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Don’t be surprised if same-sex partnered families are front and center in news coverage of the 2015 Catholic World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia – whether or not Pope Francis shows up.

A coalition of four dissident Catholic groups, calling itself Equally Blessed, is recruiting for what it calls a pilgrimage to “speak out for the holiness of LGBT families” at the World Meeting of Families, to which Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has invited Pope Francis.

The Equally Blessed coalition received a $200,000 grant in March from Michigan self-identified gay bil-

lionaire Jon Stryker’s Arcus Foundation. That brings Arcus funding of Equally Blessed since 2010 to $770,000.

In a press release, Arcus said the 2014 grant was to support “a coalition of pro-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Catholic advocacy agencies which will amplify pro-LGBT voices within the Catholic Church in preparation for significant international gatherings planned by Catholic bishops and the Vatican.”

The Arcus Foundation’s grant-making is part of a strategy by a handful of nonprofit and private foundations to use the language of faith to challenge traditional sexual morality by directly attacking individual faith leaders, including Catholic bishops but also Protestants and Jews.

They fund dissidents in the Catholic Church, as well as other Christians and Jews who share their worldview opposing marriage as only between one man and woman.

The financial grants help amplify the voices of dissident Catholics with the intention of making it appear as if the dissidents constitute a vigorous, loud, and committed contingent within ordinary Catholic parishes.

“Groups like the Arcus Foundation have come to the conclusion that resistance to same-sex marriage and homosexuality in general is primarily rooted in religious belief,” said Jeff Walton, spokesman for The Institute for Religion and Democracy, a SEE FAITHFUL AMERICA, PAGE 12

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone prayed with members of the Sacred Heart Cathedral football teams at the archdiocesan high school’s campus Sept. 3, the day after SHC freshman Rashawn Williams was fatally stabbed.

SHC freshman’s funeral fills cathedral VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory chaplain Father Mark Doherty said the senseless death of freshman Rashawn Williams sends cries to the heavens that “are so deep and so full of grief that they are seemingly inaudible.”

The 14-year-old was knifed to death Sept. 2 outside a Mission District convenience store at the end of his first day of classes at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, allegedly by a classmate from Horace Mann Middle School.

Father Doherty presided over Rashawn’s funeral Sept. 11 at St. Mary’s Cathedral and helped lead the rosary held each day at the corner of 26th and Folsom streets where the youngster was fatally stabbed.The rosary, recited at the request of his family from shortly after his death to the funeral date, drew crowds, and those attending his funeral filled the cathedral, he said. Rashawn was a 4.0 student and the oldest of four children.

Rashawn was a member of the freshmen football team, and the entire SHC football team wore their

WASHINGTON – The family under discussion when the extraordinary Synod of Bishops convenes at the Vatican Oct. 5 will bear little resemblance to the family of 50 or even 20 years ago.

The blended and extended families created by high rates of divorce, remarriage and cohabitation – along with the worldwide migration prompted by economic turmoil and war – have combined to change forever the view of family as limited to a mother, father and their children.

But children are still most likely to live in two-parent families in all countries except South Africa, according to the World Family Map 2014, a research project sponsored by the Bethesda, Maryland-based nonprofit Child Trends and a variety of educational and nongovernmental institutions from across the globe.

“The family is the core institution for childrearing worldwide, and decades of research have shown that strong families promote positive child outcomes,” said Laura Lippman, co-director of the World Family Map and senior program director for education at Child Trends.

The report, co-written by Lippman and W. Bradford Wilcox, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, found that “growing up with a single parent is especially

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Holy Angels celebrates 100th anniversary Holy Angels Parish in Colma begins its 100th anniversary celebrations with a dinner Sept. 27 in the parish hall, followed by a festival Oct. 4 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and a Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated

by Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy Oct. 5 at 1 p.m.

The roots of the parish date to 1868 with the dedication by Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany of St. Anne Catholic Church, which was a mission until 1914. The church was built on land donated

by Peter Dunks and his wife and named after the couple’s oldest daughter. In 1914, St. Anne became a parish of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and was renamed Holy Angels, according to a parish history edited by parishioner Bianca Cacerza.

The parish later enlarged the church building and built Holy Angels School, which opened in 1952. In 1960, a fire started by children playing with candles burned the sacristy, which was rebuilt the following year. On Sept. 23, 1961, the present church and rectory were dedicated with the pope, St. John XXIII, sending his blessing via telegram.

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NEED TO KNOW YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE: Pope Francis has declared 2015 as the Year of Consecrated Life and the Archdiocese of San Francisco through the Office for Consecrated Life will be offering many opportunities to join in the yearlong celebration. The first event, evening prayer with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presiding, will take place at St. Mary’s Cathedral Monday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. Please join us for this opening event for the Year of Consecrated Life. For more information on the year contact Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto at (415) 614-5535.

ST. JUDE NOVENA: The annual devotion at the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus, St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, starts Oct. 20. Masses will be celebrated Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and Sunday at 11:30 a.m., with rosary and blessing with a St. Jude relic at all liturgies. A novena pilgrimage will take place Oct. 25 from Daly City to St. Dominic, followed by a bilingual Mass with Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant, at 1:30 p.m. Visit www.stjude-shrine. org; info@stjude-shrine.org or call (415) 9315919 or (415) 333-8730.

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The National Shrine of St. Francis will celebrate the feast of St. Francis Oct. 2-4, with events marking the sixth birthday of the Porziuncola Nuova and the reopening of its shrine church after a five-month renovation project.

On Oct. 2, the 600 block of Vallejo Street between Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue Francis of Assisi will close to recreate an Italian piazza for a 7 p.m. outdoor dinner concert marking the birthday of the Porziuncola Nuova. The Porziuncola, a scaled replica of St. Francis’ tiny church in Assisi, Italy, is built next to the historic shrine church.

The fundraiser highlight is a performance by Franc D’Ambrosio, the singer and actor best known for his long-running title role in “The Phantom of the Opera.”

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On Oct. 3, the shrine will remember the passing of St. Francis from this life into God with two Transitus rite events: a Mass at 12:15 p.m. and Transitus devotional prayers to the poor man of Assisi at 6 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova.

On Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis, the shrine church will formally reopen with a rededication Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at 11 a.m. followed by a small reception.

The shrine church, which dates to 1849, closed earlier this year for the installation of a new granite floor and hydraulic kneelers funded by an anonymous donor. The ground floor, formerly home to the Francesco Rocks gift shop and later the planned site for a now-abandoned pet columbarium, remains closed as it undergoes renovation as a meeting space.

On Oct. 3 from 2-4 p.m., shrine rector Capuchin Father Harold Snider will preside over the annual Blessing of the Animals.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Marin clinic reveals life in the womb for pregnant moms CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A $36,000 ultrasound machine bought with funds raised by Marin County’s three Knights of Columbus councils has been delivered to Marin Pregnancy Clinic in Novato, where executive director Robin Strom said the diagnostic technology can often be an effective abortion deterrent. “Ultrasound is a great window to the womb,� she told Catholic San Francisco this week.

MPC is a licensed crisis pregnancy clinic offering free services to uninsured, low-income or marginalized girls, women and families. It provides pregnancy testing and an ultrasound following a positive test as well as accurate information and counseling about parenting, adoption and abortion.

Free prenatal health care is available for up to 28 weeks, after which women are referred to a doctor and hospital for the care and delivery of the baby. While not Catholic-run, the clinic operates with pro-life principles – birth control and abortion service referrals are not offered – and are supported by the Catholic community as well as other faith communities.

Strom said the girls and women she sees “don’t always connect with the unborn.� She added that the visual reality of the unborn baby

‘We are led to believe in this culture that a fetus is just a few cells no bigger than a little bean. But I can show them a heartbeat at five weeks.’ RACHEL DUCKER

Marin Pregnancy Clinic during an ultrasound and the sound of its beating heart at a pregnancy’s earliest stages can change a mother’s mind.

Up to 78 percent of women facing an unplanned pregnancy will eliminate abortion as an option after an ultrasound, according to the national nonproďŹ t Project Ultrasound. But only about 40 percent of pregnancy centers have an ultrasound machine.

Marin Pregnancy Clinic has been fortunate to have had four ultrasound machines over the last 14 years. When the last one started going bad last year, Strom reached out to the Marin prolife community, private donors, churches and parishes, women’s groups and businesses that provided the clinic’s entire $185,000 annual budget.

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Pedro Deras of Petaluma holds his 4-monthold daughter during a visit to the Marin Pregnancy Clinic in Novato, where Marta Deras was undergoing an ultrasound check on the couple’s unborn child.

3950, responded by teaming with Marin’s two other Knights councils to raise half of the cost of the machine. He met his goal with the help of St. Hilary School, St. Sebastian Church, St. Dunstan Parish, Marin Catholic High School and several generous private donors. The Supreme Council of Knights in New Haven, Connecticut, matched every dollar raised by the Marin councils.

In the clinic’s waiting room, loud

exclamations could be heard coming from inside the ultrasound room where sonographer Rachel Ducker was doing an ultrasound with Marta Deras of Petaluma. Her husband Pedro was holding and kissing their 4-month-old baby girl.

Ducker conďŹ rmed the 11-week pregnancy – a surprise but an obviously happy one – and pointed to the computer screen where the fetus’ arm was bouncing wildly.

Pedro said the couple does not have health insurance. The small staff, which that day also included Alison Oblites, director of operations and Andrea Bizzanelli, director of development, shared the Deras’ joy and provided a list of next steps and some hugs.

Ducker said many women are very surprised, even shocked, at what is going on inside them when they experience an ultrasound. “We are led to believe in this culture that a fetus is just a few cells no bigger than a little bean,â€? she said. “But I can show them a heartbeat at ďŹ ve weeks.â€? “To see that fully formed baby with arms and legs and a heart beating so early is a huge step in accepting what’s going on in your body,â€? she said.

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Fundraisers, flacks put out hand and word for schools TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Two of the most important and challenging jobs in education are done down the hall from the classrooms – public relations and raising dough. Professionals work full time and more at each of the tasks promoting the mission of their schools and raising money to support the work. Having been present to these worthy ministries and the people who carry them out for 30 years, I am very glad to say thanks and congratulations to every one of them as well as share some perspectives from a few in particular.

We spoke via email.

Having come aboard in February of this year, Michelle Forshner, director of communications and marketing at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, is among the newest on the publicity circuit.

Michelle says keeping track of the school’s varied audiences keeps her on her toes.

“Each group – students, prospective families, faculty and staff, parents and alumni - communicates in a myriad of ways and Michelle across technology. Our challenge Forshner is reaching them all where they are,” Michelle said.

An SHC blog has opened up new channels of communication, Michelle said.

“It’s becoming a hot spot for sharing stories across campus. Students tell stories, faculty post photos from the classroom – everyone gets involved. Our community is shared beyond the gates of our school.”

Theresa Flynn Houghton, a 1996 alumna of SHC, is the school’s new vice president of advancement. A graduate of San Francisco’s St. Anne School with an undergraduate degree from NYU, she will oversee and manage development efforts, donor relations, and day to day work in the development office. Theresa has been SHC’s director of development since 2005.

Paul Totah has been handling Theresa Flynn public relations at San Francisco’s Houghton St. Ignatius College Preparatory since 1987. He is a 1975 graduate of the school and a 1979 graduate of Santa Clara University. Paul has

SLEEP TIGHT: Mercy High School, San Francisco’s Club Hope for Tomorrow recently presented $2,500 to the Koret Family House, a facility where parents with children undergoing cancer treatment live free. Pictured from left on the day of the presentation are Mercy alumnae Susan Neff, ‘73, SFPD Captain Teri Barrett, ‘73, Mercy junior Dominique Sabins, Mercy sophomore Brianna Sabins, and club moderators Cindy Ovares and Tanya Bolshakoff.

SOWING WITH SEWING: Burlingame’s Kohl Mansion was the site June 12 for a fashion show benefiting SVdP’s Catherine’s Center’s restorative justice program assisting women leaving incarceration. Pictured from left, at the event, are Catherine’s Center staff Kristina Lopez and Suzi Desmond with supporter Dede Masters. seen many a change to methodology in the word world. “When I started in this business, words like ‘email’ and ‘Facebook’ never came up in everyday conversation,” he told me. “I like to think that my job helps with friend-raising, fundraising and consciousness-raising. Of the three, the last is by far the most important.”

Carol Fraher wears a couple of hats at Mercy High School, Burlingame where she is director of public relations and assistant director of advancement as well as school webmaster. She just started her 21st year there.

“Not enough time,” was Carol’s answer to one of the biggest challenges. “There are just so many things that always need to be done and not enough

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Victoria Terheyden has been in marketing and communications for 10 years and just started her fourth year as communications director at San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School. She is a 1999 graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep and a 2003 graduate of Georgetown University.

“From a public relations perspective, the communications landscape is constantly changing,” Victoria said. “Individuals have a greater need for timely information.”

She sees balancing the needs of all areas of the school as high on the list of challenges in the work. “So many interesting things are happening, but there is just not the time to properly promote them all. As with other aspects of schools, we are challenged to do more with less, but as a colleague said, ‘creativity is free.’”

Education is in a period of flux, Victoria said.

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FUNERAL: SHC high school freshmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service fills cathedral about suffering as the grief-stricken family does?â&#x20AC;? asked Father Doherty.

The newly ordained priest serves as chaplain at the archdiocesan high school and is parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish in the Mission District. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The man hanging on the cross opens up a path of hope for us because in him God is with us in our darkest hours,â&#x20AC;?Father Doherty said. Since arriving at St. Peter two months ago, Father Doherty said he has presided at three funerals, and two have been homicides. Rashawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family chose to have the funeral at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral and in addition to students from Sacred Heart Cathedral, many, many people from the neighborhood and students from Horace Mann Middle School attended as well as students from other area Catholic high schools.

Rashawn had been baptized at Church of the Visitacion by now-retired Father Tom Seagrave and made his ďŹ rst Communion at St. Charles Borromeo in the city, said Father Doherty. Rashawn had hoped to make his conďŹ rmation this year, he said.

Rashawn had taken his role as the oldest child very much to heart, excelling in school and sports, and helping his mother and younger brothers and baby sister, Father Doherty said, and his death left such pain it could not be answered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the life of Jesus, the God-man, God deďŹ nitively says that he wills to be with us in our suffering. In Jesus we learn that God is not indifferent to our suffering; he does not remain apart; he is not distant or aloof,â&#x20AC;?

Father Doherty said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who can understand the suffering of a grieving mother or family?

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jerseys and served as honor guard at his funeral. The freshmen class attended the funeral Mass and student leaders participated as ushers, sang in the choir and performed as instrumentalists, altar servers, liturgical readers and other roles, said school spokeswoman Michelle Forshner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will also have a moment of silence and prayer before the varsity football game on Friday. All three teams will be wearing RW stickers on their helmets,â&#x20AC;?

Forshner said. Students signed cards FATHER MARK DOHERTY for Rashawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family during lunch time and the school sent ďŹ&#x201A;owers in his favorite color, green. The day after his death, the school held small group talks with the students, then held three prayer services, including an impromptu one with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone who walked over to pray with the football team on the ďŹ eld, said Kathy Lorentz, associate director for community life and faith formation.

The cries rising to heaven at Rashawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death are calling upon God for answers, Father Doherty said in his homily. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within these cries are contained many questions: Why does a good God allow such senseless violence to take place?

What good can come from such a tragedy? Does God know anything

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â&#x20AC;Ś Suffering, in itself, is crushingly lonely,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The man hanging on the cross opens up a path to hope because he comes to join us in our suffering. He breaks down the ramparts of loneliness that oppress us in our suffering. He walks with us and leads us through the dark valley of the shadow of death.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;God would have us begin to live the new life, eternal life, even now,â&#x20AC;?

Father Doherty said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we ask him,

he will begin to give us this life now.

As St. Paul tells us the ďŹ rst gift of this new life, this eternal life, is peace.

And so let us take to ourselves the prayer attributed to the patron saint of our fair city. Let us make our own the prayer of St. Francis. Lord, make us instruments of your peace.â&#x20AC;?

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WASHINGTON – About 20 percent of U.S. Catholics have experienced divorce, according to the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago.

The Center for Applied Research on the Apostolate at Georgetown University places the number of divorced Catholics at about 11 million.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, through its National Pastoral Initiative on Marriage, has worked to explain church teaching on divorce in the hope of correcting misunderstandings and keeping people connected with the church.

Bethany J. Meola, assistant director in the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, described the work of the church with divorced, separated and remarried Catholics as accompaniment, a term often cited by Pope Francis.

“It’s that sense of making sure that they don’t consider themselves separated from the church, that they realize they are baptized Catholics, they are members of the church, they are called to participate with the church, attend Mass, pray, be present with the church,” Meola explained. “(It’s) helping people in all of these situations to carry their cross and know that they don’t carry it alone,” she said.

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Acknowledging that the indissolubility of marriage is specified in canon law, Cardinal Kasper cited Pope Francis’ repeated calls for a more merciful church in making a carefully constructed argument that mercy must be at the heart of the church’s outreach efforts, including those to divorced and remarried Catholics. He wrote that the Gospel “is against a legalistic understanding of canon law.”

He posed the question: If a Catholic who is divorced and civilly remarried without the first marriage being annulled, “but then repents of his failure to fulfill what he promised before God, his partner and the church in the first marriage, and carries out as well as possible his new duties and does what he can for the Christian education of his children and has a serious desire for the sacraments, which he needs for strength in his difficult situation, can we after a time of new orientation and stabilization deny absolution and forgiveness?”

Such questions are being weighed by church leaders in advance of the upcoming extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family Oct. 5-19.

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All-night vigil shows Catholic diversity Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh and Bishop David A. Zubik of Latin-rite Diocese of Pittsburgh.

There are 22 Eastern Catholic churches, which have their origins in Eastern Europe, Asia or Africa, and they trace their roots to five ritual families or groups, including Byzantine. Each Eastern church is in union with Rome and enjoys the same dignity, rights and obligations as the Latin tradition in the Roman Catholic Church.

“As the apostles went forth to announce the Gospel, they did so within the cultures, languages and traditions of the people whom they evangelized.

Therefore, the church looked very different throughout the world,” said Father Thomas Schaefer, pastor of St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church.

“As time progressed, the expressions of faith and worship continued to evolve. Today the universal Catholic Church is comprised of 23 churches – once referred to as ‘rites’ – which convey the beauty and diversity of our centuries of faith,” he said.

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PITTSBURGH – An all-night vigil Sept. 13-14 at a Byzantine Catholic church in Pittsburgh provided an opportunity for people of faith to participate in the prayers of the various Catholic churches that are “essential facets” of the culturally, ethnically and Bishop Zubik religiously diverse city of Pittsburgh.

St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church hosted “Crossing the Universe: The Faces of Catholicism,” which commemorated the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

“Crossing the Universe” was a first for the Pittsburgh region and offered an opportunity for children and families, students and adults of all ages to learn about the collective family of the Catholic Church.

Celebrants included Archbishop William C. Skurla of the Byzantine

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WASHINGTON – In light of the recent political, military and social conflicts taking place around the world, Catholics and other Christians have found reason to come together in faith to pray for world peace and healing.

The 22nd International Week of Prayer and Fasting will take place Sept. 20-28. Organizers are encouraging individuals, families and parishes around the world to participate by fasting, attending daily Mass, prayer services and Holy Hours, going to confession, and praying the rosary and the Divine Mercy chaplet.

Sponsored by the International Prayer and Fasting Coalition, made up of various Catholic and Protestant groups, the nine-day campaign to call

for an end to global violence and persecution kicks off in Washington with a eucharistic prayer vigil Sept. 20 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Organizers said the campaign’s goal is to invoke Mary’s help in “changing the course of world events” and to promote “a newfound appreciation for basic human rights” and build “a culture of life.”

Maureen Flynn, the coalition’s chairperson, said the event began as an effort to promote peace in the world. “We felt what was needed in our country was a grass-roots movement of people praying and fasting for the goals of our nation,” she told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview Sept. 11.

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Doctor-deacon now in Liberia called to help Ebola patients JESSICA A. BOTELHO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – According to the World Health Organization, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has infected at least 4,784 people, and claimed the lives of more than 2,400 as of Sept. 15.

It is the worst Ebola epidemic in history.

WebMD reports that the disease, also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever or Ebola virus, kills up to 90 percent of infected individuals.

To help combat the deadly illness, Dr. Timothy Flanigan from the Diocese of Providence flew to Monrovia, Liberia, on his own accord to train and educate health care teams at Catholic hospitals and clinics.

“This is a terrible, infectious disease, which one can deal with safely with the appropriate training and supplies,” said Flanigan, an infectious disease specialist at Miriam Hospital, as well as a deacon at Tiverton parishes St. Christopher and St. Theresa, in a telephone interview with the Rhode Island Catholic from Monrovia in early September.

“West Africa really did not have the proper equipment or the training to work with Ebola because it requires stringent infection control.

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For two months, Flanigan, who also a professor of medicine at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, will be living at a guesthouse in Monrovia next door to St. Joseph’s Church.

Accompanied by Sister Barbara Brilliant, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary, who is dean of Mother Patern College of Health Sciences and a coordinator with the Archdiocese of Monrovia, he arrived Aug. 31 with at least 10 bags filled with items such as masks, gowns and gloves.

“There also are lots of individual and national aid organizations that are sending in tons of supplies,” he said, acknowledging the Bernardine Sisters, the Salesian Missions and Catholic Relief

Services. Local representatives with the Vaticanbased Caritas Internationalis are providing help too.

“The church is present at the forefront of this epidemic,” he said.

The Diocese of Providence has contributed to the effort as well, giving $2,500 to Tiverton Cares, a nonprofit organization assisting Flanigan by channeling required resources directly to the crisis area. In a letter to the organization accompanying the donation, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin noted: “We are proud that Dr. Flanigan, as a deacon of our church, is making this significant sacrifice to serve so many people who are suffering from the terrible scourge of Ebola.”

The diocese, along with Flanigan’s parishes, has been collecting supplies such as hand sanitizer, bleach, disinfectants, plastic spray bottles and more. Father Przemyslaw “Shemek” Lepak, pastor of St. Christopher and St. Theresa, is overwhelmed by parishioners’ support.

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Still, he was “shocked” when Flanigan told him he was interested in going to Liberia.

“The first thing I asked him was, ‘Is it really what you want to do?’” Father Shemek said. “He said, ‘It’s not really about what I want. I feel God is calling me to go.’ He dropped everything to serve the Lord. He is a remarkable person, and a man of great faith.”

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At wedding, pope says spouses make each other better men and women FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Presiding over the wedding of 20 couples in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis celebrated marriage as the union of a man and woman playing complementary roles during their common journey through life.

“This is what marriage is all about: Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man,” the pope said Sept. 14. “Here we see the reciprocity of differences.”

The pope spoke during a wedding Mass for couples from the Diocese of Rome.

In typically frank style, Pope Francis admitted married life can be tiring, “burdensome, and often, even nauseating.”

But the pope assured the brides and grooms that Christ’s redemptive sacrifice would enable them to resist the “dangerous temptation of discouragement, infidelity, weakness, abandonment.”

“The love of Christ, which has blessed and sanctified the union of husband and wife, is able to sustain their love and to renew it when, humanly speaking, it becomes lost, wounded or worn out,” he said.

Pope Francis also offered practical advice for dealing with marital discord.

“It is normal for a husband and wife to argue,” he said. “It always happens. But my advice is this: Never let the day end without having first made peace. Never. A small gesture is sufficient. Thus the journey may continue.”

Speaking three weeks before the start of an extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, the pope emphasized the importance of the institution based on marriage.

parts of the world as part of the Jubilee for Families. He also publicly presided over another joint wedding for a group of couples in 1994 as part of his celebration of the International Year of the Family.

‘My advice is this: Never let the day end without having first made peace.’

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The newlyweds ranged in age from 25 to 56 and represented a variety of situations, with some already having children or having lived together before marriage.

Cohabitation, though not a canonical impediment to marriage, violates the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage and sexual love. Pastoral ministers helping Catholic couples prepare for the sacrament are urged to encourage them to regularize such situations prior to marrying.

At the start of the papal wedding Mass, the brides, wearing traditional white gowns, were accompanied up the aisle of the basilica by their fathers or other male relatives. The grooms entered with their mothers. The pope called out each couple’s names as he read the rite and then each couple, groom and bride, separately, responded “si.”

As a thank-you present to the pope, the couples jointly contributed to an educational and recreational center for disadvantaged youth in a suburban neighborhood of Rome, to be established by the local branch of Caritas.

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Pope: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Church is mother who teaches us works of mercyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Christians are called to help those who have nothing to give and love those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t love back, Pope Francis said.

Salvation and changing the world for the better require â&#x20AC;&#x153;doing good to those who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to repay us, just like the Father did with us, giving us Jesus,â&#x20AC;? the pope said at his weekly general audience in St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Square Sept 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How much have we paid for our redemption?

Nothing! It was all free! So do good without expecting something in return. Just as the father did with us, we have to do the same. Do good and keep going!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough to love the one who loves us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough to do good to those who help us.â&#x20AC;?

People are called not to be self-centered, but to model themselves after Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gratuitous love, he said.

The pope continued a series of talks on the nature of the Catholic Church, focusing on â&#x20AC;&#x153;the church as a mother who teaches us the works of mercy.â&#x20AC;?

The church â&#x20AC;&#x153;doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give theoretical lessons about love and mercy. She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spread a philosophy to the world, a path to wisdom,â&#x20AC;? he said. The church backs up what she says by mirroring what Jesus did.

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Asking how the church shows people the way, Pope Francis said the lives of saints and mothers and fathers who teach their children what true mercy and hospitality entail offer good examples to follow.

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The woman answered her door one day to see a man who came looking for food; her three very young children agreed that the mother should give the man something to eat, the pope recalled.

When the mother said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all give the man half of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on each of our plates,â&#x20AC;? the children protested, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh no, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not right!â&#x20AC;? they said, coveting their own serving of steak and fried potatoes.

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DUBLIN – Irish Cardinal Sean Brady has paid tribute to a controversial Protestant firebrandturned-peacemaker who once heckled St. John Paul II as the “antichrist.”

The Rev. Ian Paisley, 88, who served Rev. Ian Paisley as first minister in the cross-community power-sharing government in Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008, died Sept. 12 and was buried after a private family funeral Sept. 15.

Rev. Paisley initially resisted calls to share power with Northern Ireland’s Catholic minority. He infamously denounced Catholics as “vermin” and was widely criticized when he claimed that Catholic churches that had been destroyed in sectarian arson attacks had, in fact, burned to the ground

because they had been storing explosives for paramilitary use.

Cardinal Sean Brady told Ireland’s RTE radio that, without the Rev. Paisley, “peace would not have been delivered.”

Cardinal Brady emphasized that, over the years, Rev. Paisley had “moved” from a position where he opposed civil rights for Catholics to one where he was willing to enter a power-sharing government including Catholics. “That is the point – he moved … and without him peace would not have been delivered, that is my conviction.”

Conference of Catholic Bishops, called it a “campaign for palliative care and against euthanasia.” The archbishop described the campaign, set to launch Sept. 28, as an “educational campaign to get people to be aware of the difference between the two.”

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Above, newly married couples watch as Pope Francis leads his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 10. Right, two men walk hand in hand through a hallway in San Francisco’s City Hall after their wedding ceremony. Below, Pope Francis touches a child’s head as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 3.

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Wealthy foundations that advocate same-sex marriage have a clever strategy. They create a flow of money to Catholic groups or other faithbased groups who oppose Catholic teaching on traditional marriage.

Six foundations focus very specifically on funding faith-focused organizations that promote acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conduct in opposition to Catholic teaching on the nature of the human person.

The Ford Foundation is the top funder of LGBT causes. The “2012 Tracking Report: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations” lists foundations by the total amounts granted in support of LGBTQ Issues. The same report lists the Arcus Foundation as the second highest giver and the Gill Foundation as the third highest supporter of LGBTQ issues.

All three also contribute significantly to faith-focused organizations that publicly oppose Catholic teaching on marriage and homosexual behavior.

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Protestant think tank and Christian advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. The goal is to weaken opposition to what earlier ages would have considered unthinkable by stressing the normality of contrary Christian voices, Walton said. “They have sought to change that voice,” said Walton, “so it is not resistant to the proposals that they have.”

Big foundations funding gay rights ‘faith’ groups

Arcus and the Gill Foundation were founded by men who are politically active and publicly identify as gay men. Their foundations’ goals are to achieve acceptance of LGBT behavior.

Tim Gill, the Colorado founder of software publisher Quark Inc., founded the Gill Foundation. Stryker’s Arcus Foundation’s second area of grant-making is focused on “conservation of the world’s great apes” according to arcusfoundation.org.

Together with the Ford Foundation, the San Francisco-based Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund, and progressive billionaire George Soros’ Open Society foundations, these foundations have contributed millions of dollars to groups that use the language of faith to oppose Catholic teaching. The five foundations were among the top six funders of LGBT causes according to the Foundation Center’s 2011 LGBT Rights analysis.

A sixth foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, awarded grants to three dissident Catholic groups in 2012, according to its tax return.

The religiously oriented groups which have received grants from one or more of these wealthy secular foundations include: Faith-

‘Arcus is trying to legitimize the gay lifestyle, and part of that is to diminish the teaching of the church, any church.’

ANNE HENDERSHOTT

Franciscan University sociology professor ful America, Faith in Public Life, Catholics for Choice, Catholics United, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good as well as Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, Equally Blessed, Dignity, New Ways Ministry and Fortunate Families. Equally Blessed is a coalition of self-identified Catholic groups consisting of Dignity, Fortunate Families, New Ways Ministry, and Call to Action. All the grant recipients oppose Catholic teaching on homosexuality and publicly criticize the U.S. bishops in their efforts to protect religious liberty and marriage.

None of the six secular grant-making foundations has a faith-based mission statement, but all make grants for the stated purpose of influencing communities of faith to accept LGBT behavior, according to grant language, mission statements and other language on their websites.

The goal of these groups is to suggest that the Catholic Church – and other religions which

‘I am well aware of the contentious character of homosexuality, and how badly polarized the culture is, and, many families are. That contention has found its way into the church, not in terms of its magisterial truth, but in terms of its people.’

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Executive director of Courage maintain marriage can only be between one man and one woman – do not respect as persons those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

“They are basically saying religion stigmatizes homosexuality, and therefore religion has to change,” said Charles LiMandri, president and chief counsel of the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund. The San Diego lawyer also served as counsel for the traditional marriage proponent the National Organization for Marriage, during the 2008 Proposition 8 election campaign.

For example, in March of this year the Arcus Foundation awarded $250,000 to Catholics for Choice. An advocate of abortion on demand,

To accept people where they are is a very loving thing to do.

But to let people stay where they are is not a loving thing to do. It is true of the entire population, not just people who deal with same sex attraction.

RILENE SIMPSON

a member of Courage in the Bay Area who went public in the new Courage movie, “Desire of the Everlasting Hills” Catholics for Choice was given the funds “to leverage faith and secular movements challenging religious opposition to LGBTQ rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights.”

Trying to make church teaching optional

The strategy of the wealthy foundations is to relativize Catholic Church teachings—make them appear to be something that is optional by funding “Catholic” opponents, said Franciscan University sociology professor Anne Hendershott. Hendershott wrote a column in the June 24 issue of Crisis magazine titled “Marginalizing Catholic teaching one grant at a time.”

Thus, the grants fund religious groups – such as Catholics for Choice and high-profile gay-rights

advocate Dignity USA – who publicly seemed to be aligned with Catholics, but in fact oppose Catholic teaching on the nature of the human person and sexuality. (See accompanying story).

“I am well aware of the contentious character of homosexuality, and how badly polarized the culture is, and, many families are. That contention has found its way into the church, not in terms of its magisterial truth, but in terms of its people,” said Father Paul Check, executive director of Courage. Many people have not made up their minds on the issue, just as many Catholics may question church teaching prohibiting cohabitation, artificial contraception and artificial means of reproduction, he said.

In contrast to Dignity, Courage is an official Catholic organization; its mission is to provide a spiritual support system that assists men and women with same-sex attractions to live chaste lives in fellowship, truth and love. Courage, founded in 1980, endorses church teaching.

While groups promoting acceptance of homosexual conduct – rather than encouraging chastity – may be motivated by a desire to help those with same-sex attractions feel accepted and happy, they have lost sight of God’s plan for human happiness, here and in the next world, Father Check said.

“Certainly no one in the Catholic Church would want anyone to suffer for a lack of charity or even a lack of basic courtesy. The Catechism (of the Catholic Church) is very clear,” Father Check said. “The solution of the problem of un-charity or lack of courtesy is not to put a false identity on someone.”

Offering another perspective on Pope Francis’ SEE FAITHFUL AMERICA, PAGE 14

THE FORD FOUNDATION: contributed $2.4 million to Faith in Public Life from 2008 to 2013, including a grant of $725,000 in 2013. The Ford Foundation gave $900,000 in the same time period to Catholics for Choice, which supports unrestricted access to abortion.

Faith in Public Life takes on other issues such as immigration reform, where it is more in sync with the U.S. bishops. However, Faith in Public Life is outspoken against the Catholic Church on homosexuality and marriage. Faith in Public Life’s Catholic program director John Gehring wrote in a blog post on July 17 that “bishops will not gain any points here in their efforts to oppose a demographic tsunami that has made support for marriage equality a mainstream view even among many in the pews.”

THE ARCUS FOUNDATION: founded in 2000 by Jon Stryker, focuses on gay rights and “conservation of the great apes.” Since 2010 it has given about $1.5 million to self-identified Catholic groups which advocate homosexual behavior, particularly Dignity’s Equally Blessed Coalition, the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, and New Ways Ministry as well as Faithful America. According to its tax returns and website, Arcus has also given millions to advance acceptance of LGBT to other mainstream religious groups, including Christian, Jewish and Muslim organizations.

“I’m probably one of the wealthier gay men in this country, and I felt I had a big responsibility,” said Stryker, who is heir to a medical technology fortune, according to a 2008 Chronicle of Philanthropy profile about Stryker’s role as a gay activist and philanthropist. Arcus gave grants totaling $806,000 between 2010 and 2014 to Dignity USA – all but $36,000 for the coalition Equally Blessed. Arcus also awarded large grants to other Catholic or Catholic-identified nonprofits and colleges: $330,000 to Women in Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, according to tax returns for 2011 and 2012; $250,000 in June to Catholics for Choice; and $100,000 in 2010 to Jesuit Fairfield University to hold forums at four Catholic universities on homosexuality. Arcus gave New Ways Ministry $93,345 for its “Catholic Equality Marriage Program” in 2009 as well as $5,000 in 2013. It gave Faithful America $75,000 in 2014 for publicity campaigns to denounce those who use religious liberty arguments to oppose “full equality for LGBT persons.”

On the political front, in 2008 Stryker gave just above $1 million to defeat Proposition 8, according to state records. Most recently, the Center for Responsive Politics lists Stryker as the 13th-largest donor funding outside political spending groups in the current election cycle, with $1.3 million donated between February 2013 and June of this year to Democratic political action groups.

THE GILL FOUNDATION: Colorado multimillionaire Tim Gill, founder of the Gill Foundation, was described in a May 2 Politico article as the “most influential gay donor most people have never heard of.” He warranted this accolade from Politico for his role in advancing the gay rights agenda through state and local elections, beginning in 2004 with his role flipping Colorado from a Republican- to a Democratic-dominated government.

Gill’s political effectiveness is further documented in the book “Blueprint: How the Democrats won Colorado and why Republicans everywhere should care” (2010) by Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer. An April 27 New SEE WHO THEY ARE, PAGE 15

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ABOUT COURAGE

famous “who am I to judge?” comment that was widely interpreted in secular media as supporting homosexuality, Father Check said: “If we say to someone you are gay, you’re a lesbian—are we judging them? Are we putting them into a box?

Are we then confining them to what they feel is their primary sexual identity? I think that is contrary to the mind and heart of Christ.”

The Courage apostolate is a Catholic spiritual support system to assist men and women with same-sex attractions in living chaste lives in fellowship, truth and love. It fully supports Catholic teaching on matters relating to marriage and sexual intimacy.

Founded in 1980 by the late Father John Harvey at the request of now-deceased New York Cardinal Terence Cooke, Courage has more than 100 chapters and individuals to contact worldwide. More information on the Courage apostolate, and its sister organization Encourage, which assists parents of people experiencing same-sex attraction, can be found at couragerc.org.

Funders see faith organizations as key to culture change

The Archdiocese of San Francisco directly experienced the lobbying efforts of faith-focused LGBT advocates in June when Faithful America organized an online petition and letter from politicians and representatives of various gay rights organizations to pressure Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone to withdraw from the June 19 March for Marriage in Washington, D.C. It was one of more than 30 such Faithful America online campaigns since 2013, most of which were aimed at religious organizations and were related to homosexual issues.

Faithful America began its current configuration as an online advocacy vehicle with Faith in Public Life, and is now under the umbrella of Citizen Engagement Laboratory, a progressive entity that supports a number of online advocacy groups. It also received significant funding from several of the foundations discussed in this story.

(See Part 1 in this series, published Sept. 12).

The Gill and Arcus Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Haas Jr. Fund, the Carpenter Foundation, and Open Society foundations attach importance to the views of people of faith, not just Catholics. They recognize that faith carries weight with Americans and lends legitimacy to issues of public policy. The grants’ language also shows they don’t just want to influence public policy, they want to change how religions – including the Catholic Church – regard homosexual sexual activity.

For example, about its $1.4 million grant in 20102012 to the Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Institute for Welcoming Resources, an entity created to influence churches, the Haas Jr. Fund website states: “To counter the influence of the religious right in policy debates about gay and lesbian rights, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund wants to see the number of inclusive and welcoming churches grow.”

In another example, Arcus donated nearly $175,000 “to position leadership of Congregation Beth Simcat Torah to assume a national LGBT advocacy role within the Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements of Judaism, and within the larger LGBT movement,” according to its 2010 tax return.

The goal is acceptance of homosexual behavior, and faith is just a tool, said Hendershott. Hendershott’s column “Marginalizing Catholic teaching one grant at a time” focused on Jon Stryker and Tim Gill’s funding of faith-oriented organizations that attack Catholic teaching. In an interview with Catholic San Francisco, she said: “Arcus buys a counter voice to the Catholic hierarchy. Arcus is trying to legitimize the gay lifestyle, and part of that is to diminish the teaching of the church, any church.”

The issue is society-wide, and goes beyond sexual conduct to a distorted sense of the human person and sexuality, said David, a Courage member who used a pseudonym for his interview with Catholic San Francisco. David said the Courage apostolate is anonymous, much as Alcoholics Anonymous is, to preserve the privacy of its members.

“Young people – everything about their education is backwards,” said David, who mentors in a Courage group in the Bay Area. “Everything they’ve been taught from kindergarten on tells them ‘you can’t be chaste.’ You should do whatever you want and that’s freedom. That’s what our kids are being taught, that’s sad.”

That view of human sexuality is false and hurts those who live it, said Rilene Simpson, a member of Courage in the Bay Area who went public in the new Courage movie, released in July, “Desire of the Everlasting Hills,” which tells the story of three people who left the gay life.

Simpson described leaving her relationship of 25 years with a woman and finding her faith as “walking out of a fog.”

“Absolutely the church should accept everyone where we are because we are all on a path, we are all on a path to become closer to Christ,” said

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Pope Francis talks with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 26. A delegation of government, religious and community leaders from Pennsylvania was meeting with Vatican officials to plan the Sept. 22-27, 2015, World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. U.S. church and civil officials were preparing for Pope Francis’ possible participation in the event.

Simpson. “But the second part of it is really what the problem is. To accept people where they are is a very loving thing to do. But to let people stay where they are is not a loving thing to do. It is true of the entire population, not just people who deal with same sex attraction,” she said.

“As a church we should demand that we grow closer in our relationship with God, and in doing so we are going to change. That is the biggest principle the whole thing revolves around,” Simpson said.

Why does this matter?

For Catholics and other Americans making decisions about these key issues, it is critically important they know that organizations which don’t espouse any particular faith nevertheless think it is worthwhile to put money into organizations that are focused on people of faith, observed Crisis Magazine columnist Hendershott and others.

The pro-gay-rights foundations fund dissident Catholic and other faith-focused organizations that advocate for LGBT behavior because they recognize that faith carries weight with Americans and lends legitimacy, said CatholicVote.org blogger Thomas Peters, who has written about the topic.

“Why do they get to make our faith their business and why don’t we have the right to share our view about marriage in the public square?” asked Peters in an email interview with Catholic San Francisco.

“Our culture now is this machine,” said Simpson. The predominant culture promotes the view that any attraction to the same sex is hard-wired, she said. “There is this push to lock people in.

If you feel these feelings then you are gay. The entertainment industry is glorifying this as well,” said Simpson.

“And then you have Planned Parenthood out there telling kids how do you know you are unless you try it? They are pushing their agenda of all kinds of sex for everyone,” said Simpson. “There is all these kinds of pressure on kids that there never was before,” Simpson said.

Dignity USA executive director Marianne Duddy-Burke said Dignity believes physical homosexual relationships can be good. Dignity opposes Courage and the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality, she said.

“For those that are of gay or lesbian orientation, same-sex relationships can be just as life-giving,” Duddy-Burke told Catholic San Francisco. “We strongly disagree with the Courage philosophy that the only way for Christian (same-sex attracted) people to live Christian lives is to be celibate,” she said. That is why the organization, which is a leader in the Equally Blessed coalition, is promoting attendance by its members at the World Meeting of Families, she said.

“The reality is that most Catholics support us and our families and we want to make sure that message is part of what happens in Philadelphia next year,” Duddy-Burke said.

Father Larry Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto, and a Courage chaplain, said it is important that young people learn the truth of the Catholic faith. When he was a pastor at St. Finn Barr Parish in San Francisco, he said he and other members of the Legion of Mary used to go to the Castro district to talk to people about God and hand out literature.

“We would see these young people, 17, 18, wander around the area,” said Father Goode. “There was no one there to help them actually sort it out,” he said.

“It’s a war,” said David, who had a same-sex experience and is a Courage mentor in the Bay Area. “That’s why we should speak the truth. The truth is actually more compassionate than what we are being told. The voices you don’t really hear are our kind of voices.”

“It is a very difficult problem because the other side is willing to lie, it’s willing to buy influence.

It will go to any lengths to promote this,” Simpson said. “The problem with the Catholic Church is all we have against this is the truth. But that’s going to be enough. Because he is enough. Jesus is enough and he is the truth.”

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York Times article states Gill has spent $300 million of his own fortune on gay rights causes.

The Gill Foundation awarded $100,000 to Catholics United Education Fund in 2012, a prominent proponent of same-sex marriage. That single grant covered most of Catholic United Education Fund’s annual budget of $111,819, as Catholic News Agency’s Kevin Jones found by examining the organization’s tax return. In 2004, the Gill Foundation gave Dignity USA a grant of $10,000, following a $7,500 grant to Dignity in 2003. In 2010, the foundation gave Faith in Public Life $5,000 to research the religious right and in 2012, the Gill Foundation awarded a $20,000 grant to Faith in Public Life to support Faithful America.

Nothing illegal

In making their grants, all the foundations mentioned in this article have done nothing illegal. Catholics who support marriage as only between one man and one woman, however, should be aware of the financial flows going to faith-based organizations opposing Catholic teaching on marriage and same-sex attraction.

Opponents of church teaching on marriage have also developed an effective strategy of stigmatizing those who support traditional sexual morality – whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or Muslim – as lacking good will. For example, on the Gill Foundation website under the heading “Spirituality,” the foundation states: “Spiritual solidarity with a higher power is as old as humanity and has been practiced by virtually all cultures. Many people say that

Several other faith-based groups also received grants. Faith in Public Life received $1.1 million in grants from the Foundation to Promote an Open Society, according to tax returns for 2009, 2010 and 2011. Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good received $100,000 from the Foundation to Promote an Open Society, according to the Open Society foundation’s 2009 tax filing.

it gives life meaning. Many LGBT people would like to pursue a spiritual path but have been rejected by their chosen religion, their place of worship and/or their clergy member.” Representatives of the Arcus Foundation and of the Gill Foundation declined to comment for this story.

OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS: Hungarian immigrant George Soros survived both the Nazis and the Communists and subsequently made a fortune in a variety of business and financial ventures. His Open Society Foundations are dedicated to his personal view of an “open society” and have donated about $8 billion in grants to overseas and American endeavors, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

However, the “open society” of Soros is closed to Catholic teaching on the dignity of the human person. Soros’ foundations donate heavily to initiatives to advance family planning, abortion and same-sex marriage and recently gave $2 million to Compassion & Choices, an assisted suicide advocacy organization.

In an interview with Catholic San Francisco, Bill Vandenberg, director of special initiatives for U.S. Open Society Foundations, said that Soros “has a deep commitment to efforts that engage the broadest possible cross section of the country in public life.”

The Open Society Institute gave $150,000 in grants to Faithful America. (Last week’s issue of Catholic San Francisco documented the role played by Faithful America in organizing opposition to Archbishop Cordileone.) But the grant to Faithful America was channeled through Citizen Engagement Laboratory Education Fund, according to its 2012 tax return.

THE EVELYN AND WALTER HAAS JR. FUND: gave grants totaling $55,000 to Faithful America beginning in 2012. This donation is part of a larger effort to support LGBT policies. In a blog post about the Hass Jr. Fund, Anne Stanback, director of strategic partnerships for Equality Federation, notes that the Haas Jr. Fund is one of the groups listed by Faithful America as supporting LGBT policies. “Over the past four years, Haas, Jr. Fund’s Gay & Lesbian Program … has strategically supported a variety of organizations dedicated to advancing nondiscrimination protections and marriage equality,” Stanback wrote.

THE E. RHODES AND LEONA B. CARPENTER FUND: In 2012 made grants to three organizations that, according to its tax return, identify as Catholic; these groups also oppose Catholic teaching on homosexuality. The three groups are Dignity USA, a recipient of $20,000; Fortunate Families, which received $25,000; and New Ways Ministry, given a grant of $30,000. The Dignity grant was to be used for the Equally Blessed coalition, to which all three organizations belong. It also gave $50,000 to dissident women’s theology group WATER in 2007, and $10,000 in 2006.

The money trail

Here is a list of the secular foundations and the faith-focused organizations to which they have awarded grants. Information in this table was drawn from tax returns, organization and foundation websites and from data posted on guidestar.org and foundationcenter.org.

Catholics for Choice

Arcus

E. R. Carpenter Gill

Ford

Haas Jr.

Open Societies

2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2012 2007 2006 2012 2010 2004 2003 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2005 2013 2012 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2003

Catholics United

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

$250,000

Dignity/ Equally Blessed

Faith in Public Life

$200,000

Faithful America

Fortunate Families

New Ways Ministry

WATER

$75,000 $5,000 $80,000

$370,000

$250,000

$236,000 $93,345 $20,000

$25,000

$30,000 $50,000 $10,000

$100,000

$20,000 $5,000 $10,000 $7,500

$300,000

$725,000 $150,000

$300,000 $800,000 $300,000

$250,000 $450,000

$2,000,000 $30,000 $25,000 $75,000 $75,000 $650,000 $25,000 $100,000

$450,000

$100,000 (RESEARCH BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

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On how we react to criticism and opposition

H

ave you ever noted how we spontaneously react to a perceived threat? Faced with a threat, our primal instincts tend to take over and we instantly freeze over and begin to shut all the doors opening to warmth, gentleness and empathy inside us.

That’s a natural reaction, deeply FATHER RON rooted inside ROLHEISER our nature. Biologists tell us that, whenever we perceive something or someone as threatening us, paranoia instinctually arises inside us and has the effect of driving us back toward a more primitive place inside our bodies, namely, the reptile part of our brain, that remnant still inside us from our evolutionary origins millions of years ago. And reptiles are coldblooded. So too, it seems, are we when we’re threatened.

This, I believe, helps explain much of the paranoia and violence in our world today as well as the bitter rhetoric that, almost universally, is blocking any real possibility of meaningful discussion apposite our tensions today within politics, economics, and our churches.

We live in a bitterly polarized

We live in a bitterly polarized world. All of us recognize this, and all of us see a lot of coldbloodedness inside world politics, inside the politics within our own countries and communities, and, sadly, not least inside our churches. world. All of us recognize this, and all of us see a lot of coldbloodedness inside world politics, inside the politics within our own countries and communities, and, sadly, not least inside our churches. What we see in nearly every discussion today where there is disagreement is a cold, hard rhetoric that is not really open to genuine dialogue and is, invariably, the antithesis of charity, graciousness, and respect. What we see instead is paranoia, demonization of those who disagree with us, ridicule of our opponents’ sincerity and values, and blind self-defensiveness.

Moreover this bitterness and disrespect, so contrary to all that’s in the Gospels and to all that’s noble inside us, is invariably “sacralized,” that is, it is rationalized as demanded by “God” because we believe that what we are doing is for God, or for truth, or for country, or for the poor, or for Mother Nature, or for art, or for something whose transcendent value, we believe, justifies our bracketing both Jesus and common courtesy. If you doubt this, simply turn on any radio or television station that does commentary

on politics or religion or listen to any political or religious debate today. We are, as John Shea puts it, more skilled in justification than in self-examination; but, then, we can sacralize our disrespect and lack of elemental charity.

But, in doing this we are far from the Gospel, far from Jesus, and far from what’s best inside us. We’re meant to be more than the reptile part of our brains and more than the instincts we inherited from our ancient ancestors, the beasts of prey.

We’re called to something higher, called to respond to threat beyond the blind response of instinct.

St. Paul’s own reaction to threat can serve as a template for what our ideal response should be. He writes: “When we are ridiculed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we respond gently” (1 Corinthians 4, 12-13). Earlier, in the same letter, he had already given another counsel in regard to dealing with opposition. His counsel: Live with enough patience inside opposition so as not have to defend yourself, let God and history do that for you: “It does not concern me in

the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on myself; I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not hereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord.

Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time.”

Like everyone else, I struggle a lot with this. Every time I hear or read someone who dismisses my preaching and writing as heretical or dangerous, or (even more biting) as fluff, the reptile part of my brain stirs to do its ancient job and my natural instincts bitterly resist the high road that St. Paul so wisely counsels.

Natural instinct does not want to try to understand the position of the one who has belittled us, nor does it want to bless and endure and respond gently. It wants blood. I suspect that everyone’s instincts work in the same way. Natural instinct doesn’t easily honor the Gospel.

I submit that at the core of Jesus’ teaching lies this challenge: Can I love an enemy? Can I bless someone who curses me? Can I wish good to someone who wishes me evil? Can I genuinely forgive someone who’s been unfair to me? And, perhaps even more important, can I live in patience when I’m in tension, not rushing to defend myself, but leaving that defense to history and to God? OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

LETTERS Grateful for expose Re ‘Gay rights money funds archbishop’s critics,” Sept. 12: I was gratified to see your in-depth CSF special report. Thank you for exposing Faithful America and other activist political groups that are trying to undermine Catholic teaching.

You have shown that they are not grass-roots movements of concerned Catholics – their methods are wellplanned and well-funded manipulations by people who have no regard for church teachings. Thank you for your detailed documentation.

The sidebars on church teaching about marriage, homosexuality and conscience, as well as the close-up look at some of the (supposedly Catholic) signers of the June 10 letter to Archbishop Cordileone should be helpful to those who may have only a vague idea about what has been going on and how it applies to church teaching.

I look forward to the remaining articles in this series.

Please join me in praying for our archbishop, our priests and our church.

Mary Bordi La Honda

Informative article A big thank you for the Faithful America article – very informative.

And hats off to Archbishop Cordileone for standing up and not giving in to the pressures of politics.

Lu Semelka Daly City

A true shepherd Thanks to Archbishop Cordileone for being a true shepherd in defending marriage at the national pro-marriage event and thanks to

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but I would like to register a personal response.

Our good news of Christ evidences inclusivity more than exclusion.

In conscience I do not see the issue of gay aspirations as opposition threatening marriage and family but as a matter of public morality and rights in the same realm as racism, the death penalty, or American exceptionalism and the just war. I hope that the follow-up to the special report will clarify whether or not the June D.C. rally also featured any speaker whose words or group’s history carried disrespectful or hate messages.

Ray Szempruch Arlington, Texas

Our Lord is not in error Catholic San Francisco for exposing the wolf along with its money trail: (un) Faithful America.

Mary Dillon Ventura

Eye-opening article Thank you so much for the eyeopening, well-written article on Faithful America. Great investigative journalism! I applaud defense of our faith and this article is loaded with facts that tell all. Looking forward to the next issue.

Kathrin Callahan San Rafael

I could not disagree more with what was written.

I am a 63-year old Catholic with 16 years of Catholic education – from first grade at IHM in Belmont, Serra High School in San Mateo and Santa Clara University. I am active in my parish and attend weekly Mass.

I know from my own educational and scientific background that homosexuality is a God-given genetic disposition that cannot be avoided, “controlled,” or reversed. The church’s position regarding homosexuality is inherently incorrect – it suggests that Our Lord is in error in his creation of individuals that

are homosexual. As you know, this cannot be.

Matthew O’Brien Milpitas

Follow Pope Francis’ lead I read your article and I understand the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage. Having said that, I too am a Catholic who has a nephew who is gay. He was born that way. That’s the way God made him. To insist that homosexual men and women or even transgender men and women should deny their God-given natures is just not what Jesus would do.

Most movements that want to bring change to society to make it more inclusive are grass-roots. People sign up to be a part of such movements because they believe in their cause.

The Catholic bishops should follow Pope Francis’ lead and focus more on the poor, the unseen, the mistreated, the least of us and less on sexual issues. I’m not suggesting that the Catholic Church has changed its belief in marriage between a man and a woman. I’m just suggesting you spend more time on things that bring life to the community and stop focusing all your energy on sex.

God doesn’t make “fundamentally flawed” people. And Jesus made it quite clear that we are to love one another as we love ourselves.

Louise Fitzgerald New York, New York

Matter of public morality Congratulations on this special report. Not too many diocesan papers are as capable of this level of journalism. Nor do too many Catholics ever see an invitation to respond in a diocesan forum. Yours may or may not be an open forum,

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LETTERS God’s loving grace I am writing in response to the article about Faithful America. Your newsletter states: “Faithful America is funded by people who oppose the church’s most fundamental beliefs about the dignity of the human person, marriage, and family ....” As a member of Faithful America, may I point out that it is exactly those fundamental beliefs that we share! There is nothing in the Bible to construe that loving, consensual relationships between any two single adults should not be blessed by the church. While the Bible notes some abuse of same-gender relationships, it far more often notes abuses within heterosexual relationships. So we share the goal of “dignity” in human relationships, marriages and families ... yet many Christians also want to extend that dignity to same-gender couples. By the way, I’m not a rich gay man. I am a middle-class, heterosexual, ordained United Methodist pastor who has spent 30 years (plus seminary) studying the Bible.

And yes, I donate to Faithful America and sign its petitions, partly because I am so embarrassed by how many of my students despise Christianity based on the (unintentionally) mean spirit directed toward same-gender loving persons. Just as Jesus said that man was not made for the Sabbath, but Sabbath for man, so man was not made for church tradition, but the church was made for man. Let’s keep our focus on God and God’s loving grace for all of us, and have the courage to return to God’s will when we see that church tradition has turned away from God’s intent.

Rev. Cheryl Wertheimer Wichita, Kansas The writer teaches religion at Butler County Community College.

Love and mercy Why can’t church teaching be tempered by love and compassion? Carrying church teaching to its logical conclusion would lead one to believe that all practicing gays and lesbians are going into eternal damnation, but is this really the case? Surely there must be some mercy for them? I hope and pray for this to be so.

Although I believe gay/lesbian sex is sinful, and I am against same-sex marriage, in general I am for gay rights. It is not their fault they are the way

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Jesus was inclusionary It is clear from all New Testament writings that Jesus never took a non-inclusionary stance on any issue. Even prostitutes and criminals were welcomed. I am sure that Pope Francis is taking an inclusionary stance on who he welcomes into the church. Why can’t you take a similar position?

My Catholic Church includes all of God’s children, especially my LGBT brothers and sisters.

Tom Boushel Plattsburgh, New York

Striving toward perfection The special report on the gay rights movement is journalism at its best. With outstanding research, clear documentation and factual clarity this series brings to light the real sources of support for the radical left’s anti-Catholic, anti-Christian agenda that purports to represent a majority. In fact it is a minuscule number of extraordinarily wealthy and powerful persons hiding behind a facade of nonexistent large organizations who have been pulling the strings and convincing the masses that their radical agenda of lies is truth and that truth is a lie. The person of evil is cunning, baffling and powerful and the assistant editor of CSF has shed a powerful light on its many faces. The Catholic Church is not a “hate” organization and does not hate homosexuals or any other group of people. It behooves all Catholics to read the catechism and

church documents, learn the faith in its depth and beauty and realize that in her wisdom the church, the mystical body of Christ, calls each of us, gay or straight, to live in her embrace, to grow in chastity and charity, to discipline our senses that we are not slaves to them and that we may grow together in love as we strive toward human perfection as images of God who is love. I pray this series finds a broader venue to enlighten the wider culture.

Mary McCurry San Francisco

Blessing all God’s children Thank you for welcoming a response to Archbishop Cordileone’s comments on Faithful America and his general comments on gay marriage. My husband and I are the parents of four wonderful children who we equally loved. We are equally blessed by each of them. We are a strong Catholic family trying to remain faithful to a church that often is at odds with our conscience. Please note our love and faithfulness to God has remained strong and unchanging in these turbulent times within the church. Two of our four children happen to be gay.

They are the same wonderful people they always were and have fought courageously to be the people God has intended them to be. I have no doubt in my mind God loves them and supports them just as their family does. We want the same happiness for all our children whether they choose marriage and children or the single life. There is nothing disordered or evil about my gay children. On the contrary they are among the most compassionate and kind people I know. Their professional lives are in service to society in ways that humble me.

This is oftentimes a very hurtful world we live in.

Our solace has always come from our church and family. Just as it is my obligation before God to love and accept my children just as they are, it is the church’s obligation to love and accept them as well.

This bigotry and turning families away from their gay children is a very serious sin. My hope and prayer is for the Holy Spirit to enlighten the minds of our bishops and to humbly open their hearts to allow full equality and blessing to all God’s children.

Joanne Thompson San Carlos

The good and the bad in end-of-life planning

lanning for end of life situations is important.

We should put in place an advance directive before our health takes a serious turn for the worse and we are no longer able to indicate our own wishes or make our own decisions. Advance directives can be of two types: living wills and health care agents.

The best approach is to choose a health care agent (aka a “proxy” or a “durable power of attorney for health care”). Our agent then makes decisions on our behalf when we become incapacitated. We should designate in writing who our health care proxy will be. The National Catholic Bioethics Center and many individual state Catholic conferences offer helpful forms that can be used to designate our proxy.

FATHER TADEUSZ Copies of our completed PACHOLCZYK health care proxy designation forms should be shared with our proxy, our doctors, nurse practitioners, hospice personnel, family members and other relevant parties.

In addition to choosing a health care proxy, some individuals may also decide to write up a living will in which they state their wishes regarding end of life care. Living wills raise concerns, however, because these documents attempt to describe our wishes about various medical situations before those situations actually arise, and may end up limiting choices in unreasonable ways. Given the breathtaking pace of medical advances, a person’s decisions today about what care to receive or refuse

MAKING SENSE OUT OF BIOETHICS

they are; they should not be oppressed or discriminated against. There has been a long history of often cruel oppression of LGBT people, in America and around the world. Many LGBT youth end up committing suicide, because of bullying, because of cruel things said by so-called Christians, and because of rejection of them by their families.

I am pro-life (against abortion, as well as against all other things contrary to human rights and human dignity). I do what I can to advocate the pro-life message, and I pray for an end to abortion, for truly it will take a miracle from God to end the scourge of abortion in America and around the world. I strongly believe that America and the world needs a peaceful, lawful and spiritual revolution of love.

Harold M. Frost IV Sheffield, Vermont

may not make sense at a later time. In the final analysis, it is impossible and unrealistic to try to cover every medical situation in a living will, and it is preferable to have a proxy, a person we trust, who can interact with the hospital and the health care team, weigh options in real time, and make appropriate decisions for us as we need it.

A new type of living will known as a POLST form – a tool for advance planning – also raises concerns.

The POLST form (which stands for Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) is a document that establishes actionable medical orders for a patient’s health care. The form is typically filled out with the help of trained “facilitators” – usually not physicians – who ask questions about patients’ health care wishes, and check boxes on the form that correspond to their answers. The facilitators receive training that can lead them to paint a rather biased picture of treatment options for patients, emphasizing potential negative side effects while sidestepping potential benefits or positive outcomes.

POLST forms thus raise several significant moral concerns: The approach encouraged by the use of POLST forms may end up skewed toward options of nontreatment and may encourage premature withdrawal of treatments from patients who can still benefit from them.

Filling out a POLST form may preclude a proxy from exercising his or her power to protect the rights of the patient, since the form sets in motion actual medical orders that a medical professional must follow. As a set of standing medical orders, the POLST approach is inflexible. Many POLST forms begin with language like this: “First follow these orders, then contact physician or health care provider.” Straightforwardly following orders created outside of a particular situation may be illadvised, improper and even harmful to the patient.

In some states, the signature of the patient (or his or her proxy) is not required on the POLST. After the form has been filled out, it is typically forwarded to a physician (or in some states to a nurse practitioner or a physician’s assistant) who is expected to sign the form. Thus, in some states, a POLST form could conceivably be placed into a patient’s medical record without the patient’s knowledge or informed consent. In a recent article about POLST forms in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, approximately 95 percent of the POLST forms sampled from Wisconsin were not signed by patients or by their surrogates. Fortunately, in some other states like Louisiana, the patient’s signature or the signature of the proxy is mandatory for the form to go into effect.

The implementation of a POLST form can thus be used to manipulate patients when they are sick and vulnerable, and can even lead to mandated orders for non-treatment in a way that constitutes euthanasia. The POLST template represents a fundamentally flawed approach to end-of-life planning, relying at its core on potentially inappropriate medical orders and dubious approaches to obtaining patient consent.

Notwithstanding the pressure that may be brought to bear on a patient, no one is required to agree to the implementation of a POLST form.

Patients are free to decline to answer POLST questions from a facilitator, and should not hesitate to let it be known that they instead plan to rely on their proxy for end of life decision-making, and intend to discuss their health care options uniquely with their attending physician.

FATHER PACHOLCZYK is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. Visit www.ncbcenter.org

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

He said to one of them in reply, ‘My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?

Take what is yours and go.’

MATTHEW 20:1-16A ISAIAH 55:6-9 Seek the Lord while he may be found, call him while he is near. Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked his thoughts; let him turn to the Lord for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts.

PSALM 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18 The Lord is near to all who call upon him.

Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable.

The Lord is near to all who call upon him.

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. The Lord is good to all and compassionate toward all his works.

The Lord is near to all who call upon him.

The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

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The Lord is near to all who call upon him.

PHILIPPIANS 1:20C-24, 27A Brothers and sisters: Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me life is Christ, and death is gain. If I go on living in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. And I do not know which I shall choose.

I am caught between the two. I long to depart this life and be with Christ, for that is far better.

Yet that I remain in the flesh is more necessary for your benefit. Only, conduct yourselves in a way worthy of the gospel of Christ.

MATTHEW 20:1-16A Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o’clock, the landowner saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’

So they went off. And he went out again around

noon, and around three o’clock, and did likewise.

Going out about five o’clock, the landowner found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard.’ When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.’ When those who had started about five o’clock came, each received the usual daily wage. So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage. And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner, saying, ‘These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day’s burden and the heat.’ He said to one of them in reply, ‘My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?’Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

God’s idea of fair is different than ours

e live in a world that keeps score. It starts when we’re very young and never stops. In Little League, we know it’s all about sportsmanship and fun, but we still keep score. At school, we know it’s all about learning and growth, but when we look at that report card, we’re still keeping score. As adults, the only thing that changes is HOW we keep score. What kind of car do we drive? How much money do we make?

We’ve heard it said, “The person who dies with the most toys, wins.”

We keep score, from Little League to our deathbeds, because that’s how we’ve learned to measure ourselves.

We determine our success or DEACON MICHAEL failure by comparing ourselves to others. Of course, MURPHY the problem with this is obvious. The only way to be successful is to outdo everyone else. Rather then life being a journey we’re sharing with our brothers and sisters, it becomes a competi-

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tion we need to win. It’s a vicious cycle, but if the playing field is level, we accept it as fair. In the world in which we find ourselves, it’s hard to see things being any other way.

But in this week’s Gospel, Jesus turns this upsidedown. In the parable of the workers in the vineyard, Jesus tells us that our relationship with God should not be measured in the same way we’ve come to measure the rest of our lives. It’s not a win-lose proposition, in which some prosper while others fail. With God, all are welcome; everyone can win. God takes us the way we are, whether we come to him sooner or later, and gives each of us in return his infinite, unconditional love.

But, even so, as faithful churchgoers, this reading can’t help but bug us just a little. We may see ourselves as the workers who’ve been in the vineyard all day. It doesn’t seem fair that God will give just as much to those who come wandering in late in the day. God should give us with bigger halos, a higher place in heaven, something! It’s the way things work.

But thankfully, God’s idea of fair is different than ours. He knows that our faith will be rewarded, far more then we can possibly imagine. But he wants us to understand that when it comes to love, it’s not a numbers game. He hopes we’ll learn that the love of God is not part of some finite pie, which can only

be divided up in a limited number of ways. There’s enough for us, for our family and friends, for our enemies, for anyone who cares to come to the banquet.

God doesn’t keep score because he’s willing to give everyone everything! Why measure ourselves against others when all of life is a gift from God? Jesus shows us that God accepts and loves us right now, that winning and losing are irrelevant, that keeping score is a waste of time. On hearing this we should be filled with joy, because there will definitely be occasions when we’ll be the workers arriving late at the vineyard, yet we can be confident God will be there to welcome and embrace us with open arms.

The message of Jesus is one of hope and generosity, describing a world infused with mercy and love.

What’s more, as this generosity takes hold in our lives, we hopefully begin to treat others the same way, loving without condition, sharing and giving ourselves completely. Let us rejoice and celebrate our God who gives without limit, who loves without counting the cost or looking at the score. A God who welcomes and loves us, when we’re the first in the vineyard, or even when we’re last.

DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS

POPE FRANCIS WAR IS MADNESS

When will people ever learn that war is madness and conflicts are only resolved by forgiveness, Pope Francis asked.

The pope said it is believed that more than 8 million soldiers and 7 million civilians died during World War I – a four-yearlong conflict that began 100 years ago.

The number of so many lost lives “lets us see how much war is insanity,” Pope Francis said after praying the Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter’s Square Sept.

14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

“When will we learn this lesson?” he asked, telling people to look at the crucified Christ “to understand that hatred and evil are defeated with forgiveness and good.”

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22: Monday of the Twentyfifth Week in Ordinary Time. PRV 3:27-34. PS 15:2-3a, 3-bc-4ab, 5. LK 8:16-18.

THERESE COUDERC 1805-1885 Sept. 26

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23: Memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina, priest. PRV 21:1-6, 10-13. PS 119:1, 27, 30, 34, 35, 44. LK 8:19-21.

Born to a French farm family, Marie-Victoire Couderc joined a new religious teaching order, but was sent to manage a mountain hostel for women pilgrims at the shrine of St. John Francis Regis. It became a successful retreat house under her guidance: The Congregation of Our Lady of the Cenacle.

Mother Therese was superior of the Cenacle sisters until 1838. She lived out her days as an ordinary nun, suffering deafness and painful arthritis at the end.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24: Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time. PRV 30:5-9. PS 119:29, 72, 89, 101, 104, 163. LK 9:1-6.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25: Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time. ECCL 1:2-11. PS 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17bc. LK 9:7-9.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26: Friday of the Twentyfifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, martyrs. ECCL 3:1-11. PS 144:1b and 2abc, 3-4. LK 9:18-22.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, priest. ECCL 11:9-12:8. PS 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17. LK 9:43b-45.

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PHILLY MEETING PART OF GLOBAL DEBATE ON FAMILIES

VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September 2015 will serve as a forum for debating issues on the agenda for the world Synod of Bishops at the Vatican the following month, said the two archbishops responsible for planning the Philadelphia event, Catholic News Service reported.

At a Sept. 16 brieďŹ ng, ArchArchbishop bishop Vincenzo Paglia, presiPaglia dent of the PontiďŹ cal Council for the Family, described the world meeting as one of several related events to follow the October 2014 extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, which will prepare an agenda for the worldwide synod one year later.

Such events, including a January 2015 meeting in Rome with family and pro-life groups, will enable a debate on the synodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agenda â&#x20AC;&#x153;at the international, global level,â&#x20AC;? Archbishop Paglia said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is important that this text not remain an abstract text reserved to some specialists.â&#x20AC;?

Pope Francis has said both synods will consider, among other topics, the eligibility of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion, whose predicament he has said exempliďŹ es a general need for mercy in the church today.

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common in sub-Saharan Africa, in Central and South America, and in several English-speaking Western countries.â&#x20AC;?

One-ďŹ fth or more of children in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada live with only one parent, while Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe have the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lowest rates of single parenthood.

The report also found that â&#x20AC;&#x153;although marriage rates for adults aged 18-49 are declining worldwide, they remain high in Asia and the Middle East (between 47 percent in Singapore and 80 percent in Egypt), and are particularly low in Central/South America.â&#x20AC;?

Data from the U.S. Census Bureauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 American Community Survey shows that only 48 percent of U.S. households include a married couple and 34 percent of households include only one person or two or more people without family ties of marriage, blood or adoption. Thirteen percent of â&#x20AC;&#x153;family householdsâ&#x20AC;? in the U.S. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; deďŹ ned as one in which two members are related by birth, marriage or adoption â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are headed by women with no husband present, while 5 percent of family households are headed by men, with no wife present.

In a report prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families, based in Coral Gables, Florida, Philip Cohen, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, found that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;typicalâ&#x20AC;? American family that existed in 1960, with a breadwinner-father married to a stay-at-home mother, now only applies to 22 percent of U.S. children today. Meanwhile, 23 percent of U.S. children live with single mothers, 7 percent with parents who cohabit with unmarried partners, 6 percent with single fathers, and 3 percent with grandparents and no parent present. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Different families have different child-rearing challenges and needs, which means we are no

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longer well-served by policies that assume most children will be raised by married-couple families, especially ones where the mother stays home throughout the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early years,â&#x20AC;? Cohen said in the report.

In his 2014 book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Next America: Boomers, Millennials and the Looming Generational Showdown,â&#x20AC;? Paul Taylor, executive vice president at the Pew Research Center, said the United States also must deal with a vastly different racial and ethnic makeup than 50 years ago, primarily because of immigration.

In 1960, he said, the U.S. population was 85 percent white, 10 percent black and 4 percent Hispanic. By 2060, according to Taylor, whites will make up 43 percent of the population, Hispanics 31 percent, blacks 13 percent, Asian-Americans 8 percent and other races or ethnicities 6 percent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were once a black and white nation; now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a rainbow,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In addition, Taylor said, only one-ďŹ fth of the U.S. population was made up of ďŹ rst- or secondgeneration immigrants in 1960. A hundred years later, in 2060, ďŹ rst- or second-generation immigrants will make up 37 percent of the U.S. population, he said.

Randall Woodard, an associate professor of theology/religion at St. Leo University in Florida, told Catholic News Service that divorce is the biggest issue facing American families, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and Catholics in the U.S. generally arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t particularly distinct or different from the rest of the culture here.â&#x20AC;?

He said the synod will need to ďŹ nd a way to make divorced Catholics who have remarried feel welcomed into the church, even if their status might preclude them from receiving the sacraments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cultural issues are challenging to address for the church because (they) can make people feel alienated, but often itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same people who need help,â&#x20AC;? Woodard said.

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The new leadership team took office Sept. 1. The team is comprised of sisters Barbara Barry, Edie Daly, Barbara Ann English, Mary Farren, Anne Malone and Catherine Waldron, (canonical moderator). Administrative offices will continue to be located in the areas served by the former units.

The sisters said the new province will both strengthen existing ministries and provide impetus for new

expressions of the sisters’ mission to educate for life, to serve those who live in poverty and to respond to their religious congregation’s mandate to be “women of justice and peace in the midst of the inequality and violence in our world.”

Founded in 1804 in Amiens, France by St. Julie Billiart (1751-1816), the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur serve in a variety of ministries with associates, co-workers, and volunteers in Africa, Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America. The congregation strives to respond, through education and programs for social justice, to the needs of people around the world, especially those living in poverty. Visit www. sndden.org.

Oakland Catholic Worker hosts human-rights activist The Oakland Catholic Worker will initiate a monthly “Clarification of Thought” program beginning Sunday, Sept. 21, at 3 p.m., with internationally acclaimed artist, teacher and human-rights activist Claudia Bernardi as the first presenter. The theme of her multimedia presentation will be “The Perquin Model: A Proposition of Art, Education, Diplomacy and Human Rights from Morazon to the World.” The free series will be held at the Oakland Catholic Worker, 4848 International Blvd. at 50th Avenue, Oakland.

Buenos Aries-born Bernardi, who focuses on human rights and social justice and has exhibited her work widely the U.S., Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan, “has witnessed monstrous atrocities and unspeakable human tragedies, yet speaks of these horrors in ways that communicate the persistence of hope, undeniable integrity, and necessary remembrance,” Oakland Catholic Worker said in an announcement.

Bernardi and her younger sister lost their parents

while teenagers during a time of dictatorship and extreme political unrest in Argentina. Argentines at the time lived in perpetual fear that they personally, or someone closely related, would be become a “desaparecido” – a disappeared citizen. Some 30,000 desaparecidos were documented during the so-called “Dirty War” waged by the Argentine military from 1976 to 1983.

Bernardi’s presentation is the first in a proposed monthly “Clarification of Thought” series by artists, academics and social justice activists at the Oakland Catholic Worker. “Clarification of Thought” follows the dictum of Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, who claimed “intellectuals think but don’t act and activists act but don’t think.” His vision was to integrate the two vocations for mutually enriching purposes.

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The director provides support for the Vicar for Clergy who works with the priests, and to the Dept. of Catholic Schools, which oversees policies and performance of the elementary and high schools of the Archdiocese.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 20 RUMMAGE SALE: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, 299 Precita Ave. with entrance on Shotwell, 9 a.m.3 p.m. Vintage and new merchandise, including furniture, clothing, jewelry, household items plus food booths.

(415) 648-2008. Visit www.saicsf.org.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 21 ‘CONVERSATIONS WITH JESUITS’: Jesuit Father Frank Turner on Catholic social teaching and growing inequality in the world. Talks are in St. Ignatius Church, Parker Avenue at Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Fromm Hall just behind the church, 10:50-11:45 a.m.

Talks are free and open to the public with free parking in all USF lots. Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195; faloon@usfca.edu.

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

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MONDAY, SEPT 22 DAY OF PEACE: All are welcome to join the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael for their 12th annual observance of the United Nations International Day of Peace, 11 a.m. A one-hour interfaith program

for peace in the world; 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael between Acacia and Locust.

(415) 453-8303; www.sanrafaelop.org; CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org.

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

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

FRIDAY, SEPT. 26 3-DAY FESTIVAL: St. Veronica Fiesta, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco, one block from El Camino Real at Ponderosa Road, Friday 6-10 p.m.; Saturday, 11a.m.-11p.m.; Sunday noon-6 p.m. Entertainment and fun the whole weekend long includes live Mariachi kick-off, rock band, Ballet Folklorico, Aztec dancers, martial arts demonstrations, carnival rides with prepaid all day wrist bands and all kinds of food.

(650) 588-1455.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 30 CATHOLIC NETWORKING: Human resources veteran Anne Marie Paul shares strategies to get your resume into the hands of the hiring manager.

Anne Marie Paul St. Dominic Parish Aquinas Room, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 7 p.m., plenty of parking; no charge, but small donations accepted to cover snacks and door prizes; conniedaura@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27 GRIEF SUPPORT: Learning to Live With Grief, a session led by Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, 9:30-noon, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma.

(650) 756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

POST-INCARCERATION: San Francisco ReEntry Bay Area conference 8 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, on the problem recently released inmates have with continuing to commit crimes.

Offenders and their families are invited, admission is free. Register at www.ReEntryAction.org, escobarj@sfarchdiocese. org or call Julio Escobar, (415) 614-5570.

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

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PARISH ANNIVERSARY: Holy Angels Parish, Colma celebrates 100 years with a centennial dinner in the Parish Hall, $50 per person. Celebration also includes festival with food, games, and entertainment Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and a Mass of Thanksgiving Oct. 5, 1 p.m., with San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, principal celebrant. (650) 755-0478, visit www. holyangelscolma.com.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 3 FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m., followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

SATURDAY, OCT. 4 ‘LOOKING EAST’: Come to Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, for Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m.; luncheon at noon and a talk

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

‘COCKTAILS AT TIFFANY’S’: Evening in gardens of Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, with wine, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres beginning at 6 p.m. benefits St. James School, San Francisco. Tickets $35. Special raffle tickets $25; live and silent auction also on schedule.

Email dalton_constance@yahoo.com; (415) 642-6130.

SVDP RUN: Friends of the Poor walk and run, 8:45 a.m., McLaren Park, Wolsey Street entrance, San Francisco; refreshments served; allhallowssvdpsf@ gmail.com; (415) 267-6962.

SUNDAY, OCT. 5 POLENTA DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation, Branch 173, Our Lady of Angels Parish gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame, no-host social 4 p.m. and dinner 5 p.m., $22, adults, $5 children 17 and under; reserve by Oct. 1. (650) 344-5276.

PRO-LIFE: Life Chain 2 p.m., get signs at

FRIDAY, OCT. 24

ROSARY RALLY: A call to prayer, noon, San Francisco’s U.N. Plaza, Market and Seventh streets.

Keynote speakers and prayer leaders include Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Franciscan Archbishop Father Andrew Salvatore J. Apostoli of EWTN Cordileone and other outlets. Program includes Benediction, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and opportunities for confession; www.RosaryRallySF. com; (415) 272-2046. Rally is sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Ignatius Press, Immaculate Heart Radio, archdiocesan ministry for Spanishspeaking, Legion of Mary and Knights of Columbus.

RETIRED PRIESTS’ LUNCH: Luncheon honoring retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and retired religious orders priests serving in the ADSF, St. Mary’s Cathedral Patrons Hall, Gough Street Father John at Geary Boulevard, K. Ring San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $125. (415) 614-5580; email Development@ sfarchdiocese.org.

Retired Father John K. Ring is retired pastor, St. Vincent De Paul Parish, San Francisco; Father Father Vincent Vincent Ring is Ring retired pastor, St. Denis Parish, Menlo Park.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 7 ROSARY: Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary with Dominican Sisters of San Rafael to pray the rosary 8 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, between Acacia and Locust; www.sanrafaelop.org; CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org.

THURSDAY, OCT. 9 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets second Thursdays except December 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Worner Center, 138 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome.

Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

3-DAY FESTIVAL: St Gregory Church, 2715 Hacienda at Eighth Avenue, San Mateo. Events and activities include carnival rides, food booths, games and entertainment for the whole family.

Saturday night dinner and Sunday pancake breakfast. Friday 6 p.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 2-10, Sunday 1-6. (650) 3458506; www.saintgregorychurch.org.

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REUNION: St. Gabriel School, class of 1969, 4:30-9:30 p.m., City Forest Lodge, 254 Laguna Honda Blvd, San Francisco, open bar, buffet dinner, dancing. To be put on the invitation list, email saintgabes69@yahoo.com.

ORGAN RECITAL: Mission Dolores Basilica’s Second Sunday Organ Recital Series, Jerome Lenk on his 25th anniversary as basilica organist, 4 p.m., free admission, Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St. at Dolores, San Francisco. (415) 621-8203; www.missiondolores.org. Suggested donation $10.

FRIDAY, OCT. 17 3-DAY FESTIVAL: “Wizard of Oz” Fall Festival, Oct, 17, 18, 19, St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae.

Enjoy carnival rides, games, food and drink, chili cook-off, pie eating contest, bingo, raffle, silent auction, and Auntie Em’s Country Store filled with handmade items and treats. Friday 5-10 p.m., Saturday noon-10, Sunday noon-8. (650) 697-4730; secretary@ saintdunstanchurch.org.

ANIVERSARY: Marin Pregnancy Clinic celebrates its 30th year with a wine and cheese gala. (415) 892-0558; visit www.marinpregnancyclinic.org.

REUNION: St. Gabriel School, San Francisco, 1974 graduates. Please respond to sg74reunion@gmail.com.

REUNION: All Hallows School, San Francisco, class of 1964, dinner at Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco. lindacassanego@gmail. com; (818) 889-4543.

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