February 24, 2012 by Catholic San Francisco

‘We will not violate our faith’: Hearing examines mandate’s impact on liberty

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New US cardinals share quips, reflections Newly elevated U.S. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York laughs next to his mother, Shirley Dolan, wearing a white sweater, at the Vatican Feb. 20. Asked about Italian news media speculation that Cardinal Dolan could make pope one day, fellow newly inducted U.S. Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien quipped, “His mother thinks so.” When Cardinal Dolan was asked about being “papabile” – “pope-able” in Italian – the New York archbishop laughed it off, claiming – in Italian – that he did not understand the question. On Feb. 17, Cardinal-designate Dolan delivered a well-received address to the College of Cardinals on evangelization. Read about the speech on Page 3.

WASHINGTON (CNS) – During a nearly five-hour congressional hearing Feb. 16, religious leaders explained how the contraceptive mandate in the U.S. health reform plan is an affront to their religious liberty rights. Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, and two Catholic college presidents were among 10 panelists who addressed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Panel members included an Orthodox rabbi, a Baptist minister, the president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and officials from Christian universities. The hearing took place nearly a week after President Barack Obama revised a federal contraceptive mandate, saying religious employers could decline to cover contraceptives and sterilization if they were morally opposed to them, but the health insurers that provide their health plans would be required to offer contraceptives free of charge to women who requested such coverage. The revision came after three weeks of intensive criticism that Department of Health and Human Services’ contraception mandate would require most religious institutions to pay for coverage they find morally objectionable, despite a limited religious exemption. The religious leaders at the hearing said the change still violated their religious freedoms because it involved the government requiring their participation, even indirectly, in practices they disagreed with on moral grounds. Democrats at the hearing were highly critical of the lack of female panelists and two of them walked out after expressing concern that women were not able to discuss the importance of free access to contraception. There were no women on the first panel and two on the second. None of the witnesses spoke in favor of the contraceptive mandate in the health reform law. U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., committee chairman, reminded lawmakers that the hearing was not about contraception but about the law’s impact on freedom of religion and conscience. The hearing was titled: “Lines Crossed: MANDATE, page 6

Kenyan man who grew up hungry devotes career to famine relief By George Raine There were many days when Peter Kimeu, growing up in Kenya, sat on a small hill above a path waiting for passers-by to spit out chewed-up sugar cane or toss a banana peel. He’d race down the hill and collect the garbage, then chew it. It gave him the energy to go back to class. At night, at the family’s mud hut, he kept a pot of water boiling in the hope that his parents would somehow bring home food that could be cooked. Often they came home emptyhanded, and said to Peter and his three sisters, “Tough luck.” “I would not even go to the market area because I am afraid of seeing or even smelling food,” said Kimeu, “It was very challenging, because I knew I can’t have it. I have no food and I can’t afford it.” That gave Kimeu motivation. He has spent the past 31 years working for Catholic Relief Services seeking to reduce hunger – hunger that makes people angry. He has also been engaged in health care, emergency response, community participation and the building of reservoirs and other improvements for people who have very little, in East Africa. He is in the United States as Lent begins to encourage

‘It is part of our responsibility as Catholics to raise our voices where the poor are going to be injured in any way.’ – Peter Kimeu Catholics to generously participate in Operation Rice Bowl, CRS’ Lenten program that began in 1975 as an ecumenical response to the drought in the African Sahel. Today, donations help fund development programs designed to increase food security around the world. The Horn of Africa, it happens, is one of the most food insecure regions of the world. Coupled with conflict in Somalia, it is insecure on every front. The worst drought since 1950 struck the region in 2011, bringing suffering to 4.5 million people, said Kimeu, who also develops partnerships between Catholic dioceses in

the U.S. and African communities – although none are in California. Decent rain fell during the “short rain” period, October to December, and so cows and goats are eating and supplying milk, he said. There are bountiful and nutritious cowpeas. The number of people in most need fell some. The “long rain” is the period February into May, but the forecast is not promising, Kimeu said last week while visiting Santa Clara University. “If the long rains do not show up and there is drought the situation will be back to what it was in 2011,” he said. FAMINE, page 21

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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke The Catholic Cemeteries Department says “thank you and `happy trails’ to General Manager Roger Appleby, March 31” Cemeteries Director, Monica Williams, told me in a note to this column. Roger, a retired National Guard command sergeant major, has served at the cemeteries for 39 years. “Roger used his talent in engineering to help develop many areas at Holy Cross, including the Star of the Sea Veterans Cremation Area, which he designed,” Monica said. “We are so grateful for Roger’s many years Roger Appleby of dedicated service. He leaves quite a legacy! We wish him a long, happy and healthy retirement.” Parishioners at St. Denis Parish in Menlo Park and Our Lady of the Wayside in Portola Valley are at work in outreach ministry to people in many tough spots. Calls and visits to those who are homebound are facilitated by Patricia Mach, Barbara Brennan and Sandy Rock. Barbara Mason recruits volunteers to help at nearby St. Anthony of Padua Dining Room on Middlefield Road. Kelly Kruse oversees holiday Giving Trees that at Christmas sent 225 gifts to families at St. Francis Center, Catholic Worker House, Garfield School and Maple Street Center in Redwood City. Eve Scott chaired a baby shower for Volunteer driver, expectant moms through First Resort. Kathleen Ruppel heads an environLaine Bernstein mental group aimed at creek cleanups and tree planting. Tom Kirkbride heads Mass-ride, helpers who drive folks without transportation to weekend Masses. “Anyone in the parish can bring a project to the Outreach Committee to get sponsorship and help,” Tom said in a note to this column. Thanks to Tom for letting us know about the St. Denis/Wayside outreach and thanks and hats off to all the more than 40 people who take part. Congrats at Immaculate Heart of Mary School to seventh grader, Sean Parden, who took second place in the 2012 San Mateo County Science Technology Engineering and Math contest. Sean’s “Eggs-periment” was one of more than 350 entries from students in grades five through 12. Congrats at Notre Dame High School, Belmont to seniors Naomi Hill and Alex Tabing and junior Clare Shaw for their high ranking in a recent WordMasters Challenge that involves reading and analysis of prose and poetry. More

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Secularism has had an easy time spreading through many traditionally Christian cultures because so many Christians do not know their faith and do not grasp the truth it teaches, Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan of New York told the College of Cardinals. While the New York prelate did not downplay the challenges the church faces in reviving the faith of its members and bringing the Gospel to those who have never heard it, he delivered his assessment Feb. 17 with his characteristic smile and broad gestures, telling Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals that evangelization requires joy and love. The head of the Archdiocese of New York was asked to give the main address on evangelization and missionary activity at a meeting of the pope with the cardinals and cardinals-designate, who were to be inducted into the College of Cardinals Feb. 18. The meeting was attended by 133 prelates, including at least 20 of the 22 who were to receive their red hats from the pope the following morning. The churchmen entered the Vatican synod hall, greeting old friends and introducing themselves to the new members. While an announcer repeatedly told them there were no assigned seats and they could sit anywhere, the men about to become cardinals all sat together on the far side of the hall, except for Cardinaldesignate Dolan, who was seated next to the pope. During the morning session, Pope Benedict did not address the assembly and was not one of the seven participants who commented on the presentation by Cardinal-designate Dolan and a brief statement by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, on plans for the 2012-2013 Year of Faith. In his presentation, Cardinal-designate Dolan said that when Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, asked him to be the main presenter, he hinted that he did so because New York “might be the ‘capital of secular culture.’” “New York – without denying its dramatic evidence of graphic secularism – is also a very religious city,” he said, where even those “who boast of their secularism” exhibit an openness to the divine and have questions about God. While secularism “is invading every

aspect of daily life,” the New York prelate said, it also is true that most people, on some level, still question the ultimate meaning of life and still ponder the idea of God. “Even a person who brags about being secular and is dismissive of religion has within an undeniable spark of interest in the beyond, and recognizes that humanity and creation is a dismal riddle without the concept of some kind of creator,” he said. The cardinal-designate said those people don’t want to be considered objects of missionary activity, but Christians have an obligation to help them maintain their search for meaning in life. Humility, joy and love are key to the success of the evangelization efforts of the church and its members, he said. “Triumphalism in the church was dead” after the Second Vatican Council, he said, but “so was confidence.” Catholics recognize that they and their church need conversion, too, he said. And, they must be convinced that what they are sharing with others is not a doctrine, but the person of Jesus. At the same time, because Jesus is the truth, Catholics must make a commitment “to combat catechetical illiteracy,” he said. “True enough, the new evangelization is urgent because secularism has often choked the seed of faith, but that choking was sadly made easy because so many believers really had no adequate knowledge or grasp of the wisdom, beauty and coherence of the truth,” he said. The cardinal-designate told the College of Cardinals that when he was a seminarian, he was told to smile because a missionary or evangelist had to be a person of joy. “When I become the archbishop of New York, a priest told me, ‘You better stop smiling when you walk the streets of Manhattan or you’ll be arrested,’” he said, but he still believes Christians must show the world that faith is saying yes “to everything decent, good, true, beautiful and noble.” Cardinal-designate Dolan said that on the eve of receiving his red hat from the pope, he also had to speak of the fact that Christians are called to love and serve the church and their neighbors, even to the point of shedding their blood if necessary. The cardinals, he said, “are but ‘scarlet audiovisual aids’ for all our brothers and sisters,” who also are called “to be ready to suffer and die for Jesus.”

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Vatican asks Peru university to protect Catholic identity VATICAN CITY – The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru must amend its statutes in conformity with Vatican norms for the good of the university and the whole church in Peru, said the Vatican’s secretary of state. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone met with the university’s rector, Marcial Rubio Correa, Feb. 21 to discuss “the conclusions the Holy See has reached following intense dialogue and numerous meetings over the course of many years” between the university’s grand chancellor, Cardinal Juan Cipriani Thorne of Lima, his predecessors and the university, said a written statement released the same day by the Vatican. The cardinal also told Rubio the results of an apostolic visitation made to the university in December by Cardinal Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary. The Vatican’s conclusions “took particular account of the outcome of the apostolic visit and of the proposal presented by the rector at the end of that visit,” it said. The Vatican is requesting that the university’s statutes “be regularized as soon as possible, adapting them to the apostolic constitution ‘Ex Corde Ecclesiae’ for the good of the (university) itself and of the church in Peru.” “Ex Corde Ecclesiae” is an apostolic constitution that outlines the identity and mission of Catholic colleges and provides universal norms to ensure colleges maintain these standards. Issued in 1990 by Blessed John Paul II, the document officially went into effect in 2001.

Nuncio to Irish faithful: Pope knows abuse made lives tough DUBLIN – Pope Benedict XVI is acutely aware that recent years have been tough for Irish Catholics as a result of the clerical sex abuse scandals, said the new apostolic nuncio to Ireland. Speaking during a Mass to mark his formal welcome as Pope Benedict’s representative in Dublin Feb. 19, U.S. Archbishop Charles Brown said the pontiff understands “that these recent years have been difficult for Catholic believers in Ireland.” Archbishop Brown said the pope was “scandalized and dismayed as he learned about the tragedy of abuse perpetrated by some members of the clergy and of religious congregations. He felt deeply the wounds of those who had been harmed and who so often had not been listened to.” Archbishop Brown, a former official in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said, “I can tell you from my personal experience that he (Pope Benedict) has always had – and he continues to have – a great love for the people of Ireland and a high regard for the Catholic

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Deadly prison fire A relative of an inmate is seen outside a prison in Comayagua, Honduras, Feb. 16. A massive fire that began Feb. 14 in the overcrowded prison killed more than 350 inmates, many of them trapped inside their cells. It was one of the world’s deadliest prison fires. Prison conditions in Honduras reflect “a total abandonment of human rights,” said Alba Mejia, who works on torture cases for a Honduran nongovernmental organization.

Church in Ireland, with its history of missionary richness and tenacious faith.” Referring to the pontiff’s previous role as head of the doctrinal congregation, Archbishop Brown insisted that, “from the beginning, Pope Benedict was resolute and determined to put into place changes which would give the church the ability to deal more effectively with those who abuse trust, as well as to provide the necessary assistance to those who had been victimized. “Pope Benedict has been relentless and consistent on this front, and I assure you that he will continue to be,” he said.

Archdiocese reaches final decision on future of several grade schools PHILADELPHIA – Forty-nine Catholic schools in the Philadelphia archdiocese will form 23 regional schools and 10 schools will close outright, according to a Feb. 17 announcement by Philadelphia Auxiliary Bishop Michael J. Fitzgerald, who oversees the Secretariat for Catholic Education. At a press briefing the bishop released the final decision on closings or consolidations of elementary schools as recommended by the Blue Ribbon Commission, which was formed about a year ago. The decision represents modifications to the commission’s original recommendation that were reached through an appeals process ordered by Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. The appeals followed the panel’s Jan. 6 recommendation that one school would close outright and 81 schools would form 37 regional schools. “These changes are occurring for a number of reasons,” Bishop Fitzgerald said. “Some schools will remain free-

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He also said while the Catholic Church opposes legalizing TRENTON, N.J. (CNS) – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Feb. 17 made good on his pledge to veto a bill legalizing marriage for same-sex couples, it teaches that homosexuals same-sex marriage passed by the state Legislature but at the “must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.” “The fundamental human rights of homosexuals must same time said he might name an ombudsman to make sure the state’s current law recognizing civil unions is respected. be defended and we must strive to eliminate any forms of injustice against homosexual persons,” The state Assembly passed the bill Feb. Brannigan said. 16 with a 42-33 vote. The state Senate He noted that many supporters of sameapproved it 24-16 Feb. 13. sex marriage claim that the civil unions law When the bill reached his desk and he “is not working,” but that the state’s Division vetoed it, Christie said in a statement that of Civil Rights found that out of a total of 13 “same-sex couples in a civil union deserve complaints filed since 2007, when the law the very same rights and benefits enjoyed was passed, authorities had found “probable by married couples – as well as the strict cause” in only one of those complaints. enforcement of those rights and benefits.” Brannigan also said couples in civil “Discrimination should not be tolerated unions claim they are not able to participate and any complaint alleging a violation of a in their partner’s health care decisions, but he citizen’s right should be investigated and, said the law guarantees they can, noting that if appropriate, remedied,” the Republican Catholic-run health care facilities specifically governor said, suggesting an ombudsman allow individuals to designate “anyone they be appointed. wish as a health care decision-maker.” As the same-sex marriage measure Supporters of same-sex marriage moved through the Legislature, Christie, a New Jersey Gov. Chris Catholic, said legalizing marriage for same- Christie appears on “Meet criticized Christie’s proposal to appoint an ombudsman to make sure the civil unions sex couples should be put on the November the Press” in Washington law is being upheld properly, saying that it ballot for voters to decide the issue. Jan. 22. The Catholic govis not an acceptable substitute for marriage In testimony at a Jan. 24 hearing, the executive director of the New Jersey ernor, as he had promised for same-sex couples. “It’s not equal. It’s not the same,” Senate Catholic Conference urged state lawmak- to do, quickly vetoed a bill to legalize same-sex President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat, ers “to continue to recognize marriage as marriage in the state told reporters. He and other advocates of a union between one man and one woman. legalizing same-sex marriage say it is a civil This is critical as marriage is the foundaFeb. 17 and renewed his right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. tion of the family. The family, in turn, is the call for a ballot question The bill as passed by the Legislature basic unit of society.” to decide the issue. included an exemption for religious leaders, “Marriage as a union of one man and one churches and faith-based organizations so woman has its roots not only in human tradition and history, but also in natural law, which transcends they could not be forced to perform marriage for same-sex all man-made law,” said Patrick Brannigan, executive direc- couples or allow such couples the use of their facilities. In Maryland, the House of Delegates Feb. 17 passed a tor of the conference, which is the public policy arm of the measure to legalize same-sex marriage in that state. The state’s Catholic bishops. “Marriage is a natural institution,” he said. “New Jersey, Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee was expected to like other states, has from the beginning recognized mar- pass the House version Feb. 21 and advance it to the full Senate for consideration later in the week. riage, honored it, and sought to support and protect it.”

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Mandate . . . Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?” Throughout the at-times-contentious hearing religious leaders spoke at length about the complexity of the issue particularly when lawmakers grilled panelists on the law’s impact on their faith traditions. Bishop Lori compared the contraceptive mandate to a law that would force all food providers, including kosher delicatessens, to serve pork. The bishop asked if it would be permissible for the government to weigh in on one side of this hypothetical dispute. He was asked more than once if the Catholic Church, which is morally opposed to artificial birth control, would ever consider the use of contraceptives for health reasons. “Catholic moral theology is very nuanced” in its ability to see how the same drug can be used for different things, he said. “We operate with lot more nuance than we’re usually given credit for.” The bulk of the discussion was religious leaders being asked by Republican lawmakers if they would comply with the new law and violate their consciences or refuse to comply with the mandate and pay steep

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A group of Bay Area Catholics gathered outside Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco Feb. 17 to protest President Barack Obama’s contraceptive mandate as an infringement on the First Amendment guarantee of religious freedom. The president attended an event that evening with supporters in the auditorium. The demonstrators held signs that read “Freedom of Conscience for All,” “Respect Rights of Conscience” and “Choice for Employers Too.”

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“That’s what we don’t want to do. It’s one thing when tax dollars pay for it. It’s another when church dollars do.” John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America, said there would be a fine of almost $2,000 per employee per year if the university doesn’t provide health insurance. “We’re not an institution rich enough to afford that penalty, so I’m trying to not look that far down the road,” he said. “We will not violate our faith,” said William Thierfelder, president of Belmont Abbey College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in Belmont, N.C. The college has filed a civil lawsuit against the federal government on the grounds the contraception mandate is contrary to its beliefs. Thierfelder told lawmakers that he hoped the school would “never come to the extreme of having to pay a huge fine or closing.” Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., acknowledged the strong feelings about the issue and accused both sides of distorting the facts.

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‘We will not violate our consciences,’ said Bridgeport, Conn., Bishop William E. Lori, who noted that the issue is about ‘forcing the church’ to provide contraceptives against church teachings. “I’m disappointed in some who suggest that the Catholic bishops’ stance represents something sinister, that it is an attempt to deny all women, of any faith, access to any contraception or reproductive health care of any kind. I don’t think that’s the case,” he said. “I’m also disappointed in those who claim that the administration has an agenda: to increase abortions, sterilizations and contraceptive use by Catholics. The facts don’t back that up, not in the slightest,” he added. The day before the hearing a group of Catholic leaders held a telephone press conference described as a “pre-buttal” to the congressional hearing. Some speakers said they opposed the original federal health mandate but felt its revised form was an acceptable compromise. Nicholas Cafardi, a law professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, said the bishops had “prevailed” with the mandate being revised. Cafardi also said he believes “everything my church teaches,” but doesn’t see the mandate as “a question of dogma,” but rather as an “issue of how we apply dogma in the real world.” Contributing to this story was Julie Asher.

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Congress, courts, politics offer Options on HHS Mandate options on contraceptive mandate ACTION RESULT Liberty, which is representing the two schools in the lawsuit. WASHINGTON (CNS) – To hear some Helen Alvare, an associate professor at the commentators talk about it, the ongoing contro- George Mason University School of Law in versy over the Obama administration’s require- Arlington, Va., said she believes the Belmont ment that health plans cover contraceptives and case and other legal efforts against the consterilization free of charge is a simple case of traceptive mandate “stand a good chance of the bishops versus the president. success” under the provisions of the 1990 But the debate over the rights of individuals Supreme Court decision in Employment and institutions to refuse to cover drugs, devices Division, Department of Human Resources of or procedures that violate their religious convic- Oregon v. Smith or 1993’s Religious Freedom tions is turning into an epic battle over religious Restoration Act. freedom – with Catholics and nonThe Smith decision held that Catholics alike working to address neutral laws of general applicabilthe problem through legislative, ity do not violate the Free Exercise judicial and political channels. clause of the First Amendment, as “People are responding to this long as the government applies them in all kinds of creative ways,” in the least restrictive way possible. said Richard Doerflinger, associAlvare believes the contracepate director of the U.S. bishops’ tive mandate won’t pass muster as Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, a neutral law, as applying generally Helen Alvare in a Feb. 7 interview with Catholic or as having been implemented in News Service. Among the many petitions cir- the least restrictive way. As the Belmont Abbey culating in cyberspace, for example, is one on lawsuit notes, the government has been “highly the website of the White House itself, calling selective” in granting thousands of exemptions on the administration to reverse the decision, to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care which was scheduled to take effect for religious Act to various groups, “including large corporaorganizations on Aug. 1, 2013. tions such as McDonald’s, often for reasons of The initial focus is on Congress, where the commercial convenience.” Respect for Rights of Conscience Act has 164 “And the government allows a variety of co-sponsors in the House and 31 in the Senate. other reasons – from the age of the plan to the The bill would represent a permanent solution size of the employer – to qualify a plan for an to any efforts to take away the religious freedom exemption,” the Becket brief adds. “But the and conscience rights of groups or individuals, government refuses to give the same level of Doerflinger said. accommodation to groups exercising their fun“The best-case scenario would be if damental First Amendment freedoms.” Congress passes legislation to reverse this Although she predicts success in the courts, mandate and provide expansive protection to Alvare also believes the church position on the the rights of conscience, and the president feels contraceptive mandate will prevail in the court obliged to sign it to get this issue resolved,” of public opinion. he said. Even if people don’t agree with the church’s Meanwhile, efforts against the contraceptive stand on contraception, “they like the idea that mandate are continuing on the judicial front, as there are people who think that sex really matother organizations and individuals consider ters,” she said. “And the church has always been filing suit, as Belmont Abbey College in North that unfailing voice.” Carolina and Colorado Christian University in If the legal and legislative avenues fail, Denver have already done. Doerflinger said Catholics and others who “A monk at Belmont Abbey may preach oppose the contraceptive mandate could be on Sunday that premarital sex, contraception placed in “an untenable position.” and abortions are immoral, but on Monday “The bishops are for health care for all, and the government forces him to pay for students certainly don’t want to stop providing health to receive the very drugs and procedures he care to their employees,” he said. “We’re also denounced,” said Hannah Smith, senior legal not going to stop providing care to the needy of counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious all faiths in our charitable institutions.”

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Catholic trends in marriage mirror society’s, but vision is different WASHINGTON (CNS) – Like the number of marriages among Americans in general, the number of marriages performed in the Catholic Church has been in decline over the past few decades. “Since 1972, the number of marriages celebrated in a Catholic church has fallen nearly 60 percent” in the U.S., said Sheila Garcia, associate director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, citing a study conducted for the secretariat by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University and released in 2008. In 1972, there were 8.6 marriages in the church per 1,000 Catholics, but last year the figure was 2.6 church marriages for every 1,000 Catholics, she said. That trend is among the reasons that led the bishops to launch their National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage in 2004 and the related “For Your Marriage” website to help people better understand the Catholic viewpoint on marriage and to strengthen the bonds of couples, whether they are Catholic or not, married in the church or not. “What we have said is that you need three things to support marriage – a vision, skills and a supportive community,” Garcia told Catholic News Service. “The church clearly offers a vision for marriage. We believe you can have a marriage that is faithful, permanent and open to children. We believe with God’s grace that can be achieved.” Through practical articles on such topics as finance and communications, the website at http://foryourmarriage.org offers tools to help couples strengthen their marriages. A campaign involving television and radio spots, print ads and billboards works to communicate the message that “the church cares about marriage as an institution and cares about your marriage,” Garcia said. “You can turn to the church for support.” TRENDS, page 10

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The key to a happy marriage: Keep competing needs in their place By Lisa M. Petsche Early on in the marriage preparation course I help facilitate, we talk about marriage as a primary relationship. The engaged couples readily agree that their relationship must have top priority in their lives. They are cautioned that in practice, though, once the honeymoon is over, this all too easily can cease to be the case. We go on to brainstorm competing priorities that can insidiously nudge our relationship out of its premier spot. The most common ones are included below. Work. A job that saps our time and energy – requiring long hours, a commute or regular travel – can gradually drive a wedge between us and our spouse. So, too, can workaholism. Family. Relatives can invade our “couple space” by phoning or dropping by frequently or at inopportune times. Or, one or both of us may find their expectations unrealistic or unfair. For example, they may want us to work in the family business, to move in with them or move them into our home, or to help them out financially. We may also feel pressure to participate in traditions that aren’t practical or that one of us is not comfortable with. Friends. Two issues are key: the amount of time spent with friends, individually and together, and the types of activities involved. Certain activities, such as nightclubbing and vacationing with single friends, may no longer be appropriate and in any case may be unsettling to our spouse. Frequently going out with co-workers for dinner or drinks can steal precious time away from our partner – and

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perhaps also exceed an agreed-upon entertainment budget, adding to any resentment. Or, as a couple we may have a large network of mutual friends and be continually entertaining or meeting up with the gang, such that we are rarely alone together. Leisure activities. Involvement in many recreational activities or intense involvement in one or two extracurricular pursuits, however healthy or noble, can leave little time to spend with our spouse. Examples of activities include doing volunteer work, participating in a sport, watching sports, playing in a band and engaging in a hobby.

Technology. However unintentionally, we may become preoccupied with television, the Internet, gaming systems, cell phones, Blackberries or other electronic devices, accessing them obsessively. As a result, our partner may find it difficult to get our undivided attention. Children. Once we become parents, we may find ourselves focusing all our energy and attention on our offspring – our pride and joy. But if we neglect our couple relationship, we may discover when the kids are grown that we no longer have anything in common and the intimacy is long gone from our marriage. In order to flourish, our relationship must be continually nurtured by an ongoing investment of time and effort. This requires consciously carving out “couple time,” no matter how full our schedules may be. We can start by setting boundaries around contact with family and friends and communicating them gently but firmly to our loved ones. For example, we may ask parents to call before visiting (to check if it’s a convenient time) and to refrain from phoning after a certain time of night. It’s also a good idea to negotiate “rules” regarding our time together - for example, no using technology during mealtimes or when we are out somewhere special. KEY, page 10

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Key . . . ■ Continued from page 9 In addition, we’d do well to establish daily sharing time, to connect with each other on an intimate level. It can be as simple as sitting down together to talk about our day

February 24, 2012 “Overall our members would not be very similar” to the average single person surveyed by Pew, Barcaro said. “Their attitudes would be much more positive toward marriage than in the Pew study.” He said “98, 99 percent” of CatholicMatch.com members “come with the idea that they want to meet someone that could be a future spouse.” The remaining 1 or 2 percent just want a community experience that can provide “perspectives on living life as a single Catholic,” he added. But Barcaro said “one of the myths” about single people today is that they are all “college age kids, 20-somethings.” “We do have a number of members in that age group,” he said, “but the majority are in their very late 20s or 30s or 40s.” Many of them have found themselves 10 or 15 years out of college and discovered that “things did not happen the way I thought they would” in terms of finding a spouse, Barcaro said. “If you don’t meet the love of your life in college, then you get into a job and career and that impacts your social circles,” he added. “In college there are lots of natural social circles, but afterward it becomes much more difficult.” when we both get home from work, instead of automatically turning on the TV or computer or dashing off to do chores. Communication needn’t always be serious, though. It’s equally important to express affection and appreciation and to have fun together, including going on regular dates, similar to when we were courting.

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Claire and Dean Simonich on their wedding day

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Vivian Dudro, married to Glenn. Four children; members of St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral Parish. We have been married for 27 years, and during that time we have experienced together the same ups and downs of any other family: job loss, serious illness, death of family members, and helping our children through their own rough spots. The most important life lesson we have learned from marriage and family life is that all of us mere mortals need forgiveness and acceptance, and others seeing and affirming in us the good we often do not see or appreciate ourselves. At the same time, we all need the challenge of living together to make us more Christ-like, including being called on the carpet for destructive behavior. For this reason, as a family, we have stayed close to the sacraments of the church, celebrated her seasons and holy days, shared our meals together, and turned to each other in trust for support. We offer this model to couples about to be married and encourage them to believe that with the help of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grace they can grow together, little by little, into the people they long to become.

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Marriage is a sign of Christ’s unbreakable love for his people By Joann Heaney-Hunter, Ph.D Marriage is a sign of Christ’s unbreakable love for his people. Spirituality is a way to live out one’s religious beliefs. A spirituality of marriage, therefore, is a way to help husbands and wives live out the vocation of marriage in light of faith. Catholic marriage has a distinctive spirituality that is sacramental, communitarian and missionary. Marriage is sacramental because it is a sign of Christ’s unbreakable love for his people. It is communitarian because it creates and deepens a permanent partnership of life and love. It is missionary because in Catholic marriage couples are called to share with others the good news of their relationship in Christ. A spirituality of marriage helps couples shape their attitude toward life, and provides a framework for living one’s marriage in the light of faith. In the Catholic tradition, a “sacrament” is a concrete expression of Christ in the world. The Eucharist, for example, is a sacrament. Within the Mass, through the words and actions of the priest, the physical signs of bread and wine become Christ really present. Likewise, the church believes that marriage is a sacrament. In marriage, the couple’s life, love, and witness can make Christ visible to others. All sacramentally married couples are invited to reveal Christ’s loving presence and generous action in the world. Just as God is a Trinity of persons – a community – marriage also is communitarian. “Gaudium et Spes,” a document of the Second Vatican Council, states that couples form a permanent, life-giving community. We’ve already described

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this relationship as sacramental, a sign of Christ’s love in the world. Sacramental couples live as communities that reveal God’s blessings, reach out to heal the brokenness of the family and the world, and share their gifts with those around them. Couples live as communities when they experience the blessings that come from making a total commitment to another person. Making permanent commitments is becoming rare; sacramental couples demonstrate that it is possible. Another blessing of marriage is children. A couple’s willingness to be open to the gift of children, and to demonstrate the generosity and sacrifice necessary to raise them according to Gospel values is a real blessing.

Couples also live as communities when they recognize and heal the brokenness in their individual lives and in their life together. Brokenness is a part of everyone’s life; a spouse is in a unique position to heal the pain that inevitably arises in relationship. Couples create sacramental communities when they build a life of sharing – with each other, with their families, with local communities, with the church. As couples grow in their love for each other, their communities of life and love enrich the larger communities in their lives. Finally, sacramental marriages are missionary. Part of the joy of a faith-filled marriage is showing others what it means to be in a loving, Christ-centered relationship, and making known to others the gift of faithful married life and love. Couples have the potential to show others what it means to embody the life of the Holy Spirit within them. Married couples, while never perfect, are missionary through the witness of their lives and love in the midst of the world. They are characterized by openness to the life of the Spirit within them, by loving service to their neighbors, and by sharing their talents and blessings with and for the local and global communities. As missionaries, married couples can witness Gospel values in their daily lives. A spirituality of marriage shows how couples reveal Christ, build community, and reach out to others in love. It is a powerful way to describe how Catholic couples live out their vocation of married life. Joann Heaney-Hunter, Ph.D., is an associate professor of theology at St. John’s University (NY). This article was first published at foryourmarriage.org, a website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Church offers careful preparation for couples entering second marriages The Catholic Church stands for lifelong marriage. Sometimes, however, couples are not able to achieve this ideal. Marriages break apart because of a spouse’s infidelity, addiction or mental illness. Sometimes, the couple thought they were mature enough to make a wise decision but were blinded by infatuation or youth. There are many reasons why marriages fail. They are personal and not easy to sort through. The church offers a process to help divorced men and women who entered into what they thought was a valid marriage at the time. After examining the evidence, the church may find that some essential ingredient was missing from the very beginning. This process is called an annulment. When a man or woman receives an annulment, they are free to re-marry in the Catholic Church. The issues facing couples entering a second marriage are

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‘ONGOING MASSACRE’ ‘People are dying of starvation and bombings’ in a border area of Sudan and the newly formed nation of South Sudan. By Bridget Kelly and Bronwen Dachs

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Sudanese bishop said the world has forgotten people in his diocese, where thousands of people have sought shelter from a government bombing campaign and aid agencies cannot gain access. “There is an ongoing forgotten massacre on the Nuba Mountains” where “people are dying of starvation and bombings,” said Bishop Macram Max Gassis of El Obeid, Sudan, according to a Feb. 15 Catholic News Service report from Vatican City. Bishop Gassis’ diocese straddles a border area of Sudan and South Sudan, and members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North fought with the South for independence. For months, the Sudanese government has been fighting the SPLM-North in Sudan’s South Kordofan state. The SPLM draws its support from Southern Christians but regularly engages with Muslim opposition parties and rebel groups in Darfur and the east, according to a 2009 U.S. State Department report. Bishop Gassis told Fides, the Vatican missionary news agency, in mid-February that “even the church has had its victims.” However, he told Fides, none of the priests, religious and medical personnel has abandoned the people, despite the constant bombardment and seeing the “mangled bodies of civilians, especially children.” Sudan has allowed only a limited amount of aid into the area, and on Feb. 14 the U.N. Security Council, expressing “deep and growing alarm with the rising levels of malnutrition and food insecurity,” called on the government to let it send aid workers to South Kordofan and other states along the Sudan-South Sudan border. On Feb. 10, Human Rights Watch said South Sudan should urgently investigate violent, ethnic-driven attacks in Jonglei state and arrest and prosecute those identified as responsible. A large-scale attack occurred Dec. 23 and further and counter-attacks have been ongoing since January. More violence is threatened to break out in March, but the government has been slow to respond, Human Rights Watch said. Bishop Gassis expressed concern over increasing tensions between the neighboring countries. He said South Sudan does not want war, but Sudanese President Omar Bashir “tries to solve problems with new wars.” Sudan accuses South Sudan of backing the SPLM-North in its efforts to overthrow the Sudanese government. Bishop Gassis also noted that South Sudan has closed off its oil supplies to the North. South Sudan produces 350,000 barrels of oil per day, but the only pipeline to market runs through Sudan. The two countries sent representatives to Ethiopia to negotiate the oil situation. The church in South Sudan and its partners in the U.S. are frustrated that their efforts to build peace in the infant country are threatened, but they have not given up, Catholic officials said, according to a Catholic News Service report Jan. 26 from Cape Town, South Africa.

A serious political deadlock between South Sudan and its northern neighbor, Sudan, over the split of oil revenues “could lead to a declaration of war,” said Auxiliary Bishop Santo Loku Pio Doggale of Juba, capital of South Sudan. A year after the referendum in which 99 percent of South Sudanese voted to secede from the North, leaders of the Khartoum government and South Sudan have yet to agree on issues such as the border, citizenship for residents in disputed regions, and the split of revenues from oil reserves, which are largely located in South Sudan. Oil revenue accounts for almost all of South Sudan’s budget. The U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services, along with other church agencies, has been providing emergency assistance to South Sudan after a series of retaliatory attacks between ethnic groups. The situation in Juba, which has had an “enormous influx of refugees from the fighting” in Jonglei, is “beginning to come under control with the help from many organizations,” Bishop Doggale said. The outbreak of violence in Jonglei has led to a “new cycle of revenge and retaliation,” the Sudan Council of Churches, of which the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference is a member, said in a Jan. 18 statement. The council warned that expressions of ethnic hatred “could be the precursor to larger-scale atrocities.” Another “threat to peace is the implosion of cultural divisions that is happening in South Sudan,” said Bishop Doggale. “Now that the civil war is over, deep internal wounds are emerging that need healing,” he said. – Catholic News Service 32

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– More than 2,000 people have died and 250,000 are displaced due to the conflict between the ethnic communities of the Lou Nuer and Murle in Likuangole and in other regions of Jonglei in South Sudan. – The victims are predominantly women and children. – More than 170,000 people have seen their homes burn. – For decades, the clashes between two ethnic groups for cattle ownership have caused an escalation of violence and now constitute a major challenge to the stability of the new nation of South Sudan. – Since last December abuse among ethnic groups has become radicalized by the stealing of livestock – nearly 80 percent of South Sudanese depend on livestock and farming for a living – and burning of fields and houses, leaving the population totally unprotected. – In a country where 72 percent of the population is under 30, orphaned and separated children are seen crying alone in the streets. – Fides church missionary news agency, United Nations

South Sudanese who fled recent ethnic violence carry food aid from a World Food Program distribution center in Pibor, South Sudan, Jan. 12. The outbreak of violence in Jonglei state, has led to a “new cycle of revenge and retaliation,” Sudan’s Council of Churches said.

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Washington Letter ‘Faithful Citizenship’ gives voters chance to seek common good By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) – Despite all the headlines lately, concern over the contraceptive mandate and the related issue of religious freedom is not the only thing on the minds of the U.S. bishops. This being an election year, the bishops’ Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development has undertaken an intensive effort to bring the quadrennial document “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” to as many Catholics as possible. The bishops want people in the pews to better understand their political responsibility not just at the polls come November but also as they consider any number of social issues locally or nationally on any given day. The department’s staff has established a website – www. faithfulcitizenship.org – with numerous resources, prayer guides, teaching tools and school activities in English and Spanish. The document was discussed during the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in the nation’s capital Feb. 12-15 as much if not more than the religious liberty implications of the controversial rules governing the implementation of health care reform. The gathering’s theme - “Faithful Citizenship: Protecting Human Life and Dignity, Promoting the Common Good” – reflected the focus of daily programs. “Faithful Citizenship” traditionally has been released a year before a presidential election as a teaching document on the role of faith and conscience in political life. This time around the bishops reissued their 2007 document but added a new introductory note explaining that the document reflects their teaching and their guidance for Catholics as they exercise their rights and duties under American democracy. Many social ministers were eager to engage Catholics in their parishes back home with the document. They carried with them new ideas and helpful tips from strategy sessions on the gathering’s final day. Above all, they said they wanted to make the document better known in their diocese. Opening the gathering, John Carr, executive director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, told

the 450 attendees the document is rooted in the church’s social and moral teaching and is meant to help Catholics discern their response to important political issues. “What ‘Faithful Citizenship’ does is give us different questions to ask. It’s not are you better off than you were four years ago? (It’s) are we better off? Are the unborn protected? Are the poor left to die? Is religious freedom protected? It’s questions of life and death and war and peace. It’s not just the economy, stupid, even in this moment of economic distress. It’s about who moves ahead and who gets left behind,” he said in his 45-minute address. “What ‘Faithful Citizenship’ does is ask us to look at politics from the bottom up,” he said. “How do policies, how do these leaders, how do these choices affect the people with no voice: unborn children, immigrants who have no hope, the poorest people on earth who have no place at the Senate Finance Committee and those who are left behind in this economy?” Carr challenged Catholic Republican and Democrat leaders to embrace the full realm of Catholic teaching on the issues confronting the country if they truly identified with the church. He also cautioned the delegates to be aware of attempts by individuals across the political spectrum to use the document to support their own views or to disavow it altogether for giving Catholics too much leeway in forming their conscience. Carr’s comments resonated throughout the gathering as delegates began considering how to carry the document to the pews. Several delegates told CNS they felt it was vitally important for Catholics to present a unified voice and to debate issues peacefully. “I’d like to see it go where there’s less antagonism, where people can find the common good,” said Jack Knapp, a leader

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In the opening paragraphs of Father Gerald Coleman’s column “Gratuitous violence,” Guest Commentary, Feb. 10) he is totally dishonest in trying to equate what the four Marines who urinated on dead bodies in Afghanistan did with massmurder atrocities. He is further dishonest in his mocking of those who defended the soldiers. Almost all the soldiers’ defenders also said what they did was wrong and they deserved punishment, but that the punishment should be commensurate with the crime. In this case, a letter of reprimand that would in effect end their Marine careers would be appropriate, not the public flogging that Father Coleman is calling for. Father Coleman is knowingly or unknowingly trying to stir up the mob against these young Marines. He fails to exhibit the virtue of compassion that all priests should have in abundance. His last paragraph where he equates desecrating a body with murder is beyond laughable. Frankly, I think Catholic San Francisco used extremely poor judgment in publishing this column. Stephen Firenze San Mateo

Great job capturing San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s quotes (“Post-ruling interviews with city officials,” Feb. 10). The truth will set us free. Religious liberty in America is in grave danger of disappearing. May the Lord bless us with courage. Be not afraid, the Lord is with those who surrender and trust in his truth. Cathleen Gillies San Francisco

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Church’s vital principles It’s certainly very good to see Archbishop Niederauer’s letter (“Archbishop urges flock to fight ‘alarming’ religious liberty threat,” Feb. 10) concerning President Obama’s latest attack on the church. I understand it’s part of a nationwide campaign initiated by the U.S. bishops. Really, we have only ourselves to blame. Only a minor percentage of the church spoke out when Roe v. Wade was passed some 39 years ago. Over the years, we’ve mostly sat back while “liberal” political trends have the church seemingly accommodating all sorts of birth prevention, gay adoption and gay marriage, yielding presumably to women’s rights and gay rights, and ignoring the rights of children, born and unborn. Our Catholic universities and colleges display increasingly decadent trends every year. I believe that our Catholic Church is the best and last hope for Western civilization and freedom as we know it. The basic problem is that the church, i.e., the clergy, doesn’t talk about it, at least not in their

of the JustFaith program at St. Maria Goretti Parish in Coal Valley, Ill. “To me a vehicle like this so people can recognize the common good is a good thing.” In California, dioceses already have begun raising awareness about the November election by joining a statewide campaign to place initiatives on the ballot that would end the death penalty and require parental or guardian notification when a minor seeks an abortion. Linda Batton, director of social ministries in the Diocese of San Jose, said parishes were set to conclude signature drives on both measures in parishes the weekend of Feb. 18-19. The effort also offered diocesan social action offices the opportunity to begin planning how to bring “Faithful Citizenship” to parishioners, she said. “We have to see ourselves as bridge builders,” Batton told Catholic News Service. “I think our role in the works we do in ministry is to be carriers of hope in the middle of a devastating situation with the economy, people losing their homes, people being so overburdened with their own problems that it’s hard for them to see beyond their needs.” For Debi Haug, director of community life and outreach at St. Joseph Parish in South Bend, Ind., Carr’s message hit home. The key, she said, is getting the message of “Faithful Citizenship” into people’s hands. “What John Carr said, it’s not just to be a faithful citizen at election time. We’re supposed to be a faithful citizen throughout our life,” she said. “By really understanding that they are supposed to be a faithful citizen, that it’s not just politics. It’s about their faith and it’s about others and it’s about the poor and it’s about having a voice for the other,” she said. The document already is forming the basis of a stronger advocacy push by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, said Sheila K. Gilbert, the organization’s national president. “We have an absolute commitment to ending poverty,” she said. The organization is looking to tap the stories of the poor people that local parish councils serve to help mainstream Catholics understand “there are policies, there are procedures, and there are laws that are really holding people in poverty,” she explained.

homilies. San Francisco is a great example, where large segments of the population vote for pro-abortion and gay marriage politicians. I’ve spoken with many about this, with most indicating they take their unions’ or employers’ recommendations on voting. They never hear anything about not voting for such politicians at Mass. Am I wrong? What am I missing? Is the church just subtly supporting, by inaction, the political party whose official platform of principles includes abortion on demand? G.P. Heckert San Mateo The writer is a parishioner at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish.

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that are being considered in the European Union. The author successfully informs the reader of the historical position that the Catholic Church has taken towards the rise in individualism through quotes and examples and portrays how a profit-oriented economy can be detrimental in promoting equality and social justice. As Greece continues to restructure its plan to pay back bonds issued by Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Finland, political leaders will have to be conscientious as to not just the effect that the plan will have on corporate profits but how it will impact the common good of all people. As quoted in the article, “The poor will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialistic monopoly of economic and political supremacy at the expense of others.” This article is an inspiration to all Catholics who want to make a difference in a time of economic unrest and we should continue to promote the social teaching in equality and justice for all. Taylor Beggs Eli Broad College of Business, class of 2013 Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan

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I just read Father Kenneth Weare’s article “Toward a Catholic economy founded on equality, justice” (Feb. 17). It’s prophetic. It reflects a broader and more comprehensive understanding of the times and the solidarity required to achieve the common good. The preoccupations reflected in U.S. domestic politics appear tawdry in comparison. Your newspaper publishes landmark material and I thank you. This article provides such a truly Catholic understanding of community and the dignity of each person, and what that demands of all of us. Father Weare charts the course. It would seem that the bishops of Europe have their eyes on the big picture. Sister Patricia Krommer, CSJ Los Angeles

Economy and common good I am writing in regard to Father Kenneth Weare’s Feb. 17 article “Toward a Catholic economy founded on equality, justice.” The article effectively highlights how important the role of the Catholic Church can be in helping to influence the austerity measures

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What a lovely story about the Butcher family (“Meant for each other: 65 Valentine’s Days later, pair remain ‘sweetest, most loving’ couple,” Feb. 17). My family lived up the opposite end of Prague Street, toward Brazil Street, and I was one of the numerous kids that flooded that street playing between the 52 Excelsior bus’s run through our neighborhood in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. I remember the Butcher family fondly as a clean-cut clan. Your article brought back nice memories to both me and my sister, who alerted me to the story. Harry Cortez Petaluma

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Intellect and Virtue

The HHS rule and ‘cooperation with evil’ The Affordable Care Act that Congress passed in 2010 directs employers to provide health insurance or pay a fine. New regulations adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services will also require employers to provide full coverage for contraceptives, abortifacient drugs and sterilization procedures that the Catholic Church teaches are gravely immoral. There is a modest exemption for some religious groups (churches and religious orders), but most of them still have to comply. This is a religious freedom issue, but some doubt its importance. After all, when we provide health insurance at The Catholic University of America, are we morally responsible for all of the procedures it covers? Why would we be more responsible than we are for the wages we already pay? Perhaps one of our employees or contractors spends that money in strip clubs or on cocaine. Just what are we morally responsible for? It cannot be for every result of every action we perform. It would be absurd to blame me for a hot dog vendor’s extramarital affair, just because my lunch purchase helped finance it. At the other extreme, it seems equally absurd to maintain the innocence of Pontius Pilate, who allowed a grave miscarriage of justice with his feigned and strategic indifference to Jesus’ fate. Catholic moral theology calls this the problem of “cooperation with evil.” When C (the Cooperator) assists A (the Actor) to do some

immoral act, intending to advance A’s wrongful purposes, we have a case of formal cooperation. Formal cooperation is intrinsically wrong. Think of a getaway driver: He does not rob the bank, but he deliberately assists the robber to escape with the money. The driver cannot claim that he is merely driving a car, a lawful act. He is guilty of formal cooperation because he intends to advance the robber’s purpose. This is the most obvious reason why Catholic institutions should decline to provide insurance for contraception, abortion and sterilization. The insurance policy is a way of paying for immoral drugs and services – as a criminal financier might pay for the bank robber’s gun, mask, satchel and car. It is no excuse to say that one is fronting the money, and that what the robber does with the gun, etc., is his moral responsibility. The health insurance provider, like the robber’s financial backer, intends to advance the principal actor’s ends. There is a second, distinct reason why institutions like ours object to covering contraception, abortion and sterilization in our health insurance policies. Our mission as a Catholic university is not just to teach students microeconomics and Spanish literature. We are concerned with their growth in grace as well as wisdom. We teach them in class, in the sacraments, in the activities of student life, that these activities are immoral. Most, we hope, heed the lesson. To pay for these same activities in one office while we condemn them elsewhere will inevitably cause

the virtuous to doubt the truth or the sincerity of our teaching. Herein lies the fundamental wrongness of the health care mandate. Thomas Jefferson’s “Bill for Establishing Religious John Garvey Freedom” proclaimed “that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” How much more wrong it is to compel financial support for putting those opinions into practice. (The recent solution announced by the president – ordering insurance companies to make the payment – does not solve the problem. They will make the payment out of our account.) It would be a feeble defense to claim that we do not really intend to cooperate in immoral practices because the government is making us do it. Garvey is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington and an expert on constitutional law, religious liberty and the First Amendment. He writes a column for Catholic News Service.

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Anti-Catholic and un-American Some years ago, Holy Cross Father James Burtchaell published a seminal book titled “The Dying of the Light.” The central thesis was that hundreds of universities that began under religious auspices and for religious purposes – the University of Chicago, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, to name just some of the most prominent – have undergone so thorough an erosion of their original identities that now they are utterly secular in orientation. A particularly interesting feature of Burtchaell’s book was his analysis of the slow, subtle process by which the change from fervently religious to blandly secular took place: Slight changes, little adjustments, tiny concessions barely noticed at the time, but all of them conducing finally toward the inevitable secularization. “Dying of the Light” was meant to be a sobering lesson and a wake-up call to many Catholic universities today, which find themselves on a similar path to compromise. I won’t follow that part of Burtchaell’s argument now, but I bring up his book because it sheds a good deal of light on an analogous situation today. Decades ago, priests, religious brothers and religious sisters were colorfully visible features of Catholic hospitals, serving as nurses, chaplains, business officers and chief administrators. With the decline in vocations, this obviously religious leadership largely disappeared, but Catholic values, for the most part, still animated these institutions. What has begun to concern a number of observers is that, as today’s medical personnel, staffers and administrators at Catholic hospitals have accommodated themselves more and more to secularist assumptions, even those values are in danger of disappearing.

And what exacerbates the situation is that the leaders of many Catholic health care facilities feel obligated not to overstress their religious distinctiveness, precisely because they are so reliant upon government funding. In short, the slow but steady creep toward secularization of Catholic health care has already been, for some time, a reality. But now the process has been given a massive push by the Obama administration’s recent mandate that all health care agencies and institutions must pay for insurance that covers contraception, sterilization, and certain kinds of abortifacient drugs – all of which are repugnant to Catholic teaching. Here is what is particularly worrisome: The state seems no longer satisfied with a slow but steady evolution toward secularity; it is aggressively forcing Catholic hospitals off the stage, for it is creating for them an impossible situation. If they cave in and provide insurance for these forbidden procedures, they have effectively de-Catholicized themselves; and if they refuse to provide such insurance, they will be met with fines of millions of dollars, which they cannot possibly pay. In either case, they are forced out of business as Catholic. And this seems, sadly, to be precisely what the Obama administration wants. At the University of Notre Dame, on the occasion of his receiving an honorary degree of laws, President Obama publicly and vociferously pledged that he would provide for a “conscience clause” for those who wanted, for religious reasons, to opt out of a policy they find objectionable. But with this recent mandate, he has utterly gone back on his word. The secularist state recognizes that its principal enemy is the Catholic Church. Accordingly, it wants Catholicism off the

public stage and relegated to a private realm. There is a modality of secular liberalism that is not aggressive toward religion, but rather recognizes that religion makes an indispensable contribution to civil society. Father This more tolerant liberalism allows not only for Robert Barron freedom of worship, but also for real freedom of religion, which is to say, the expression of religious values in the public square and the free play of religious ideas in the public conversation. Most of our Founding Fathers advocated just this type of liberalism. But there is another modality of secularism – sadly on display in the current administration – that is actively aggressive toward religion, precisely because it sees religion as its primary rival in the public arena. Appreciating certain moral convictions as disvalues – think here especially of Catholic teachings concerning sexuality – it seeks to eliminate religion or at the very least to privatize and hence marginalize it. Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.

Making a Difference

A Catholic State of the Union address By Tony Magliano The following State of the Union address was not delivered by President Barack Obama and would not have been given by any of his Republican challengers. It is based on the radical principles of the Gospel and Catholic social teaching that place importance on people, not money. It asks for economic fairness, not greed, peace not war, disarmament, not weapons. It favors the environment, not pollution, and life, not death. My fellow Americans: In the United States, 1.2 million unborn babies are murdered through legal abortion every year; one in five children live in poverty, 12.8 million workers are unemployed, and more than 50 million people lack health insurance. More than 1 billion fellow human beings in the developing world live in extreme poverty, and yet we give only less than 1 percent of our annual federal budget to help them. Much of our air and water is polluted, and the climate is changing significantly due to the burning of fossil fuels. Our astronomical military budget of about $1 trillion this year is scandalous.

We are the world’s largest arms merchant. Our nation possesses the most deadly nuclear arsenal on earth. The United States maintains hundreds of military sites around the world. If the Afghanistan war is not bad enough, we are threatening to attack Iran. Our country needs what Christianity calls “metanoia” – a transformative change of heart, a spiritual conversion. And so my fellow Americans, I propose to you and to Congress that we pass a constitutional amendment fully protecting all human life, from conception to natural death. I urge the passing of a massive national public works and conservation jobs program, to put to work millions of unemployed Americans to rebuild our nation’s crumbling infrastructure and to plant new carbon-reducing forests. I urge an increase of the national minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9.25 per hour. Everyone deserves quality medical care. Therefore, I propose expanding Medicaid to cover every person in the United States. One billion human beings should not be forced to live in the worst conditions imaginable. I strongly urge that we budget $100 billion annually to end extreme global poverty. To clean up our environment and help reverse dangerous

climate change, I propose that we eliminate all subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and dramatically increase funding for wind, solar and geothermal energy production. To pay for all of these essential undertakings, I urge a significant tax increase on those who can easily afford it: wealthy individuals and corporations. And I propose cutting the total military budget by 50 percent and use the rest to make all of these life-giving improvements and eradicate the national debt. Furthermore, in conjunction with Russia and other nuclear powers, I am proposing the elimination of all nuclear weapons. I am ordering the closing of all U.S. military sites throughout the world, as well as the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, before the end of the year. More than 2,000 years ago, Jesus of Nazareth taught us to care for the poor, to be peacemakers, to love our enemies, to treat others as we wish to be treated. We would be wise to take these timeless teachings to heart and learn to live as brothers and sisters, as one family. Tony Magliano writes a column on social justice for Catholic News Service.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS GN 9:8-15 God said to Noah and to his sons with him: “See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you: all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals that were with you and came out of the ark. I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth.” God added: “This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come, of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you: I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I will recall the covenant I have made between me and you and all living beings, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal beings.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to One of the abiding memories of school days is taking tests. Looking back on those days, some of it seems rather simple now. Anyone can spell “cat.” And everyone knows two plus two equals four. But in the first grade, those were hard questions. And the further we went in school, the harder the questions became. Well, some of us have graduated from high school or college. And with that, our formal, classroom education came to an end. But the result has not quite been what we anticipated. The real time of testing just began, in a different form. We no longer sit at the desk with test paper in front of us. But the reality continues unabated. Life still puts us to the test. We can take comfort in knowing that Jesus was tested continuously during his life on earth. Our Gospel reading tells us about the beginning of his public ministry, when “he was put to the test by Satan.” Luke tells us that he was about 30 years of age and he faced one of the toughest tests of his life. What does the message say to you and me? For one thing, it tells us to stop expecting life to get easier. In all probability, that is not going to happen. It did not work for Jesus either. Jesus’ life began with a difficult start.

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First Sunday of Lent Genesis 9:8-15; Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 those who keep your covenant. Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths, Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant. Remember that your compassion, O Lord, and your love are from of old. In your kindness remember me, because of your goodness, O Lord. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.

Good and upright is the Lord, thus he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice, and he teaches the humble his way. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PETER 1 PT 3:18-22 Beloved: Christ suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put

Scripture reflection DEACON FAIVA PO’OI

The time of testing And it never got any easier. He was born in a stable. The threats of a wicked king forced his family to flee to Egypt. We don’t know how long, but for a time, he and his family lived as exiles in a foreign land. Jesus was a little boy. He did not know his life was hard. But it was. Life is hard for all refugees. But that was only a sample of how hard his life would become. At the start of his public ministry, he was put to the test by Satan. Later, he would be put to the test by his enemies, his friends, and at the end, he

was tested by the cross. And we are only fooling ourselves if we expect it to be different for us. On this First Sunday of Lent, this reading serves as a reminder for us that if Jesus was tested, we can expect the same for ourselves. No one is exempt. All of us are familiar with the wilderness of temptation. We have been there before, and we will be there again. We can, however, count on becoming stronger. That is what Jesus did. As life became more demanding, his strength also increased to meet those demands.

to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the Spirit. In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water. This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 1:12-15 The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” St. Luke in the New Testament says: “He advanced in wisdom and age and favor before God and man.” The writer of Hebrews says: “He learned obedience from what he suffered.” As life got harder, Jesus grew in strength. Like us, the tests will not get easier, but time will make us stronger. The book of Deuteronomy says: “As your day, so shall your strength be.” This is an open-ended promise. And so far it has held true. We faced the challenges of childhood, growing up, and the adult years. And we have found the strength to meet them. One last thought: When life puts us to the test, expect help. Jesus was alone in the wilderness. Mark says: “He was with wild beasts, and angels waited on him.” That is a strange combination of statements. So, humanly speaking, Jesus was alone. But he was not really alone. Angels came to his aid. That is how things will be for you and me. Life puts us to the test. But when the test is the most difficult, expect help from the Lord. Remember his words to us: “Know that I am with you always till the end of time.” Deacon Faiva Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo.

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First Friday devotion; bagpipes in church Question: In order to receive the promise of the grace of final penitence, my understanding is that one must attend Mass on the first Friday for nine consecutive months. Recently I was attempting to complete that devotion, but on the ninth first Friday, our parish had a Communion service. Is that considered a Mass, and would the promise be granted? (Hydesville, Calif.) Answer: First Friday devotion dates back to the last decades of the 17th century, when Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in France. In a series of conversations, Jesus urged her to make known the deep love symbolized by his sacred heart. Among the promises made to her by Christ was that “my all-powerful love will grant to all those who will receive Communion on the first Fridays for nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they will not die in my displeasure, nor without receiving the sacraments; and my heart will be their secure refuge in the last hour.” It is important that this devotion not be viewed mechanically, as though in some magical way people could simply “catch Mass” on those nine days and otherwise conduct themselves in utter selfishness and still be guaranteed salvation. Instead, the presumption is that someone devoted to the frequent Eucharist would try to match that devotion with a virtuous life and that the power of the Eucharist would help them do that. As to your question, a Communion service is not a Mass; a Mass is a full eucharistic celebration in which

the bread and wine are consecrated, offered to God in union with the sacrifice of Jesus and then received. Did the Communion service “count” as your ninth first Friday? Of course it did. God is not a giant referee in the sky with a whistle in his mouth looking for fouls to call. He is a loving Father seeking to give us the benefit of every doubt. You wanted to go to Mass on the ninth first Friday and tried to. You did your best and – in my mind and, I think, in God’s – that’s enough. Question: For many years, my son has played the bagpipes for Catholic weddings and funerals. Recently, he was hired to play for a Catholic wedding where the bride wanted bagpipes as she processed up the aisle with her father. The priest celebrating would not allow the bagpipes in church. He said, “Bagpipes are an instrument of war” and could not be played inside a church. My question is this: Was that a diocesan or a personal stance? What, if any, guidelines are there regarding the use of bagpipes in a Catholic church? (Williamstown, N.J.) Answer: The priest was most likely expressing a personal preference rather than a diocesan rule. Some dioceses have guidelines regarding music at liturgies, such as, that the music be dignified and of a religious nature. For the most part, the choice of instrumentation is left to the discretion of the local pastor. (I had never heard, by the way, of disallowing bagpipes because they are an instrument of war. For that matter, trumpets were, too.)

Recently, a New York City police officer was killed responding to a robbery. At his funeral, held at a Catholic parish on Long Island, the casket was led into church with Father a processional of Kenneth Doyle bagpipes and drums playing “Amazing Grace.” The media commented on the power and dignity of the ceremony. Recently, I officiated at a wedding where, after the final blessing, the newly married couple was led down the aisle by a bagpiper. It took place in a large Gothic church, and the acoustics allowed for a bagpipe’s volume and pitch. In a smaller structure, where the sound inside could be overwhelming, I have recommended at a funeral that bagpipes be used only outside the church or in the vestibule. Always, the goal of music at any liturgy is simply to help the congregation reflect and pray. Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.

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Catholics attend the noon Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles March 9, 2011.

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Lent: A retreat opportunity By Sister Margie Lavonis, CSC Over the years I have heard people say that they wish they had the time to make a retreat or find a way to deepen their spirituality. Many yearn to get closer to God. Lent provides a time for this. Every year our church gives us 40 days to reflect on our spiritual lives and to examine and deepen our relationships with God. Like a retreat, Lent can provide us with an opportunity to slow down and take stock of how well we are living our baptismal commitment as disciples of Christ. The church suggests that we focus on the traditional Lenten disciplines of prayer, fasting and almsgiving to renew our spiritual lives. I have found that a good way to examine our prayer is to look at how much quality time we give to developing our friendship with the Lord. Maybe our prayer life is limited to Mass on Sunday and a rote prayer before meals, when we remember. Perhaps we pray mostly when we want or need a favor from God. Let this Lent be different. No relationship can deepen and grow unless we are willing to listen and share ourselves with the other person. God is no exception. During Lent, if you don’t already, set aside at least 15 to 20 minutes each day to be with God. Go to a quiet place, slow down, and remember that God loves you. Read and reflect upon some scripture each day and get to know the

Lord better. Some find it helpful to use the Mass readings for each day. In fact, it would be good to try to go to Mass more than just on Sunday. Add another day. The second discipline is fasting. For many of us, the first thing we think about when it comes to fasting is to give up some kind of food, like candy or ice cream. Abstaining from food is definitely a way to fast, but there are other, and

Who are the people in our lives – whether living or dead – that we need to forgive? Or from whom do we need to ask forgiveness? sometimes more meaningful ways. It could be more beneficial to fast from gossip or negative words about others or to leave conversations that engage in negativity or in tearing down someone’s reputation. Another suggestion is to try to talk less and become a better listener, both to God and to people who could use some attention. It can be a real discipline to stop and focus on the other person, to really listen to what he or she says instead of waiting to jump in with what you want

to say. We should choose the type of fasting that would best benefit our spiritual lives. The other traditional Lenten discipline is to give alms. When I was in elementary school we were given miter boxes to save money for a good cause. That is an important part of it, but it is often easier to give our loose change to the poor than to share the precious gifts of our time and talents to those who need them. Lent calls us to give of ourselves, not just our financial and material resources. During Lent we might choose a particular person or cause that could use some of our time. In what ways can we get out of ourselves and think more of others? Besides our time, another thing we may be called to give during Lent is forgiveness. Who are the people in our lives – whether living or dead – that we need to forgive? Or from whom do we need to ask forgiveness? It is not easy to be reconciled with someone we hurt or who hurt us but it can bring a lot of peace to our hearts. Let’s hope we will take advantage of this annual opportunity to deepen our life of faith. Classes, papers, jobs, committees, projects, spring breaks, etc., will pass away, but our relationship with God is forever. Let us get to know and serve God better during these days as we prepare for Easter. Don’t let this be just another 40 days of the year. Make each day count. Holy Cross Sister Margie Lavonis writes from Notre Dame, Ind.

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Fasting: Time for a fresh look? By Father Thomas Ryan, CSP More people are practicing voluntary fasting than you would ever guess. There is a slow-growing, new awakening to an ancient practice that is cutting across all societal lines and claiming followers from every sector of human experience. Athletes. Secretaries. Store managers. Students. Teachers. Why are they fasting? Body ecology is often a factor. Many people fast to simply give their physical self a rest, a holiday. The body is constantly absorbed in the work of digesting food, metabolizing it into energy, and eliminating the waste materials. To go without eating from time to time is to reward our bodies with the same kind of down day that we give our minds after we’ve been working hard at reading or writing. Fasting gives the body a chance to renew itself, to burn its rubbish and eliminate accumulated toxins. It’s like a housecleaning day. Another major reason underlying the fasting of many today is that they are experiencing it as an aid to self-transcendence, to going beyond themselves. As an acquaintance who serves as the director of a mental health center put it: “When my life is going too fast, I tend to be mentally all over the place and not sensitive enough to the person or event that

is present right now. When I fast, I listen better. When I’m in touch with what’s within, I find I’m more in tune with what’s without. And I’m clearer in what I say, perhaps because it’s more peaceful inside myself.” Many people who would describe themselves as “religious” and who at one time practiced fasting or abstinence have dropped it, perhaps because at some point it began to feel like a rote discipline, something required by church law but without a consciously perceived purpose or value. When the Catholic bishops removed the Friday obligation of abstaining from meat, they weren’t suggesting that fast and abstinence were no longer of value. They were inviting Catholics to take their faith to a more adult level by discovering for themselves the values involved and giving them free and conscious expression in their lives. For some, the minimalism of present regulations – just two days of fasting a year (Ash Wednesday and Good Friday with “fasting” interpreted as your main meal plus two smaller ones not equaling the main one) and abstinence from meat on Fridays in Lent – is hard to take seriously because it asks so little. When our doctor says to us, “Next time you come in, we’ll take some blood samples, so fast from midnight the night before,” we know what is meant by fasting: nothing but water.

One way of breathing new life into the practice of a weekly fast day may be to decide for yourself what fasting will mean. In the early centuries of the church, it was generally a 23-hour fast from after supper one night up to supper the following evening. The physical and spiritual benefits of fasting can be combined in a holistic approach. It doesn’t have to be either-or. It can and should be both, because we are not just bodies and we are not just spirits. We are embodied spirits, enspirited flesh. What would be beneficial physically? Try drinking lots of liquids – water, raw juice, herbal tea – to cleanse the body, flushing out the toxins and waste material. And what would be of benefit spiritually? Try giving a place in your fast to one or more of the three major themes in the history and practice of Christian fasting: Mystical longing for fulfillment, liberation through discipline, and a work of charity and justice. Might this Lent be a time to recover a valuable practice of the spiritual life found in every religion of the world but by and large lost in our spiritual practice as Christians? Paulist Father Thomas Ryan is the author of “The Sacred Art of Fasting.”

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Crusader Marching Band performs at Chinese New Year, St. Pat’s Day parades The Archbishop Riordan Crusader Marching Band, made up of about 115 students including five of the school’s international boarding students, helped move things along for the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade Feb. 11. Pictured from left are Danielle Miller, assistant color guard director; Scott Souza, band director; drum majors Abe Go and Anthony Trigueiro; James Dumlao, assistant band director; and Mark Lieuw, color guard director. The ensemble will march in San Francisco’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, March 17. The band has been a part of the St. Patrick’s Day and Chinese New Year parades as well as a Veterans Day parade for several years. On Feb. 7, the young men played in a Golden State Warriors’ pregame show at Oracle Arena in Oakland. A band color guard includes students from Immaculate Conception Academy and Mercy High School, San Francisco.

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WICHITA, Kan. (CNS) – The statues that will dominate the east and west transepts of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Wichita are taking shape. Sculptor Rip Caswell, who works from his studio in Troutdale, Ore., was commissioned to create two heroic-size bronze sculptures as part of the cathedral renovation project. The two sculptures, “Mary and Joseph” and “The Crucifixion” will face each other from the east and west alcoves of the cross-shaped cathedral. The statues are scheduled to be installed in late August or early September. The first piece, “Mary and Joseph,” depicts a pregnant Mary with her hand on her womb and Joseph as a Sculptor Rip Caswell is supportive father figure and seen in an undated photo husband standing behind her. working in his studio in Mary is looking across the Troutdale, Ore. cathedral to a scene of the Crucifixion. “We’ve made some bold departures with this piece,” Caswell told The Catholic Advance, newspaper of the Wichita diocese. Traditionally, Mary’s pregnancy was hidden or portrayed as barely showing, he said. Joseph has been characterized as older, benign and in the background. Caswell said he sees a wave moving in churches across the country now to tell the traditional stories, but with a new angle, with a fresh perspective. “Culture and society have changed,” he said. “Churches still want commissioned works to be of the highest quality and to remain true to doctrine, but they want them to reflect a more genuine portrayal of life and of the things with which we can all relate. Realism is back. “With this sculpture, we’re celebrating Mary’s pregnancy – we’re celebrating motherhood, he said. “We show Joseph as a strong, solid and protective man, very much in love with Mary.” The second sculpture, “The Crucifixion,” with a larger-thanlife figure of Christ, “will be powerful,” Caswell said. “The cross will appear to come right out of the floor. People will be able to walk around it, look up into Jesus’ face, and even touch his feet,” he explained. “In the Book of John, it talks about Christ willingly sacrificing himself on the cross. He was in control at every moment. He will be looking down, but his face will not appear as a victim. I will create his face to reflect a sense of calm and peace.” Caswell added that the wood for the cross will have special meaning because it is being shipped from Israel. Msgr. Robert Hemberger, chair of the Cathedral Arts Committee, said that “Mary and Joseph” in the west transept and “The Crucifixion” in the east will give the impression there is a conversation taking place between the crucified Jesus and his mother. “She and Joseph are standing here with the child and Mary has a distant look in her eyes, looking toward the future,” he said. Msgr. Hemberger said one of the reasons Caswell was chosen as the sculptor was that he took the project so seriously. “He understood what we were looking for and he had an intuitive sense for our vision. We were struck by his attention to detail,” the priest told The Catholic Advance. “Historical accuracy is important to him. I’m just delighted by the beauty of what he’s created with Mary. Her face is astoundingly beautiful – it’s just amazing.”

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February 24, 2012

Insurance, immigration issues at heart of quest for kidney transplant For seven years, Jesus Gonzales Navarro has known that he will need a kidney transplant. But the 35-year-old Oakland father, who has lived and worked in the United States since 1996, has spent the better part of the last year thinking that the transplant was not going to happen. Seven years ago, he learned that his kidneys never developed properly. His girlfriend was with him through the difficult news. “I was in the hospital when she told me that she wanted to marry me,” Navarro said. “It was February when I was in the hospital, and we got married on Feb. 14.” The civil marriage was followed by a church wedding at St. Anthony Church in Oakland. They are the parents of Karen Jacquelin, 3, who was born in Oakland. A welder employed at Pacific Steel in Berkeley, he had health insurance that covered his needs – which for the last six have involved dialysis. He connected to the machine that sits in his living room at 4 p.m. and disconnected at 2 a.m., then went to work from 5:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. “I’m tired of this but this machine helps me to be alive so I have to deal with it,” Navarro said in an interview. “I don’t have any other choice but a transplant.” But he left a pre-transplant meeting in May 2011 at the University of California San Francisco with the sense that he would not be able to receive a kidney because he is not a legal resident of the United States. He said it was the first time anyone had asked him about his immigration status. “Why did they never tell me about the issue with my immigration papers, six years ago?” he asked. “At least I could be prepared, but they never told me about this.” Matters became worse in December when Navarro became one of 200 workers who lost their jobs in January at Pacific Steel, after an immigration audit, said the Rev. Deborah Lee of the Interfaith Immigrant Rights Project, which has been provid-

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By Jose Luis Aguirre and Michele Jurich

Jesus Navarro takes care of his daughter, Karen Jacquelin, 3, while he waits for a kidney transplant. They are pictured at home in Oakland.

ing assistance to the fired workers. Navarro had worked there for 14 years. “They said that because I’m undocumented it will be very difficult for me to afford the medicines to keep my kidney healthy after the transplant,” he said after a Feb. 6 phone call from UCSF. UCSF representatives met with Navarro on Feb. 7 to clarify that he remains on the transplant list. According to the medical center, he is expected to reach the top of the transplant list in three to six months. Whether he receives the transplant, however, will depend in

part on whether he is likely to be able to receive the follow-up care and medication required for him to remain healthy after the transplant. The American Kidney Fund is picking up the cost of his health insurance, said Donald Kagan, a Berkeley businessman who is a kidney transplant recipient himself. Kagan became interested in Navarro’s situation and has provided help. According to its website, the American Kidney Fund provided assistance to 101,000 people – 1 out of every 4 U.S. dialysis patients in 2010 – for health insurance premiums and other treatment-related expenses that insurance does not cover. Navarro said his wife, who works in retail, has the same blood type, and has offered to donate a kidney. Navarro, who is from Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico, said he left his country when he was 19 looking for a better life back in 1996. Returning to Mexico now is not an option for him. “I know people who have died in Mexico because they didn’t get the appropriate medical assistance,” he said. Navarro’s case illustrates the difficulties undocumented workers encounter in health care. “UCSF is committed to helping Jesus Navarro and all kidney transplant candidates achieve their goal of a kidney transplant,” the hospital said in a statement attributed to Navarro and Dr. Josh Adler, chief medical officer. The statement said a plan had been developed to help secure medical care through the transplant and beyond. It also addressed the misunderstanding that left Navarro believing his immigration status had cost him a chance to save his life. “UCSF regrets the misunderstanding and is committed to reviewing its processes to make sure that communication is consistent and clear with all patients, including Mr. Navarro. UCSF does not and will not discriminate on the basis of immigration status,” according to the statement. This article first appeared in The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Oakland diocese.

Exploitation, violence beset world’s migrants, Catholic advocate says By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – The prevalence of exploitation afflicting migrants on their journeys across borders may be rising. Jane Bloom, an American who works as a liaison officer for the International Catholic Migration Committee at its Geneva headquarters, told a story of exploitation during a Feb. 13 panel discussion on migration, “Causes and Consequences of Migration,” at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington. A worker for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, according to Bloom, “was dismayed when he interviewed Haitian refugees, and every single solitary woman he had talked to had been raped.” Bloom’s tale was borne out by a participant at the ministry gathering from Ohio, who said that in his own interviews with immigrants in southwest Ohio, each one had been subjected to either “exploitation, extortion or rape.” The North American Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in 1994, may have been a contributing factor for some Mexicans heading to the United States, because it has meant the loss of livelihoods for many, but the story is more complex

than that, according to Mary DeLorey, Catholic Relief Services’ regional representative for Latin America and the Caribbean. Violence is a principal concern, she said. “There’s more attention to the amount of guns that are flowing into Mexico. Mexico has very strong gun-control laws. We do not.” One reason for the increasing violence is the flow of drugs north from Mexico, and DeLorey said no solution has been found to ease the demand for drugs. The drugs flow so easily because of widespread corruption within the Mexican government, she added. The government did a wholesale firing of one police force, DeLorey said, but “they became the Zetas (drug cartel), and one group they’ve targeted are migrants.” “The very act of migration makes people more vulnerable to exploitation,” Bloom said. One phenomenon not witnessed until last year, she said, was a wholesale flight of refugees from Libya during that country’s revolution that finally overthrew President Moammar Gadhafi. He was captured Oct. 20 and died later the same day. Of the 780,000 people who fled, 350,000 – or close to 45 percent – were nationals of other countries, Bloom said. That

made it more difficult for refugee service groups to provide the needed help. But the U.N. gave temporary protected status to all refugees to give aid workers time to sort things out. There are 1,200 refugees from Libya missing and presumed dead; of refugees who fled by sea, 10 percent are likewise missing and presumed dead. “Refugees become detainees or torture survivors,” Bloom said. “Children get separated from their parents.” Another emerging migration issue is the mail-order bride, many of them still in their teens, according to Bloom. “You would call them economic refugees,” Bloom said of the estimated hundreds of thousands of women who have left their home country to face an uncertain future going to a new land and marrying a man they have never met. Of this group, 10 percent, she estimated, are under age 18. In South Korea alone, there have been 200,000 such marriages between South Korean men and Vietnamese women. In South Korea, Bloom said, “they are legally called ‘excludable aliens.’ If they divorce their husbands, they are not entitled to citizenship or benefits. Even when married, they may be subject to beatings and abuse,” she added.

Famine . . . ■ Continued from cover “It’s the changing climate condition. We are polluting our environment the way we are destroying natural resources.” CRS relies heavily on Operation Rice Bowl in large part because of congressional proposals to trim food aid. Last year, as what was called the supercommittee was seeking a $1.5 trillion reduction in the federal deficit, a plan developed in the House of Representatives would have trimmed food aid by 28 percent – from $1.7 billion in 2011 to $1.2 billion. In the end, said Kimeu, Catholic lobbyists prevailed – for this year. The 28 percent was preserved. He thinks Catholics have an inherent responsibility to help. “If there is hunger, anger, anywhere, then we cannot proudly say we are in communion,” he said, “because those brothers and sisters of ours who are hungry – we need to be able to satisfy them. This is the message, and particularly the message to everyone in America, that we are brothers and sisters with them.” He added, “It is part of our responsibility as Catholics to raise our voices where the poor are going to be injured in any way.” CRS, which the U.S. bishops launched following World War II to aid the poor in Europe, is, in addition to making direct donations of food, giving farmers resources and information and helping with infrastructure so they may be more self-sufficient. For example, in Kitui, Kenya, a town of 13,000 some 130 kilometers east of Nairobi, CRS has, with the people, built five small reservoirs to collect rain water. Now, women don’t have to walk five or six kilometers to a water station, and the people are even stocking the reservoirs with fish. Tin silos are also being built in the region so food is protected from weevils. “You agree with a community that is suffering hunger to engage in activity that in the long run is a solution to their anger,” said Kimeu.

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2012 CYO Hall of Fame inductees Steve Phelps and Paul Watters have been named 2012 inductees to the CYO Athletics Hall of Fame and will be honored by Catholic Charities CYO at a hall of fame dinner on March 10 at St. Emydius Parish in San Francisco. “The work that they have done in their respective communities and for CYO Athletics has Steve Phelps allowed the rich tradition to continue for almost 80 years,” said CYO Athletics Director Courtney Johnson Clendinen. “Volunteering to coach and serving on boards is a selfless job and they gave without hesitation.” Phelps has served as athletic director, coach and board member in the Western Addition and “has helped shape the lives of hundreds of young men in the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” CCCYO said. Paul Watters has been involved in Paul Watters

February 24, 2012 CYO Athletics for over 40 years as a men’s athletic board member and coach in the Parkside and Marina and “has selflessly given countless weekends to run the St. Vincent de Paul gym so that schools without a gym had a place to play,” according to CCCYO. The dinner’s keynote speaker is Eric Wright, retired cornerback of the San Francisco 49ers. Wright played on four Super Bowl-winning teams. The CYO Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner recognizes individuals who have made an extraordinary impact on the community by providing a legacy of leadership and championing the virtues and values of CYO Athletics. Visit http://cyo.cccyo.org. The inductees were selected by open nominations from parishioners, CYO participants and CYO Athletics alumni in the San Francisco archdiocese.

Filipino ministry day of recollection The Filipino Ministry Consultative Board, under the leadership of Father Ed Dura, pro tempore vicar for Filipinos for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will host a recollection March 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Our Lady of Mercy social hall, One Elmwood Drive, Daly City. The recollection will focus on the U.S. bishops’ document “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord,” a resource for guiding

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St. Gabriel students study lake ecology For more than 10 years students at St. Gabriel School have been helping restore and maintain Pine Lake in Stern Grove not far from the San Francisco Sunset District school. Science teacher, Bernice Tonegato-Jarrell, took the idea to the city’s recreation and parks people and students have been pitching in one Saturday a month ever since. The long association with Pine Lake led to eighth grade students at St. Gabe’s being invited to a Youth Stewardship Program. In January, the 56 eighth grade students at St. Gabriel participated in YSP. Students attended a workshop where Pine Lake’s science and history were introduced and explained and engaged in hands-on activities, such as recording nitrate, pH and water temperature levels of Pine Lake. The students also studied Pine Lake’s various invertebrate populations under microscopes and made observations of the vertebrate population. Eighth grade teachers are Lynn Grier and Pat Tucker.

OLM couple ‘role models of faith’ The first Masses of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Daly City were celebrated in the garage of Liz and Al Bucci, who still keep the Daly City parish under their wing almost 60 years later. “In 1954, the Archdiocese of San Francisco commissioned a new parish in the Westlake District of Daly City,” Kathie Garcia, principal, Our Lady of Mercy School told Catholic San Francisco. As there was no church yet, Liz and Al Bucci opened their garage for daily and Sunday Masses. In the ensuing almost six decades, the couple have been deeply connected to the parish and school at Our Lady of Mercy. They were honored during Catholic Schools Week for their outstanding service. Al walks over to the school three days a week to help monitor recess and Liz regularly sends treats for the faculty. “They are an inspiration and terrific role models of faith and service,” Garcia said.

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Deepened by suffering As a columnist, I’ve always harbored a certain paranoia about being overly personal or exhibitionistic in my writing or in thinking that my own emotional ups and downs are of interest to others. I’ve tried to respect that fear. Occasionally, however, circumstance dictates that I do write something more personal. This is such an occasion. I want to express my gratitude for all the prayers and support that I have received during these past seven months while undergoing treatments for cancer. That desert journey has finally ended, and with a good result. A month ago, I finished my last chemotherapy treatment and, two weeks ago, after a battery of medical tests, was pronounced “cancer free.” To God, family, friends, colleagues and to the many of you who have supported me in prayer: Thank you! John Updike, in a poem entitled “Fever,” once wrote about what illness might teach us: I have brought back a good message from the land of 102 degrees: God exists. I had seriously doubted it before; but the bedposts spoke of it with utmost confidence, the threads in my blanket took it for granted, the tree outside the window dismissed all complaints, and I have not slept so justly for years. It is hard, now, to convey how emblematically appearances sat upon the membranes of my consciousness; but it is truth long known, that some secrets are hidden from health. Indeed some secrets are hidden from health! What secrets did I learn from my loss of health?

The initial diagnosis of cancer caught me by surprise and for a time left me mostly numb and frightened. But, after having surgery and having the projected treatment (six months of chemotherapy) and the projected long-term prognosis (good chance for a cure) explained to me, I prayerfully laid out a number of conversion steps that I hoped this illness and its bitter treatment would conscriptively impose on me. I resolved to make this time of treatment a grace in my life: I would slow down my life, not just during treatment but forever afterward. I would learn to be more patient. I would be rigorously faithful to a daily practice of contemplative prayer. I would no longer take life, love, friendship and health for granted, but would finally, after years of failed resolutions, begin to live more inside of the wonder of God and life and not have my energy so absorbed by the demands of work and agenda. What happened? Old habits die hard, even under the pressure of illness. After six months of treatments, on my better days, I sense some modest improvement. Some of my resolutions have borne fruit, but I’m still a long way from the ideals that I had set for myself. But life is what happens to you while you are planning your life. So, too, conversion. Having cancer taught me some lessons other than the ones I’d planned. Most important among these was this: Like everyone else in this world, I’ve always wanted joy in my life – friendship, love, celebration. But, and this has been the big handicap in finding these, I have always (however unconsciously) felt that the joy and celebration I so longed for could only come my way when I was finally free from all anxiety, emotional tension, pressure, overwork, illness, frustration and stress of all kinds. We nurse this strange fantasy that it is only after all our bills are paid,

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Book depicts spiritual vibrancy of Maryknoll Sisters’ foundress “ON THE THRESHOLD OF FUTURE: THE LIFE AND SPIRITUALITY OF MOTHER MARY JOSEPH ROGERS, FOUNDER OF THE MARYKNOLL SISTERS” by Claudette LaVerdiere, MM. Orbis Books (Maryknoll, N.Y., 2011). 160 pp., $20.

Reviewed by Rachelle Linner (CNS) This year the Maryknoll Sisters celebrate the 100th anniversary of their founding, making it a particularly appropriate time for the publication of this study of their foundress, Molly Rogers (1882-1955). Maryknoll Sister Claudette LaVerdiere, a former president of the congregation who has worked in both East Africa and Myanmar, offers a concise portrait of this remarkable woman, known in religious life as Mother Mary Joseph. The book opens with a biographical section that illustrates the family and social environment that formed Molly Rogers. Most Catholic children were educated in parochial schools, but because Molly and her seven siblings attended Boston’s public schools, she was “relatively untouched by the Catholic culture of the time.” This would have a significant impact on her vision for Maryknoll, a congregation “shaped more by the resilience needed in foreign mission than by traditional expectations of religious.” Molly wanted to be a nurse, but her father insisted she get a college education and during her junior year at Smith College she experienced her decisive call. “She had just witnessed the vibrant ‘mission sending’ of the Protestant Student Volunteer Movement. ‘Something – I do not know how

to describe it – happened within me,’ and she proceeded directly to St. Mary’s Church. Kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament, she pledged herself to the mission of the church, having no idea how she might follow through on this commitment. She simply believed that divine providence would show the way.” “On the Threshold of the Future,” like other stories of the founding of religious congregations, can be read as a testimony to how divine providence works in, and through, the lives of generous souls. Beginning Jan. 6, 1912, Molly Rogers and a small group of other women volunteers supported Fathers James Anthony Walsh and Thomas Frederick Price in the establishment of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. These laywomen began as unpaid secretaries (the “Teresians of Maryknoll”) and after a lengthy period of formation and training, received approval to become a diocesan congregation in 1920. The following year, the first sisters were sent to China. The book’s great strength is its careful presentation of Mother Mary Joseph’s spirituality, whose description of a Maryknoll Sister is a remarkably accurate rendering of her

own spiritual genius. “I would have her distinguished,” she wrote, “by Christ-like charity, limpid simplicity of soul, heroic generosity, selflessness, unfailing loyalty, prudent zeal, gracious courtesy, an adaptable disposition, solid piety and the saving grace of a kindly humor.” The Maryknoll Sisters were imbued with the Dominican charism of contemplation and action. “I mean that we must be so trained, have so formed our affections ... our inward gaze fixed solely upon (God), and no matter what distractions, no matter what works, what trials, sickness, separation caused by death – always our first thought, our involuntary action, even, is to accept everything with our eyes fixed upon the face of Christ.” Mother Mary Joseph had great confidence in the sisters’ maturity, diversity of gifts, bonds of charity (“mutual love in Christ”) and religious obedience to sustain the common good. When, on Jan. 2, 1947, she left the office of mother general, Mother Mary Joseph reflected on the 35 years she led her community. “These have been lovely years in which we have worked together and my heart will always sing its hymn of gratitude, to you, for your patience, your faithfulness and your love, and to God, for having given us each other in this glorious work of the extension of God’s kingdom.” This carefully researched, well-written and intelligent book is not, ultimately, a work of scholarship. It is, instead, a “hymn of gratitude” for Mother Mary Joseph’s spiritual vitality, “a gift not only for Maryknoll missioners in the first part of the 20th century but for our time and for the world.” Linner, a freelance writer and reviewer, lives in Medford, Mass.

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Reviewed by Agostino Bono (CNS) Ministering to Hispanic Catholics in the United States is a work in progress. Defining it is like trying to pinpoint the elusive colors of a chameleon leaping through autumn foliage. While much attention is focused on the challenges posed by the massive flow of Spanish-speaking immigrants crossing the southern border in recent decades, Hispanic Catholics are far from a monolith. They include second- and third-generation bilingual families struggling to scamper into the middle class and adapt to U.S. traditions while retaining ties to their ancestral culture and language. Added to the mix are predominantly Englishspeaking Hispanics who trace their families back centuries to the Spanish colonial era, before their ancestral lands passed to Mexico and then the United States. And let’s not forget Hispanics who have intermarried in the growingly multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual United States.

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When it comes to developing ministerial approaches, one size does not fit all. Nor is there agreement among Hispanics as to what are the best roads to evangelization. Clearly, though, Hispanics are transforming U.S. Catholic life. Anyone who has participated in a charismatic renewal event or has taken a cursillo (short course in Christianity) is a witness to the growing Hispanic influence. They are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. Catholic population and should be a sizable majority by mid-century. In addition to the growing Spanish Masses across the country, they are injecting U.S. Catholicism with pilgrimages, processions, rituals, popular piety, social activism and a conviction that faith needs to be expressed emotionally and dynamically. “Hispanic Ministry in the 21st Century” and “Latino Catholicism” outline the challenges, complexities and controversies facing a U.S. institutional church formed and led by English-speaking European descendants as it strives for religious unity while acknowledging a mushrooming cultural diversity. The books speak of Hispanic ministry in terms of multiple strategies, approaches and visions to reach the multidimensional Hispanic population. While both overlap in themes, “Hispanic Ministry” is more for lay and clerical ministers. It is a collection of six essays – each in English and Spanish – developed from a series of talks by Hispanic ministry experts at a 2009 sym-

posium. It looks to the future, stressing what needs to be done based on where Hispanic Catholicism is now. “Latino Catholicism” provides more historical context and perspective on how the situation got to where it is. Timothy Matovina, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, offers a crash course on Hispanic Catholics and their impact. The book’s chapter on the importance of popular religiosity in Hispanic worship and devotion – and the controversies it causes in multiethnic parishes – is especially good. Both books excellently frame issues, problems and the evolving institutional church’s attitudes and activities toward the growing Hispanic population. Neither claims to have the answers in this dynamic, still fluid situation. One of the key controversies the books deal with is whether new immigrants should be assimilated or integrated into U.S. society and church. Assimilation refers to the “melting pot” image used with previous immigration waves where the aim was to blend them into a homogeneous unity with native-born citizens. Integration uses a “stewing pot” symbol where immigrants add their flavor to the mix while retaining their cultural and ethnic individuality. Bono, a retired CNS staff writer, covered Hispanic affairs.

“Catholicism” airs on KQED “Catholicism” a four-part series on the faith and its history, airs on KQED World Feb. 24 and March 2. Part I: Feb. 24, 7 a.m. and 10 a.m.; Part II: Feb. 24, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.; Part III: March 2, 7 a.m. and 10 a.m.; Part IV: March 2, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. KQED World is available on Comcast channel 190. Over-the-air viewers can tune it in at 9.3.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 TEA: Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court, Our Lady of the Miracle, #1707, High Tea in Novato, 2-4 p.m. at Our Lady of Loretto Parish hall, 1801 Virginia Ave., Novato. An array of finger sandwiches and desserts are featured for the event now in its 12th year. Proceeds benefit the Catholic Daughters scholarship program. Tickets are $15 per person. Silent auction, door prizes and raffle, too. Deadline for reservations is Feb. 23. Call (415) 892-3834. PASTA BINGO: Le Donne d’Italia, San Francisco’s new Italian women’s club, announces a day of bubbly and bingo at San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton St., San Francisco. Lunch is at 11:30 a.m. and bingo games start at 1:30 p.m. with special paper games and regular games, too. Tickets at $30 per person include two free bingo cards. Contact Antonette at (415) 931-4810 or www.ledonneditalia.com.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2 FACE TO FACE: Marriage Encounter Weekend to be held in San Mateo. Call Paul or Yvonne at (650) 366-7093 or visit www.wwme12.org. RUMMAGE SALE: Mother’s Club of Church of the Visitacion, 701 Sunnydale at Rutland, San Francisco, Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday March 3, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. All kinds of items are for sale including clothes, furniture, books, and a new items booth. Call (415) 494-5517.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 10 YOU’RE IN: Catholic Charities CYO Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner at the Father O’Reilly Catholic CATHEDRAL: Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. When available, docents are on duty in the cathedral Monday through Friday from 10 a.m.-noon, Saturday from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Sunday after Masses. The Docent program also offers special tours and a school program. Schedule a tour by calling (415) 567-2020 ext. 207. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 13 SEW: St. Vincent de Paul Society-San Francisco’s Seventh Discarded to Divine with unique fashions and home décor from recycled clothes, benefitting homelessness and domestic violence programs. Complimentary public preview 6-8 p.m., de Young Museum. Visit http://www. discardedtodivine.org/.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3: St. Luke Church Crab Feed in the church community center, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. Enjoy all-you-can-eat crab, salad, pasta, dessert and coffee with music for dining and dancing, door prizes and a cash raffle. Social hour is at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $40 per person with a no-host bar. Call John Bernat at (650) 341-4045 or (650) 345-6660. Pictured welcoming guests to last year’s fest are, from left, Sue Linkhorn, Patti Villano, Sally Stevens and Jo Moran.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26 SEW: St. Vincent de Paul Society-San Francisco’s Seventh Discarded to Divine with unique fashions and home décor from recycled clothes, benefitting homelessness and domestic violence programs. Gala reception, live show, auctions from 6-10 p.m., San Francisco Design Center Galleria. Tickets are VIP $195 and general admission $95 ($75 if purchased by March 31). Visit www.discardedtodivine.org/.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy class of 1972 in San Francisco. Contact Michele Clark at (916) 607-5691or mclark2514@comcast. net.

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Charities CYO Center at 6:30 p.m. at St. Emydius gym, San Francisco. Inductees are Steve Phelps and Paul Watters who will be honored for their extraordinary impact on the CYO Athletics community. For information about the dinner, tickets or sponsorship opportunities, visit http://athletics. cccyo.org/hof/ or call Mary Beth Johnson Deel at (415) 972-1252. SOLD! Belmont to Broadway Auction and Show benefiting Notre Dame High School, Belmont at the Foster City Crowne Plaza Hotel. For ticket, sponsorship, or volunteer opportunities contact Denise Severi at (650)595-1913 ext. 446 or dseveri@ndhsb.org. CRAB FEST: Bleu Bayou: St. Monica School Annual Auction Fundraiser Dinner, an evening of fun, food, and friends at the Parish Hall, Geary Boulevard and 23rd Avenue, San Francisco. This adults-only event starts at 6 p.m with live jazz performances by The Jerry Grosz Jazz Kitchen! Menu includes: appetizers, marinated cold crab, roast chicken, plus wine and beverages. Tickets are $50 per person. All attendees will be entered for a chance to win an Apple iPad! Visit http:// stmonicasf.org/parents/auction.php or call (415) 751-9564. US: Got Love? Love, Sex, and Relationships is a Bay Area wide conference for young adults and youth. This event seeks to empower people with the truth about love and purity, to bring joy and fulfilling relationships with God and others. This is an all-day event with Mass at 9 a.m. with San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Thomas A. Daly as principal celebrant at Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave. between El Camino Real and Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. The rest of the day is at Sobrato Pavilion at Nativity School. The conference features engaging speakers, dynamic workshops, catered lunch, info tables, and book vendors. Confession will be available throughout the day. Open to college, graduate, and high school students. The event is $20 for adults and $15 for students, Catered lunch is included. The conference ends at 4:45 p.m. For registration and more details www.gotlove.info or call Deacon Dominick Peloso at (650) 269-6279.

FRIDAY, MARCH 16 ST. PATTY’S DAY: Hibernian-Newman Club holiday lunch at the Westin San Francisco, 50 Third

ST. PATTY’S DAY: St. Patrick’s Day Mass with San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice as principal celebrant at St. Patrick Church, 756 Mission St., San Francisco at 9 a.m. in anticipation of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade at 11:30 a.m. A daylong Irish Festival at Civic Center begins at 11 a.m. The United Irish Societies sponsor these and other events. For a full schedule, visit www. uissf.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT: Epiphany Center’s Benefit Party and Show, 6:30 p.m. cocktail buffet with show at 8 p.m. at Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell St., San Francisco. Tickets are $175 per person. Sponsorships are also available. Call (415) 351-4055 or visit www.msjse.org. Proceeds from this traditional night of live musical comedy benefit the most vulnerable women, children, and families in San Francisco at Epiphany Center Mount St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth: Serving San Francisco’s at-risk families since 1852. PASTA: Spaghetti and meatballs at Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St. just up the hill from Cesar Chavez at noon. Delicious meal is served family style. Tickets are $8 per person with beverages available for purchase. The Bernal Heights tradition is now in its plus-50th year.

SATURDAY, MARCH 31 RELIGIOUS LIFE TODAY AND TOMORROW: Sharing the New Wine: Vowed Religious in a Postmodern Age, a day of communal reflection and dialogue on the present reality and future of religious life, at Santa Clara University, Locatelli Hall, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Visit www.sharingthenewwine. blogspot.com and www.scu.edu/jst/religiouslife. Day is sponsored by California Province of the Society of Jesus, Sisters of the Holy Names of

SATURDAY, MAY 12 REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of ‘67 at the school. Contact Stephanie Mischak Lyons at (415) 242-9818 or smlyons@ earthlink.net or on Facebook at Mercy San Francisco ‘67.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 ALUMNAE DAY: “Notre Dame High School Legacy Luncheon” at Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Invitations will be mailed in late April. Contact Denise Severi at Dseveri@ndhsb.org. Reunions for class of ’87, Aug. 5, contact Heather Oda at moda@ co.sanmateo.ca.us; class of ’67 Oct. 27, contact Susan Angle at susanangle@comcast.net or (925) 680-4917.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 REUNION: Class of 1972, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Save the date. Contact Notre Dame alumnae office at (650) 595 1913 ext. 446 or email dseveri@ndhsb.org or eileen_browning@ yahoo.com.

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WALK: San Francisco Interfaith Council’s Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty Walk around Lake Merced, 1:30 p.m. registration and 2 p.m. start time at parking circle at Sunset and Lake Merced Boulevard. One aspect of extreme poverty identified by the UN that is both treatable and preventable is malaria. More than 1,800 deaths occur every day from malaria and 86 percent of those deaths are children under 5. Proceeds from the walk will help fight malaria. Visit www.cropwalksf.org.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 3 RECOLLECTION DAY: The Filipino Ministry Consultative Board invites Filipino clergy, pastoral associates and active Filipino lay leaders to a one-day recollection 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. at our Lady of Mercy Social Hall, One Elmwood Drive, Daly City. Theme will focus on the U.S. bishops’ “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord.” Admission is free but registration is required by Feb. 29. Contact Estelle Oloresisimo at estelle.oloresisimo@gmail.com or (415) 595-9248 or Nellie Hizon at nellihizon@yahoo. com or (415) 699-7927. SHENANIGANS: Fashion and fun benefiting scholarship program of Catholic Professional Women’s Club, at Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard, San Francisco. No-host social hour at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30 p.m. Fashions by Dress Barn. Tickets are $35 per person. Contact Gloria Pizzinelli at (415) 681-3733 or gloriapizzinelli@yahoo.com with CPW on subject line. AUCTION: Mercy’s Got Talent! Auction and dinner benefiting Mercy High School, Burlingame with performances and artwork both on the stage and in the auction from Mercy students. Tickets are $80 per person. Contact the Mercy Advancement Department for ticket/auction information at (650) 762-1190 or visit www.mercyhsb.com. Proceeds fund Mercy scholarships, athletics and general operations. FASHION: St. Stephen Women’s Guild presents Via Passerella at the Olympic Club Lakeside. Contact Renee Wallis at (650) 994-9212 or Samantha Martinez at (650) 438-1839.

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