in San Francisco, will attend Father Zeman’s beatification as a “martyr for vocations” in Bratislava, Slovakia, this month.

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Al Pestun and 21 others, by crossing the River Morava into Austria on their way to Turin, Italy. The young Pestun and five others eluded capture at the time, because they had acceptable non-religious identity papers, told by Father Zeman to take off when it appeared capture was imminent, Father Pestun said. A frontier guard had noticed the group as they debated how to cross the swollen river, according to an account on the website tituszeman.sk. The young Pestun escaped a few months later, with five others on an inflatable rubber boat. They then were helped travel on to Italy by a Salesian pastor, Father Pestun recalled in a recent conversation with Catholic San Francisco. Captured, Father Zeman (191569) endured a severe trial and was tortured and labeled a traitor and

Vatican spy. Although the prosecutor called for the death penalty, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Imprisoned, waiting for trial, he could hear out of his windows the cries of others being executed. At his trial, facing the death penalty, and after torture that included being stuffed into buckets of excrement to the point of suffocation, the website tituszeman.sk reports Father Zeman said, “Everything proclaimed as guilt I did of my love for the church, especially of my love of the Salesian Society. Thanks to it I am who I am.” “I felt the urge to accompany the priests who were prevented from doing the ecclesiastic service here to the West. As my special vocation, I considered to help the young Salesian students of theology and the young confreres to leave for Turin in order to finish their studies because they could not do it here after closing the

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when Father Zeman’s cousin found him and told him about a chance to secretly leave with Father Zeman, Father Pestun said. After Father Pestun successfully escaped, in his second attempt, he studied first in Italy and then eventually in California, where he worked first as a teacher but primarily as a librarian before moving to Sts. Peter and Paul Parish and then Corpus Christi Parish 23 years ago. Even today, Father Pestun’s eyes fill and his voice breaks, thinking of the many he knew who suffered. “I should have stayed,” he said. When the Communists realized Al Pestun was gone, they forced Father Pestun’s father to kneel against a chair in the family kitchen, barefoot, while his feet were beaten severely, he said. Fortunately, a friend lied and said he had seen Al Pestun’s drowned body, so the Pestun family of parents and two other sons suffered few other repercussions, Father Pestun said, adding he learned all this when he was allowed to return on a visa in the 1970s, 25 years after his escape. The 89-year-old cleric lives his vocation with great devotion, said Gibbons Cooney, parish administrator at Salesian Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San Francisco. Cooney said when he returned to the Catholic Church in 1993, he made his confession to Father Pestun. “When he’s praying the Mass, at the words of consecration, it’s as if the whole universe stops,” Cooney said.

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At final Mass in Colombia, pope calls for change of culture David Agren Catholic News Service

CARTAGENA, Colombia – Pope Francis capped a five-day trip to Colombia with a call for culture change in a country attempting to pursue a path of peace and reconciliation after decades of armed conflict and centuries of social exclusion. The pope issued his call in Cartagena, on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast, where he remembered St. Peter Claver and urged the country to follow the example set centuries earlier by the priest, who tended to slaves arriving on ships by showing kind gestures and dignity. “We are required to generate ‘from below’ a change in culture, so we respond to the culture of death and violence with the culture of life and encounter,” Pope Francis said Sept. 10, prior to returning to Rome. “How many times have we ‘normalized’ the logic of violence and social exclusion, without prophetically raising our hands or voices?” Pope Francis asked. “Alongside St. Peter Claver were thousands of Christians, many of them consecrated, but only a handful started a countercultural movement of encounter.”

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Pope Francis celebrates Mass at Contecar terminal in Cartagena, Colombia, Sept. 10. The final Mass, celebrated at the docks and full of up-tempo music and worship, reiterated many of the themes Pope Francis raised throughout his trip to Colombia: peace, reconciliation and social inclusion, to name but three. He also invoked the motto for his trip, “Let’s take the first step.” The motto

speaks to the collective action needed pull together a country polarized by class divisions, social inequality and how to implement a recently approved peace accord. The accord between the government and guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is not universally

popular, though the pursuit of peace is. But Pope Francis pleaded with Colombians to play their personal part in achieving peace and for Catholics to set the example by living their Christian values. “We pray to fulfil the theme of this visit: ‘Let us take the first step!’ And may this first step be in a common direction. To ‘take the first step’ is, above all, to go out and meet others, with Christ the Lord,” Pope Francis said. “If Colombia wants a stable and lasting peace, it must urgently take a step in this direction, which is that of the common good, of equity, of justice, of respect for human nature and its demands,” he continued. “Only if we help to untie the knots of violence will we unravel the complex threads of disagreements. The Lord is able to untie that which seems impossible to us, and he has promised to accompany us to the end of time and will bring to fruition all our efforts.” During his Sept. 6-10 visit, Pope Francis heard the voice of victims and victimizers. At the Mass in Cartagena, he departed from his prepared remarks to denounce the illegal drug business, which has spurred violence in the Andean region – where coca is grown – and beyond.

Manila cardinal asks churches to ring bells to remember drug-war deaths Catholic News Service

MANILA, Philippines – Manila’s cardinal has ordered church bells to be rung in that archdiocese every evening starting Sept. 14 to remember the thousands of people killed in the government’s campaign against drug dealers and addicts. The archdiocese joined a long list of dioceses across the country that started commemorating the deaths by tolling church bells nightly. In a letter dated Sept. 8, Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle again called attention to the sustained killings of mostly poor people, either in police antidrug operations or unexplained deaths that human rights groups have called vigilante murders. “With pain and horror, we continue to get daily news of the killings around the country,” said Cardinal Tagle. “We cannot allow the destruction of lives to become normal. We cannot govern the nation by killing. We cannot foster a humane and decent Filipino culture by killing.”

Since he took office in June last year, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered law enforcement to eliminate what he calls the country’s “drug problem,” ordering officers to kill drug offenders and users. Before being elected, Duterte ran on a campaign to clean up crime and encouraged the public to take matters into their own hands if they saw any wrongdoing. Rights groups say more than 7,000 people have been killed since then. Local news outlets place the deaths between 10,000 and 13,000. In the letter, Cardinal Tagle said he and other bishops met in late August with Philippine officials as well as police, human rights commissioners, youth groups and families of victims to try to try to address the issue of illegal drugs in the Philippines. This was a follow-up to his call Aug. 20 to hold a dialogue with these groups. After meeting with the victims’ families, the prel-

ate urged the faithful to “intensify (their) solidarity with those who have been killed and to extend empathy and spiritual support” to their families. He asked the faithful to stop what they are doing when they hear the ringing bells and pray the Hail Mary, Our Father or Psalm 130, a penitential psalm that includes “For with the Lord is mercy, with him is plenteous redemption.”

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‘Hear the cry of the earth,’ pope and patriarch urge in ecology message Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Environmental destruction is a sign of a “morally decaying scenario” in which too many people ignore or deny that, from the beginning, “God intended humanity to cooperate in the preservation and protection of the natural environment,” said the leaders of the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Marking the Sept. 1 World Day of Prayer for Creation, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople issued a joint message. They urged government and business leaders “to (CNS photo/Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Reuters)

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they wrote. “Our human dignity and welfare are deeply connected to our care for the whole of creation.” The pope and the patriarch said prayer is not incidental to ecology, because “an objective of our prayer is to change the way we perceive the world in order to change the way we relate to the world.” The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople established the World Day of Prayer for Creation in 1989. In 2015, shortly after publishing his encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis established the day of prayer for Catholics as well. The object of Christian prayer and action for the safeguarding of creation, the two leaders wrote, is to encourage all Christians “to be courageous in embracing greater simplicity and solidarity in our lives.” Echoing remarks Pope Francis made Aug. 30 when the pontiff announced he and the patriarch were issuing a joint message, the text included a plea to world leaders. “We urgently appeal to those in positions of social and economic, as well as political and cultural, responsibility to hear the cry of the earth and to attend to the needs of the marginalized,” they wrote. No enduring solution can be found “to the challenge of the ecological crisis and climate change unless the response is concerted and collective, unless the responsibility is shared and accountable, unless we give priority to solidarity and service.” Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew also highlighted how “this deterioration of the planet weighs upon the most vulnerable of its people,” especially the poor, in a more pronounced way. “Our obligation to use the earth’s goods responsibly implies the recognition of and respect for all people and all living creatures,” they said. “The urgent call and challenge to care for creation are an invitation for all of humanity to work toward sustainable and integral development.”

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Pope: God wants people to dream big, not listen to cynics Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – God wants people to live with hope and joy – not bitterness – and to dream with him of a better world, Pope Francis said. “Please, make sure we do not pay attention to disappointed and unhappy people; let us not listen to those who cynically plead not to cultivate hope in life,” he said Aug. 30 during his weekly general audience. People must ignore those who try to crush enthusiasm and smother “youthful euphoria,” he said. Instead, Christians must cultivate a “healthy utopia” based on what God wants for the world.

“God wants us to be able to dream like he does and, with him as we journey, to be quite attentive to reality – dreaming of a different world,” he said. Continuing his series of audience talks on Christian hope, the pope reflected on a reading from the Gospel of St. John (1:35-43), which describes how the first disciples heard of Jesus and wished to follow him. Jesus asked the first two men, “What are you looking for?” because he sensed a healthy restlessness in their young hearts, Pope Francis said. In fact, the pope said, young people who are not seeking something or looking for meaning in life “are not

young, they have gone into retirement, they have aged before their time. It’s sad to see young people in retirement.” Throughout the Gospels, he said, Jesus responds to the people he meets along the way; he is like an “arsonist,” the pope said, setting people’s hearts ablaze. The intense joy Jesus ignites in those he encounters is the wellspring of every vocation, the pope said, whether it be marriage, consecrated life or the priesthood. In that first encounter, Jesus “gives us new joy and hope and leads us – even through trials and difficul-

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Achievement vs. fruitfulness

here’s a real difference between our achievements and our fruitfulness, between our successes and the actual good that we bring into the world. What we achieve brings us success, gives us a sense of pride, makes our families and friends proud of us, and gives us a feeling of being worthwhile, singular and important. We’ve done something. We’ve left a mark. We’ve been recognized. And along with those awards, trophies, academic degrees, certificates of distinction, things we’ve built, and artifacts we’ve left FATHER ron behind comes public recogrolheiser nition and respect. We’ve made it. We’re recognized. Moreover, generally, what we achieve produces and leaves behind something that is helpful to others. We can, and should, feel good about our legitimate achievements. However, as Henri Nouwen frequently reminds us, achievement is not the same thing as fruitfulness. Our achievements are things we have accomplished. Our fruitfulness is the positive, long-term effect these achievements have on others. Achievement doesn’t automatically mean fruitfulness. Achievement helps us stand out, fruitfulness brings blessing into other people’s lives. Hence we need to ask this question: How have my achievements, my successes, the things that I’m proud to have done, positively nurtured those around me? How have they helped bring joy into other people’s lives? How have they helped make the world a better, more loving place? How have any of the trophies I’ve won or distinctions I’ve been awarded made those around me more peace-

ful rather than more restless? This is different than asking: How have my achievements made me feel? How have they given me a sense of self-worth? How have my achievements witnessed to my uniqueness? It’s no secret that our achievements, however honest and legitimate, often produce jealousy and restlessness in others rather than inspiration and restfulness. We see this in how we so often envy and secretly hate highly successful people. Their achievements generally do little to enhance our own lives but instead trigger an edgy restlessness within us. The success of others, in effect, often acts like a mirror within which we see, restlessly and sometimes bitterly, our own lack of achievement. Why? Generally there’s blame on both sides. On the one hand, our achievements are often driven from a self-centered need to set ourselves apart from others, to stand out, to be singular, to be recognized and admired rather than from a genuine desire to truly help others. To the extent that this is true, our successes are bound to trigger envy. Still, on the other hand, our envy of others is often the selfinflicted punishment spoken of in Jesus’ parable of the talents wherein the one who hides his talent gets punished for not using that talent. And so the truth is that we can achieve great things without being really fruitful, just as we can be very fruitful even while achieving little in terms of worldly success and recognition. Our fruitfulness is often the result not so much of the great things we accomplish, but of the graciousness, generosity, and kindness we bring into the world. Unfortunately our world rarely reckons these as an achievement, an accomplishment, a success. We don’t become famous for being gracious. Yet, when we die, while we may well be eulogized for our achievements, we will be loved and remembered more for the goodness of our hearts than for our

La Madonna del Lume: Our Most Holy Mother of Light

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La Festa della Madonna del Lume is a Roman Catholic celebration and tradition established in 1935 at Sts. Peter and Paul church in North Beach by the families of Sicilian fishermen, a tradition originating in the fishing village of Porticello, Sicily. Participants process with a painting of La Madonna del Lume aboard a float for eight blocks from the church to the Fishermen’s and Seamen’s Memorial Chapel in Fisherman’s Wharf. This year’s festivities take place Sept. 29-Oct. 1. profound story of faith and hope. It is a story of the powerful intercession of La Madonna on behalf of a group of Sicilian fishermen many years ago, who were tormented and cast off course by torrential storms at sea and faced the tragedy of perishing at sea. These seafaring men, although see la madonna del lume, page 22

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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Bertina Cannizzaro

Since a very young age, I have been blessed to be a part of the beautiful tradition of celebrating La Madonna del Lume, Our Most Holy Mother of Light, each year in San Francisco. This is a Roman Catholic celebration and tradition established in 1935 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach by the families of Sicilian fishermen, a tradition originating in the fishing village of Porticello, Sicily. Each October, over the last 82 years, after a solemn High Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, a faithfully devoted group of men and women, old and young alike, and a young queen of La Festa della Madonna del Lume, walk in a procession with a painting of La Madonna del Lume aboard a beautifully decorated float for eight blocks from the church to the Fishermen’s and Seamen’s Memorial Chapel at Pier 45 in Fisherman’s Wharf. There, a Salesian priest sprinkles holy water on the boats, blessing all of the fishermen, and prays for their protection from harm. He also asks for “abbondanza” in the catch. In Porticello, Sicily, La Festa della Madonna del Lume is also still thriving, with the festa spanning the full first week of October each year, and the entire municipality participating in the procession of La Madonna with fireworks and veneration of La Madonna at the original church of Madonna del Lume. This beautiful religious and cultural celebration was passed on to me through my family’s Sicilian Catholic heritage and many years of community collaboration to keep this special tradition alive and vibrant in San Francisco. I learned from a young age about the purity, grace and strength of our Most Holy Mother Mary, La Madonna, as our protective, loving and most powerful ambassador of Christ in the midst of a challenging and often chaotic world. As a dedicated and loving mother with her children, La Madonna comforts each of us with the light of faith, hope and love through all of our subtle and most profound challenges and afflictions. La Festa della Madonna del Lume shares quite visibly with our community a tradition and a

distinguished achievements. Our real fruitfulness will flow from something beyond the legacy of our accomplishments. It will be the quality of our hearts, more so than our achievements, that will determine how nurturing or asphyxiating is the spirit we leave behind us when we’re gone. Henri Nouwen also points out that when we distinguish between our achievements and our fruitfulness, we will see that, while death may be the end of our success, productivity, and importance, it isn’t necessarily the end of our fruitfulness. Indeed, often our true fruitfulness occurs only after we die when our spirit can finally flow out more purely. We see that this was true too for Jesus. We were able to be fully nurtured by his spirit only after he was gone. Jesus teaches this explicitly in his farewell discourse in John’s Gospel when he tells us repeatedly that it’s better for us that he goes away because it’s only when he’s gone that we will be able to truly receive his spirit, his full fruitfulness. The same is true for us. Our full fruitfulness will only show after we have died. Great achievement doesn’t necessarily make for great fruitfulness. Great achievement can give us a good feeling and can make our families and loved ones proud of us. But those feelings of accomplishment and pride are not a lasting or deeply nourishing fruit. Indeed the good feeling that accomplishment gives us is often a drug, an addiction, which forever demands more of us and sets loose envy and restlessness in others as it underscores our separateness. The fruit that feeds love and community tends to come from our shared vulnerability and not from those achievements that set us apart.

During the aftermath of the Virginia tragedy my Catholic Church was quick to flood the airwaves with unequivocal condemnations of haters and hateful rhetoric. However, just as worrisome to me is my church’s failure to note the unintended consequences that can occur as a result of quickly rushing to condemn someone as a hater. Has my church already forgotten being called a hater by members of the gay community, the media and the pro-choice crowd for its stances on various social issues? Did that labeling make it so? And even if haters and their speech can be identified, a bigger question still remains: What is the appropriate Catholic response after identifying hate? By failing to defend freedom of speech and assembly in the same terms it condemned hateful rhetoric, is my church implicitly endorsing the right of hecklers to shout down and prevent any speech from occurring – so long as someone (anyone?) feels offended? Here’s a thought: Cannot the church (my church) stand against hateful rhetoric while also standing for the rights of the hater to spew hateful rhetoric? Are we really saying that the church that gave us Aquinas, More and Augustine and survived 300 years of Roman persecution cannot clearly explain to its flock that simple point? Is it really so difficult to explain to the public that while we condemn hate in all its forms we also just as strongly defend the First Amendment rights of everyone (haters, too) to speak freely? P. Roscelli Redwood City

Removal of Catholic statues

Am I to believe that certain Catholic school administrators in our archdiocese (or anywhere for that matter) are being allowed to remove Catholic statues and symbols of our faith at the school(s) they are in charge of because they believe the memorials will be offensive to non-Catholics attending their schools? Are you kidding me? I just read the article re San Domenico School in Marin. Outrageous. It’s time for the archbishop to step in and set that school’s policy back to saneness. Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

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Sunday readings

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time SIRACH 27:30-28:7 Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. The vengeful will suffer the Lord’s vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor’s injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the Lord? Could anyone refuse mercy to another like himself, can he seek pardon for his own sins? If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins? Remember your last days, set enmity aside; remember death and decay, and cease from sin! Think of the commandments, hate not your neighbor; remember the Most High’s covenant, and overlook faults. PSALM 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. He pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills. He redeems your life from destruction, crowns you with kindness and compassion. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion.

He will not always chide, nor does he keep his wrath forever. Not according to our sins does he deal with us, nor does he requite us according to our crimes. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our transgressions from us. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. ROMANS 14:7-9 Brothers and sisters: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For this is why Christ died and came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. MATTHEW 18:21-35 Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants. When he began

the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount. Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of the debt. At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.’ Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan. When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’ Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’ But he refused. Instead, he had the fellow servant put in prison until he paid back the debt. Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master and reported the whole affair. His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?’ Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt. So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.”

Ongoing forgiveness

n the first reading, a wise teacher encourages us to be merciful, when we forgive, we reflect the gracious love and merciful character of God. In the second reading, St. Paul insists that we belong to Christ throughout our lives, as well as when we die. In the Gospel, Jesus teaches Peter, his disciples and all of us today that forgiveness of others must be mutual and unending. The late American Scripture scholar Eugene Maly offers tidbits to chew on regarding forgiveness. Despite the natural inclination of human nature, God tells us to forgive; God’s nature is a forgiving one, and anyone who belongs to God must imitate this attitude; God Deacon forgives because God is a faiva Po’oi forgiving God, not because anyone deserves forgiveness. A mother pleaded with Napoleon Bonaparte to pardon her son a serious offense. Napoleon said, “This is his second offense; justice demands he

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be severely punished.” The mother said, “I’m not asking for justice; I am pleading for mercy.” Napoleon replied, “Your son does not deserve mercy.” The mother said: “Sir, if he deserved it, it wouldn’t be mercy. I am asking for mercy.” At this, the French general said, “I will show him mercy.” The question for us would be: What keeps us from being more merciful in our thoughts, words, and action? God’s forgiveness of us knows no limits and is always granted. Anything less in our forgiveness of one another brings the same judgment against us that Jesus renders against the “wicked servant.” The core of the responsorial psalm is its refrain: “The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.” This phrase was first spoken not about God but by God as direct revelation to Moses: “this is my name – Lord – this is who I am – merciful, gracious, compassionate (Exodus 34:5-6) The phrase appears so often in the Old Testament that it is called “The little creed,” a capsule profession of who God is and how God relates to us. In singing this psalm we profess “The little creed” as our own. We name the nature of God. And we proclaim the nature of our covenant relationship with one another. In the second

reading, it speaks in its own way of forgiveness: “None of us lives for oneself” because we “live for the Lord.” Forgiveness is absolutely central to the message of the whole Gospel. Forgiveness is only attainable with the grace of God. The following was found in the clothing of a dead child at Ravensbruck concentration camp. “O Lord, remember not only those of good will, but also those of ill will. But do not remember all the suffering they have inflicted upon us; instead, remember all the fruits we have born because of this suffering – our fellowship, our loyalty to one another, our humility, our courage, our generosity, the greatness of heart that has grown from this trouble. When our persecutors come to be judged by you, let all of these fruits that we have borne be their forgiveness.” Not a single one of us deserves to be forgiven. Ever yet God’s grace and love is so great that God longs to forgive. Part of the upcoming Communion rite is praying the Our Father. In that prayer we say, “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” No more, no less. Let that commitment we make to forgive 77 times be the word we say upon receiving the Holy Eucharist.

fourth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Tm 6:2c-12. Ps 49:67, 8-10, 17-18, 19-20. See Mt 11:25. Lk 8:1-3.

Wednesday, September 27: Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, Priest. EzR 9:5-9. Tobit 13:2, 3-4a, 4befghn, 7-8. Mk 1:15. Lk 9:1-6.

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Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, September 18: Monday of the Twentyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Tm 2:1-8. Ps 28:2, 7, 8-9. Jn 3:16. Lk 7:1-10. Tuesday, September 19: Tuesday of the Twentyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Januarius, bishop & martyr. 1 Tm 3:1-13. Ps 101:1b-2ab, 2cd-3ab, 5, 6. Lk 7:16. Lk 7:11-17. Wednesday, September 20: Memorial of Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions, Martyrs. 1 Tm 3:14-16. Ps 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. See Jn 6:63c, 68c. Lk 7:31-35. Thursday, September 21: Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and evangelist. Eph 4:1-7, 11-13. Ps 19:2-3, 4-5. Mt 9:9-13. Friday, September 22: Friday of the Twenty-

Saturday, September 23: Memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest. 1 Tm 6:13-16. Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5. See Lk 8:15. Lk 8:4-15. Sunday, September 24: Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Is 55:6-9. Ps 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18. Phil 1:20c-24, 27a. Cf. Acts 16:14b. Mt 20:1-16a.

Thursday, September 28: Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Wenceslaus, martyr; St. Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, martyrs. Hg 1:1-8. Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. Jn 14:6. Lk 9:7-9.

Monday, September 25: Monday of the Twentyfifth Week in Ordinary Time. EzR 1:1-6. Ps 126:1b2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. Mt 5:16. Lk 8:16-18.

Friday, September 29: Feast of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, archangels. Dn 7:9-10, 13-14 or Rv 12:7-12ab. Ps 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 4-5. Ps 103:21. Jn 1:47-51.

Tuesday, September 26: Tuesday of the Twentyfifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, martyrs. Ezr 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20. Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5. Lk 11:28. Lk 8:19-21.

Saturday, September 30: Memorial of St. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church. Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a. Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12ab, 13. See 2 Tm 1:10. Lk 9:43b-45.

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What’s next for US-Vatican relations in a post-American world? Massimo Faggioli La Croix International

The ecclesial gap between the pope and the United States is going to be as persistent as the geopolitical one – perhaps even more. There is a clear and undeniable rift between the Vatican and the Trump administration on a long series of issues. Just a few days after the inauguration of U.S President Donald Trump, I spoke of the need for the Vatican to forge a new “Westpolitik” in its geopolitical relationship with the United States and the rest of the Western world. “This would be parallel with the Vatican Ostpolitik towards communism in Russia and Eastern Europe between the early 1960s (John XXIII and Vatican II) and the fall of the Berlin Wall (John Paul II and Reagan-Bush I),” I wrote. But several events of the last eight months have shown that creating a “Westpolitik” is not one of Pope Francis’ priorities. His speech to heads of state and government of the European Union on March 24, marking the 60 years of the Treaty of Rome, once again demonstrated his very real pragmatism and non-romantic Europeanism. His creation of five new cardinals last June – from Mali, Laos, San Salvador, Sweden and Spain – confirmed that Francis is redrawing the global Catholic Church’s map by giving greater emphasis to “new” churches. And in a message published over the summer for the First World Day of the Poor, Francis showed that the preferential option for the poor also entails a geopolitical map. “Tragically, in our own time, even as ostentatious wealth accumulates in the hands of the privileged few, often in connection with illegal activities and the appalling exploitation of human dignity, there is a scandalous growth of poverty in broad sectors of society throughout our world,” he said in the message. All this amounts to a historically remarkable shift. The Vatican, which for centuries had a privileged focus on the West, is now practically

leaving this part of the globe orphaned. In this, the American question stands out. Over the past year tensions between the United States and Pope Francis, evident since the beginning of the pontificate, have become even clearer. The years between 2014 and 2016 were a kind of an interlude. It was a transition from strains in the early period of Francis’ pontificate, which concentrated mostly on the issues of bio-politics – the pope’s position on the sometimes exclusive focus on life issues and homosexuality, as well as the debate on family and marriage at the bishops’ synods of 2014 and 2015.These two years were also focused on preparations for the papal visit to the United States in September 2015. Despite the famous in-flight press conference when, in reference to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, the pope said building walls “is not Christian,” the Vatican tried to remain silent about the 2016 U.S. election (though clearly hoping that Trump would not win). The new year marked a significant shift that clarified the positions of the two sides and illustrated the gulf that divides them. The now well-known article published last July in La Civiltà Cattolica by the editor Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, and Marcelo Figueroa was much more a diagnosis of a pre-existing condition than the cause of tensions between the Vatican of Francis and some sectors of white evangelicalism and conservative (or, more accurately, traditionalist and neo-integralist) Catholicism in the United States. Now the question is, “What’s next in U.S.-Vatican relations?” It’s essential to ask because current tensions are likely to endure, given the lack of changes in the foreseeable future, both on the geopolitical side and on the ecclesial side. Geopolitically, the Vatican knows that Trump’s position is more solid than many imagine. The president and his administration still have the support of his base and of the Republican Party, and given the current chaos of the

Democratic Party, it is far from certain that the GOP will lose one of the two chambers of Congress in the midterm elections of next year. Moreover, there are no big events on the horizon that offer the chance of bolstering transatlantic relations. It is not imaginable that Francis will soon (if ever) be making another trip to the United States. And Mr. Trump is not expected to visit the Vatican in the near future. The most important element is that Francis sees the world geopolitically from the perspective of the global south. The map of his next foreign trips speaks volumes. He’s going back to Latin America (Colombia, Chile and Peru), and will continue to place particular focus on Asia, where his visits to Myanmar and Bangladesh are meant to be a message to the two giants of the region, China and India. The other giant the Vatican is engaging at the highest levels is Russia, which includes increased dialogue with both the government and the Russian Orthodox Church. Cardinal Pietro Parolin was the first Vatican Secretary of State since 1999 to visit the Eurasian country, but his visit to Moscow last month is not even the pinnacle of Russian-Holy See contacts. “President Vladimir Putin has visited the Vatican five times and has already had two private conversations with Pope Francis, in 2013 and 2015. He is expected to meet him again next January when he comes for the opening of a Russian art exhibition in the Vatican,” reported America magazine. The bottom line is that on Francis’ world map the role of United States is not at the center, if not for the Korean situation, which the pope addressed on June 2 in an address to the Korean Council of Religious Leaders. The ecclesial gap between the pope and the United States is going to be as persistent as the geopolitical one – perhaps even more. There is a clear and undeniable rift between the Vatican and the Trump administration on a long series of issues. They include immigrants and refugees, the environment, the

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Speaker Ryan invites a social doctrine conversation

NN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, offered viewers of a CNN national town hall meeting on the evening of Aug. 21. Challenged with a semi-“Gotcha!” question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not-so-subtly suggested that Ryan’s approach to health care reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church’s social teaching, the very Catholic george weigel Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is “always on the side of the poor and dispossessed;” the real question at issue was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not-poor and not-dispossessed? Congressman Ryan then laid out an approach to alleviating poverty and empowering the poor that seemed to me entirely congruent with the core Catholic social ethical principles of subsidiarity and solidarity. Solidarity with the poor is a moral imperative, Ryan agreed, but solidarity should not be measured by inputs – how many federal dollars go into anti-poverty programs? – but by outcomes: Are poor people who can live independent and fruitful lives being helped by our welfare dollars to develop the skills and habits that will enable them to be self-reliant, constructive citizens? The moral

obligation of solidarity is not met by programs that perpetuate welfare dependency. Speaker Ryan has been a longstanding advocate of decentralizing and (as he puts it) “customizing” social welfare programs. That means abandoning one-size-fits-all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained. Proposals to decentralize social welfare programs and give the states the funds necessary to conduct all sorts of customized efforts to empower the poor – crafted so that each “fits” the vast array of distinct circumstances we find in impoverished America – strike me as a sensible application of the social doctrine’s principle of subsidiarity. That principle, first articulated by Pope Pius XI in 1931, teaches us to leave decision-making at the lowest possible level in society, closest to those most directly affected by the policy in question. Paul Ryan thinks Washington doesn’t have to decide everything; Pius XI would have agreed. The fact that poverty remains a serious problem in the United States after the federal government has spent $22 trillion dollars on social welfare programs over the past fifty years should have taught us all something about the complex problems of empowering the poor. No one with any sense or experience imagines that he or she has the silverbullet answer to poverty in all its social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions; I know my friend Speaker Ryan doesn’t think he does. But un-

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Friends, family and associates filled Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco on Sept. 8 to remember longtime parish school principal Terrence Hanley, who died Sept. 5 at age 63. School chaplain Father Vito Perrone, who gave the homily at the funeral Mass, told Catholic San Francisco in an email that “Terry was a true Catholic educator who Terry Hanley devoted over 40 years to the highest education: teaching kids about God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” Father Perrone said “Terry’s heart was so big that it held not only God, but his wife Sandra, his children Mike and Kelly, his grandson Emmett and also all the teachers, staff, children and families” at the school and parish. “When I asked all the children why they loved Mr. Hanley, they all replied: ‘Because he loved us,’” Father Perrone said. Parish administrator Father Joseph Illo, in a statement through the archdiocese, said, “The parish and school of Star of the Sea laments the

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SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE: • Ensures the proper disposal of hazardous and controlled wastes in compliance with regulations and guidelines; works directly with outside agencies such as OSHA, and local and state health departments as required o Evaluates the need for and arranges physical plant training sessions (bloodborne pathogens, OSHA, MSDS, and other job-related training) both in-house and off campus o Develops, implements, and supervises preventative maintenance and renovation programs for buildings, grounds, mechanical and electrical, utility, and safety and security systems • Responsible for security of the plant and all emergency apparatus such as exit lighting, fire extinguishers, emergency (earthquake) supplies. Serve on Safety Committee in preparation for crisis management • Coordinate, develop and conduct safety training sessions for maintenance department personnel

BUDGET AND ADMINISTRATION: • Monitors department budget; oversees assigned maintenance staff personnel who orders equipment and supplies and monitors inventory; makes requests for capital outlay expenditures as needed • Approve time cards and submit to the Business Office as required • Conduct annual performance reviews. Performs other related tasks as requested

QUALIFICATIONS: • Dedication to the mission and charism of Mercy High School San Francisco. • Passion for the empowerment of young women a must. • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, building trades, or related field • Five or more years of progressively more responsible experience in physical plant maintenance, with three or more years of supervisory experience, or; combination of education and experience commensurate with the requirements of this position • Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with faculty, staff, and administrators • Experience in operational and strategic planning as well as budget development • Ability to effectively communicate ideas and information in written and oral format to administrative staff, professional colleagues, governing boards • Flexible and willing to work some evenings and/or weekends

TO APPLY: • To apply for this position, or ask for additional information, email a copy of your resume, a cover letter, and 3 references to jobs@mercyhs.org. Your cover letter should explain why you are interested in the position and what unique qualities you would bring to the role. • Strict confidentiality will be maintained for all applicants and only finalists’ references will be contacted. Mercy High School San Francisco is an equal opportunity employer.

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Adrian Dominican Sisters celebrate jubilees Sister Virginia O’Reilly, OP

Sister Virginia O’Reilly celebrates 75 years as an Adrian Dominican Sister. She entered the congregation on June 21, 1942, made first profession of vows on Jan. 4, 1944, and professed perpetual vows on Jan. 4, 1949. Sister Virginia is a licensed psychologist earning her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, in 1977. Being an Adrian Dominican Sister “has been the most important thing in my life,” she said.

Sister Mary Ann Rybarczyk, OP

Sister Mary Ann Rybarczyk, formerly known as Sister Albert Anne, is celebrating 70 years as an Adrian Dominican Sister. She entered the

my first day, God blessed my life and ministry in the Adrian Dominican Congregation,” Sister Fran said.

Sister Corinne Florek, OP

Sister Virginia O’Reilly, OP

Sister Mary Ann Rybarczyk, OP

congregation in February 1947, made first profession of vows on Aug. 5, 1948 and final profession on Aug. 5, 1953. Sister Mary Ann taught at St. Brendan School, San Francisco in the 60s. “I’m so blessed to be in our community. I loved every minute of every day that I’ve been in the community,” she said.

Sister Frances Lombaer, OP

Sister Corinne Florek, OP

Sister Frances Lombaer, OP

Sister Frances Lombaer celebrates 60 years of religious life. She professed first vows in 1958, and made final vows in 1963. Sister Francis served in the 80s as assistant director of religious education for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “From

Sister Corinne Florek is celebrating 50 years of religious life. She professed first vows in 1968 and final vows in 1977. Sister Corinne holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and since 2008 has served in the Diocese of Oakland as executive director of the Religious Communities Investment Fund, managing more than $8 million for 26 religious congregations. “Being part of the congregation has enabled me to learn about social justice and how to be an effective advocate for justice,” Sister Corinne said.

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experienced at sea, were frightened, unsure and desperate for guidance and safety to return safely to shore, to embrace their families and community once more. It was in these moments of grave darkness and fear in which God answered the faithful prayers of these fishermen, who had humbled themselves in complete trust and devotion to God. God answered their prayers with a glowing light illuminating the dark sky above. As the wise men once followed the guiding star over Bethlehem to visit our newborn savior over 2,000 years ago, the Sicilian fishermen gratefully recognized and received God’s blessing and answer to their prayers, and faithfully followed the glowing light He shown above to guide them safely home again. Upon returning safely home, the fishermen continued to follow the mysterious guiding light above to a grotto near Porticello. Exploring the sea cave, they found a slab of marble bearing the

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faith, no matter how hopeless our situation. This remembrance of La Madonna del Lume shows us how powerful Our Most Holy Mother’s intercession is on our behalf as Christ’s ambassador of light to each of us. As Catholics, especially as we prepare for the consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary this October, we honor, venerate, and cherish our Most Holy Mother, Mary, and give thanks for the warmth of God’s guidance and light, which She so lovingly shares with each of us. Through Mary’s faithfulness and obedience to God and her constant presence in the midst of all of life’s difficulties, La Madonna generously and lovingly comforts each of us, transcending our despair, and illuminating all darkness with Christ’s eternal light, love, hope and mercy.

Madonna’s image. They carried it in to town, but twice it mysteriously returned to the grotto. The community decided to leave the image of La Madonna at the grotto and build a church on the spot to protect it. It is fervently believed in Sicily that the lives of hundreds of fishermen have been saved by the intervention of Maria Santissima del Lume, Our Most Holy Mother of Light, the guardian and patroness of fishermen. To this day, we continue to celebrate and honor La Madonna del Lume for her guidance and intercession to help guide fishermen safely home and into Christ’s light. This story is for fishermen, and it is truly a story for all of us, wherever we are on our journey in life. It is a story of a return home, and it is also a story of a return to faith, a return to God. How many times in our lives have we been lost, confused, uncertain, or fearful? “Lost at sea,” so to speak. Whether we are fishermen at sea, laborers on land, or workers at home, in cities, or in foreign nations, this story gives each of us hope that there is always a light, no matter how dark, and there is always

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 15 GRIEF SUPPORT: Monthly Grief Support Program, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Msgr. Bowe room. Sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. No charge. Facilitator: Deacon Christoph Sandoval. For further details, please call Sister Elaine at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

journey through 85 years of service in San Francisco and the personal recovery journey of each woman served by Gracenter. Silent auction, raffle, luncheon and a short program featuring the presentation of the Amazing Grace Awards, honoring those who have made an impact in the lives of women, especially in the areas of public health and recovery. Good Shepherd Sister Marguerite, (628) 224-2050; www.gsgracenter.org for info and ticket purchase.

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MASS FOR BABIES LOST: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presides at the annual memorial and healing liturgy for babies and children who died before, during or shortly after birth, Holy Cross Cemetery, Rachel Knoll, Colma, 11 a.m., all are invited especially parents who have lost children. . All are invited to a reception and light lunch near Holy Cross Mausoleum adjoining the Rachel Knoll following Mass. For further information, Respect Life Program (415) 614-5533 or Project Rachel (415) 717-6428; email evansv@sfarch.org; masfs11@gmail.com.

REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of 1957, Olympic Club, Lakeside, 11:30 a.m. Jackie Lawless Isola, bjisola@gmail.com.

CAR SHOW: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, 299 Precita Ave., San Francisco. Free admission.10 a.m.-3 p.m. Indoor rummage sale and food booths. (415) 642-6130; cdalton@ saicsf.org for information.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20 SPEAKER SERIES: Robert Eyler, economist, on Marin County and its real estate, jobs and more, 6:30-8 p.m., St. Mary Star of the Sea, Duggan Hall, 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito. Free with wine and appetizers included. RSVP to staroftheseamensclub@gmail.com.

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CONCERT: Cantiamo Sonoma presents a concert of a cappella music for split choirs featuring works by Victoria, Palestrina, Martin and others. Carmelite Monastery of Cristo Rey, 721 Parker Ave., San Francisco, 2:30 p.m.; freewill donations accepted; www.cantiamosonoma.org. GRACENTER CELEBRATED: Good Shepherd Gracenter’s “A Journey of Grace, guided to new horizons,” noon2:30 p.m., Patio Espanol, San Francisco. Celebrate the Good Shepherd Sisters

75th ANNIVERSARY PICNIC: Our Lady of Lourdes Parish at 410 Hawes, San Francisco, plans some fun in the sun with a combined event for their annual Parish Picnic made Father Dan extra special Carter by celebrating their 75th anniversary. This event will feature an outdoor 10:30 a.m. Gospel Mass, Father Dan Carter, pastor, presiding, followed by an inspiring program that honors the past and shares hopes for the future. Food, music and fellowship will round out the day. For more information, contact rectory staff at (415) 285-3377; ollSanFran@aol.com. Francisco, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. The day commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Charismatic Renewal with a Golden Jubilee Celebration theme “A Mighty Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.” Principal celebrants of day’s liturgies include Father Raymund Reyes, renewal liaison, Archdiocese of San Francisco. www.SFSpirit.com.

SI SPEAKERS: Friends of St. Ignatius series, St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker U SanBFrancisco, L 6Ip.m.,C AHall, T I O N S Ave., Fromm HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at dinner and speaker, Jesuit Father Greg noon, Marin Catholic High School, Sir. Boyle. This is a ticketed event. fgargiulo@ Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, usfca.edu; http://stignatiussf.org/event/ Kentfield then lunch in school cafeteria. jesuit-connections; (415) 564-2600. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome. Cheryl Giurlani, (415) REUNION: Notre Dame des Victoires 308-4608; www.Handicapables.com. High School, class of 1967, 50th reunion luncheon at Lakeside Terrace REUNION: Mercy High School, San Room at Harding Golf Course, San Francisco, class of 1967, Rist Hall, Francisco, 11:30-3:30 p.m. Contact Mercy High School, San Francisco, Maryellen Cull Shapiro at maryellen11:30 a.m. Stephanie Mischak Lyons, shapiro@gmail.com; (408) 499-6326. smlyons@earthlink.net. HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE: 20th REUNION: Mercy High School, San annual conference for Catholic CharisFrancisco, class of 1977, noon, matic Renewal of the Archdiocese of San

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The priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco have generously served the Catholic faithful in the counties of San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo for more than 150 years. Throughout our lives, from baptism to death, through good times and difficult times, our priests have been there to celebrate, counsel, encourage, and bear witness to the power of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for us. Two opportunities are available to show our gratitude to our retired priests for their many years of faithful service. 1) Make a generous gift to the Priests Retirement Fund Special Collection at Masses throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco on September 16 & 17. 2) Attend and/or sponsor a retired priest to the Seventh Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon to be held on Friday, September 29th at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral. For more information please contact Florian Romero of the Office of Development at (415) 614 -5537 or email at romerof@sfarch.org. By participating in one or both of these ways, you help provide financial stability for our retired priests and you can assure future security for our active priests. You may make your gift online at www.SFARCH.org/PRF or mail to:

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ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE CORDILEONE W hen Cardinal Francis George was the President of the USCCB, I remember him speaking to us bishops (in one of his many memorable speeches and interventions) about “the other.” “The other” is the one who is different from oneself, the one by whom you draw a contrast to yourself and therefore use as a line of demarcation for self-identity over and against the other. He explained this philosophical-psychological concept in order to set up the point he was making: in the United States, the Catholic Church is the “permanent other.”

This means that, while the Catholic Church has contributed greatly to this country over its 240 history, and has learned from it, nonetheless, as Catholics, we will always find ourselves in a struggle to reconcile Catholic culture and American culture without diluting the faith. And while American culture has many wonderful features that continue to enrich us, the contemporary age in which we are now living presents new and very serious challenges, such as easy acceptance of (so-called) “mercy” killing, abortion, family breakdown and the behaviors that contribute to it, readily available pornography, and – for children – so strong an emphasis on secondary pursuits such as sports and entertainment that the more basic elements of a well-rounded education – one’s spiritual and moral development, and sometimes even academic performance – suffer. Catholic schools have played an irreplaceable role in the Church’s attempts at adjusting to this new culture because of their unique capacity to shape culture. Even more than in the past, Catholic schools need to be prime movers in offering a strong counterculture to the dominant secular culture, serving as the intentional “other.” The Church has long understood that schools could have an outsized impact on American Catholic life. In fact, in the late 1880’s James Cardinal Gibbons asserted that the schools would determine the future status of Catholicity in the United States. So it is not all that surprising that in a country that has had an established public education system, the Catholic Church would create a parochial system of its own. From the birth of the Catholic school system at the Third Plenary Council in Baltimore to the 1960s, Catholic schools in the United States grew and thrived. Staffed by a host of nuns and brothers and priests, the schools provided students a rigorous education and served as incubators of Catholic culture and faith. While the schools did yeoman’s work in cultivating and sustaining Catholic culture, they did not do it alone. Rather, they educated and formed Catholics alongside an extensive network of other institutions. These included local parishes, hospitals, sports leagues, a vibrant Catholic press, Catholic men’s and women’s societies, and countless other clubs and associations that sustained, supported, and nourished Catholic life and faith. With a competitive spirit and despite their peripheral status, Catholics built a Catholic-infused social structure that mirrored the dominant American cultural networks of the day. But, because of mutual suspicion and hostility, they did so at arms-length.

Today we find ourselves at a different place as we try to reconcile American culture and Catholic culture. American Catholics are far more assimilated now than they were in the days before the Second Vatican Council. The old hostility and suspicions that once threatened Catholic culture have waned and Catholics no longer live their lives at a distance from the mainstream. But while old threats to Catholic culture have subsided, new ones have emerged. Research studies and newspaper articles remind us constantly about the increase of religious “nones” in society. More and more people have the misconception that science and religion are incompatible, and so have abandoned faith in favor of the more compelling “truth” of science. These are the “nones.” Although surveys indicate that the United States is still one of the most religious countries in the world, more and more people are leaving the religions of their birth and doing so at earlier and earlier ages. The struggle to reconcile American culture and Catholic culture is far different today than it was in the past. We must admit that we don’t have the extensive institutional presence that we once did, with myriad Catholic organizations and institutions staffed and supported by myriad nuns and brothers and priests whose own religious formation provided strong witness to the Church’s faith, mission and culture, and who grounded Catholic institutions in the same. But as much of the old Catholic network fades away, we still have Catholic schools with emerging new networks of leaders and new models for accomplishing the same mission of Catholic education. Schools are unique in the Church as immersive institutions that educate and form young people. In Catholic elementary schools, the children learn in a strong counterculture of faith and Catholic practice, both of which give primacy to the students’ spiritual and moral development and promote academic performance. They are the places beyond the family where Catholic culture can be passed on, but only if they survive and thrive as dynamic Catholic institutions. Catholic schools have played an outsized role in shaping the American Catholic experience in the past. We will depend on them even more to do so for the future, so that our beloved Church may continue to serve the role of the necessary “other” for our beloved country of the United States of America.

Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco

TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from Pam Lyons, Superintendent of Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS3 Steps for Applying to Catholic High Schools Why Choose A Catholic High School? Financial help Mercy High School, San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS4-5

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PAM LYONS

Superintendent of Schools

t is with great joy and excitement that I write my first Superintendent message for the Catholic San Francisco’s Catholic High Schools Information Booklet. I am both humbled and honored to be serving the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In my capacity as Associate Superintendent, I had the opportunity to experience in a very intimate way, the incredible diversity, history, and culture that exists in the schools of the Archdiocese and I could not be happier to be here. All schools hope that their graduates will move on to the next stage of their lives prepared academically, emotionally and socially for whatever they may face in the future, but the high schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco instill something that is even more important as our students move forward in life. As our students graduate they understand that God has created them to go out into the world as a disciple of Christ to proclaim His message through their words, and more importantly, through their actions. Our students understand that they are the future of the Church in the United States and the greater world. I am so proud of the fourteen Catholic high schools represented in this edition of Catholic San Francisco. These schools currently educate over 8,124 young men and women in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties, representing a dynamic and diverse population. We are so fortunate to have such a large variety of excellent high schools in our Archdiocese where each student can find a place that meets their individual needs. Tuition assistance is available at each of these schools. I invite those members of our community who have never attended a Catholic school to visit our schools. Join us in our mission to grow our students’ understanding that they are God’s beloved so they may fully realize God’s plan for them. Many Blessings,

Pamela Lyons Superintendent of Schools

STEPS FOR APPLYING TO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS 1.

Consult with your 8th Grade Teacher/Advisor on the High School Admissions Process. Obtain information and fillable PDF documents from your school’s website and Department of Catholic Schools.

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Obtain the application packets from all of the Catholic High Schools to which you plan to apply. Attend OPEN HOUSES and visit at least two schools which interest you and meet your needs. Consult this brochure for calendar dates or call individual schools. Seek information about other opportunities for school visitations. Considering your personal strengths and aptitudes, discuss with your 8th Grade teacher(s), principal, counselor, and parents, the high school programs that best meet your needs.

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Complete and submit your applications on time.

On March 15, 2018 letters will be sent regarding admissions status. Decisions can be viewed on the admissions website, March 16th after 4 pm. Registration deadline will be Friday, March 23, 2018. Prospective students should contact school for their registration deadlines.

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Pay registration fees to the school you plan to attend.

Take the High School Placement Test at one of the schools to which you have applied. The HSPT may be taken only once, but on the form list the other Catholic Schools to which you have applied, so your test scores can be sent there.

For further information check the website, www.sfarchdiocese.org/ catholicschools

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WHY CHOOSE A CATHOLIC SCHOOL? HOW CAN I GET THE MOST SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR MY CHILD DURING THE NEXT FOUR YEARS? The community environment experienced in Catholic schools fully supports students in their spiritual and academic growth. Teachers dedicate themselves to helping students achieve their full potential. I AM UNABLE TO AFFORD THE EXPENSE OF A CATHOLIC EDUCATION; WHAT CAN I DO? All Catholic high schools in the San Francisco Archdiocese have substantial scholarship and financial aid programs for students and families who qualify. WHAT CAN A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL DO FOR MY CHILD? The teaching of Catholic values and faith formation are core to the curriculum in Catholic high schools. Equally important is the religious community of adults surrounding Catholic schools, which supports the schools’ mission. Catholic schools mandate that their students take more college preparatory classes. Catholic schools provide challenging academic curricula in which students thrive, particularly in religious studies, mathematics, science, English and other core subjects. WHAT ARE THE RESULTS FOR CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES? Over 98 percent of Catholic school graduates in the San Francisco Archdiocese enroll in colleges and universities. WHAT FINANCIAL HELP IS AVAILABLE TO ASSIST A FAMILY WITH THE EXPENSE OF A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION? Significant scholarship and financial assistance programs help families meet tuition responsibilities. In the 2016-2017 school year, more than $28 million in financial assistance was given by Catholic high schools within the Archdiocese. At the time of application to a Catholic high school, parents should inquire about programs available through the individual high school and through the Archdiocese of San Francisco. • Financial aid awards are primarily need based. • Financial aid awards are given for one year and must be renewed each subsequent year. • Financial aid decisions are made independently from admissions decisions. • Every family is eligible to apply for financial aid. A complete financial aid application must include: • Completed online application – www.mytads.com • A Clergy Recommendation Form • Necessary tax documentation • $27 processing fee

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UC DAVIS

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

100% of Mercy graduates pursue a college education

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Archbishop Riordan High School San Francisco’s Oldest All-Boys High School

Archbishop Riordan High School is an Archdiocesan Catholic high school in the Marianist Tradition where every boy can be successful. We strive to help students develop their faith, intellect, and view of the world. There are leadership opportunities in every classroom, club, sport, and activity, and the spirit and bond of the Brotherhood results in life-long friendships. We are academically single gender, but socially coed—our students participate in many co-curricular activities, such as band and theatre, with students from other all-girls schools. Come by and see what’s new at Riordan, including our House System, Engineering Track, and Auto Shop Program.

LEARN MORE ABOUT RIORDAN! OPEN HOUSE Sunday, October 29, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Recommended for grades 5-8 CRUSADER FOR A DAY A day-long visit for prospective 8th Graders PARENT TOURS REGISTER ONLINE: WWW.RIORDANHS.ORG

RIORDAN QUICK FACTS: STUDENT BODY:

700

10:1

STUDENT-TO-FACULTY RATIO

RECENT COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES

Davidson • Georgetown Gonzaga • Notre Dame UC Berkeley • UCLA • USF

Percentage of student body that receives financial aid: 50% Percentage of students that identify as Catholic: 70%

Athletics:

11 SPORTS; 30 TEAMS

On Campus COACHES

AP & Honors Classes:19

30+

CLUBS & ACTIVITIES

2017-18 Tuition: $19,000, Registration Fee: $1,000

More Information: Mr. Danny Curtin ’08, Director of Admissions, admissions@riordanhs.org 175 Phelan Avenue, San Francisco, California 94112 • (415) 586-1256 • www.riordanhs.org

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ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY QUICK FACTS

San Francisco’s Jesuit School Since 1855 SI has a student body rich in diversity (ethnic, socioeconomic & geographic), drawing from 7 counties. SI encourages academic excellence and creativity in the classroom, making best use of the latest technology. We inspire our students to dedicate themselves to community service through our retreats and volunteer experience. SI’s Performing & Visual Arts Programs are ranked among the best in the Bay Area and include 20 percent of the student body. Also, 70 percent of our student body participates in our top-flight athletic program making use of state-of-the-art facilities.

VISITATION DAYS

September 13, 20, 27; October 4, 25; November 1

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1,465 students AP pass rate is 18% higher than the national average Tuition and fees total $22,780 51% of the student body are students of color 66 teams & 95 clubs and activities More than $4.3 million is distributed to over 22% of the student body, with average grants of $13,415.

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, November 5, 2016

WWW.SIPREP.ORG

For more information and to reserve your spot for a shadow visit!

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Convent & Stuart Hall Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco Founded in 1887, Convent & Stuart Hall is an independent K-12 preparatory school rooted in the Sacred Heart tradition of Catholic education within a uniquely single-sex and coeducational environment. 2222 Broadway San Francisco, CA 94115 sacredsf.org

Open Houses: Convent of the Sacred Heart High School October 15, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. November 2, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Stuart Hall High School October 11, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. November 5, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. For more information contact: Jen Butler Director of Enrollment Management hs_admissions@sacredsf.org

On behalf of the 24 Sacred Heart Network Schools in North America,

Convent & Stuart Hall and Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton are proud to celebrate 200 years of Sacred Heart education.

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton Founded by the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1898, Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton is an independent, co-ed Catholic day school for students in preschool through grade 12, located on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Open Houses:

150 Valparaiso Ave Atherton, CA 94027 shschools.org

For more information contact: Wendy Quattlebaum Director of Admissions & Financial Aid admissions@shschools.org

Sacred Heart Preparatory October 29, 1 p.m. November 12, 1 p.m.

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Marin Catholic 675 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Kentfield, CA 94904

PROFILE

Marin Catholic’s student body is made up of approximately 730 young men and women meeting the admissions criteria for a challenging college prep curriculum. We are committed to small class sizes, which create an intimate learning environment and produce strong teacher-student relationships. Marin Catholic’s campus is ideally located to serve students from all over Marin and the Bay Area. Sitting at the base of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin Catholic is one of the premier Catholic co-educational college prep high schools in California. Consistent with Gospel Values, we are committed to the education of the whole person. As active members of the school community, our students develop the attributes of responsibility, both personal and social; critical thinking; and appreciation for the complexity of the world around us. We instill in our students the confidence that will empower them, as informed, compassionate individuals, to live a fulfilling life and engage in learning as a lifelong process. Students are drawn from a broad spectrum of social, religious and economic backgrounds.

(415) 464-3810

www.marincatholic.org

sophisticated, faster-paced course work. Successfully completing the rigorous program qualifies students for admission to the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country. Students from Marin Catholic’s Class of 2017 will be attending top colleges and universities nationally and internationally including Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Stanford, Penn, Brown, Dartmouh and many more. The passionate teachers of Marin Catholic are often cited by students, parents and alumni as the greatest strength of our school. As teachers, counselors, advisors, coaches, and activity moderators, the men and women of the faculty and staff ensure that the mission of our school is fulfilled. An integral part of the curriculum at Marin Catholic is the 100-hour Christian service program. Through serving the marginalized in our community, students make a difference in our world by living out the Gospel Values. Grounded in faith and spirituality from our extensive retreat program, our students have a keen sense of who they are and what they are called to be in the eyes of Christ.

ACTIVITIES

CURRICULUM

Marin Catholic challenges students through an engaging college prep curriculum. Along with the development and enhancement of essential skills, the required course of study encourages exploration and selfevaluation. Marin Catholic offers 30 honors and Advanced Placement courses to students who are willing and able to undertake more

FAITH

Marin Catholic recognizes that students will have a richer high school experience if they become active members of their school community. We encourage participation in our extracurricular program, which appeals to the diverse interests of our entire student body. Nearly all of our students are involved in theatrical productions, athletics, or student government and clubs.

KNOWLEDGE

PRESIDENT: Mr. Tim Navone PRINCIPAL: Mr. Chris Valdez TUITION AND FEES 2017-2018: Tuition: $19,550 • Registration: $800 OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, October 22 at 11:00AM

SERVICE

TUITION ASSISTANCE: This year, Marin Catholic committed nearly $1.6 million in tuition assistance and scholarships. Both tuition assistance and named scholarships are awarded based on need as demonstrated through the tuition assistance application process. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: admissions@marincatholic.org (415) 464-3810 Janie Rockett, Director of Admissions Marianne Hill, Admissions Associate

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Visit Serra Open House

Sunday, December 3, 2017 1:00 p.m.

Padre for a Day

8th Grade Visits September – January

Walk Around Wednesday Tours Located in San Mateo, in the heart of the Peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Serra’s legacy of excellence in Catholic education spans more than 70 years. A college preparatory for boys, Serra’s rigorous academic and expansive extracurricular programs are designed to engage and support the ways boys think, learn and grow – heart, mind, body, and soul. Serra knows boys. Deliberate in our efforts to build a diverse student body with a complementary mix of interests, abilities, gifts and talents, Serra looks for candidates with a strong academic foundation, a genuine desire to be an active Padre, and a good heart. Once Padres, our students thrive in a community of committed, caring educators and an inclusive brotherhood that lasts a lifetime.

The Serra Brotherhood At Serra, the tenet of brotherhood is taught, modeled, and lived. It is a bond shared among Padres, past and present, based on the values of respect, integrity, inclusion and compassion. Padre brothers hold themselves and each other accountable to these values every day, as Jesus modeled in his own life.

Parent/Guardian campus visits

September - December

President Lars Lund

Principal

The significant achievements of our graduates — over 12,000 strong – are proof positive of our educational approach and empowering culture. A great source of pride for everyone in the Serra community, Padres go on to live lives with purpose and a spirit of justice — leaders who make a positive impact on the lives of others.

Barry Thornton, Ed.D.

Director of Admissions Carl Dos Remedios

QUICK FACTS Enrollment: 850 Average Class Size: 23 Student-Teacher Ratio: 15/1 Honors and AP Courses: 30 Faculty with Advanced Degrees: 75% Clubs and Activities: 40+ Annual Christian Service Hours: 36,000+ Sports Teams: 14 team sports; 34 teams Tri-School Program: A formal consortium with sister schools Mercy Burlingame and Notre Dame Belmont. Program also includes 23 classes on the three campuses, clubs, music and theatre productions, retreats, and social events. Tuition and Fees: $21,425

For more information, visit us online at SERRAHS.COM 451 West 20th Avenue

San Mateo, CA 94403

650.345.8207

Financial Aid: 33% of students

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Notre Dame High School Empowering Young Women Since 1851 Sponsored by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

1540 Ralston Ave. • Belmont, CA 94002-1995 • 650/595-1913 • www.ndhsb.org

Administration MARYANN OSMOND Head of School mosmond@ndhsb.org ANNE SCHAEFER-SALINAS Associate Principal aschaefer@ndhsb.org

Counseling ALLISON BRUNO, MA School Counselor abruno@ndhsb.org ERICA CERLES, MS PROFILE School Counselor Notre Dame Belmont is an independent Catholic college preparatory school ecerles@ndhsb.org for young women. Located on the historic Ralston Estate in Belmont, Notre Dame

Belmont shares the beautiful estate with Notre Dame de Namur University. Notre Dame Belmont’s students are educated for careers unimagined, with everything they need to be prepared DINA CUNHA, MS for the 21st century workplace. Our offerings in Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Robotics keep our students at the cutting edge of Director of College/Career any technology-centric economy. The creative, spiritual, and wellness endeavors of our students ensure a balanced and comprehensive education. Students are Counseling challenged to reach their academic potential and develop their leadership skills dcunha@ndhsb.org in an empowering single gender environment. Students also benefit from co-ed offerings at Serra High School in San Mateo. Our relationship with Serra offers Notre Dame students a variety of coeducational experiences in Academics, Athletics, Campus Ministry, Community Service, Visual and Performing Arts, and FACULTY AND Student Activities. Notre Dame students have the “Best of Both Worlds.”

ADMINISTRATION: 45.01 FTE CURRICULUM 85% hold one or Belmont more curriculum prepares all students to succeed in The Notre Dame college. All courses are UC-approved, and graduation requirements fulfill the Advanced degrees

course requirements for admission to the University of California. Students may also choose to attend a California State University, private colleges and universities. Historically, 100% of Notre Dame High School students enroll in colleges and universities across the country. Students experience a challenging college preparatory curriculum, including 15 honors level classes, and are offered the ACCREDITATION: following Advanced Placement at Notre Dame: Western Association of • AP Spanish Language • AP Art History • AP Spanish Literature and Culture • AP Studio Art: 2-D Design Schools and Colleges, 2017 • AP Calculus AB • AP Studio Art: 3-D Design • AP Calculus BC • AP Studio Art: Drawing • AP English Language and Composition • AP Computer Science (Serra) CEEB: #050275 • AP Statistics • AP English Literature and Composition • AP Psychology • AP Biology • AP United States Government • AP Chemistry and Politics • AP Physics • AP United States History • AP French Language

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The Science Department’s U.C. Electives include: Environmental Science, Forensic Science, Robotics (3 levels), and Sports Medicine. Students have the opportunity to enroll in Biotechnology through the San Mateo Biotechnology Career Pathway, participate in Med School 101 at Stanford University, and compete with TEAMS (Tests of Engineering, Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science), an annual competition organized through JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society). Each year, students travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Close Up Foundation’s civic education program. Students also participate in travel conducted by the Visual and Performing Arts and World Languages Departments. Intersession courses and trips are offered every other year.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Notre Dame High School provides numerous opportunities for self-expression through its comprehensive and award-winning Visual and Performing Arts Program: • Drama (Serra) • Art I-IV • Graphic Design I-II • Chorus • Orchestra • Coding • Photography I-IV • Dance I-V • Sculpture I-IV • Dance Partnering – • Video Production In-Step Performance Company/ Partnering Techniques

COURSES AT SERRA INCLUDE:

• Jazz Band • Mandarin (4 levels) • Mixed Chorus • Virtual Enterprise • Fall Play and Spring Musical (includes students from Notre Dame and Mercy)

• Advanced Band • AP Computer Science A • Architectural Design • Business Entrepreneurship • Business Marketing • Drama • German (4 levels)

ATHLETICS

The NDB Tigers compete in the West Bay Athletic League (WBAL) in eleven sports: • Swimming • Basketball • Tennis • Cross-Country • Track and Field • Golf • Volleyball • Lacrosse • Water Polo • Soccer • Softball NDB fields twenty-three interscholastic teams on three levels (Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman). Teams are consistently successful in WBAL and CCS competition, and students achieve distinction and recognition as scholar athletes. Notre Dame Belmont also sponsors a nationally recognized Cheerleading Squad and Competitive Pom Team.

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES

Student-directed organizations and clubs offer opportunities for all students to become actively involved, make new friends, and assume leadership roles: • Notre Dame student newspaper – • From Pen to Paper literary magazine The Catalyst • Sand Volleyball • Tiger TV broadcast program • 32 Student-directed clubs and • Torch yearbook organizations

SPIRITUAL LIFE

A comprehensive Health & Wellness curriculum is included in each Spiritual Life class. Spiritual Life Department and Campus Ministry work with students, faculty, and staff to plan liturgies, prayer services, and class level retreats. Students are offered 2 Kairos retreats each year. The Spiritual Life community service program challenges students to respond to the needs of others with compassion and respect. Service immersion trips offer students the opportunity to live in solidarity with the people they serve. Students are required to complete a minimum of 80 hours of community service. Head of School: Maryann Osmond Enrollment: 480 Tuition and Registration: $23,950 Tuition (includes daily lunch and books) / $650 Registration Fee Tuition Assistance and Scholarships: Tuition assistance is available to students with demonstrated financial need. Students may earn renewable achievement scholarships based on High School Placement Test scores and academic performance. Contact Us For Further Information: Cathy Lewis, Director of Admissions 650/595-9504 • FAX: 650/595-2116 www.ndhsb.org • email: clewis@ndhsb.org

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ENROLLMENT 1,320 FACULTY 100+

OPEN HOUSE Saturday, October 21, 2017 9–11 am

TUITION $19,100

IRISH FOR A DAY PROGRAM

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

$4.2 million awarded for the 2016-17 school year.

8th Grade Visits September–November

FOR MORE INFORMATION

AVAILABLE ONLINE EARLY SEPTEMBER

Mr. Timothy Burke ’70 Director of Admissions 415.775.6626 ext. 729 admissions@shcp.edu

Applications for the Class of 2022 Open House RSVP Parent Visit Registration Irish for a Day Registration

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S H C P. E D U

GRADUATION OUTCOMES FOR ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS Guided by the Mission of the Department of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which is focused on providing quality leadership, offering programs of educational excellence, and preparing students for a truly Christian life, Catholic High Schools are an integral expression of the teaching mission of the Church, and are therefore committed to developing persons who are the beneficiaries of the rich heritage and legacy of the Church. In all of our educational endeavors, we believe our High School Graduates have been given the skills and tools to adapt to a multicultural society and be productive members of the world community by exercising power and influence for the good of others as Christ-centered leaders of the 21st Century.

OUR GRADUATES FORM CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND • Understand the world’s diverse interconnectedness • Collaborate with others to work for the common good • Respect and demonstrate care for the environment as stewards of God’s creation

OUR GRADUATES ARE PERSONS OF FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY WHO • Live the Gospel values • Respect and appreciate the diversity of religious expression • Commit to integrating spirituality with their life work

OUR GRADUATES PROMOTE IN WORD AND ACTION SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INTEGRITY TO • Address injustices and work toward change • Demonstrate a reverence for life and a respect for all traditions, cultures, and peoples • Confront the moral ambiguities promoted by contemporary culture

OUR GRADUATES ARE PERSONS OF INTELLECTUAL STRENGTH AND COURAGE WHO • Communicate effectively in speaking and writing • Demonstrate critical and creative thinking in problem solving • Understand and appreciate the value of lifelong learning

OUR GRADUATES EXPRESS CONFIDENT LEADERSHIP TO • Empower others for positive transformation of society • Lead by the authority of example to embrace change and confront challenge • Take risks and learn from successes and failures

Rooted in the Archdiocesan Graduation Outcomes, these standards reflect the ideas of the individual institutions as well as the collaborative vision of what students must be able to know, do, and understand.

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ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOLS

Open House & Application Dates SEPTEMBER

Mercy High School, San Francisco Evening Preview, 6-8 p.m. | www.mercyhs.org

OCTOBER

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Mercy High School, San Francisco Open House, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | www.mercyhs.org Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco Open House, 6-8 p.m. | www.sacredsf.org

Mercy High School, San Francisco Academic Preview, 6-8 p.m. | www.mercyhs.org Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco Open House, 9-11 a.m. | www.shcp.edu San Domenico School, San Anselmo Open House, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | www.sandomenico.org

Marin Catholic, Kentfield Open House, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

www.prioryca.org

www.marincatholic.org

Notre Dame High School, Belmont Open House, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | www.ndhsb.org

Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco Open House, 10 a.m. | www.riordanhs.org Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton Open House, 1 p.m. | www.shschools.org

NOVEMBER

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Convent High School, San Francisco Open House, 6-8 p.m. | www.sacredsf.org Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco Open House, 1-3 p.m. | www.sacredsf.org St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco Open House, 1-3 p.m. | www.siprep.org

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Mercy High School, Burlingame Open House, 12-3 p.m. | www.mercyhsb.com

Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley Open House - Middle School, 10-1 p.m. | www.prioryca.org Open House – Upper School, 2-5 p.m.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco Application Priority Deadline | www.shcp.edu

DECEMBER

Convent High School, San Francisco Open House, 1-3 p.m. | www.sacredsf.org

Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley Open House - Middle School, 10-1 p.m. | Open House – Upper School, 2-5 p.m.

ICA Cristo Rey Academy, San Francisco Open House, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | www.icacademy.org

Mercy High School, San Francisco Financial Aid Workshop, 6-8 p.m. | www.mercyhs.org Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton Open House, 1 p.m. | www.shschools.org St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco Application Priority Deadline | www.siprep.org Notre Dame High School, Belmont Information Night, 7-9 p.m. | www.ndhsb.org

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ICA Cristo Rey Academy, San Francisco Application Priority Filing | www.icacademy.org Marin Catholic, Kentfield Application Priority Filing |

www.marincatholic.org

Mercy High School, San Francisco Application Deadline, 11:59 p.m. | www.mercyhs.org Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo Open House, 1 p.m. | www.serrahs.com San Domenico School, San Anselmo Open House, 1-4 p.m. | www.sandomenico.org Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco Application Deadline | www.riordanhs.org Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo Application Courtesy Filing | www.serrahs.com Notre Dame High School, Belmont Application Courtesy Filing | www.ndhsb.org Mercy High School, Burlingame Application Courtesy Filing | www.mercyhsb.com

JANUARY 2018

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Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo Application Deadline | www.serrahs.com Mercy High School, Burlingame Application Deadline | www.mercyhsb.com Convent High School, San Francisco Application Deadline | www.sacredsf.org Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco Application Deadline | www.sacredsf.org San Domenico School, San Anselmo Application Deadline | www.sandomenico.org Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton Application Deadline | www.shschools.org Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley Application Deadline | www.prioryca.org Notre Dame High School, Belmont Application Deadline | www.ndhsb.org

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Realizing potential MISSION

ICA Cristo Rey Academy is a Dominican Catholic college preparatory that empowers girls from underserved communities to become confident young women able to realize their full potential. By providing an excellent academic curriculum, a unique corporate work study experience and the support of our spiritual community, we prepare students for a life of faith, purpose, and service.

ATHLETICS AND ACTIVITIES

ICA oﬀers a rigorous, traditional college-preparatory curriculum and an innovative Corporate Work Study Program for all young women. We provide a focused, in-depth learning experience for students, all of whom graduate with the coursework necessary to qualify for admission to CSU and UC campuses, as well as an impressive resume of four years corporate work experience. The academic program includes four years of English, mathematics, science and religious studies, and at least three years of social studies and world language. Students choose from a variety of health and wellness electives, such as yoga, Zumba, rock climbing, wilderness back packing and food education classes. Other enrichments include drama, art and choir. An academic support period for all students ensures the individual attention every student deserves to meet the challenging demands of ICA’s academic and work study programs.

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Co-curricular activities are an important part of student life at ICA. They include Student Council, California Scholarship Federation, National Honor Society, BLOCK Society, Student Ambassadors Club, Campus Ministry, CLIP, BSU, Las Latinas, Fil-Am Club, Choir, Respect Life and Riordan’s Colorguard. Volleyball, basketball, soccer, ﬂag football, cross country & track, swimming, and golf constitute the sports oﬀerings.

RIGOROUS CURRICULUM

ICA CRISTO REY SUCCESS STORIES

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ICA is distinguished by high academic standards, values-based education, a safe school environment, work experience and Catholic identity. 100% of the Class of 2017 were accepted to college. Eighty Percent (80%) will attend four year universities ICA graduates attend top colleges and Universities including: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Arizona State University, the University of Portland, St. Mary’s College and USF. ICA and the University of San Francisco School of Nursing jointly provide a program for ICA students to become state-licensed CNA’s by the end of the 11th grade. ICA students enjoy after-school coding instruction through our partnership with ScriptEd. 95% of students meet or exceed expectations at work. ICA holds the distinction of being the only all-girls school in the nation’s 32-school Cristo Rey Network.

CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM

What distinguishes ICA Cristo Rey from other high schools is a Corporate Work Study Program. Through this innovative program, ICA students work at businesses such as law firms, insurance companies, tech companies and hospitals throughout the Bay Area five days a month. All students participate in this work-study program through which they finance a substantial portion of the cost of their education. Our students gain job experience, grow in selfconfidence, and understand the real-world applications of their education.

PRESIDENT: Sister Diane Aruda, O.P.

ENROLLMENT: 385

PRINCIPAL: Lisa Graham

TUITION for 2017-2018: $2,900 CHROMEBOOK DEPOSIT: $90

FACULTY: A 48-member faculty and staﬀ is composed of religious and lay colleagues.

TUITION ASSISTANCE: ICA oﬀers tuition assistance based on ﬁnancial need.

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