May 24, 2013 - Catholic San Francisco

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IMMIGRATION:
SISTERS:
COMMUNITY:
Archbishop calls
for justice, fairness
for undocumented
Breakthrough in
sister-led effort
against trafficking
News in pictures
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the archdiocese
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Embryonic stem
cell advance
called troubling
Bishops vow to
rebuild ‘healthy
culture’ of family
life, marriage
PATRICIA ZAPOR
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – As Oregon scientists announced May 15 that they had
successfully converted human skin cells
into embryonic stem cells, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee
on Pro-Life Activities warned that the
technique is morally troubling on many
levels.
Scientists at the Oregon Health &
Science University and the Oregon
National Primate Research Center
announced that they had successfully
reprogrammed human skin cells to
become embryonic stem cells, which
are capable of transforming into other
types of cells that could replace those
damaged by illness or injury.
Many news reports on the announcement referred to the research as human
cloning, but the university’s release and
a full report on the work in Cell magazine carefully avoided the term, except
to say taking the work in the direction
of reproductive cloning is unlikely.
The Oregon research team developed
the unfertilized embryonic cells to seven
days’ growth in a lab. Cardinal Sean
P. O’Malley of Boston, who chairs the
bishops’ committee, said the process
created and destroyed more than 120 human embryos, which the church considers human life that must be protected.
“Creating new human lives in the
laboratory solely to destroy them is an
abuse denounced even by many who
SEE STEM CELLS, PAGE 20
run abortion mills throughout our
country.”
A Philadelphia jury May 13 found
Gosnell guilty of murder in the
deaths of three babies born alive during abortions and acquitted him of
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The “full social
and legal effects” of state lawmakers’
decision to legalize same-sex marriage “will begin to manifest themselves in the years ahead,” said the
Minnesota Catholic Conference.
“Today the Minnesota Senate voted
to redefine marriage in Minnesota.
The outcome, though expected, is no
less disappointing,” the conference
said in a statement.
The state Senate in a 37-30 vote gave
final approval May 13 to a same-sex
marriage bill. The state House passed
the measure May 9. Minnesota Gov.
Mark Dayton signed it May 14.
The law is to take effect Aug. 1, making Minnesota the 12th state to allow
same-sex couples to marry. Earlier in
May, Rhode Island and Delaware became the 10th and 11th states, respectively, to legalize same-sex marriage.
“The church, for its part, will
continue to work to rebuild a healthy
culture of marriage and family life, as
well as defend the rights of Minnesotans to live out their faith in everyday
life and speak the truth in love,” said
the Minnesota Catholic Conference,
the public policy arm of the state’s
bishops.
“Some wish to believe that sexual
relationships outside of the marital
context of husband and wife are
innocuous, choosing to ignore the
fact that they are actually harmful to
individuals and to society as a whole,”
said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of
the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the
Promotion and Defense of Marriage.
“There are many of us Americans,
including many Minnesotans, who
stand for the natural and true meaning of marriage,” he said in a statement released late May 14. “They
SEE GOSNELL, PAGE 20
SEE MARRIAGE, PAGE 20
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Spirit takes wing
Pope Francis holds a dove before his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican
May 15. Anticipating the feast of Pentecost May 19, the pope focused on the role of the Holy
Spirit in guiding the lives of the faithful and the church to the truth.
Archbishop: Gosnell case shows ‘ugliness of abortion’
PHILADELPHIA – Dr. Kermit
Gosnell may have been convicted
May 13 of murder at his Philadelphia
abortion clinic, but “nothing can
bring back the innocent children he
killed, or make up for the vulnerable
women he exploited,” said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput.
And, he added, “the repugnance
of his clinic conditions” must be
remembered.
In a May 14 statement, the Philadelphia archbishop said, “Gosnell is not
an exception. Others just like him
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 24, 2013
NEED TO KNOW
ST. RAYMOND ADMINISTRATOR
BECOMES US CITIZEN: Father
Edward Inyanwachi,
the administrator of
St. Raymond Parish
in Menlo Park, became a U.S. citizen
after beginning the
process 10 years
ago. “It feels good,”
said Father InyanwaFather Edward
chi, who returns to
Inyanwachi
Nigeria after 14 years
in this country, finishing an 18-month stint as administrator
at St. Raymond in June. Father Inyanwachi took the oath of citizenship and
then said the pledge of allegiance in
a ceremony in Oakland on April 23. “I
have truly enjoyed my priestly ministry
here in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. I am grateful for the opportunity
granted me to serve in the archdiocese. I have learned so many things
and have been deeply enriched in my
faith. I take back to Nigeria the wealth
of experience that I have gained, the
lovely memories of this great city by
the bay and the many friends that I
have made for life. I am proud to call
the United States my ‘home away
from home,’” Father Inyanwachi said.
(PHOTOS BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Left, Paloma, a parishioner at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish and an undocumented immigrant, listens to speakers at Mission Dolores
after telling her story at a May 13 press conference by the archdiocese. She is holding her son, who was born in the U.S. Right, Archbishop
Salvatore J. Cordileone blesses those working for comprehensive immigration reform. Standing behind the archbishop is Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor of St. Paul of the Shipwreck. At right are Mission Dolores pastor Father Arturo L. Albano and Nellie,
an undocumented immigrant who also told her story.
Archbishop calls immigration
reform bill ‘historic opportunity’
SISTER, PRIEST CELEBRATE
75 YEARS OF CONSECRATED
LIFE: Archbishop
Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate
11 a.m. Mass at St.
Mary’s Cathedral
on May 26 to honor
men and women
in consecrated
life in the archdiocese, including 44
Dominican (San
women religious,
Rafael) Sister
one cloistered
Joanna Browne
woman religious and
six men religious
marking jubilarian
anniversaries. The
honorees include
two celebrating 75
years of consecrated
life: Dominican
(San Rafael) Sister
Joanna Browne
Salesian Father
and Salesian Father
Austin Conterno
Austin Conterno. The
celebration is a witness to the fidelity
and commitment of men and women
to religious life. There are 650 women
religious in the archdiocese, representing 48 communities.
LIVING TRUSTS WILLS
VALERIE SCHMALZ
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone reiterated his support for bipartisan comprehensive immigration
reform legislation before Congress,
calling it “an historic opportunity
to fix the broken immigration system.”
He was joined by two undocumented women who also spoke at
the May 13 press conference on the
steps of Mission Dolores in San
Francisco.
“The current system fails both
the nation and those seeking to
contribute to American society,”
said Archbishop Cordileone. “I join
the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops in calling on our
legislators to act now so that all our
families can step out of the shadows
and become full citizens of this nation.
“Our country has a right and a
responsibility to protect its borders,
and effective immigration laws are
part of that enforcement,” he said.
The archbishop also called for
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protect undocumented immigrants.
“What we’re doing is not only supporting families with the resources
they need” but also getting them
involved in the debate of immigration reform “so they can tell their
stories, so they can make their
voices heard,” said Lorena Melgarejo, archdiocesan parish resource coordinator for immigration reform.
The archdiocese is encouraging all
parishioners to lobby Congress to
pass comprehensive immigration
reform, she said.
The archdiocese has launched
a campaign called “Healing the
Wounded Family: A Campaign for
Citizenship and Dignity.” On April
29, supporters of immigration
reform began a daily prayer vigil
outside the San Francisco office of
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
The U.S. Catholic bishops support
legislation that would include a
path to citizenship for the estimated
12 million undocumented people in
this country; a temporary worker
program to allow migrant workers
to enter safely and humanely; and
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family-based immigration reform
that allows families to be reunited
more quickly.
Paloma, a married mother of
two and parishioner at St. Paul
of the Shipwreck Parish, told her
story of crossing the desert with
her husband to get to this country
from Mexico and of her fear of one
or both of them being deported or
separated from their children, 10
and 4, born in this country.
Nellie, also a mother, told of
going to the police for help from
an abusive boyfriend and instead
being jailed for three days and then
detained for eight months because
she did not have legal immigration
status. Nellie is now appealing her
case. “We need support, we need to
stop being separated from our children,” said Nellie.
Melgarejo asked that the women’s
last names not be published since
they are not legal residents of the
U.S.
The press conference concluded
with the archbishop blessing those
present who are working for immigration reform.
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Archbishop ordains Thomas Martin to priesthood
CHRISTINA M. GRAY
Many of the faithful who waited in line to be
received by Father Thomas Vital Martin after his
ordination Mass May 11 at St. Mary’s Cathedral
received a blessing and the same humble request
Pope Francis made in St. Peter’s Square less than
two months earlier: “Pray for me,” Father Martin repeated to well-wishers after the two-hour
ceremony that included a homily by Archbishop
Salvatore J. Cordileone exhorting a “prophecy of
faithfulness.”
The cathedral was filled to near-capacity with
relatives, friends and men and women religious
celebrating the ordination, at age 49, of the San
Francisco-born and -raised deacon who left a long
career in politics for the vocation of the priesthood. “I am grateful to God for the blessing of this
vocation,” said Father Martin, who entered St.
Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park
in 2008 after a year of discernment at St. Sebastian
Parish in Greenbrae.
Accompanied by the cathedral’s choir and 4,842pipe organ and translated into both Spanish and
International Sign languages, the Mass and rite of
ordination was solemnly commenced at 2 p.m. by
Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.
The rite began with the candidate’s presentation
to the archbishop, who testified to Deacon Martin’s
worthiness for the order of the priesthood. “Could
anyone ever be worthy of all that a priest is called
to be?” asked Archbishop Cordileone as he began
his homily with the suggestion that worthiness is
not found in a man’s own merit. “It is by relying on
the help of God and Jesus Christ,” he said. “It is
God who makes the priest worthy.”
The archbishop reiterated the Gospel message of
Christ’s light leading others out of darkness. “Adhere to Christ in radical fidelity,” he said. “And he
will make you a light for his people. Imitate what
you celebrate, and conform yourself to the myster-
(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Father Thomas Martin and Father Kenneth Westray give Communion at Father Martin’s ordination Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral.
ies of this life.”
Among those attending the celebration was
Janet Rydberg of San Francisco, a former family
baby sitter who looked after the nine Martin kids
some 45 years ago. She said that while the pull
toward the priesthood appears to have come late in
life for Thomas, he has in fact been “practicing” to
be a priest since he was a child. “He and his brothers would set up a little altar and use sheets and
towels and cups from the kitchen,” she recalled.
At a reception for her son’s ordination which fell
on the eve of Mother’s Day, an elated but emotional
Anita Martin wished that her husband, who died
in 2006, could have been there to share the day.
“Thomas is a faithful and charitable man, just like
his father,” she said. “He will be a good priest.”
DEACON WITHDRAWS PETITION
Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice made this
announcement at the Mass for priestly ordination May 11 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.
“It is with a heavy heart that I must
make the following announcement. Only
one person will be ordained today. Rev. Mr.
Juan Alejo (Justo) has withdrawn his petition to be ordained at this time to the order
of priesthood. After personal reflection
and consultation with the archbishop, he
has made this decision. I have assured him
that he will have our ongoing prayers and
support.”
4 ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
Youth have
plenty to say on
importance of faith
TOM BURKE
Congratulations to Mercy High School, Burlingame senior Grace Osborne,
high school division winner of
this year’s Serra Club of San
Mateo’s essay contest. Grace’s
mom, Bernadette and dad, Michael, were in the audience for
the April 17 awards luncheon and
essay presentation in St. Gregory
Parish hall in San Mateo. Zelie
Zshornack of Our Lady of Angels
Grace Osborne
Parish, Burlingame religious
education program and an eighth grader at Taylor
Middle School took the grand prize in the elementary school division. Her proud folks are Mitos
and Errol Zshornack. More than 600 students
entered the competition with answers to “What is
my commitment to my faith?” on the high school
level and “How is my faith important to me” for the
grade schoolers. Grace focused her essay on why
“commitment is key to any relationship, especially
one with God” and “described how she was able
to overcome personal events in her life with the
help of her faith,” Mercy, Burlingame said. Serra
President Jeanette Barrett and Deacon Jim Shea
coordinated this year’s event.
MRS. WIZARD: St. Charles School science teacher Nicole Shimshock has been
named California State Science
Fair Teacher of the Year. The educator was nominated by students
and St. Charles principal Maureen
Grazioli and presented with the
honor in Los Angeles in April. An
interview panel was particularly
“impressed with her approach
to instruction and in particular
Nicole
her model of mentoring students
Shimshock
through interactions with scientists from within the community,” the school said.
MAIN STREET BEAT: Catholic Worker of Half
Moon Bay led the way for immigration reform in
an interfaith parade April 13, on Main Street in
Half Moon Bay. Eric DeBode, director of Catholic
Worker called it a “Parade for Peace and Justice.”
More than 200 people took part with Father Juan
Manuel Lopez, administrator of HMB’s Our Lady
of the Pillar Parish, blessing everyone on their
way in Spanish and English. “After presentations
by Catholic workers Alice Linsmeier on the moral
imperative to pass humane, comprehensive, immigration reform and Dennis Apel on nuclear weapon
proliferation, the group paraded down Main Street
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ESSAYISTS HONORED: More than 40 winners were awarded $15,000 April 13 in the Young Men’s Institute, St. John Bosco #613
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grandchildren plus summers up the Russian River.
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Students reach out to Africa’s poorest with pencil mission
LIDIA WASOWICZ
Drawn to the idea of making a difference a world away, a group of fourth
and seventh graders at St. Hilary School
in Tiburon is collecting used pencils
so Africa’s poorest children can get an
education.
The participants in Pencils for Africa
– a program originated by Kenya native
and former St. Hilary parent Karim Ajania and overseen by art teacher Chyah
Weitzman – are erasing misconceptions,
extending resources and empowering
peers in conflict-ravaged regions where
impoverished families cannot afford the
simple writing implement required for
school admission.
Since the project’s January launch,
Mackenzie Dennis, 10, of Larkspur,
Lucia Doty, 10, of Corte Madera, Athena
Manthouli, 12, of Tiburon, and Gloria Robinson, 13, of Sausalito, have
amassed some 360 pencils for the overseas outreach and innumerable insights
into the homeland and heritage of its
recipients.
Beyond underscoring the value of
recycling, the earth-friendly enterprise
– which declines donations of cash,
checks and new purchases to discourage consumerism in favor of self-giving
– engenders equality, said Weitzman, a
faculty member for 16 years.
By bridging the world of SMART
Boards and iPads in every classroom
with that of no electronics and only a
baobab tree for a schoolhouse, “it sets
somewhat of a level playing field in
a universe that’s very uneven,” said
Ajania, who designed Pencils for Africa
on a model developed in 2005 by human
(PHOTO BY LIDIA WASOWICZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Pictured from left are Pencils for Africa student leaders at St. Hilary School in Tiburon: Mackenzie Dennis, 10, fourth grade; Lucia Doty, 10, fourth grade; Athena Manthouli, 12, seventh
grade; Gloria Robinson, 13, seventh grade.
rights activists touched by Darfur children’s pencil depictions of war.
“When I found out the pencil that I’m
using would be going to Africa and be
used by a child there, I felt that was really cool,” Athena said.
The experience has broadened her
sense of community and her desire to
“give back,” she said.
“Americans once thought Africans
had no purpose in life and made them
slaves,” Mackenzie said. “Now, we’re
reaching out to Africans and giving
them what they need so they can go to
school, get an education and get a job.”
To drive that point home, Ajania
looks to 9- to 13-year-olds, the age range
researchers deem most open and
impressionable. He focuses on the sufferers and witnesses of Africa’s blight:
children forced into labor or military
service, genocide, civil strife, loss of
parents to violence.
Ajania, who spent the first seven
years of life in Nairobi, considers it
“cowardly” to keep these truths, painful as they may be, from the children’s
more fortunate contemporaries. He sees
a “duty” to bring to light the plight of
marginalized minors “made invisible
because no one cares.”
“We need a full and fair understanding of what it means to be global,” said
the MIT- and Harvard-educated writer,
editor, educator and advocate who
counts South African Bishop Desmond
Tutu among his mentors and colleagues.
“It means your brothers and sisters
are suffering, and you should know
they are suffering and be aware of all
the dedicated people working on their
behalf,” he said.
To that end, the St. Hilary team conducts in-depth interviews that are published on the Pencils for Africa website,
pencilsforafrica.com.
Learning about a Uganda man who
broke his pencil into five pieces so each
of his five children could attend school
made Lucia realize that one person’s
rubbish is another’s riches.
“I just take a pencil and throw it away,
and they’re treasuring these pencils
forever,” she said. “I think we need
to treasure a lot of stuff we take for
granted.”
All four girls said Pencils for Africa
has left a lasting impression that makes
them want to continue their leadership
roles next year.
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SUPERVISORS OK BUFFER ZONE
The San Francisco Board of
Supervisors voted 11-0 May 7 to
approve an ordinance creating a
fixed 25-foot buffer zone at all exits
and entrances and driveways of
free-standing reproductive health
clinics.
The ordinance will push pro-life
advocates farther away from the
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
clinic on Valencia Street, and make
it harder to sidewalk counsel women and men coming to the clinic,
said Cathleen Gillies, who has been
praying outside the clinic with 40
Days for Life of San Francisco.
The Valencia Street clinic performs surgical abortions and also
dispenses medications for chemical
abortion or RU-486.
After the ordinance was passed,
Gillies addressed the board and
asked that “we can continue the dialogue going forward” on behalf of
the unborn and pregnant women.
CORRECTION
A story in the March 29 issue misstated the penalty for violating the
buffer zone law. The penalty for a
first offense would be up to three
months in jail or a fine of up to
$500, or both; for a second offense,
up to six months in jail or a fine of
$1,000, or both.
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Left, St. Robert School student Timothy Butler, pictured with his brother and Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, was honorable mention recipient
in the first and second grades category in the 24th annual archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest. Right, Sergio Vasquez and Raymond O’Connor,
Stuart Hall faculty members, are pictured with Liam Lynch, high school grand-prize winner, and Liam’s parents, Bill and Carmelita Lynch.
Respect Life Essay Contest breaks records
VICKI EVANS
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issues front and center for our archdiocesan schools and parish religious
education programs.
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Author of Life: None of us lives as his
own master and none of us dies as
his own master. While we live we are
responsible to the Lord, and when we
die, we die as his servants.” We translated this passage into essay questions
that challenged students to think of
an elderly, sick or disabled person they
knew and asked them to write about
how they could help and support that
person by putting the works of mercy
into action. The junior high and high
school students tackled the related
question of suicide, which is now the
leading cause of injury-related deaths
in America, and why assisted suicide is
not only against Catholic Church teaching, but a universal affront to human
dignity. The students, with guidance
from their teachers, rose to the occasion and entered many insightful and
sensitive essays into the contest.
Liam Lynch, our high school grand
prize winner from Stuart Hall High
School, expressed the case against physician-assisted suicide eloquently. “The
clever ploys of those that attempt to
support (physician-assisted suicide) are
based upon incomplete truths that try
to characterize the killing of a person
as just. Physician-assisted suicide is in
no way just... . Elderly patients could be
convinced into believing that they are
burdens upon society and are wasting
valuable public money, time and supplies because they remain living. There
would be no way to detect or monitor
this type of brainwashing, and it would
most likely become widespread because
the vulnerable in society are so defenseless and susceptible to influence.”
Trevor King, our first grade grand
prize winner from St. Matthew School,
showed profound insight into love and
caring for others in his handwritten essay. He wrote this about his grandmother: “Her parents died but lots of people
ESSAY CONTEST AWARD WINNERS
FIRST AND SECOND GRADES:
Grand prize, Trevor King, St. Matthew; first prize San Francisco, Daniel
Moreno, St. Monica; first San Mateo,
Ella MacGregor, St. Catherine of Siena;
first Marin, Claire Sullivan, St. Anthony
faith formation.
THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES:
Grand prize, Victoria Rodriguez, Our
Lady of Loretto; first San Francisco,
Fiona Baxter, St. Anne; first San Mateo,
Isabella Alterio, St. Veronica; first Marin,
Katrina Quinn, Our Lady of Loretto.
FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES: Grand
prize, Jenna Yandle, St. Anselm; first
San Francisco, Lauren Lee, St. Thomas
the Apostle; first San Mateo, Emily
Daza, St. Veronica; first Marin, Grace
Hood, Our Lady of Loretto.
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES:
Grand prize, Jacqueline Nguyen, St.
Monica; first San Francisco, Edward J.
Chin, St. Thomas the Apostle; first San
Mateo, Isabella Vincenzi, St. Veronica;
first Marin, Sydney Ratto, St. Isabella.
NINTH THROUGH 12TH GRADES:
Grand prize, Liam S. Lynch, Stuart
Hall; first San Francisco, Syrena Bui,
Sts. Peter & Paul religious education;
first San Mateo, Maria Miramontes, St.
Timothy religious education.
showed her love and she looked to God.
Now she is the best grandmother ever
because she takes care of everyone,
sharing God’s love, giving it back.”
EVANS is Respect Life Coordinator for the
archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and
Social Concerns.
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ARCHDIOCESE 7
Area Catholics recall impact of 100-year-old Carmelite
VALERIE SCHMALZ
Cloistered Carmelite Sister Mother Mary Joseph died May 5 at the age of 100 years and eight
months, having lived a life of
prayer and sacrifice inside the
walls of the Carmelite Monastery
of Cristo Rey in San Francisco for
more than 70 years.
Her sense of humor, loving personality, sharp mind and prayers
lifted up many people who came
to know her, friends and admirers
said in the days after her death.
Sister Mother
When she entered the monastery
Mary Joseph, OCD
on Parker Avenue, the Carmelites
were still learning English after fleeing the Mexican
government’s persecution of the Catholic Church.
The monastery was established in 1927 and Mother
Mary Joseph entered in 1941 at age 29, arriving from
El Paso. She was bilingual in English and Spanish
and as a postulant was given the responsibility of
helping with correspondence because of her prudence and wisdom, said Mother Elizabeth.
Many in San Francisco came to know Mother
Mary Joseph from her time “behind the turn,” a
reference to the turnstile behind a wood-paneled
wall in the foyer of the monastery where people
can speak with the sisters during specific times.
The turnstile is used to pass letters, cards and other
items.
“So many people, those who knew Mother know
that she had in her cell pictures of who she called
her gang. Dictators and thieves and bad people,”
said Father Kevin Kennedy, including Fidel Castro,
Hugo Chavez and others. “She spent her life praying
for them. And she said when I cross, I will see all of
them in heaven.”
“She called them ‘her sons,’” Carmelite Sister
Inez said.
“She had a great devotion to silence,” and taught
the younger sisters about how to be “quiet in the
presence of God,” said Sister Inez. “The last part
of her life, she spent it in prayer just in front of the
Blessed Sacrament.”
Mother Elizabeth and the other Carmelites spoke
face to face with visitors from behind an opening
in the grill in the monastery chapel May 9, the
evening of the rosary for Mother Mary Joseph. Her
funeral was May 10. The contemplative Carmelite vocation is to serve God exclusively through
prayer, sacrifice, and penance in a hidden way in
joyful community, according to a description at the
Institute on Religious Life website, and the sisters
rarely interact face to face with the outside world
and spend all but a couple of hours a day in silence.
Mother Mary Joseph “devoured books,” said
Mother Elizabeth, but was delicate and didn’t really like sports. She “loved to tell funny jokes” and
“She had a nice serious side to her as well,” said
Rosario Cortes, a friend whose husband’s cousin, a
Carmelite, was one of Mother Mary Joseph’s good
friends. She was an organist and loved ballroom
dancing before she entered the order, Cortes said.
Until a few months ago when she turned 100,
Mother Mary Joseph continued to help with the
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monastery correspondence on the computer,
Mother Elizabeth and Sister Inez said.
“She always made you feel like you were the most
important person,” said Doreen Glynn Pawski, a
secular Carmelite, who is one of about 70 lay Carmelites affiliated with the monastery. “She never
forgot anything, even though she was over 100.”
“She called me her little bambino,” said Tony
Batshon, who first met her decades ago when he
was 13, she was Sister Mary Joseph, and he was
helping his father deliver food from their restaurant, John’s Ocean Beach Café.
“She would always have a smile on her face and
she would always have a glow,” said Dawn Williams, who stayed several weeks at the monastery
before determining she did not have a vocation to
the community.
Mother Mary Joseph was more than ready to
go to the Lord, said Father Kennedy, who led the
rosary.
“It was decades of waiting to see the Lord,
decades of waiting, but those decades were spent
like Mary in the heart of the church, serving
that church as a discalced Carmelite. Therefore,
serving, witnessing through prayer,” said Father
Kennedy.
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Extraordinary form of Latin Mass debuts at Star of the Sea
VALERIE SCHMALZ
At the initiative of San Francisco Archbishop
Salvatore J. Cordileone, Star of the Sea Parish in San
Francisco will debut the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass on
May 26, Trinity Sunday. The Mass will be offered every
Sunday at 11 a.m.
“I received very many requests from the faithful
to establish this Mass here in the city,” Archbishop
Cordileone said of his decision to ask Star of the Sea
pastor Father Mark Mazza to learn how to celebrate
the extraordinary form and offer it at the parish.
“It’s very exciting and I am looking forward to it,”
said Father Mazza, who has spent months learning the
complicated rubrics of the Mass, using both videos
and direct tutelage from an expert in the liturgy, Benedictine Father Samuel F. Weber.
“It’s very focused on our Lord. I think it speaks to
the heart,” said Jay Balza, who attended an information session May 7 at Star of the Sea.
The extraordinary form had been celebrated at Most
Holy Redeemer Parish by Father William Young but
when he moved to Marin last year, it was no longer of-
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“At Star of the Sea Parish I found a church suitable for accommodating this form of the Mass that
is centrally located and with a pastor willing to learn
how to celebrate it in order to provide it to his people,”
Archbishop Cordileone said.
Archbishop Cordileone noted that Pope Benedict
XVI in a “motu proprio” issued in 2007, “Summorum
Pontificum,” guaranteed the faithful the right to attend the Latin Mass according to the 1962 edition of
the Roman Missal in any parish where there is a stable
group of parishioners desiring it. “In accordance with
my pastoral duty, I sought to respond to their legitimate request,” Archbishop Cordileone said.
The extraordinary form is sometimes called the
Tridentine Mass in reference to the Council of Trent
(1545-1563), although the basic form of the Mass can be
traced all the way back to the apostles. The form of the
missal in use in Rome at the time was implemented
by Pope St. Pius V in 1570 after the council decided to
mandate the Roman rite for the whole Western church
due in part to local abuses that contributed to the
Protestant Reformation, according to “The Extraordinary Form of the Mass Explained” by Father Richard
Whinder. However, those areas and communities that
had their own proper form of the Mass in use for more
than 200 years could retain it if they so chose, as, for
example, the Archdiocese of Milan and the Dominican
order did, among others.
The missal has undergone various editions with
slight modifications since then, with the last version
published by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1962. After the
Second Vatican Council, the 1962 Roman Missal form
of the Mass remained valid, but for decades its celebration was discouraged by clergy and bishops who felt its
practice was against the spirit of Vatican II.
In the extraordinary form, the priest prays the canon and many other parts of the Mass facing the altar
with the people, rather than facing toward the people,
in “the ancient image of the Church turned toward its
Savior,” Father Whinder writes.
Holy Communion is always distributed by the priest
on the tongue to faithful kneeling at a communion rail
(while this practice has not been abrogated, bishops’
conferences are allowed, if they so choose, to establish
that communion is to be received standing and that
the communicant has the option of receiving communion in the hand, as is the case in the United States).
While the readings may now be given in the vernacular, the rest of the Mass is in Latin. Many of the
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prayers are different; the priest says many of them
quietly and there is much more time for silent prayer
than in the Novus Ordo, which is the form of the liturgy set in 1970 in the missal of Pope Paul VI.
All Catholics should have some familiarity with
both forms of the Roman rite, said Father Weber, and
most people will be drawn to one or the other. “The
point is to understand them as both making an important and valid contribution to the church’s life of
worship, and therefore to her evangelizing mission as
well,” Father Weber said.
Making this form of the Mass available “promotes
Pope Benedict’s vision of the ‘mutual enrichment’ of
the two forms of the Roman rite,” the archbishop said.
“As he reminds us, what was once held as sacred and
beautiful remains such; it is not repudiated by new
forms of worship. On the contrary, both forms of the
Roman rite – Mass according to the Roman missals
of Pope John XXIII of 1962 (“Extraordinary Form”)
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Ordo”) are valid, retain their value, and can enrich
each other in a way that furthers the Second Vatican
Council’s vision of ongoing liturgical renewal,” Archbishop Cordileone said.
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Bishop decries Vermont doctor-assisted suicide law
AT A GLANCE
JOSEPH AUSTIN
WASHINGTON – Now that Vermont allows
doctor-prescribed suicide, “the magnificent landscape of this state, which echoes life from its
majestic mountains to its powerful waterways,
no longer is reflected in the laws which govern
the Green Mountain State,” said the head of the
statewide Diocese of Burlington.
“Vermont is now identified as one of the few
death states where it is legal for life to be terminated at its beginning and end stages,” said
Bishop Salvatore R. Matano in a statement
issued May 20, a little more than an hour after
Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide.
“It is a tragic moment in the rich history of
our state that our elected officials have passed
and signed into law legislation placing medical
professionals in the position of legally prescribing medicines with the sole intention of terminating human life,” the bishop said.
Vermont becomes the first state to have such a
law passed by the Legislature.
Under Vermont’s new physician-assisted suicide law, doctors can prescribe death-inducing
drugs to terminally ill individuals who want to
commit suicide who then administer the medication themselves. The Vermont law limits the
prescriptions of death-inducing medications to
residents of the state.
Physician-assisted suicide also has been legalized in Oregon and Washington by a ballot initiative and in Montana by court ruling.
“This new law asks those in the medical
profession, which is a vocation dedicated to the
UNDER VERMONT’S DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE LAW, doctors can prescribe death-inducing
drugs to terminally ill individuals who want to commit suicide.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DIOCESE OF BURLINGTON said that passage of the law in Vermont
is likely to encourage other New England states to
take similar action.
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE also has been
legalized in Oregon and Washington by a ballot
initiative and in Montana by court ruling.
OPPONENTS SAID TIMELY PALLIATIVE CARE is
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physician-assisted suicide when they fear or lack
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service of life, to destroy the very lives they have
pledged to save and to comfort at life’s most critical moments,” Bishop Matano said.
From the beginning of his term in January
2011, Shumlin has made it a priority to pass
physician-assisted suicide legislation. “As governor, I will strongly champion death with dignity
legislation ... I will make this a top priority and
ask the Legislature to take this civil rights issue
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14 statement.
“The patient is required to have a ‘terminal
condition,’ defined as having a medical prediction of less than six months to live ... doctor
predictions of life expectancy can be wrong,”
she said.
Medical advances have made it more difficult
to accurately pinpoint life expectancy, Jon Radulovic, vice president of communications for the
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, told CNS.
“When hospice is gotten in a timely fashion,
issues like pain control can generally be addressed,” he said, explaining that people might
desire physician-assisted suicide when they are
afraid or lacking control of their end-of-life situation.
The Vermont Medical Society believes that palliative care and training will provide a “strong
alternative for patients who ask for assisted
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“This poorly crafted bill has even fewer safeguards than the Oregon law,” Dr. Edward Mahoney, president of Vermont Alliance for Ethical
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10 NATIONAL
Catholics told to be ‘fearless leaders’
WASHINGTON – In dealing with several serious
issues confronting the church and society today, “the
only question is how you respond, not whether you
should,” said Helen Alvare at the National Catholic
Prayer Breakfast, held May 9 in Washington.
The response Alvare suggested to her audience:
“As our leader (Pope Francis) is fearless, let us be
fearless leaders.”
Alvare, an associate professor at the George Mason
University School of Law in Arlington, Va., a suburb
of Washington, said Christians can’t merely find
issues on which to work. “Rather, they find us,” she
added.
“You live when you live, in the place where you’re
put, and you’re given the issues you’re given,” Alvare
said.
The prime issue she raised in her talk was that
“our government is today endorsing a view of
intimate human relationships we might call ‘sexual
expressionism.’ That is, it is championing as a
cherished right, any consensual sexual act, with an
emphasis on those (acts) divorced intrinsically or
technologically from having kids, and even often divorced from forming any lasting adult relationship!”
She referred specifically to matters of abortion,
contraception and same-sex marriage.
Alvare cited “decades of experience with sex, marriage and parenting practices that violate Catholics’
and, really, most Americans’ deeply held beliefs
about what promotes the flourishing, of women –
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She added, “We know – even using the limited tools
the world accepts as legitimate, that is, empirical
data – that the new sex, mating and marriage marketplaces have treated women terribly – women, who
were supposed to reap most of all of the advantages
of separating sex and marriage and kids via contraception and abortion.”
Alvare said, “Policymakers are all too often trying
to deal with the gap between the advantaged and the
disadvantaged on the cheap, right? First with more
contraception, then more abortion, then when those
don’t work, more long acting, invasive contraception – marketed especially to the poor – or emergency
contraception, even for kids, then by forcing even
religious institutions to go along with their program.
“And all this despite evidence that the only groups
who have in the past received free contraception and
sometimes government funded abortion, are the very
groups who thereafter suffered the highest rates of
nonmarital births, abortions and sexually transmitted infections,” Alvare continued.
Alvare said the nation’s poorest “don’t seem to be
anywhere near the top of anyone’s political agenda,”
despite evidence that they are suffering.
“They are disproportionately ill, intergenerationally downwardly mobile, and increasingly bereft of
the fundamental goods of marriage and marital parenting, access to which I would argue should be the
basis even for a new human rights, new civil rights
struggle for those disadvantaged men and women
who are called to marriage and parenting.”
the motion, meaning the law cannot go into effect
in August as scheduled, pending the resolution of
the legal issues.
Originally passed over Gov. Mike Beebe’s veto by
the Republican-led Legislature, the law narrows
the window for most abortions in the state to prior
to 12 weeks, the point at which a baby’s heartbeat
can typically be detected. The law makes exceptions for cases of rape, incest, threat to the life of
the mother or lethal fetal abnormalities. The law
was, at the time of passage, the most restrictive
abortion law in the country.
Arkansas Right to Life executive director Rose
Mimms said the action was not unexpected, nor
was the outcome. However, she said even as she
granted the injunction, the judge was intrigued by
other elements of the bill.
“The judge was very sympathetic to the informed consent provisions in this law,” she said.
“She was interested in the parts that give a woman
information about her child that could make a
difference in her decision to abort the baby in the
first place.”
HONORS TO IRISH PM KEEPS CARDINAL AWAY
BOSTON – Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley did
not attend Boston College’s commencement this year
because the college honored the prime minister of
Ireland, who has supported a bill to introduce legalized abortion in that country.
In a statement May 10, Cardinal
O’Malley said he cannot support
the Jesuit-run university when
it confers an honorary degree on
Prime Minister Enda Kenny at commencement ceremonies, which took
place May 20 – an event traditionally
attended by Boston’s archbishop.
Cardinal O’Malley, chairman of
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the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, referenced
a 2004 declaration by the USCCB in his statement.
“Because the Gospel of life is the centerpiece of
the church’s social doctrine and because we consider
abortion a crime against humanity, the Catholic bishops of the United States have asked that Catholic institutions not honor government officials or politicians
who promote abortion with their laws and policies,”
he said.
The cardinal said he recently became aware of the
invitation of Kenny to speak and receive honors at the
commencement.
“I am sure that the invitation was made in good
faith, long before it came to the attention of the leadership of Boston College that Mr. Kenny is aggressively
promoting abortion legislation,” he said.
Since the university has not rescinded the invitation
and the prime minister has not declined, the cardinal
said he will not attend but promised to keep students
graduating that day in his thoughts and prayers.
Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn said in a
statement the university invited the prime minister in
recognition of its close relationship with Ireland.
He also said that Kenny “has encouraged individuals to read the proposed bill and his position statement, which reaffirms the constitutional prohibition
on abortion in Ireland and attempts to clarify and
regulate Ireland’s response to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights.”
As a Catholic institution, Boston College supports
the church’s commitment to protecting the unborn, he
added.
Despite a 2011 campaign promise by Kenny not to
introduce abortion to Ireland, the Irish government
proposed legislation in 2012 that would decriminalize
abortion in cases where the mother faced a threat to
her life, including the possibility of suicide.
In 2013, in a speech after the Irish government published the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill,
Kenny defended it, noting the judgment by the European court. “This bill restates the general prohibition
on abortion in Ireland,” he said.
“We are a compassionate people. This is about
women, it is about saving lives – the life of the mother
and the life of the unborn,” he said.
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Pope: Don’t be ‘couch potato Christians’
CAROL GLATZ
VATICAN CITY – The church doesn’t need couch
potato Catholics, it needs believers with “apostolic
zeal,” willing to preach the uncomfortable words of
Christ, Pope Francis said.
“And if we annoy people” with this zeal for
Christ, then “blessed be the Lord,” he said in his
daily morning Mass homily May 16.
The pope celebrated Mass in the chapel of the
Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives, for employees of Vatican Radio and the Pontifical Council
for Justice and Peace. The pope concelebrated the
Mass with Cardinal Peter Turkson and Bishop
Mario Toso, respectively president and secretary of
the justice and peace council.
In his homily, the pope talked about the day’s
reading from the Acts of the Apostles. St Paul
caused a near riot during his trial in Jerusalem
when he addressed a group of men divided over the
belief in the resurrection of the dead.
“Paul is a nuisance” in his preaching, his work
and his attitude, the pope said, “because he proclaims Jesus Christ.”
Evangelization “makes us uncomfortable; many
times our comfort zones, even Christian comfort
zones, are bothered” by it, he said.
God wants people to always move forward, even
despite the trials and obstacles, and to not “take
refuge in an easy life or in a cozy world.”
St. Paul, by preaching the Lord, “annoyed
people,” but he kept at it “because he had that very
Christian attitude inside of apostolic zeal, he had
real apostolic fervor,” the pope said.
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Pope Francis shakes hands with Argentine tennis player
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Square at the Vatican May 15.
“He wasn’t a man of compromise. No. The truth
goes forward, proclaiming Jesus Christ goes forward,” he said.
But going forward and sharing Jesus with the
world meant St. Paul always found himself in trouble, not because he wanted to create trouble, but it
was trouble for God’s sake, Pope Francis said.
Apostolic zeal is not just for missionaries, it is for
everyone, the pope said.
There are “lukewarm Christians” in the church
who “don’t feel like going forward,” he said.
“There are even couch potato Christians, right?
Those who are well-mannered, all perfect, but they
don’t know how to bring people to the church” with
evangelization and zeal.”
ENGLISH PRELATES: RETHINK SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL
MANCHESTER, England – England’s Catholic
leaders have asked politicians to “think again”
about redefining marriage to include same-sex
couples, but to protect conscience rights if they pass
the legislation.
The Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill poses
“grave risks to freedom of speech and freedom of
religion,” said Archbishops Vincent Nichols of
Westminster and Peter Smith of Southwark, president and vice president of the Bishops’ Conference
of England and Wales.
“If the bill is to proceed through Parliament, we
urge members to ensure it is amended so that these
fundamental freedoms we all cherish are clearly
and demonstrably safeguarded,” they said in a May
15 statement. The bill was headed for its report
stage and third reading in the House of Commons
May 20-21.
The archbishops said the bill would effectively
destroy the understanding of marriage as a lifelong
union between a man and a woman open to the
procreation and education of children.
They set out their fears in a six-page briefing
released with their statement. The briefing explains
in detail how the church would suffer if the bill was
not amended.
Among the threats, according to the May 9 briefing,
is the possibility that Catholic schools will be compelled “to promote and endorse same-sex marriage”
because the 1996 Education Act imposes a statutory
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Rare painting of Native Americans revealed
VATICAN CITY – A little bit of spring cleaning
or a much needed renovation can turn up the most
unexpected things – especially if you’re sprucing up
or digging through the Vatican.
Home of hundreds of thousands of artifacts, archived documents, ornate frescoes, plaster niches and
underground tombs, it can be heavenly for a treasure
hunt.
The latest precious find came after restorers tackled
the Borgia Apartments, which were decorated by
the Renaissance master, Bernardino di Betto, better
known as Pintoricchio.
The Vatican Museums’ director thinks what restorers found under soot and successive coats of color are
the very first painted depictions of Native Americans.
Antonio Paolucci told the Vatican newspaper the
recently unveiled portion of the fresco shows a cluster
of “nude men, ornate with feathers, in the act of what
seems to be dancing.”
The mysterious men appear in the background
under a Risen Christ in Pintoricchio’s fresco of “The
Resurrection” in the Room of the Mysteries of Faith
in the Borgia Apartments.
Paolucci said it wasn’t inconceivable that the Renaissance painter included the then-recently discovered
inhabitants of the New World.
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This is a detail view of what a Vatican Museum official believes may be the first painted depictions of Native Americans.
The male figures appear just below the depiction of the risen
Christ in Pintoricchio’s fresco of “The Resurrection.”
Spanish Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, whose country
of origin was funding the voyages, was elected Pope
Alexander VI in 1492, just a month before Christopher
Columbus sighted land in the Americas.
“The Borgia pope was interested in the New World,”
Paolucci said. The process of decorating the apartments finished in 1494 and it is unlikely the pope “was
in the dark about what Columbus saw when he arrived
to the ends of the earth.”
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pilgrims and tourists.
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9:30-37 – the pope said that while Jesus is talking
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JONATHAN LUXMOORE
OXFORD, England – A German church spokesman
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provoked controversy by advocating a form of diaconate for women.
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basis of Catholic doctrine. So there’s no division
over reform issues like this,” Eberle said in a May 8
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Archbishop Zollitsch made his proposal April 28
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church reforms, at which 33 separate recommendations were debated by 300 participants.
He said he supported “a further deepening of the
common priesthood of all baptized persons,” and
would promote “a variety of services and ministries.” He also said both men and women “should
be respected and taken seriously in the church,”
adding that he believed work posts should also be
offered to people with “different lifestyles.”
The archbishop added that he was also “committed to new ecclesiastical services and ministries
open to women,” including “a specific deaconry for
women.”
Eberle said Archbishop Zollitsch was speaking only “in his capacity as local archbishop” and
referred to a similar Feb. 20 proposal by Cardinal
Walter Kasper, former president of the Pontifical
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percent of the country’s “engaged Catholics.”
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Catholic women’s organizations want more than
just a special, second-rank position,” Hucker told
CNS May 8.
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women to have the same rights as male deacons, to
be trained and ordained for work in the same office.”
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simply intended to pray for the suffering person
before him,” said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.
Father Lombardi issued his statement late
May 20 after Italian papers began reporting the
story, citing TV2000, the satellite television station owned by the Italian bishops’ conference.
Promoting an upcoming program on Pope Francis’ teaching about the existence of the devil and
his influence on people, the station said it had
asked several exorcists to watch the video clip
from May 20 and they agreed, “It was a prayer of
liberation from evil or a real exorcism.”
Other theologians and exorcists contacted
by Italian media said a priest – even the pope –
would never perform an exorcism on the spur
of the moment and without first ascertaining
that the suffering person was not afflicted by a
physical or mental illness. In addition, exorcism
is a rite that includes set prayers, blessings and
invocations.
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15
Dropped back into civilian life after
active duty, service men and women
find the support they need in each other
DANA PERRIGAN
World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle
once observed that there were no atheists in
foxholes.
Judging from Iraq war veteran Daniel
Acree’s experience during airborne training,
there probably aren’t too many among those
waiting to jump out of airplanes either.
“As those doors opened and I saw the earth
flying by, the first thing I did was pray,” said
Acree. “I said, “Hey, we don’t talk a lot, but I
could really use your help right now.’”
While it takes courage to leap from the belly of a plane, medical health professionals
say that it requires an equal or even greater
amount of the right stuff to make the transition from military to civilian life. Even
those fortunate enough to escape serious
physical injury from combat wounds face
formidable challenges. Support is crucial.
For Acree – and hundreds of other veterans who enrolled in City College of San
Francisco after their military service – that
support can be found at the recently renamed Walter Newman Veteran Center. The
first in the nation to offer an on-campus
Department of Veterans Affairs satellite office, the 3-year old center, which started out
in the basement of Conlan Hall, is there to
serve the school’s 1,300 vets.
Special help for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans
Now located in two adjoining classrooms
in Cloud Hall, the center offers veterans convenient access to VA enrollment and health
services. There is a special program to help
Iraq-Afghanistan vets. It also offers counseling for individuals, couples and families, referrals, academic help and career planning.
“We try to make it a one-stop shopping
model,” said Bridget Leach, a licensed
clinical social worker. “We do a little bit of
everything.”
The center also has a lounge where veterans can study, relax and just hang out with
their peers.
“When you get out of active duty, you go
from where you do everything as a team to
being a lone wolf – out of the pack,” said
Acree. “I’ve been blessed with supportive
friends and family, but a lot of vets don’t
have that.”
“The center didn’t exist when I first came
here,” said Army veteran Aundray Rogers,
credited by other student veterans as being
one of the center’s pioneers. “But we realized that, being vets, trained to serve, there
was a lot that we could do for the community. And don’t forget – there are plenty more
of us coming back now.”
Rogers and Acree serve, respectively, as
president and vice president of the Veterans
Alliance, an organization dedicated to helping student vets.
“A lot of us here have PTSD, brain trauma
– a lot of us here have been there,” said
Acree. “And if we can’t help them, we can
direct them.”
Growing up in a small town in the Cali-
fornia foothills, Acree quit college to join
the Army when he was 19. In 2003, he was
deployed to Tikrit, Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s
hometown and the site of his capture.
“They called it the ‘wild west,’” said
Acree. “We didn’t even have sandbags yet. It
was fascinating to be a 19-year-old kid from
the small town of Sonora and to be there.”
Faith played a role ‘when things got scary’
Raised as a Catholic, Acree believes that
his faith did play a role during his military
service – especially when things got scary.
“All I had, basically, was my relationship
with God,” he said. “I knew I could get
through it, that I had some support.”
After working several years for the Teamsters Union, Acree decided to return to college to pursue a career in law enforcement.
Now 29, his perspective on war has changed
somewhat.
“Now I have classes with 18- and 19-year-old
students and I ask myself, how can we ask 18and 19-year-old kids to fight in a war?”
About a year after his discharge in 2005,
Acree said he started having nightmares
and what he calls “reactionary behavior.”
He felt isolated and found it hard to connect
with people his age, so he joined the Army
Reserves.
“I definitely had some symptoms (of
PTSD),” said Acree. “Had I known the help
and support I needed were here at school, I
would have used them.”
Acree doesn’t regret his time in the Army
or serving in Iraq, and he is thankful for the
benefits that will help him reach his educational goals.
There is something else for which he is
grateful.
“My uncle was in Vietnam during the Tet
offensive and he was looked at as a baby
killer,” said Acree. “I just feel really fortunate to live in an era where I don’t have to go
through that. I receive the same support my
grandfather received after he came home
from World War II.”
‘You go from where you do everything as a team to being a
lone wolf – out of the pack. I’ve been blessed with supportive
friends and family, but a lot of vets don’t have that.’
‘We realized that, being vets, trained to serve, there was a lot
that we could do for the community. And don’t forget – there are
plenty more of us coming back now.’
‘I came in here my first day and there were all these guys.
The brotherhood is amazing. There’s so many veterans at this
school and they’re all different, they’re all unique.’
DANIEL ACREE
AUNDRAY ROGERS
ROBERT YARNALL
Iraq War veteran
Army veteran, pioneer of Walter Newman Veteran Center
learned a lot from her military experience.
“One of the biggest things is compassion
for people who are different,” she said. “It
made me see how nothing in the world is
black and white.”
Aware of what she calls “the stigma of the
messed-up vet,” she cautions others to avoid
making assumptions about veterans.
“I think people should never assume about
someone’s service,” she said. “If you’re a
woman, they assume that you weren’t in
combat. They assume that everyone who
came back has PTSD, or that all vets with
PTSD are crazy.
“Finally, don’t ever ask us if we killed
someone: I hate that.”
Like Guy, Iraqi veteran Robert Yarnall
emerged from his time in the military with
more compassion for people living in other
countries. As a bulk fuel specialist in Iraq,
he worked closely with contract laborers
from Sri Lanka and Uganda and other Third
World countries, poor people who worked
12 hours a day under the hot sun for a few
hundred dollars a month.
Struggling to make the transition
Like Acree, Army veteran Dottie Guy
struggled to make the transition to civilian
life after serving in Iraq as an MP guarding
and transporting high-value prisoners. Discharged in 2008, Guy said she later started
having trouble sleeping. After experiencing
a panic attack while out shopping with some
friends one day, she sought help from a VA
counselor.
“I was in the Foot Locker, there were all
these shoes, and I felt overwhelmed at having to make a choice,” said Guy. “I finally
made the saleslady pick out a pair for me.
I didn’t want to make a choice because in
Iraq, if you made the wrong choice, someone could get killed.”
Guy went home and, not wanting to talk to
anyone, stayed there for a month.
Initially, said Guy, she didn’t think her
problems were as severe as they were. And
she didn’t seek help at what was then called
the Student Resource Center.
Iraq War veteran
(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Iraq-Afghanistan veterans at City College of San Francisco raise their organization’s banner during a recent event on campus. The organization is a resource enabling
former service men and women to help one another in the transition to civilian life.
“A lot of people when they get out of the
military, they don’t want anything to do
with it,” she said. “I didn’t really use it because in the military I was around so many
men and I didn’t want to be in that culture
again.”
Her VA counselor, she said, helped her a
lot.
“I still have my days,” she said. “I slept
pretty decent last night.”
Unlike Acree, religion didn’t play much of
a role when Guy was in the war zone.
“I grew up in the South, in the Bible Belt
where everything was a sin,” she said.
“There was a lot of hypocrisy. Our pastor
sued the church for more money, and church
was more of a fashion show. I do consider
myself a spiritual person, though. I’m definitely not an atheist.”
No longer a student at City College, Guy
said she now serves her country as a VA
outreach coordinator, making sure other
veterans get the help they need. She barely
remembers the short debriefing she received prior to her own discharge.
“The military knows a lot about how to
transform people into warriors,” she said,
“but not so much how to transform them
back into civilians.”
Like Acree, Guy believes she has
‘The brotherhood is amazing’
Raised in Portland, Ore., Yarnall said
he was a poor student in high school, and
something of a troublemaker, who never
thought about going to college. Following
his discharge in 2011, however, he decided to
move to San Francisco and enroll at CCSF.
“Now I have a 3.4 GPA and I’m going to
the University of San Francisco in the fall,”
he said. “I couldn’t have done it without
the veteran bill (Post-911 GI Bill) and the
vet center. I came in here my first day and
there were all these guys. The brotherhood
is amazing. There’s so many veterans at this
school and they’re all different, they’re all
unique.”
For Yarnall, the transition was mainly one
from the male-dominated, testosterone-laden culture of the Marines, where everything
depended upon brute strength and strategic
planning, to the critical thinking skills he
has since learned to use as a student.
“I thought I was kind of laid-back, but I
was kind of mean when I got out,” said Yarnall, “My first semester I took a psychology
course and that put me in my place.”
Last year, said Yarnall, was the best year
of his life. He and another veteran went to
Staten Island to help victims of Hurricane
Sandy during Thanksgiving break.
“I’m not a religious person,” said Yarnall,
“but I do believe in a higher power. I believe
in doing good.”
Keith Armstrong, director of the Veterans
Outreach Program at CCSF, said the transition from military service to civilian life
can be overwhelming.
“You go from having all your basic needs
met to a whole new style of responsibility,”
he said. “If you were in combat . . . you go
from being concerned about being killed to
having people complain about things that
you feel aren’t very important.”
The author of “Courage After Fire” and
“Courage After Fire For Parents,” Armstrong said the program at CCSF has now
been replicated at more than 20 other colleges and universities.
“I think it is our duty to be really reaching
out to our veterans where they are, instead of
the old model of waiting for them to come to
us when they’re sick,” he said. “We’re in their
corner. They deserve this – they’ve served.”
16 OPINION
Sisters’ anti-trafficking campaign moves forward
SISTER DOLORES BARLING, SNJM
Did you read Pope Francis’ Easter
homily? It was entitled “God Always
Surprises.”
He really got that right. Wow!
Many of us have felt God’s surprises
in our personal lives. I was surprised
one night in Rome, in 1976, when I
went into anaphylactic shock and had
no blood pressure and no pulse. In the
morning, thanks to good medical care,
I was alive. Wow: What a surprise!
Astounding surprises happen in
the corporate world as well. This is
true for a recent decision made by
top management of a large, international hotel corporation that has
several hotels and franchises in the
Bay Area. Management’s decision was
to advance the timeline on training
their hotel employees to recognize and
report possible incidents of human
trafficking on their premises. Training will be completed before the final
America’s Cup races in August and
September.
Human trafficking, as you probably
know, can be a matter of forced labor
or the enslavement of women and
young girls for sexual exploitation.
Frequently this takes place at large
sporting events like the Olympics or
the Super Bowl where the demand
is great. With utter disregard for the
injustice to victims of human trafficking, criminals operate huge systems
and rake in enormous amounts of
money. Worldwide, this crime is one of
the most lucrative.
Here in the United States this
corporation is in the process of creat-
Members of the STOP SLAVERY Northern California coalition of Catholic sisters are, back row
from left, Sisters John Paul Chao, SMSM; Therese Randolph, RSM; Fran Tobin, RSCJ; Dolores
Barling, SNJM; coordinator Lyn Kirkconnell. Seated, from left, Sisters Mary Ann Foy, RSCJ;
Judy Lu McDonnell, OP; Marie Gaillac, CSJO; Catarian Chu, DC. Not pictured are Ruth Robinson,
Sister Rosemary Campi, PBVM.
ing a Web-based, worldwide training
program but, since the program needs
to be implemented in the next few
months here in the Bay Area, personnel will come to San Francisco for
on-site training of hotel employees.
Human trafficking instruction usually
asks employees to be alert for clues
such as evidence of women being
controlled, bruises or other signs of
physical abuse, fear or depression,
girls and women not speaking on their
own behalf, lack of identification etc.
If such signs are noticed, the usual
procedure is for hotel employees to tell
hotel security or management who
investigate and then call the police, if
necessary.
While not called “Nuns Against
Slavery,” religious women have united
in a global effort to combat the evil
of human trafficking. In the United
States the Leadership Conference of
Women Religious has been engaged in
this effort for years. Many religious
communities have taken corporate
stances against human trafficking and
are working in various ministries to
it, is true. However, another chart category is “allows civil unions” which
essentially describes California’s
domestic partnership program.
“Civil unions provide legal recognition to the couples’ relationship and
provides legal rights to the partners
similar to those accorded to spouses
in marriages …. Three states (one
of which is California) have adopted
broad domestic partnerships that
grant nearly all state-level spousal
rights to unmarried couples. Domestic partnerships are available to both
same-sex and opposite-sex couples”
(www.ncsl.org/issues-research/
human-services/civil-unions-anddomestic-partnership-statutes.aspx).
“California, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon, Washington and the District of
Columbia have domestic partnership
laws, which are fundamentally similar to civil unions” (www.factcheck.
org/what_is_a_civil_union.html).
The distinction between civil
unions and domestic partnerships
warrant California being recognized
differently from what the chart does.
Jim McCrea
Piedmont
Far from this inspiration to seek
solidarity with those who struggle,
was the other writer, Stephen
Kent,who strayed from Effie Caldarola’s observation that Jesus urged
his disciples to “always keep the poor
with you, always.”
Kent’s regard for poverty begins
with his discomfort, as a cramped
airline passenger, and drifts into a
critique of government spending cuts
and sequestration, as if lawmakers
bear responsibility for poverty, and
are to blame for expenditures he is
unhappy about.
He completely misses the importance of Effie Caldarola’s respect for
the work of Jesus and the two martyrs, who gave generously of themselves to make life better for the poor.
With this enlightenment, we can
rise above the perception that it’s
government’s role to heap taxation’s
burden on us all while scattering
money onto the poor who might be
prospective voters.
So, while Jesus said, “Render unto
Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,”
he led us on the true way to help the
poor: by following Jesus.
The answer, we can conclude from
these two opinion pieces, is not in
government, but in following what is
taught us by the word of God.
Robert Jimenez
Burlingame
assist victims of this horrid crime.
In addition, many communities join
their resources in socially responsible
corporate investments, thus giving
them a voice to influence corporate
policy by shareholder resolutions and
by dialogue.
The decision of the hotel corporation to bring its training to the Bay
Area before the America’s Cup races
is a result of various efforts coming together: the commitment of the
international corporation to work
against human trafficking, the efforts
of the local sisters’ coalition to draw
attention to this at area hotels, and the
sisters’ voices as socially responsible
investors.
We can rejoice in this new partnership between a religious coalition
and a hotel corporation. One can
imagine the delight of women religious involved in this effort which at
times has been very discouraging (see
“Confession of One Nun,” Catholic
San Francisco, March 22). The hotel
management’s decision exemplifies
God’s Easter promise of making all
things new, even at the corporate level.
God rescues victims from the evil of
human trafficking and, as the Book of
Revelation promises, “God will wipe
away every tear from their eyes.” Alleluia for a committed hotel corporation, for the STOP SLAVERY coalition
and for the San Francisco Bay Area!
And may these efforts result in alleluia moments for victims of human
trafficking.
HOLY NAMES SISTER DOLORES BARLING lives in
San Bruno.
LETTERS
From breeze to whirlwind
Pope Francis is in a hurry. With his
dogged perseverance and fortitude,
and with his excellent body of cardinals who can be trusted, he will rebuild a church more faithful to Jesus
and the Gospel. He has already made it
clear that he will be different and will
not be boxed in by the Vatican hierarchy. His Jesuit shrewdness in selecting
cardinals from every continent, taking
into account their wisdom, will give
the Vatican a global representation
and step out from its walled city state.
It makes laudatory sense. It will not
be just the church of Rome, but a deep
sense of local belonging, and at the
same time universal.
The challenge for the church
today, is to win back those who have
abandoned their faith, and have
them cherish the church that God
has given them. He will modernize
the Vatican. Our electronic age has
allowed rapid global communication,
and he may learn much from the
private sector, especially in creating
and moving some of the departments
outside the Vatican and reform and
overhaul the Vatican bureaucracy.
Pope Francis is a gift from God.
He came in like a gentle breeze and
now has gradually become a kind of
whirlwind.
Lenny Barretto
Daly City
Thoughts on marriage chart
The chart accompanying “Archbishop: RI’s same-sex marriage law
‘serious injustice,’” (May 10) gives
erroneous information.
It lists California as a state that
“allows marriage only between a man
and a woman” which, on the face of
Following Jesus is the one true way
In the May 10 issue of CSF, two sideby-side opinion writers took on the
subject of poverty, and one, Effie Caldarola, got the issue right, focusing on
Christ’s choice of simplicity over using
more, to thus achieve solidarity with
those who struggle; as did the heroic
Archbishop Romero, and Jesuit Father
Rutilio Grande, when they stood firmly
with the poor in opposing Marxists
and oligarchy alike, until they were
assassinated and became martyrs for
following Christ to the end.
A pope with doctrinal discipline
Pope Francis is a Jesuit with humility, sanctity and doctrinal discipline.
The son of an immigrant is with
the poor – not “for the poor,” as we
Catholics so easily proclaim. Father
Jorge, SJ, was with the poor when it
was not easy: As provincial superior
of the Society of Jesus in Argentina,
he opposed liberation theology that
beguiles the poor into generational
dependency on the state. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, he defended
marriage and family and sought
social changes to enable the poor to
“build their own future … not from
the golden mouth of politicians.”
This humble Jesuit again will be
with the poor: He does not honor politicians who consider 54 million abortions a “choice,” and state-assisted
suicide and euthanasia to be “health
care.”
Some Catholic universities are
honoring “Catholic” politicians who
advocate taxpayer-funded abortifacients, contraception, assisted suicide
and euthanasia. These Catholics
need guidance and the universities
need doctrinal discipline. They are
suggesting support for politicians
and “reforms” that marginalize the
unborn, aged, weak and disabled.
Ad multos annos, Pope Francis.
Mike DeNunzio
San Francisco
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OPINION 17
Making room for women at
the highest rungs of business
I
n the early 1970s I began to notice what I then
called the feminization of Jesuit higher education. I was dean of arts and sciences at Loyola
University in New Orleans and then moved on to the
presidency of the University
of Scranton in Pennsylvania
– both Jesuit schools.
Female enrollment was
growing on both campuses
and I remember wondering
whether previously maledominant Jesuit colleges
were up to the challenge
of preparing women for
positions of leadership in a
changing world.
FATHER WILLIAM
In the 1990s I found myself
J. BYRON, SJ
teaching at the Georgetown
University business school
where the female enrollment was high and the women students were giving
serious thought to how they were going to strike a
balance between work and family in their careers.
I had all my students write a personal mission
statement to be carried with them as they picked
up their diplomas and ran. Invariably, the women
incorporated something about a balance between
family and career into that mission statement.
Now there are more women than men in colleges
all across the country. The challenge of educating
them (and helping them educate themselves) for
leadership is still there. So is the concern about
balancing work and family responsibilities.
Fortunately, for many females and their male
friends who are wise enough to want to explore that
issue together, Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, has produced a book titled “Lean
In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.” It opens up
issues that men and women should be discussing
together as they prepare to enter the world of work.
As they celebrate the growing recognition of
equality between men and women in America today,
men and women have to be encouraged to understand that, while equal, men and women are not
identical.
There are differences, and those differences have
to be recognized and respected if women are to
overcome their underrepresentation in the leadership ranks of American business. They also have to
be respected if there is to be a fair distribution of
housekeeping and child-rearing responsibilities in
the two-career family.
Women tend, for example, to be more relational
than men and more vulnerable to loneliness; men
tend to be more achievement-oriented and thus
more vulnerable to discouragement. This is not to
say that women do not want to achieve and men are
never lonely. It is simply a question of predisposition and propensity. There are differences.
The April issue of the Harvard Business Review
carries an interview-article with Sandberg titled
“Now Is Our Time.” Women and the men with
whom they will be cooperating and competing in
the workplace, as well as the men with whom they
will marry and establish families, will find here not
only food for thought but an agenda for planning
their respective careers.
Similarly, the “women’s centers” that are cropping
up on previously male-dominated campuses should
not exclude men but engage them as listeners and
contributors to the conversations about what it will
take to lift the glass ceiling and lower the barriers to
advancement that women now confront in the world
of work.
JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business
and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia.
Email [email protected]
Social movements and swimming against the tide
S
ame-sex marriage is one of the most successful
social movements in American history.
Writing in Commonweal, Andrew Koppelman said “its claims were outside the realm of political possibility as recently
as the early 1990s.
“Now its victory is probably inevitable,” wrote Koppelman, a law professor at
Northwestern University.
Based on current evidence, it is difficult to argue
with Koppelman’s opinion. The pressure to enact
same-sex marriage laws in
the states as well as at the
STEPHEN KENT
federal level is moving as an
avalanche roaring over obstacles in its way – including the Catholic Church.
In May, Delaware became the 11th state to legalize
same-sex marriage.
A social issue such as same-sex marriage gains
more support than the moral issues of abortion,
capital punishment, immigration rights.
Same-sex marriage proponents rely heavily
on arguments of justice to gain support for their
cause. But if justice can be seen as convincing in
a social question, why isn’t justice convincing in
moral issues involving the protection of human life
such as capital punishment and abortion?
Some progress is being made against capital punishment, but it is taking centuries to accomplish.
In early May, Maryland became the 18th state to
repeal the death penalty. The first state to repeal it –
Michigan – did so in 1846.
“This has been a long hard push for us since 1987
when we succeeded in winning legislation prohibiting the execution of juveniles, and two years later
banning the execution of persons with mental retardation,” said Richard Dowling, former director
of the Maryland Catholic Conference.
In the 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court
legalized abortion, those who oppose it have been
working for a Constitutional amendment based on
the belief that life begins at conception.
At the other end of the spectrum, from concep-
tion to natural death, is “death with dignity” or
physician-assisted suicide. Only two states, Washington and Oregon, have it but efforts are underway in other states.
Koppelman believes the same-sex marriage success is due to many opponents being inarticulate
and failing to pass their views on to their children.
Koppelman notes that a Gallup poll shows 53
percent of Americans favor same sex-marriage. Its
support has doubled in 15 years, he says.
A 2013 Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found that
a majority of Americans believe in legal abortion,
and seven out of 10 oppose efforts to overturn Roe
v. Wade.
Culture is encapsulated within and carried forward by religion throughout history.
Sociologists from the University of California,
Berkeley and Duke University found in a recent
study that the number of people who do not consider themselves part of an organized religion,
called the “nones” for their lack of affiliation, has
jumped dramatically in recent years.
In the 1930s and 1940s, the number of “nones”
hovered around 5 percent, one of the researchers
who conducted the study said. Since then, the number of people who don’t consider themselves part
of a religion has increased to 30 percent, according
to The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
“The liberal conception of religion being allowed
only in places of worship, and the elimination of
religion outside it, is not convincing,” said thenCardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis,
in 2010.
More recently, the pope offered words of encouragement.
“Listen carefully, young people, swim against the
tide; it’s good for the heart, but it takes courage,”
Pope Francis said at Mass April 28 in St. Peter’s
Square. “We Christians weren’t chosen by the Lord
to do little things.
“Let’s not get discouraged,” he said. “We have the
strength of the Holy Spirit to conquer these tribulations.”
KENT is the retired editor of archdiocesan newspapers
in Omaha and Seattle. Email [email protected].
Demanding
dignity and safety
despite the cost
W
hat a spring it has been for news. With everything from a terrorist attack in Boston
to a new pope in Rome (along with an old
pope in Rome), it has been news overload.
I must confess, the day
they locked up Boston and
searched for the second
bomber, I was riveted to the
news channels. But soon,
it’s off to the next “breaking news.”
I’d like to make a pitch for
one news event that should
remain in our consciousness but is quickly receding
even as I write this – April’s
EFFIE CALDAROLA
horrifying building collapse
in Bangladesh.
More than 1,000 people were killed, many of
them trapped amid rubble screaming for help,
and some even hacked away their own limbs in
an effort to free themselves. Appallingly, officials and owners had been warned that the
building was unsafe. Most of those people –
many women – were garment workers, and some
of us may now be wearing clothes sewed by
them.
Immediately, there were outcries against the
big-name companies whose clothes are produced
in Bangladesh. The garment industry, according
to a BBC story, accounts for almost 80 percent of
Bangladesh’s annual exports and provides employment for about 4 million. This was not the
first shocking disaster in the garment industry
there, and each time there has been a fire or a
collapse someone suggests things will change.
For those of us who want to be responsible
consumers, part of the problem lies in the issue’s complexity. Some blame the government,
which could enforce better building and safety
codes. Many blame the clothing companies who
do not demand decent conditions and pay for
their laborers. The companies, in turn, pass the
blame on to subcontractors, as if that absolves
the big names of responsibility.
Finally, many blame you and me – the Western
consumer who wants closets full of clothes, all at
a bargain.
What can we do? First of all, let’s remember
our sisters and brothers who were forced to labor in a crumbling building despite its imminent
demise. Our initial response might be, “I’ll never
buy anything with a Bangladeshi label again,”
but that isn’t fair to the folks who depend on that
industry for their livelihood – and if Bangladesh
is targeted, companies may just move the problem to another developing country.
The issue will be solved when we demand
clothing manufacturers unify in their determination to promote better working conditions in
all factories, despite the tiny cost increase that
may mean to us.
Last year, a book called “Overdressed: The
Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion,” by
Elizabeth Cline took us to task for overshopping
at rock bottom retailers. We all know kids today
who shop almost as if clothes were disposable, as
they nearly are at some cheap outlets. A “fashion
repeat” must be avoided in a school wardrobe.
But it’s not just kids.
People shop thoughtlessly, out of boredom,
wanting to score a “find,” not necessarily a need.
Bad for us, and bad for the planet, says Cline.
Remember when your grandmother bought a
winter coat to last for years? Remember when a
classic black dress lasted over the decades? Who
shops like that now? And who demands that kind
of quality and is willing to pay for it?
Let’s examine our closets. Expunge what we
don’t need, what doesn’t fit, what was ridiculously trendy and now looks merely ridiculous.
Let’s regret that impulse buy that fell apart
after a wash or two. Let’s research websites that
address the Bangladeshi disaster and promote
“green” clothes. Let’s be more conscious consumers.
Let’s shop smarter and use less.
18 FAITH
SUNDAY READINGS
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
‘He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.’
JOHN 16:12-15
PROVERBS 8:22-31
Thus says the wisdom of God:
“The Lord possessed me, the beginning of his ways,
the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago; from of
old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no fountains or springs of water;
before the mountains were settled into place, before
the hills, I was brought forth; while as yet the earth
and fields were not made, nor the first clods of the
world. “When the Lord established the heavens I was
there, when he marked out the vault over the face of
the deep; when he made firm the skies above, when
he fixed fast the foundations of the earth; when he
set for the sea its limit, so that the waters should not
transgress his command; then was I beside him as
his craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, playing before him all the while, playing on the surface of
his earth; and I found delight in the human race.
PSALM 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name
in all the earth!
When I behold your heavens, the work of your
fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in
place: What is man that you should be mindful of
him, or the son of man that you should care for
him?
in all the earth!
You have made him little less than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and honor. You have
given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet.
in all the earth!
All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the
field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and
whatever swims the paths of the seas.
in all the earth!
ROMANS 5:1-5
Brothers and sisters: Therefore, since we
have been justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through
whom we have gained access by faith to this
grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope
of the glory of God. Not only that, but we even
boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance,
proven character, and proven character, hope,
and hope does not disappoint, because the love
of God has been poured out into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit that has been given to
us.
JOHN 16:12-15
Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much
more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will
guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his
own, but he will speak what he hears, and will
declare to you the things that are coming. He
will glorify me, because he will take from what
is mine and declare it to you. Everything that
the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you
that he will take from what is mine and declare
it to you.”
The greatest mystery of all
I
love mystery novels. There’s nothing better than
sitting down with a good book and reading how
the protagonist puts together all the different
clues and eventually brings the bad guys to justice. It’s all very satisfying
and rewarding.
Life, unfortunately, isn’t
always so well ordered. We
often run into mysteries that
are never adequately solved
or explained. Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart?
What happened at Roswell in
1948? Are the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot real? These
are all fascinating questions,
and while it’s quite possible
that the answers can be
found in the secret Vatican
archives, it’s unlikely we’ll
DEACON MICHAEL solve these mysteries any
time soon. However, that
MURPHY
doesn’t stop us from trying!
Of course, the greatest and
most important mystery of all is God himself. From
the very first moment we could put together a
coherent thought, humans everywhere have been
driven to figure out who God is and what he is all
SCRIPTURE
REFLECTION
POPE FRANCIS
ASKING FOR A SHOW OF HANDS
If people open themselves up to the Holy
Spirit, he is the one who transforms the
heart inscribed with God’s word and law
and makes it new, “giving us the intelligence of the things of God,” Pope Francis
said May 15 at his weekly general audience
at the Vatican. This intelligence “can’t be
reached with our own efforts,” he said. “If
God doesn’t enlighten us within, our being
Christian will be superficial.”
The pope asked the crowd in St. Peter’s
Square whether they pray and are open
to the Holy Spirit every day. Looking for a
show of hands, the pope said, “hmm... not
many, not many, but we have to do what
Jesus wanted: Pray every day to the Holy
Spirit so that he opens our heart to Jesus.”
about. People have struggled with this for thousands of years, hoping that in better understanding
God, we might come closer to knowing and loving
him in very real and tangible ways. Yet no matter
how hard we’ve tried, the answers to these vital
questions have often seemed very elusive and far
away.
Recognizing our frustration, and wanting very
much to be closer and more intimate with us, God
has actually revealed a great deal about himself.
While we sometimes misunderstand, God’s generous revelation has indeed helped us to better know
him and grow in our relationship with him. One of
the most important teachings concerning our Lord
is celebrated this week in the Solemnity of the Most
Holy Trinity. In Sunday’s Gospel, the evangelist
John has Jesus, the son, speaking of both the father
and the Spirit. This beautiful reading hints at God’s
awesome beauty and complexity and points us in
his direction so we can now begin to understand
him more fully.
Of course, the doctrine of the Trinity can be one
of the most difficult to truly comprehend. Yet we
shouldn’t despair, because as is true with all revelation, God is simply trying to make clear how much
he loves us and how very much he wants to be a
part of our lives. Everything else is details!
Father Michael Hines, a speaker in the San Fran-
cisco archdiocese’s “Forward in Faith” program,
says part of the confusion when speaking of the
Trinity may rest with language. In using the phrase
“One God in three persons,” we may make the
mistake of thinking of the Trinity as three people
working collaboratively, as if in a committee, or
as three independent thinkers coordinating their
wills. Father Hines makes clear that is not the case!
Instead, he prefers to use the fascinating phrase
of “One God in three relationships.” In these three
relationships, God, who is love, expresses the totality of what it means to be God as he gives himself
to all of us. God the Father constantly gives himself to us through the gift of being, and everything
in existence comes to us because God loves us so
much. God the son constantly gives himself to us
by healing and forgiving without limit, sharing
our humanity and transforming us. God the Spirit
constantly gives himself to us as he forms relationships with us and leads us to loving relationships
with others, both individually and as church.
We may never solve the mystery that is God, yet
in discovering him through the Trinity, we once
more get a hint of how much God loves us, and for
now, that’s enough!
DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos,
and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS
MONDAY, MAY 27: Monday of the Eighth Week in
Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of
Canterbury, bishop. Sir 17:20-24. PS 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7.
Mk 10:17-27.
TUESDAY, MAY 28: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in
Ordinary Time. Sir 35:1-12. PS 50:5-6, 7-8, 14 and
23. Mk 10:28-31.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29: Wednesday of the Eighth
Week in Ordinary Time. Sir 36:1, 4-5a, 10-17. PS
79:8, 9, 11 and 13. Mk 10:32-45.
THURSDAY, MAY 30: Thursday of the Eighth Week in
Ordinary Time. Sir 42:15-25. PS 33:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9.
Mk 10:46-52.
FRIDAY, MAY 31: Feast of the Visitation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. Zep 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16. Is
12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6. Lk 1:39-56.
URSULA LEDOCHOWSKA
1865-1939
May 29
Born into a distinguished Polish family in Austria, Julia Maria
entered an Ursuline convent
in Poland at age 21, taking the
name Maria Ursula of Jesus. She taught in a
girls’ school for 20 years, and in 1907 went to St.
Petersburg to head a new school. Expelled from
Russia at the start of World War I, she eventually
returned to Poland in 1923 and founded the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, known as
Grey Ursulines.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1: Memorial of St. Justin, martyr.
Sir 51:12 cd-20. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Mk 11:27-33.
FAITH 19
The wages of celibacy
R
ecently an op-ed piece appeared
in The New York Times by
Frank Bruni, titled “The Wages
of Celibacy.” The column, while
provocative,
is fair. Mostly
he asks a
lot of hard,
necessary
questions.
Looking at
the various sexual
scandals that
have plagued
the Roman
FATHER RON
Catholic
ROLHEISER
priesthood
in the past
number of
years, Bruni suggests that it’s time
to re-examine celibacy with an
honest and courageous eye and ask
ourselves whether its downside
outweighs its potential benefits.
Bruni, in fact, doesn’t weigh in
definitively on this question; he
only points out that celibacy, as a
vowed lifestyle, runs more risks
than are normally admitted. Near
the end of his column he writes:
“The celibate culture runs the risk
of stunting (sexual) development
and turning sexual impulses into
furtive, tortured gestures. It downplays a fundamental and maybe
irresistible human connection. Is
it any wonder that some priests try
to make that connection nonetheless, in surreptitious, imprudent
and occasionally destructive
ways?”
That’s not an irreverent question, but a necessary one, one we
need to have the courage to face: Is
celibacy, in fact, abnormal to the
human condition? Does it run the
risk of stunting sexual development?
Thomas Merton was once asked
by a journalist what celibacy was
like. I suspect his answer will come
as a surprise to pious ears because
he virtually endorses Bruni’s
position. He responds: “Celibacy
is hell! You live in a loneliness that
God himself has condemned when
Merton says that despite,
or because of, celibacy’s
abnormality, it can be deeply
generative both for the one
living it and for those
around him or her.
he said: ‘It is not good to be alone!’”
However, with that being admitted, Merton immediately goes on
to say that just because celibacy
is not the normal human condition willed by the creator doesn’t
mean that it cannot be wonderfully
generative and fruitful and that
perhaps its unique fruitfulness
is tied to how extraordinary and
abnormal it is.
What Merton is saying, in essence, is that celibacy is abnormal
and dooms you to live in a state
not been willed by the creator; but,
despite and perhaps because of
that abnormality, it can be deeply
generative both for the one living it
and for those around him or her.
I know this to be true, as do
countless others, because I have
been deeply nurtured, as a Christian and as a human being, by the
lives of vowed celibates, by numerous priests, sisters and brothers
whose lives have touched my own
and whose “abnormality” served
precisely to make them wonderfully fruitful.
Moreover, abnormality can have
its own attraction: As a young
priest, I served as a spiritual director to a young man who was discerning whether to join our order,
the Missionary Oblates of Mary
Immaculate, or whether to propose
marriage to a young woman. It was
an agonizing decision for him; he
wanted both. And his discernment,
while perhaps somewhat overly
romantic in terms of his fantasy
of both options, was at the same
time uncommonly mature. Here
(in words to this effect) is how he
described his dilemma:
I am the oldest in my family and
we lived in a rural area. When I
was 15 years old, one evening, just
before supper, my dad, still a young
man, had a heart attack. There
were no ambulances to call. We
bundled him up in the car and my
mother sat in the back seat with
him and held him, while I, a scared
teenager, drove the car en route to
the hospital some 15 miles away.
My dad died before we reached
the hospital. As tragic as this was,
there was an element of beauty
in it. My dad died in my mother’s
arms. That tragic beauty branded
my soul. In my mind, in my fantasy,
that’s how I have always wanted to
die – in the arms of my wife. And
so my major hesitation about entering the Oblates and moving toward
priesthood is celibacy. If I become
a priest, I won’t die in any human
arms. I’ll die as celibates do!
Then one day, in prayer, trying to
discern all of this, I had another
realization: Jesus didn’t die in the
arms of a spouse; he died differently, lonely and alone. I’ve always
had a thing about the loneliness
of celibates and have always been
drawn to people like Soren Kierkegaard, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day,
Thomas Merton, Jean Vanier and
Daniel Berrigan, who don’t die in
the arms of a spouse. There’s a real
beauty in that way of dying too!
Bruni is right in warning that
celibacy is abnormal and fraught
with dangers. One of the fundamental anthropological dogmas that Scripture teaches us
is contained in the story of God
creating our first parents and his
pronouncement: It is not good (and
it is dangerous) for the man to
be alone! Celibacy does condemn
one to live in a loneliness that
God himself condemned, but it’s a
loneliness within which Jesus gave
himself over to us in a death that’s
perhaps the most generative in human history.
OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of
the Oblate School of Theology, San
Antonio, Texas.
Are you a doubting Thomas? I doubt it
D
on’t be too quick to label
yourself a true doubter until
all the facts are in.
There is a distinction to be
made between real
doubting,
and the
discomfort
we feel when
pondering
theological
mysteries.
All intellectual mysteries baffle
FATHER JOHN
us, but we
CATOIR
accept them
because Jesus revealed
them and we trust him.
For instance, I feel intellectual discomfort when I study the
doctrine of the Incarnation: Jesus
Christ is true God and true man.
Despite my discomfort, the Lord’s
miracles and both reason and grace
have persuaded me to trust his
word.
We do not accept supernatural
mysteries because we comprehend
them. We accept them because
that’s precisely what faith is: the
acceptance of mystery.
Back to the original question, Are
you a “doubting Thomas”? I doubt
it.
When Thomas said he would not
accept the idea that Jesus rose from
the dead, I think he was more in
shock than anything else. It was
something like Peter trying to walk
on the water.
My friend, Jesuit Father Bill
O’Malley put it this way, ‘Remember that while the greathearted
Peter stoutly tried to dissuade
Jesus from facing the dangers in
Jerusalem, it was doubting Thomas
who said, ‘All right! Let’s go up to
the city and die with him.’”
Father O’Malley rightly concludes that Thomas’ all-in attitude
is evidence enough to show that
a critical mind doesn’t preclude a
stout heart.
Perhaps your occasional hesitancy in faith may be more a sign of
your natural sales resistance than
any loss of faith. Be patient with
yourself. If someone should say
they doubt that there is an afterlife,
and then goes on to explain the reason is that they can’t imagine what
it would be like, maybe it’s time to
consider that this may be more an
imagination problem than a doubting problem.
A thing is true whether you can
imagine it or not. Can you imagine
a subatomic particle?
Doubt is a refusal to assent to a
proposition unless hard evidence
can verify it to be true. Our hard
evidence is this: Jesus told us it is
true.
Catholics believe in the mystery
of the Incarnation, not because
they have scientific evidence to
prove it but because they have
made a decision to trust the words
of Jesus. They accept all of his
teachings because they know
through faith that he is telling the
truth.
Faith will pull you through and
enable you to trust the Lord. You
believe in order to understand the
truth: You don’t refuse to believe
until you understand the mystery.
Protestants,
Catholics
and tithing
Q.
I grew up in a Protestant church
but converted to Catholicism.
Sometimes it seems to me that
Catholics give a lot less money to their
churches than
Protestants do.
(The Sunday collections reported
in our parish
bulletin would, I
think, be dwarfed
by some Protestants parishes
much smaller
than our own.)
On the other
hand, Catholics
do seem to give
a lot to charities
overall. (Just in
our own town,
FATHER
there is a Catholic
KENNETH DOYLE
hospital, several
Catholic schools
and many programs of human service
supported by Catholic Charities). I’m
wondering what the Catholic Church’s
view is on tithing and whether money
given to Catholic, nonparochial institutions can count as tithing. (Illinois)
Your question brings to mind
a comment I once heard from a
Catholic pastor. He said: “If a
Catholic couple has $50, they go out to
dinner; $20, they go see a movie; $10, they
get fast food. But if they have $1, they go
to church.”
There is some truth behind the complaint. A national study in 2003 showed
that Protestants typically give 2.6 percent
of their income to their local churches,
while Catholics give 1.2 percent. Some
analysts speculate that, because an average Catholic parish in America numbers
3,100 people while Protestant congregations are usually one-tenth that size,
Catholics have a diminished sense of
personal responsibility.
As your question suggests, however,
the percentages given above are only
part of the story. Catholics also support
the nation’s largest network of private
health care institutions and social service agencies. And while the thousands
of dollars paid by parents for Catholic
school tuitions are technically not charitable donations, they do in fact contribute to the overall religious mission of the
church.
Many Catholic dioceses recommend
that their members contribute 5 percent
of their take-home pay to their parish
and an additional 5 percent to other
charities. There is, though, no strict obligation for Catholics to tithe. Tithing is
based on several Old Testament passages,
such as Leviticus 27:32, which says: “The
tithes of the herd and the flock, every
tenth animal that passes under the herdsman’s rod, shall be sacred to the Lord.”
Among Christian believers, Mormons
are the most strict in carrying that prescription forward. A recent study by the
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
showed that 79 percent of Mormons tithe
to their church. The Catholic obligation
is more general: As the Catechism of the
Catholic Church expresses in No. 2043,
“The faithful ... have the duty of providing for the material needs of the church,
each according to his abilities.”
QUESTION
CORNER
A.
Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle
at [email protected] and 40
Hopewell St., Albany, NY, 12208.
20 FROM THE FRONT
GOSNELL: Doctor’s murder conviction shows ‘ugliness of abortion’
FROM PAGE 1
a fourth similar charge. He also was convicted of
involuntary manslaughter in the death by a drug
overdose of a patient who had an abortion.
Gosnell, 72, was charged with snipping the spines
of babies born alive during illegal late-term abortions. Pennsylvania law prohibits abortions after
24 weeks of gestation.
“We need to stop cloaking the ugliness of abortion with misnomers like ‘proper medical coverage’ or ‘choice,’” Archbishop Chaput said in his
statement. “It’s violence of the most intimate sort,
and it needs to end.”
A few weeks earlier in the six-week trial, after
the prosecution had rested its case, Judge Jeffrey
Minehart of the Common Pleas Court, dismissed
three other murder charges against Gosnell, saying
they lacked evidence.
Late May 14, prosecutors said the doctor agreed
to give up his right to an appeal so he would not get
the death penalty. The judge then gave him two consecutive life sentences with no chance for parole on
two of three first-degree murder convictions.
At a May 15 sentence hearing, Gosnell received a
third life sentence for the third murder conviction
and another two and a half to five years in prison
for involuntary manslaughter. Those sentences
also are consecutive. He also was convicted of
hundreds of violations of Pennsylvania abortion
regulations.
Both supporters of legal abortion and abortion
opponents praised the verdict, though they pointed
to different underlying problems.
Michael Geer, president of the Harrisburg-based
Pennsylvania Family Institute, said in a statement, the Gosnell case in all its details points to
“the big remaining question that the trial exposed
for all Americans to see: How is it murder to kill a
late-term baby outside the womb, but legal to kill it
minutes earlier while still in its mother’s uterus?”
Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice
America, said in a statement that “justice was
(CNS/REUTERS)
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, left, is shown in a courtroom artist sketch
during his sentencing at Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in
Philadelphia May 15.
served to Kermit Gosnell and he will pay the price
for the atrocities he committed.” She described
Gosnell’s clinic and practices as “a peek into the
world before Roe v. Wade made legal a woman’s
right to make her own choices.”
Hogue said “anti-choice politicians and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and
legal abortion care, will only drive more women to
back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell.”
Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, said the “self-interested indifference of an unrepentant, unregulated and unmonitored abortion industry stood front and center
among the tragic events that led to the conviction
of Kermit Gosnell.”
Yoest’s statement said “the legacy of Gosnell’s
trial will be big abortion’s collusion in bringing
about America’s ‘red-light district of medicine’ –
today’s back-alley abortion clinics and renegade
abortion profiteers.”
She said “pro-life Americans must fight big
MARRIAGE: Bishops vow to rebuild culture
FROM PAGE 1
know that men and women are important; their
complementary difference matters, their union
matters, and it matters to kids. Mothers and fathers are simply irreplaceable.”
Archbishop Cordileone called it “the height of
irony” that the final vote on “the redefinition of
marriage” and the governor’s signature on the
bill occurred just a day “after we celebrated the
unique gifts of mothers and women on Mother’s
Day.”
In November, Minnesota voters rejected a ballot
measure to amend the state constitution to define
marriage as only a union between a man and
woman, but polls show Minnesotans remained
sharply divided over legalizing such unions.
According to Minnesota Public Radio, a recent
survey showed a majority are against same-sex
marriage.
The measure changes the definition of marriage
from “between a man and a woman” to “a civil
contract between two persons.” A prohibition
against marriage between relatives, such as first
cousins, remained in place.
In a statement about the earlier House vote, the
conference said lawmakers by approving samesex marriage “set in motion a transformation of
Minnesota law that will focus on accommodating
the desires of adults instead of protecting the best
interest of children.”
“This action is an injustice that tears at the fabric of society and will be remembered as such well
into the future,” it said.
The Catholic conference said the bill posed “a
serious threat to the religious liberty and conscience rights of Minnesotans.”
It includes legal protections for clergy and
religious groups that don’t want to marry samesex couples, but the conference said lawmakers
failed “to protect the people in the pew – individuals, non-religious nonprofits, and small business
owners who maintain the time-honored belief that
marriage is a union of one man and one woman.”
According to the conference, lawyers on both
sides of the issue have stated that no accommodations for “the deeply held beliefs of a majority of
Minnesotans will result in numerous conflicts
that will have to be adjudicated by our courts.”
In a separate statement issued after the House
vote, Duluth Bishop Paul D. Sirba said the church
“will continue to uphold and propose to the world
what we know, through sound reason and through
divine revelation, to be the authentic nature of
marriage: a permanent union between one man
and one woman, uniting a mother and a father
with any children produced by their union.”
No civil authority, he said, “has the authority or
competence to redefine marriage. Civil authorities have the obligation to protect and defend true
marriage for the sake of justice and the common
good.”
Bishop Sirba acknowledged that many disagree
with the church’s stand on the issue and expressed
dismay over the negative tone the debate over
same-sex marriage has taken toward the church.
“We are particularly mindful of our brothers
and sisters who have same-sex attractions,” he
said. “Our hearts break that this debate has often
been used as an occasion to sow mistrust and
doubt, as if followers of the God who is love, and
whose love for all people we proclaim each day as
the body of Christ, are acting instead out of some
sort of ill will.”
“To all those with same-sex attraction, we
continue to extend our unconditional love and
respect. For those who have heard God’s call and
respond in faith, hope and love, striving to walk in
his ways, we also offer our pastoral support,” the
bishop added.
In Rhode Island May 2, Gov. Lincoln Chafee
signed into law a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in that state. Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of
Providence expressed “profound disappointment”
that the measure to “legitimize same-sex marriage” passed the Legislature.
Same-sex marriage became legal in Delaware
May 7; the law goes into effect July 1.
abortion as they attempt to block common-sense
attempts to regulate and monitor abortion clinics
where we know that some women and girls have
suffered and even died.”
Yoest said the case underscores why abortion
clinics must be subject to medical standards and
regular inspections. Gosnell’s clinic had not been
inspected for nearly two decades, she said.
“Kermit Gosnell is not the aberration that abortion
advocates claim,” Yoest added. “Over the last three
years at least 15 states have initiated investigations
into the conditions and practices of abortion clinics. These investigations were triggered by women’s
deaths, reports of dangerous and unsanitary practices that exposed women to injuries and infections, and
infants born alive following attempted abortions.”
Gosnell was arrested in 2011 and charged with
seven counts of infanticide and one count of murder in the case of a woman from Virginia who died
during an abortion.
Several former workers in the clinic, including
Gosnell’s wife, Pearl, a cosmetologist by training, earlier pleaded guilty to charges including
third-degree murder, racketeering and performing
illegal, late-term abortions.
Prosecutors said one of the babies Gosnell killed
was at nearly 30 weeks of gestation and was so
big that Gosnell joked it could “walk to the bus,”
reported The Associated Press.
The involuntary manslaughter charge came in
the death of Karnamaya Mongar, 41, a refugee from
Bhutan who lived in Woodbridge, Va., and who was
given repeated doses of powerful drugs to induce
labor and sedate her.
The jury also found Gosnell guilty of infanticide, racketeering and more than 200 violations of
Pennsylvania laws, for performing abortions past
24 weeks or failing to counsel women seeking abortions 24 hours before providing the procedure.
He still faces federal drug charges over abuse of
prescriptions for OxyContin and for letting staff
members make out prescriptions to patients who
paid cash.
STEM CELLS:
‘Morally troubling’
FROM PAGE 1
do not share the Catholic Church’s convictions on
human life,” said Cardinal O’Malley’s statement. He
also decried the conditions to which the women who
volunteered for the experiment were subjected to
increase the number of eggs they produced, saying it
“put their health and fertility at risk.”
The researchers said their goal is to produce genetically matched stem cells for research and possible
therapies, but Cardinal O’Malley said the same goals
can be achieved “by scientific advances that do not
pose these grave moral wrongs.”
Research using adult stem cells, or those derived after someone is born, as opposed to cells from embryos,
has provided promising possibilities for treating some
illnesses or injuries. The reprogrammed stem cells
can be used to replace damaged cells.
A statement from the university said the process announced May 15 “is a variation of a commonly used
method called somatic cell nuclear transfer. ... It involves transplanting the nucleus of one cell, containing an individual’s DNA, into an egg cell that has had
its genetic material removed. The unfertilized egg cell
then develops and eventually produces stem cells.”
Although the university’s explanation of the breakthrough noted that the research “does not involve the
use of fertilized embryos, a topic that has been the
source of a significant ethical debate,” that doesn’t
address the Catholic Church’s moral objections.
Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the U.S.
bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, told Catholic News Service that as soon as human cells begin to
divide into an embryo they are considered human life
and that the destruction of such embryos is immoral.
The university release called it an “important distinction” that “while the method might be considered
a technique for cloning stem cells, commonly called
therapeutic cloning, the same method would not
likely be successful in producing human clones.”
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St. Dunstan School celebrates 60th anniversary
St. Dunstan Parish School in
Millbrae celebrates its 60th year anniversary this year, with the theme
“Precious Memories and Future
Dreams.”
To mark the 60-year dedication,
Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice celebrated Mass April 28 with
Holy Ghost Father Diarmuid Casey,
pastor, and a rededication of the
school. The Sisters of Mercy and
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
who formerly staffed the school
were among the assembly.
Bishop Justice also blessed a
mosaic tile wall, which was conceptualized by St. Dunstan alumnus
Matthew Lum, now a freshman at
St. Ignatius College Preparatory, as
part of his Eagle Scout project.
With parent and staff support
in the preparation, the wall consists of tiles designed and painted
by students in celebration of the
school’s 60th year and its theme.
Matthew, and his fellow Eagle
Scouts, spent several weekends
building the wall andz setting the
tile.
St. Dunstan School, which is
under the spiritual direction of the
Holy Ghost Fathers of Ireland, has
287 students, 13 full-time teachers
and eight support staff, including a
reading specialist, resource specialist, counselor and technology
teacher.
The school, which has a strong
HISTORY OF ST. DUNSTAN SCHOOL
OPENED IN 1952, dedicated and
blessed by Archbishop John J. Mitty
on April 23, 1953.
THE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE
NAMUR originally staffed the school.
In 1972, these sisters were called to
serve elsewhere, and the parish began
the search for a religious order to continue their work.
THE SISTERS OF MERCY from Doon
in County Limerick, Ireland, came to
St. Dunstan and administered and
taught from 1972 to 1990.
Pictured recently at St. Dunstan School are Holy Ghost Father Diarmuid Casey, pastor; Auxiliary
Bishop William J. Justice; Bruce Colville, principal; Irma Pacheco, grade six; Sue Pallari, vice
principal/grade four; Laura Sandoval, grade two; Shirley Nussbaum, former principal/teacher;
Catherine Aveson, grade seven.
emphasis on prayer, Christian
service and moral responsibility,
offers a full-day kindergarten, art
classes, and Spanish for grades K-8
and full array of athletic teams.
St. Dunstan graduates have consistently strong acceptance rates in
all of the archdiocesan secondary
schools as well as other private secondary schools in the Bay Area.
The yearlong celebration will
continue into the fall with a formal
dinner dance Sept. 28 at the Green
Hills Country Club. Email [email protected] or call
the school office at (650) 697-8119.
DURING THE MERCY SISTERS’
TENURE, a number of physical improvements were completed, including
the addition of the kindergarten class in
1977, construction of the parish center
and religious education office in 1983,
and the refurbishing of a multipurpose
room in 1986 that now functions as the
math classroom for grades six to eight.
THE MERCY SISTERS returned to Ireland in 1990. From that time to 2004 the
school had an all-lay administration and
faculty. From 2004 to 2009, Sister Mary
Lorraine Mullins, SM, was the only sister on staff and served as the school’s
learning specialist. From 2009 to 2011,
Sister Dee Myers, BVM replaced Sister
Lorraine in the same capacity.
The field of ‘dreams’ at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
JEAN BARTLETT
Like baseball, a cemetery is loaded with history and
the memories of legends, both saints and sinners, who
have come and gone. And like baseball, every life has
its ups and down, its journeys into fear or bravery,
its chances of doing the impossible and its lessons of
patience – and of course its mistakes, which sometimes seem much bigger than they really are, except
of course when they are big. When one stands on the
edge of a cemetery green, just as one stands at the field
of a famous diamond, the possibilities of what has
taken place in this fenced in area by those who fully
participated in the game cannot fully be imagined.
In June 2012, Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma
marked its 125th year of serving families in their time
of greatest need. And within its 300 acres are 370,000
individual stories. Some are the stories of San Francisco’s beloved firefighters and police officers. Some are
stories of the locally or even nationally famous – businessmen and women, winemakers, politicians, artists,
writers, adventurers, newspaper founders, hoteliers, actors, soldiers, farmers, architects, educators, inventors,
athletes, labor activists, suffragists, scientists, medical
personnel, archbishops, priests and nuns. Many are
famous only to their circle of family and friends. Some
arrived alone, though never to be forgotten.
There are also plenty of baseball players at Holy
Cross, Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999) being the most
famous. Also known as “Joltin’ Joe” and the “Yankee
Clipper,” DiMaggio played his entire 13-year Major
League Baseball career for the New York Yankees. The
center fielder, three-time MVP winner and 13-time
All-Star, had a 56-game hitting streak in 1941, a record
that still stands as one of the greatest achievements in
baseball history.
Owen Molloy, proprietor of the historic Irish pub
Molloy’s Tavern, across the street from Holy Cross,
remembers the day DiMaggio was brought to the
cemetery.
“When Joe DiMaggio passed, March of 1999, there
was a giant procession for him as he was taken to Holy
Cross,” Molloy said. “And there were a lot of people
here in the bar, and at all the businesses along this
street, and we all went outside and lined the sidewalks
to pay our respects.”
The following is a list of those baseball greats now at
rest at Holy Cross.
Bill Lange (Little Eva), 1871-1950, center field and
Infielders Bill Lange, left, of the Chicago Colts and Chicago
Orphans (1893-1899) and Tom Tennant of the San Francisco
Seals (1909-1911) are buried at Holy Cross.
second baseman, played his entire 7-year career for the
Chicago Colts and Chicago Orphans (1893 to 1899).
Frank Bodie (Ping Bodie), 1887-1961, outfielder, played for
the White Sox, Yankees and Athletics (1911-1921). Pete
Standridge, 1892-1963, pitcher, played for the Cubs and
Cardinals (1911-1915). Cy Falkenberg, 1879-1961, pitcher,
Naps, Senators, Hoosiers, Pepper, Athletics (1903-1917).
Frankie Crosetti (Crow), 1910-2002, shortstop and third
baseman, Yankees (1932-1948). Dario Lodigiani (Lodi),
1916-2008, third baseman and second baseman, Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox (1938-1942, 1946).
Charlie Fox (Irish), 1921-2004, catcher for the New York
Giants (1942). Ed Hallinan, 1888-1940, shortstop, second baseman and third baseman, Browns (1911-1912).
Jim Britt, 1856-1923, pitcher, Atlantics (1872-1873). Tom
Tennant, 1882-1955, pinch hitter, St. Louis Browns (1912)
also first baseman, San Francisco Seals (1909-1911). Pete
Sweeney, 1863-1901, third baseman, second baseman
and outfielder for the Nationals, Browns, Athletics and
Colonels (1888-1890). Charlie Geggus (Buck), 1862-1917,
pitcher, center fielder and shortstop, Nationals (1884). Joe
Corbett, 1875-1945, pitcher, shortstop and left fielder for
the Orioles, Cardinals and Senators (1895-1904). Pete
Meegan (Steady Pete), 1862-1905, pitcher and left fielder,
Virginians, Pittsburgh Alleghenys (1884-1885).
Frank Zupo (Noodles), 1939-2005, catcher and pinch
hitter for the Baltimore Orioles (1957). Hank Sauer (The
Honker), 1917-2001, left fielder, Cubs, Reds, Giants, Cardinals (1941-1959). Italo Chelini (Chilly or Lefty), 1914-1972,
pitcher, White Sox (1935-1937). Joe Oeschger, 1892-
1986, pitcher for the Braves, Phillies, Robins and Giants
(1914-1925). Joe DiMaggio (Joltin’ Joe or The Yankee
Clipper), 1914-1999, center fielder, Yankees (1936-1951).
Bill Cunningham, 1894-1953, outfielder, Giants, Braves
(1921-1924). Joe Chamberlain, 1910-1983, shortstop and
third baseman, White Sox (1934). Jim Byrnes, 1880-1941,
catcher, Athletics (1906). Jim McDonald, 1860-1914, third
baseman, center fielder and shortstop, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Bisons and Nationals (1884-1885). Mike DePangher,
1858-1915, catcher for the Philadelphia Quakers (1884).
Jim Nealon, 1884-1910, first baseman, Pirates (1906-1907).
Bob Blakiston, 1855-1918, outfielder, third baseman and
first baseman for the Athletics and Hoosiers (1882-1884).
Jim Roxburgh, 1858-1934, catcher and second baseman,
Orioles and Athletics (1884-1887). Ralph Pinelli (Babe),
1895-1984, third baseman and shortstop, Reds, Tigers
and White Sox (1918-1927). Roy Corhan (Irish), 1887-1958,
shortstop, Cardinals, White Sox (1911-1916). Julio Bonetti,
1911-1952, pitcher, Browns, Cubs (1937-1940). George
Puccinelli (Pooch or Count), 1907-1956, right fielder, Athletics, Cardinals, Browns (1930-1936). Charlie Graham, 18781948, catcher, Americans (1906). Ed Montague, 19051988, shortstop and third baseman, Indians (1928-1932).
Josh Reilly, 1868-1938, second baseman and shortstop,
Colts (1896). James Caveney (Ike), 1894-1949, shortstop,
Reds (1922-1925). Jake Caulfield, 1917-1986, shortstop,
Athletics (1946). Joe Sprinz (Mule), 1902-1994, catcher,
Indians, Cardinals (1930-1933). Eddie Mulligan, 1894-1982,
third baseman and shortstop, White Sox, Cubs, Pirates
(1915-1928). Mark Creegan, 1864-1920, center fielder,
catcher and third baseman, Nationals (1884). Billy Orr
(1891-1967), shortstop, third baseman and first baseman,
Athletics (1913-1914). William Swett (Pop), 1870-1934,
catcher and right fielder, Reds, 1890. John Johnson
(Youngy), 1873-1936, pitcher, Phillies, Giants (1897-1899).
Harry Krause (Hal), 1888-1940, pitcher, Athletics, Naps
(1908-1912). George Kelly (High Pockets), 1895-1984, first
baseman, second baseman and outfielder, Giants, Reds,
Dodgers, Cubs and Pirates (1915-1932).
Joe Giannini, 1888-1942, shortstop, Red Sox (1911).
Herman Iburg (Ham), 1873-1945, pitcher, Phillies (1902).
Marino Pieretti (Chick), 1920-1981, pitcher, Senators, White
Sox, Indians (1945-1950). William Brown (Big Bill or California), 1866-1897, first baseman, catcher and outfielder,
Giants, Colonels, Phillies, Orioles and Browns (1887-1894).
BARTLETT is arts and features writer for the Pacifica Tribune. This article first appeared in the May 30-June 6
issue of The Peninsula Progress.
22 COMMUNITY
Around the
archdiocese
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ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY: Jesuit
Father Anthony Sauer president, teacher, fundraiser at SI
for the last 40 years, will leave
the school in September for a
new ministry assignment at
St. Francis Xavier Church in
Phoenix, next door to SI’s sister
school, Brophy College Preparatory. “It’s been a long, great
ride,” Father Sauer said in a
Father Tony
release from SI announcing his
Sauer, SJ
new assignment. “I have SI and
its students, faculty and staff, fellow Jesuits,
parents and families written in my heart.
I will never forget them.” John Knight, SI
president, wished Father Sauer “only the best
as he leaves for his new adventure in Phoenix
knowing full well that he always has a home
at SI.” As SI president from 1979 to 2006, Father Sauer was a prime mover in the school’s
transition to coeducation and in building
endowment funds to a point where SI now
distributes $2.8 million in tuition assistance
annually.
OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH, NOVATO:
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone confirmed 44 youths at the church May 4. Pictured
after Mass are Archbishop Cordileone with,
from left, parish administrator Father Honesto Gile; Our Lady of Loretto School principal Annette Olinger; Deacon Alex Madero,
Amy Reeder, Annie Troy, Father Francisco J.
Gamez, Patrick Reeder, and Ursuline Sister
Jeanette Lombardi.
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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY,
SAN FRANCISCO: As part of a Food Education Wellness Program, students are learning
how gardening and healthy lifestyles go hand
in hand. Students are tilling soil on campus,
growing “flowers and vegetables which will
add color and beauty to our common space,”
the school said. Planting and picking are ICA
freshmen Claudia Alvarez, Elizabeth Luna,
Amelie Lacayo, Vanessa Munoz and Mylene
Munda.
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN: The Congregation
of St. Joseph sister is pictured with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Rabbi Ryan
Bauer at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco,
May 9. The author of “Dead Man Walking”
spoke on efforts to eliminate the death penalty
in the U.S.
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ST. STEPHEN SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO:
Junior high English teacher Elaine Kouches
has been recognized with an Herbst Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence. The presentation took place at the Lakeside District
school May 6. Elaine, who has been a teacher
for 35 years, nine at St. Stephen, received
$5,000 from the foundation with a like check
going to the school. The school called Elaine,
pictured here with principal Sharon McCarthy
Allen and Jerry Harris from the Herbst group,
“a truly deserving recipient” who “exhibits the
highest personal and professional standards
in all of her interactions with students, peers,
and parents.”
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ST. CHARLES SCHOOL, SAN CARLOS: The
school is this year’s first-place finisher in the
Archdiocese of San Francisco Academic Decathlon. Team members include front from left:
Hannah Cevasco, Jack Glenn, Laura McGann,
Emily Lippert, Kelly Sala, Grace Casarez, Ben
Hora , and back from left, John Wilson, Jake
Dorais, Vinnie Armanino, Schafer Kraemer,
Mike York, Justin Gala, Dominic Marques.
Coaches included Megan Armando, Pat Cremer
and Sarah Kelsey.
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ST. HILARY SCHOOL, TIBURON: The school’s
technology program has been recognized as
an Apple Distinguished Program. The honor
is part of a nationwide Apple effort to identify exemplary learning environments using
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(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Apple products. “I am most proud of this
distinction because it’s been a collaborative
effort among parents, teachers, and students to
create dynamic, student-centered educational
opportunities on a daily basis,” said principal
Charlie Hayes. The school has an iPad program
for students in grades three to eight, featuring class-specific applications; and iPad and
computing centers for the junior kindergarten
through second grade. All classrooms have
wireless connectivity to display student projects and presentations from their iPads.
ST. EMYDIUS PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO:
From left, Father David Pettingill, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and pastor Father
William Brady are pictured at the parish’s
centennial celebration May 5.
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USF HONORS BISHOP BLAIRE FOR
LEADERSHIP ON SOCIAL ISSUES
The University of San Francisco
presented an honorary doctorate in humane letters May 17 to Stockton Bishop
Stephen E. Blaire, chairman of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human
Development and a national leader on
economic justice issues.
“He speaks from the heart and with
deep conviction on issues from the perspective of Catholic Social Thought on
poverty, immigration, health care, gun
control and other pressing questions
facing this country,” said Jesuit Father
Stephen Privett, USF president, who
conferred the degree during the graduation ceremony for 179 graduate students
of USF’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Along with other bishops, Bishop
Blaire has written to members of Congress calling for a “circle of protection”
around programs for the poor, including
food assistance, school breakfasts, housing and education.
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FRIDAY, MAY 24
MONDAY, MAY 27
3-DAY CONFERENCE: Retired San
Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer will preside at the opening Mass
at the Northern California Renewal
Coalition’s 26th annual Catholic Charismatic convention, “Jesus Christ is
Lord,” May 24-27 at the Santa Clara
Convention Center. Event features daily
Mass and speakers for young and old
in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Food, books and religious articles will
be available for purchase. Conference is sponsored by Monterey, San
Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton
and Santa Rosa dioceses and Archdiocese of San Francisco. Visit www.
ncrcspirit.org or call (925) 828-6644 for
information in English, (650) 834-0108
for Spanish and (408) 661-6751 for
Vietnamese.
MEMORIAL DAY MASSES: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, Holy Cross
Mausoleum Chapel, Msgr. James Tarantino, celebrant; Holy Cross Cemetery, Menlo Park, outdoor Mass, Father Larry Goode, celebrant; Mount
Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael, outdoor Mass, Father Paul Perry,
celebrant, all at 11 a.m.; Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery, Half Moon Bay,
outdoor Mass, Father Juan Manuel Lopez, celebrant, 9:30 a.m. (650)
756-2060. www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
takes place first and third Wednesdays,
7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly
Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus,
San Francisco. Groups are part of
the Separated and Divorced Catholic
Ministry in the archdiocese and include
prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a
drop-in support group. Jesuit Father
Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, [email protected].
FRIDAY, JUNE 7
FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of
St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South
San Francisco, 7 p.m., followed by
healing service and personal blessing
with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St.
Joseph, Montreal.
Msgr. James
Tarantino
Father Paul
Perry
Father Larry
Goode
Father Juan
Manuel Lopez
MONDAY, MAY 27
CHECK-UPS: Free blood pressure
screening, noon-1 p.m., St. Mary’s
Medical Center, Sister Mary Philippa
Health Clinic, 2235 Hayes St. (415)
750-5959.
LEARNING OPP: “Living Well with
Diabetes”: Learn how to care for your
diabetes, what to eat and why to check
your blood sugar level, 4-5 p.m., St.
Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan
St., Cardiology Conference Room,
Level C, free. (415) 750-5513.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29
MEDICARE QUESTIONS: Health
Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP), assistance
with Medicare and health insurance
problems, 1-3 p.m. Please schedule
an appointment in advance. St. Mary’s
Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., San
Francisco. (415) 750-5800.
HEART DISEASE QUESTIONS:
Explore ways to improve and maintain
health and coping skills in order to lead
a positive and productive life, noon-1
p.m., St. Mary’s Medical Center, 2250
Hayes St., third floor, San Francisco,
free. (415) 750-5617.
SATURDAY, JUNE 8
THURSDAY, MAY 30
SATURDAY, JUNE 1
SENIOR DISCOUNTS: Discounted
senior meals, 6:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.,
Monday-Friday, St. Mary’s Medical
Center cafeteria, Level B, 450 Stanyan
St., San Francisco, lunch $5, breakfast
20 percent off all items.
DINNER DANCE: St. Kevin Parish, 704
Cortland Ave., San Francisco, silent
auction starts at 6 p.m. Tickets at $40
advance/$50 at door include raffle
ticket and complimentary beverage.
(415) 648-5751.
SENIOR YOGA: Gentle Yoga class, 11
a.m.-12:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Medical
Center, St. Mary’s Hall, 2255 Hayes
St., Room H2-07, San Francisco, free.
(415) 750-5800.
MASS: First Saturday at Holy Cross
Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m. Father Brian
Costello, pastor, Most Holy Redeemer
Parish, San Francisco, celebrant and
homilist. (650) 756-2060. www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
AMBULATING: Mall walking, 9-10 a.m.,
Stonestown Galleria Center Court,
3521 20th Ave., San Francisco, free.
(415) 750-5800.
FRIDAY, MAY 31
PARISH FESTIVAL: St. Pius Festival
May 31, 6-10 p.m.; June 1, 1-10
p.m.; June 2, 1-8 p.m., 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City.
Enjoy food, games, and live entertainment with an international flair.
New this year is a Lego exhibit with
elaborate creations from around the
world.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
5-DAY GOSPEL MUSIC: “Rawn
Harbor Gospel Music Workshop” June
5, 6, 7, 7-9 p.m.; June 8, 9 a.m.-noon;
June 9, 10:45 a.m. Gospel Mass, St.
Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 1122
Jamestown Ave. near Third Street, San
Francisco. $20 fee includes lunch on
Saturday. No singing experience necessary. www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org/
GospelWorkshop.php. (415) 587-1382.
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camp and touring abroad. Since
1948, the San Francisco Boys Chorus
has provided trained boy singers to
the San Francisco Opera. www.sfbc.
org/auditions. No prior vocal or music
training is necessary.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 1
MASS: First
Saturday at
Holy Cross
Cemetery,
Colma, All
Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m.
Father Brian
Costello, pasFather Brian
tor, Most Holy
Costello
Redeemer
Parish, San
Francisco, celebrant and
homilist. (650) 756-2060. www.
holycrosscemeteries.com.
Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10
p.m. [email protected].
(415) 584 8794.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15
HANDICABAPLES MASS: Father Kirk
Ullery, chaplain, is principal celebrant
of Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary
Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street
at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.
Lunch follows. Volunteers are always
welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years. Call Joanne
Borodin at (415) 239-4865.
CHANTICLEER: “La Serenissima,”
Mission Dolores, 16th Street at Dolores,
San Francisco, 8 p.m. Tickets $10-$50.
(415) 392-4400. www.chanticleer.org.
TUESDAY, JUNE 11
takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at
Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7
p.m. Groups are part of the Separated
and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the
archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf,
(415) 422-6698, [email protected].
FRIDAY, JUNE 14
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical
texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable
143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV
370. In Half Moon Bay EWTN airs on
Comcast 70 and on Comcast 74 in
southern San Mateo County.
p.m. Groups are part of the Separated
and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the
archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf,
(415) 422-6698, [email protected].
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
THURSDAY, JUNE 27
takes place first and third Wednesdays,
7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly
Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus,
San Francisco. Groups are part of
the Separated and Divorced Catholic
Ministry in the archdiocese and include
prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a
drop-in support group. Jesuit Father
Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, [email protected].
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
SUNDAY, JUNE 16
WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: A
TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6
a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel
26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the
Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL
Channel 40. It is produced for viewing
by the homebound and others unable
to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Catholic TV Mass, One Peter
Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. (415)
614-5643, [email protected].
DAILY TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass
daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and at
4 p.m. Monday through Friday. EWTN
is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T
HOME SERVICES
ICF RAVIOLI DINNER: Italian Catholic
Federation Branch 173 ravioli dinner at
Our Lady of Angels Parish gym, 1721
Hillside Drive, Burlingame. No-host
bar at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Wine
available for purchase with dinner. All
are welcome. Tickets are $20 adults/$5
age 14 and under. Sandra, (650) 6974279. Buy tickets by June 19.
TUESDAY, JUNE 25
SEPARATED DIVORCED: Meeting
takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at
Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7
VATICAN II TALKS: “Ecumenism
and Interfaith,” with Father P. Gerard
O’Rourke, St. Pius Parish, Homer
Crouse Hall, Woodside Road at Valota,
Redwood City, 7 p.m. (650) 361-1411,
ext. 121. [email protected].
FRIDAY, JUNE 28
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation
group on ancient philosophical texts,
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr.
Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m. reynaldo.
[email protected]. (415) 584 8794.
FRIDAY, JULY 5
6-DAY VOCATIONS: Live-in experience
with the Dominican Sisters if Mission
San Jose, July 5-11, at the sisters’
motherhouse in Fremont: six-day
experience of living, ministering and
praying for Catholic single women ages
college-39. The days include weekend silent retreat, service, and time for
fun and relaxation. Email blessings@
msjdominican.org by June 15. (510)
933-6333. www.msjdominicans.org.
[email protected].
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CLASSIFIEDS
HELP WANTED
Spiritual Care Manager
Sojourn Chaplaincy at San Francisco General
Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) is seeking a
Spiritual Care Manager to oversee and coordinate
the delivery of spiritual care services at SFGH.
The Spiritual Care Manager’s time will be divided
between strategic management and oversight,
provision of direct chaplaincy service, coordination
with interdisciplinary teams, and student training.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated pastoral
care and counseling skills, management experience
with a program providing pastoral or health services,
and familiarity with a public health setting. More
information can be found at
www.sojournchaplaincy.org/SCMJobDescription.pdf
HELP WANTED
viva!
D R
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Catholic Church in Marin, Ca. is looking
for a qualiied practicing Catholic in good
standing, with a BA/BS, degree in Theology preferred. This part time, 20 -25
hours per week position, includes partial beneits and requires some evening
and weekend job responsibilities (Sun.
- Tues. & Thurs). Applicant’s will possess strong communication skills (both
verbal and written), excellent organizational skills and experience with scheduling, teaching: RCIA, baptismal & marriage prep. classes, altar server training,
conirmation classes and more.
Qualiied candidates should apply to
[email protected]
or send a cover letter and resume
to Attn. Parish Coordinator P.O.Box
1061, Ross Ca. 94957.
No phone calls please.
HELP WANTED
PRINCIPAL
Saint Rita Catholic School, located in Fairfax, CA. (Marin County) is now seeking a full time Principal for grades K through 8th.
Saint Rita School is an integral part of St. Rita parish. The parish works directly with the school to ensure a quality academic,
social, religious, and physical education for all students.
The students in the school participate in monthly family
Masses and monthly school Masses, as well as prayer services, outreach to the community, and daily prayer within the classrooms. A strong spiritual leader is vital to the
growth of faith in the school and parish.
Saint Rita School serves a wide variety of learning abilities
including the gifted and the challenged learners. The school
offers an engaging curriculum, and supports a multi-aged
program in the lower grades to promote student growth.
Art, music, band, P.E., drama, and other electives are available to the students in the school. The school has two separate programs: 1) a multi-aged K, 1-2 and 3-4; and 2) a
middle school program of grades 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Saint Rita students are a “Community of Learners, Believers and Friends”. This is demonstrated through our Student
Learning Expectations and conduct and effort in our classrooms, and beyond.
Saint Rita School is seeking a Catholic administrator, knowledgeable in curriculum, the common core and mapping as
well as recruiting, marketing, and who will serve as an authentic model of academic excellence and mature religious faith.
Desired Qualifications:
• A Master of Arts degree
• A valid teaching credential
• A practicing Roman Catholic in good standing
• An administrative credential (preferred).
• Five years teaching experience at the K-8 level
(at least three years in Catholic Schools).
• Financial experience (preferred).
• Willing to attend night meetings and weekend events.
• Become an active member of the Saint Rita Parish (preferred).
Please send resume and cover letter by June 15, 2013 to:
Mrs. Carol Arritola, Principal, Saint Rita School, 102
Marinda Dr., Fairfax, CA 94930
A Six-day Live-in Experience
for single
Catholic women
(18-39yrs.)
who are seeking the
meaning of life by exploring
a call to become a Sister.
“Live in me and
I will live in you...”
Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose
When: Friday July 5 to Thursday July 11, 2013
[begins Friday @ 5 PM; ends Thursday 1 PM after lunch]
Where: Dominican Sisters MSJ Motherhouse
43326 Mission Blvd. Fremont, CA 94539
(entrance on Mission Tierra Pl.)
RSVP: Sister Frances Mary 510-933-6335 or email
[email protected] by Saturday, June 15
To register give: Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Cell phone, e-mail
Support CSF
Be a part a growing ministry that connects
the faithful in the 90 parishes of the
archdiocese. If you would like to add your
tax-deductible contribution, please mail a
check, payable to Catholic San Francisco,
to: Catholic San Francisco, Dept. W, One
Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109.
Registration confirmation will include a follow-up telephone conference with Sister Marcia Krause, vocation director.
Experience will include a silent retreat, opportunity
for discernment, sharing, quiet, community, Mass,
prayer, study & service
Overnight accommodations, meals & snacks provided.
Freewill Offering
The Archdiocese of San Francisco
Looking to make a difference?
Full-time, exempt position reporting to the Director of the Department of Pastoral Ministries.
Competitive salary & benefits based on education and experience.
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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.
H.G.
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
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Oh Holy Mary, Mother of
God, Queen of Heaven and
earth. I humbly beseech you
from the bottom of my heart
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Oh Mary, conceived
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Holy Mary, I place this
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HELP WANTED
Seeking a full time Director of Music
(organist/pianist/choir director) for
Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church in
beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a mountain resort
near Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
Duties include music for three masses weekly plus Holy
Days, planning and providing funeral and wedding music, conducting choir and ensemble. Strong proficiency
in organ, piano, and choral conducting desired and good
interpersonal skills. Minimum bachelor’s in music. Goal
is a blended contemporary and traditional program. Salary negotiable depending on experience/education and
includes benefits and housing supplement.
Job description at www.olmcatholic.com. Email letter
of interest and resume to [email protected]
“125 Years of History, Ministry & Service”
A book celebrating the story of Holy Cross Cemetery
Books now available $20.00
Books may be purchased at the cemetery office or by mail.
If you wish to purchase by mail,
please add $3.00 and send request to:
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery,
P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 940l4
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred
In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of April
HOLY CROSS
COLMA
William “Bill” Affolter
Alise Ammari
Christopher M. Arcilla
Donna Avtonomoff
Genaro C. Badiable
Marie-Louise Baules
Raquel Benavides
John A. Benelli
Lillian M. Benelli
Blanche M. Bianucci
Edith L. Boquiren
Antonio Botones
Faeq “Ed” Boury
William J. Bousquet
Jerry Bowers
Jose Carlos Briancesco
Sidney W. Brown
Wayne Brown
Jose G. Campos
John J. Carroll
Frank A. Casagrande
William J. Casalata
Ronald A. Castillo
Horace C. Castro
Irenea G. Chan
Claudia Chiang
Mary Catherine Connolly
Joan Kiernan Coyne
Eugenia Cubero
Warren Cubero
Lillian D. Curd
Rea Ancheta DeCastro
Rosa A. Denis
Anthony G. DeSousa
Dorothy Helen Donnelly
Irene V. Doyle
Mae Durrenberger
Kathryn M. Dwyer
Maria Sabado Evangelista
Anthony Alfonsz Faraldo
Edna Mary Fegan
Dennis P. Flanagan
Mary L. Forese
Eleanor Francis Fox
Eric E. French
Mary M. Friman
Emily Gallardo
Frank Gallardo
Andrew Wah Gee
Melodi Rose Gheno-Barri
Amanda Gibson
Raymond G. Grandona
Maurice B. Griffin
Marijan Grskovic
Maria Elena Gutierrez
Mary Scannell Hansen
Mary Ann Hansen
Blanche D. Hardy
Adele Hider
Paul M. Hupf
Emilio Icabalceta
Beverly A. Johnson
Peggy Jones
Dottie Dee Kelley
Narciso L. Lasola
Miguel Leon
Rita Loretz
Melinda Irene O’Brien LoSavio
Janet Carmen Lossa
Eduardo Magbitang
Aloysius A. Mangan, Jr.
Jacqueline Manning
David J. Martin
Marion Jane Mattes
Helen E. Matulich
Maria E. Maya
Katherine E. McCarthy
Sr. Mary Geraldine McDonnell, RSM
Edward J. McEntee
Ida McGrath
William J. McPartland
Blanca “Blanche” Melhado
Mario J. Menconi
Domenica Mezzadri
Elias Joseph Michael, M.D.
Mary Catherine Murphy
Linda Ann Murphy
Joseph P. Murray
Anne U. Newsom
Dorothy A. O’Connor
Raymond S. O’Neill
Donald Robert O’Reilly
Margaret A. O’Shea
Matias I. Orque
Lorraine Ortega
Phyllis M. Ostraco
Leo Padreddii
Antonio B. Pilapil
Vicky Pinto
Menotti Robert Pioli
John Pizza
Rev. William Quinn
Leo Quiriconi
Aida M. Ramirez
Beatrice Ramirez
Julian Ramos
Henrietta A. Ryan
Pedro Saldana
Aurelia Saldana
Maria M. Sanchez
Andres R. Sanchez
Donna J. Sartori
Evelyn C. Schenone
Amelia Siino
Mary Ann Soldavini
Joann A. Sommers
Josephine “Jo” Sommerville
Carol A. Stephens
Connie Stephens
William A. Stewart
Aldo N. Strambi
Joan Theresa Sullivan
Walter C. Swan, Jr.
Godofredo Tablante
John J. Tenge, Jr.
Stanley J. Thompson
Carla M. Tocci
Angelina Tortorelli
Juan J. Trasviña
Roy Tripp
Jacob Enrique Valdiviezo
Lt. Ronald Joseph Van Pool
Alicia Venegas
Barbara Kathleen Wait
Frank Zocchi
MT. OLIVET,
SAN RAFAEL
Phyllis Claudia Botto
Jean Etcheverria
John H. Marshall
Jack “Monty” Montgomery
Loretta E. Vacha
William G. Weissenberger
Joanne Willis
HOLY CROSS
MENLO PARK
Joanne Bischoff
Rose Marie Escobar
John M. Geaghan
Zoila Reyes
John Everett Spiva
OUR LADY OF
THE PILLAR
Kathleen L. Leonardi
MEMORIAL DAY MASS – Monday, May 27, 2013
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY
– COLMA
Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11am
Rev. Msgr. James T. Tarantino, Celebrant
MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY
– SAN RAFAEL
Outdoor Mass – 11am
Rev. Paul E. Perry, Celebrant
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY
– MENLO PARK
Outdoor Mass – 11am
Rev. Lawrence Goode, Celebrant
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY
– HALF MOON BAY
Outdoor Mass – 9:30 am
Rev. Juan Manuel Celebrant
FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, June 1, 2013
All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11am
Rev. Brian L. Costello, Celebrant – Pastor, Most Holy Redeemer
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

May 24, 2013 - Catholic San Francisco

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