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Archdiocese restores Office of Marriage and Family Life GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Bishop McElroy is particularly interested in providing a service for couples before their kids are school age. “We do not have a niche for that in parish life in general,” he said. He added that the Office of Marriage and Family Life is one that Archbishop George Niederauer “felt was needed and wanted to restore.” The director will report to Deacon John Norris, director of the Department of Pastoral Ministry, who said restoration of the office “is a positive move forward to do more in ministry.” One hurdle to church marriages, said Bishop McElroy and Deacon Norris, is unique to a multicultural archdiocese like San Francisco: It is “quinceanera,” the expensive celebration of a Latina’s 15th birthday, a passage from childhood SEE MARRIAGE, PAGE 5

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Archbishop ordains 12 deacons Newly ordained deacons and ministers of the Archdiocese of San Francisco are pictured June 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral after their ordination at a Mass celebrated by Archbishop George Niederauer. Front, Deacon Richard Younkin, Deacon Jose Penate, Deacon Ernest von Emster, Deacon Juan Antillon, Deacon Ven Garcia. Middle, archdiocesan diaconate formation director Deacon Richard Foley, Deacon Robert Leathers, Deacon Mario Zuniga, Deacon Joseph Ramos, Deacon Dana Perrigan, Deacon Jerry Quinn, Deacon Ed Cunningham. Back, Deacon Nestor Fernandez, Bishop Robert W. McElroy, Bishop Ignatius Wang, Archbishop George Niederauer, Bishop William J. Justice, Deacon Thomas Kelly.

Pope names German theologian to head Vatican doctrinal office CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller of Regensburg, Germany, the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The 64-year-old expert in dogmatic theology and ecumenism, who has co-authored a work on liberation theology, replaced U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, who retired at 76. As head of the doctrinal congregation, the archbishop also assumes the roles of president of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei,” the

Pontifical Biblical Commission and the International Theological Commission. The appointment automatically elevates the former bishop of Regensburg, Germany, to the rank of archbishop, according to a Vatican statement July 2. The archbishop’s academic research focuses on “ecumenism, modern age theology, the Christian understanding of revelation, theological hermeneutics and ecclesiology – the priesthood and the diaconate,” according to the website of the Diocese of Regensburg. SEE DOCTRINAL, PAGE 5

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The Office of Marriage and Family Life, closed by the Archdiocese of San Francisco in a cost-cutting move in 2005, has been restored in the fiscal year budget that began July 1, the need for it growing exponentially. A director of the office, who must have experience in marriage preparation and other family life programs and be bilingual in English and Spanish, will be hired, along with an assistant, hopefully by the end of September. The director’s assignment will be to support marriage and family life matters in the parishes, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy. During the past 15 years, the number of sacramental marriages in the archdiocese, and across the nation, has fallen almost by 60 percent, an interim task force on marriage assembled by the archdiocese found. Forces behind the trend include the growing secularization of society, while people in their 20s and 30s are statistically least engaged in the life of the church, Bishop McElroy said. Launching an office amid those challenges, as well as managing other ministries, including support for separated and divorced people, aid to the grieving and providing support for people after they’re married, is a tall order, Bishop McElroy said. “The work of this office will be a lot of start-up work and work with volunteers, and it won’t get done all at once,” he said.

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NEED TO KNOW DEPORTATIONS ORDER BRIEFING: Catholic Charities CYO will present a briefing on details of President Barack Obama’s order that will effectively put a hold on deportations of as many as 800,000 young people brought to his country by undocumented parents. The event will be July 18 from 6-8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard. Other briefings have been held in San Rafael and Redwood City. The presidential order, for prosecutorial discretion, is modeled after the DREAM Act, stalled legislation that would benefit undocumented immigrant youth. The July 18 program will cover the requirements of DREAM Act-eligible youth applying for prosecutorial discretion, when to apply and other details. ARCHBISHOP ON “MOSAIC”: Archbishop George Niederauer is special guest July 22 on the archdiocesan Office of Communications television interview program. He talks with host Tom Burke about his six years as San Francisco archbishop, and his 50 years as a priest. “Mosaic” airs Sundays at 5 a.m. on KPIX CBS 5. AGING WELL: Life’s “late innings” are prime time for spiritual growth. Aging Well is a new CSF topic highlighting inspirational clergy, religious and laity deepening their baptismal promise in newfound ways at 50 and beyond. We invite reader suggestions on individuals in our community whose love, peace and giving exemplify the spirituality of aging well. Please email the editor at delvecchior@sfarchdiocese.org. MIRACLES SHOW LOVE, NOT POWER: On his first Sunday at his summer home at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI remarked on the July 8 reading from Mark’s Gospel about the refusal of the people of Nazareth to recognize the divinity of Jesus, and the scandal provoked by the fact that “the carpenter, the son of Mary” who had lived among them, should preach like a prophet. Although well aware that no man is a prophet in his own land, Jesus was scandalized by the people’s closure of heart, the pope said. The pope’s lesson: While we always seek other signs, other prodigies, we do not realize that the true sign is Jesus, God made flesh – “the greatest miracle of the universe: all the love of God contained in a human heart and a human face.”

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Wartime air chaplain mystery solved

A Daly City veteran discovered his membership card in Our Lady’s Knights of the Skies among his World War II memorabilia. VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Our Lady’s Knights of the Skies membership cards were distributed to American airmen during World War II by a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said a former B-26 radio gunner, who saved his card and sent a photocopy to Catholic San Francisco. Catholic San Francisco asked for information on Army Air Force Maj. William Clasby and Our Lady’s Knights of the Skies in the June 22 issue as part of a new feature, Mysteries of the Archives. The prayer on the card begins, “Dear Lady Mary, Queen of the Heavens, once again I dedicate myself to you. Protect your knight of the skies, give strength to my wings and fidelity to my arms. Help me ever to chart my course toward your Divine Son.”

This photo of Maj. William Clasby addressing recruits in 1942 ran June 22.

Our Lady of Mercy parishioner George Knight heard Father Clasby address recruits on the parade ground at Santa Ana Air Base in the summer of 1943. Knight said that Father Clasby distributed the cards. Father Clasby served as pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish 1965-86. “As I recall, the good father emphasized the necessity of leading a good moral life. That during their Air Force career, the cadets would be subject to many temptations, that their Catholic faith would be sorely tested,” wrote Knight, 93, who flew 22 European missions from November 1944 to November 1945. “The speech, of course, contained a lot of humor and it sounded to me that he affected a Brooklyn accent.” Knight was one of two people to correspond with Catholic San Francisco after a photo of Maj. Clasby

addressing a group of airmen was published. “The young pilot dead center in the photo is my father Francis James Floyd,” emailed Maureen Floyd Green from Sherman Oaks. “Means a lot to me and my six brothers and sisters to see our father remembered.” The photo has sparked a family reunion in October for the Floyds. Francis Floyd flew in Italy during World War II and was highly decorated. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Air Force Reserves in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s, Maureen Floyd said. “His brother was killed fighting in Germany in 1945,” she said. WE WELCOME MORE MEMORIES ABOUT OUR LADY’S KNIGHTS OF THE SKIES. PLEASE REPLY TO SCHMALZV@SFARCHDIOCESE.ORG OR WRITE MYSTERIES OF THE ARCHIVES, CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO, ONE PETER YORKE WAY, SAN FRANCISCO 94109, ATTN: VALERIE SCHMALZ.

CSF wins press award for general excellence Catholic San Francisco won second place for general excellence among diocesan newspapers with circulation of 40,000 and over, at the Catholic Press Association annual convention in Indianapolis, Ind., June 20-22. “A delightful combination of photos and text present a strong package …The feature and news pieces bring the community to life in its diversity,” the judges commented. The Archdiocese of San Francisco’s official paper also received three honorable mentions for individual work: Assistant Editor Valerie Schmalz for best news writing, for her story on a housing controversy in East Palo Alto; Jose Luis Aguirre for best general news photo, for his image of young adults marching in the Walk for Life West Coast; and Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt for her Scripture reflections. Published by Archbishop George Niederauer, Catholic San Francisco is distributed free as a service of the archdiocese to registered members of parishes in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties.

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Seeing with the eyes of faith to the truth under appearances Archbishop Niederauer delivered this homily July 1 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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ommon sense” has a good reputation. For instance, “If a business deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is!” But some kinds of popular wisdom that pass for common sense have their limits. For example we still use the words “sunrise” and “sunset” even though we know in our minds that the sun does not rise or set. Instead, the earth turns. The limits of some kinds of common sense are very evident in the Gospel story today. We hear about Jesus’ cure of the woman with the hemorrhage and his raising of the daughter of Jairus from the dead. In this story, we can find example after example of a struggle GEORGE between common wisdom or NIEDERAUER prejudice on the one hand and the risk of faith in Jesus Christ on the other. Jairus is a synagogue official, a Pharisee, but he falls at the feet of Jesus, begging him to cure his daughter, probably alienating other Pharisees. The woman with a hemorrhage had given up on doctors years ago. Common wisdom would tell her to stay home and not embarrass herself or the master. But she puts her trust and faith in Jesus and takes a chance. Jesus asked the disciples “Who touched me?” His disciples react out of “common sense” and tell him there’s such a big crowd there’s no way of knowing who touched him. After the woman comes forward, Jesus rejects the common idea that the very act of touching him has magic power. Instead he tells her

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about the power of faith: “Daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace and be free of this illness.” Meanwhile Jairus’ friends, out of their common sense, say to him: “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the teacher further?” Jesus says to Jairus, “Fear is useless. What is needed is trust.” The mourners, shouting and wailing, laugh at Jesus when he says, “The child is not dead. She is asleep.” Finally, at the end of this story, we get an example of a good kind of common sense, when Jesus takes the girl by the hand and tells her parents to give her something to eat. This conflict or struggle between faith in Jesus Christ and common prejudices takes place in our lives as Catholic Christians all the time. We judge God by appearances and hearsay instead of what faith tells us about God as the author of life. If we do not follow faith but instead choose to follow what everybody thinks, what everybody says, what everybody does, then we find wisdom in the worldly command “take care of No. 1.” We put ourselves at the center of our lives as opposed to putting Jesus at the center of our lives. For example, we follow the advice “don’t get mad, get even” or perhaps “once bitten, twice shy.” Instead, we are called to forgive others as God forgives us, and we meet that challenge every time we pray the Our Father. Prejudices of all sorts are offered as common wisdom, whether the prejudice is against a particular race, religion or economic class. We are challenged to move beyond what “everybody says” and what “everybody thinks” and what “everybody does.” So, we often have to question what “everybody says” and what “everybody does.” We even question or challenge what legitimate civil authorities say if it seems to conflict with what we hold to be right and true. This year the Catholic Church in this country, and other churches as well, are challenging a ruling that came out in January this year

from the Department of Health and Human Services. This ruling defined a religious group as well as religious liberty in a new and questionable way. The government stated that a group is genuinely religious, and entitled to religious liberty, only when its members are worshipping or teaching their faith among themselves. The government went on to say that if the church or religious group moves outside the boundaries of worship and religious instruction, if it operates a school or a charitable organization or a hospital that serves nonmembers as well as members (e.g. non-Catholics as well as Catholics) then religious liberty does not protect the church if it tries to follow its own teachings and beliefs in the running of that hospital or school or other institution. This is a totally new definition of religious liberty. When we Catholics serve others in need we do so from religious motives, obeying the teachings of Jesus Christ. When we operate a hospital we do not perform abortions because of our belief about the priceless value of each human life. With its new definition of religious freedom the government could well demand that a Catholic hospital perform abortions as part of serving the general public. During this Fortnight for Freedom, these two weeks leading up to July Fourth, as a church we are teaching, praying and taking action to defend and protect religious freedom for ourselves and for all our fellow citizens. So we need to take a look at everything that is offered to us as common sense or good sense. With the eyes of faith let us see past surface appearances to the truth underneath. Let this experience of the Mass, of Eucharist, teach us to see with the eyes of faith. You and I have a choice: We can be like Jairus’s friends, or Jesus’s disciples, or the mourners at the house. They go with what everybody says and what everybody does. Instead, we can take the risk of faith because we are seeing with the eyes of faith.

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All school reunion joins several generations TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

MEMORIES: St. Matthew School, San Mateo held a “Multi-Class Reunion” April 28. Msgr. Mickey McCormick and his brother Father Kieran McCormick who are both St. Matt’s alums concelebrated the Mass opening the evening that was followed by a nostalgiafilled reception. Classmates Eileen Eileen Giannini and Anna Maes Giannini and Anna Maes from the class of 1937 – the school was founded in 1931 – were in attendance. “I felt like a queen”, said Eileen. “It was a beautiful evening filled with wonderful memories of my time at St. Matthew.” REST IN PEACE: Remembered lovingly by the people he served for decades was Salesian Father Salvatore Giacomini who died in January. A Salesian for 71 years and a priest for 60 years, Father Jack’s “smiling presence, good words to everyone, especially the young, will be remembered by all,” said Salesian Father John Itzaina, pastor at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, in a special note in the parish school’s annual report. “He turned to the Lord and believed in the Gospel,” Father Father Salvatore John said. “We are confident he Giacomini, SDB is enjoying the sounds of angelic music in the kingdom of heaven.” AWAY BUT HOME: “Ollanta is the most beautiful town I have ever been to,” said Susannah Therese Groh about the village in Peru where she is volunteering this summer. Susannah is 21 and the daughter of HQ colleague Annabelle Groh, office manager for Bishop Bill Justice and Bishop Bob McElroy. The excited words came in a recent daughter to mom letter that closed with, “Only my first real day but I am so, so, so happy and feel so good. Colors, people, food, llamas everywhere, most Susannah Groh beautiful mountains I have ever seen.” Susannah is in the final stages of earning her nursing degree and is in Peru as part of Partners in Health, a group serving the very poor. She is a graduate of St. Hilary School in Tiburon and St. Ignatius College Preparatory. “She is wearing a medal of St.

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California State Senator Leland Yee presents proclamation commemorating 125th anniversary of Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma to Monica Williams, cemeteries director, at ceremonies marking the occasion June 2. “The proclamation is lovely,” Monica told Catholic San Francisco. “It talks about the cemetery being `rich in California history’ and says, `the cemetery’s historical legacy translates into the important values of tradition, experience and trust.’” Therese given to her by a good family friend as she experiences life in the context of this saint’s `little way,’” Annabelle told me. “I will travel to different rural villages and help with health campaigns, focus on women’s and children’s health,” Susannah told her mom. “I wish I could show you around, so beautiful here! I feel very alive.” SHEEPSKIN PLUS: Gregory Carini, a graduate of St. Charles Elementary School and Bellarmine College Prep, has received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from UCLA and started work at Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto. Thanks very much to “proud grandfather” Bernard Vas for lettin’ us know.

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DOCTRINAL OFFICE: Pope names German prelate to key Vatican post FROM PAGE 1

He has authored more than 400 works with the most well-known being the 900-page â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catholic Dogmatics: For the Study and Practice of Theology.â&#x20AC;? In 2004, he co-authored a book titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Side of the Poor: The Theology of Liberationâ&#x20AC;? with Dominican Father Gustavo Gutierrez, who is considered the father of liberation theology. Archbishop Muller has been a member of the doctrinal congregation since 2007 and was a member of the International Theological Commission from 1998 to 2003 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both bodies that Pope Benedict led until 2005 when he was elected pope. He has close ties to Pope Benedict and in 2008 helped establish the Pope Benedict XVI Institute, which is publishing a complete collection of works by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI. The pope personally commissioned the archbishop to lead the publication of his collected works, according to the Diocese of Regensburg. In his new capacity at the doctrinal office, the archbishop will follow the Vatican-mandated reform of the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious. He will also oversee talks with traditionalist Catholics and the handling of accusations of sexual abuse of minors by priests â&#x20AC;&#x201C; two issues he has dealt with extensively as bishop of Regensburg. The traditionalist Society of St. Pius X has a

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THE REGENSBURG, GERMANY, PRELATE has close ties to Pope Benedict XVI. IN HIS NEW CAPACITY at the doctrinal office, he will follow the Vatican-mandated reform of the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious. HE WILL ALSO OVERSEE talks with traditionalist Catholics and the handling of accusations of sexual abuse of minors by priests â&#x20AC;&#x201C; two issues he has dealt with extensively as bishop of Regensburg. HE HAS SAID IT IS â&#x20AC;&#x153;STUPIDITYâ&#x20AC;? to link clerical abuse to celibacy and has emphasized that although the church does not profess that men are superior to women, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christ chose only men as his apostles.â&#x20AC;? seminary in Zaitzkofen in the Diocese of Regensburg, and the archbishop has criticized the societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illicit ordinations of priests and deacons there as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a sin against church unity.â&#x20AC;? He has said the unauthorized ordinations violate canon law and create a â&#x20AC;&#x153;dangerous situationâ&#x20AC;? for the church.

MARRIAGE: Archdiocese restoring ministry FROM PAGE 1

to young womanhood â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so expensive that it drains money from families that cannot later afford a costly church wedding reception. The church wedding is postponed, and put off again when children are born. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are addressing that,â&#x20AC;? said Bishop McElroy, as numerous parishes are helping couples arrange for long-delayed weddings that will be recognized by the Catholic Church.

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But at the core of the decline in Catholic weddings, said an archdiocesan marriage task force member, Libby Carthagena-Meyer, is the fact that this generation of marriage-age adults doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t value a sacramental marriage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Value is no longer placed on receiving fulfill-

There have been incidents of abuse involving the diocese, including the cathedralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; choir and school. Two priests accused of abuse in the 1950s have been jailed and the archbishop has said any claims of sexual abuse would be treated with â&#x20AC;&#x153;the maximum transparency.â&#x20AC;? However, he faced criticism for his reinstatement in 2004 of a priest previously convicted of child molestation. The priest, whose therapist had declared him no longer dangerous, was arrested in 2007 on additional abuse charges. Upon news of the arrest, Muller expressed his â&#x20AC;&#x153;deepest regret and sympathy toward those children who have been mentally scarredâ&#x20AC;? and promised â&#x20AC;&#x153;every imaginable assistance.â&#x20AC;? During a 2010 conference in Rome marking the Year for Priests, he told reporters it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;stupidityâ&#x20AC;? to believe that celibacy causes clerical sexual abuse, and he said that any priest who sexually abuses a child has placed himself outside of the priesthood, even before the church acts formally to dismiss him. Concerning the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teaching against womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ordination, he explained in a speech in 2002 that the Catholic Church does not profess that â&#x20AC;&#x153;men are superior to women,â&#x20AC;? but emphasized that Christ chose only men as his apostles. On the level of symbolism, with Christ as the bridegroom of the church, the maleness of the priest is essential, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being priests, just like being a father or a mother, is not a social profession, position or role. Being a priest implies a personal relationship and the representation of a person through another,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Knights of Columbus growing in archdiocese VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Knights of Columbus is focused on expanding to more parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the coming year, at the same time as the Catholic men’s organization continues to take high profile positions nationally in defense of religious liberty, life and marriage. “I have found it one of the most rewarding faithbased journeys that I have had in the Catholic Church,” said Jeff Patino of Marian Council 3773 at Good Shepherd Parish in Pacifica. The married father of nine children returned to the church in the mid-1990s and joined the Knights in 2008. The newest councils were formed at Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady of Lebanon parishes to bring the total to 21 councils under the archdiocesan St. Francis chapter. “We keep on growing,” said Gil Eliares, outgoing president of the St. Francis chapter.

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The Knights of Columbus is sponsoring Archdiocese of San Francisco seminarian Andrew Ginter with an annual check for $500. Ginter recently talked to third graders at Good Shepherd School, Pacifica, and played football with the kids. Pictured from left are Marian Council No. 3773 Grand Knight Rene Perez, a Good Shepherd third-grade parent; Ginter; and past Grand Knight Jeff Patino.

Knights district deputies plan to contact all the parishes that do not have Knights’ councils in the coming months, said Eliares. St. Peter Parish, Pacifica is currently recruiting members, he said. “They are a group that can be counted on when the church needs them,” said Our Lady of Mercy pastor Father Domingo Orimaco, noting that the group’s strong pro-life position includes financial and logistical support for the Walk for Life West Coast where more than 300 Knights provide security. The Knights also protect and transport the bishops and the walk speakers. Father Orimaco, himself a Knight, said he made

forming a Knights council his first goal when he took over as pastor, after working with the councils at St. Augustine and Our Lady of the Pillar parishes. Knights of Columbus were “one of the bigger presences” supporting California Proposition 8, defining marriage as between one man and one woman, Eliares said. “It’s not just doing the work. It is standing up for our faith in the public square,” Patino said. Each council works with the pastor. “We do not take over the parishes, we do what the parish priests want us to do, nothing more, nothing less,” Patino said.

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Newspaper for Hispanic faithful debuts Sunday

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The first issue of San Francisco Católico, a new Archdiocese of San Francisco newspaper designed to serve the Hispanic faithful in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, will be distributed July 15 at the 34 parishes that celebrate Mass in Spanish. Bundles of the newspaper will be delivered to churches for distribution after Mass. The initial press run of 6,800 is estimated to provide a copy for nearly every Spanish Mass-going household. Published 24 times a year, the paper features 12 pages of advertisingsupported content. Editorial content includes local news, features and photos, a local calendar of events, spirituality and opinion columns by local and national writers, Scripture readings for the two Sundays in each issue cycle, and national and world news from Catholic News Service. It also features news on topics of high interest to the Hispanic audience: immigration, education, health, family, and employment and the economy. The paper is produced by the staff of Catholic San Francisco, with Enrique Quijano as part-time editorial coordinator. Quijano, a native of Madrid, Spain, is a veteran journalist with experience in the Hispanic press in Texas and California. San Francisco Católico succeeds El Heraldo, a monthly paper that had

been a longtime joint project of the archdiocese and the Oakland diocese. The new project provides for a social communications ministry that serves the growing Hispanic faithful of the archdiocese with more content – especially local news and advertising. The new paper also offers two issues a month rather than one, tighter deadlines allowing for the fresher news, and close coordination with Catholic San Francisco and with the Office of Hispanic Ministry under the leadership of vicar for Spanishspeaking Father Moises Agudo. The project was created after a year of financial and organizational planning that included Father Agudo and members of the archdiocesan Hispanic pastoral council, communications director George Wesolek and vicar for administration Msgr. James Tarantino. After considering using Catholic San Francisco to deliver Spanish content through an insert or separate pages, the planning group decided that the content would have the greatest impact for the resources available through a new, bulk-delivered, advertising-supported paper modeled on Catholic San Francisco and operated on the editorial and production standards of CSF.

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Sainthood cause for Archbishop Sheen advances CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PEORIA, Ill. – The Vatican’s June 28 decree that U.S. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen lived a life of heroic virtues and should be considered venerable – advancing his sainthood cause – prompted much rejoicing in his home state of Illinois. “This is a great day for the Catholic Diocese of Peoria and the Catholic Church in America,” said Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, who added that the “heroic virtues of a son from central Illinois and a priest of Peoria have been recognized by the Catholic Church.” “Fulton Sheen’s zeal, wisdom, and holiness should help us build our faith,” he said. Msgr. Stanley Deptula, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation in Peoria, said it was “not a coincidence that the church would render its decision on the heroic virtue of Archbishop Sheen on the same day as the Supreme Court issues its decision on the health care plan.”

CHURCH “NEEDS HEROES”

He said the timing of the announcement shows how the church in the United States “needs heroes” and that Archbishop Sheen can “be an inspiration and a consolation to our bishops and other church leaders” since he was “a man of courage, and priest of prayer.” The decree issued by the Congregation for Saints’ Causes and signed by Pope Benedict XVI said Archbishop Sheen should be considered venerable because he heroically lived Christian virtues.

The timely veneration of a “great leader of the faith, a defender of the freedom of religion and of our rights as Americans.” In general, the church must then confirm two miracles before sainthood is declared. The first miracle is needed for beatification and the second for canonization. The decree came just more than 13 months after Bishop Jenky, as head of Archbishop Sheen’s home diocese, presented Pope Benedict with two thick volumes about the life of the prelate.

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Archbishop Sheen, who was born in Illinois in 1895 and died in New York in 1979, was an Emmy-winning televangelist. His program, “Life is Worth Living,” aired in the United States from 1951 to 1957. Last September, a tribunal of inquiry was sworn in to investigate the allegedly miraculous healing of a newborn whose parents had prayed to the archbishop’s intercession. “We are all living through this wonderful moment,” said Andrea Ambrosi, postulator of the cause for canonization of Archbishop Sheen. “As you can tell, the cause is taking a special road – and quite quickly thus far. This is due to the importance of this cause for Fulton Sheen’s sainthood to the American

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national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, pointed out that Archbishop Sheen’s role as head of the Schools for the Propagation of the Faith from 1950 to 1966 enabled him to spread the Gospel message “far and wide – from Peoria to Pretoria; New York to New Delhi.” “He teaches us still that the church is missionary by her very nature,” he added. Bishop Jenky announced that he will celebrate a public Mass of Thanksgiving to honor Archbishop Sheen Sept. 9 in Peoria’s Cathedral of St. Mary – the same cathedral where the archbishop was ordained to the priesthood. More information on the Mass can be found at the website: www.celebratesheen.com. In a June 29 teleconference with reporters, church officials pointed out the uniqueness of Archbishop Sheen’s cause, saying he would not only be the first U.S.-born male saint but also a saint who impacted so many people who are still alive today. They also noted the significance of his willingness to use modern technology to spread the Gospel message. Msgr. Deptula said the archbishop is “such a great patron, a great model for those who work in the media in the way he used the tools at his disposal to lead others to Christ.” He also said Archbishop Sheen’s example highlights the “tremendous value” members of the media can play as “missionaries in a profound way of this new evangelization” reaching audiences far beyond what the archbishop would have imagined. The priest said the “venerable” decree of Archbishop Sheen “should be a great shot in the arm, a great encouragement to those who do work in the media” to use “modern tools of blogspots, Facebook, Twitter ... to give witness to Christ.”

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Vatican OKs investigation into Cora Evans sainthood cause VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Vatican has approved a complete investigation into the cause of sainthood of a former Mormon wife and mother who reported visions of Jesus and a mission to promote â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Mystical Humanity of Christ.â&#x20AC;? The March 29 letter of approval from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia was necessary for further investigation into the life of Cora Evans. Evans, who was baptized in 1935 Cora Evans in Utah after becoming disillusioned by the Mormon faith, died March 30, 1957, near Monterey. She reported visions of Jesus and the saints and a mission from Jesus to promote the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mystical Humanity of Christ,â&#x20AC;? the idea that Christ is always within us and we should behave always as Christ would, said Mike McDevitt, a parishioner at Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay, who is the promoter of Evansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cause of sainthood. The spirituality is also focused on praying the Mass. Evansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; two children, husband Mack, and many fam-

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Illicitly ordained Chinese bishop excommunicated CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Chinese Father Joseph Yue Fusheng has been automatically excommunicated for allowing himself to be illicitly ordained a bishop despite repeated warnings from the Vatican. “The Holy See does not recognize him as bishop of the apostolic administration of Harbin, and he lacks the authority to govern the priests and the Catholic community in the province of Heilongjiang,” the Vatican said in a written statement July 10. It also praised the new auxiliary bishop of Shanghai, who has been restricted by the government after saying he would give up his role in the government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association. Father Yue was ordained bishop of Harbin July 6 without papal mandate following an acrimonious exchange of notifications between the Vatican and Beijing on the issue of illicit ordinations.

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A well-wisher kisses the ring of Auxiliary Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin following his episcopal ordination at St. Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai July 7. Amid rising tensions with Chinese authorities over control of the church, the Vatican said the ordination “is encouraging and is to be welcomed.” Five Vatican-approved bishops took part in the rite, held at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province. Two other Vatican-approved prelates who were invited to the ceremony did not attend, citing illnesses, but sent messages of apology and congratulation. The Vatican said that those bishops who took part in the July 6 ordination had “exposed themselves to the sanctions laid down by the law of the church,” which entail automatic excommunication. On July 3, the Vatican issued a strongly worded statement warning Chinese authorities the ordination of Father Yue violated church law, jeopardized the future of the Catholic Church in China and

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CARDINAL WHO HELPED POOR DIES AT 91

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Eugenio de Araujo Sales, the retired archbishop of Rio de Janeiro who defended the rights of the poor and attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, died July 9 at 91. In a condolence message to the archdiocese July 10, Pope Benedict XVI said Cardinal Eugenio the cardinal had “a de Araujo Sales long life dedicated to the church in Brazil” and was distinguished for “showing all the path of truth in charity and service.” Serving as archbishop of Rio de Janeiro for 30 years, the late cardinal had been outspoken against human rights violations during the decades of military rule in Brazil. After a civilian government came to power in 1984, he criticized the country’s new constitution for not doing enough for agrarian reform and for defining abortion too vaguely. He also criticized government corruption in the 1990s, and condemned the systematic murder of street children by self-appointed death squads. He supported Vatican efforts to sanction theologians and close seminaries that had strayed from Catholic principles in their focus on liberation theology. He also lamented the city’s pre-Lenten Carnival celebrations, calling them “disgraceful exhibitionism.”

HOLY SEE BUDGET SHOWS MAJOR LOSS

VATICAN CITY – The Holy See sustained its largest budget deficit of the past decade in 2011 as a result of global financial trends, the Vatican said July 5. The budget of the Holy See, which includes the offices of the Roman Curia and its communications outlets such as Vatican Radio, recorded a deficit of 14.9 million euros ($18.4 million) at the end of 2011. It was the largest budget deficit recorded in the past decade and reversed the 2010 surplus of 9.8 million euros ($12 million). Total spending for the Holy See in 2011 was 263.7 million euros ($326.4 million) with 248.8 million euros ($308 million) in revenues. A press summary blamed the deficit on “the negative trend of global financial markets.”

NEW NATION’S CORRUPTION ‘UNACCEPTABLE’

NAIROBI, Kenya – One year after achieving independence, South Sudan remains plagued with corruption and ethnic discontent, prompting Catholic and Episcopal bishops to challenge the fledgling country’s political leaders to “a change of heart leading to a change of behavior.” In a message marking the July 9 anniversary, Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro of Juba, South Sudan’s capital, and Episcopal Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, primate of the Episcopal Church in Sudan, expressed concern about reports of theft by high-ranking officials. “Corruption has become endemic within certain classes. This is unacceptable,” the church leaders said. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Cardinal describes ‘VatiLeaks’ as ‘most grave crimes’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CORK, Ireland – The head of the Vatican’s highest court described the spate of leaks of confidential Vatican documents as “most grave crimes” and warned that those responsible must be discovered and “appropriately sanctioned.” Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, said the confidentiality of Pope Benedict XVI’s communica-

tions must be respected in order for the pope to carry out his work in service of the church. “It is not a question of hiding anything but of respecting conscience,” the U.S.-born cardinal told reporters following his address to the Fifth Fota International Liturgy Conference. He added that he was appalled by what had happened in the events dubbed “VatiLeaks” by the Italian media. “I am trusting and praying that these people will be discovered

and they will be properly sanctioned,” he said. Speaking July 9, the final day of the three-day conference focusing on the theme “Celebrating the Eucharist: Sacrifice and Communion,” Cardinal Cardinal Burke Burke discussed the Eucharist as sacrifice in canonical history. The cardinal particularly mentioned Canon 818, which safeguards against a priest celebrating Mass introducing his own wording, prayers or preaching according to his own judgment. Asked about a priest in the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., who in June was removed

as a pastor because he introduced new wording in the liturgy to make it “more meaningful,” Cardinal Burke explained that any priest who took such liberties would have been warned by his bishop. Only if the priest persisted, he explained, would sanctions be imposed. “It is absolutely wrong for the priest to start making changes to make it more interesting because he wants to make the liturgy better,” he added. Cardinal Burke also warned against excessive use of the concelebration of liturgy and called for the practice to be reviewed where it is used repeatedly. He told the conference that excessive use of concelebration could result in priests losing sight of the fullness of their office and an understanding of the Eucharist as a sacrifice.

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in 1937, Hume studied for the priesthood for several years before returning to his native city as a teacher in a Catholic high school. His experience of the hardship and injustice that the minority Catholic community experienced coupled with his grounding in Catholic social teaching led to his involvement in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. The organization campaigned for an end to housing and job discrimination against Catholics. In 1972, 14 Catholic activists were shot dead by the British army at a march in Derry on what became known as Bloody Sunday. In 2010, a judicial inquiry ruled that the killings were unlawful and British Prime Minister David Cameron apologized.

DUBLIN – One of the key architects of the Northern Ireland peace process has been honored by Pope Benedict XVI for his commitment to peace and reconciliation in the region. John Hume, a founder-member of the mainly Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party, was credited with initiating the political dialogue that brought about the 1994 cease-fire by the Irish Republican Army. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. Pope Benedict named Hume as a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St Gregory the Great. Hume and his wife, Pat, were on pilgrimage in Lourdes, France, July 5 when he learned of the news. Friends said he was “delighted.” Born in a Catholic area of Derry

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Exhibit tells immigrants’ stories, what they faced as new arrivals MARIA PIA NEGRO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Wong Lan Fong brought her wedding picture with her when she came to America in 1927, but the photo of the 27-year-old bride was not a keepsake. It was a proof to convince California’s immigration authorities that she did not come for “immoral purposes,” but to be reunited with her husband, a Chinese trader. “They decided that it was important for them to arrive to the United States with a first-class ticket because they thought, rightly so, that the immigration officials would treat them better than if they came in steerage,” said Erika Lee, an immigration historian and Wong’s granddaughter. Lee’s grandfather saved up for almost two years to buy the ticket, which allowed Wong to enter the country without prejudices faced by other Asian women. Wong’s slim file shows that her interrogation by immigration officials went smoothly.

PORTRAITS OF 31 IMMIGRANTS

Wong Lan Fong’s wedding picture is part of a new National Archives exhibit featuring the stories of 31 men, women and children who passed through U.S. entryways between the 1880s and the end of World War II. The exhibit, called “Attachments: Faces and Stories from America’s Gates,” features mural-size black-and-white photos that were “attached” to immigration files. The original documents, letters and photos tell the stories of those who were entering, leaving or staying in the United States. Exhibit curator Bruce Bustard said the exhibit illustrates the “long and complicated and contested history about immigration in the United States.” Some of those entering were visitors; others came to America’s gates looking for

freedom and prosperity for themselves and their descendants. Some brought a lot of money; others carried little. Some had their papers in order; others forged documents and had fake relatives sponsoring them. These stories are drawn from millions of immigration cases on file at the National Archives. The exhibit is on display in the National Archives main building in Washington through Sept. 4.

SOME SMILING, OTHERS STARING

One of the first pictures in the exhibit shows children arriving at Ellis Island in New York Harbor in 1908. The expressions on their faces show uncertainty, with some adults behind them smiling; others just stare at the camera. Another view greeting visitors to the exhibit is a panoramic photo of Angel Island, the California processing facility that received half a million people, mostly Chinese and Japanese immigrants. It was built to be “the Ellis Island of the West,” but, under race-specific laws enacted in 1882, it also served as a detention facility, Lee said. Like many other immigrants before and after them, some of the individuals featured in the exhibit could not enter America’s gates or were later sent home. Among those featured are Rose and Emile Louis, an interracial couple coming from Britain. Emile was illiterate and was barred entry. Rose was denied entry as well, because her husband could not enter the country.

DEPORTED FOR “MORAL TURPITUDE”

Pictures of six men deported because of “moral turpitude” listed their physical features to prevent them from re-entering. They include Dubas Wasyl, an Austrian farmhand who was caught stealing beans in his homeland and Francesco Zaccaro, who was sent back to Italy for “applying (a) vile name to a woman.”

“America’s gates have always swung in both directions,” said Joel Wurl, a senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, who served on a June 20 immigration panel at the National Archives. “Emigration also represents a part of the story.” The exhibit also tells the stories of Mary Louise Pashgian, who came to the U.S. fleeing persecution in Armenia, or Kaoro Shiibashi, a Hawaiian raised in Japan who returned to his native land. A picture of 13-year old Michael Pupa is attached to a file detailing how he hid for two years in the Polish forest after the Nazis murdered his parents. After living in many refugee camps, he came to the U.S. in 1951 and ended up living with a foster family in Cleveland. “His story was one of many in the 25,000 boxes of materials about children refugees after World War II,” Bustard said. Pupa, the only person featured in the exhibit who is still living, visited the National Archives for the exhibit’s opening. Seeing his documents compelled him to share those experiences with his family for the first time, Bustard said. In conjunction with the exhibit, the archives also featured a series of events where experts discussed immigrant experiences at Angel Island, Ellis Island and other entry points, along with examples of global migration and exclusion. “I love the original documents and the photographs,” said Quincey Johnson, a Maryland resident who was visiting the exhibit. “It’s a wonderful exhibit. It tells a number of really interesting stories about the difficulties people had.” “It was interesting to see people from a number of countries, people who lost their families, people who were just trying to bring their families back together,” he told Catholic News Service.

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Immigrant children and some adults pose after their arrival in 1908 at Ellis Island in New York.

UN: War displaces more than 42 million people worldwide GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Iraqi refugees attend an Easter Mass at a Chaldean Catholic church in Amman, Jordan, April 15. Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled to neighboring Jordan following a spate of bombings that targeted churches in Iraqi cities in the past few years.

By the end of 2011, there were 42.5 million people worldwide who had been forcibly displaced as a result of persistent and new conflicts, and of them 15.2 million were refugees, the United Nations said in a startling report in June. It was the fifth consecutive year that the number of the displaced exceeded 42 million, again adding to the pressure, and opportunity, for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services, the largest provider of resettlement services for refugees in the world. Much more needs to be done to accommodate many thousands now living with the illusory hope of reaching the United States, however, as bureaucracy and expiration dates for clearances conspire to keep them far away – thousands amid the chaos in Syria, for example, USCCB migration officials say. “A fraction of refugees arrive and get safely on our shores because of complications and bureaucracies and we urge this be streamlined” so that many more

Last year, Catholic Charities CYO at the Archdiocese of San Francisco resettled a family of five from Burma, two people from Iran, another person from Burma and one from Eritrea. The agency expects to settle 15 refugees in the next year. can reasonably expect that they will arrive in the U.S., Anastasia Brown, director of USCCB Resettlement Services, Migration and Refugee Services, said in a conference call with reporters last month. The occasion was World Refugee Day, but it wasn’t being celebrated.

800,000 URGENTLY NEED RESETTLEMENT

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had reported on June 18 that some 800,000 refugees, a record number for this century, are in urgent need of resettlement as no other durable solution exists for them. The U.S. allotment for refugee arrivals in fiscal year 2011 – governed by the U.S. Department of State – was 80,000, with only 56,424 refugees actually resettled. The USCCB office, working with Catholic Charities organizations and dioceses, resettled 15,543 refugees. The U.S. allotment for refugee arrivals

in fiscal year 2012 was reduced to 76,000, and only from 54,000 to 56,000 are predicted to actually resettle in the United States, said the USCCB. The bishops’ migration office said it expects to resettle approximately 27 percent of the total U.S. arrivals. Last year, Catholic Charities CYO at the Archdiocese of San Francisco resettled a family of five from Burma, two people from Iran, another person from Burma and one from Eritrea. Between Oct. 1, 2005 and Sept. 30, 2010, Catholic Charities CYO resettled five people in Marin County, 27 in San Mateo County and 43 in San Francisco, said Christopher Martinez, director of Refugee & Immigration Services. He said he expects in the next year his agency will resettle 15 refugees, half of them in San Francisco and the others in San Mateo or Marin Counties. The archdiocese’s role is rather modest, largely because of the lack of housing and jobs for limited-English and low-

skilled workers, said Jeff Bialik, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO.

URGING U.S. TO RECEIVE MIDEAST WAR REFUGEES

The civil war crisis in Syria illustrates the urgency at hand, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, noted in a statement on World Refugee Day, June 20. He said that Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey “are to be commended for receiving these refugees” fleeing turmoil and violence in Syria. “I urge the United States and the world community to assist them. We pray that the fighting in Syria ends.” But stuck in Syria are many thousands of Iraqis, including Christians, who fled terror in their own country. The U.S. bishops have asked the government to come to the aid of Iraqi Christians in particular but “the government has not responded in a way that we have seen in other wars that we have been

involved in, Vietnam to name one, where we were able to take a large number of Vietnamese,” said Kevin Appleby, director of the USCCB office of Migration Policy and Public Affairs. “I would say they have dropped the ball on this one. We have asked the administration to do more,” he said. Brown added that “all of us support a secure U.S. and refugee clearance process that makes sure that the refugees who are coming are not people who would do us harm,” but noted that they go through at least three security clearances and some go through five. These, as well as medical clearances, have expiration dates and circumstances often mean that “they never get on a plane to come here because of other pieces of their clearances have expired,” she said. Brown called for a streamlining of the process. Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock, a member of the bishops’ Committee on Migration, will travel to Syria in October to observe the crisis. He noted in his remarks to reporters that the Holy Family were once refugees in Egypt, a country that is enduring great turmoil.

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For God’s sake, stop the noise

hen last have you added up all of the issues bombarding our psyche? Take for example, news about the horrendous civil war in Syria, the Egyptian elections, the unsteadiness of the Eurozone, concerns over Iran developing an atomic bomb, suicide attacks still occurring in Iraq, frequent drone attacks FATHER EUGENE on terrorists, HEMRICK and uneasiness with North Korea and China. On the home front, we are experiencing fickle Mother Nature in which fires, drought, and unexpected hailstorms are making news. Hearing about prominent people being sent to jail is very common. And now we have to grind through months of negative commercials filled with half-truths put out by the camps of presidential contenders. In the church, people are marching in protest against what they see as unfair treatment of our nuns, and religious freedom has taken center stage. Scandals continue, and bankruptcy is taking its toll on dioceses. This is but a fraction of weighty issues blitzing our minds. We have to wonder if they are the reason we are seeing a rise in the suicide rate among our youth and an increase in chemical dependency among people of all ages. Our mind is a gift and like any precious gift, it needs to be treasured at all costs. How do we avoid overloading our psyche? Some time ago, I came across the exercise of time-shifting, which possesses great potential in preserving our sanity. It simply means evaluating how we use our time and rearranging it for better use. For example, if we are in the habit of listening to the news from sunrise to sundown, time-shifting would dictate that we would be better served if we replaced a portion of the time we spend on the news with listening to music. Time-shifting causes us to ask, what is the ratio of violence and disturbing news I am ingesting to the time I spend enjoying inspiring and uplifting experiences? How many hours of my day are filled with violence and mind-shattering images in comparison to entertainment that is educational and filled with healthy creative ideas? In Italian, we have the proverb, “La providdenza di Dio non manca mai.” It means God’s will is never lacking. God’s will is always at work in our lives. God does not abandon us. Our news is the result of commentators and reporters selecting what we hear and see. We view the world through their eyes. The Italian proverb implores us to turn to God and let God be our commentator on life. To view life’s events through God’s eyes is to place our psyche in God’s hands and allow God’s wisdom and peace to soothe it. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Vietnam memorial at 30 A Celtic cross hangs with military identification tags, part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection, at a National Park Service museum storehouse in Landover, Md., June 15. Dog tags are among some 400,000 items that have been left at the Washington memorial and cataloged and preserved at the facility.

Cradle Catholic’s view of citizenship This Fourth of July marked the 75th anniversary of my baptism. My mother, a patriotic naturalized American citizen and German immigrant, no doubt chose the date with intention and her pastor must have been an accommodating type to have worked on a holiday to honor her wish. Sad to think that beautiful church is now closed. I was told the baptismal font was rescued by someone who appreciated it as art and intended to place it in a museum for religious objects. However, as a cradle Catholic and lifelong member of the church, and as a faithful citizen of the United States, I honor my now deceased parents by following my conscience in the matter of elections, and by never failing to vote and paying my fair share of taxes. We need to consider the long-term consequences of political engineering by our bishops. As a citizen of the free world I find secularism a poor excuse for avoiding the responsibility of considering all the issues involved in choosing our leadership. At least our country still gives us as individuals that choice whereas our church does not. Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

Seminarian’s story inspires Re “Seminarian for all seasons brings visibility to vocations,” June 22: (Seminarian Tony Vallecillo’s) example of service to the church is a breath of fresh air in a world that so needs it. Keep it up! Dan Brennan Boston, Mass.

‘Jeopardy’: Theological error I hope my fellow Catholic San Francisco readers who watch the TV quiz show Jeopardy were not misled June 6, 2012, by the theological error committed during the program. One of the questions asked contestants to name the Catholic doctrine assuring “the remission of sin” and “indulgences” was accepted as the correct answer. Of course, the remission of sin is the effect of a good confession that is the sacrament of reconciliation, while the effect of an indulgence successfully obtained is “remission

of purgatorial punishments due to sins already forgiven.” Indulgences have nothing to do with “remission of sin.” There are several paragraphs in the Catechism of the Catholic Church on indulgences beginning with No. 1471. Christian Brother Brendan Kneale De La Salle Institute, Napa

Small type hard to read I am willing to go along with whatever redesigns you decide on, but I have to say that the typeface for the “Editor’s Note” in the Letters section is, to put it mildly, the pits. Please change it to something more readable: No all-capital letters for starters. Make the size larger, for overall legibility. Don’t waste space with a heading over each letter. Group similar letters together and put one heading for all. Connie Berto St. Rita Parish, Fairfax

St. Anthony’s benefit raised $72,000 Thank you so much for printing the photo and information on the St. Anthony’s Penny Pitch in Calendar (June 8). It was a gorgeous afternoon on the patio at MoMo’s and in spite of the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club, we had a fantastic turnout. With Catholic San Francisco’s help we raised over $72,000 for the city’s neediest. Many thanks. Pete and Janet Osborne San Francisco

Reflections on Eucharist Let us examine why the Eucharist is called a sacrament of initiation. The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us the Eucharist completes Christian initiation: “Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord’s own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist.” As Michael Francis Pennock puts it, the sacrament of initiation helps “gather in” God’s people incorporating them into the body of Christ, the Christian community that is the church. Sacraments of initiation give us the life of Jesus in a meaningful way. They bring down upon us the gift of the Holy Spirit so we can as the people of God better continue and do the

Lord’s mission in word and deed for a world that is hungry for meaning and love. Through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program the church can celebrate the ancient way of initiating adults into the Christian community. This renewed process prepares adults in study and instruction so they can receive these three sacraments during the Easter Vigil. The Eucharist is the greatest sacrament of the church. It is the main symbol of love. It completes the process of Christian initiation. The Eucharist is the third sacrament of initiation and is associated with the other two initiation sacraments: baptism and confirmation. Marguerite A. Mueller San Rafael

No contradicting magisterium Re “CTSA: Vatican confuses catechesis, theology,” June 22: The church allows theologians wide latitude in their discourse, but they cannot contradict magisterial teaching on doctrine or morals. In her book “Just Love,” Mercy Sister Margaret Farley does so. To be fair, she did write on the Sisters of Mercy website that she “did not dispute ... that some of the positions ... are not in accord with current official Catholic teaching.” In her book, she states her views to be her own. I am mystified that the Catholic Theological Society of America seems to believe that theologians enjoy a greater right to freedom of expression than does the church leadership. The church is obliged to state that behaviors such as homosexual acts, masturbation and marriage after divorce, which Sister Margaret endorses, are against church teaching. The church must do so to protect the faithful from error. Sister Margaret is a Catholic nun. When I entered the church I affirmed that I believed “all that the Catholic Church teaches and believes.” Sister Margaret did likewise. As a nun, she is further bound by a vow of obedience to the church. In Matthew 5:37 Jesus tells us to keep our word; in Ecclesiastes 5: 4-6 we are told it is better not to make a vow to God, than to make it and fail to keep it. Myles Kelley Pacifica

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Protection of religious liberty guaranteed in US Constitution PETER FEUERHERD

he First Amendment is not about Pill but about Bill of Rights. That’s the view of two legal scholars on religious liberty issues as they observe what they see as an orchestrated campaign against the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. Helen Alvare, associate professor of law at George Mason University in Virginia, says that one of the most prominent religious liberty issues today revolves around the Obama administration’s regulation that would force many religious organizations to pay, through their health insurance premiums, for sterilization and contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs, for their employees. This mandate would force the Catholic Church to violate its own teaching. “The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion, which includes religious institutions being allowed to operate with complete integrity,” says Alvare. That integrity includes the right to offer health benefits consistent with “their origins, their mission statements and the teaching of their church.” Martin Nussbaum, a Colorado Springs-based attorney who works on religious liberty cases, says that the Obama administration’s claimed compromise – that would have insurance companies, not the church itself, pay for contraceptive coverage – is a thin fig leaf that doesn’t undo the violation of religious liberty. “It didn’t change the substantive reality at all,” he says. For him, the administration’s position still compels religious organizations to pay for something even if they morally oppose it. While the arguments over the health care mandate have taken center stage, Nussbaum argues that the most intrusive act the administration has taken against religious liberty so far was its stance in the Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC case, in which a Lutheran church was accused of violating employment rights. The case touched on who decides who

is a minister in the church, and the U.S. Supreme Court said the government could not make that decision since it involved an internal church matter. The administration had argued against the “ministerial exception,” which grants churches the right to select their own teachers and ministers, though the courts have long recognized that the government has no right to interfere in that process. “The significance of this is impossible to overstate,” says Nussbaum. “(The administration) took the view that government can supervise who your minister is. It can order you to reinstate that minister.” However, the court, in a 9-0 vote, rejected the administration’s argument. Both Justices Antonin Scalia and Elena Kagan – former solicitor general in the Obama administration – expressed astonishment during oral arguments at the administration’s view. The most volatile religious liberty questions remain those around disputes about the nature of sexuality. With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate to force employers, including many Catholic institutions, to pay for services that violate their religious beliefs, opponents of the bishops use “a ‘gender equality/ human rights’” argument, says Alvare. “They hold that sexual expression is itself the good, such that the right to pursue it must be guaranteed to be free of later entanglements or complications.” Nussbaum says those protective of religious liberty need to loudly warn off public officials who overstep their authority and, if necessary, support laws that overturn administrative regulations that infringe upon religious liberty. FEUERHERD is director of communications for the Diocese of Camden, N.J. EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS IS THE THIRD IN A SERIES OF FOUR ARTICLES ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PRODUCED BY THE MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE OF THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

Religious liberty’s complex past

ur parish is doing a “teach-in” on religious liberty. Back in the 1960s, during the days of the Vietnam War, universities did “teach-ins” to discuss the war as a way of learning. We are following that pattern, but our topic is religious liberty. Knowledge of history is important. Intellectual honesty is necessary. Consistency is good. As a church, we will do ourselves and our society a favor if we are historically accurate, intellectually honest and philosophically consistent in our approach FATHER to religious liberty. If we dePETER J. DALY mand religious liberty for ourselves, we should and do support it for everyone. Our teach-in has shown us that the Roman Catholic Church has not always been a defender of religious liberty. Until 1965, our official position was opposed to religious liberty. That is why non-Catholics were nervous about electing a Catholic as president in 1960. Then-candidate John F. Kennedy had to go to Houston to allay the fears of Baptist ministers that a Catholic president would take away their religious freedom. For centuries before the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), some say the Catholic Church was opposed to religious liberty. We lived in a time of “error has no rights,” interpreted by some to mean that all erroneous religions (any “nonCatholic” religion) had no rights. The church thought governments would “institute” Catholicism as the official religion of any nation if Catholics were the dominant group in the population. We also said that government should stamp out false (non-Catholic) religions.

This view was expressed most clearly in a declaration known as the “Syllabus of Errors” promulgated by Pope Pius IX in December 1864. The pope listed 80 “errors” of the modern age. Among the “errors” was error No. 15, which said that it was an error to think that “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” In error No. 55, the pope said it was wrong to say that “the church ought to be separated from the state and the state from the church.” Error No. 77 said it was wrong to think that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.” Pope Pius further said that non-Catholic religions should not be permitted to worship freely in Catholic countries (error No. 78.) It was not until 1965, in Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty (“Dignitatis Humanae”) that the church official recognized religious liberty as a human right. “Dignitatis Humanae” said in No. 2: “The human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.” The declaration was mostly drafted by John Courtney Murray, an American Jesuit. “Dignitatis Humanae” was the last document promulgated by Vatican II before it adjourned. An honest reading of history teaches us the importance of religious liberty and teaches us to be humble in our lecturing others on religious liberty. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

The church has much to say, but does it say it well?

he debate over the federal health care mandate and freedom of religion raises an interesting question. It was asked by Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, during a recent interview. “Why are we looking to push religion further and further outside the public square?” he asked. Perhaps it is because religion has something to say. But the deeper question is: Does it say it well? The issue is not only the content of the message but, as several cases this summer have shown, how effectively STEPHEN KENT it is communicated. A topic about the church and “new media” can be found in any program from a Catholic communications organization over the past two or three decades. Some of that “new media” is now recalled as floppy discs, mainframes and mobile phones the size of a shoe. Closely associated with that was “reaching today’s young people.” Some of these young people are now middle-aged parents with teenagers. The topics existed when Mark Zuckerberg was still playing with blocks, long before he invented Facebook. Yet, the church is still rethinking how to carry its teachings and its stances on public policy issues to broader audiences, including Catholics, Salt Lake City Bishop John C. Wester, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Communications, told Catholic News Service. “We’ve got to figure out a way to be where the people are getting their news,” Bishop Wester said. “The advantage is the instantaneousness of it. Others are getting the news out there, and so if the church doesn’t get her message out there, then other messages are going to be sitting there ... and then it’s settled in people minds.” That’s the importance of recognizing and working with the new media today. The party that reaches the world first frames the debate. It is difficult to un-ring the bell. The first word can be sent to millions of tablets and smartphones before the speaker has concluded his remarks. Consider the health care mandate. The key objection to this is that the federal government is defining what is religion. It so happened to arise in a case dealing with a moral issue – requiring religious employers to provide contraceptive coverage in its health insurance plans. The issue is government defining religion. The issue could have arisen in a zoning case. But it quickly became “bishops fight contraceptive mandate.” Not under what circumstances it is doing it, but the principle. By the time the real message got out, it was too late. The anti-contraception tag stuck. Another example: The Vatican was quickly portrayed as anti-nun when it announced inquiries into and reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. A timely response could have been offered, diminishing the outcry based upon an incomplete understanding. Now it is forever tagged as “Vatican hates all nuns.” A good explanation a day later doesn’t work. Good defense does not beat good offense. The church as a large, tradition-bound organization doesn’t work swiftly. But the world won’t wait. The church too often is positioned in the role of being against something – sex, women, gays – rather than being for something: life, human dignity, justice. The problem is not insoluble. For years, more and more professional newspersons chose to enter Catholic journalism. Year after year, they sat through programs describing a problem for which they had a solution. But always there was little enthusiasm, if not resistance, for implementing that solution. It really is a shame. KENT, now retired, was editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle. Considersk@gmail.com. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed many who were sick and cured them. MARK 6:7-13 AMOS 7:12-15 Amaziah, priest of Bethel, said to Amos, “Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying, but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.” Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. The Lord took me from following the flock, and said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.” PSALM 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. I will hear what God proclaims; the Lord – for he proclaims peace. Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him, glory dwelling in our land. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven.

Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. The Lord himself will give his benefits; our land shall yield its increase. Justice shall walk before him, and prepare the way of his steps. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation. EPHESIANS 1:3-14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved. In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace that he lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on

earth. In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ. In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit, which is the first installment of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his glory. MARK 6:7-13 Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick – no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave. Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them.” So they went off and preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.

Heeding the wisdom of the silent majority

ho forms the public we call “the silent majority” – sensible citizens who define the common good. By extension, who is the “silent majority” in the passage about Amos’s role and in Mark’s Gospel about the missioning of the Twelve? We read about Amos who disparaged himself. “I am no prophet, nor do I belong to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores.” I wonder if Amos is remembered as a prophet, not because he was convinced about his own role, but because the “silent majority” affirmed him – those unseen believers in the background. What common sense, inspiration, wisdom and spiritual intuition in Amos’ audience SISTER ELOISE them to recognize that he ROSENBLATT, RSM led spoke a prophet’s message from the God of Israel? The prophets’ writings became part of the biblical canon after decades, even several generations after they lived. “The silent majority” sifted their words, assessed their pastoral and historical impact, and judged their spiritual integrity. A like process happens in the Catholic tradition. Saints normally become canon-

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

Jesus directs his disciples-in-training to be economical in their work and not invest their energies in trying to convert a hostile audience. ized many years after their death, when the impact of their lives can be put into context, and the voice of the faithful arises to affirm their holiness. What was the faith of the people who believed in Amos? We can ask a similar question about Mark’s description of disciples-in-training sent out on a mission to confront evil, surrender to the ministry of receiving hospitality from others, and to heal the sick. Who forms the “silent majority” who welcome the disciples? We think of Jesus as a teacher, and the disciples therefore as teachers. But in this passage, the teams who go out two by two don’t seem to be doing much teaching, if that means delivering a well-developed curriculum. “They went off and preached repentance” is a rather general theme aimed at personal conversion, not doctrinal or messianic catechesis. They are to present themselves not as persons who have everything they need, but as missionaries who depend on others. They are not to be fussy and demanding, like persons in first-class seats who feel entitled to better treatment than anyone else. In-

stead, they should enter a house as ordinary persons who accept whatever is provided by their hosts. Jesus directs them not to approach their mission as know-it-alls. Rather, their task is to distinguish between those who welcome them and those who don’t. They are to be economical, and not invest their energies in trying to convert a hostile audience. Find a place that welcomes you and listens to you. Stay there. Leave if they don’t. The “silent majority” in this passage is the host of house-church leaders, family members and their friends who welcomed missionaries in the first generation of the church’s growth. This majority included men and women who did the public relations work in advance of the missionaries’ arrival, and who identified their message as reliable, doctrinally sound and pastorally inspiring. The “silent majority” are the believers who knew how crucial it was to confront unclean spirits in the community – perhaps the need to resolve divisive social rivalries, correct an assumption that “anything goes” morally, and set strict rules for backbiters and self-appointed faith police who disrupted the peace of the community. Readers of this Gospel today are also a “silent majority.” Their wisdom sustains the entire community. They recognize the people who speak authentically for God. They welcome and protect missionaries. They affirm the need to confront unclean spirits. They promote healing and care for the sick. Without the silent majority there would be no Gospel.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings MONDAY, JULY 16: Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Is 1:10-17. Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. Mt 10:34-11:1. TUESDAY, JULY 17: Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Is 7:1-9. Ps 48:2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8. Mt 11:20-24. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18: Optional Memorial St. Caillus de Lellis, priest. Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Is 10:5-7, 13b-16. Ps 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15. Mt 11:25-27. THURSDAY, JULY 19: Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19. Ps 102:13-14ab and 15, 16-18, 19-21. Mt 11:28-30.

FRIDAY, JULY 20: Optional Memorial St. Apollinaris, bishop and martyr. Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8. Is 38:10, 11, 12abcd, 16. Mt 12:1-8. SATURDAY JULY 21: Optional Memorial St. Lawrence of Brindisi, priest and doctor of the church. Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Mi 2:1-5. Ps 10:1-2, 3-4, 7-8, 14. Mt 12:14-21. SUNDAY, JULY 22: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jer 23:1-6. Ps 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6. Eph 2:13-18. Mk 6:30-34. MONDAY, JULY 23: Optional Memorial St. Bridget, religious. Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary

Time. Mi 6:1-4, 6-8. Ps 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. Mt 12:38-42. TUESDAY, JULY 24: Optional Memorial St. Sharbel Makluf, priest. Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Mi 7:14-15, 18-20. Ps 85:2-4, 5-6, 7-8. Mt 12:46-50. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25: Feast of St. James, apostle. 2 Cor 4:7-15. Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. Mt 20:20-28. THURSDAY, JULY 26: Memorial of St. Joachim and St. Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Jer 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13. Ps 36:6-7ab, 8-9, 10-11. Mt 13:10-17.

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Is the use of an iPad for Mass readings appropriate?

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Prayers for religious freedom A man prays amid the overflow crowd during Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington July 4, the final day of the bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom” campaign. The observance, which began with a June 21 Mass in Baltimore, was a two-week period of prayer, education and action on preserving religious freedom in the U.S.

Solitude can’t be forced: It finds us when we’re ready

ight hundred years ago, the poet, Rumi wrote: What I want is to leap out of this personality and then sit apart from that leaping. I’ve lived too long where I can be reached. Isn’t that true for all of us, especially today? Our lives are often like overpacked suitcases. It seems like we are always busy, always over-pressured, always one phone call, one text message, one email, one visit, and one task behind. We are forever anxious about what we have still left undone, FATHER RON about whom we have disROLHEISER appointed, about unmet expectations. Moreover, inside of all of that, we can forever be reached. We have no quiet island to escape to, no haven of solitude. We feel pressure to be available all the time. So we often feel as if we are on a treadmill from which we would want to step off. And within all that busyness, pressure, noise, and tiredness we long for solitude, long for some quiet, peaceful island where all the pressure and noise will stop and we can sit in simple rest.

SOLITUDE NOT EASY TO FIND

That’s a healthy yearning. It’s our soul speaking. Like our bodies, our souls too keep trying to tell us what they need. They need solitude. But solitude isn’t easy to find. Why? Solitude is an elusive thing that needs to find us rather than us finding it. We tend to picture solitude in a naive way as something that we can “soak ourselves in” as we would soak ourselves in a warm bath. We tend to picture solitude this way: We are busy, pressured and tired. We finally have a chance to slip away for a weekend. We rent a cabin, complete with a fireplace, in a secluded woods. We pack some food, some wine, and some soft music and we resist packing any phones, iPads or laptops. But solitude cannot be so easily programmed. We can set up all the optimum conditions for it, but that is no guarantee we will find it. It has to find us, or, more accurately, a certain something inside of us has to be awake to its presence. Let me share a personal experience: Several years ago, when I was still teaching theol-

ogy at a college, I made arrangements to spend two months in summer living at a Trappist monastery. I was seeking solitude, seeking to slow down my life. I had just finished a very-pressured semester, teaching, doing formation work, giving talks and workshops, and trying to do some writing. I had a near-delicious fantasy of what was to meet me at the monastery. I would have two wonderful months of solitude: I would light the fireplace in the guest house and sit quietly by it. I would take a quiet walk in the woods behind the monastery. I would sit on an outdoor rocking chair by a little lake on the property and smoke my pipe. I would enjoy wholesome food, eating in silence as I listened to a monk reading aloud from a spiritual book, and, best of all, I would join the monks for their prayers.

A RESTLESS RETREAT

I arrived at the monastery at mid-afternoon, hastily unpacked, and set about immediately to do these things. By late evening I had mowed them all down, like a lawn that had been waiting to be cut: I had lit the fire and sat by it. I had taken a walk in the woods, smoked my pipe on the rocking chair by the lake, joined the monks in choir for vespers, sat in meditation with them afterward for a half an hour, ate a wholesome supper in silence, and then joined them again for sung compline. By bedtime the first evening I had already done all the things I had fantasized would bring me solitude and I went to bed restless, anxious about how I would survive the next two months without television, newspapers, phone calls, socializing with friends, and my regular work to distract me. I had done all the right solitude activities and had not found solitude, but had found restlessness instead. It took several weeks before my body and mind slowed down enough for me to find a basic restfulness, before I could even begin to nibble at the edges of solitude. Solitude is not something we turn on like a water faucet. It needs a body and mind slowed down enough to be attentive to the present moment. We are in solitude when, as Merton says, we fully taste the water we are drinking, feel the warmth of our blankets, and are restful enough to be content inside our own skin. We don’t often accomplish this, despite sincere effort, but we need to keep making new beginnings. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas. www.ronrolheiser.com.

Recently, my wife and I attended Mass at a small parish church in the southwestern part of England. The priest’s homily was fine, and the congregation participated with enthusiasm. In fact, it was the first Mass I can remember where no one left church until the priest left the altar. But here is my question: The priest used an iPad for the liturgical readings as well as for the Mass prayers. There were no liturgical books in sight. This struck me as very different, although it clearly accomplished the task. Is it permissible now to use an iPad instead of the Lectionary and Roman Missal? (Roanoke, Va.) The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, which serves as FATHER a preface to the book you see KENNETH DOYLE at the celebrant’s chair and on the altar during Mass, provides the “rules” for the celebration of the liturgy. That instruction (not surprisingly) makes no mention of iPads or other electronic media but refers only to the “liturgical books.” Prior to Mass, the priest is directed to set out the Roman Missal at the presider’s chair and the Lectionary on the ambo (reading stand). It is noted in No. 349 of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal that these books, used to proclaim the word of God, should be “truly worthy, dignified and beautiful.” In 2010, Father Paolo Padrini, a consultant to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, designed an iPad application, which offered the text of the Roman Missal in several languages. At the time, he said the use of the iPad would not detract from liturgical decorum, noting that “as far as I can see, there is no liturgical rule saying a printed instrument must be used,” and that is where the matter still stands. I have participated in many Masses where, instead of using a Lectionary, all of the readings were typed ahead of time and included in a plain but presentable loose-leaf binder placed on the lectern. This seemed to contribute to the smooth flow of the service because readers did not have to flip through the pages of a large book to find the proper place. Recently, I led a parish pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Italy, and the deacon who accompanied us had downloaded the Lectionary and the missal onto his iPad. This proved to be invaluable since we couldn’t find English-language liturgical books in some of the places where we wanted to celebrate Mass. Still another advantage (for the graying clergy population) is that the font size on an iPad can be expanded. Objectors may point to the Vatican’s 2001 document “Liturgiam Authenticam,” which requires that the liturgical books “should be marked by such a dignity that the exterior appearance of the book itself will lead the faithful to a greater reverence for the word of God and for sacred realities.” But it would seem that aim could be achieved by covering an iPad in a red leather case (which would also mask the manufacturer’s logo). At one point in history, with the invention of the printing press, worship aids changed from hand-lettered scrolls to bound books. In recent years, Pope Benedict XVI has called repeatedly for creative use of new media in efforts toward evangelization. It may well be that, after an appropriate period of adjustment, the use of an iPad at Mass could actually enhance the experience of prayer.

QUESTION CORNER

Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Here’s a question: Just what is Catholicism? In part it’s gathering in God’s glory FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

What does it mean to be Catholic? We wonder about our identity as Catholics. Many of us are born Catholic. We were baptized as babies. I was only 8 days old when I was baptized in my over 200-year-old parish church. Some of us embraced our faith through deliberate choice at a later stage. Year after year at the Easter Vigil we are delighted and inspired by those who choose to become Catholic after going through the RCIA program. We teach the faith to our school children and in the faith formation programs. I meet men in their 80s sometimes who boast about being altar servers while growing up; it is as if that was an important part of their identity. During funerals, one of the compliments the family would often pay to the memory of the deceased is that the dear departed cherished the practice of Catholic faith. The central practice of Catholicism is to be gathered at the eucharistic celebration week after week, remembering Jesus, hearing God’s word, singing hymns, partaking of the body of Christ, and being sent away to help, heal and transform the world. This ritual has been going on for over 2,000 years. In the first and second centuries, the Romans and Greeks and other nearby nations thought that Christians were crazy in coming together to break the bread in the name of someone who had been crucified. And yet, this tradition of coming together to “take the bread, bless it, break it, and give it” came to be the foundation on which Christianity found its identity and strength.

SACRAMENTS RELATED TO OUR LIFE JOURNEY

Besides the Eucharist, we celebrate other sacraments which are intimately related to our life journey of birth, growth, maturity, intimacy, disease, diminishment and death. Further we observe various devotions and pious practices. We take pride in the creed, our dogmas, and doctrines. Being immersed in these religious beliefs, rituals and practices, we might lose sight of the larger picture of who we are as Catholics. Just what is Catholicism? Father Richard McBrien in his famous book Catholicism, answers this question in a scholarly and yet simple manner. He gives six points: 1. Catholicism is a Christian tradition, a way of life and a community. 2. The word Catholic, derived from Greek, means “universal.” Its opposite is sectarian rather than Protestant. 3. Many non-Catholic Christians insist on the use of the adjective Roman to describe the church that is in union with Rome, because they also regard themselves as Catholic. But there are Eastern rite churches that are in union with Rome,

which takes a robustly positive approach toward God and the world. It views all reality as sacred. It sees “the divine in the human, the infinite in the finite, the spiritual in the material, the transcendent in the imminent, the eternal in the historical.” Catholicism holds that through the unfolding of history, in the material reality, through progress and failure, our struggles and triumphs, our encounter with the divine is made possible. In other words, the world channelizes the grace of God to us. Therefore we are to love the world as God loves the world. The ultimate goal of Catholicism is to build up the human family and gather it all for the glory of God and the triumph of human destiny. This is what we call the kingdom of God. Catholicism aspires profoundly for unity and union: that Jesus’ prayer that all may be one may become a reality. All nations, all peoples, all cultures, all religions will be gathered and united by God. Let’s ponder the grand vision of Catholicism, share in it, and pride in it by making that vision part of our daily existence. In “Finnegan’s Wake,” the Irish author James Joyce says: “Catholic” means “Here comes everybody!” It means that Catholic faith includes everyone. No one is excluded. All are welcome! No one a stranger! A pastor asked a man if there was a reason why he was not present at the church services. He replied that there were too many hypocrites in the church. The pastor said to him: “Let that not keep you away. There is always room for one more.” If you find the perfect church, don’t join it because it will no longer be perfect. My principle is simply this: You can criticize the church all you want, but first you must love it. It’s the same way you earn the right to criticize your own children or family because you first love them. The church is not a perfect place. It’s both sacred and secular; it’s both divine and human. As Christ’s bride, it’s perfect, but with us as members, it constantly struggles with sin and selfishness. We are both graced and sinful. Before we assume the authority to criticize the church, do we love it? If we do, then even the criticism may become an expression of our love for the church.

What is Catholicism? A faith where our encounter with the divine is made possible at every moment

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A man covered with mud prays while holding a candle during a ceremony celebrating the feast of St. John the Baptist in the remote village of Bibiclat, Philippines, June 24. Catholicism is a tradition that sees God in all things, using the human, the material and the finite to bring about the unity of humankind. and yet are not of the Roman, or Latin rite. Therefore, the adjective Roman would pertain only to a portion of the church that is in union with Rome, albeit the largest portion by far. 4. Catholicism is, first of all, a way of being human, then a way of being religious, and then a way of being Christian. Catholicism can only be understood within this wider context. 5. Catholicism is characterized by three principles: sacramentality, mediation and communion. The special configuration of these three principles within Catholicism constitutes its distinctiveness. It is a tradition that sees God in all things (sacramentality), using the human, the material, and the finite (mediation), to bring about the unity of humankind (communion). 6. Other distinctively Catholic principles include its emphasis on tradition, its regard for reason, its analogical imagination, and its universality, including a both/and rather than an either/or approach to Christian faith and practice.

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FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco.

A nation founded on divinely given human rights FATHER ULYSSES D’AQUILA

Father D’Aquila delivered this homily July 4 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Redwood City, where he is pastor. July 4 marked the closing of the U.S. bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom” campaign honoring religious freedom. Perhaps because I was raised in the military (my father was an Air Force officer), I’ve always had mixed feelings about this national holiday, the Fourth of July. Of course, I am patriotic and I love my country. During the many years when I taught English to immigrants, I saw how good the United States could be – so full of opportunities – for people who came here from other countries to make a new life. But at the same time, I’ve always associated the Fourth of July with displays of military power. On the military bases where I grew up, we were entertained on the Fourth of July with impressive air shows, parades with tanks and marching soldiers

in arms. I think even at a very early age I had some doubt that the true greatness of this country could depend on the size and power of its military. After all, the original 13 colonies had been founded not by soldiers but by small groups of pilgrims who came from England looking for religious freedom. These Puritans brought to this country their values of hard work, charity, and belief in the family – a strong variety of Calvinist Protestant Christianity. It was these values and their religious beliefs which helped the pilgrims to endure the hardships and privations of frontier life and which motivated them to build the wilderness into beautiful towns and cities. Later, when the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution gathered together, they were inspired by profound ideas about the dignity of the human person – that all of us are created equal, that we are endowed with certain freedoms, and that we could progress into a great nation, not because of military arms and aggressive power, but because we stood for liberty, peace, equality and divinely given human rights.

This is certainly what we believe as Roman Catholic Christians and this is what the holy Scriptures teach us. St. Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, says: “You were called into freedom, brothers and sisters. But this freedom is not to be used as an opportunity for license and wrong behavior; rather should we serve one another through love.” The United States, I believe, is still in the process of becoming what it might be. After all, we ended the evil of slavery and of child labor; we have improved conditions for workers, and we have enacted laws to protect people and the environment. But we still have to discover, or rediscover the spiritual roots of our cherished freedoms. So let us pray today as we celebrate this national holiday that our country can become more and more an image of goodness and charity and fraternal love, and that we can someday convert our weapons of mass destruction into implements productive of peace and prosperity and whatever serves that greatest of all values: life itself.

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SOCIAL JUSTICE GRANTS AWARDED

Three social justice programs endorsed by Archbishop George Niederauer are recipients of grants from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The grants were announced last month by Bishop Jamie Soto, bishop of Sacramento, and head of the bishops’ human development subcommittee. The recipients are: Home Green Home, LLC., San Francisco, an economic development program serving co-ops and community-owned businesses, $50,000. Marin County Grassroots Leadership Network, San Rafael, a nonprofit that seeks to increase participation of under-represented communities in policy-making, to promote equitable, healthy and sustainable communities, $40,000.

San Francisco Community Land Trust, a nonprofit that aims to create affordable, resident-controlled housing for low- to moderate-income people in San Francisco through community ownership of the land, $35,000. The Subcommittee on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development approved 213 grants totaling $9.1 million for 2012 at a meeting in Atlanta in June. Each organization approved for funding went through a careful review process and was endorsed by the bishop in the diocese in which it works, said Bishop Soto. Each applicant specified that their organization is not involved in activities contrary to Catholic teaching. Organizations that support or promote, for example, capital punishment, abortion, euthanasia, racism, war, discrimination or same-sex marriage are not eligible for CCHD funding.

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Portuguese Americans celebrated Pentecost, May 26, with a Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea Church and a parade through Sausalito, concluding with release of a dove. Legend has it that 14th-century Portuguese Queen Isabel’s devotion to the Holy Spirit enabled her to relieve her people’s suffering during famine. Left to right, Catherine Morey, José Raposo and Caroline Morey.

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Seventh graders learn about St. Francis On May 30, seventh graders from St. Charles Borromeo School in San Francisco’s Mission District attended their second St. Francis in the Schools program. Pictured from left are Bea Burgos; Ninette Rivera; seventh grade teacher Dominican Sister Merced Gumban, Dominican Sister Nelia Pernecia; music director and program coordinator Terry Johnson; KathleenTolia; Crystal Duong.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 REUNION: Presentation High School, San Francisco, class of 1957 at Presidio Golf Club. Contact Diane Meiswinkel, (415) 752-9968.

and supporters of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco at 7 p.m. Evening is sponsored by the archdiocesan council of SVdP. Contact Ed Dollard, ej.dol3@sbcglobal.net.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 16

SATURDAY, SEPT. 22

CHAMPAGNE BINGO: Sts. Peter and Paul Church in gym below church, 666 Filbert St. on Washington Square, 1-5 p.m. Doors open 12:30 p.m. Free parking. Donation is $20 per person and includes champagne, hot lunch, two bingo cards and door prizes. No tickets sold at the door. For tickets call (415) 776-6756 or (415) 421-2441or at church bookstore, (415) 421-0809. No children.

ANNIVERSARY: Immaculate Heart of Mary School is celebrating 60 years of Catholic education in Belmont from 1-7 p.m. Day includes alumni gatherings, school tours, Mass celebrating all current and former students and reception. Visit www.ihmschoolbelmont.org or contact Karen Andreano, development@ihmschoolbelmont.org or (650) 593-4265.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 20

FRIDAY, OCT. 12

VINCENTIAN FAMILY MASS: Msgr. John Talesfore is principal celebrant of a Vincentian Family Mass for members

REUNION: St. Cecilia School, class of 1952, at Caesar’s Restaurant in San Francisco, 5 p.m. with dinner, 6 p.m.

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REUNION: St. Paul High School class of 1972 at the Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco. Email sphs1972reunion@gmail.com.

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MONDAY, OCT. 22 PERSPECTIVES: The Social Justice Committee of St. Matthias Church

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DEATH IS NOT THE END: A workshop with Paulist Father Terry Ryan, 9 a.m.-noon, Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco. Workshop is free, donations welcome. Call (415) 2883845.

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PUBLICIZE YOUR EVENT: Submit event listings by noon Friday. Email calendar.csf@ sfarchdiocese.org, write Calendar, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109, or call Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

SATURDAY, DEC. 1

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GOD’S CALL ANSWERED: A spirituality workshop on Elizabeth Leseur with Paulist Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco, 9 a.m.noon. It was in Elizabeth’s daily life that she learned to love and be the best God called her to be, Father Terry says. Workshop is free, donations welcome. Call (415) 288-3845.

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ST. GREGORY STUDENTS HELP KIDS IN AFRICA

Students at St. Gregory School, San Mateo, recently raised $2,525.57 to help improve the water supply for the Benaco Women’s and Children’s Clinic in Rulenge-Ngara, Tanzania. The Lenten fundraiser was a “coin war” involving all grades kindergarten through eighth, said fifth grade teacher James Spray. “I’m proud to say that the students and the parish raised enough funds to build two much needed water catchment tank systems.” Joining faculty, staff and families as cheerleaders for the Rain Catcher Water for Life effort were pastor Father Paul Arnoult and principal Tom Dooher.

ST. IGNATIUS PARISHIONERS SERVE POOR

(PHOTO COURTESY DENNIS CALLAHAN)

Pictured are Most Holy Redeemer Parish representative Carol Zweifel; school principals Karen O’Reilly, Dominican Sister Mary Vasquez, Miguel Martinez; Msgr. James Tarantino, archdiocesan vicar for administration and then-acting parish administrator; principals Vicki Butler and Dominican Sister Nelia Pernecia; parish representative Marc Colelli; principal Remy Everett.

MHR PARISH PROVIDES SCHOOL AID

Most Holy Redeemer Parish, San Francisco, has assigned $60,000 of its parish income to tuition assistance for Catholic schools where children from the parish are or may be students. The schools are St. Finn Barr, St. James, St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception, St. Peter, St. Charles and St. Philip. This is the fourth year the parish has used money raised from rental of property it owns to assist students in nearby Catholic schools. The grants were announced by archdiocesan vicar for administration and then-acting parish administrator Msgr. James Tarantino, finance committee chairperson Marc Colelli and parish council chairperson Carol Zweifel. The money is derived from taxes assessed on Most

Holy Redeemer’s rental property and the income that it produces for the parish. Rental taxes generally benefit Catholic education, but for the fourth year, the parish had asked the archdiocese if the tax could be paid directly to selected area Catholic schools. Msgr. James Tarantino, vicar for administration, agreed on behalf of the archdiocese. Each of the schools received grants for tuition assistance, meaning children who could not normally afford a Catholic education are now able to do so. On April 15 checks were presented to school representatives Karen O’Reilly, St. Finn Bar; Dominican Sister Mary Vasquez, St. James; Miguel Martinez, St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception; Vicki Butler, St. Peter; Dominican Sister Nelia Pernecia, St. Charles; and Remy Everett, St. Philip.

Parishioners of San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Church have been helping the hungry for 17 years as part of the team donating sandwiches for residents of the Multi-Service Center-South of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco. The ham and cheese assembly line meets one Saturday a month to do the good work and so far has slapped together 100,000 of the mini-meals deserving of the term – if not by ingredients certainly by intent – “hero sandwich.” The SVdP facility is the largest homeless shelter in Northern California and provides a safe place to stay, meals, and drop-in services for homeless men and women in San Francisco. “Thanks to the wonderful effort by St. Ignatius Church volunteers, the society has been able to rely on this steady supply of sandwiches to help feed its shelter guests,” SVdP said.

NOW AVAILABLE HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 125th Anniversary

“Cookbook of Memories” As food has always been a comfort to families who have experienced a loss, it seems only fitting that Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery would create a cookbook in honor of its 125th Anniversary. Our “Cookbook of Memories” is now available for $10.00. Please stop by the Cemetery Office to pick up a copy. You may also order by email to costinson@holycrosscemeteries.com. Please add $3.00 postage.

Msgr. Foudy celebrates Mass Msgr. John Foudy, retired pastor St. Anne of the Sunset Parish and at 98 the oldest among priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, celebrated Mass with retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang and Father Charles Puthota June 21 at Cristina’s Care Home in San Bruno, where he now resides.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. J.L.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. L.R.

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

Support CSF Be a part a growing ministry that connects the faithful in the 90 parishes of the archdiocese. If you would like to add your tax-deductible contribution, please mail a check, payable to Catholic San Francisco, to: Catholic San Francisco, Dept. W, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109.

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HELP WANTED PILGRIMAGE SALES – Unitours, one of the most respected names in Catholic Pilgrimage Travel is seeking a sales representative in this area. Representatives call on local priests and parish pilgrimage organizers to assist in planning and promoting Catholic Parish Pilgrimages to Europe and the Middle East. Position is commission based and international travel experience and basic computer skills are required. To apply, complete the application and attached resume at www.Unitours.com/sales

HELP WANTED DIRECTOR OF YOUTH MINISTRY  ST. IGNATIUS PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO, CA a Jesuit Parish, is seeking a part time youth minister, 20 hours/week, to develop and implement a total parish youth ministry program. The Director of Youth Ministry will develop a core leadership team, who will assist with youth group meetings and activities; work towards greater participation of youth in the liturgical and overall life of the parish; design and lead retreats; promote leadership development; coordinate social activities and community outreach; and develop a network of outreach and support for teens. The applicant must be an organized self starter with the following qualifications: EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree in related field, and a vision of comprehensive youth ministry consistent with Renewing the Vision: A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry (USCC 1997). EXPERIENCE: Active member of a Catholic parish or University faith community; and has worked in a leadership capacity with teenagers in a parish setting, including the development and implementation of a holistic youth ministry program or transferrable experience.

A job description & application form are posted @ www.stignatiuscff.org Please send resume and application form to: St. Ignatius Parish, Youth Minister Search Committee, 650 Parker Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118 by July 31, 2012.

St. Dunstan School (K-8) in Millbrae, has two part-time teachers aide positions openings for the 2012-13 school. Interested applicants are asked to contact Principal Dr. Bruce Colville by email: principal@st-dunstan.org or by phone (650) 697-8119. Experience in teaching or as an aide in primary grades is required for consideration.

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