March 6, 2015 - Catholic San Francisco

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MARCH 6, 2015
$1.00 | VOL. 17 NO. 7
Pope names Bishop
McElroy to head
San Diego diocese
VALERIE SCHMALZ
Pope Francis has appointed San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, 61, to head the
Diocese of San Diego, filling a see
left unexpectedly vacant with the
death of its ordinary in September.
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone congratulated
his auxiliary on the appointment
as the sixth bishop of San Diego,
which was announced in Washington by Archbishop Carlo Maria
Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the
Bishop McElroy
United States.
“San Diego’s unique position as a major metropolis separated by an international border
from another major metropolis, Tijuana, presents
distinctive challenges and opportunities,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “Bishop McElroy’s proven
track record of outreach to the poor and marginalized, along with his ability to understand and
articulate the complexities involved, will serve
him well in responding to Catholics of the Diocese
SEE BISHOP MCELROY, PAGE 5
(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Enrolling in the Book of the Elect
A catechumen from the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program at St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo signs the parish’s Book of the
Elect Feb. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral at the annual Rite of Election, held the first Sunday in Lent. Some 400 catechumens from parishes
throughout the archdiocese gathered with their sponsors, other parish supporters and Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone to proclaim
their desire to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. Story and more photos on Page 14.
Rice Bowl beneficiary: Hunger is world’s ‘greatest evil’
CHRISTINA GRAY
Ghana-born orphan Thomas Awaipo wasn’t looking for an education when he got up each morning
and walked five miles to school in the African heat;
he was looking for something to eat.
The Global Solidarity Program Coordinator for
Catholic Relief Services told Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory students at a social justice assembly on March 2 that he and his three brothers were
on their own after losing both parents when he was
about 10 (he said like many in his village, he does
not actually know the date or even the year he was
born).
Hunger and thirst drove them to walk for miles
in search of water which they “competed with the
animals for,” despite the fact it carried waterborne
diseases. Two brothers died, one in his arms.
“If you ask me what the greatest evil in the world
(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Thomas Awaipo, Global Solidarity Program Coordinator for
Catholic Relief Services, shows off the Sacred Heart Cathedral
Preparatory hat and sweatshirt he received as a gift from the
school.
is, it is a child going to bed hungry,” Awaipo said to
the all-school crowed gathered in the school auditorium for “Act to End World Hunger.”
The social justice assembly was planned by the
school’s Community Life Team with students
organizing the format, introduction and comments.
Sometimes students recommend speakers, which in
the past have included Sister Helen Prejean (author
of “Dead Man Walking”) and Father Greg Boyle (author of “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion”).
According to Catholic Relief Services, hunger
causes the death of about 5 million children each
year, more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis
combined.
Students Gino Gresh and Mairead Ahlbach opened
the assembly invoking Pope Francis and St. Vincent
de Paul, one of the school’s spiritual founders.
SEE RICE BOWL, PAGE 14
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 6, 2015
Project seeks life
stories of 50s-era
San Francisco Irish
CHRISTINA GRAY
Irish-American Crossroads, a
cultural nonprofit that aims to
share the Irish
experience in
the Americas,
wants to bring the
contributions of
Irish San Franciscans to life with a
project called the
Irish Oral History
Father Michael
Archive.
Healy
“Part of what
we are driven by
is to record the Irish experience
and cherish our history for future
generations,” Irish Crossroads coproducer Margaret McPeake told
Catholic San Francisco.“The story
of the Irish community in this
region has not been well recorded
or well written about.”
The archive is seeking men and
women from the 1950s generation
of Irish immigrants to San Francisco, said McPeake. Her team of
interviewers is talking to people
born in Ireland in the earliest part
of the 20th century who came to
the Bay Area between 1948 and
1963.
McPeake says interview subjects
who volunteer to become part of
the archive talk about why they
came to San Francisco, what community they lived in, what kind of
work they did and what traditions,
values and practices they maintained.
“We are also committed to
capturing the stories of the
descendants of Irish immigrants
to the San Francisco Bay Area,
including men and women who
are second, third, fourth, and fifth
generations removed from the immigrant experience,” she said.
Samples of the archive’s interviews can be viewed at irishamericancrossroads.org. Included is
Father Michael Healy, pastor of
St. Bartholomew Parish in San
Mateo.
(PHOTOS COURTESY ST. MATTHEW SCHOOL)
Left, Monica Hardeman, founder of the Equine Rescue Center, is pictured with Chippy, a retired racehorse adopted by students at St. Matthew
School. Center, students are pictured with another rescue horse during a fundraiser for the center. Right, members of the school’s Baking Club
raised enough money to purchase and deliver 500 pounds of carrots for the center’s horses.
St. Matthew junior high service
‘saints’ sponsor aged racehorse
CHRISTINA GRAY
Chippy the retired racehorse spent
the last of his 30 years cherished by
students at St. Matthew School in
San Mateo.
The junior high students in the
school’s “Saints at Your Service”
community service program spent
$140 raised in a bake sale last fall to
sponsor his care at the Central California horse sanctuary where he and
other aging or neglected horses have
found a home.
They raised another $300 to buy
the large brown quarter horse with
the white muzzle a raincoat and
blanket with his name on it, and
they each added their own.
Though Chippy reached the end of
his long life in December, “his story
still lives in the hearts of our students,” Mary Doherty, St. Matthew’s
junior high religion teacher told
Catholic San Francisco on Feb. 24.
“I found out during Christmas
break that Chip passed away,” said
seventh-grader Ella Catalano-Dockins, who told her class the sad news.
“He was wearing our raincoat.”
Doherty said she revamped and
renamed the school’s community
service program to help students
“own” their service to the community by identifying their own passions
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and using their individual gifts for
the greater good.
“In the past year I have seen
remarkable results, when students
pursue projects they choose themselves,” she said.
“Saints at Your Service” is made
up of more than a half-dozen
student-chosen service “clubs”
including the Project Gabriel Club,
which helps women facing an unplanned pregnancy, the Baking Club,
which sells baked goods to fund the
school’s other clubs, the Music Club
which performs concerts at senior
centers and the Shelter Pets Friends
Club, which helps bring comfort to
shelter dogs and cats.
Doherty said the popular Equine
Rescue Club was formed after school
parent Michelle Trumpler asked
if the “Saints” could volunteer at
a fundraiser in Woodside for the
Equine Rescue Center and Sanctuary.
Trumpler’s friend, Monica Hardeman, founded the Equine Rescue
Center to save “throwaway horses”
– often former racehorses whose
careers ended due to age or injury
and ceased to be profitable for their
owners – from neglect or black market slaughter.
Horses had been a source of healing for Hardeman after her sister
was murdered in 1995, and she in
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healing for them. On a donated plot
of land in San Benito County near
Hollister, Hardeman relies on donations, grants, volunteers and “sponsors” to help underwrite the cost of
caring for the sanctuary’s 80-plus
horses.
According to Doherty, there were a
lot of St. Matthew students who felt
passionate about horses. They supported the sanctuary’s fundraiser on
Oct. 6 by preparing and serving dinner to the guests and caring for the
rescue horses in the stables at the
event site. Over $20,000 was raised.
Eighth-grader Taylor Brennan
cared for four rescue horses at the
fundraiser, including a mother and
a new foal. The mother had been
up for auction for slaughter when
Hardeman rescued her. Within a
few weeks, the mother horse gave a
surprise birth to a little colt.
“Nobody knew that Monica was
saving two lives,” said Brennan.
“After hearing the stories of the
rescue efforts of the mistreated
horses in class, I talked about the
sanctuary with my family,” said
seventh-grader Josh Dehoff. His father, who owns Dehoff’s Key Market,
immediately donated a large crate of
carrots.
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Couple provides much-needed
‘continuing education’ for marriages
RICK DELVECCHIO
Saying “I do” at the altar was the last word on the
sacrament of marriage for Greg and Julie Alexander
– until painful, humbling experience taught them the
real meaning of sacrificial love in a marital union.
The San Antonio, Texas, couple went on not only
to resurrect their nearly failed marriage but also to
create a resource for other couples to help them avoid
the predictable mistakes that flow from a common
spiritual blind spot – not to realize that a marriage of
integrity models the sacrificial love of Christ on the
cross.
The Alexanders see themselves as instructors in the
prayerful and practical aspects of marriage. Providing
what they call marital “continuing education,” they
help fill what they say is a widespread need for ongoing marital formation. It was on the brink of divorce
16 years ago, investigating a possible annulment,
when they realized that parishes typically do not follow up with couples or offer any organized support
after vows are taken.
Rather than dissolve their marriage, they rose to the
challenge put to them by their archdiocesan tribunal
vicar. “What is God’s plan for marriage?” the priest
asked.
Leaving behind the materialism that had governed
their relationship and almost wrecked it, they turned
to Scripture and to the Catechism of the Catholic
Church. The Alexanders learned that the church
has all the answers, but the problem was “we hadn’t
heard it,” Julie said in an interview with Catholic San
Francisco last week.
Co-founders and co-directors of Alexander House
Apostolate, the parents of seven children are on a
mission to proclaim the answers they found. They
take to the road four to five times a year to meet with
other couples – “to wake them up,” as Greg says – and
to promote ongoing marriage formation in parishes.
(PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Greg and Julie Alexander are pictured in San Francisco Feb.
26 with their 4-year-old son Justin.
Traveling by RV, they are touring the Archdiocese of
San Francisco and the Oakland, Sacramento, Santa
Rosa and San Jose dioceses this month, offering
parish talks and workshops in what they call their
“Covenant of Love Marriage Challenge” program.
The tour includes talks and workshops at St. Raphael Parish, March 19; St. Cecilia, March 23; Good
Shepherd, March 24; St. Anne, March 25; St. Gabriel,
March 26; and St. Hilary, March 27. All events are
from 7-9 p.m.
The couple also will provide “Marriage on Fire” retreats at St. Joan of Arc Parish in San Ramon, March
14 from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., and Our Lady of Angels
Parish in Burlingame, March 21 from 3-9. For more
information, visit marriage-onfire.com.
“We give couples a practical way of learning how to
pray together,” said Julie, holding the couple’s 4-yearold son Justin in her lap. “Second, we help them
understand God has a purpose, a plan.”
The program covers chastity, forgiveness and healing, communication and how partners can serve one
another – “to assist each other in growing in holiness,” as Greg put it.
“One of the problems we find with couples is they’re
unaware God even has a plan for marriage,” Greg
said. “God’s ultimate plan is to experience his love
through each other here on earth.”
The sacrament of matrimony, Greg said, “is the visible sign of an invisible reality.”
Not knowing this truth put the Alexanders’ marriage on shaky ground.
“Ignorance is not bliss, and that ignorance had
caused so much hurt and pain even to the point of
rejecting God’s plan,” Julie said.
Julie said the couple cohabitated before marriage.
That turned out to be a consequential choice “that
blocked us from getting to know the true person,” she
said.
She added, “We didn’t have a relationship with God
and we made each other our gods.”
“God desires to be a part of our marriage, and when
we don’t do it, it’s a living hell,” Julie said.
The high divorce rate and the aversion to marriage
among young people have their roots in such examples, the Alexanders said.
“We have not modeled it well,” Julie said.
Greg drew an analogy to basketball star Lebron
James. “If we gave off the same impression of the
awareness of our marriages, kids would emulate
that,” he said.
He said that marital trouble such as he and his wife
experienced “is God’s simple of way of allowing us to
understand we got off track.”
Grace enters marriage when couples emulate
Christ’s “dying to the self for the sake of the beloved,”
Greg said. This leads to the emotional fulfillment that
couples chase but never seem to grasp when their
relationships are not based on sacrificial love.
“Enjoy your marriage,” Greg said “We can only do
that by living the fullness of what God intended us
to be.”
4 ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
Teacher’s love
for kindergarten
started in
kindergarten
TOM BURKE
Of all of her 16-plus years of schooling, Janel
Worley says “Kindergarten was
my favorite year!” Thus began our
email interview about Janel’s 36
years as educator and kindergarten teacher at St. Matthew School,
San Mateo, time over which she
has taught some 2,500 students.
“Kindergarteners love to learn!”
Janel said about the kids she
spends her days with. “They are
Janel Worley
totally open and they view new
concepts and the world without prejudice. They
forgive from the heart, they fall over each other to
help someone new, and they tell me I am beautiful!”
Janel calls St. Matthew’s “a community that
works together for the formation of its children”
and said the “St. Matthew clergy, administration,
faculty, and staff make me know that I am never
alone in what I seek to do each day.”
Her best compliments? “I am deeply touched
when my former students whose own children are
now in my class say it gives them peace and confidence to know I am teaching their babies,” Janel
said.
The school day has its own rewards she said. “I
get to pray for goldfish, and on my birthday, my
students guess that I am turning 23! Witnessing a
child learning to read is about as good as it gets!”
When I was in kindergarten we got to nap from
all the hard work of finger painting and such but
no snoozin’ for Janel’s students.
“There is way too much to learn, see and do,” she
said. “They read, write, create, pray, solve math
problems, decompose numbers, and share presentations across the curriculum.”
Do we learn everything we need to know in
kindergarten? “Of course we do,” Janel says with
the bulk of it in character development from Bible
stories including the good Samaritan and giving
presentations on lives of saints. Kindergartners
also establish themselves as “active Christians with
Catholic vision” raising money throughout Lent to
help the St. Vincent de Paul Society,” Janel said,
and responsible citizenry starts with recycling,
sharing and taking turns as leaders.
Janel’s advice to those considering the profession? “Make sure it is a calling, a true vocation,
and something about which you are truly passion-
TAKING PART: Students from Mercy High School, Burlingame recently dove into what the school calls its “urban plunge” where they
“enter service in a more reflective and intensive state of mind so better to process the many dimensions of an issue such as immigration
and poverty.” Students helped at St. Peter School in San Francisco and made and delivered sandwiches with a local agency to people of
low income in the city. Pictured from left are plungers Kelcey Dobson, Arlayna Kane, Sara Mustafa, Jada Chappel, Krista Semenero, Grace
Leaf, Kiley O’Brien, Maeve Murphy.
ters was glad to bring their third child, a son, into
the church with baptism at Our Lady of Angels
Church, Burlingame. Capuchin Father Michael
Mahoney, pastor, administered the sacrament. “I
asked the younger daughter to offer a prayer for
her brother,” Father Michael told me. “She asked
God to ‘bless him and keep him and please let me
get along with him because I sure don’t get along
with my sister.’”
ANNIVERSARY: Julia and Jim Smith, married 60 years ago
at Mission Dolores Basilica, celebrated the six decades with family
and friends at Mater Dolorosa Church Feb. 19 where they are
founding members. Pictured are the happy couple and Father Vito
Perrone of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph and Mater Dolorosa
pastor Father Roland de la Rosa.
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BISHOP MCELROY: San Francisco auxiliary named to San Diego diocese
FROM PAGE 1
of San Diego, as he builds upon the many graces
they have received from God and helps Catholics
confront their needs with hope and confidence in
the Lord.”
Bishop McElroy is to be installed April 15 in the
diocese of about 1 million Catholics.
A pastor for 14 years before his appointment as
auxiliary, Bishop McElroy is a scholar of history
and politics and a strong public advocate for Pope
Francis’ goal of eradicating the structural causes
of poverty that the pontiff expressed in the apostolic exhortation “Joy of the Gospel.”
“The cry of the poor captured in ‘The Joy of
the Gospel’ is a challenge to the ‘individualistic,
indifferent and self-centered mentality’ so prevalent in the cultures of the world; it is a call to
confront the evil of economic exclusion and begin
a process of structural reform that will lead to
inclusion rather than marginalization,” Bishop
McElroy wrote in the Oct. 23, 2014, issue of the
Jesuit magazine America.
The San Diego diocese stretches across the
southern border of California with Mexico, with
about 1 million Catholics and a total population
of 3.1 million people in San Diego and Imperial
counties. The diocese includes 98 parishes, 14 missions, 46 Catholic elementary schools and six high
schools.
Bishop McElroy will fill the see that became vacant when San Diego Bishop Cirilo Flores died in
September of cancer, just a year after his installation. His predecessor Bishop Emeritus Robert
Brom retired in 2013 after serving as ordinary
from 1990. San Diego is Archbishop Cordileone’s
hometown, and is also where he was ordained
a priest, and ordained as San Diego auxiliary
bishop, serving there from 2002-2009.
Born Feb. 5, 1954, in San Francisco as one of
four children, Bishop McElroy was ordained as
(PHOTO COURTESY GINA MORABE, HOLY ANGELS PARISH)
Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy blesses the new Holy
Angels statue at Holy Angels Church in Colma during the community’s centennial celebration last October.
auxiliary bishop of San Francisco by then-Archbishop George Niederauer Sept. 7, 2010. His family
resided in Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Daly City
and Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame.
He entered the minor seminary at age 14 and
was ordained to the priesthood April 12, 1980, in
the Archdiocese of San Francisco under Archbishop John R. Quinn, serving as Archbishop
Quinn’s secretary from 1982-85. He was pastor of
St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo 1996-2011 and
also had stints as parochial vicar in the parishes
of St. Cecilia in San Francisco and St. Pius in
Redwood City.
As assistant bishop to Archbishop Salvatore J.
Cordileone and prior to that Archbishop Niederauer, Bishop McElroy has tackled a number
of public policy areas and continued writing on
issues of national and international concern. He
was elected in December 2013 as vice president
of the California Catholic Conference, the public
policy arm of the state’s bishops. He also serves
on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
In San Francisco, he was lead archdiocesan
advocate for the archdiocesan Catholic schools
in the face of the city’s new seismic retrofit
reporting requirement – a role that Archbishop
Cordileone called “invaluable” in remarks after
the appointment was announced March 3. Bishop
McElroy acted as interim director of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, helped guide a report on marriage within
the archdiocese, as well as a report on young
adults which led to the hiring of a director of
young adult ministry under Archbishop Cordileone.
He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a Ph.D.
in political science from Stanford University, as
well as a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard. He earned a licentiate in sacred theology
from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.
He was awarded a master of divinity degree from
St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park in 1979.
He is author of “The Search for an American
Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray,” Paulist Press, 1989; and “Morality
and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics
in International Affairs,” Princeton University
Press, 1992.
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Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose
Serving ‘the young, the poor and the vulnerable’ since 1876
Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious
congregation from the archdiocese in each installment
of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of
Consecrated Life.
MARGARET MCCARTHY
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE
Sister Maria Pia Backes was an unlikely foundress, yet her pioneering spirit as a 24-year-old New
York Dominican in
1876 led her to San
Francisco where
she later established
an international
congregation – the
Dominican Sisters of
WAKE UP THE WORLD ! Mission San Jose.
Named for the
2015 Year of Consecrated Life
Queen of the Holy
Rosary, the sisters’ motherhouse moved to Fremont after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906.
Today 188 sisters remain dedicated to “serving the
young, the poor and the vulnerable” as teachers,
mentors or administrators in 29 Catholic schools in
California and Mexico. The sisters also minister in
parish, campus ministry, hospital and prison settings – and their Vision of Hope program provides
tuition assistance and support for eight inner city
Catholic schools in Los Angeles, Oakland and San
Francisco, including St. James and St. AnthonyImmaculate Conception elementary schools in the
Archdiocese of San Francisco.
MAR. 28
LENTEN DAY OF RENEWAL
Fr. Vince Mesi, OFM
APR. 2-5
Pioneer sisters and novices are pictured in these archival images from the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose.
Sister Pia accepted her mission, responding
to Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany’s urgent
plea for sisters to teach the German-speaking
immigrant children in his San Francisco diocese. Accompanied by two youthful companions,
Sister Amanda Bednartz, 17, and Sister Salesia
Fichtner, 19, these women exceeded all expectations, launching 66 schools and orphanages in
California, Oregon, Texas, Mexico and Germany.
The trio’s wholehearted response seems extraordinary today, yet the impact of their ministries
can be traced to deep faith, missionary zeal and
a fearless reliance on “God Alone.” As “itinerant preachers” of the Word, the sisters honor St.
Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena and follow
Mother Pia’s ministry path, responding to the
needs of the times and reaching out to spread the
light as joyful believers.
Elected in 2005, Congregational Prioress Sister
Gloria Marie Jones, OP, and her four-member
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SISTERS: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose serving since 1876
DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE
FROM PAGE 6
WHEN/WHERE FOUNDED: San Francisco, 1876
schools network, studying innovative blended
learning, technology and urban education models.
Collaboration with lay colleagues, non-profit
organizations and regional agencies has shaped the
Sisters’ “Bold Awakening” and taken the congregation in new directions. They continue to faithfully
express their founding charism and carry their
educational mission into the future as “preachers
of the Word.” Their motherhouse is open for business, welcoming women interested in religious life,
hosting retreats and spiritual programs and teaching youth and adult students to play piano, guitar,
flute and violin in their School of Music.
Information about the congregation’s ministries, mission and motherhouse can be found online at www.
msjdominicans.org.
DATE ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO: Nov.11, 1876
ORIGINAL MINISTRY: Education of San Francisco’s
German-speaking immigrant children
CURRENT MINISTRIES: Catholic and inner-city
elementary and secondary education (Northern and
Southern California); School of Music; pastoral,
parish and social ministries; motherhouse programs
including retreats and spirituality, the arts, daytime
memory care (ASEB – Alzheimer’s Services of the
East Bay)
St. James School principal Sister Mary Suzanna Vasquez, OP,
is pictured with Francisco Vega, an eighth grade student who
graduated in 2013.
NUMBER OF SISTERS: 188; 16 Sisters ministering in
the archdiocese
ST. MATTHEW: Student ‘saints’ adopt aging, neglected racehorse
FROM PAGE 2
The other service clubs chipped in too, and
that’s how they met Chippy.
“Our Baking Club raised enough money to
purchase and deliver 500 pounds of carrots for the
horses,” said Doherty. “We had an extra $140 left
and we asked Monica how we could use that money
to help her horses.” Hardeman said they could
sponsor Chippy.
It was unusual for a racehorse to live to 30,
Doherty and her students learned. Often an expended racehorse is sold for slaughter early in its
life, or neglected. Chippy’s owners had loved him,
but he outlived them and came to live with Hardeman’s herd.
As winter approached, the students learned that
‘In the past year, I have seen remarkable
results when students pursue projects
they choose themselves.’
MARY DOHERTY
the shelters on the new property had not yet been
built. Because Chippy was an old horse he could
use a raincoat.
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By listening to poor, mission of ‘Gaudium et Spes’ lives, cardinal says
DENNIS SADOWSKI
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – By listening to people’s suffering,
joys and daily endeavors, Catholics bring the vision
of the Second Vatican Council to the world, Cardinal
Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, told an
audience at The Catholic University of America.
Such action demonstrates that the church values
the dignity of every person, especially the poor, and
that it welcomes encounters with the world without
fear, as expressed in “Gaudium et Spes,” the Pastoral
Constitution on the Church in the Modern World,
Cardinal Tagle said in delivering the annual Cardinal
Dearden Lecture March 2 in Washington.
Cardinal Tagle’s talk focused on the final document
of Vatican II, released nearly 50 years ago in December 1965. The document, whose Latin title means
“joy and hope,” was intended to lay out the church’s
relationship to a rapidly changing society.
Mixing the message of “Gaudium et Spes” with personal stories of his encounters with people living their
faith and behind-the-scenes occurrences from Pope
Francis’ visit to the Philippines in January, Cardinal
Tagle described a church that could carry out its mission of bringing good news to a troubled world.
When “Gaudium et Spes” was promulgated, Cardinal Tagle said, many Catholics wondered why the
church wanted to engage the world and whether the
church had any business being concerned with political and economic issues and peacemaking.
The council’s intention was to come in contact with
people of all walks of life as a sign of respect for their
dignity, he said.
“Through ‘Gaudium et Spes,’ the council manifests
the church’s amazement at the value and dignity of
every human being. ‘Gaudium et Spes,’ from one perspective could be considered an ode of the church to
the beauty, the value of the human person,” he said.
“The council was very clear that it presents this
teaching for no other reason than to evangelize. There
is mission involved here,” the cardinal continued. “It
is to share the good news. It is not so much to present
a parallel government, a parallel economic system.
(CNS PHOTO/ED PFUELLER, THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA)
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, an alumnus
of The Catholic University of America, smiles while delivering
the university’s annual Cardinal Dearden Lecture March 2. Cardinal Tagle’s talk in Washington focused on the final document
of Vatican II, released nearly 50 years ago in December 1965.
It presents valuable insight coming from revelation
and presents modest contribution to humanity as it
searches for a better life, a better world.”
In demonstrating that love, he explained, the church
is called to engage with people where they are in life:
in families, including those where spouses practice
different religious traditions, and in neighborhoods,
the workplace, politics, and Christian and non-Christian religious communities.
“We can start building a presence and become
agents of reconciliation,” Cardinal Tagle said.
He said that in the years after “Guadium et Spes”
was promulgated, Catholic bishops in Asia began to
meet regularly, leading to the formation of the Federation of Asian Catholic Bishops in the early 1970s.
The bishops recognized their numbers were small
– around 3 percent – and that necessitated respecting
the various cultures that make up the world’s largest
continent.
The federation recognized that even if the church
is a “tiny minority,” it could not abandon its mission
of evangelization and it did so by listening, especially
to the poor and to young people, and by respecting
the long-held values of the ancient Asian cultures,
Cardinal Tagle said.
“It’s evangelization, that big word, happening
through dialogue, but dialogue happens through human interaction, making the other person feel that
he or she matters, that he or she in his or her culture
matters. This is the main method of penetrating
cultures, entering the heart, the mind of the human
person,” he said.
Poor people, including those who are forced to
migrate for economic reasons, refugees fleeing war,
people who are trafficked for sex or labor, and street
children are in particular need of people to listen to
their stories, he said.
“It’s part of the mission of the church in Asia to
show the richness of the Gospel and its universal
values of truth, values open to all human beings.
That this should happen in human interactions for in
Asian, part of the culture is the person,” the cardinal
said.
Cardinal Tagle cited the actions of Pope Francis during his visit to the Philippines that demonstrated how
“Gaudium et Spes” can be lived out through encounters with others when he blessed disabled people, visited street children living in an orphanage and listened
to the stories of the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.
“He was not just a teacher. He was a listener,” Cardinal Tagle said of the pope.
“We are called to be in solidarity with the suffering
and the poor. An evangelizing moment comes when
you encounter people, real people,” he added.
Cardinal Tagle’s visit was a homecoming of sorts.
He studied at The Catholic University of America in
the late 1980s and early 1990s and holds a licentiate
and doctorate in sacred theology from the school. He
also received an honorary doctorate in 2014.
The lecture was sponsored by the school’s School
of Theology and Religious Studies. It is held annually
in honor of Cardinal John F. Dearden, archbishop of
Detroit, for his role in Vatican II.
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Texas bishop frames theological call to be ‘with the immigrant’
PATRICIA ZAPOR
WASHINGTON – The faith and social justice
considerations of immigration
might be viewed theologically
with an eye not just toward how
migrants change “by being with
us,” said Bishop Daniel E. Flores
of Brownsville, Texas, but also
“are we willing to change by being with the immigrant?”
In a lecture Feb. 24 at The
Bishop Daniel E.
Catholic University of America
Flores
in Washington, Bishop Flores
wove together theology, personal
stories from people at various stages of the immigration continuum and philosophical perspectives of several novelists.
Drawing from material by novelist Walker
Percy, Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI and
other writers, Bishop Flores also sprinkled his
remarks with references to the play and movie
“Into the Woods.” He drew a comparison between
the comparatively ordinary lives of Hobbits
and the more exotic existence of other magical
creatures of the “Lord of the Rings” books and
put his thoughts in context of the work of St.
Thomas Aquinas.
Bishop Flores framed a challenge to the church
and to all who believe in Christ’s model of
justice, saying they are called to break free of
“paralysis ... the human affliction of our time,”
that keeps people from acting to protect those
most in need.
Bishop Flores’ talk was the third annual Hispanic Innovators of the Faith Lecture at the university. A native of the Mexican border region of
Texas, he heads a diocese that was in the apex of
the surge last summer of unaccompanied minors
and family immigrants from Central America
that overwhelmed governmental and social service resources.
He illustrated his more theological and philosophical points with stories of individuals he
met in immigrant detention centers in the U.S.,
in a shelter for repatriated youths in Honduras
and in a Guatemalan community of people determined to make a better life for themselves amid
poverty and violence in their country.
Bishop Flores distinguished between the “economically and technologically advanced West,”
or ETA West as he called it, that defines the lives
of most North Americans, and the more struggling version of the West experienced by the
poor of Central America. A feature defining the
ETA West is a sort of inertia brought on by the
many distractions of society.
“As a novelist, Walker Percy (shows) us modern persons in motion, or at least attempting to
move. His characters are individuals, flawed,
self-consumed at times, anxious, yet longing to
get over some kind of internal paralysis. Paralysis is for Walker Percy, the human affliction of
our time,” Bishop Flores said. Some of Percy’s
characters are severely paralyzed, he observed,
while others are “more or less paralyzed, depending on how successful they are in regaining
self-possession of themselves as selves.
He compared such characters to the opening
chapters of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation
“Evangelii Gaudium,” “as a call to the church to
overcome a kind of sweet paralysis not unlike
what Walker Percy elucidates. The Holy Father,
writing 30 years later, describes the way the
general ailment diagnosed by Percy as epidemic
in the modern West shows itself in the particular
context of the church’s members.”
The human mind, particularly the theological mind, is involved in an immigrant journey,
a kind of itinerant trek in search of something
better, Bishop Flores said. “When we are honest
with ourselves, in moments of lucid self-awareness, we know that this is an urgent journey. It
is not a vacation journey, it is more like a hike
wherein we seek signposts in a strange land, in
search for real food. Intelligibility is the food of
the mind, and without it we wither to listless
foraging on ideas that do not nourish, they only
anesthetize.”
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Political figures, Notre Dame leaders remember Father Hesburgh
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Holy Cross
Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre
Dame, who died Feb. 26 at age 97, was
known simply as “Father Ted” by Notre
Dame students and was well known
by U.S. presidents and other political
figures, church leaders and members of
Congress.
The following quotes from several
U.S. leaders about the late priest were
among many collected by Notre Dame
about the late priest, who was president
of Notre Dame for 35 years, from 1952 to
1987, a charter member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and a recipient
of the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the Congressional Gold Medal and more
than 100 honorary degrees.
– Former President George H.W.
Bush: “His reputation as one who stood
for and worked for world peace goes
far beyond any political boundary, far
beyond the boundary of the United
States of America. He was a true man of
peace.”
– Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations: “The key
to the success of the civil rights movement was to keep it from being a radical
leftist movement, and recognize that it
was truly a movement coming out of
the Judeo-Christian, U.S. Constitutional
tradition of justice. Well, nobody could
represent all of those forces like Father
Ted could. And he did it in such a quiet,
unassuming, non-judgmental way that
‘Various American presidents
and congressional leaders
always turned him loose in
areas filled with emotion,
fear, guilt and racism. And
he would always bring
reason to the fore.’
FORMER U.S. SEN. ALAN SIMPSON, R-WYOMING
when he was with you, you didn’t have
to worry about who was against you.”
– Former President Jimmy Carter:
“His dynamic leadership in expanding
the scope of the university’s Center for
Civil (& Human) Rights to worldwide
concern for the basic rights of all people
has given him an international reputation that brings credit to our country, to
his faith, and to the great educational
institution that he leads.”
– Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, RWyoming: “No one ever gave my friend
Father Ted any of the soft issues to deal
with in America. Various American
presidents and congressional leaders
always turned him loose in areas filled
with emotion, fear, guilt and racism.
And he would always bring reason to
the fore.”
– Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins,
current president of Notre Dame: “One
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(CNS PHOTO/MATT CASHORE, COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME)
Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, former
president of the University of Notre Dame,
died Feb. 26 at age 97 in the Holy Cross House
adjacent to the university in South Bend,
Indiana He is pictured in a 2006 photo.
of the great lessons for me in leadership was to talk to Father Ted, and at
the end of our conversation – he spoke
about his life and his work – he stood up,
knelt down and asked for my blessing.
Here I was a very young superior of that
community, and here was this great
man, this great figure, kneeling and
asking for my blessing. It taught me a
great deal about leadership, about being
a priest, and about service. It epitomizes
so much of what Father Ted has taught
me and so many others.”
– Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick,
retired archbishop of Washington: “He
was always extraordinarily kind to
everybody. I was a young priest at the
time (of our first meeting) and he was
as thoughtful and as gracious to me as
he was to the major figures who were
there and sometimes demanding attention. I will never forget that personal
touch and that personal kindness. It was
a mark of his life and it went hand in
hand with an extraordinary ability to
lead and to guide the organizations he
played so often so key and vital a role.”
– Former Notre Dame football coach
Lou Holtz: “If Reader’s Digest asked me
to write about the most amazing person
I’ve ever met in my life, my answer
would be, without a doubt, Father
Hesburgh. I was blessed and fortunate
to be under his tutelage while I coached
at the University of Notre Dame. His
knowledge, wisdom and care of other
people were not only sincere, but very
obvious. You can sometimes feel when
you’re among greatness, and you always
had this feeling when you were with
Father Hesburgh. Yet, at the same time,
he was so humble and always made you
the center of conversation.”
– Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny: “I
was struck on that occasion (a 2012 visit
to Notre Dame) by his fine mind, his integrity and his spirituality. Father Hesburgh served on many U. S. presidential
commissions but was still very proud to
be the recipient of an Irish passport. He
has left an indelible mark on that great
university, having personally driven its
transformation into a great American
institution. He will be mourned by all
who had the privilege of knowing him
and I join with them in extending my
sincere condolences on the passing of a
truly extraordinary person.”
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Homeless man of deep faith given funeral, burial in Vatican City
CAROL GLATZ
VATICAN CITY – A homeless man
who faithfully attended Mass at a
church inside Vatican City for decades
was buried in a Vatican cemetery after it
was discovered he had died and was left
unidentified in a hospital morgue.
Willy Herteleer was well-known by
the Swiss Guards keeping watch at St.
Anne’s Gate, by local business owners
and a number of clergy who brought
him food, took him to lunch or treated
him to his morning cappuccino, according to news reports.
“He attended 7 o’clock Mass every day
for more than 25 years,” Father Bruno
Silvestrini, the pastor of the Vatican’s
Church of St. Anne, told Vatican Radio.
Though Herteleer lived on the streets
with all of his belongings packed in a
folding grocery cart, “he was a rich person of great faith,” the priest said.
“He was very, very open and had
made many friends,” Father Silvestrini
said. “He spoke a lot with young people,
he spoke to them of the Lord, he spoke
about the pope, he would invite them
to the celebration of the Eucharist,”
which Herteleer always said was “his
medicine.”
Msgr. Americo Ciani, a canon at St.
Peter’s Basilica was another friend of
Herteleer, and he told Vatican Radio
that the elderly man – thought to be
about 80 – would lean against a lamppost along the road that led tourists and
city residents to and from St. Peter’s
Square and talk to them about their
faith.
“Very often he would engage with
someone, asking, ‘Do you go to confession every now and then? Look, going
to confession is necessary because if
you don’t, you won’t go to heaven!’” the
monsignor recalled.
He was such a regular at St. Anne’s
that Father Silvestrini paid homage to
(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
A homeless man carries possessions in a trash bag as another, left, stands outside the Vatican
press office near St. Peter’s Square last Nov. 13. Public restrooms in St. Peter’s Square will
be renovated to include showers so the homeless can wash. Dozens of homeless people live
within sight of the Vatican.
Herteleer by including a figurine of a
homeless man among the shepherds in
the church’s annual Nativity scene.
Those who looked after Herteleer became worried when he seemed to have
vanished in mid-December, reported the
Italian daily, Il Messaggero, Feb. 25.
It turned out Herteleer had collapsed
one cold December night and was
brought to a nearby hospital after passersby saw he needed help and called an
ambulance. He died at the hospital Dec.
12, but his body had remained unidentified and unclaimed at the hospital
morgue until friends tracked him down,
the newspaper reported.
Msgr. Ciani led the funeral Mass
together with the canons of St. Peter’s
Basilica in the chapel of the Vatican’s
Teutonic cemetery Jan. 9.
Permission was granted to have Herteleer, who was Flemish and Catholic,
buried in the small Germanic cemetery
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In his homily, Msgr. Ciani said he
thanked God for letting them get to
know Herteleer, “a man who appeared
to be alone, but who never felt alone because God’s grace was present in him.”
The casket was adorned with floral
wreaths and two portraits of Herteleer –
one a watercolor, the other a pastel – that
the Italian monsignor had made of him.
Msgr. Ciani said giving Herteleer his
final resting place in the Vatican cemetery was “in perfect harmony with Pope
Francis’ incisive messages in which he
always talks about the excluded, those
who do not count in our society ... but
instead are held dear by, not just the
pope, but by the Lord Jesus, who always
loved and preferred the poorest.”
Msgr. Giuseppe Antonio Scotti, adjunct secretary of the Pontifical Council
for Social Communications, told
reporters Feb. 26 that the huge amount
of media attention surrounding the
man’s burial at the Vatican was further
proof of the “throwaway culture” and
the inverted values Pope Francis often
speaks about.
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Historian: Pope has enemies in, out of church
GLEN ARGAN
EDMONTON, Alberta – Pope Francis is a radical
reformer who is facing enemies – inside and outside
of the church – opposed to at least some parts of his
agenda, said a prominent church historian.
Massimo Faggioli, an expert on the Second Vatican Council and the author of several books, said
the pope is not a liberal who exalts the individual as
the center of the world and who sees a minimal role
for the church in public life.
Rather, he sees the church as having a role in
society and indeed, “in everything humans go
through,” Faggioli said at the annual Anthony Jordan Lectures Series Feb. 28 at St. Joseph Seminary.
“That is not a liberal thought; it’s a radical Christian
thought.”
Faggioli is a theology professor at the University
of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author
of several books, including “Pope Francis: Tradition
The historian said he has never seen such
opposition to the pope in any recent pontificate: ‘This is something that worries me.’
in Transition,” which will be published by Paulist
Press in May.
Pope Francis, Faggioli said, sees himself as having
two mandates for reform. The first mandate he received
from cardinals at the March 2013 conclave, which made
him its surprise choice for pope. That mandate is to
deal with problems of Vatican finances, corruption,
sexual abuse and curial reform, Faggioli said.
There is consensus on the need to carry out that type
of reform, and the pope faces no significant opposition
to implementing it, he said.
“From the very beginning, however, he made it
clear that he had another mandate that was not coming from the conclave or the institution.” That is his
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experience as archbishop of Buenos Aires.
The popular mandate, Faggioli said, is defined by his
comment, “Who am I to judge?” in reference to a gay
person “who is seeking God, who is of goodwill.”
“This is the real challenge he is offering the church.
It’s where he’s making some enemies.”
It also includes dealing with new issues that have
arisen since the Second Vatican Council, such as the
role of women in the church, the family and marriage,
he said. It further includes his creation of the ninemember Council of Cardinals that meets every two
months to help him govern the church.
The creation of the council, Faggioli said, “means
basically telling the Roman Curia, ‘You are fired.’”
In the past, whenever something new was created
in the church, it was still within the Curia, he said.
Instead, six of the nine members of the pope’s council
are cardinals who head or have recently retired as
head of dioceses.
Some bishops at Vatican II in 1963 wanted to create a
council similar to the one Pope Francis launched, but
received a secret letter from the Vatican secretary of
state telling them they had no right to propose such a
thing, Faggioli said.
“Pope Francis has changed some things. It is a kind
of change that has produced a remarkable and disturbing series of reactions.”
A cardinal saying he would resist the pope if the
pope undermines church unity is “something new;
it’s unprecedented,” he said without naming specific
cardinals.
The historian said he has never seen such opposition
to the pope in any recent pontificate. “This is something that worries me,” he said.
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Carmelite draws from life of Elijah for pope, Curia’s Lenten retreat
LAURA IERACI
Christians are called to ‘come out into the open,’
to free themselves of all ‘ambiguity’ and to have
the courage for an authentically Christian life.
VATICAN CITY – The Lenten journey
of conversion requires Christians to
rediscover the “deepest truth” about
themselves, cast off their masks and
take on the courage to live truth, a
prominent Carmelite priest told the
pope and Vatican officials.
In the first days of Lenten spiritual exercises for the Roman Curia,
the church’s central administration,
Carmelite Father Bruno Secondin
drew from the life of the prophet Elijah
to invite Vatican officials to reflect on
whether their hearts “really belong to
the Lord” or whether they rely on external gestures.
Pope Francis chose the Italian priest,
who has authored dozens of books,
including a series on praying with Scripture, to lead the exercises on the theme
“Servants and Prophets of the Living
God.”
The Feb. 22-27 retreat was held at the
Pauline Fathers’ retreat center in Ariccia, 20 miles southeast of Rome.
The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore
Romano, reported on the first few meditations, offered by Father Secondin.
On the second day, the professor of
spirituality at the Pontifical Gregorian
University urged Curia members to put
themselves “at the school of mercy”
and, like Elijah, to live in the periphery.
Elijah moved toward the centers of
power but mostly toward “the peripheries and the geographical and existential
frontiers,” he said.
Elijah, who came from the periphery
“with a traditional religiosity,” became
angered by Israel’s “religious and
social depravation,” “loss of identity
and moral and religious confusion,” he
said. The situation resulted from new
social and economic systems – and even
new gods – which had “bewildered”
the people; God was for “backwards
people,” he said Feb. 23.
Despite his anger, Elijah heeded
God’s word, left Israel and entered into
solitude. God asked Elijah to detach
himself, to stand aside, to learn to obey
and to leave things up to him, said
Father Secondin. During this time,
Elijah was purified and learned to trust
God, without “anticipating things” or
seeking immediate results, he continued. He also suffered from depression,
a condition “which is not so rare, even
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God eventually called Elijah out of
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the people of Israel. In the same way,
Christians are called to “come out into
the open,” to free themselves of all “ambiguity” and to have the courage for an
authentically Christian life.
Elijah’s confrontation with the king
is a provocation to those in the church
who, with their constant calculations
and putting off, fall “victim to words and
diplomacy,” he said.
Just like in Elijah’s time, many people
today are also “fearful spectators” of
life, and many men and women religious are fascinated by “mega” projects
and favor glory over the poor.
Father Secondin urged reflection
on whether church leaders involve
the faithful in the church’s mission or
whether they keep it to inner circles.
He also noted how “certain sensitive
issues” in the church have caused much
suffering.
“We must not hide our scandals,” he
said, adding it is important that “the
victims of injustice are led to healing
through our humility in recognizing the
errors.”
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900 diverse Catholic elect from 52 parishes gather at cathedral
RICK DELVECCHIO
The Archdiocese of San Francisco
will welcome 1,000 newcomers to the
Catholic faith at the Easter Vigil on
April 4, and 900 of them gathered
with their sponsors and other supporters from 52 parishes and with
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
at St. Mary’s Cathedral to proclaim
their desire to enter into full communion with the church.
The group at the annual Rite of
Election on Feb. 22 included 400 catechumens – Greek for “one in whom
word echoes.” With their parish Rite
of Christian Initiation of Adults sponsors at their sides, the catechumens
signed the Book of the Elect at the
rite. They left the cathedral as those
elected for baptism at the Easter
Vigil, to be initiated as full disciples
of Christ on the night the church
anticipates Christ’s Resurrection.
The catechumens were joined by
500 people who have been baptized in
another faith and are now candidates
for entering into full communion with
the Catholic Church.
The Rite of Election, usually held
on the first Sunday of Lent, marks the
catechumens’ and candidates’ final
preparation for the sacraments of initiation, Sister Jeanine Marino said in
a U.S. bishops’ article on the Catholic
conversion process.
“On the First Sunday of Lent, those
taking classes at parishes gather with
the archbishop, and if he approves
they can be welcomed into the church
at the Easter Vigil,” said Laura
Bertone, archdiocesan director of
worship.
Among those gathered were eight
from the RCIA class at the cathedral,
with cathedral administrator Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.
“There is no typical candidate,”
Bertone said. “They’re every age,
every ethnic background. The youngest you can be is 7. The oldest is in her
70s. They represent the archdiocese
pretty well. It really is remarkable
(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Top left, Archbishop Cordileone and Deacons Pete Pelimiano and Mario Zuniga process at the Rite of Election Feb. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Top
right, sponsor Matt Reina with elect Marina Shimoyama from Notre Dame des Victoires Parish. Bottom left, from St. Mary’s Cathedral, sponsor
Joseph Steward with elect Rosa Jimenez-Cano, and sponsor Maria Carmen Fonseca with elect Brian Charles Gonzales, as Mary Baynes holds the
Book of the Elect. Bottom right, from St. Anselm Parish, director of religious education Nicholas Case with elect Scott Pirtle and sponsor Mac Lingo.
how (they) represent the diversity of
the archdiocese.”
The annual assembly at the cathedral is significant because it is the
one chance the elect have to greet everyone from other parishes, Bertone
said. They may return to the cathedral for the annual Neophyte Mass
the week after Easter.
“If they’re in a little church, when
they come to the cathedral they see
this is a big church,” Bertone said. “It
really opens their eyes.”
In his homily to the gathering of
1,400, Archbishop Cordileone spoke
in English and in Spanish about
discipleship and stewardship and
quoted from Pope Francis’ Lenten
reflection.
The reception of the sacraments
at the Easter Vigil is one step in the
Catholic conversion process, which
continues with formation and education and continues at least until
Pentecost in the period of the post
baptismal catechesis, which is called
“mystagogy.” Newly baptized members reflect on their experiences at the
Easter Vigil, continue to learn about
the Scriptures, the sacraments and
church teachings, and reflect on how
they will serve Christ in the church’s
mission and outreach activities.
RICE BOWL: A child going to bed hungry is ‘the world‘s greatest evil’
FROM PAGE 1
“The scandal that millions of people
suffer from hunger must not paralyze
us, but push each and every one of
us to act to eliminate this injustice,”
said the pope. “Who will excuse us
before God for the loss of such a great
number of people, who could be saved
by the slight assistance we could give
them,” said the saint.
Awaipo’s visit to Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco
was part of a cross-country tour this
Lent to talk to Catholic parishes and
school about CRS’ Operation Rice
Bowl program, a Catholic response to
famine in Africa that started 40 years
ago.
The program of “prayer, fasting
and almsgiving” is designed to spread
awareness of the tragedy of world
hunger and to raise funds for food
programs in developing countries
and in the U.S. Donations, or Lenten
“sacrifices,” are collected by individuals in small cardboard “bowls” and
returned to CRS at Easter.
Operation Rice Bowl helped
Awaipo escape the fate of his brothers. CRS built a school in Wiaga, his
village in northern Ghana, and his
empty belly and the school’s feeding
(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Thomas Awaipo drops to his knees for a blessing from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory students,
faculty and staff moments before his presentation at the “Act to End Hunger” assembly on March 2.
program (funded by Operation Rice
Bowl) lured him to the classroom
each day.
Smiling, he said “he was tricked”
into going to school knowing that he
would get a snack there.
“Who is God for me? I would tell
you it was that little snack,” he said.
“That is the power of a little snack
in the story of a young child. That is
justice.”
Eventually Awaipo learned that
“education is liberation” and earned a
scholarship to college and eventually
a master’s in public administration in
the United States.
Wanting to return what he had
received through “God’s pure grace,”
Awaipo returned to Ghana and took a
job with Catholic Relief Services training community leaders. Though he
said he was “this close” to becoming a
priest, he met a young woman while in
seminary who changed his mind. They
married and have four children.
“Today I stand before you,” he said.
“I’m still alive, very happily and joyfully alive, and my children have never
known hunger.”
“I am so happy I can look into your
eyes today and say thank you,” he
told the students, urging them to use
their blessings to “pay it forward” to
help end world hunger, starting with
Operation Rice Bowl.
“You may call it the Rice Bowl, I call
it the Gospel of love,” he told them.
At the close of the assembly, school
officials gave Awaipo a green Sacred
Heart Cathedral hat and sweatshirt
while students waited to take iPhone
photos with him.
As part of the school’s Lenten
almsgiving, Sacred Heart Cathedral
will collect money to support Operation Rice Bowl and its twin school in
Eritrea, East Africa.
OPINION 15
The church can be a great ally
R
ecent contract negotiations for
San Francisco’s archdiocesan
high schools have ignited a robust
debate about Catholic teaching and its
impact on society. The intense
back and forth
in the media
underscores the
tensions that
exist between
the church
and American
society – a relationship that
has never been
FATHER
entirely easy.
ANTHONY
It also demonGIAMPIETRO, CSB strates rather
dramatically
just how at odds
many Catholics are with the teachings
of their own church. Some people may
not fully understand the church’s positions on issues such as the ordination
of women, abortion, contraception,
homosexuality, gay marriage, immigration reform, income inequality, etc.
But there is no denying that in many
cases both Catholics and non-Catholics alike understand what the church
is saying and they simply reject it.
Often they think the church itself is
the problem.
Freedom of religion is an American
right guaranteed by the Constitution. But some Americans are asking
just how far that right should extend.
When it comes to things like contraception, abortion, and same-sex
marriage, the church, some claim,
wants to impose its values on the rest
of society. And we Americans are
very wary of being coerced. At the
same time, we believe that society can
benefit when adherents of a religion
freely express and live by their beliefs
T
Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers
and deepest convictions. So how do
we square these two American values
which increasingly seem to be at odds?
The recent government mandate to
include contraception in all insurance
plans highlights the challenge we face.
The Catholic Church maintains that
sexual intercourse outside of marriage is immoral and that the use of
contraceptives within marriage is
also immoral. In stark contrast to this
position, a few years ago a committee
commissioned by lawmakers came to
the conclusion that access to contraception is a basic human right and
that women should have free access
to it through their insurance plans. In
other words, a woman’s co-workers
have a duty to defray the cost of
making her less likely to get pregnant whenever she chooses to engage
sexual intercourse. The woman would
be taking the pill not because she is
sick, but because she is healthy. Having freely decided to engage in sexual
intercourse, her fellow citizens are expected to cover the cost of preventing
a normal consequence of a decision
she has freely made.
The Catholic Church teaches contraception is immoral and has come
out strongly against the contraception
mandate because it is wrong to force a
person to participate in, or to encourage, someone else’s sinful act. The
church rejects the view that access to
contraception is a basic human right.
In our society anyone is free to buy
and use contraceptives, as one is free
to do lots of things the church thinks a
person ought not do. A woman choosing contraception would be using
her freedom poorly, according to the
church, and the good use of human
freedom is what brings us closer to
God, closer to being the person God
wants us to be, closer to authentic happiness. Yes, the church thinks all people would be better off if they would
recognize this truth and live according to it. However, it is simply wrong
to think that the church is trying to
impose this view on others. Rather,
what we want is for the government to
let Catholics believe what they believe
and live according to those beliefs. The
acceptance of this principle should not
be controversial. After all, it is basic to
how Americans have always wanted to
“live and let live.”
The contraceptive mandate is just
one among many moral questions we
must wrestle with as a society. Today’s
prevailing attitudes about religious
freedom and human rights are dangerously inadequate for the task. The
Catholic intellectual tradition offers
principles that provide a more adequate framework for understanding
and promoting authentic individual
freedom along with social responsibility. A few examples highlight the need
for this better approach:
A gay florist would prefer not to
provide flowers for the ordination of a
Catholic priest who holds that homosexual activity is immoral. Should he
be compelled to provide the flowers?
A government-commissioned task
force concludes that education in natural family planning must be included
free of charge in all health insurance
plans. Should those who disagree with
this conclusion be forced to subsidize
such education?
A man in his 20s is tired of life. He
is perfectly healthy but simply does
not want to live anymore. He fears
that he will be a burden on others,
and he would like a doctor to help him
die in the most painless and peaceful
manner possible. By what reasoning
might one argue that the state should
not permit a doctor to help this young
man die the way he wants to die?
Our society has been living on the
“fumes” of a coherent understanding of personal autonomy and social
responsibility. The tragic irony is
that the very institution that can be
of supreme help in addressing our
foundational challenges – the Catholic
Church – is considered by many to be
a major obstacle. But just the opposite
is true. The Catholic Church can be a
great ally in articulating principles for
resolving these and other important
matters. A future column will explain
how.
BASILIAN FATHER GIAMPIETRO is the interim
director of development for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
World Christianity by the numbers
he annual “Status of Global Christianity” survey
published by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research is a cornucopia of numbers:
Some are encouraging; others are discouraging;
many of them are important
for grasping the nature of this
particular moment in Christian history.
This year’s survey works
from a baseline of 1900 A.D.,
and makes projections out
to 2050. Within that century
and a half there’s some good
news about the global human
condition that ought to be
kept in mind when rememGEORGE WEIGEL
bering the bad news of the
20th century and the early
21st. For example: In 1900, 27.6 percent of adults in a
world population of 1.6 billion were literate. In 2015,
81 percent of the adults in a global population of 7.3
billion are literate, and the projection is that, by 2050,
88 percent of the adults in a world of 9.5 billion people
will be literate—a remarkable accomplishment.
Of the 7.3 billion human beings on planet Earth
today, 89 percent are religious believers, while 1.8 percent are professed atheists and another 9 percent are
agnostics: which suggests that Chief Poobah of the
New Atheists Richard Dawkins and his friends are
not exactly winning the day, although their “market
share” is up from 1900.
There were some 267 million Catholics in the world
in 1900; today, the world church counts 1.2 billion
members, with a projected growth to 1.6 billion by the
middle of the century. Yet in the last quarter of the
20th century Catholicism was displaced by Islam as
the world’s largest religious community, as the global
Muslim population grew from 571 million in 1970 to
today’s 1.7 billion.
The most extraordinary Christian growth over the
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A man attends weekday Mass at the archdiocesan headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, in this 2010 file photo. The most extraordinary Christian growth over the past century has come
in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million
today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be
as many African Christians as Latin American and European
Christians combined.
past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million
Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2
billion by 2050, when there will be as many African
Christians as Latin America and European Christians combined. Twenty-first century Christianity is
also a far more urban reality than a century ago. In
1900, 29 percent of the world’s Christian population
lived in cities; it’s 65 percent today, although that’s
projected to decline to 59 percent by 2050. But perhaps
the most astonishing numbers in the survey involve
Pentecostal and charismatic Christians. There were
981,000 of these souls in 1900; there are 643,661,000
of them today; and there are projected to be over 1
billion charismatics and Pentecostals in 2050. In raw
numbers, then, charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity is the fastest growing phenomenon in world
religious history.
These three phenomena – African growth,
urbanization and the rise of Pentecostalism – also
help account, I suspect, for the greater fragmentation of the Christian world. What might be called
entrepreneurial Christianity – founding your own
church – is very much a part of all three, and that
helps explain why the number of Christian denominations grew from 1,600 in 1900 to 45,000 today, with
projections of 70,000 in 2050.
For all the admirable growth noted in the survey,
Christianity seems stuck in something of a rut, if
the measure is Christians-as-a-percentage-of-worldpopulation. Christians were 34.5 percent of global
population in 1900, 33.3 percent in 1970, 32.4 percent
in 2000, and 33.4 percent today, with projections to
33.7 percent in 2025 and 36 percent in 2050.
Figuring out how much of this is due to the decline of European Christianity as a percentage of
world Christianity would require number-crunching beyond my capabilities. But it’s worth noting
that, in a century of dramatic, aggregate Christian
growth, European Christianity had the lowest
annualized growth rate (0.16 percent), and the
European share of world Christian population has
shrunk from 66 percent in 1900 to 23 percent today
– thus raising more questions about the warrant
by which European Christian leaders, Catholic and
Protestant, pass judgment on the pastoral practice
of fellow-Christians around the world.
One more disturbing number: According to
the survey’s projections, only 14 percent of nonChristians today know a Christian – a number that
speaks to both the isolation of religious groups
from each other and the failures of evangelization.
So there’s a lot of work to do in fulfilling the Great
Commission, especially with those who have no
contact with the faith.
WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
16 OPINION
Beating swords into plowshares
“I
n the days to come, the mountain
of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills,” writes
the prophet
Isaiah.
“Many
peoples shall
come and say:
Come, let us go
up to the Lord’s
mountain …
that he may
instruct us in
his ways, and
we may walk in
TONY MAGLIANO
his paths. …
“They shall
beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks;
one nation shall not raise the sword
against another, nor shall they train
for war again.”
This prophesy will certainly be fulfilled when Christ comes again and his
kingdom is totally established. There’s
no stopping it. But it could happen
even before then. If only we would go
up to the Lord’s mountain and allow
him to instruct us in his ways, and
wholeheartedly walk in his paths.
But instead it seems like so much of
the world, and so many people in power, are committed to going down into
the dark valley of violence and war,
ignoring the Prince of Peace’s way.
As I write, the U.S. Congress is poised
to grant President Obama’s request to
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Syrian Kurdish refugees stand at the back of a truck as they cross the Turkey-Syria border last
Oct. 18. At the time some Catholics expressed concerns about bloodshed in the Middle East
and cause for action against the Islamic State militant group. Now, Congress is poised to grant
President Obama’s request to use expanded military force – including boots-on-the-ground –
to fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
use expanded military force – including boots-on-the-ground – to fight the
self-proclaimed Islamic State.
In his request known as the “Authorization for Use of Military Force,”
Obama is asking Congress to approve
the deployment of U.S. troops to Iraq
for “enduring offensive ground combat
operations” for at least three years.
Didn’t the nearly nine years of war
in Iraq teach us anything?
Military action against the Islamic
State is playing into their hands. They
want to draw the U.S. into a ground
war, so they can trumpet the mes-
sage that “Christian crusaders” have
launched an invasion upon Islam. Such
a scenario would flood their ranks
with radical Islamists from around the
world.
After the start of the first Gulf War
in 1991, St. John Paul wrote, “No, never
again war, which destroys the lives of
innocent people, teaches how to kill,
throws into upheaval even the lives of
those who do the killing and leaves behind a trail of resentment and hatred,
thus making it all the more difficult to
find a just solution of the very problems
which provoked the war.”
ileone is ordained to teach Catholic
doctrine. They also know “It’s not
what you say, it’s how you say it.”
The apostles did not need a handbook to teach all nations; all they
needed to hear was, “Father, forgive
them.”
They did, and it worked. It’s the
only way.
Mike DeNunzio
San Francisco
is and should be open to all faithful
Catholics regardless of gender. When
I saw altar girls only at my parish
Mass yesterday, I saw children with
a Catholic upbringing. When father
applauded the Sisters of Carondelet, I saw people who had, as Father
said, “given up having many things
for themselves” in order to serve the
people of God. I fail to see the necessity to differentiate when it comes to
gender.
Andrea Iida
San Francisco
It can be strongly argued that the devastation caused by the U.S.-led invasion
and occupation of Iraq largely set the
stage for the birth of the Islamic State
and several other Jihadist groups.
Instead of fueling more war and terrorism, we need to pressure our government to provide far more humanitarian
assistance to our fellow Christians, and
all others, who are suffering from the
barbarism of the Islamic State.
Also, we need to kindly consider
making a generous donation to Catholic
Relief Service’s emergency fund for the
Middle East (http://bit.ly/17YCZ8g).
In his famous 1967 “Beyond Vietnam”
speech, Rev. Martin Luther King said,
“Our greatest defense against communism is to take offensive action in
behalf of justice. We must with positive
action seek to remove those conditions
of poverty, insecurity and injustice
which are the fertile soil in which the
seed of communism grows and develops.”
And the same is true with terrorism today. If we will muster up the
faith and courage to redirect the vast
resources dedicated to war, and instead
put them at the service of removing
“those conditions of poverty, insecurity
and injustice which are fertile soil” in
which the seed of terrorism grows and
develops, we will have then finally beat
our swords into plowshares.
MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated
social justice and peace columnist.
LETTERS
A true shepherd
Hooray for Archbishop Cordileone!
He is a true shepherd. He has insisted
that our Catholic schools transmit
the Catholic faith, the whole faith,
and nothing opposing the faith. And
multitudes of faithful Catholics are
cheering him for this.
Now while it is no surprise that the
depraved secular culture should oppose the archbishop, sadly, it reveals
the deplorable lack of the Catholic
faith being transmitted when students and their families and alumni
join in that opposition.
And the opposition fails to grasp
two things: One is that the church
teaches the truth as revealed by he
who is the truth. This truth cannot be
changed as then it would be a lie.
And the other is that the church
was formed by Jesus to teach, preserve and faithfully transmit this
Truth to successive generations. This
was the reason to found schools.
Also, no one is forced to work for, or
attend, the schools.
Thank you, Archbishop Cordileone,
for all the good you have done and are
doing.
Jessica Munn
Foster City
Virtuous leaders
I have read the archbishop’s recent
statement on the church’s teachings
and can only say that we are blessed
that there still virtuous leaders in
the Catholic Church willing to stand
against the dark and immoral influences in our society and remain faithful to the church’s moral teachings.
Count me in as a supporter and I
will help financially when I can.
Brand Cooper
Medford, Oregon
No handbook for Apostles
Catholics know Archbishop Cord-
Altar service should not
differentiate on gender
Re “Role of boys and men at Mass,”
letters, Feb. 27:
The writer makes various commentary and assumption about attending a church where predominately
females attend the altar. She feels
“uncomfortable” and “can’t imagine that boys really want to follow
in the girls’ footsteps.” Why does
she feel uncomfortable? Doesn’t the
church need altar servers? Would
she rather have father perform all
services himself ? And I would like
to clarify that boys are not following
anyone’s footsteps. In my day, when
I was a child, the church couldn’t
even count on the boys who were
actually scheduled to serve. And it
was mandatory that they serve back
then. I remember sister screaming
her lungs out – frequently – at boys
in class who didn’t show up to serve.
So perhaps this parishioner should
lament the lack of commitment on
the part of boys in this parish. As
far as her comment about women
doing “everything except actually say
Mass” in this parish, well, that would
nearly apply in my parish as well. But
we all know the reasons for that. To
her quoting a writer’s comment that
“women don’t have to act like men in
order to shine in the world,” my response is this: The role of altar server
is not acting like a man. That position
Lifetime spiritual growth
Please consider the following topics
to be addressed in our archdiocese:
For young adults, invite them to be
eucharistic ministers and lectors, as
they need to be involved in our parish
community; involve them in projects
such as working with the poor at St.
Vincent de Paul and other ministries
so they will believe they are doing
worthwhile work for themselves and
the church; encourage them to join
choirs.
Invite girls to be altar servers.
Eliminating girls will discourage
them from possibly becoming sisters.
As you know, the numbers of sisters
are dwindling. We need sisters also,
not just priests.
After parents baptize their children,
form groups for them to discuss issues of parenting and child rearing,
keeping them involved in church
activities.
We need to attract children, young
adults, and young parents with tasks
for spiritual growth in their lives as
Catholics. We need to challenge and
motivate them.
Patricia Hageman
South San Francisco
Church not stagnant
In George Weigel’s recent review
of the “60 Minutes” segment on Pope
Francis (Jan. 28), he states that Catholics have been discussing controversial issues such as “family planning,
the nature of human love, and the
indissolubility of marriage” for years
and have come to the conclusion that
the Catholic church’s view on these
issues has not changed and will not
change.
I politely disagree with the second
part of Weigel’s assessment. I am in
agreement with the idea that topics
such as gay marriage, birth control
and other current topics are not new
topics in the church; and the church
has not tried to ignore these topics
or make blanket statements against
them without allowing for discussion.
However, I disagree with his assertion
that discussion on these topics has
ended and those with “dissenting”
ideas have effectively lost the debate.
The fact that those high in the church
hierarchy continually meet to discuss
how the Catholic faith is being carried out is proof that the church is
not stagnant.
Chelsea Reidy
Oakland
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Confession for what ails us
ecently, I went with my family and our grandson
Jack for his first confession. It was a happy affair.
Children at age 7 or 8 are unique in that they are
awkward and not at all self-conscious about confession. Thirty of them in procession down the aisle look like a
drill team from the Ministry of
Silly Walks.
But I was impressed – edified would be a better word
– at how long each child spent
with the priest. When they
came out, they repaired to a
vacant spot in the church and
gave devoted attention to their
penances. There were hugs
JOHN GARVEY
and some tears (mostly from
parents) when they rejoined
their families.
I don’t know whether this first experience of reconciliation will engender good attendance habits down
the road. I hope so. I have been pleasantly surprised at
the frequency with which some of our children receive
the sacrament.
At The Catholic University of America, where
I work, the supply and the demand are good. The
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception on the edge of our campus has confessions
five hours every day, including Sunday. During Lent,
our priests in campus ministry offer the sacrament in
the residence halls.
For a generation after the Second Vatican Council,
reconciliation was our most neglected sacrament. Part
of the reason is that we lost sight of what it was for.
In an essay he wrote in 1984, Robert Coles observed
an unfortunate tendency to substitute psychoanalysis
for the sacrament. “I am tired of watching ministers
or priests mouth psychiatric pieties,” he said, “when
‘hard praying’ (as I used to hear it put in the rural
South) is what the particular human being may want,
and yes, urgently require.”
There are sick minds in need of healing, but it is a
mistake to treat our sins as symptoms of a disease.
They are usually just sins, not evidence of some “complex” or of some deeper neurosis.
With advances in neurochemistry comes a slightly
more modern version of the psychological dodge. We
will hear that a person who cheats on his wife – not
M
(CNS PHOTO/ALESSANDRO BIANCHI, REUTERS)
In this 2013 file photo, a priest hears a confession of a mother
with her daughter as Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St.
Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
just once or twice, but often – has “a sexual addiction.”
Poor guy, he can’t help it, his neuropeptides are out of
balance.
There are two things wrong with turning our sins
over to the brain doctors. First, it ignores the role of
free will in our lives. It is strangely unpopular to say
nowadays, but sins are things we choose to do. It is I
(not my subconscious or my brain chemistry) who is
at fault. Second, when we make the wrong diagnosis,
we will prescribe the wrong cure. What we really need,
in order to feel (and be) better, is forgiveness.
Pope Francis has preached about mercy and forgiveness from the day he became pope. His message is the
short-form statement of Christian belief: Jesus suffered, died and rose again to redeem us.
We affirm that lesson when we say in the Nicene
Creed that we believe in the forgiveness of sins. We put
that belief into action when we receive the sacrament
of reconciliation. And if we really believe, we confess
frequently – not from some overweening guilt complex, but because we know it is good for us.
God has made his mercy available. Who would not
take advantage?
If, on the other hand, we seek out a priest just for
deeper self-awareness, then what we will get is a session of free amateur doctoring. There is something
to be said for that, but in these days of affordable
care, a good health plan will pay for such things. For
the forgiveness of sins, there is no substitute for the
confessional.
Letting love in during Lent
y love goes out to all of you this holy season
of Lent. Now that I am an old man, I see more
clearly that love is the only thing that really matters in life. Things you have acquired, like wealth or
power or fame, are not really
important. All that matters is
how much of God’s love you’ve
shared with those in need.
Every Lent we celebrate
God’s gifts, especially the
gift of eternal life. We aspire
to attain heaven by striving
for greater perfection. As we
approach the joy of Easter,
we are facing the challenge of
using our gifts well.
FATHER JOHN
In his loving wisdom, God
CATOIR
has given each of us two great
gifts: a life to live and a love to
share. St. Paul wrote: “But the
greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13). To have
a good Lent, we all need to focus on the desires of the
heart. Do you have the right attitude toward others?
Think about your gifts and talents. How are you
using them? Focus on the ways your gifts can bring a
smile to a child’s face or a warm feeling to an elderly
person in need of kindness.
Your talent for helping others should not become
mere good intentions. Take action as best as you can.
What are you good at? We all have talents that aren’t
used as well as they should. If there is something you
enjoy doing, do it soon for someone who needs your
special touch.
There is still time to think of ways to share your talents with the people you love. Bake a cake, sing a song
or just be there for someone who needs a little cheer.
Since God delights in loving us, we need to take
delight in loving others. We do this best by sharing
our gifts with them. Spread your love around. You can
LETTERS
Unwarranted attacks on church, clerics
I am concerned at what I see as an increasing
crescendo of anti-Catholic, or at the very least,
anti-clerical attacks upon the Catholic Church
in San Francisco. I know of no other religious
group that is so thoroughly trashed in the
popular press and media as is our church. For
example, in January my family and I walked
up Market Street, along with some 50,000 other
people, to support the value of human life and
to express our concerns about abortion on demand. Not only were we not joined by any public official, but the official attitude is to ridicule
our efforts and to suggest that we are somehow
out-of-step with “San Francisco values.” The
archbishop is constantly under attack in the
local press for maintaining the teachings of the
Catholic Church on marriage and family. Worse,
the same press sets up a false comparison
between him and Pope Francis, suggesting that
some of the pope’s statements about not judging
others and treating all people with compassion –
which are themselves core Catholic teachings –
have somehow changed Catholic moral teaching
on marriage and sexuality, when the pope has
changed the emphasis, not the teaching itself.
The recent coverage over what is basically
an employment contract issue – the so-called
“morality clauses” – has been used as yet
another opportunity to attack the archbishop
and the church. All the archbishop has done
is to restate the teachings of the church, citing
the specific sections of the Catechism of the
Catholic Church upon which they are based.
Many of those teachings that are reaffirmed
in the document, e.g., the real presence of
Christ in the Eucharist, have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality. The local press
has of course focused on those that do. The
document also expressly states that it deals
with public behavior, not private conduct, but
that important distinction is also conveniently
overlooked. The archdiocese and the union are
trying to resolve disputes over that language.
Frankly, I do not understand why the Board of
Supervisors has taken sides in a private labor
issue that is being negotiated between the
archdiocese and the unions, when neither side
has requested such intervention.
Finally, no other religious group in San
Francisco is constantly being attacked for its
teachings on marriage, family and sexuality.
I regret having to write this letter, but I regret even more that our church, whose adherents founded this city, and who named it after
a Catholic saint, is subject to such unrelenting
attacks.
Roger Ritter
San Francisco
Convince, not demand
PRAY FAST GIVE
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The three traditional pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting and
almsgiving.
break out and bring joy to those who have no claim on
your kindness.
God’s joy is contagious. Since you know that you are
a carrier of divine love, why not figure out ways to help
those near you? Think of ways to bring joy especially
to those who may live in fear.
Fear is the enemy of joy. The reason God said to us
in Isaiah 41:10, “Do not fear: I am with you; do not be
anxious: I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will
help you” is that he wanted us to enjoy our lives. To
begin doing that, we have to rid ourselves of needless
worry. Immediately put on the will to bear discomfort
and smile.
Some are better than others at shedding fear. I know
this because I was born a worrier. I was born in 1931.
My mother carried me in her womb for nine months
during the Great Depression and my father was out of
work. Her fears seeped into my genes.
Today I am free of all that because I made a concerted effort to trust God more and more. I no longer let
anxiety get a foothold in my psyche. If fear does strike,
I immediately think of it as a gift and a test to see how
quickly I can show the Lord that I trust him implicitly.
His loving protection covers us in all circumstances.
In the past few weeks, we have been seeing a
phenomenon that has become all too common
across this country and which shows a major
weakness in the Catholic Church. This is the
movement of bishops and pastors from one
area to another with the belief that their new
territory is “their” parish or diocese. In being
given the position of pastor, they believe that,
as Article 87 of the Catechism of the Catholic
Church states, “… the faithful (shall) receive
with docility the teachings and directives that
their pastors give them in different forms.”
Unfortunately, that is the thinking of a century
ago when less than 10 percent of the people had
a high school education. Even as few as 50 years
ago, just as Vatican II took place, only 40 percent
of Americans had graduated from high school
and less than 8 percent had college degrees. Today, more than 30 percent have college degrees,
and between television and the Internet, most
of the society has a great deal more knowledge
than even the most educated of those past times.
Docility no longer enters the equation. In addition, Vatican II said that the church is the people
of God, and parishes and dioceses are no longer
the sole property of the pastors. Those pastors
are now to serve the people, not command them.
Add to that equation the democratic form of
selecting leaders and we have a society which
is far less likely to accept being told what we
are supposed to do. Today you must convince
people, not demand that they obey.
Denis Nolan
Daly City
18 OPINION
Unsung stories highlight National Catholic Sisters Week
B
elinda Monahan has analyzed more than
100,000 animal bones in Armenia dating back
from the early Bronze Age (1,200 B.C.) to the
medieval period.
For the 44-year-old archaeologist from New Jersey, the
thrill never wears off. “When
you look at a stork’s lower-leg
bone,” she says, “it’s about
as long as my lower-leg bone.
It’s kind of startling! And it’s
always fun to look at bears. I
look at their claws and think,
‘Oh, those are cool!’”
This winter Belinda’s impressive resume – including a
CHRISTINA
doctorate from Northwestern
CAPPECCHI
University and her current
job as a research assistant at
the University of Chicago –
picked up another distinction: fully professed Catholic sister. She made her final vows as a Benedictine
Sister of Chicago, becoming perhaps the only person
on the planet who is both an expert on paleozoology
of the Bronze Age and the Rule of St. Benedict.
Her work in archaeology deepens her faith, Sister
Belinda told me. “Seeing the different patterns and
the different ways people live makes me aware of
God’s movement in human life.”
About 1,000 women are in formation to become
Catholic sisters. I’m fascinated by the colorful experiences they bring to religious life. Sister Dian Hall was
the only woman in a rock band – and the drummer,
no less, at a time when drummers were always men.
On stage, the self-proclaimed introvert came alive.
“We thought we were stars,” she said.
(PHOTO COURTESY CHRISTINA CAPECCHI)
Sister Belinda Monahan is an archeologist and just made her
final vows as a Benedictine Sister of Chicago.
She cherished the camaraderie, whether they
were practicing Beatles songs in a garage or driving
around the outskirts of Atlanta for low-paying gigs.
Now the 61-year-old Georgia native has joined
another band, one that is helping her become her
“best self,” she says: Last August she made temporary vows with the Sisters of St. Joseph. “I believe
in our community. I believe we’re making a difference in the world.”
Sister Dian considers religious life the greatest
adventure of all. “I see lots of exciting years ahead.
I look back and I think everything I’ve done has
taught me and brought me to where I am now. I just
thank God!”
Megan Graves, a 22-year-old postulant with the
Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, echoes that enthusiasm when asked about her future. A native of
Chicago’s South Side, Megan wears stylish glasses,
closely cropped hair and a nose ring. The piercing
is a frequent conversation starter at the Catholic
school near Milwaukee where she teaches religion.
“So many of the girls come up to me and say, ‘You
want to be a nun, but you have a nose ring?’” Megan told me. She welcomes the question, eager to
broaden their notion of who can be Catholic sisters.
(Megan knows several other 20-something postulants who have nose rings. It’s not a major symbol
or statement, she says. “It’s a hipster thing.”)
She’s seizing National Catholic Sisters Week,
March 8 to 14 – an official addition to Women’s History Month – as an opportunity for myth busting
and for celebrating the remarkable influence of
women religious. She’ll take to Facebook and host
in-person gatherings to discuss the “sisterhood” she
sought in a college sorority and found in a convent.
Sister Belinda, who helps the Benedictines with
vocation ministry, will be having similar conversations with prospective postulants. “The first
thing that holds them back isn’t fear but lack of
exposure,” she said. She’s quick to rave about the
women in her community, like 100-year-old Sister
Mercedes, who has been involved in hurricane
relief, RCIA instruction and hospital chaplaincy.
“These stories are not heard. The sisters have done
amazing things, but they don’t publicize them.
They do them so quietly that nobody outside the
monastery knows.”
Here’s a chance to change that.
CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights,
Minnesota, and the editor of SisterStory.org.
Catholic education: The best investment
MSGR. ADOLFO VALDIVIA
W
hen I was asked by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
to help him in his ministry at
the parish of St Anthony Padua, I
somehow had an idea on the pastoral
and financial accomplishments made
by the people of God guided by the
Franciscan friars for over a century.
Franciscan Father Guiglielmo Lauriola is still going strong as the only
Franciscan friar. He was ordained
as a priest when I was 1 year old. I
thank Father William for his ministry
and for strongly supporting Catholic
schools.
I inherited a parish pastorally and
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financially very different than a century ago.
Pastorally speaking, to have ministered at this parish for more then six
months has opened a corner in my
“Mexican heart.” I have truly appreciated the cultural and religious
diversity of those people who make
up this faith community.
I shall continue with the same spirit
until I go back to Mexico this July 1.
Something that has been of a challenge is our Catholic school. I am
the product of Catholic education.
Thanks to the priest from my village, I was able to get a scholarship
to finish fifth and six grades before I
entered the seminary at the age of 13.
Having a Catholic school here at St.
Anthony has been a “worthy challenge and experience.” I totally and
unconditionally support Catholic
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and most of all bringing the children
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FAITH 19
SUNDAY READINGS
Third Sunday of Lent
He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins
of the money changers and overturned their tables …
JOHN 2:13-25
EXODUS 20:1-17
In those days, God delivered all these commandments: “I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. You
shall not have other gods besides me. You shall not
carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything
in the sky above or on the earth below or in the
waters beneath the earth; you shall not bow down
before them or worship them. For I, the Lord, your
God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for
their fathers’ wickedness on the children of those
who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation; but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth
generation on the children of those who love me
and keep my commandments. “You shall not take
the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. For the
Lord will not leave unpunished the one who takes
his name in vain. “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. Six days you may labor and do all your
work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the
Lord, your God. No work may be done then either
by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives
with you. In six days the Lord made the heavens
and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on
the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord has
blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. “Honor
your father and your mother, that you may have a
long life in the land which the Lord, your God, is
giving you. You shall not kill. You shall not commit
adultery. You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s
house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,
nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor
anything else that belongs to him.”
PSALM 19:8, 9, 10, 11
Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.
The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the
soul; the decree of the Lord is trustworthy, giving
wisdom to the simple.
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the
heart; the command of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eye. Lord, you have the words of everlasting
life. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever;
the ordinances of the Lord are true, all of them
just.
They are more precious than gold, than a heap of
purest gold; sweeter also than syrup or honey from
the comb.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:22-25
Brothers and sisters: Jews demand signs and
Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ
crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, Jews
and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the
wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser
than human wisdom; and the weakness of God is
stronger than human strength.
JOHN 2:13-25
Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus
went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area
those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as
the money changers seated there. He made a whip
out of cords and drove them all out of the temple
area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins
of the money changers and overturned their tables,
and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these
out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a
marketplace.” His disciples recalled the words of
Scripture: Zeal for your house will consume me. At
this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign
can you show us for doing this?” Jesus answered
and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three
days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple
has been under construction for 46 years, and you
will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking
about the temple of his body. Therefore, when he
was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered
that he had said this, and they came to believe the
Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken. While he
was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, many
began to believe in his name
when they saw the signs he was doing. But Jesus
would not trust himself to them because he knew
them all, and did not need anyone to testify about
human nature. He himself understood it well.
The cleansing of the temple
S
t. Augustine tells us that there are in the world
two fundamental and opposing ways of living
our lives and ordering our loves, two “cities”:
“Two loves formed two cities: the love of self, reaching even to contempt of God,
an earthly city; and the love
of God, reaching to contempt
of self, a heavenly one.” In
our Gospel for this Third
Sunday of Lent, Jesus reveals
to us the war between the two
cities: “Make not my Father’s
house a house of merchandise.”
The temple was meant to
be a holy place consecrated
to the worship of God, to the
ordering of men’s loves to
God even unto contempt of
themselves, to the building up
of the heavenly city. Instead,
Jesus finds in the temple
FATHER JOSEPH
the operation of the earthly
PREVITALI
city: Man was being served,
not God. The Fathers of the
Church teach us in their commentaries that the
disorder of the temple was principally an interior
SCRIPTURE
REFLECTION
disorder: that the temple needed to be cleansed
above all of the self-serving evil spirit that had made
the house of God into a house of merchandise and
made the worship of the Jews carnal and lifeless.
Jesus tells us in his response to the Jews that the
sacred temple is a figure of his sacred body: “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”
John clarifies for us: “He spoke of the temple of his
body.” By cleansing the temple, Jesus is revealing
that his own body is the new temple, the new “place”
of worship, of ordering men’s loves to God, of building the heavenly city. With the new temple, we are
able truly to worship God in spirit and in truth, unto
eternal life.
The purification of worship begins in our own
individual hearts. My soul is the temple and Jesus
wants to come in with a whip of cords and drive out
all the beasts of vice and all the greed of the moneychangers. He wants to purify and cleanse my soul
so that it can be truly a temple consecrated to the
love of God even to the contempt of self. He wants
to make me a true member of the heavenly city. The
Fathers of the Church take this as a favorite theme
of the spiritual sense of this passage.
They also refer the cleansing of the temple to the
cleansing of Our Lord’s body, the church. Our Lord
purifies his church from all self-seeking shepherds,
from all those who work in the church for their own
good, for their own glory, and not for the glory of
Christ. He cleanses his church by giving it shepherds after his own heart, shepherds who will love
God even to contempt of self, who will proclaim the
truth of the Gospel even when it is not popular, who
will lay down their lives for the flock, even when the
flock would rather be lost.
The full weight of the cleansing of the temple
comes to bear on the life of the church and the individual Christian in the holiest of holies, the sacred
liturgy. Here we have the purification of the individual soul and the reform of the church united. As we
have seen, Our Lord cleanses the temple above all to
establish right worship. He longs to rid his church of
self-seeking and self-worship in individual souls and
in the church, but above all in the sacred liturgy. He
desires with a holy zeal for his Father’s house – zeal
which consumes him! – to purify the church’s worship, to make it God-centered and rightly-ordered.
He wishes above all to make efficacious in his
church and in our hearts the sacrament of divine
love, to make the holy sacrifice of the Mass the apex
of the glory of the heavenly city.
of Lent. JER 7:23-28. PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. JL 2:12-13.
LK 11:14-23.
MONDAY, MARCH 16: Monday of the Fourth Week
of Lent. IS 65:17-21. PS 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and
13b. AM 5:14. JN 4:43-54.
FATHER PREVITALI is parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Pillar
Parish, Half Moon Bay.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS
MONDAY, MARCH 9: Monday of the Third Week of
Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious;
Feast of St. John Ogilvie, priest and martyr. 2 KGS 5:115ab. PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4. SEE PS 130:5, 7. LK 4:24-30.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10: Tuesday of the Third Week of
Lent. DN 3:25, 34-43. PS 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9.
JL 2:12-13. MT 18:21-35.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11: Wednesday of the Third
Week of Lent. DT 4:1, 5-9. PS 147:12-13, 15-16, 1920. SEE JN 6:63c, 68c. MT 5:17-19.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12: Thursday of the Third Week
FRIDAY, MARCH 13: Friday of the Third Week of
Lent. HOS 14:2-10. PS 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14
and 17. MT 4:17. MK 12:28-34.
SATURDAY, MARCH 14: Saturday of the Third Week
of Lent. HOS 6:1-6. PS 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab. PS
95:8. LK 18:9-14.
SUNDAY, MARCH 15: Fourth Sunday of Lent. 2 CHR
36:14-16, 19-23. PS 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6. EPH 2:4-10.
JN 3:16. JN 3:14-21.
TUESDAY, MARCH 17: Tuesday of the Fourth Week
of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop and
confessor. EZ 47:1-9, 12. PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. PS
51:12a, 14a. JN 5:1-16.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18: Wednesday of the
Fourth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril
of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor and doctor. Is 49:815. Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18. Jn 11:25a, 26. Jn
5:17-30.
20 FAITH
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Fear masking itself as piety
t is easy to mistake piety for the genuine response
that God wants of us, that is, to enter into a relationship of intimacy with him and then try to help others have that same experience.
We see this everywhere in
Scripture. For example, in
Luke’s Gospel, after witnessing a miraculous catch of fish,
Peter responds by falling at
Jesus’ knees and saying: “Go
away from me, Lord, for I am
a sinful man!” At first glance
that would seem the appropriate response, a wonderfullypious one, an acknowledgement of his littleness and
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unworthiness in the face of
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God’s abundance and goodness. But, as John Shea points
out in his commentary on this
text, Jesus names Peter’s response differently and
invites him to something else. What? Peter’s response
manifests a sincere piety, but it is, in Shea’s words,
“fearfully wrong”: “The awareness of God makes him
(Peter)] tremble and crushes him down. If he clings to
the knees of Jesus, he must be on his own knees. Peter
does not embrace the fullness; he wants to go away.
This is hardly the response Jesus wants. So he instructs Peter not to be afraid. Instead, he is to use what
he experienced to bring others to the same experience.
As Jesus has caught him, he is to catch others.” Jesus
is inviting Peter to move out of fear and into deeper
waters of intimacy and God’s abundance.
We see a similar thing in the First Book of Samuel
(21, 1-6). King David arrives at the temple one morning,
hungry, without food. He asks the priest for five loaves
of bread. The priest replies that he hasn’t any ordinary bread, only consecrated bread that can be eaten
only after the appropriate fasting and rituals. David,
nonetheless, knowing that, as God’s king on earth he
is expected to act resourcefully rather than fearfully,
asks for the loaves and he eats the bread that, in other
circumstances, he would have been forbidden to eat.
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John 2:13-25
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FROM PAGE 20
be rendered this way: God is not a law
to be blindly obeyed. Rather God is a
loving, creative presence that invites us
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Some years ago, a young mother
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judgment gives way more and more
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joyous, and more intimate relationship
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High schools set spring drama productions
sacred heart cathedral preparatory
Mercy ~ Notre Dame ~ Serra
and the Visual & Performing Arts Program Present
Tri-School Productions
Presents...
spring musical 2015
March 13, 14, 20, 21 at 7:30 pm
March 20th - 28th
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm
Sunday, March 22 @ 2pm
Gellert Auditorium
Serra High School
451 W. 20th Avenue, San Mateo
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‘‘BOB, A LIFE IN FIVE ACTS’: by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Sacred Heart Preparatory-Atherton, Campbell
Center for the Performing Arts, 150 Valparaiso Ave.,
Atherton. March 12, 13, 14, 7:30 p.m. $5 students/
seniors, $10 adults.
‘CINDERELLA’: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Collins Theater, 1100 Ellis St., San Francisco,
March 13,14, 7:30 p.m., March 20, 21, 7:30 p.m.
Cinderella Tea, March 21@12:30 p.m. with performance at 2 p.m. $7 students/seniors, $12 adults.
Order online at shcp.edu/events.
‘42ND STREET’: Convent of the Sacred Heart and
Stuart Hall High School, SYUFY Theatre, 2222
Broadway, San Francisco, March 12,13, 7 p.m.
March 14, 3 p.m. $10 all tickets at the door.
‘GREASE’: Tri-School Productions, Serra High
School, Gellert Auditorium, 451 West 20th Ave., San
Mateo: March 20, 21, 27, 28 7:30 p.m. March 22, 2
p.m. $13 students/seniors, $18 adults. Buy online at
trischoolproductions.com and at the door. Production of Mercy Burlingame, Notre Dame High School
and Serra.
‘THE AMERICAN CLOCK’: by Arthur Miller. Woodside Priory School, March 5, 6, 7, 7 p.m.; March 8, 2
p.m. $5 students/$15 adult, at the door or online at
priory.ticketleap.com/american.
‘GODSPELL’: Archbishop Riordan High School,
Lindland Theatre, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco.
March 20, 21, 27, 28, 8 p.m.; March 29, 2 p.m. $7
students/seniors, $10 adults, $4 children 12 and
under. Tickets at the door or riordanhs.org.
‘YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN’: Bannan Theatre, St.
Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco. April
22, 23, 24, 29.30, May 1, 2, 7 p.m., April 25, 5:30
p.m. $10 plus fee all tickets. Order online at siprep.
org/youngfrankenstein.
‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’: Marin Catholic
High School, Poetz Theatre, 675 Sir Francis Drake
Blvd, Kentfield. March 26, 27, 28, 7 p.m.; March
‘THE WIZ’: Mercy San Francisco, April 17, 18, 24,
25 7 p.m. $10. Tickets at the door or go to mercyhs.
org or call (415) 334-7941.
29, 1 p.m. $12 students/seniors, $15 general admission.
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OUR LADY OF LORETTO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 3950
46th Annual St Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance
Saturday March 14th, 6 P.M. to 10:30 Pm
Our Lady of Loretto Parish Hall (Virginia Ave. at Grant, Novato Ca)
Featuring McBride Irish Dancers and the Bank Stage Fright
$32 per person | Child care available
Contact Dick Caldwell (415) 892-3834 or Chick Kretz (415) 892-3913
Proceeds fund scholarships, parish and/or community youth activities,
Special Olympics and Knights of Columbus Charities
COMMUNITY 23
1
OBITUARY
Sister Doris Cavanaugh, PBVM –
sister for 70 years
(PHOTO COURTESY CLAIRE PERRYMAN/OUR LADY OF LORETTO)
2
Around the archdiocese
1
OUR LADY OF LORETTO
SCHOOL, NOVATO: On Feb. 11,
fifth graders crossed the Golden Gate
Bridge with their teacher Sandra
Reeder and some school parents for
a field trip to the Cathedral of St. Mary
of the Assumption. The day included
a tour of the cathedral and lunch and
concluded with a demonstration of the
imposing Ruffatti organ by the cathedral organist. “My favorite part of the
field trip was when we got to go up on
the sacred altar and see what it is like
from the point of view of a priest saying Mass,” said student James Reeder.
2
MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME: Students put their hearts
and effort together to benefit the
long standing work of Mercy alumna
Michele Ostertag in Kenya. The young
women raised more than $3,000 to buy
school uniforms for children helped by
programs instituted by Ostertag there.
“Mercy girls are committed and will
continue their almsgiving through service, acts of kindness and philanthropy
throughout the season,” the school
said about how Mercy students are
aligning themselves with Pope Francis’
Lenten call to help others.
Sister Doris Cavanaugh, PBVM, (religious name Sister
Mary Concepta) died
Feb. 23 at the Presentation motherhouse
in San Francisco. A
native of Los Angeles, Sister Doris was
born July 28, 1928,
and was a Sister of
the Presentation for
Sister Doris Ca70 years. Sister Doris
vanaugh, PBVM
leaves her sister
Margaret Gaines (Dave); her brothers
Charles and John; her sister-in-law,
Jackie (Ralph); and many nieces,
nephews and their families. Sister Doris was the daughter of Grace Carpenter and George Cavanaugh. She was
predeceased by her brother Ralph.
Beginning in 1947, for 23 years,
Sister Doris served in teaching and
administrative positions in Catholic
elementary schools, starting in San
Francisco at St. Agnes, St. Anne and
St. Elizabeth schools.
In 1970 and 1976, Sister Doris was
elected to congregational leadership
as a councilor. She also served as
formation director. In 1976, she also
became the administrator of Presentation Retreat Center, Los Gatos.
While administrator of the center,
Sister Doris nurtured its growth as a
retreat center and lived through the
Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and
guided the rebuilding that followed.
A funeral Mass Feb. 27 was followed by interment at Holy Cross
Cemetery, Colma.
Memorial contributions to the
Sisters of the Presentation are preferred. Contributions can be sent to
Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San
Francisco, CA 94118.
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well as membership benefits (e.g., scholarships, death benefits).
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School of Applied Theology
names executive director
Carrie Rehak has been named
executive director of
the School of Applied
Theology, part of the
Graduate Theological
Union in Berkeley.
Currently the director of campus ministry at Holy Names
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The White Mountains, including Franconia Notch State
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continue east to York county, Maine. Next drive along
the New England coast to Boston, with a city tour; visit
Plymouth and Cape Cod for two nights. Proceed to
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Lastly tour New York City seeing all the major sights of
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NOVENAS
Prayer to St. Jude
Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and
Martyr, great in virtue and rich in
miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus
Christ, faithful intercessor of all who
invoke your special patronage in time
of need, to you I have recourse from
the depth of my heart and humbly
beg to whom God has given such
great power to come to my assistance.
Help me in my present and urgent
petition. In return I promise to
make you be invoked. Say three
our Fathers, three Hail Marys and
Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all
who invoke your aid. Amen.
This Novena has never been known
to fail. This Novena must be said
9 consecutive days. Thanks.
M.T.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, you who make me
see everything and who shows
me the way to reach my ideal.
You who give me the divine gift
of forgive and forget the wrong
that is done to me. I, in this short
dialogue, want to thank you for
everything and confirm once
more that I never want to be
separated from you no matter
how great the material desires
may be. I want to be with you
and my loved ones in your
perpetual glory. Amen. You
may publish this as soon as
your favor is granted.
L.T.
Prayer to the Blessed
Virgin never known to fail.
Most beautiful flower of
Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother
of the Son of God, assist me
in my need. Help me and
show me you are my mother.
Oh Holy Mary, Mother of
God, Queen of Heaven and
earth. I humbly beseech you
from the bottom of my heart
to help me in this need.
Oh Mary, conceived
without sin. Pray for us (3X).
Holy Mary, I place this
cause in your hands (3X).
Say prayers 3 days.
M.T.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, you who make me
see everything and who shows
me the way to reach my ideal.
You who give me the divine gift
of forgive and forget the wrong
that is done to me. I, in this short
dialogue, want to thank you for
everything and confirm once
more that I never want to be
separated from you no matter
how great the material desires
may be. I want to be with you
and my loved ones in your
perpetual glory. Amen. You
may publish this as soon as
your favor is granted.
M.T.
Prayer to St. Jude
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The Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking a Director of Pastoral Ministries. This is a full-time position and
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in the Archdiocese are 75 elementary and high schools, 3 colleges/universities, one seminary, and seven Catholic
cemeteries.
The Director of the Department of Pastoral Ministry, as a member of the Archbishop’s Cabinet, has the
responsibility to manage the Pastoral Ministries Offices including Religious Education, Child and Youth Protection,
Marriage and Family Life and Young Adult Ministry.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
• In work situation and dealing with co-workers and public, adhere to the Mission Statement of the Pastoral Center and
follow policies and procedures of the Archdiocese and the Pastoral Center.
• Religious Education
• Serves as the delegate of the Archbishop on catechetical matters and youth ministry.
• Directs the development and administration of training and certification policies for the catechist according to the
guidelines established by the Bishops of the California Catholic Conference.
• Child and Youth Protection
• Directs the development and implementation of systems for tracking compliance by adults with the Safe
Environment Program.
• Works with the Legal Office in publishing, revising, and maintaining the “Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines on
Child Abuse.
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26 CALENDAR
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
FIRST FRIDAY: Contemplatives of St.
Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa
Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San
Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing
service and personal blessing with St.
Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph,
Montreal.
2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Church of
the Visitacion, 701 Sunnydale at Rutland, San Francisco; Friday 9 a.m.-5
p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Items include clothes, furniture, books as well
as a new items booth. (415) 494-5517.
MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin
Breakfast Club beginning with Mass
at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Sir
Francis Drake Boulevard and Bob Air
Road, Greenbrae followed by breakfast
and talk from Consul General of Ireland
Philip Grant; members breakfast. $8,
visitors. $10. (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-4
p.m.; [email protected].
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy
Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the
rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola
Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine
Mercy is prayed at 3 p.m. All are welcome. www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com.
CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma,
All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father
Tony LaTorre, pastor, St. Philip Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant
and homilist. (650) 756-2060; www.
holycrosscemeteries.com.
NURSES: Join the National Association
of Catholic Nurses and become a part
of the Catholic nurses’ voice. Acquaint
yourself with the organization at a
“Meet & Greet” event 10-noon, Alma
Via Retirement Center, One Thomas
More Drive, San Francisco; Vicki Ev-
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé
prayer around the
cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline
Drive, Burlingame,
8 p.m. Taizé prayer
has been sung
on first Fridays
at Mercy Center
with Mercy Sister
Sister Suzanne
Suzanne Toolan
Toolan
since 1983. (650)
340-7452.
UNITED FOR LIFE: United for
Life dinner, Irish
Cultural Center,
45th Avenue at
Sloat Boulevard,
San Francisco,
5:30 p.m. Guest
Dana Cody of the
Life Legal Foundation speaks on
euthanasia. (415)
Dana Cody
567-2293. uflsf.
com. [email protected].
ans, Respect Life Coordinator for the
Archdiocese of San Francisco is guest
speaker. Mary Ann Haeuser, (415) 4540979, [email protected]; www.
naacn-usa.org.
SUNDAY, MARCH 8
FAITH FORMATION: “Sunday Morning Conversations with the Jesuits
and Their Lay Partners,” St. Ignatius Church, Fromm Hall, Parker and
Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco,
10:50-11:45 a.m. Free and open to the
public. Free parking in all USF lots,
Dan Faloon (415) 422-2195; faloon@
usfca.edu; Jesuit Father John Coleman, [email protected]. March 8:
“Preparing Couples for Marriage,” with
Jesuit Father John Coleman. www.stignatiuscff.org/adult-faith-formation/.
HOLOCAUST PLAY: “Etty,” an internationally acclaimed play of a young
woman’s struggle to sustain humanity in the face of the brutality of the
Holocaust, 3 p.m., Mercy High School,
San Francisco, with overview from
Holocaust survivor Jacob Boas. Reception follows in theatre lobby. Free
admission. Please RSVP by March 2
[email protected], www.mercyhs.
org. (415) 334-7941.
MONDAY, MARCH 9
GRIEF SUPPORT: St. Pius Grief Ministry is offering a facilitated nine-week
support group session through April
20, 7 p.m., St. Pius Parish Center, 1100
Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood
City. If you are in the early stages of your
loss or have not previously attended a
grief support group, this program may
benefit you. (650) 361-0655; [email protected]. Walk-ins are welcome.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
LENTEN TALKS: St. Stephen Parish,
Donworth Hall, 401 Eucalyptus Drive
next to Stonestown YMCA, soup supper and talk March 10 with Taize prayer
service March 17, 6:30 p.m., Franciscan Brother Michael Minton speaks on
the season and Islam, the religion. Veronica Wong, (415) 681-2444, ext. 27.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
‘JOY OF GOSPEL’: Pray, read and
discuss Pope Francis’ teaching during
presentations on Pope Francis’ new
document, 7 p.m., March 11, Apr.
15, May 6; Dominican Sisters of MSJ
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Unhealed wounds can hold you back - even
if they are not the “logical” cause of your problems
today. You can be the person God intended.
Inner Child Healing Offers a
deep spiritual and psychological approach
to counseling:
Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT
San Francisco: 415.337.9474
Complimentary phone consultation
www.InnerChildHealing.com
MARRIAGE SERIES: Marriage Challenge, inspirational talks for couples
talks through March 27 at sites
throughout archdiocese, 7-9 p.m.,
freewill offering, www.marriageonfire.
info. Ed Hopfner [email protected].
LENTEN TALK: The Challenge of an
Interior Life with Carmelite Father Jack
Welch, 7 p.m., followed by a Q&A, St.
Teresa of Avila Church, 1490 19th St.
at Connecticut, San Francisco. The
Carmelite tradition encourages an interior life of availability to God. It challenges today’s pilgrim to live beneath
the surface of life; [email protected];
www.stteresasf.org. (415) 285-5272.
SHRINE MASSES: Wednesdays during
Lent Mass will be celebrated at the
National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi,
Vallejo at Columbus in North Beach at
12:15 and 6:30 p.m. with confession
available 11-noon and 5-6:15 p.m.
(415) 986-4557. www.shrinesf.org;
[email protected].
THURSDAY, MARCH 12
PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets
second Thursday of the month except
in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s
Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at
Hacienda, San Mateo. New members
welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468;
[email protected].
HEALTH CARE AGENCY
SUPPLE SENIOR CARE
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• Depression • Anxiety • Addictions
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OLPH ANNIVERSARY: Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Parish, 60 Wellington
Ave. Daly City, celebrates its 90th year
with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant of Mass at 9
a.m. followed by parish procession and
reception. (650) 755-9786; [email protected].
THE PROFESSIONALS
REAL ESTATE
Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd.
entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont. Dominican Sisters Ingrid Clemmensen and Marcia Krause facilitate.
www.msjdominicans.org.
SALON
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HOME HEALTH CARE
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Children, Men Women
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Hair Care Services:
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Mon - Sat: 9:30 am - 5 pm
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Home Care Attendants • Companions • CNA’s
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CALENDAR 27
DIVORCE SUPPORT: Healing the
Wounds, a divorced and separated
Catholics support group, second
Friday of the month, Tarantino Hall,
St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon, 6:30-8
p.m., professional child care available
at $10 per child. Karen Beale, (415)
250-2597; Amy Nelis, (916) 212-6120;
Father Roger Gustafson, (415) 4351122.
SATURDAY, MARCH 14
FESTIVAL MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal
celebrant and homilist for Northern
California Choral Festival Mass, 5:30
p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard, San
Francisco. Student singers from the
Archdiocese of San Francisco and
around the Bay Area lead song under
the direction of Richard Robbins of
the music faculty at University of
Wisconsin-Superior. A choral prelude
will precede the liturgy. Visit www.
pcchoirs.org.
YMI MASS: Young Men’s Institute celebrates 132 years, St. Veronica Church,
South San Francisco, 4:30 p.m. with
barbecue dinner following in parish
hall, $20 per person. All are welcome
to attend, reservations required. Mike
Dimech, (650) 922-2667; mdimech7@
gmail.com.
ST. PATRICK’S DINNER: Men’s Club
at St. Anne of the Sunset St. Patrick
Dinner and Dance in Moriarty Hall, 6
p.m. with special appearance by Bush-
FRIDAY, MARCH 13
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
ST. PATRICK LUNCH: The Hibernian Newman
Club crosses its
50th year with
this event benefiting campus
ministry in the
Archdiocese of
San Francisco, 11
a.m. Westin St.
Father Paul
Francis Hotel, 333
Fitzgerald, SJ
Powell St., San
Francisco. Jesuit
Father Paul Fitzgerald, president,
University of San Francisco is
keynote speaker. Tickets $100.
Event includes traditional Irish
music and entertainment. www.
hiberniannewmanclub.com; (415)
386-3434.
PRIORY TALKS: “Restorative
Justice: An Alternative Path,” with
Jack Dison, Ph.D.
presenting on restorative justice as
a way to move from
brokenness to at
least some degree
of healing and
wholeness, even in
Jack Dison
very difficult situations such as violent crime, 7-9 p.m.,
Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola
Road, Portola Valley, Founders Hall,
admission is free, refreshments
provided, Carrie Rehak, crehak@
prioryca.org; (650) 851-8221; www.
prioryca.org/life/campus-spirituallife/insight-speakers-series/.
mill’s Irish Piper Band of San Francisco
plus traditional Irish-American dinner,
Irish entertainment from the WhelanKennelly Academy and dancing to music of The Spinheads. $30 adults/$10
children 12 and under. Patty Diner,
(415)566-7500.
FASHION LUNCHEON: Marin Catholic
High School parents association’s
“The Great Gatsby” luncheon/dinner
and auction at Marin Civic Center
Exhibit Hall in San Rafael with lunch
seating at 10 a.m. and dinner seating
at 5 p.m. Tickets are $75 lunch/$165
dinner. For tickets and information
www.marincatholic.org; (415) 4643800.
CASINO NIGHT: Mercy High School,
San Francisco, McAuley Pavilion,
3250 19th Ave., 6-10 p.m., $50
per person advance, $60 at door,
includes appetizers and dessert bar.
Mike Gutierrez mgutierrez@mercyhs.
org.
ST. PATRICK’S DINNER: Our Lady of
Loretto Knights of Columbus Council
3950 St Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance,
6 p.m.,Our Lady of Loretto Parish
hall, Virginia Avenue at Grant, Novato featuring McBride Irish Dancers; $32 per person, no-host bar;
child care available. Dick Caldwell,
(415) 892-3834; Chick Kretz, (415)
892-3913.
PAINTING
CONSTRUCTION
COMMERCIAL
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Kitchen/Bath Remodel
Dry Rot Repair • Decks /Stairs
Plumbing Repair/Replacement
Call: 650.580.2769
CA License #965268
Lic. # 505353B-C36
K. Plunkett
Construction
Lic# 745514
Home Remodels
Kitchens & Bath
Decks & Stairs
415.305.9447
CAHALAN CONSTRUCTION
Painting • Carpentry • Tile
Siding • Stucco • Dryrot
Additions • Remodels • Repairs Lic#582766
415.279.1266
[email protected]
ROOFING
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Design - Build
Retail - Fixtures
Industrial
Service/Maintenance
Casework Installation
Serving Marin, San Francisco
& San Mateo Counties
DINING
(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227
IRISH Eoin
PAINTING
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to CSF
Readers
415.368.8589
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M.K. Painting
Interior-Exterior
Residential – Commercial
Insured/Bonded – Free Estimates
License# 974682
Tel: (650) 630-1835
S.O.S.
PAINTING CO.
Interior-Exterior • wallpaper • hanging & removal
Lic # 526818 • Senior Discount
John V. Rissanen
Cell: (916) 517-7952
Office: (916) 408-2102
Fax: (916) 408-2086
[email protected]
2190 Mt. Errigal Lane
Lincoln, CA 95648
Italian American Social
Club of San Francisco
Lunch & Dinner, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
Weddings, Banquets, Special Occasions
25 RUSSIA AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO
www.iasf.com
415-585-8059
ANNIVERSARY: St. James School, 321
Fair Oaks St., San Francisco, celebrates
its 90th anniversary with 9:30 a.m. Mass
at St. James Catholic Church, 1086
Guerrero St., followed by tours and
refreshments at the school. 10:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Constance Dalton, cdalton@
saintjamessf.org, (415) 647-8972.
MONDAY, MARCH 16
LENTEN SERIES: Reawakening your
discipleship with Father John Hurley, 7
p.m., St. Gregory Parish, Vanos gym,
Hacienda at 28th Avenue, San Mateo,
7 p.m.; coffee and dessert follow. (650)
345-8506.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18
MARRIAGE SERIES: Marriage Challenge, inspirational talks for couples
talks through March 27 at sites
throughout archdiocese, 7-9 p.m.,
freewill offering, www.marriageonfire.
info. Ed Hopfner [email protected].
GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief
support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month,
10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on
west side of parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide information
on grief process, and tips on coping
with loss of a loved one; Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads the group; Mercy
Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.
HOME SERVICES
O’DONOGHUE CONSTRUCTION
SUNDAY, MARCH 15
415-269-0446 • 650-738-9295
www.sospainting.net
F REE E STIMATES
Bill Hefferon Painting
Bonded & Insured
CA License 819191
Cell 415-710-0584
[email protected]
Office 415-731-8065
10% Discount to Seniors & Parishioners
Serving the
Residential Bay
Area for
Commercial over 30 Years
PLUMBING
HOLLAND
Plumbing Works San Francisco
ALL PLUMBING WORK
PAT HOLLAND
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BONDED & INSURED
415-205-1235
ELECTRICAL
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650.322.9288
Service Changes
Solar Installation
Lighting/Power
Fire Alarm/Data
Green Energy
Fully licensed • State Certified • Locally
Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7
HANDYMAN
Quality interior and exterior painting,
demolition , fence (repairs), roof repairs,
cutter (cleaning and repairs), landscaping,
gardening, hauling, moving, welding
All Purpose
Cell (415) 517-5977
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FENCES & DECKS
John Spillane
• Retaining Walls • Stairs • Gates
• Dry Rot • Senior & Parishioner Discounts
650.291.4303
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FRIDAY, MARCH 13
28
Please call for appointment
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA
650-323-6375
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA
650-756-2060
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery
270 Los Ranchos Road, San Rafael, CA
415-479-9020
Tomales Catholic Cemetery
1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA
415-479-9021
St. Anthony Cemetery
Stage Road, Pescadero, CA
650-712-1675
Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery
Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA
650-712-1679

March 6, 2015 - Catholic San Francisco

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