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Former papal altar boy claims rare full set of Vatican stamps GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The first thing you notice about Agostino Crotti’s photographs from his years as one of a select few altar boys at the Vatican, from 1963 to 1969, is that he is always in the center of the action – he’s always involved, doing something key in whatever celebration or gathering the photos capture. There’s a reason Agostino Crotti for that: “You know what I learned from the very beginning? I never forget. Either you do what they want or you are out,” he recalled. “I learned that the two key words in order to be successful in that business are humility and obedience. So never be pretentious, and always, whatever they tell you, no matter what, you say yes.” Those are vivid memories and lessons for a lifetime, to be sure, and Crotti, who served his last Mass for Pope Paul VI in 1969 and, at 18, immigrated to San Francisco with his family, can also summon them by leafing through any of the 36 volumes of Vatican stamps he has collected over the last 49 years. It’s a stunning array of many thousands of stamps from the smallest independent state in the world, and it is, he believes, the most complete collection of Vatican stamps. It begins with the first issue at the founding, in 1929, when Benito Mussolini, on behalf of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, and Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, on behalf of Pope Pius XI, agreed to the Lateran Treaty creating Vatican City, and it continues through this year. SEE COLLECTOR, PAGE 5

San Franciscan Agostino Crotti began collecting Vatican stamps during his time as a Vatican altar boy in the ‘60s serving popes including fellow Northern Italian and stamp collector Paul VI. Top, from his collection, is a stamp featuring Pope Pius VI (1775-99). Crotti selected the stamp for sentimental reasons: His bedroom window for six years was on the third floor of the La Sagrestia, the sacristy building near St. Peter’s Basilica pictured at the bottom of the stamp.

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Aurora prayer: Answer horror with love, grace CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

AURORA, Colo. – Denver Auxiliary Bishop James D. Conley urged those coping with the aftermath of the “Dark Knight” massacre not to seek quick answers but to place their hopes and fears in God’s hands. “Questions arise when the everyday securities and certainties of life – the trust we carry in our fellow human beings, that we can safely go to work each day, or to school, or to the movies, are shaken,” Bishop Conley said in his invocation at an evening prayer service that drew thousands. “It’s natural for us to wonder why does this kind of suffering happen and what does it really mean? We who gather tonight have come to seek answers,” Bishop Conley said. “Not the answers that the commentators on television might provide, but answers to the real questions that leave us feeling insecure and fearful.” Twelve people were killed and 58 wounded July 20 when a gunman fired on the crowd at a midnight showing of the latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.” The accused shooter, 24-year-old James Holmes, a former doctoral student, was in court July 23 and ordered held without bond. Bishop Conley urged the crowd, which included Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and city officials, to place their questions, fears and uncertainties “in the hands of our loving and merciful God.” “Let us trust God with our doubts and let us turn to him with our fears. Let us ask him for the hope we need to see in the midst of this darkness,” Bishop Conley said. “We do not grieve like those who have no hope. ... We grieve with the knowledge that neither death nor life can separate us from the love of God,” Bishop Conley said. “When we do return to our lives, let us see in this SEE AURORA, PAGE 5

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CATHOLICS GIVE $27.4 MILLION TO RETIRED RELIGIOUS: The 24th annual collection of the Retirement Fund for Religious marked a 2 percent increase from 2010 and approaches the historic annual average of $28 million, the Commission on Religious Life and Ministry said. The median age of religious in the U.S. is 70, with more than 40 religious institutes reporting that their members’ average age is 80. ROSARY RALLY SET FOR OCT. 13: Two large Latino devotional groups are joining with the Legion of Mary, the archdiocese and others to promote a rosary rally set for noon Oct. 13 at U.N. Plaza near San Francisco’s Civic Center. “It is my hope and prayer that many will come from far and wide to join with the forces of heaven in solidarity to witness that God’s way of love is the only way that will lead to the peace and justice that screams for attention in today’s world,” said Msgr. James Tarantino, archdiocesan vicar for administration. After the annual Hispanic Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral at 9:30 a.m., organizers plan a procession to the rally with life-size statues of Mary and banners. Last year’s rally drew about 2,000 people. For more information, call (415) 505-9777 or visit rosaryrallysf.com. NFP AWARENESS WEEK THROUGH JULY 28: “Faithfully Yours” is the theme of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, July 22-28, a U.S. bishops’ educational campaign on Catholic teaching on married love and the gift of human life. The annual campaign, which began in 2002, promotes awareness of natural family planning methods. The dates of NFP Awareness Week overlap with the anniversary of the 1968 papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” in which Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the church’s teaching on human sexuality, married love and responsible parenthood. Find resources online at www. usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriageand-family/natural-family-planning/ awareness-week/index.cfm. For more information, email nfp@usccb.org. VATICAN NEWSPAPER TO BE PUBLISHED IN U.S. IN ENGLISH: The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, will be distributed in the U.S. in English beginning in August. The newspaper will be distributed by Catholic publisher Our Sunday Visitor, which will also promote circulation to make news of the pope and the Vatican more accessible to U.S. readers, Vatican Information Service said.

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Why do you attend daily Mass? Assistant editor Valerie Schmalz interviewed 12:10 p.m. Mass-goers Tuesday, July 10, at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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“It just gives me a bit of peace in the middle of the day.”

CARISSA SANTOS

“I’m trying to go to daily Mass because I feel like I need the extra graces to do his work in all parts of my life, especially the hard parts.”

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“It’s my nourishment.” Laura Bertone

Carissa Santos

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“Because I’m Catholic. If you don’t have God in your life, I think you’re very destitute.”

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“The daily Mass enriches me for the 24 hours of my day. I can carry the Lord with me to share with others.”

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‘Whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant’ Archbishop Niederauer delivered this homily June 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral during the ordination Mass for 12 new deacons. The homily has been edited for space.

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his afternoon, as we prepare to ordain these 12 men as deacons of the Catholic Church, the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are at the heart of what we are doing. Jesus called the apostles to himself and sent them out to the world to teach all nations. Those apostles soon imposed hands on the first deacons GEORGE so that they NIEDERAUER could assist the apostles in the church’s ministry. As deacons these men ordained today will teach and proclaim the word of God; they will serve at the altar, ministering the eucharistic body and blood of Christ, and they will carry out the ministry of love to the needy, ministering to the mystical body of Christ. They will also be called to celebrate baptism and to assist at the sacrament of matrimony. My brothers, never forget that you will be deacons, not because Bene-

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dict is pope, nor because George is archbishop, but because “Jesus is Lord.� In time, Benedict will no longer be pope and George will no longer be archbishop, but Jesus will be Lord – always – and you will strive to be gentle, humble, strong, generous and wise, because then Jesus will shepherd and serve his people through you. Christ is our truest friend as we answer his call to ministry. What makes Jesus Christ our truest friend is what he has done for us – give his life for us; it is also what he continues to do for us – share his life with us. What makes us friends of Christ is that he teaches us what he has done and is doing, and then calls us to do the same. What keeps us friends of Christ is our actually doing it, in the power of the Holy Spirit which he gives us. Marriage and family life for eight of you is central to your own call to the diaconate. In each vocation the Catholic finds himself or herself in what the saints have called a school of the Christian life. Each school of Christian life is a school of love for God and one another. For the monk it is the life of the monastery; for the priest or religious it is the life of the community or the parish and the local church; for husband and wife, it is their marriage and their life together as a family. For you married deacons it will be from your living of the sacrament of marriage that so much of your spiritual experience and strength will come, for cooperating with the

Christ did not lord it over his flock. graces of this new sacrament of orders. Your wives in particular have shared this journey of vocation with you, and will continue to do so now. Four of you candidates for ordination are unmarried. The longstanding tradition of the Catholic Church calls for you to serve as deacons in the celibate state, for the sake of your service to the life of the people of God in the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ himself speaks of this gift of service in the 19th chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel. Deacons may be chosen from among celibate or married candidates, and there is no value distinction among them. Each state of life has its own special graces and they complement each other in this diaconal service. When the apostles James and John asked Jesus for special privileged treatment above the other apostles, Jesus said: “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and the great ones make their authority over them felt. But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.� So, when we in holy orders lord it

over other Catholics, and make our authority over them felt, we disobey and betray Jesus Christ. Why should leaders in the church be so different from leaders in the world? Because leaders in the church represent Jesus Christ, who is Lord, and who did not lord it over his flock. That is the reason for being humble and gentle that Jesus gives to those he calls, in the last sentence of that Gospel passage: “Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.� Will ordained life be a happy experience for you? What an American question! It won’t be one mad round of mindless pleasure, that’s for sure. I didn’t always admire the “banner theology� of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Still there was one banner I liked: “You were not made for pleasure but for joy.� Jesus does say to us disciples that he came so that his joy could be ours, and that our joy could be complete. There is no other complete joy: We have St. Augustine’s word for that, and in his early life he was a rather dedicated searcher after joy: “Our hearts were made for Thee, O Lord, and shall not rest until they rest in Thee.� Our entire Catholic Church in San Francisco rejoices with you – rejoices for you. We pray for your faithful, fruitful, joyful life of service as “good news� deacons for the love of Christ and his people.

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SVdP’s Catherine’s Center hosted an informational breakfast for 200 supporters June 13 at Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Catherine’s Center helps women leaving incarceration prepare for productive lives through education and training. Guest speaker was photographer Michael Collopy, founder of the Architects for Peace Foundation. Pictured, from left, are SVdP’s Martin Schurr, Suzi Desmond, Jim Fox and Michael Collopy, who presented photographs and stories of his experience with contemporary peacemakers including Mother Teresa. Visit www.svdp-sanmateoco.org. ANNIVERSARY: Happy 64 years married Aug. 1, to Ligia and Raul Velez longtime parishioners of Church of the Epiphany Parish, San Francisco. The couple celebrated the occasion with their five children and their families including eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Ligia and Raul’s four daughters are all graduates of Immaculate Conception Academy and their son is a graduate of Archbishop Riordan High School. THANK YOU: Thanks and congratulations to Christine Stinson celebrating her 25th anniversary as Family Services Manager at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, July 6. “Every once in a while a person gets to spend their life doing what they were supposed to,” Christine told me. “There have been so many changes in cemetery practice over the past 25 years and I am fortunate to have been able to

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COLLECTOR: San Franciscan’s rare set of stamps FROM PAGE 1

Crotti began collecting stamps – he will only say their total value is “considerable” – in 1963, when he began serving Mass for Pope Paul VI and countless priests, bishops and cardinals who passed through. It was a particularly busy time – the Second Vatican Council – and he often served six Masses per day, with the bursitis, rheumatism and ingrown nails from kneeling on the marble floors to prove it. A lad from a small Northern Italy town, he was there for six years as one of a hand-picked few enrolled in a vocationcentered high school/minor seminary based at the Vatican, Il Preseminario San Pio X. In addition to receiving a matchless education and trove of memories, he learned smart collecting. “As a 12-year-old kid, I noticed there were long lines of people at two post offices, one inside the Vatican and one at St. Peter’s Square. I told people about these stamps, word got out and people started giving me orders to buy stamps,” he said. “People would send me the money, with a little gratuity for my services, and with that money I was able to buy my stamps and it didn’t cost me anything. I was in business at 12.” The most valuable date to 1934, when the Vatican reissued the 1929 “Conciliation” issue, some depicting the papal tiara and crossed keys and others a photo of the reigning pontiff, Pope Pius XI. These are the rarest of all, as the Vatican printed a miniscule run of 18,000, the smallest in history, said Crotti. A group of six of these stamps is valued at $6,000 today, he said, a pure lesson in supply and demand. But it was Pope John Paul II, a stamp collector himself, who knew the laws of economics particularly well and he is credited with, over the long haul, sharply reducing the printing run of Vatican stamps beginning with his service in 1978. He cut them down from millions to around 300,000, said Crotti, keeping the price high. Crotti has his favorites: The elegant stamp showing Pope Pius XII knocking on the Porta Sancta of St. Peter’s, on the first day of a holy year, opening it to pilgrims, is one. He has always liked the profile of Pope Clement VI, since it reminds him so much of baseball’s Pete Rose. Crotti did not pursue the priesthood. He started a new life in San Francisco with his family in 1969. He was, at first, a busboy at Caesar’s Italian Restaurant, then at Caffe Trieste, hired on the spot by an owner who figured that someone with six years at the Vatican wouldn’t steal from him. At Caffe Trieste, he met Francis Ford Coppola, who was writing the script for “The Godfather” on an Olivette typewriter in the corner. Crotti delivered coffee to him every 20 minutes, and a long friendship began.

“I noticed there were long lines at two post offices. I told people about these stamps, word got out and people started giving me orders. I was in business at 12.”

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San Franciscan Agostino Crotti, pictured outside his restaurant Tomasso’s in San Francisco In 1973, The Crotti family bought Tommaso’s, an Italian restaurant on Kearny Street near Broadway that today has largely the same menu it did at its 1935 opening. The line out the door speaks volumes about the North Beach institution. Crotti is 61 now and he and his sister, Carmen, are co-partners in Tommaso’s. After a grueling day in a stressful business, Crotti often takes comfort in his stamp collection. “The effort to put it together – it’s an achievement,” he said. “This is a serious collection, and I am very proud to say that.”

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Corpus Christi camp brings Catholic fun to city Corpus Christi Parish’s summer day camp expanded to eight weeks for the summer of 2012, up from just four weeks when the camp was inaugurated in 2010, and is drawing youth from San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. Corpus Christi’s active youth ministry forms the core of the camp counselor staff, led this year by a Salesian brother from the Philippines, Itchan Laygo. The camp was founded in 2010 by Corpus Christi parochial vicar Salesian Father Jose Lucero, who leaves the Excelsior District parish in early August to begin duties in Los Angeles as vocations director for the Salesians of Don Bosco Western Province. Thirty-five to 45 children, ages 5-13, attend the camp each week. The schedule includes a field trip to places such as Great America and the Monterey Bay Aquarium as well as a 10:30 a.m. Mass on Fridays. The campers swim once a week at nearby Balboa Pool. The parish game room features foosball and pool tables. “My favorite part will have to be the game room,” said Luis Escudero Jr., 11. For Celerina Barbuena, 12, it is “always enjoying meeting new people.”

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Playing pool and foosball, going on field trips, and just hanging out are big draws for the Corpus Christi Parish summer camp, where the Salesian philosophy of St. John Bosco is in effect: “It is enough that you are young for me to love you.”

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Seminarian completes key test of priestly mettle LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

This is the final article in a series on seminarian Tony Vallecillo’s pastoral year of parish training. Overwhelmed by a jammed schedule, frustrated with insufficient prayer time and stretched to uncomfortable limits, Tony Vallecillo was ready to quit a third of the way through a key test of his priestly mettle. Instead, he listened to God, adjusted to the agenda and completed his Tony Vallecillo pastoral year at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael with a fresh feeling of confidence in his calling. “I could not have done it without leaning on Jesus,” Vallecillo said in reflecting on his doubt-raising, eye-opening field trial that had him wondering, “Who needs this?” three months into the 10-month practice run that ended June 17.

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Surviving the struggle “shows me I’ll be able to handle whatever may be in store,” said the would-be pastor, who hopes to be ordained in 2014 following two years of theological studies and a field education assignment of working with prisoners in Santa Clara County. “Presenting pressures and stresses I had never experienced before, the pastoral year forced me to look deeply into elemental questions the previous six years of seminary formation simply had not brought me to ask.” The most critical – “Do I trust God?” – elicited a heartfelt affirmation of his volition and vocation. “Many priests and nuns go into religious life to nurture their deep spiritual connection to God, and all of a sudden they’ve got meetings every day and the plumbing doesn’t work and people are demanding their time and the building needs painting, and it’s all so much more complex than they imagined, especially in a parish as active and diverse as St. Raphael, which has a large immigrant population with its own culture and needs,” said Kathleen Toney, a parishioner for 42 years, former parish council chair and member of the pastoral year committee. Entering the seminary at age 43, Vallecillo faced his own set of reality checks that included sharing a dorm and bathroom with men less than half his age and returning to the academic scene he had left a quartercentury earlier. The jump from the discipline of seminary life to the daily dramas of a vibrant parish, mission and school required an even greater readjustment.

said. “To me, that means you need to practice before the people.” Practicing before the people clarified Vallecillo’s vision of serving as a bridge between the Hispanic immigrant and native-born communities, which he said will need to adjust to America’s changing demographics that already have some parishes adding Spanish Masses and reducing English ones. “I realize such changes will not be popular with

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Priest: Funding for AIDS care prolongs lives PAUL JEFFREY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Holding this year’s International AIDS Conference in Washington is recognition of the U.S. government’s decision to grant visas to people who are HIV-positive, but it also is recognition of U.S. efforts to combat AIDS worldwide, said a top church official. In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, ending a 22-year ban on the entry of people with the virus that causes AIDS. But Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, special adviser on HIV and AIDS for Caritas Internationalis, said the conference also was an indication of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR, a massive funding surge initiated by President George W. Bush and continued, though at a lower level, by Obama. Both Bush and Obama were scheduled to address the July 22-27 conference via videotaped messages. Funding from PEPFAR and the United Nations has made possible great strides in combating the disease. According to the U.N., some 8 million people received antiretroviral treatment last year, a 20 percent increase over 2010. That treatment can significantly prolong life by reducing the viral load in infected people. Yet almost 8 million others who are eligible for the treatment have no access to the medications. At the same time, global funding for AIDS work is flat-lining or declining.

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Cardinals keep focus on detained bishop CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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automatically incurred excommunication. 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.

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OTTAWA, Ontario – The federal government has announced it will appeal the June 15 British Columbia Supreme Court decision that struck down Canada’s laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide. “After careful consideration of the legal merits,” the government of Canada will appeal the so-called Carter decision to the British Columbia Court of Appeal and seek “a stay of all aspects of the lower-court decision,” said Justice Minister and Attorney General Rob Nicholson July 13. “The government is of the view that the Criminal Code provisions that prohibit medical professionals, or anyone else, from counseling or providing assistance in a suicide are constitutionally valid,” said Nicholson. “The government also objects to the lower court’s decision to grant a ‘constitutional exemption’ resembling a regulatory framework for assisted suicide.” In the Carter decision, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith said the laws against assisted suicide and euthanasia violated the equality rights of those who could not commit suicide without help, since suicide is legal. She also argued the Criminal Code provisions violated disabled peoples’ rights of life, liberty and security under the Canadian Charter. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Sister: Inquiry raises questions of conscience CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Conflict between the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over the reform of LCWR boils down to whether one can “be a Catholic and have a questioning mind,� the conference’s president said in an interview on National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air� program. Franciscan Sister Pat Farrell also told “Fresh Air� host Terry Gross in the July 17 interview that she would like to see discussion about whether “freedom of conscience in the church (is) genuinely honored.�

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Proposed food stamp cuts called ‘immoral’ GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The House Agriculture Committee on July 12 passed its version of the 2012 Farm Bill which trims $16.5 billion over 10 years from the food stamp budget, setting the stage for a dogged summer debate over caring for the needy within the reality of reducing the nation’s deficit. Protecting the food stamp program, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has been a priority for Catholic Charities, and while the proposed reduction may well change before the full House votes on the measure or perhaps even be brought in line with a less-severe reduction proposal approved by the Senate, the Catholic response was quick and sharp. “The SNAP program is one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the U.S.,� said Jeff Bialik, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO at the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “To cut this program when so many are hungry and hurting is not only immoral, it’s bad economics. The money that supports food stamps flows through local economies and supports local businesses,� he said. He added, “As Catholics and as citizens, we should be very concerned when the least of our brothers and sisters are marginalized and made to feel less than for the sake of election-year politics.� Bialik said that in the three counties of the archdiocese, San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo, there are still high percentages of people eligible for food stamps who do not take advantage of the program. “Many are elderly who either don’t know they are eligible or perhaps feel stigmatized by the notion of accepting help,� he said. The House proposes to tighten eligibility requirements, and the bill includes a provision by Rep. Martha Roby, R-Alabama, that she said will prevent undocumented people from fraudulently obtaining federally subsidized food stamps. Under her plan, employment and income records would be checked

MISSISSIPPI ABORTION CLINIC STAYS OPEN; INDIANA ABORTION LAW OVERTURNED

JACKSON, Miss. – A federal judge allowed Mississippi’s only abortion clinic to remain open while it continued to work toward compliance with a new state law permitting only certain doctors to perform abortions there. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III of Jackson partially lifted the injunction on a law that had been scheduled to take effect July 1 but continued to block sections of the law imposing civil or criminal penalties on violators. The law requires that abortions be performed only by obstetricians-gynecologists with privileges to admit patients to local hospitals. Currently neither of the out-of-state doctors who perform abortions at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization have such privileges. Meanwhile, a federal hearing officer considering Indiana’s new law prohibiting the use of state funds for services provided by Planned Parenthood to Medicaid patients said the law is unacceptable, putting at risk the state’s more than $4 billion in federal Medicaid funding. Hearing Officer Benjamin Cohen of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the law violated the rights of Medicaid patients to choose their own health care provider.

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Hispanic Catholics’ embrace of the Eucharist and personal devotion is changing US church

atholic San Francisco spoke with Presentation Sister Gloria Inés Loya and Jesuit Father Robert McChesney about the rapid growth of Hispanics in the U.S. church. Earlier this month at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, they led the 24th Instituto Hispano – an intensive program for Catholic leaders, primarily laity, who minister to or lead the growing number of Hispanic and Spanish-speaking Catholics across Presentation Jesuit the U.S. Sister Gloria Sister Gloria Father Robert is the coordinator of Inés Loya McChesney the Hispanic Institute as well as a theology instructor at the JST. Father McChesney is the director of both the Intercultural Initiatives and the New Directions Sabbatical programs at the JST, and interim director for the Hispanic Institute.

Q: HOW MUCH OF THE GROWTH IN THE U.S. CHURCH IS DUE TO HISPANICS?

A: SISTER GLORIA: We can see right now that in the 12 dioceses in California the Catholic population is 50 percent Hispanic, and in some dioceses more. And we’re talking about a median age of 22.

Q: HOW ARE THE ATTRIBUTES OF HISPANIC CATHOLICS CHANGING THE CHURCH AND CHALLENGING THE CHURCH?

A: SISTER GLORIA: I don’t think we’re either liberal or conservative. We’re a people who have tradition. We love and cherish our tradition, for example Roman Catholicism, in the ways we express our devotions: (for example) the feast of Guadalupe, the feasts of Mary. I think we have something to add that’s different – I’m not saying better or worse. For us the faith is at the Eucharist and the large altar, but then we have the little altar in our houses. We have the pictures or our loved ones that died.

Q: HOW IS THIS CHANGING THE (INSTITUTIONAL) LIFE OF THE CHURCH?

A: SISTER GLORIA: It is not that easy to get vocations

HISPANIC/LATINO CATHOLICS BY THE NUMBERS Hispanics/Latinos are present in almost all U.S. diocese. More than 20 percent of all Catholic parishes in the U.S. have Hispanic/Latino ministry. More than 80 percent of all (arch)dioceses have diocesan staff coordinating Hispanic/Latino ministry. Hispanics/Latinos compose more than 35 percent of all Catholics in the U.S. Hispanics/Latinos have contributed 71 percent of the growth of the Catholic Church in the U.S. since 1960. More than 50 percent of all Catholics in the U.S. under age 25 are of Hispanic/Latino descent. Over the past few years, 15 percent of all new priests ordained in the U.S. have been of Hispanic/Latino descent. Hispanics/Latinos constitute 25 percent of all laypeople engaged in diocesan ministry programs. More than two-thirds (68 percent) of all Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S. consider themselves to be Roman Catholics. USCCB, U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

to the priesthood in the U.S. among Hispanics. But among Hispanics there is great respect for the priesthood and religious life. And certainly we are looking at the response of our laypeople to be better formed. We’ve a got a lot of challenges. FATHER MCCHESNEY: It’s also changing the face of schools and seminaries because we have to prepare our students for the changing face of the church, and that means attention to the devotional life of the Mexicans and the Latins in general. There is much more of a devotional faith than many of our students are familiar with. It takes me back to the church of the ‘50s. We have to prepare our students to be part of a more devotional church.

Q: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY DEVOTIONAL?

A: SISTER GLORIA: In the liturgical year we have special feasts that are important to our community. But then there are saints that people have brought from their villages … They have, for example, holy people from their village that they have statues of in their home. Certainly the Sacred Heart will be very strong in many Latino homes, that whole thing of the loving heart of Jesus. These are people who are immigrants, who have suffered immigration and are coming to this country. … For example, how do we look at those in the liturgy and the Scriptures? FATHER MCCHESNEY: We practice posadas during Advent time. The Latino Catholics will process around the neighborhood knocking on the door. It goes back to no room at the inn. Beautiful, devotional. I’m an Irish-American Caucasian but I’ve had to learn that because it’s certainly the religious practice. SISTER GLORIA: A lot of our devotions are done through drama, so you re-enact Joseph and Mary knocking on the door as they are about PRESENTATION SISTER to have a child. Another big GLORIA INÉS LOYA one in the Mexican community is the feast of Christ the King. If you saw the film “For Greater Glory,” it tells about the story of the persecution of the (Mexican) church in the 1930s. If you know the story, they had to hide the priests. At that time the code word was “Viva Cristo Rey.” FATHER MCCHESNEY: I have been taken back to my youthful practice of devotion, if you will, because it’s a way of prayer I needed to cultivate to serve the Latin community because it’s so central to them.

I think we have something to add that’s different – I’m not saying better or worse.

Q: HOW IS THE U.S. CHURCH BEING INFLUENCED BY HISPANIC BISHOPS?

A: SISTER GLORIA: I see more Hispanic bishops now. I know they are concerned and they feel the number

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Worshippers are pictured at Sunday Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Menlo Park. Hispanics make up more than 50 percent of the Roman Catholic faithful in California. of Hispanics is growing. The bishops are the only organization supporting comprehensive immigration reform. I don’t see any other organization in the country. FATHER MCCHESNEY: I think the Hispanic bishops have had a huge impact on immigration reform. SISTER GLORIA: I think that’s why our people are part of the church – because they trust the church. They’re coming from other countries. They see that the heart of the matter is the sacraments and the faith.

Q: WHAT HAS BEEN THE IMPACT OF PENTECOSTAL PROTESTANTISM ON HISPANIC CATHOLICS?

A: SISTER GLORIA: I belong to the Academy of Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. We’re trying to have a dialogue (with Protestant groups) so we can learn more and they learn about us. A lot of Hispanic Catholics are charismatics. That’s part of why we have the institute, so their prayer life can be grounded in tradition. FATHER MCCHESNEY: We are going to have maybe 45 people from across the country, primarily from the

‘I want to be (in the US) to give birth’:

Pregnant woman’s lone northward journey from spiraling Honduras DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Noemi Espinal Vaca, 29, from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, sits in front of the closed St. Juan Diego migrant shelter in Tultitlan, Mexico, July 10. Espinal is making the difficult journey to the U.S. by freight train despite being eight months pregnant.

TULTITLAN, Mexico – Noemi Espinal Vaca, 29, left Honduras in the middle of May, carrying her meager possessions on a northbound path through Mexico. She left with her common-law partner for a trip of stealing rides on trains. And she left six months pregnant – such was her partner’s desperation to depart Honduras, which Espinal says has descended into poverty and violence. “I’m not going to return,” Espinal said, while sitting outside the St. Juan Diego migrant shelter, a facility she had to abandon after it was closed July 9 due to repeated run-ins between migrants and neighbors. “What I want is to be (in the United States) to give birth.” Espinal is among the hundreds of Hondurans heading north every day, having given up on a Central American country plagued by political conflicts – including a 2009 coup – and drug-cartel crimes. Honduras is the poorest nation in Latin America

and among the most violent countries in the hemisphere with a murder rate of more than 80 per 100,000 residents, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. That rate is roughly four times higher than the rate in Mexico. The Honduran consul in Mexico told the newspaper La Jornada that 700 Central American migrants cross the border every day, despite the risks of transiting Mexico. Espinal said she encountered no difficulties in Mexico, where crimes committed against migrants spiraled in recent years. Migrant shelter operators say the crimes seem to have diminished in scale and scope recently. Espinal – whose three children remained with her father back in Honduras – spoke of feeling safer in Mexico. “If you have a coin in Honduras, you’d better keep it safe,” she said. Outgoing and engaging, sunburned, dressed in a blue polo shirt and jeans and lugging a waterproof shoulder bag, Espinal offered details on the desperation driving

so many to leave Honduras. Much of the desperation stems from violence and underemployment. She previously sold used clothing in a market in the capital, Tegucigalpa, but the earnings were barely enough to make ends meet. Then gangs began extorting merchants. “They charge you a ‘war tax,’” Espinal said. “I didn’t sell much, and then there was this tax.” The idea to leave Honduras was her partner’s, and she confesses feeling guilty for her initial opposition, slowing their departure. They left with a promise of him receiving unspecified support en route, but it never materialized. Her pregnancy slowed things, too. Espinal spent four weeks in Tultitlan, including three days at the shelter, until it was closed. She was uncertain what lies ahead – her partner only had found piecemeal work as a painter and drywaller to finance their trip to the U.S. border. “I ask God to accompany me,” Espinal said. A short while later, she headed off toward the train tracks.

Bay Area. One of our goals is to ground them in the Roman Catholic Church. We’re aware of the trend. That’s one reason we’re here. THE 2013 INSTITUTO HISPANO will be held July 14-26 at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. Visit www.scu.edu/jst and follow the link for programs, or contact Jesuit Father Robert McChesney at RMcChesney@jstb.edu or (510) 549-5046. INTERVIEW BY RICK DELVECCHIO,CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

WHY MANY HONDURANS FLEE HONDURAS IS principally a source and transit country for men, women and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor. ABOUT 80 PERCENT of the population is poor or very poor. 30 PERCENT TO 40 PERCENT of all births are to 12to 14-year-old mothers. HONDURAS IS becoming a narco state, where every day two planes loaded with cocaine land and where millions of weapons circulate freely. AN AVERAGE of three young people a day are found dead in Honduras – victims of multiple forms of violence. A 2011 U.S. State Department report cited corruption within the national police force, institutional weakness of the judiciary, and discrimination and violence against vulnerable populations as among the nation’s worst human-rights abuses. PRISON CONDITIONS were harsh and at times lifethreatening, the 2011 report said. Human-rights groups reported that prisoners suffered from severe overcrowding, malnutrition and lack of adequate sanitation. Forty-nine inmates died due to violence during the year. FIDES NEWS AGENCY, CASA ALIANZA, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT

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LETTERS Comment dismissive of young adults I was delighted to discover that the Office of Marriage and Family Life has been restored (July 13). However, as I read on, something struck me. In the article, a woman says, “... this generation of marriage-age adults wants to have the latest high-tech devices in order to make lives easy, by having what they want now.” I must say that I think that statement is dismissive of many adults in their 20s. I have a daughter, 28, and a son, 26. I know them and I know their friends. As to their generation’s supposed “rejection of the church,” I would hope we could be honest enough to admit that when they were coming of age, less-than- celebratory revelations about behaviors of a minority of the clergy were frontpage news by which they couldn’t help being affected. I also reject the claim of their need for instant gratification. My daughter made the decision to teach preschool for now, although she plans to go to law school. My son runs his own construction business, and, in his spare time, is available to lowincome senior citizens to make their bathrooms and kitchens safe for them, and he doesn’t charge. Neither of them has the latest high-tech devices, nor do they want their lives to be “easy.” They are both in long-term, loving, healthy relationships. Would I like to see them choose a sacramental marriage, such as their father and I have had for more than 30 years? Absolutely. But I think I’ll leave that up to the Holy Spirit. Last time I looked, that’s who’s in charge. Sue Malone Hayes San Francisco

LCWR leaders Franciscan Sister Pat Farrell, right, and St. Joseph Sister Janet Mock, leave a Vatican meeting June 12.

Vatican needs more women in leadership Re: “Chastised nuns’ group welcomes chance for dialogue” (June 22): The church has done Cardinal William J. Levada a disservice by not providing him with the tools he needed to deal with the accusations against the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Had the cardinal been able to assign a female member of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith to investigate LCWR, in this case a woman religious preferably the head of a major order, I believe the reaction

to the Vatican’s actions would have been muted and the members of the LCWR would not feel they were being bullied. The fact that there are currently no women members of the congregation merely illustrates that the church has been negligent by not developing women into positions of responsibility in the hierarchy of the church. I am not advocating ordination of women as priests. That is a completely separate issue. I support the church’s position on that matter. However, developing women so they can assume positions of responsibility in the Vatican is important and the church has clearly failed to do this. A slight modification of the organizational structure of the Vatican hierarchy could quickly begin this process. In addition to CDF, congregations that would immediately benefit from the presence of women as full members would be those dealing with education, religious orders and the sex abuse scandal that has been so damaging to our church. James M. Dempsey Walnut Creek

Perils of contraception July is the month of natural family planning. NFP is the scientifically based, church-approved, 99 percent effective and “organic” method for married couples to plan their families. It is not to be confused with rhythm. NFP couples have only a 1 percent divorce rate while contracepting couples have a 50 percent divorce rate. Contraception is bad in so many ways. Contraceptive drugs poison the person and pollute the planet. These hormonal steroids can cause cancer, blood clots, strokes, infertility and even death. Hormones from the urine of contracepting women have polluted the water around water treatment plants, causing mutations in fish there. Contraception treats human fertility as a disease instead of the great gift that it is. The bogus “safe sex” mentality has exploded the occurrence of fornication, promiscuity, STDs, pornography, adultery, failed marriages, divorces and abortions, as statistics worldwide have shown. Children have even been regarded as “failed contraception” instead of the unique and valuable individuals that they are. The church forbids contraception. Sadly, many Catholics do not even know that this serious sin requires repentance and confession before receiving holy Communion. In contrast, those couples using NFP know true intimacy in their marriage. Their bodies are truly temples of the Holy Spirit and their marital acts truly reflect God’s gift of love and life. And God blesses them. Every Catholic has the right to know about NFP, but few do. Sadly, when it was too late, many Catholics have said “Why were we never told?” This situation desperately needs to be remedied. Jessica Munn Foster City

The baptized are not mere bystanders Miles Kelley, in his letter (“No contradicting magisterium,” July 13), seems to imply that obedience to the magisterium includes checking one’s intelligence and educa-

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U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, holds the hand of blind activist Chen Guangcheng as they talk in Beijing May 2.

2 heroes decry forced abortions The steadfast opposition of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to China’s forced abortion policy is a reminder of what happened to Steve Mosher, a Stanford graduate school student, more than 30 years ago. It was 1980 and Mosher, who speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese, was the first U.S. social scientist allowed to study the impact of political change in a Chinese village after the Cultural Revolution. While there he learned that, in line with the government’s one child per family policy, forced abortions were being performed in the village. Mosher witnessed some of the procedures and was deeply moved by what he saw. The mothers “were crying, begging for mercy and praying for their dying children. ... It was as if the pit of hell opened up before me. ... I instantly realized that an abortion was the taking of a human life and I became pro-life.” When Mosher returned to the U.S. and Stanford, he made no secret of China’s barbaric forced abortion policy, much to the Chinese government’s chagrin and anger. As it

tion at the door of the church. He said: “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.” That is a serious misunderstanding of theological research and speculation. There are two types of obedience: obedience in relation to power and obedience in relation to love. When understood in the first way, obedience means submission or surrender, the sacrifice of one’s own intellect and will. According to the second understanding, obedience does not mean submission, but response. Disobedience is the putting forward of opinions different from those commanded by authority. To

turned out, the policy was top secret and Mosher was the first foreigner to break the silence. He authored a scholarly work that documented coercive abortion in China. The Chinese government worked tirelessly to discredit Mosher and to have Stanford bar him from further graduate studies. Eventually, he was expelled from Stanford’s doctoral program for “illegal and unethical conduct,” charges that Mosher disputed. The expulsion from Stanford was a painful setback for Mosher but after a time he was back on his feet. A gifted speaker and writer, he became a leader in the pro-life movement and today is the president of the Population Research Institute in Front Royal, Va. A convert to Catholicism, he and his wife have nine children. If it hasn’t happened already, a conversation between Chen and Mosher should be arranged. What an interesting prospect: two heroes for human life comparing notes on the inhumanity of China’s forced abortion policy. James Quinn Burlingame

do so might well be a duty, not a sin. I once replied to someone carrying on about the church not being a democracy, that the church is not a tyranny either. Rather, it’s a fellowship of the Holy Spirit, of which we are constituent parts through baptism, not mere bystanders to the body. Jim McCrea Piedmont

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Approaches to religious liberty have developed over centuries LIZ O’CONNOR

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ongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ” are the first words of the Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791. Before then, established churches – the Church of England in most colonies – were the rule throughout colonial America. While other beliefs and practices were tolerated in some of the colonies by the time of the founding of the United States, the established churches were supported by taxes, and public officials usually had to swear adherence to the established church. But the First Great Awakening, a religious revival that swept Britain and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, had greatly increased the numbers of dissenters, especially Baptists and Presbyterians, and it was they who pushed for religious freedom to be enshrined in the Constitution and for disestablishment state by state. “Catholics were a tiny percentage of the population” in the 18th century, explained Michael McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford University. Even Maryland, which had been founded as a refuge for Catholics, had about only 5 percent Catholic residents, and Catholics there faced legal restrictions until disestablishment.

MANY FOUNDERS KNEW RELIGIOUS CONFLICT

Religious liberty was desirable in the minds of the founders of the republic from the beginning, according to Douglas Laycock, law professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He said that political conflicts over religion were a part of living memory for many of them, and wars fought over beliefs were chronologically closer than the Civil War is to contemporary Americans. They wanted to be sure, he said, “that none of that should ever be repeated here.” He agreed with McConnell that Baptists and Presbyterians were “the political muscle” behind the First Amendment: “Catholics mostly weren’t here yet.” The first major conflict over the First Amendment came, McConnell said, with the influx of Irish and German Catholic immigrants beginning in the 1830s. It was then that there were riots, McConnell said, over public schools’ use of the King James Version of the Bible. “Catholic kids were being beaten or expelled” from schools for refusing to read from the King James Version, said Laycock.

BATTLES OVER SCHOOL FUNDING

A later conflict in the 1870s centered on government funding of schools Catholics were establishing as alternatives to the public schools that were dominated by Protestant teaching and that used the King James Version. While the Blaine Amendment that would have forbidden any state or federal aid to specifically religious schools was narrowly defeated in Congress in 1875, its effect was felt, McConnell said, as 37 states passed “little Blaine” amendments to their state constitutions with the same purpose. Catholics went ahead and established their school system, and eventually argued successfully that limited government aid would be provided students in parochial schools to fund transportation and textbooks for secular subjects. Other groups such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Jehovah’s Witnesses and other small or unpopular “sects” or “cults” faced more or less blatant persecution in the 19th and 20th centuries. Laycock listed three clusters of issues regarding religious freedom in the United States. “All are very much alive right now,” he said, and Supreme Court decisions have varied widely concerning them. The result is a “very, very mixed body of law.” The first cluster centers on religious practice and covers a variety of issues, some of which, he said, legislators and prosecutors “have more

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People listen as Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput delivers the homily 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. sense than to meddle with.” These would include such matters as the Catholic Church having a male celibate clergy and allowing children to receive Communion from the chalice. Other issues include use of hallucinogens in worship by some Native American religious groups and workers right not to work on their Sabbaths. All these, he said, involve free exercise clause issues. The second cluster involves government funding, such as the provision of funds for social and human services or school vouchers. Generally such aid has been found constitutional, but is very politically controversial and laws providing it are hard to enact, Laycock said.

CONSTITUTIONALITY OF RELIGIOUS SPEECH

Finally he said there is a cluster of issues around religious speech, both private and government-sponsored. This would include school prayer, Christmas displays, and displays of the Ten Commandments and various monuments on public grounds. “A lot of the conservative justices” on the Supreme Court tend not to think that all these things violate the Establishment Clause as long as there’s no coercion involved; others see all of them as proselytizing, he said. McConnell said fewer arguments now break along Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or Muslim lines. Rather, he said, the most conservative members of all those groups tend to come out on one side of an issue – so that some evangelical Protestant voters are supporting conservative Catholic candidates. In other instances, more moderate or slightly liberal members of religious groups are willing to work together. At the outlying extreme, he said, are liberal members of religious groups and religiously indifferent or anti-religious secularists who strongly oppose any cooperation between government and religious groups as well as any kind of religious observance or display connected with civil events. O’CONNOR is a freelance writer in the Philadelphia area and former editor of The Long Island Catholic and of CHURCH magazine. EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS IS THE FOURTH AND LAST IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, PRODUCED BY THE U.S. BISHOPS’ MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE.

he “social question” is a famous expression in the tradition of Catholic social teaching. It typically refers to the problem addressed in any given papal encyclical. For instance, back in 1981 Pope John Paul II, in his encyclical “On Human Work,” told the world that human work is “a key, probably the essential key, to the whole social question.” And Pope Leo XIII phrased the social question in his encyclical “Rerum Novarum” in 1891 in terms of the condition of the working classes, on the right FATHER WILLIAM of workers to form associaJ. BYRON, SJ tions, to organize themselves into unions and other protective arrangements against assaults on their human dignity from the new industrialization and the threat of socialism. In 1967, Pope Paul VI said in “Populorum Progressio” that “today, the principal fact that we must all recognize is that the social question has become worldwide.” But what precisely was then, and is now, the question? You can bet that this will always have something to do with human dignity and solidarity with an eye to the promotion and protection of the common good. But maybe we should be looking for a set of social questions, not just one. A conference on Catholic social teaching earlier this summer at the University of Dayton, a Marianist school, triggered some thinking in my mind about the social question. The Dayton meeting brought those responsible for mission and identity in Catholic business schools into closer contact with the tradition of Catholic social teaching. One presenter, a former dean of a Jesuit business school said, “The core problem in the social encyclicals was first defined in ‘Rerum Novarum’ and has been reaffirmed as ‘the social question’ in subsequent encyclicals. It can be briefly stated as ‘the church’s deep and agonizing concern for the very poor, the downtrodden, the powerless and the disenfranchised, all of them living and suffering in a state of misery and wretchedness.’” That sounded to me more like a social assertion than a social question. True, the needs of the poor hold a special place in Catholic social teaching. But aren’t the problems broader and isn’t there a need for Catholic social teaching to address itself to a wider range of problems – family instability and the disintegration of marriage, for example? So I found myself taking a stab at articulating the social question in a framework wide enough to include a much broader range of human problems, and I phrased it for myself this way: “How can the human community of persons and nations live together in peace secured by justice?” That’s a question, not an assertion; and it invites application to all areas of human activity. The meaning of marriage and family; the quality of commitment in human life; the application of intellect to problems of disease and human suffering; the advancement of diplomacy and preservation of peace; the elimination of war and the promotion of justice – all are social questions awaiting a response from our great tradition of Catholic social teaching.

The needs of the poor hold a special place in Catholic social teaching, but isn’t there a need for the teaching to address a wider range of problems?

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pa. wbyron@sju.edu ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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SUNDAY READINGS

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who has come into the world.” JOHN 6:1-15 2 KINGS 4:42-44 A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing to Elisha, the man of God, twenty barley loaves made from the firstfruits, and fresh grain in the ear. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.” But his servant objected, “How can I set this before a hundred people?” Elisha insisted, “Give it to the people to eat.” “For thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and there shall be some left over.’” And when they had eaten, there was some left over, as the Lord had said. PSALM 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18 The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord, and let your faithful ones bless you. Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due season; you open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs.

The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. EPHESIANS 4:1-6 Brothers and sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. JOHN 6:1-15 Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was

coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred days?’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little.’” One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people recline.” Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.” So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.” Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.

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had an experience in feeding the 5,000 people. Not long after I graduated from culinary school, a part of the University of Hawaii, I was hired as sous-chef at a Great Western hotel in Waikiki that has more than 2,000 rooms. In the late ‘70s a convention filled almost every hotel room in Waikiki. One night we were to host one of the dinners, held in two different banquet rooms, each for 5,000. You can imagine how much food needed to be purchased. You can also imagine how much planning and preparation were necessary to make sure we had enough workers to handle the overwhelming responsibility. Everything went well, DEACON but only because it was well FAIVA PO’OI planned in advance. Presently, I work for a dignitary of the church as a house manager. One of my responsibilities is to prepare the meals for him and for his guests

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and friends. Now, I can handle with no problem whatsoever a surprise luncheon that he sometimes holds for two to four people. But to do this for 5,000, I probably would quit and walk out of my job. I would need a couple of big trucks to haul in the food and vegetables from several supermarkets. And that would be only part of the problem. We can just imagine the mood in this Sunday’s Gospel. Jesus and his disciples were in a remote area, hoping to be alone, when Jesus saw a crowd of people approaching. Unlike many celebrities today, Jesus was not offended by this invasion of his privacy. His main concern was for the needs of the people. He asks Philip, and presumably the rest of his disciples, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” The Gospel explains that this question was only a test. Jesus already knew the answer. He just wanted to see how his disciples would react to the problem. Philip’s response was the same as ours. He was overwhelmed by the size of the problem. By his calculation, it was beyond solution. Meanwhile, Andrew discovered some resources. He reported his discovery to Jesus, and then, feeling a little foolish, apologized for it. A boy in the crowd has five barley loaves and a couple of dried fish, “but what good is that for so many?” Andrew, how-

ever, underestimated the potential of the available resources. We do the same thing. We look at people and fail to see their potential. We look at ourselves and what we have to offer, and become discouraged. When this kind of mood overwhelms us, we need to remember and learn from the young boy in our story. He had very little, but what he had, he was willing to give. When God calls us to give our talents and possessions to him, it really isn’t a reasonable request at all, for he is the original giver of all – our health, our family, our jobs, our shelter, the fish in the sea, all our natural resources and so forth. Joyce Kilmer said, “Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.” St. James reminds us that “Every worthwhile gift, every genuine benefit comes down from above.” Once we have that truth clearly in mind, then giving to the cause of Christ ceases to be a sacrifice and becomes a privilege. Our responsibility is to give what we have, however small and unworthy it may seem. For those who will do that, a happy discovery awaits: You can – and you will – make a difference. DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings MONDAY, JULY 30: Optional Memorial St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor of the church. Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. Jer 13:1-11. Dt 32:18-19, 20, 21. Mt 13:31-35. TUESDAY, JULY 21: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, priest. Jer 14:17-22. Ps 79:8, 9, 11 and 13. Mt 13:36-43. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1: Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop and doctor of the church. Jer 15:10, 16-21. Ps 59:2-3, 4, 10-11, 17, 18. Mt 13:44-46. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2: Optional Memorial St. Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop; Optional Memorial St. Peter Julian Eymard, priest. Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. Jer 18:1-6. Ps 146:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab. Mt 13:47-53. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3: Friday of the Seventeenth Week

in Ordinary Time. Jer 26:1-9. Ps 69:5, 8-10, 14. Mt 13:54-58.

12-15, 18-22. Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23. Mt 14:22-36.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4: Memorial of St. John Mary Vianney, priest. Jer 26:11-16, 24. Ps 69:15-16, 30-31, 33-34. Mt 14:1-12.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8: Memorial of St. Dominic, priest. Jer 31:1-7. Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13. Mt 15: 21-28.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 5: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Ex 16:2-4, 12-15. Ps 78:3-4, 23-24, 25, 54. Eph 4:17, 20-24. Jn 6:24-35.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 9: Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin and martyr. Jer 31:31-34. Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. Mt 16:13-23.

MONDAY, AUGUST 6: Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Dn 7:9-10, 13-14. Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9. 2 Pt 1:16-19. Mk 9:2-10. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7: Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Sixtus II, pope and martyr and companions, martyrs. Optional Memorial of St. Cajetan, priest. Jer 30:1-2,

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10: Feast of St. Lawrence, deacon and martyr. 2 Cor 9:6-10. 2 Cor 9:6-10. Jn 12:24-26. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11: Memorial of St. Clare, virgin. Hab 1:12-2:4. Ps 9:8-9, 10-11, 12-13. Mt 17:14-20.

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Confronting our confusion about suicide

very year I write an article on suicide because so many people have to live with the pain of losing a loved one in this way. I rarely go for even a week without receiving a letter, email or phone call from someone who has just lost a family member to suicide. In virtually every case, there is a corresponding sorrow that there really isn’t a lot of material out there, religious or secular, to help console those left bereaved. When someone close to us dies by suicide we live with a pain that includes confusion (Why?), guilt (What FATHER RON might we still have done?), ROLHEISER misunderstanding (This is the ultimate form of despair) and, if we are believers, deep religious anxiety as well (How does God treat such a person? What’s to be his or her eternal destiny?)

SUICIDE IS A DISEASE

What needs to be said about suicide? At the risk of repeating what I have been writing year after year: First, that it’s a disease, something that in most cases takes a person out of life against his or her will, the emotional equivalent of cancer, a stroke or a heart attack. Second, that we, the loved ones who remain, should not spend undue time and energy second guessing as to how we might have failed that person, what we should have noticed, and what we might still have done to prevent the suicide. Suicide is an illness and, as with a purely physical disease, we can love someone and still not be able to save him or her from death. God too loved this person and, like us, could not interfere with his or her freedom. Finally, we shouldn’t worry too much about how God meets our loved one on the other side. God’s love, unlike ours, goes through locked doors, descends into hell, and breathes out peace where we can’t. But I also receive a lot of very critical letters every year suggesting that I am making light of suicide by seeming to lessen its ultimate taboo and thus making it easier for people to do the act: Wasn’t it G.K. Chesterton himself who said that, by killing yourself, you insult every flower on earth? Chesterton is correct, when suicide is indeed a despairing act within which one kills oneself. But in most suicides, I suspect, this is not the case because there is huge distinction between falling victim to suicide and killing oneself.

There is an infinite distance between an act done out of weakness and one done out of strength.

TOO WOUNDED TO COPE

In suicide, a person, through illness of whatever sort, is taken out of life against his or her will. Many of us have known loved ones who died by suicide and we know that in almost every case that person was someone who was the antithesis of the egoist, the narcissist, the over-proud, hardened, unbending person who refuses, through pride, to take his or her place in the humble and broken scheme of things. Usually it’s the opposite. The person who dies by suicide has cancerous problems precisely because he or she is too sensitive, too wounded, to possess the toughness needed to absorb life’s many blows. There is an infinite distance between an act done out of weakness and one done out of strength. Likewise there is an absolute distinction between being too bruised to continue to touch life and being too proud to continue to take one’s place within it. Only the latter makes a moral statement, insults the flowers, and challenges the mercy of God. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas. www.ronrolheiser.com.

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A police officer holding his weapon and wearing a ring with an image of St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron of hopeless causes, patrols a neighborhood with fellow officers in late April in Guadalupe, Mexico.

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A Catholic chapel built by Los Zetas drug cartel founder Heriberto Lazcano is seen in late February in Pachuca, Mexico. The chapel features a plaque announcing that it was “donated by Lazcano,” better known as “the executioner.”

The US drug consumer: In economy of sin, evil begins on the demand side

followed the Mexican presidential elections with some interest. They fall in the same year as ours once every 12 years. In the Mexican campaign, the big issue was drugs. Outgoing President Felipe Calderon has been waging a war against the violent cartels that are responsible for a large percentage of the drugs that enter the United States. One account estimates that 90 percent of the cocaine arriving into the United States comes via Latin America. JOHN GARVEY Calderon’s campaign of arrests and seizures was intended to address violence between the cartels, but the violence has escalated. The cartels have retaliated by assassinating cabinet ministers, slaughtering police, killing journalists and even invading drug rehabilitation clinics to murder patients. The five-year conflict has resulted in some 50,000 deaths. All three of the major party presidential candidates – including the woman running as the candidate of Calderon’s conservative National Action Party – seem to be putting a reduction in violence ahead of the war against the cartels. Mexicans may be concluding that their fight against the drug suppliers will be futile and bloody as long as Americans are willing to shell out $38 billion each year (according to the last United Nations estimate) for cocaine alone. In the economy of sin, evil begins on the demand side.

Mexicans may be concluding that their fight against the drug suppliers will be futile and bloody as long as Americans are willing to shell out $38 billion each year for cocaine alone.

When I was a boy, we lived next door to the Forkers, whose parents were a lot more fun than ours. We learned early on that Mrs. Forker and her housekeeper kept their cigarettes in a drawer in the kitchen. We would sneak in the back door, right off the kitchen, and steal them when the coast was clear. If it looked risky, we would deputize the younger children to do the actual stealing while we staged diversionary actions out front. I was never sure how much our parents knew of this, but everybody else knew that the Garvey children smoked more than was good for them. (And wasn’t it strange? Where ever did they get the cigarettes?) Our early delinquency provides a reminder that where demand exists, even strict security and harsh prohibition (we would have been in for it, had we been caught) can be thwarted. I do not know which policy is the right one for Mexico to follow. The awful rate of killings of the past few years is entirely the moral responsibility of the gangs, but presidents must consider the costs and benefits of any policy that brings with it such heavy loss of life (whoever might be at fault). On the other hand, drug legalization, which some wise heads are now suggesting, would do little to heal the societal maladies that addiction causes. A 2010 federal National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that more than 22 million Americans age 12 and older – or nearly 9 percent of the U.S. population – use illegal drugs. Supply increases to meet demand, and Americans are to drugs what the Garvey children once were to cigarettes. In our backyard economy of nicotine, the younger children served as mules for the psychological reward of approval from the older kids. Americans today are willing to pay huge sums of money to satisfy their drug cravings. Given that the love of money is, as St. Paul wrote, the root of all evil, it is little wonder that the suppliers are not schoolboys. GARVEY is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Vatican II and the Year of Faith: A continuing challenge

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n the feast of the conversion of St. Paul, Jan. 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII had announced the convocation of a general council for the universal church. And the Second Vatican Council was born. John XXIII had been pope for fewer than 100 days. Trembling with emotion, he issued the call for an ecumenical BROTHER JOHN council in the M. SAMAHA, SM Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in the presence of 17 cardinals of the Roman Curia and other church servants. The immediate reaction was silence. Later Pope John mentioned that he expected the cardinals to be elated and overjoyed with enthusiasm. But this was not the case. Quickly and from various parts of the world several cardinals expressed skepticism, saying this was “a rash and impulsive decision,” “a hornet’s nest,” and “premature, senseless, and doomed in advance to failure.” But history quickly exposed their poor judgment, and John XXIII’s dauntless confidence in the working of the Holy Spirit bore rich fruit. Now in 2012 we observe the 50th anniversary of the opening session of Vatican II. And Vatican II still challenges us.

A SIGNIFICANT ANNIVERSARY

Three years of preparation led to the four sessions of Vatican II, which began in 1962 and concluded in 1965. Blessed John XXIII passed to his eternal reward after the first session, and Pope Paul VI presided over the remaining three sessions. Three decades earlier Pope Pius XI had considered a general council, and in the early 1950s the same thought occupied Pope Pius XII. But conditions were not right. The 1959 announcement by now-Blessed John XXIII was welcomed by the majority of leading theologians, who wondered if this new council would be a continuation of Vatican I held almost a century earlier. But the intrepid Dominican Yves Congar expressed the confidence that this would be a new council and not a continuation of Vatican I: “I saw in the council an opportunity for the

Several cardinals expressed skepticism, saying the decision to call a council was “rash, impulsive, premature, senseless and doomed to failure.” A CHURCH EVER IN RENEWAL

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The presidents of the Second Vatican Council are pictured during a council meeting inside St. Peter’s Basilica in this undated file photo. recovery of the true meaning of the episcopacy and of ecclesiology. This would be a pastoral council.” In the nascent church, the Council of Jerusalem (Galatians 2:1-10 and Acts15:1-22), like the Second Vatican Council, dealt with challenging pastoral questions. Paul, Titus, Barnabas and others came to Jerusalem to meet with Peter, James and other leaders of the apostolic church to meld different but complementary charisms and gifts for the good and growth of the church. The Jerusalem Council is an early example of the very real interrelationship between the human and the divine in Christ’s church. A similar interplay was experienced at the Second Vatican Council.

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The past is prologue, so with wisdom we recall the past as well as point to the future. Today it is important to recall the insight of Blessed John Henry Newman at the time of the First Vatican Council (1870), that there is always a lack of historical perspective after an ecumenical council. “It is rare,” Newman wrote, “for a council not to be followed by great confusion. … The century following each council has ever been a time of great trial … and this seems likely to be no exception.”

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This perceived lack of historical perspective after Vatican II caused some observers to suggest erroneously that the council rejected the historical consciousness of the church in order to meet the needs of our contemporary world, overlooking history and tradition. Pope Benedict XVI aptly described this as an “hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture” by which Vatican II is seen as an end of tradition, a new start from scratch, a history and theology based on a false distinction between a “preconciliar church” and a “postconciliar church.” Our faith reminds us that the Holy Spirit guided the church through all the centuries before John XXIII’s inspiration to convoke a council. The Holy Spirit was with the fathers of the council during Vatican II. The Holy Spirit has been with the church during the past 50 years as we gradually incorporated the council’s teachings. And the Holy Spirit will be with the church in all the years to come. St. Paul made this crystal clear in his writings. If we lose sight of this fundamental truth, we risk the confused thinking that the Holy Spirit would abandon Christ’s church. But we know that the Holy Spirit, like Christ himself, is with us always.

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History shows us that the church is not always the same, but is reformed and always reforming. Continuity and reform provide the correct map for the study and implementation of Vatican II. Cardinal Newman shrewdly projected that it takes a century to integrate fully the wisdom of an ecumenical council. At the outset of Vatican II Pope John XXIII noted that “It is now only dawn ….” We are still digesting the work of Vatican II: 16 important decrees approved by more than 2,500 council fathers, who cast over 1.2 million ballots after more than 1,000 speeches and over 6,000 written interventions. As we enter the 50th anniversary celebration of the Second Vatican Council, let us consider this an invitation and opportunity to refresh and renew ourselves by rereading (or reading for the first time) the dynamic teachings of the council. These documents reveal a church ever faithful, a divine gift, a church ever dynamic, and a grace that continues from that very first council at Jerusalem. Pope Benedict XVI reminds us that “The church both before and after the council is the same one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church journeying through time.” He invites us to ponder this truth with special attention in a Year of Faith, beginning Oct.11, 2012, and concluding on Nov. 24, 2013, the feast of Christ the King. The Year of Faith marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican II and the 20th anniversary of the promulgation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Benedict XVI announced this second Year of Faith in his apostolic letter “Porta Fidei” (Door of Faith), dated Oct. 2011. Pope Paul VI proclaimed a Year of Faith in 1967 to mark the 19th centenary of the martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul. How will you observe these anniversaries? MARIANIST BROTHER SAMAHA lives in Cupertino.

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Hope and despair: 3 books put human face on prison inmates BRIAN WELTER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“A DIFFERENT KIND OF CELL: THE STORY OF A MURDERER WHO BECAME A MONK” by W. Paul Jones. Wm. B. Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2011). 134 pp., $14. “LIFE AFTER MURDER: FIVE MEN IN SEARCH OF REDEMPTION” by Nancy Mullane. PublicAffairs Books (New York, 2012). 384 pp., $26.99. “IN THIS TIMELESS TIME: LIVING AND DYING ON DEATH ROW IN AMERICA” by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian. University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2012). 242 pp., with DVD. $35. Each of these books brings out in a unique way the humanity of America’s millions of prisoners serving sentences for murder. The authors, and the character portraits they offer, challenge us to see the hurt and pain within the prisoners themselves. These convicts live with the crimes they have committed. Often, after many years behind bars, they develop the capacity to articulate well the sinful and psychologically dysfunctional reasons for the crimes, and the underlying causes. These causes, including broken families and drug abuse, really point again and again to spiritual problems, such as failing to live lives of meaning and faith. In jail, with little else to do besides reflect on themselves and their unfortunate lot, some prisoners come to find meaning and hope. Then again, many fail to do so.

“A Different Kind of Cell,” in which W. Paul Jones tells the story of Clayton Fountain, who ended up in jail for murdering a superior officer while in the U.S. military, exemplifies this mixture of hope and despair. Once incarcerated, Fountain began a string of violent attacks that led prison officials to declare him one of the most dangerous inmates in the entire prison system. He was removed from almost all human contact, and lived in little more than a cage. After reading a letter from a Christian woman asking him why he couldn’t accept the grace offered by Christ, he did indeed open his heart to the Lord. Yet the author portrays well how this was not an easy conversion. Fountain had years of spiritual struggle ahead of him, not least of all because of the crimes he had committed and his current confinement. Yet he developed a spirituality bursting with questions, ambition and hope. He studied theology by distance, and befriended the Christian individuals with whom he

came into contact. This led to a lively exchange of letters (he wasn’t allowed use of a computer). “A Different Kind of Cell” offers readers an unforgettable journey into the descent and attempted rise of a man who in the end tries very hard to follow Christ. In “Life After Murder,” journalist Nancy Mullane offers an anecdotal side to the restless hopes of men serving time, as they try to figure out how to move beyond their crimes. The killings were often committed after getting hooked on drugs and hanging out with the wrong people. One particularly sad story tells how a large family lost their mother at the age of 39, and then the father a few years later, essentially to the despair over losing his wife. The children, some of whom were now young adults, attempted to move on, but the lure of drugs and gang life proved too much for Eddie, even with the help of aunts and uncles. Mullane gives readers a strong sense of the pain caused by these losses, as

when Eddie’s aunt came to visit him in prison: “The first thing she said was, ‘I’m sorry.’ I asked her what she was sorry for. And she said, ‘When you were living with us for that short time ... I went to check on you and you were curled up, no blankets on the bed, with your back towards the door, crying. I should have went in there and hugged you. Instead I closed the door.’” Some of these stories have happy endings, and some do not. Looking toward the unhappiest of endings, part one of “In This Timeless Time” is a pictorial essay of men on death row, with some brief written summaries telling a part of their story. As with the other two books, nothing about the crimes committed is glossed over or minimized. Yet the book still aims to show the humanity of these inmates. One man, 27, muses on the fact that others in jail think he’s much older than he is: “And it’s hard to believe that one can age so swiftly in that amount of time. But I guess it’s all to do with the mental pressure. There’s a lot of mental pressure, but you don’t let yourself go. You try to suppress it.” In “Life After Murder,” Mullane remarks that many of the convicts she met were “normal” – soft-spoken, even cheerful and friendly. One also gets a sense of this “normality” from “In This Timeless Time,” where murderers smile broadly or show off their tattoos. These books show the sheer tragedy of prison, and how these inmates deserve all the support they can get. WELTER is studying for his doctorate in systematic theology and teaching English in Taiwan.

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Theology schools plan V2 50th anniversary series The theology faculties of the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology, and the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University present “Vatican II: Recalling Our Past, Looking to Our Future,” marking the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council on Oct. 11, 1962. Events planned by the schools for the next three years will provide opportunities to learn more about the council and celebrate its work for the life of the church today. In the academic year 2012-13, the commemoration will begin with a yearlong series of public lectures by invited speakers from across the U.S. Father

Joseph Komonchak from The Catholic University of America, will deliver the keynote, “Interpreting Vatican II,” on Oct. 16 at Holy Spirit Newman Center in Berkeley. The following lectures will be given at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, 1735 LeRoy Ave., Berkeley: Mary Ann Donovan and Arthur Holder of the Graduate Theological Union will speak on “Ecumenism,” Nov. 14. Frederick J. Parrella and Sally VanceTrembath of SCU will explore “The Laity and Lay Ministry,” March 13, 2013. Jesuit Father T. Howland Sanks of the Jesuit School of Theology will discuss “Collegiality and Synodal Governance,” April 17.

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FRIDAY, AUG. 10 STATUE BLESSED: Dedication and blessing of statue of St. Francis of Assisi at 12:15 p.m. Mass. It will be the principal image of the shrine’s patron saint and is a gift from Joanne Fowler in memory of her husband, Joseph Fowler. Shrine and Porziuncola are at Vallejo and Columbus, San Francisco. Visit www.shrinesf.org and www. knightsofstfrancis.com.

THURSDAY, AUG. 2 FRANCIS’ PARDON: Feast of Our Lady of the Angels of the Porziuncola: The Pardon of Assisi/Porziuncola Indulgence can be gained on this feast. Requirements include confession eight days before or eight days after the feast, with Mass and receiving Communion within the same time period and praying for the intentions of the pope on the feast day itself in any Catholic church, but especially the Porziuncola. At the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, reconciliation 10 a.m.noon; 2-4 p.m. Mass at 12:15 p.m. and Porziuncola at 6 p.m. Rosary in Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Shrine and Porziuncola are at Vallejo and Columbus, San Francisco. Visit www. shrinesf.org and www.knightsofstfrancis.com. 4-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: St. Anthony Parish, 1000 Cambridge, Novato, Aug, 2-5. The largest event of its kind in the Bay Area offers great bargains on donated items for family, home, yard and more. Sale is held at church hall and plaza near South Novato Boulevard. Call parish office (415) 883-2177. Open for Thursday preview 5:30-8 p.m. a $10 fee per person for this day only; Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Most remaining items sold at half price on Sunday. Donations for sale also accepted. Call Beth Livoti (415) 892-1043.

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CHAMPS! Women’s Varsity Lacrosse team at Marin Catholic High School took the North Coast Section Division II championship in 2012. Coaches are Ken Milliet, Whitney Hanley and Andy Richardson.

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

PILLARS OF THE FAITH: Jesuit Father Tom Reese speaks on the word, sacraments and charity at University of San Francisco’s Fromm Hall, 10:45 a.m. Father Reese is a former editor of America magazine. Contact Dan Faloon at (415) 422-2195 or faloon@usfca. edu. Fromm Hall is located north of St. Ignatius Church on Parker Avenue.

SATURDAY, AUG. 4 FIRST SATURDAY: Padre Pio Prayer Group monthly gathering at 12:15 p.m. in the shrine church with Mass and other rites. At 5 p.m., the shrine hosts “Francis Gathering: Stories of the Sacred,” during which Catholics and non-Catholics come together in order to see Jesus through the eyes of the patron saint of the city. Shrine and Porziuncola are at Vallejo and Columbus, San Francisco. Visit

TUESDAY, AUG. 7 CATHEDRAL ORGAN CONCERT: “Awake My Soul,” 7 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, featuring Marina Omelchenko, one of Russia’s professional church organists. Proceeds benefit the Mary Mother of God Mission Society founded to help reestablish the Roman Catholic Church

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ST. CLARE: Commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the consecration of St. Clare of Assisi. Mass celebrated in the shrine church at 12:15 p.m. The White Horse Chorale will presents choral and dance recital in honor of St. Clare at 4 p.m. Shrine and Porziuncola are at Vallejo and Columbus, San Francisco. Visit www.shrinesf.org and www. knightsofstfrancis.com.

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YOU VISITED ME: Responsibility, rehabilitation and restoration, a twoday training for men and women 18 years of age and older who are willing to take the Gospel in their heart and visit incarcerated youth 11-18 years old in San Francisco, San Leandro and San Mateo. Second day of training is Aug. 25. Sessions are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. both days and volunteers must attend both days of orientation. Applicants must undergo an interview before attending the training and if selected attend mandatory monthly meetings relevant to the ministry. Bilingual persons in Spanish and English are preferred but it is not required. Training takes place at St. Brendan Parish hall, 29 Rockaway Ave. off Portola, San Francisco. Call Julio Escobar at (415) 244-5594 or visit www.communidadsandimas.org.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22 GOLF: Day on the links benefiting San Francisco’s St. AnthonyImmaculate Conception School at TPC Harding Park. Cost: $195 for

golf and dinner/$150 golf only/$50 dinner only. Mitch Juricich of KNBR’s “Hooked on Golf” is emcee. Registration10:30 a.m., tee-time 12:30 p.m. Raffle and silent auction included in the fun. Contact Marie Driscoll, (415) 642-6130 or marjdris@yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 29 REUNION: St. Brigid High School reunion at Pier 2 at the Ferry Building, San Francisco. Contact Pat Sabatini at (650) 685-5666 or email Pat.Sabatini@sbcglobal.net. This is an all school reunion. St. Brigid’s is closed but not forgotten. All students friends and family invited.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 2-DAY ANTIQUE SALE: Antique and Collectibles Show at St. Peter Church, Sept. 15, 16, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free admission. Visit www.stpeterpacifica.org/antiqueshow. Vendor participation details are available from Vivian Queirolo, (650) 7222308 or vn_queirolo@yahoo.com or Charlene Smith, (415) 602-6410 or cjsmith26@att.net. Indoor and outdoor spaces will be available for rental. Vendor set-up Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Proceeds benefit capital repairs. REUNION: Presentation High School, San Francisco, class of 1957 at Presidio Golf Club. Contact Diane Meiswinkel at (415) 752-9968.

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HONOR RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John Vianney Luncheon for retired priests at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Proceeds benefit Priests Retirement Fund. Opportunities to contribute toward the cost of the event Father Jack as well as to purchase O’Neill tickets to attend the event are available. Contact Office of Development (415) 614-5580 or email development@sfarchdiocese.org. Father Jack O’Neill is retired pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Olema, and among the more than 100 priests who will be honored at the luncheon.

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San Mateo Serra Club elects new leader Leading the San Mateo Serra Club into its new year of supporting and mining vocations is president Jeanette Cook-Barrett. Jeanette and her husband John Barrett are members of St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Burlingame and joined the Serra Club four years ago at the encouragement of longtime Serran Jamie Casey. “Jeanette brings passion, devotion and imagination to the position,” Casey said in a note to memJeanette bership in a recent club newsletter. Cook-Barrett “Great things are expected and will certainly be achieved under her leadership.” “This year, along with our continuingly successful

elementary and high school essay contest our goal will be to concentrate on increasing our prayers for priests and religious, developing additional avenues for fundraising to benefit the effort of increasing vocations and gaining new membership,” Cook-Barrett told Catholic San Francisco. “Our members are more like a small family, and our prayers are heard.” Cook-Barrett said she will follow the professional and successful work of presidents who served before her as leaders of the 18-member club. “But I hope less to make them proud of my earnest efforts, than to continue to give the greatest glory and praise to our God,” she said. For information about joining or helping the San Mateo Serra Club contact Deacon Jim Shea at (650) 218-6351.

FORMER GIANTS PITCHER NAMED HEAD BASEBALL COACH AT MARIN CATHOLIC

in 2003. That same year Foppert was diagnosed with neuritis, an injury that ended his professional career. “I welcome the chance to build on what has been a quality program,” said Foppert. “The goal is to have Marin Catholic be one of the premiere high school baseball programs in Northern California.” Marin Catholic Athletic Director Adam Callan said, “Coach Foppert is a class act on and off the field and he embodies what we look for in a head coach at Marin Catholic. There is no question that Jesse Foppert understands baseball and how to coach it, but what is special about him is that he also understands the mission of the school and how baseball fits into the education of the whole person.”

Jesse Foppert, a former pitcher with the San Francisco Giants, has been named head varsity baseball coach at Marin Catholic High School. Foppert, 31, has been the Marin Catholic pitching coach for the past two years. He succeeds recently retired Tim Grayson, who led the Marin Catholic team to North Coast Section and Marin County Athletic League championships the last two years. Foppert was an infielder at San Rafael High School, and earned a baseball scholarship to the University of San Francisco. In 2001 he was selected in the second round of the Major League Baseball amateur draft and made his debut with the Giants

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.

Marine Lt. Charles Kendrick’s grave marker

CEMETERY CORNER: MARINE LT. CHARLES KENDRICK

At first glance, the inscription on the crypt seems enough to tell the story of heroism, patriotism and sacrifice. But there is far more to the story. Lt. Charles Kendrick, USMC, an ace fighter pilot in World War II was shot down over Guadalcanal in 1942. His remains were quickly buried by his fellow Marines who then destroyed his plane lest it fall into enemy hands. Lt. Kendrick’s father, Maj. Charles Kendrick, a veteran of World War I who was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart, was determined to locate his son and bring him home. At the age of 71, he traveled to the Pacific and spent perilous days searching for the crash site. Through faith and determination, he brought his son back to Holy Cross Cemetery in 1948. Maj. Kendrick, interred with his son at Holy Cross in 1970, was a civic hero as well, having been part of the leadership for the Hetch Hetchy Project as well as the War Memorial Opera House and was a partner and force in the success of Schlage Lock Co. In 1960, USF received a $1 million gift from Maj. Kendrick, an attorney and then chairman of the school’s board of regents, to be used toward construction of a new building for the USF School of Law. It was “the most important single donation” in USF history up to that time, the school said. The new building, later named Kendrick Hall, was blessed by then-Archbishop Joseph McGucken in 1962. CEMETERY CORNER IS AN OCCASIONAL FEATURE MARKING THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA.

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SCRIPTURE SEARCH Gospel for July 29, 2012 John 6:1-15 Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: the multiplication of loaves and fish. The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle. FOLLOWED TWO HUNDRED BARLEY LOAVES PEOPLE AS MUCH FRAGMENTS PROPHET

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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.

POSITION AVAILABLE Parish Administrative Assistant/Receptionist Saint Philip the Apostle Church Part-time, 19 hours per week

Job Description:

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Perform the full-range of secretarial/receptionist responsibilities required for the parish office, including, but not limited to the following: • Develop and maintain office record-keeping system • Scheduling of parish facilities • Oversee office supplies/inventory and equipment • Coordinate volunteers • Produce weekly bulletin, and misc. flyers • Produce worship aides • Maintain parish census • Organize bulk mailings • Qualified candidate answers directly to the pastor and Operations Manager

Required Skills:

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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Must be a self-starter with excellent organization skills Is attentive to details and deadlines Must have strong interpersonal skills and be able to work as a team Must be proficient at the keyboard (at least 45 wpm). Must be proficient with Microsoft Office (including: Excel, Word, Publisher, Power Point, etc). • Must have the skills to learn additional software • Knowledge of internet usage

Experience: • High school diploma (or equivalent) required. Bachelors degree preferred. • Previous office experience required. This position is schedule to begin in-mid August. Salary is dependent on experience.

Process: • Catholic applicants receive priority, but all applicants seriously considered. • Submit introductory letter with resume and references to: Rev. Tony P. LaTorre, Pastor Saint Philip the Apostle Church 725 Diamond Street, San Francisco CA 94114 Or fathertony@saintphilipparish.org

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of June

HOLY CROSS COLMA Paul A. Agius Ofelia C. Aguil Mildred J. Anders James L. Bailey Rose C. Baird Paul E. Balenzuela Theresa M. Balenzuela Oscar Barbosa Lydia Barrera Fidelino Bastida Josephine L. Berni Reginald Devoine Blackburn Angela Marie Boesswetter Dominique Bordachar Kathleen Brannigan Pete Cacicedo Noel Martin Canaya Eunice A. Capurro Nellie O. Chacon Sai Chong Ho Chang Patrick Thomas Clancy Eugene E. Collins Louise Connolly Deborah J. Culligan Norina Dallara Lourdes De Los Reyes Judith R. deVera Mary Joan Devine Jessie Arzadon Domagas John A. Donovan Peter Dumlao John Jennett Dunn Victoria E. Ertassi John Escobosa, Jr. Enriqueta N. Fajunio Robert J. Fenton, Sr. Nes Fernandez James J. Fisicaro Trissa Frankos Sally F. Gale

Edna F. Gallagher Raul Garduno Glen D. Ghiselli Toni “Tiger” Giles Thomas J. Gilmartin Rita C. Glischinski Doma Grandov Alfred J. Grossmann George E. Guglielmoni Ida Mae Guillory Feliza Fernandez Guituan Valerie Heckman Raymond F. Heckman, III Irma Hedlin Haydee Hernandez Rosa A. Hernandez Lucille M. Herrero Ben F. Hogan Andres Honciano David R. Hoppe Andrea Garcia Hyder Hilweh F. Jajeh Anna F. Kennealy Eleanor Leo Enrico Linco Herbert Lindemann, Jr. Rose Y. Lum Sione Tuuta Mahe Dennis V. Maher Amelia R. Maher Frances C. Marden Miriam B. Marino Robert Marquez Susan Marquez Edgar A. Martinez Barbara L. McCarthy Jim “Coach” McDonald Jeanne McGee Sidney “Mac” McQuiller Dolores Michiel Paul R. Milani Patrick Molloy Lanty G. Molloy, Sr. Robert J. Moore

Pedro L. Morales Lesly J. Moresco William A. “Bill” Mullan Frank Edward Nappi Virginia Vilm Neto Rev. Msgr. James O’Malley Lucy Avalos Ordonez Lola J. Osuna Diana L. Padilla Carmen Pascua Loreta Peralta Helen Prasso Grace R. Priest Andrea Marie Quinn Lucien Ramos Charles Rice Anna Suzana Robin Thomas W. Roche June M. Rodondi Clara Rodriguez Vd. de. Medina Bebe Guadalupe Sainz Consuelo Sanchez Rose P. Savoia Ann Sawai Mary H. Schafer Margaretta “Greta” Schillig Sr. Mary Ann Scofield Estrella “Girlie” Sebastian Pete Selecios Caroline Shea Mary Anne Short Lorraine May Silva Stanley Sim Osvaldo Soriano Adeline J. Steinway Barbara Ellen Stewart Ricaredo Talosig Louise Tofani Agatha Torres Naimeh Totah Shirley H. Tust Pamela Urbanick Pearl Valencia Maria Ignacia Vizcaino

Albert E. Ward Jack L. Wright Ella H. Yamas Maria Zavala Engracio Zuniga

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Susan Elvera Arata Laura E. (nee Arbini) Borba Therese E. Ghammachi Alice C. Keena Agnes Kelly Katherine (Kay) May Helen E. McCurdy Elsie Miller (Perry) Barbara Patricia Orsi Tom Parisi Pamela Riordan Alice H. Todaro Kathleen M. Zannini

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Jesus Becerra, Jr. Ernest A. Briand Lawrence “Larry” Cronin Richard Lee Hughes Robert G. Kahle Carolina Lugo Gregorio Molina Dominga Macondray Vance

ST. ANTHONY’S PESCADERO Mary Jane Murphy

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, August 4, 2012 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am. |

Rev. L. Joseph Landi, Celebrant

FREE WALKING TOUR Sponsored by the Colma Historical Society Saturday, August 11, 2012 – 10am-1pm Meet at the main entrance new the office. Buffet will be served after the tour. Please RSVP at (650) 756-2060

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

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