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Peaceful, positive and personal pro-life messages mark 15th Walk for Life

Pope: Bishops must realize severity of abuse crisis

CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A throng of upbeat pro-life supporters, some from as far away as Colorado, Arizona and Tennessee, swarmed the streets of downtown San Francisco Jan. 26 carrying a wide array of messages calling for an end to abortion.

A crowd in the tens of thousands poured into Civic Center Plaza on a spring-like winter day for the 15th Annual Walk for Life West Coast, which marked the 46th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe. v.

Wade decision legalizing abortion. The event kicked off with prayer, pro-life speakers and the amplified fetal heartbeats of seven babies whose mothers stood on the event stage holding bullhorns connected to their pregnant bellies.

“Babies saving babies,” said Walk for Life chair Eva Muntean. “The babies are here to save their peers.”

A woman allowed to see an image of her unborn baby on an ultrasound screen or to hear its heartbeat will often choose not to abort, pro-life advocates say.

Despite a heavy police presence, the two-mile march from Civic Center Plaza down Market Street to Justin Herman Plaza appeared as peaceful as organizers had hoped. At times it felt more like a celebration than a demonstration.

“This is not a day for confrontation,” Walk co-chair Dolores Meehan advised as the Walk began. “Just say a prayer and keep it going.”

There were a handful of spontaneous hecklers, including a man who stood near the cable car turnaround on Market Street and shouted, “Go to hell” at the procession. But neither he nor a costumed group of about a dozen more organized counter-protesters distracted the walkers, many of whom smiled and waved at the provocateurs.

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For many, the day had begun with morning Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone where about 2,900 received the Blessed Sacrament. Later in the plaza at the start of

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PANAMA – The primary goal of the Vatican’s February summit on clerical sexual abuse and child protection is to help bishops understand the urgency of the crisis, Pope Francis said.

During a news conference with journalists Jan. 27 on his flight to Rome from Panama, the pope said the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences have been called to the Feb. 21-24 meeting at the Vatican to be “made aware of the tragedy” of those abused by members of the clergy.

“I regularly meet with people who have been abused. I remember one person – 40 years old – who was unable to pray,” he said. “It is terrible, the suffering is terrible. So first, they (the bishops) need to be made aware of this.”

The pope’s international Council of Cardinals suggested the summit after realizing that some bishops did not know how to address or handle the crisis on their own, he said.

“We felt the responsibility of giving a ‘catechesis’ on this problem to the bishops’ conferences,” he said. “That is why we convoked the presidents” of the conferences, the heads of the Eastern Catholic churches and representatives of the leadership groups of men’s and women’s religious orders.

The meeting, he said, will address “in a clear way” what protocols bishops need to follow when handling sexual abuse.

SEE WALK FOR LIFE, PAGE 3

SEE POPE, PAGE 19

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These pro-life supporters were among tens of thousands who gathered Jan. 26 in Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco for the 15th Annual Walk for Life West Coast. The event, which drew participants from as far away as Colorado, Arizona and Tennessee, marked 46 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion.

Youth rally: Respect for life begins with self-worth CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Nearly 450 eighth grade students from 16 Catholic schools across the archdiocese gathered Jan. 24 for a youth rally at St. Mary’s Cathedral and a message that respect for human life begins with understanding their own value and not being defined by social cues.

Organized by the Department of Catholic Schools, the gathering was a first-ever event held two days before the largest pro-life event of the year in the archdiocese, the Walk for Life West Coast. It included Mass concelebrated by two young priests, Father

Andrew Ginter, parochial vicar at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon, and Father Cameron Faller, parochial vicar at Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco.

A presentation by the Culture Project followed the Mass.

Students from Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Star of the Sea, St. Paul, St. Anselm, St. Raphael, St. Brendan, St. Peter, St. Robert, St. Isabella, St. John, St. Veronica, St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception, St. Brigid, St. Philip, All Souls and Our Lady of the Visitacion Schools attended.

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NEED TO KNOW WORLD DAY OF THE SICK: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for Mass commemorating World Day of the Sick, Feb. 2, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Anointing of the Sick will take place. The Benedict XVI Schola will lead song. Sponsored by the Order of Malta, whose members can arrange rides for people who need transportation to the Mass. All are welcome to experience a special time of prayer and sharing, of offering one’s suffering for the good of the church. The Mass will be livestreamed on the archdiocesan website. Contact Knight of Malta Kenneth Ryan, (415) 613-0395; kenmryan@aol.com; www.sfarchdiocese.org/events/healingmass.

FIRST SATURDAY MASS: Father Cameron Faller will offer Mass for the souls of all the faithful departed interred in our Catholic cemeteries, Holy Cross Cemetery, Feb. 2, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 1500 Mission Road, Colma. Monica Williams, (650) 756-2060 www.holycrosscemeteries.com. Everyone is welcome to attend CHINESE NEW YEAR MASS: Mass commemorating Chinese New Year, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Feb. 9, 2:30 p.m. Divine Word Father Peter Zhai, director of Chinese ministry, (415) 614-5575; zhaip@sfarch.org; sfchinesecatholic. org. The Chinese Ministry of the archdiocese of San Francisco extends a warm invitation to all priests of the archdiocese and their parishioners to attend the celebration. A ticketed banquet follows the Mass. Contact Father Zhai to purchase tickets.

ESSAY AWARDS MASS: Respect Life Essay Contest Mass and awards presentation, Feb. 10, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, principal celebrant and homilist. Mitchell Tu, tum@sfarch.org; (415) 6145616; www.sfarchdiocese.org/essay-contest.

‘HOPE AFTER ABORTION’: Healing retreats led by Contemplatives of St. Joseph for those impacted by abortion. March 9, 10, Sept. 14, 15 and in Spanish Sept. 7, 8. RSVP to (415) 6145567 or projectrachel@sfarch.org. All inquiries are confidential. Sponsored by Project Rachel of the archdiocese.

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Volunteer leaders Antoinette Galindo, Joe Witherspoon and Tanya Roberts talk prior to a Landings meeting Jan. 23 at Our Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame. Landings ministry offers disconnected Catholics a forum for open discussion as they consider returning to the church.

Parish provides ‘Landings’ for Catholics coming home NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Nearly every Catholic knows a former Catholic. According to Pew Research Center, about 13 percent of U.S. adults said they were raised in the Catholic Church, but no longer identify with it.

How the church can respond to this mass exodus of members has been an ongoing topic of discussion. But one Burlingame parish ministers to disconnected Catholics by offering them the opportunity to discuss their concerns in a small group setting.

“Landings,” an international Paulist Fathers ministry started in 1989, is a discussion-based program led by laity at Our Lady of Angels Parish. It is designed to help people who have drifted away from the church or who attend a parish but feel disconnected from their Catholic faith.

“It really felt like home, like a safe place to be vulnerable about your fears, about the Catholic faith,” said Viennelyn Copero, who went through Landings two years ago after a long period of spiritual searching.

Copero told Catholic San Francisco she had grown up Catholic but left the church in college, feeling that she was not being “spiritually fed.”

At other Christian churches, she found communities she liked but that ultimately left her

feeling unsatisfied. A flyer at Our Lady of Angels told her about Landings, and led her back to the church.

Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, Our Lady of Angels’ pastor, said people in Landings feel free to discuss their past experiences.

“They can voice their opinions or doubts without feeling they’ll be reprimanded for expressing what they know or feel.”

Father Mahoney added that many participants felt they left “a rigid, rule-bound church” and were surprised “they were able to express their views, even views struggling with dogmas of the faith.”

He added that “even if they cannot embrace the church and all its teachings and doctrines fully, they’re still welcomed. And sometimes that’s a revelation to them.”

The Landings program lasts for 10 weeks, with each meeting focusing on Catholic themes and questions. Early sessions discuss “Who is God?” and “Why follow Jesus?” while later sessions cover such topics as the sacraments and Catholic life.

Father Mahoney, however, said Landings is not a “teaching session” but a forum where people can re-examine and connect their own experiences to Catholicism and its doctrines.

“Rather than coming to them from outside, it comes from within the person themselves,” he said.

A resource designed to help people who have drifted away from the church or who belong but feel disconnected.

SEE ‘LANDINGS’, PAGE 22

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WALK FOR LIFE: Peaceful, positive and personal pro-life messages FROM PAGE 1

the rally he led marchers in a prayer from the event stage.

“Give us the courage to speak the truth with love and conviction in defense of life,” he said.

Chastity Ronan, former director of San Francisco’s Alpha Pregnancy Center, took the stage to accept the Gianna Molla Award created for local “unsung heroes” of the pro-life movement.

St. Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962) was an Italian pediatrician who refused both an abortion and a hysterectomy while pregnant with her fourth child despite knowing that the decision could result in her own death, which it did.

Ronan turned to the pregnancy center when she found herself pregnant, unemployed and homeless shortly after moving to San Francisco 10 years ago. Despite miscarrying her unborn child, Ronan went on to direct the growth of the center from a small service center to a medical clinic which today serves 1,000 families a year. She resigned in 2016 after being diagnosed with cancer only months after the birth of her daughter, Catica.

“If you are experiencing tragedy in your life, look at Gianna Molla, look at me, look at Jesus,” she said. “Give him your tragedy and let him turn it into triumph.”

Other speakers included abortionsurvivor Patricia Sandoval, Issues4Life founder Rev. Walter B. Hoye, president of Human Life International Father Shenan Boquet and Abby Johnson, a former clinic director at a Texas Planned Parenthood who is the subject of the movie “Unplanned,” scheduled for release in March.

Sandoval said she’d had three abortions by the time she was 20 and was hired by Planned Parenthood to work as a back office nurse without nursing credentials.

“I was manipulated and trained to

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Modesto resident Ruth Enero said that “all human life needs to be protected” and brought a sign opposing abortion, war, euthanasia, the death penalty, poverty and racism.

lie to women that it was not a baby,” she said.

She turned to cocaine and eventually fell homeless before a conversion experience with a stranger saved her.

“I want people who do not agree with me to hear me,” she said. “I don’t judge you, I was one of you. You think I am fighting to take your rights away?

I’m fighting for your rights to be given back to you.”

On the parade route marchers walked with an array of self-styled messages including, “Make Unborn Babies Great Again.”

No words were required for Katie Forbes’ sign. The Arizona State University student’s exposed belly featured a life-sized painting of her unborn child, Timothy, due in May. “There is nothing better than an ultrasound to get the pro-life point across,”

(PHOTO BY DEBRA GREENBLAT/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Twenty-year-old Katie Forbes, center in black shirt, traveled to San Francisco with fellow members of Arizona State University’s Students for Life organization. The single mom marched in the Walk for Life with a painting of her unborn child, Timothy, on her pregnant belly. she told Catholic San Francisco.

Forbes said as the oldest of eight children from a Catholic family, her values were put to the test when she found herself pregnant and unmarried at 20.

“It was a lot more personal,” she said.

Jim King from Memphis, Tennesee, a Catholic convert for over 40 years, said his active opposition to abortion grew after he stopped into a Catholic church between business meetings.

“Something almost blew me over from the tabernacle,” he said. “It said to me ‘speak up for the unborn children.’”

Ruth Enero, who traveled with members of her church in Modesto, held a handmade sign that read, “Embrace a Consistent Ethic” on one side, and “Value Every Life” on the other. She opposes abortion, war, death penalty, euthanasia and racism and poverty.

“A couple of times I was told it wasn’t a pro-life message,” she said.

“But it seems really obvious to me that when you dehumanize any group of people it’s very easy to kill them.

All human life needs to be protected.”

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‘Mission-driven commitment’ central to ethic of newly promoted CSF staffers, editor says TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

All of us at Catholic San Francisco are celebrating the recent promotions of our colleagues Mary Podesta and Chandra Kirtman. Mary is the paper’s new advertising director and Chandra has been named business manager.

Mary Podesta and Chandra Kirtman Mary has been HOLLY JOLLY REUNION: St. Ignatius College Prep Wildcats of ’62 gathered Dec. 13 at Original Joe’s in North Beach. Classmate with the paper Bill Landtbom said this meet is about the 50th in a row and that 45 from the class attended. “Not bad for 74-year-old geezers,” he told since its beginnings 20 years ago and has put me. Jesuit Father John Mossi was at table with Jesuit Father Ray Allender, now recuperating from back surgery, missing the lunch. advertising on the pages of more than 600 issues.

Missed and prayed for was Jesuit Father William Spohn who died more than a dozen years ago.

“She has been a pillar of the paper with her sales skills, knowledge of our Catholic community in WINNNING the archdiocese, creativity and focus on promome a broader scope of how the many ‘behind the YOUNG SCRIBES: tions for local businesses connecting with our scenes’ parts all result in Catholic San Francisco David Gallagher, parish audience,” said CSF editor and general being received in the homes of our loyal subscribprincipal, shares manager Rick DelVecchio in an announcement ers.” congrats to Star of the of the promotions before Christmas. Rick noted Rick said: “I’m proud of them and their work Sea School’s Elise Lau, more recently that “CSF ad volume and sales and grateful for their mission-driven commitment revenue, starting from an already strong base, are Kyle Abrego and Olivia and esprit de corps.”

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Catholic, Orthodox neighbors renew bond in prayer TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

For more than a decade neighboring Belmont faith communities Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish and the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross have come together for prayer.

Led on Jan. 24 by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco their members’ voices rose in prayer once more.

“This prayer service at IHM was solemn Apostles St. Peter and St. vespers celebrating Andrew are depicted in this icon the completion of the placed in front of the altar at Im- Week of Prayer for maculate Heart of Mary Church.

Christian Unity,” FaThe icon was painted by IHM ther Stephen Howell, parishioner Gregory Shypertt. former pastor of IHM and now pastor of St. Philip the Apostle and vicar general for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, told Catholic San Francisco.

“The fact that Archbishop Cordileone and Metropolitan Gerasimos take the time to be present shows the support at all levels for this prayer for unity.”

This is the 13th year that these prayer services joining the two communities have been taking place.

Metropolitan Gerasimos offered the day’s homily: “This annual observance brings to mind that our Lord and savior called us to be one, to be united to him and to one another as the branches are united to the vine,” he told the assembly that included laity, clergy, religious, and seminarians from St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park.

“We are not celebrating something tonight,” he said, “we are seeking something through our prayer.

Tonight we are praying for Christian unity,” a unity he called “a gift of God.” Opportunities to join in action are many, Metropolitan Gerasimos said noting California’s recent devastating fires have raised discussion of climate change. “Our two churches are now equally talking about the changes facing our environment. Perhaps now is the time for our two communions to cooperate more closely on this issue.”

In his closing sentences Metropolitan Gerasimos asked for prayer with qualifications. “When we pray, let us not pray in platitudes as we often do, but rather let us pray in specifics. Let us pray for the strength to work together to combat injustice and the strength to assist those in need. Let us pray for dialogue between us to continue. And let us pray for a conversion of our heads, hearts and hands so the world may believe in Jesus Christ.”

On April 4, a Lenten prayer service, “The Salutations of the Holy Cross,” Greek Church of the Holy Cross including veneration of a relic of the True Cross.

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Parishioner stories: Finding a path amid struggles Editor’s Note: As we enter a new year, we asked Massgoing Catholics what keeps them anchored in their faith despite challenges in the church and in their personal lives.

We hope to make a different set of parishioner portraits an occasional feature of the paper in 2019, with reporters Christina Gray and Nicholas Wolfram Smith reaching out to diverse communities in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties. Gray, who is primarily responsible for San Francisco and Marin coverage, may be reached at grayc@ sfarch.org; Smith, primarily responsible for San Mateo, at smithn@sfarch.org.

Finding home in a small community Elizabeth Paganini, St. Mary Parish, Nicasio

Growing up in South Bend, Indiana, Elizabeth Paganini thought “the whole world was Catholic and loved Notre Dame!

When she moved away from the town she said was “90 percent Catholic,” she realized she’d been raised in “a bubble.” In a time and place where there are now “so many choices for what people can do as far as spirituality,” she is grateful for that bubble.

Catastrophic new revelations about clergy sex abuse and cover-up by church hierarchy hasn’t made her doubt her place in the faith. “Not for one second,” she told Catholic San Francisco after Sunday Mass at St. Mary’s, her parish, on Jan. 13.

She prays for the victims, but is also anguished by how the stain of “bad apples” has bled onto the good men and women in the church who helped form her faith.

“I had such wonderful priests and nuns that educated me,” said Paganini. “I think about how hard they worked and how difficult this must be for them.”

She conceded that the current problems in the Catholic Church are “a big test” not just for the institutional church, but can be for one’s personal faith. Connecting to Scripture on a daily basis keeps her grounded no matter what the prevailing winds bring.

“A friend said to me, if you ever get

lost, the best road map is the Bible,” she said.

Her husband, Ruel, died unexpectedly when their 11-year-old daughter Alexandria Elizabeth Paganini was a toddler. She found love again with Dave Paganini after being introduced to him by a church friend. This past Christmas Eve, pastor Father Cyril O’Sullivan married the pair in a small ceremony at St. Mary’s.

At Mass that day in the tiny church, Father O’Sullivan from the pulpit individually thanked members of the community by name for large and small acts of service to the parish. After Mass virtually everyone at Mass gathers on the rural lot dotted with cows.

“That is why I am here,” said Paganini, who currently lives with her husband and daughter in Novato but treks to Nicasio each week for Mass.

“When I found this small, country community, I wanted to be part of it, whatever small contribution I can make. I wanted my daughter to be part of it.”

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Relying on Christ to rise above scandal Louis Kolenda, St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco

Louis Kolenda’s Catholic roots are deep; he was raised by a devout Mexican mother and a Polish father, and raised his own children in the faith.

He told Catholic San Francisco Jan. 23 after morning Mass at his parish, St. Cecilia, that daily Mass and the Eucharist is the singular source of his hope for the church after the “disastrous” revelations of 2018.

Today’s scandals are “heinous on many levels,” he said, and need to be dealt with openly. Kolenda, 59, is “greatly disturbed” that clergy – priest and episcopate – who are supposed to be the “antithesis of all this,” committed crimes of this nature and/or participated in covering them up.

“However, we need supernatural grace to combat the profound evil that these crimes represent in order to move forward with our lives in a joyful manner,” he said.

“Christ giving himself to us in the Eucharist is beyond profound, it is mystical,” said Kolenda, who lives in West Portal with his wife Linda. He noted the fact that the Eucharist was itself born out of epic betrayal.

“It is interesting to note that the very night Christ gave us the Eucharist, one of his 12 hand-picked apostles chose to betray him,” he said.

After a long career as a consultant, Kolenda is now executive director of

Youth SF, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to engaging underserved K-12 students in the study of science and technology, Louis Kolenda engineering, math and maker arts. He starts most days with morning Mass at St. Cecilia Church, his parish.

“The Eucharist sustains me through the trials and tribulations we all inevitably face on earth,” he said, as does praying the rosary and helping others. Reading about the lives of the saints has also been instructive.

“Learning about the saints’ heroic lives on earth helps me maintain a historical and spiritual perspective on today’s scandals.”

Kolenda said that Christ was specific about what commandments were most important: “To love God with all your heart and soul and to love your neighbor as yourself.

“Following these two commandments in that order, I believe, will help lead away from further scandal,” he said.

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Moving toward Easter

Michael di Stefano, St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco Last Easter Vigil, Michael DiStefano approached a priest at St. Dominic Parish after Mass and told him he wanted to enter the church.

“He said ‘Great! Email me,’” DiStefano told Catholic San Francisco.

Entering St. Dominic’s RCIA program was the last step in a conversion that began after a startup he co-founded failed. “It humbled me enough to hear the guiding voice of the Holy Spirit,” he said.

DiStefano, who had practiced meditation since high school, found a mantra that invoked a “Heavenly Father.” As he repeated it over time, he found it became a prayer.

Through reading, he became more convinced in faith, until the day he looked for Catholic churches on Google Maps and picked St. Dominic.

DiStefano said converting has taught him a different way of approaching other people.

“Previously, I would look at things I’d instinctively disagree with and close myself off,” he said. “But now because I trust in the magisterium of the church, I read things and rather than disagree, I say ‘I don’t understand it yet and want to understand it more.’ That’s changed my life, seeing what’s the charitable view of this, how am I not seeing what the other person sees here?”

DiStefano said he looks forward to participating in the church’s sacra-

mental life after his reception into the church.

“Especially – and this might sound odd – confession.

I’ve lived 30 years of my life accumuMichael di Stefano lating debt and not confessing,” he said.

A few months after DiStefano decided to join the church, it entered another devastating period as scandals broke around Archbishop McCarrick, the Pennsylvania grand jury report and Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano’s August 2018 letter alleging a hierarchical “conspiracy of silence” at the faithful’s expense.

But DiStefano said the scandals have not shaken the faith he found.

“I came into this because I believe Christ is the son of God, rose from the dead and will come again,” he said.

DiStefano said another unanticipated source of joy is the liturgical year’s rhythm.

“We don’t have seasons really here, but the liturgical year has this beautiful seasonality to it. I can’t wait for Lent.”

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Praying, not ‘saying,’ the rosary

Chris Milosovich, St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae San Francisco native Chris Milosovich “fell away” from the Catholic Church during the 1990s, he said, largely because of the local church’s response to allegations that a highranking priest in the archdiocese had abused young boys and teenagers for nearly 20 years.

“I asked myself how I can be a part of something like this?” he told Catholic San Francisco. He stopped going to Mass, though he admitted that at the time he was also “a rock ‘n roll guy” who was doing “all the wrong things with my life” and hanging out with people who didn’t value church.

Sitting in the empty pews of St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae after Mass on Jan. 13, Milosovich, 58, reflected on what brought him back to the church after a two-year, self-imposed exile and what keeps him rooted here decades later despite new clergy sex abuse and cover-up headlines that seemed to reach a high-water mark in 2018.

“For me, this is the hope, it really is,” he said, holding up a hand-beaded rosary with a cross inlaid with slivers of olive wood from the Garden of Gethsemane. Milosovich began praying the rosary daily – as opposed to “saying the rosary” – during a period of personal hardship and has never stopped.

He said he had failed to appreciate

the rosary, believing it was just rote, “repetitive prayer.”

Now, it’s a sustaining nightly ritual.

The married father of Chris Milosovich two said that despite three years of Catholic school and several more of CCD classes, he realized he had not been “properly formed in my faith” when he decided to distance himself from the church years ago.

“In the 1990s when I fell away, I thought the things that happened was the church itself,” he said. His ongoing formation – and his own mother – convinced him that wasn’t true.

“She reminded me that I shouldn’t deny myself my faith due to the sins of men,” Milosovich said.

His peace about his continued place in the church does not mean he isn’t angry and disillusioned with the human beings who did “not stop the bleeding” when they had the power to.

“But the sins of men do not define the Catholic Church. Jesus does.”

CHRISTINA GRAY

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Cathedral pilgrimage focuses on art and faith NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Men, women, and children preparing for full entrance into the Catholic Church got a special tour of St. Mary’s Cathedral on Jan. 27. At the archdiocese’s annual RCIA cathedral pilgrimage, candidates and catechumens were given presentations on the different shrines and features in the cathedral and the significance they hold for Catholic life.

The pilgrimage was an opportunity to share with RCIA pilgrims the artistic treasures of the cathedral and introduce them to the discipleship of Mary through the art, Laura Bertone, director of the archdiocesan worship office, told Catholic San Francisco.

“It also shows everyone the breadth of the church,” she said, as different parish RCIA programs gather in the cathedral.

John Spotorno, RCIA coordinator at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City, said “it’s wonderful for them to experience more of the cathedral in a more relaxed way.”

In addition to being an opportunity to teach about the faith, the pilgrimage also lets people be more relaxed when they come to the cathedral for the Rite of Election. “There’s enough going on during the rite to be nervous and excited about, so they don’t need to worry about the venue,” he said.

Each year on Holy Saturday during the Easter Vigil, thousands are baptized into the Catholic Church in the United States. Parishes welcome these new Catholics through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. In a key step on their journey, catechumens affirm their commitment to the church by requesting baptism and the celebration of the Rite of Election, scheduled Sunday, March 10, at the cathedral.

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Promote personal and couple healing Provide an environment for spiritual growth Create an empowering environment Teach the technique of dialogue Teach writing skills and develop the ability of couples and priests to write and present their story • Affirm the couples and priests, and help build their confidence • Help couples and priests to incorporate the values of Retrouvaille into their lives • • • • •

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Other upcoming livestreamed events include: Mass for World Day of the Sick Feb. 2, 11 a.m.; Marriage Anniversaries Mass. Feb. 9, 10 a.m.; Chinese New Year Mass, Feb. 9, 2 p.m.; Respect Life Essay Awards Mass, Feb. 10, 11 a.m.; Ash Wednesday Mass, March 6, 12:10 p.m.; First Sunday of Lent Mass, March 10, 11 a.m.; Rite of Election, March 10, 4 p.m.; Chrism Mass, April 11, 5:30 p.m.; Palm Sunday Mass, April 14, 11 a.m.; Holy Thursday Mass, April 18, 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday liturgy, April 19, 1 p.m.; Easter Vigil, April 20, 9 p.m.; Easter, April 21, 11 a.m.

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The Formation Weekend is for: • Persons already involved in this ministry • Communities wishing to start Retrouvaille • Couples and priests who are currently preparing to work in this ministry in existing and new communities • Couples and priests who wish to discern how they may help the Retrouvaille ministry by their involvement The policy regarding presenting team composition in the Retrouvaille International By-Laws is as follows: • Non-Catholic members shall be practicing Christians and accept and support the Catholicity of Retrouvaille.

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and the connection between the stories shown in the shrine and the viewers’ faith. At the shrine depicting the Flight into Egypt, Deacon Bob Leathers of St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo spoke about how the Holy Family’s flight from captivity shows that Christ experienced the same escape from violence and persecution, and experience of homelessness, many do today. “Christian discipleship demands solidarity with those who are marginalized in our society,” he said.

At the Shrine of the Wedding at Cana, the RCIA pilgrims were told “as disciples we are called to do whatever Christ calls us to. How often do we find ourselves saying yes to God?” At the Assumption of Mary shrine, Deacon Fred Totah of St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo talked DEACON BOB LEATHERS about how the Assumption St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo “foreshadows the hope of all Christians” to be united with God in Heaven. He also explained the devotion Catholics have toward Mary.

“When we reverence the Blessed Mother, we give her respect. When we were kids and wanted something from our dad, we went to our mom.

It’s the same thing with the Blessed Mother, we pray to God and ask her for intercession,” he said.

Juan Rodriguez, a confirmation candidate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, said he appreciated the pilgrimage because of how the cathedral art showed Catholic teachings “translated to everyday life. It really opens my eyes.”

The wedding at Cana had just been discussed a week ago in his class, he said. “So having the visual was a cool way to see it.”

‘Christian discipleship demands solidarity with those who are marginalized in our society.’

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Deacon Edward Te of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San Francisco discusses the Shrine of the Crucifixion, during a Jan. 27 tour of St. Mary’s Cathedral for participants in this year’s Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults process in the archdiocese.

The Rite of Election, scheduled March 10 at the cathedral, is a

key step in the journey toward communion with the church.

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Father Cameron Faller urged eighth graders gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral for a Jan. 24 youth rally and Mass to define their self-worth despite social pressures. Nearly 450 students attended from 16 Catholic schools in the archdiocese.

YOUTH RALLY: Respect for life begins with self-worth, priest says FROM PAGE 1

In his homily Father Faller said that during the last five years as a teacher and priest he’s noticed a “deep sadness” in young people that he hadn’t noticed when he was their age. He blamed the tendency of letting social media “likes” define one’s inherent worth.

“Whether we know it or not, one of our deepest desires is to be seen as valuable and worthy,” he said. “When we go on social media and look at other people’s lives, it looks like we can never measure up to other people.”

Self-worth derived from social media is “a roller coaster ride” at best, Father Faller said.

“The reason I bring this up today as we celebrate the great gift of human life, is that we are going to be talking in the coming days to a lot of people about respecting the sanctity and dignity of

human life,” he said. “I was thinking to myself, can I really trust someone to respect the dignity of other people’s lives if they don’t respect the dignity of their own life?”

Father Faller said that he had discovered that “there is no better place to find confidence in myself, to find peace than knowing who I am in God’s eyes.”

“Your life is worthy simply because God created you,” he said. The redemptive blood of Jesus only proves the value of a human life.

“Every time we come to Mass, especially today, and we receive the Eucharist, it’s a beautiful time to remind ourselves how valuable and worthy our life is,” he said. “When the priest or extraordinary minister puts communion in your hand remember that God loves you so much that he gave his only son for just you. That’s how important your life is.”

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Salvadoran priest: Honor Romero by fighting injustice RHINA GUIDOS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – After the canonization of St. Oscar Romero finally came to fruition, Salvadorans and the saint’s admirers must give him new life by learning about him, pondering how his teachings apply to the present and helping others around the world based on his work toward ending injustice and exclusion, said the head of Pontifical Missions for El Salvador, the homeland of the newly minted saint.

“We have to give life to his words, his teachings ... a rejuvenation,” said Father Estefan Turcios Carpano, who spoke with Catholic News Service Dec. 27 during a brief visit to Washington.

Much is said about his assassination, said Father Turcios, who was a seminarian living in exile in Ecuador when St. Romero, then Archbishop of San Salvador, was martyred while celebrating Mass March 24, 1980.

And certainly, he was a symbol of a church under persecution, a Salvadoran who suffered injustices, calumnies, and ultimately a violent death like many of his fellow countrymen and women.

“Now, we have a challenge ... to transmit his tenderness, his closeness to the poor, the excluded,” said Father Turcios of the man he knew personally and whom he credits with saving his life after he was wrongfully imprisoned and tortured in El Salvador for six months in 1978.

Then-Archbishop Romero secured his release and sent him to live with another bishop in Ecuador so he would be safe.

This is not the time to remain in a celebratory moment, said Father Turcios, who also is the director of the Archdiocese of San Salvador’s office of human rights.

“Yes, he does represent a recent history of pain, of great injustice (in El Salvador), but I’d like to invite others to a metamorphosis of that image.

How do we talk about him in the here

and now? It’s easy to talk about him in the past, about his history, but we don’t want to live in the past. This is our challenge. What does he mean today? Now, he’s a saint. Now, we have what we longed for, but now what?”

El Salvador, as well as many nations around the world, still experience great injustices, said Father Turcios. Those injustices vary from place to place but believers can pray for St. Romero’s intercession and take action, speaking out the way he did, to end inequality and exclusion around the world.

“The words of St. Romero are not just for Salvadorans. They’re universal and they were prophetic,” said Father Turcios.

Though El Salvador today does not have the political-military conflict of St. Romero’s life and times, it experiences other types of injustices: lack of work with dignity, lack of safety because violent criminal gangs daily torment the citizenry, lack of potable water – both situations disproportionately affect the poor – and a massive displacement of people because of those situations, he said.

“So, today, we have to read his teachings and search for what they tell us about the present,” Father Turcios said. “It’s urgent that we get to know him, that we pray for his intercession. We have to be the world he wanted, one in which no one is excluded.”

But in El Salvador, the past often is difficult to put behind, he admits, partly because the injustices of the past were never resolved, apologized for and ultimately produced no justice or semblance of it.

In the case of St. Romero’s assassination, no one has ever been prosecuted, and recently Father Turcios, through the human rights office, publicly denounced the country’s judicial system for “not carrying out justice” and said the only thing officials had produced in the 38 years since the killing were “creative” excuses.

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COVINGTON INVESTIGATION BEGINS

WASHINGTON – Days after the now-famous exchange took place between Covington Catholic High School students and a Native American tribal leader in Washington, the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, announced it would begin a third-party investigation into what happened at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial following the annual March for Life Jan. 18.

“This is a very serious matter that has already permanently altered the lives of many people. It is important for us to gather the facts that will allow us to determine what corrective actions, if any, are appropriate,” the diocese said in a Jan. 22 statement.

It also mentioned that Covington High School, Covington Latin School and Covington’s diocesan offices were closed that day due to threats of violence and would reopen when it was safe to do so. A few dozen people took part in a protest vigil at the diocese’s headquarters Jan. 21.

Covington High School reopened Jan. 23 with police at the school entrance. The diocesan offices also reopened that day, but the building was evacuated that afternoon due to a suspicious package, which police and firefighters determined to be safe that evening.

“We pray that we may come to the truth and that this unfortunate situation may be resolved peacefully and amicably and ask others to join us in this prayer,” the diocese said, adding that it will “have no further statements until the investigation is complete.”

On Jan. 19, the day a viral video showed the students who appeared to be mocking or disrespecting Nathan Phillips, tribal elder for the Omaha Tribe, Covington High School and the Diocese of Covington issued a joint statement condemning the students’ actions, apologizing to Phillips and noting that the incident was “being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion.”

But more of the story unfolded the next day when the students issued statements about what happened and longer videos shown online revealed that another group at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial that afternoon included members of the Hebrew Israelites, who with Phillips and others were attending an Indigenous People’s March.

SURVEY ASSESSES VIEWS ON WOMEN DEACONS

WASHINGTON – Should the Vatican permit the ordination of women as deacons – a topic that has been studied by a papal commission – a majority of U.S. bishops surveyed said they would expect the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to pave the way to implement it. There was, though, only a minority of U.S. bishops answering the survey who believe the ordination of women as deacons is theoretically possible.

These were two key findings of a report issued Jan. 22 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. Sixty-two percent of U.S. diocesan diaconate directors, who also were included in the survey, said their local bishop would implement the sacramental ordination of women as deacons, but just 54 percent of the bishops themselves said “yes” when asked “if the Holy See authorizes the sacramental ordination of women as deacons, would you consider implementing it in your diocese?” Pope Francis established a 16-member commission on the diaconate of women in August 2016.

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Notre Dame covers Columbus murals

Murals by Luigi Gregori that adorn the ceremonial entrance to the University of Notre Dame’s main building, depicting the life and exploration of Christopher Columbus, are seen Oct. 10, 2015, on the campus in Indiana. Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the university, has determined the historic murals depicting Columbus’ arrival in the New World will be covered, saying he feels today those images marginalize certain groups. The 1882-84 paintings “reflect the attitudes of the time and were intended as a didactic presentation, responding to cultural challenges for the school’s largely immigrant, Catholic population,” Father Jenkins wrote in a letter to the campus, released a day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 21. “In recent years, however, many have come to see the murals as at best blind to the consequences of Columbus’ voyage for the indigenous peoples who inhabited this ‘new’ world and at worst demeaning toward them.”

history of the office of deacon in Roman Catholicism and the question of whether women might be allowed to become deacons. The group met over a two-year period and submitted its report to the pope in late 2018. The findings have yet to be released.

ARCHBISHOP REFLECTS ON EFFECTS OF RACISM

BALTIMORE – Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori has issued his second pastoral reflection in 12 months on the effects of racism on society. Titled “The Journey to Racial Justice: Repentance, Healing and Action” the pastoral was released at St. Bernardine Parish in West Baltimore Jan. 21, the day the nation commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights leader was born Jan. 15, 1929, and assassinated April 4, 1968.

“Even as we Americans celebrate the inspiring example of Dr. King today, we feel the shame of witnessing public demonstrations of racism, antiSemitism and intolerance toward newcomers to our country such as we have not seen in decades,” Archbishop Lori said at St. Bernardine. “Likewise, there seems to be no lessening of the institutional racism we see all around us – whether in the criminal justice

system, employment, health care, education or political enfranchisement,” he said.

The archbishop noted the recurrence of racial and ethnic violence and hatred in ways that have not been seen in decades.

“Whether racism manifests itself in these blatant offenses against the dignity and humanity of people of color, or more subtly in the systemic racial inequities that persist in our current society – in the criminal justice system, in employment, education, housing, health care and political enfranchisement – the national conversation confirms that there is still a great deal of work to be done,” Archbishop Lori said.

His pastoral acknowledges that churches and members of the clergy, including four archbishops of Baltimore, held enslaved persons.

“Records show that lay members, religious communities and individual clergy held enslaved persons and that the church benefited from their labor not only in general parish work – the maintenance of churches, residences, convents, cemeteries, and so on – but also from the profit of their labor on plantations and farms owned by church entities,” the archbishop wrote.

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Mexico’s caravan visas remain controversial DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico – At this normally bustling border crossing between Mexico and Guatemala, Central American migrants – part of a caravan that set out Jan. 15 from San Pedro Sula, Honduras – sat patiently on folding chairs in the shade.

Mexican immigration officials distributed bottles of water, while members of the navy served meals of simple stew and slices of white bread.

When their names were read from a list, they proceeded to pick up oneyear humanitarian visas, which allow them to freely travel through Mexico, work in the country and claim social benefits such as health care and education.

“I didn’t know they’d give us a visa,” said Josue Giron, 22, a welder from Honduras, who fled with the caravan after not being able make extortion payments.

Mexico awaited the arrival of past caravans by deploying police and closing the border, prompting migrants to ford the Suchiate River, which separates Mexico and Guatemala.

This time, however, the new administration of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has promised humanitarian visas, which are supposed to be processed within five days. Applicants can also wait in

shelters set up for them while their paperwork is processed.

More than 14,000 migrants have applied for the humanitarian visas, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute tweeted Jan. 27. Long lines of applicants were still forming on the bridge connecting Mexico and Guatemala, according to media photos.

In announcing the plan, Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero said issuing humanitarian visas would allow for “orderly” migration and ensure migrants’ rights were protected.

The issuing of humanitarian visas on the southern border comes as Mexico prepares to receive migrants applying for asylum in the United States.

Under the scheme known as “Remain in Mexico,” migrants with asylum claims in U.S. courts will have to stay south of the border as their cases proceed. Mexican’s foreign ministry objected to the plan but was going along with it.

Scalabrinian Father Pat Murphy panned the idea of returning asylum seekers to border towns, saying such places are often rife with violence, and migrants are targeted.

“It’s a joke to say it’s a safe country, and these people will be taken advantage of,” said Father Murphy, director of a migrant shelter in Tijuana. “The government here couldn’t take care of the last caravan in a decent way.

It’s a mystery to me what they think

they’re going to do with all these people arriving.”

Some Catholics working with the Central Americans traveling through Mexico welcomed the issuing of humanitarian visas, however, even as they expressed misgivings over the formation of caravans – something Father Murphy said gave many migrants “false hope” about crossing the border quickly.

“The treatment the government is giving to migrants is correct: welcome, registration, migratory status regularization and offers of work,” Father Alejandro Solalinde, a wellknown migrant defender, tweeted about the humanitarian visas. “They can travel securely to wherever they want and in the way they want to.”

Father Solalinde has emerged as an unlikely critic of the caravans crossing the country. He previously told Catholic News Service that participants in past caravans – which were accompanied by the migrant-advocacy organization Pueblo Sin Fronteras – disregarded information offered to

them on the difficulties of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The priest also counseled migrants that conditions were not favorable for trying to cross the border.

“There’s no reason to ‘caravanize’ the flow of migrants,” he said. “It would only help Trump.”

U.S. President Donald Trump has tweeted his displeasure with the caravans attempting to reach the U.S. border and accused governments in Mexico and Central America of doing nothing to stop them.

Polls show Mexicans have less support for welcoming caravans. In the Guatemalan border city of Tecun Uman, opposite Ciudad Hidalgo, a masked mob armed with sticks attacked migrants congregating in the town square Jan. 27.

“The people traveling in the caravan are the poorest migrants,” said Carlos Lopez, an official with the Scalabrinian migrant shelter in Guatemala City. “They’re the ones that can’t pay for ‘coyotes,’” as human smugglers are called.

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Hope wanes in church wounded by sin, pope says JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PANAMA CITY – A church wounded by sin can paralyze, confuse and tire the hearts of Catholic clergy and laypeople, causing them to doubt their mission in the modern world, Pope Francis said.

Celebrating Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria La Antigua Jan. 26 with priests, consecrated men and women and members of lay movements, the pope warned that the burdens and troubles in the church can lead to a “weariness of hope” that “calls into question the energy, resources and viability of our mission in this changing and challenging world.”

“The weariness of hope comes from seeing a church wounded by sin, which so often failed to hear all those cries that echoed the cry of the Master: ‘My God, why have you forsaken me?’” he said.

In his homily, the pope reflected on the reading from St. John’s Gospel in which Christ, weary from a journey, asks a Samaritan woman for a drink of water.

While many in the church seek to announce the good news as Jesus did, he said, “we do not always know how to contemplate and accompany his weariness; it seems this is not something proper to God.” “The Lord knew what it was to be tired, and in his weariness so many struggles of our nations and peoples,

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Pope Francis has lunch with a group of World Youth Day pilgrims at the San Jose seminary in Panama City Jan. 26. At right is Archbishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta of Panama. our communities and all who are weary and heavily burdened can find a place,” the pope said.

While priests, laity and consecrated men and women can experience physical weariness due to long work hours or “toxic working conditions and relationships,” there is also another “subtle weariness” that “seems to have found a place in our communities.”

This weariness of hope, he added, can lead to a “gray pragmatism” that pierces the heart of the church, making it seem that while “everything

apparently goes on as usual, in reality, faith is crumbling and failing.”

Also during his Panama visit, the pope shared a private lunch with pilgrims from around the world and expressed his solidarity with victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy and emphasized the need for unity and prayer, a U.S. pilgrim said.

Brenda Noriega, a youth minister from the Diocese of San Bernardino, told journalists Jan. 26 that although the experience of sharing a meal with the pope was “amazing,” she said the crisis facing the Catholic Church in

the United States was an issue “that we couldn’t avoid talking about.”

Noriega was among the group of 10 pilgrims – five men and five women – chosen to share a meal with the pope at St. Joseph’s Major Seminary in Panama.

The young adults who later spoke to journalists were from the United States, Australia, the Palestinian territories, Burkina Faso, India, Spain and Panama. Each participant was given the opportunity to ask Pope Francis a question.

Noriega said it was important for her to ask the pope about the abuse crisis. His affirmation of the church’s support for survivors of sexual abuse, she said, was important to hear.

She also said Pope Francis emphasized the need for a more pastoral church, as well as the importance of prayer in discerning the best way to counter the culture of abuse and cover-up that has plagued the Catholic Church in the United States and abroad.

Noriega, who was born and raised in Mexico before moving to California, told journalists that representing Catholic young people in the United States at the private lunch was a special moment.

“Maybe you are wondering,” she told journalists, “why is the representative of the U.S. ‘toda morenita’ (all brown)? The new face of the Catholic Church in the United States has my face. It is Hispanic.”

Philippine bishops break silence on ‘disturbing issues’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANILA, Philippines – Catholic bishops in the Philippines broke what they described as their “collective silence” over “many disturbing issues” that have confronted the country in recent months.

In a pastoral statement issued at the end of their meeting in Manila Jan. 28, the bishops asked forgiveness from the faithful “for the length of time that it took us to find our collective voice,” reported ucanews.com.

In the statement “Conquering Evil With Good,” the bishops admitted they have observed how the “culture of violence has gradually prevailed in our land.”

They said the Jan. 27 bombing of the cathedral in Jolo was “further evidence to the cycle of hate that is destroying the moral fabric of our country.”

The prelates also said “cruel words” aimed at church leaders “pierce into the soul of the Catholic Church like sharp daggers.”

Since his election in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly attacked Catholic leaders, even questioning church teachings and calling God “stupid.”

In recent weeks, the president urged people to either rob or kill bishops.

“We have silently noted these painful instances

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A revolver is seen near the body of a man killed by police after drugs were found in his pockets in Manila, Philippines, Aug. 17, 2017. with deep sorrow and prayed over them,” read the bishops’ statement.

They said they took their cue from Pope Francis, “who tells us that in some instances the best response is silence and prayer.”

The bishops said they respect the “freedom of conscience and religion” of people, including Catholics who may have already renounced their faith.

The church leaders, however, said “freedom of

expression does not include a license to insult other people’s faith, especially our core beliefs.”

The bishops admitted that when people do not understand the doctrines of the church, “we have also ourselves to blame. ... Perhaps we have not been effective enough in our catechesis about the faith?”

“Like the leaders and members of any other human institution, no doubt, we, your bishops and priests, have our own share of failures and shortcomings as well.”

They said some sectors have warned church leaders against issuing statements critical of the government’s fight against illegal drugs. But the bishops said they are not against the government’s efforts.

“We have long acknowledged that illegal drugs are a menace to society,” they said. They only began wondering about the direction of Duterte’s drug war when it was only poor people reportedly linked to the illegal drug trade who were killed.

“As bishops, we have no intention of interfering in the conduct of state affairs, but neither do we intend to abdicate our sacred mandate as shepherds to whom the Lord has entrusted his flock,” they said.

“No amount of intimidation or even threat to our lives will make us give up our prophetic role, especially that of giving voice to the voiceless.”

The bishops then urged the faithful to “be sober and alert” despite the threats.

Real Catholic media don’t look for heretics everywhere, official says CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The rise of media that call themselves Catholic but seem to exist only to judge others is less about criticizing Pope Francis and more about the misguided notion that to affirm one’s own orthodoxy, one must find someone to label a heretic, said a Vatican communications official.

Andrea Tornielli, the new editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, was commenting on Pope Francis’ remarks Jan. 24 to the bishops of Central America about Catholics losing compassion.

The pope’s meeting in Panama took place on the feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists, Tornielli noted.

Successful evangelization, the pope told the bishops, does not need vast financial resources or dozens of events, but it does require “the centrality of compassion.”

However, Pope Francis added, “I worry that compassion is losing its centrality in the church.

Even Catholic groups have lost it, or, to be less pessimistic, are losing it.”

“In some Catholic communications media, there is no compassion,” the pope said. Instead, one finds “schism, condemnation, malice, fury, self-aggrandizement (and) the denunciation of heresy.”

Tornielli, writing for Vatican News, said the picture painted by the pope “unfortunately is a reality in front of everyone’s eyes: even among media that proclaim themselves Catholic, there

is the spreading habit of wanting to judge everything and everyone, putting themselves on a pedestal and getting worked up especially over brothers and sisters in the faith who have different opinions.”

“One must not think this profoundly anti-Christian attitude – even if carried by ‘Catholic’ media – is a transitory phenomenon tied only to the daily criticism of the current pontiff,” Tornielli wrote.

The posture of such Catholics, he said, has less to do with the way Pope Francis challenges their assumptions and their faith and more to do with them thinking “each day my identity requires me to pick an enemy I can pounce on, someone to attack, someone to condemn, someone to judge as a heretic.”

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time JEREMIAH 1:4-5, 17-19 The word of the Lord came to me, saying: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you. But do you gird your loins; stand up and tell them all that I command you. Be not crushed on their account, as though I would leave you crushed before them; for it is I this day who have made you a fortified city, a pillar of iron, a wall of brass, against the whole land: against Judah’s kings and princes, against its priests and people.

They will fight against you but not prevail over you, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.

PSALM 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17 I will sing of your salvation.

In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your justice rescue me, and deliver me; incline your ear to me, and save me.

I will sing of your salvation.

Be my rock of refuge, a stronghold to give me safety, for you are my rock and my fortress. O my God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked.

I will sing of your salvation.

For you are my hope, O Lord; my trust, O God, from my youth. On you I depend from birth; from my mother’s womb you are my strength.

I will sing of your salvation.

My mouth shall declare your justice, day by day your salvation. O God, you have taught me from my

youth, and till the present I proclaim your wondrous deeds.

I will sing of your salvation.

present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 CORINTHIANS 12:31—13:13 Brothers and sisters: Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At

LUKE 4:21-30 Jesus began speaking in the synagogue, saying: “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.

They also asked, “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?”

He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb, ‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.’” And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.

They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But Jesus passed through the midst of them and went away.

Love is the supreme gift

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ears ago, I had the privilege of celebrating Mass at St. Thérèse of Child Jesus’ Carmelite Convent in Lisieux, France, and of visiting Les Buissonnets, the house she grew up in, now turned into a sacred museum. While there, I was touched by a mysterious presence and power. Ever since, Thérèse has been one of three most favorite saints for my personal reflection, inspiration, and guidance.

In the last chapter of her “The Story of a Soul,” Thérèse does a lectio divina of Paul’s 1 Corinthians, Chapters 12 and 13: “I knew that the church has a heart, that this heart burns with love, and that it is love alone which gives life to its memFATHER CHARLES bers. I knew that if this love PUTHOTA were extinguished, the Apostles would no longer preach the Gospel, and the martyrs would refuse to shed their blood. I understood that love embraces all vocations, that it is all things, and that it reaches out through all the ages, and to the uttermost limits of the earth, because it is eternal.

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Then, beside myself with joy, I cried out: ‘O Jesus, my love, at last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love! Yes, I have found my place in the bosom of the church, and this place, O my God, thou hast thyself given to me: in the heart of the church… I will be love! ... Thus I shall be all things…’”

The word of God this Sunday draws us to love as the core of our life and as a potent antidote to anger, hatred and divisions prevalent among communities and nations. The last two Sundays also we read 1 Corinthians about the one Spirit lavishing richly diverse gifts; the one body of Christ with many parts. This Sunday it is about the so-called “hymn to love,” a wedding favorite. People can boast all they want about their gifts and roles in the church, but to a Corinthian church torn by strife and rivalries, Paul asserts – and as Thérèse joyfully discovers – that love is the supreme gift which will endure and without it, life is futile. A timely warning indeed to the church of today besieged at times by divisions and distrust. We are to transcend our issues and disagreements only through love.

A similar theme of God’s incredible love in the context of conflict and enmity is echoed in Jeremiah. He is loved before being conceived, dedicated, appointed and missioned to speak God’s mind and heart to Judah. God promises Jeremiah that he will protect him and preserve him even while he has to speak a message “against Judah’s kings

and princes, against its priests and people.” He is contradicted and hated by many, but he still keeps a sensitive soul and a tender heart and from time to time pours out his heart to God in intimate conversations (Chapter 20). The prophet is rooted and grounded in God’s love, which sends him to share that love for the people called to new life.

Jesus’ prophetic mission draws opposition in the Gospel. Having proclaimed his manifesto, Jesus now announces that it is being fulfilled in people’s hearing in the synagogue. He is anointed and sent by the father to liberate and release people from the bondages of sin, evil and death – and lead them to the fullness of life, not just for one nation but for the whole world. Jesus experiences a vicious rejection, but his mission will continue to embrace everyone, including the gentiles, sinners, tax collectors, and all who are in need of God’s grace.

Anchored in his Father’s love and the love for those he is called to save, Jesus will proceed from this violent encounter to Capernaum from where he will proceed “to the other towns” as well to preach, heal, oppose evil, while being united with his Father through a life of prayer. Jesus will suffer, but he will conquer through love.

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco, and director of Pastoral Ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4: Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 11:32-40. PS 31:20, 21, 22, 23, 24. LK 7:16. MK 5:1-20.

Emiliani, priest; St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin. HEB 13:1-8. PS 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9abc. SEE LK 8:15. MK 6:14-29.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5: Memorial of St. Agatha, virgin and martyr. HEB 12:1-4. PS 22:26b-27, 28 and 30, 31-32. MT 8:17. MK 5:21-43.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9: Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 13:15-17, 20-21. PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. JN 10:27. MK 6:30-34.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6: Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, martyrs. HEB 12:4-7, 11-15.

PS 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18a. JN 10:27. MK 6:1-6.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. IS 6:1-2A, 3-8. PS 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8. 1 COR 15:1-11 or 1 COR 15:3-8, 11. MT 4:19. LK 5:1-11.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7: Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 12:18-19, 21-24. PS 48:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 9, 10-11. MK 1:15. MK 6:7-13.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11: Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. GN1:1-19. PS 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10 and 12, 24 and 35c. SEE MT 4:23. MK 6:53-56.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8: Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Jerome

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12: Tuesday of the Fifth

Week in Ordinary Time. GN 1:20—2:4a. PS 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. PS 119:36, 29b. MK 7:1-13.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13: Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 2:4B-9, 15-17. PS 104:12a, 27-28, 29bc-30. SEE JN 17:17b, 17a. MK 7:14-23.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14: Memorial of Sts. Cyril, monk and St. Methodius, bishop. GN 2:18-25. PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. JAS 1:21bc. MK 7:24-30.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15: Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. St. Claude de la Colombiere, priest. GN 3:1-8. PS 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7. SEE ACTS 16:14b. MK 7:31-37.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16: Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 3:9-24. PS 90:2, 3-4abc, 5-6, 12-13. MT 4:4b. MK 8:1-10.

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Snake-bitten

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verything is of one piece. Whenever we don’t take that seriously, we pay a price.

The renowned theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar gives an example of this. Beauty, he submits, is not some little “extra” that we can value or denigrate according to personal taste and temperament, like some luxury that we say we cannot afford. Like truth and goodness, it’s one of the properties of God and thus demands to be taken seriously as goodness and truth. If we neglect or denigrate beauty, he says, we will soon enough begin to neFATHER RON glect other areas of our lives.

ROLHEISER Here are his words: “Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name, as if she were an ornament of a bourgeois past, whether he admits it or not, can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.”

Here’s a simpler expression of that. There’s a delightful little African tale that highlights the interconnectedness of everything and illustrates how, if we separate a thing from its sisters, we soon pay a price.

The tale goes this way: Once upon a time, when animals still talked, the mice on a farm called a summit of all the other

From the narrowness in our churches, to identity politics, to whole nations setting their own needs first, we hear echoes of the cow, pig and chicken saying: ‘Not my concern! I’ll take care of myself. You take care of yourself!’ This will come back to snake-bite us. animals. They were worried, they lamented, because they had seen the mistress of the house buy a mousetrap. They were now in danger. But the other animals scoffed at their anxiety. The cow said that she had nothing to worry about. A tiny little contraption couldn’t harm her. She could crush it with her foot.

The pig reacted in a similar way. What did he have to worry about in the face of a tiny trap? The chicken also announced that it had no fear of this gadget. “It’s your concern. No worry for me!” the chicken told the mice.

But all things are interconnected and that soon became evident. The mistress set the mousetrap and, on the very first night, heard it snap. Getting out of her bed to look what it had caught she saw that it had trapped a snake by its tail. In trying to free the snake she was bitten and the poison soon had her feeling sick and running a fever. She went to the doctor who gave her medicines to combat the poison and advised her: “What you need now to get better is chicken

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They slaughtered the chicken, but her fever lingered.

Relatives and neighbors came to visit. More food was needed. They slaughtered the pig. Eventually the poison killed her. A huge funeral ensued. A lot of food was needed. They slaughtered the cow.

The moral of the story is clear. Everything is interconnected and our failure to see that leaves us in peril. Blindness to our interdependence, willful or not, is dangerous. We are inextricably tied to each other and to everything in the world. We can protest to the contrary but reality will hold its ground. And so, we cannot truly value one thing while we disdain something else. We cannot really love one person while we hate someone else. And we cannot give ourselves an exemption in one moral area and hope to be morally healthy as a whole. Everything is of one piece. There are no exceptions. When we ignore that truth we are eventually snake-bitten by it.

I emphasize this because today, virtually everywhere, a dangerous tribalism is setting in. Everywhere, not unlike the animals in that African tale, we see families, communities, churches, and whole countries focusing more or less exclusively on their own needs without concern for other families, communities, churches, and countries. Other people’s problems, we believe, are not our concern. From the narrowness in our churches, to identity politics, to whole nations setting their own needs first, we hear echoes of the cow, pig and chicken saying: “Not my concern! I’ll take care of myself. You take care of yourself !” This will come back to snake-bite us.

We will eventually pay the price for our blindness and non-concern and we will pay that price politically, socially and economically. But we will even pay a higher price personally. What that snakebite will do is captured in Von Balthasar’s warning: Whoever ignores or denigrates beauty will, he asserts, eventually be unable to pray or to love. That’s true too in all cases when we ignore our interconnectedness with others.

By ignoring the needs of others we eventually corrupt our own wholeness so that we are no longer able to treat ourselves with respect and empathy and, when that happens, we lose respect and empathy for life itself – and for God – because whenever reality isn’t respected it bites back with a mysterious vengeance.

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LETTERS Yes on strong border control

My stomach turned when I received the latest edition of Catholic San Francisco. I was hesitant in giving to our fund in 2018 for this reason. CSF is not aware how many law enforcement officials and legal immigrants are in its parishes. Do not believe every immigrant is not pro strong borders.

In the latest NPR, Marist and PBS polls there was a 19 percent increase among Hispanics to 50 percent in support of our president. Most churchgoers I know, both native born and naturalized citizens, support all police, strong border security and a legal pathway to citizenship.

My parents arrived from South America with nothing and built a nice life in our great city. It is easy to wave every single person through without a process but that is not in our best interest. It is not fair for the people here waiting for citizenship. They wait up to 10 years. Line-cutting is not a Christian virtue. Law enforcement have apprehended many criminals among the vulnerable along our border and in our cities and they should be honored. Blessed are the peacekeepers.

I suggest writing an aggressive piece regarding Senators Harris and Feinstein’s anti-Catholic bias when questioning judicial nominees. The enemy is pulling their strings and not only should we rise up, we should work toward supporting candidates that are at the very least, respectful of our Catholic faith.

Catherine Hart San Mateo

Living Martin Luther King’s dream

Many things can bring us together: holidays, family reunions, sleepovers and even funerals. Many people love to get together and have fun. Maybe somebody has a friend and they sleepover with their family.

When you walk into a store and see somebody of

a different culture or race you don’t judge them do you? Well, that used to be different.

Back then if somebody was of a different culture or race they were judged right away. But one person didn’t like how he was being treated. His name was Martin Luther King Jr. He did not like the way other races and cultures were being treated.

He had a dream. A dream for equality.

There was a devastating fire that hit California.

Many people lost their homes and many other possessions. Many locals felt badly for the people who were hit by the fire. Due to the fire many people missed Thanksgiving. So the locals brought Thanksgiving to them. More than 15,000 plates were served. More than 50 people donated time and food. That was a chance to get together and eat. What happened was a big act of kindness. It helped many people who were hurt by the fire.

Everyone should love each other equally. We should all love everybody no matter their race, culture or belief. No matter what we are family.

God made us and we should appreciate our place here. We are one. We have to treat everyone like our friend. We have to make friends with them. It’s our job on Earth to make the Earth a safe place.

We are one. We should love every race. No matter their belief we should love them. We should always treat everyone the same. This Earth is our home and we should never destroy it. This is our home and we should love each other.

Nico Rouse San Mateo Editor’s note: Nico is a seventh grader at Bayside Academy in San Mateo and wrote this essay for a school assignment. His grandfather, Tony Rouse, chief financial officer for the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County, shared it with the paper on the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr., Day, Jan. 21.

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Major and minor addictions

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few years ago, I wrote a column on the topic of the “cellphone addiction.” Today I’m expanding my focus to include addictions of every kind. It’s a well-known fact that minor addictions can disrupt your life, but major addictions can destroy your life.

People are glued to their iPods, cellphones, iPads and computers. They text messages all day long, and in the process lose their ability to engage in the art of conversation, while never developing the art of writing. Fewer and fewer people, young and old write letters any more.

FATHER JOHN This is sad but not fatal.

Parents are out of their CATOIR wits trying to get their children’s attention. If you investigate the problem of cellphone addiction, you’ll be amazed to learn that many nations are way ahead of the U.S. in dealing with it. For instance, South Korea is the most wired country in the world. They have Internet-counseling centers where youngsters are taught to combat computer compulsion by keeping themselves engaged with exercises, and group activities. Many other countries have done the same thing. Kids need all the help they can get.

Over 50,000 people, young and old in America, are dying of drug-related causes every year. Minor addictions like pot can create a predisposition to more serious addictions. Pot is known to be an entry level drug leading to the use of deadly illegal drugs.

There’s no magic bullet that can make addictions go away, especially when they become major addictions. The opioid epidemic alone takes many thousands of lives every year. Add to that, deaths from

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Squandering moral capital

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he morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult subject once engaged some of Catholicism’s finest minds, including Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez, and it was passionately debated during the World War II by German officers –many of them devout Christians – who were pondering the assassination of Adolf Hitler. (Their efforts were known and tacitly approved by Pius XII, but that’s another story.)

What about today? Were GEORGE WEIGEL I back in the classroom, I’d ask my students to construct a morally defensible argument for killing a tyrant.

If the student followed Aquinas’s reasoning, the case for tyrannicide would involve a leader who was doing grave evil, who could not be removed from power except by being killed, and whose assassination would not make matters worse. Were those conditions met, Aquinas argued in his “Commentary on Peter Lombard,” a citizen might even be “praised and rewarded” for being the “one who liberates his country by killing a tyrant.”

With the 30th anniversary of the revolution of 1989 coming this fall, we’ll all be reminded that there are alternatives to killing tyrants or surrendering to evil: Awakened consciences can discover nonviolent tools of resistance to tyranny, tools preferable to assassination. And consciences are awakened when men and women hear a summons to moral heroism – to living in the truth, which is

the greatest of liberators. That is why the current stance of the Holy See toward Latin American tyrannies is so disconcerting. For rather than calling the people of hard-pressed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to effective, nonviolent resistance against tyrants on the model of Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1980s, the Vatican is constantly bleating about “dialogue” with murderous thugs who’ve demonstrated for decades that they’re only interested in maintaining their power, masking their gross personal ambition and greed with a fog cloud of gibberish about “the revolution.”

Now, however, 20 former Latin American heads of state and government have said, politely but firmly, that enough is enough. In a Jan. 6 letter to their fellow-Latin American, Pope Francis, the signatories, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, acknowledged the “good faith” and “pastoral spirit” of Francis’s Christmas blessing “Urbi et Orbi” [to the city and the world]. But they also reminded the pope that Venezuelans “are victims of oppression by a militarized narco-dictatorship which has no qualms about systematically violating the rights to life, liberty, and personal integrity,” a corrupt regime that has also “subjected [Venezuelans] to widespread famine and lack of medicine.” As for Nicaragua, President Arias and his colleagues noted that the Ortega regime has recently killed 300 Nicaraguans and wounded 2,500 others in a “wave of repression” against nonviolent protesters.

In these contexts, the former leaders concluded, the papal “call for harmony ... can be understood by the victimized nations [as an instruction] that they should come to agreement with their victimizers.” Which is why the majority in Nicaragua and

Venezuela received the pope’s Christmas message “in a very negative way.”

In 2013, the church’s moral influence in world affairs was at its modern apogee. John Paul II was widely recognized as a pivotal figure in the nonviolent collapse of European communism and a significant player in the democratization of Latin America and East Asia. Drawing on John Paul’s social doctrine and his own penetrating insights into political modernity, Benedict XVI had made powerful statements about the moral foundations of the 21st-century free society in lectures at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris, London’s Westminster Hall, and the Bundestag in Berlin.

What has the world seen since then?

It has seen a papal initiative in Syria that, however well-intended, provided cover for the Obama administration to back off its “red line” about Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against his own people. It has seen a Vatican that refuses to use the words “invasion,” “war,” and “occupation” to describe Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss in Crimea and his war in eastern Ukraine, which has killed more than 10,000 and displaced more than a million Ukrainians, many of them Ukrainian Greek Catholics. It has seen a Vatican deal with China that is widely regarded as a kowtow to ruthless, aggressive authoritarians.

Where is the moral challenge to tyranny? Where is the summons to heroic resistance? Great moral capital is being squandered, in a world that desperately needs a moral compass.

GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and methamphetamine.

Taken all together, you have more deaths in one year from drug use than the total death toll of the entire Vietnam War, which lasted about eight years.

Rather than dwell on these sad statistics, I’d prefer to close with a positive story from Anthony de Mello’s book “The Song of the Bird.” I’ve paraphrased it slightly. A young boy addicted to drugs opens the story with these words, “Everyone kept after me to change, and I resented it. And yet I agreed with them in a way I wanted to be free of the

constant pressure to clean up my act, but I simply couldn’t kick the habit. No matter how hard I tried I felt powerless and trapped. Then one day out of the blue, my father who had grown weary of nagging me said, ‘Son I give up, don’t change … I love you just as you are. Deal with this as best you can. I’m turning it all over to the Lord.’ I suddenly felt free and less guilty. I still wanted to be free of drugs, but now I began to realize that I was the only one who could make it happen. When I realized that my father would continue to love me whether I changed or not, something happened inside of me. And believe it or not, I went on to become drug-free.”

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It’s OK to start 2019 with you

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Book the massage. Binge on the new season.

This philosophy is easy to get behind.

But it was recently challenged when I encountered the writings of Julia Hogan, a 30-year-old therapist whose book “It’s OK To Start With You” presents CHRISTINA self-care through a Catholic CAPECCHI worldview, giving permission to readers to take it up with greater resolve by understanding it in a clearer light.

The impetus for the book came through observations from Hogan’s private practice, seeing client after client who was suffering because she had neglected self-care. The consequences were wide-ranging, but they often circled back to the same root cause.

Julia had a message for them.

“True self-care is much more than a collection of sayings or self-indulgent, surface-level practices,” she writes in her book. “It’s a way of life that reinforces the fact, rooted in our dignity as God’s children, that we are worth love and care.

It’s a set of habits, built over time, that takes seriously the Gospel command to ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

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The surest way to truly embrace 2019, she said, is to practice self-care. “When we think of resolutions, we tend to think ‘lose X amount of weight or go to the gym more or make more money.’ It’s appreciating who you are right now and investing in that. Self-care requires work. It’s a discipline.”

For years I had seen it as a series of hastily justified, “I deserve this” indulgences, not an ongoing discipline. How enlightening to consider self-care as long-term, sustainable habits that replenish the body, mind and spirit.

What that looks like differs for each of us and requires an honest assessment of our current needs held up against our big-picture goals.

It could mean saying no more often – or it could mean saying yes in order to proactively nurture relationships. It could require cutting back on social media – or it could simply necessitate greater mindfulness about when and why you scroll through Instagram. It might mean staying up later for a favorite show, but it may well call for an early bedtime. It might mean feasting on a Sunday brunch that deviates from the diet – or ordering the salad.

The discipline of self-care is softened by Julia’s call for leisure, which she distinguishes from idleness as a “much richer concept” – not an aimless passing of time but a happy pursuit

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That’s what brought Julia to her watercolor paints on a recent Thursday morning, a hobby she turns to for enjoyment, not expertise. While we spoke, she painted a snake plant from Trader Joe’s.

“It’s exciting to provide an alternative to our conventional understanding of self-care that really resonates with people,” she said, tilting her head as she outlined the third leaf. “My work flows from my faith and the belief that everyone is loved by God. I’m not just helping my clients overcome depression or anxiety but to understand who they are as a person.”

This winter Julia is offering digital workshops to supplement the free downloadable resources on her website. She’s hoping for a ripple effect.

“Taking care of yourself fuels you to do good in the world wherever you are called.”

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Gene-edited babies and the runaway train of IVF

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n November 2018, a Chinese scientist named He Jankui (known to his associates as “JK”) claimed that he had successfully produced the world’s first gene-edited human babies using “gene surgery.” The twin girls, he said, were born somewhere in China with a modified gene that makes them immune to infection from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A special DNA splicing technique called CRISPR/Cas 9 was used when they were embryos to make the edits. In a series of short videos posted on YouTube, JK offers an explanation of, and justification for, what he did.

He reminds his viewers that when scientists first began doing in vitro fertilization in 1978, a number of ethical concerns were raised, FATHER TADEUSZ but those mostly subsided PACHOLCZYK over time: “The media hyped panic about Louise Brown’s birth as the first IVF baby. But for 40 years, regulations and morals have developed together with IVF, ensuring only therapeutic applications to help more than eight million children come into this world. Gene surgery is another IVF advancement.”

In another video, he puts it this way: “Look back to the 1970s with Louise Brown. The same fears and criticisms then are repeated now. Yet, IVF unquestionably has benefited families. There will be no question about the morality of gene surgery in 20 to 30 years.”

JK’s strong conclusion leads us to ask whether the general sense of revulsion that has arisen toward his gene-editing work is merely alarmist and shortsighted. Are people failing to grasp the importance and propriety of what he is doing? Is he a pioneer ushering in a new age of enlighten-

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Adding up the grave harms from IVF gives us a long list: IVF turns procreation into ‘production.’ It dehumanizes embryonic children, treating them as objects to be frozen, manipulated, abandoned or destroyed. ment where mankind will be able to make use of the powers of science to achieve good ends? Or should his gene editing work be condemned and JK branded as a rogue scientist violating significant moral boundaries?

The answer to these questions will, in fact, be linked to whether we understand IVF to be ethical or not – JK is right to draw the parallel. If we conclude that IVF is something good and ethically acceptable, we end up granting the principle that it is OK to engage in very harmful and damaging actions as long as we have a good end or purpose in mind. Although IVF involves a litany of grave harms, like the engendering of human beings in laboratories and the freezing or destruction of embryos, if our intention is to help others fulfill their desire to have a baby, it must be OK. By this same logic, gene editing of our children will also be considered acceptable as long as our intentions are good and we’re trying to help others, even if we’re actually causing serious harms along the way.

Adding up the grave harms from IVF gives us a long list: IVF turns procreation into “production.”

It dehumanizes embryonic children, treating them as objects to be frozen, manipulated, abandoned or destroyed. Since the practice began in 1978, millions of embryos have become warehoused in liquid nitrogen, abandoned in frozen “orphanages.”

Millions more have been outright discarded as biomedical waste. Instead of “loving our children into being” through the one-flesh union of husband

and wife, IVF mass produces children in clinics, assembly-line style, under the impetus of market capitalism. Children born by IVF, moreover, experience roughly double the rate of birth defects of regularly conceived children.

Over the years, these kinds of concerns have been mostly glossed over or ignored – we’ve grown accustomed to frozen orphanages, and to the high toll involved in the process of assuring that a few of our embryonic children survive and successfully implant.

We downplay the risk of birth defects. Our insensitivity and desires have trumped a clear sense of ethics.

As we face the daunting question of editing human embryos, we run up against the same temptation. Editing our embryonic children to be free of a particular disease requires numerous embryos to be simultaneously created (or thawed out), treated as “products” and subjected to genetic “treatments,” with many of them perishing during the experiment, in order that a few of them might survive and develop without the disease. Editing our embryonic children may also involve risks to them that we will only understand later when they grow up. Is it ever proper to experiment on our own offspring? Moreover, gene editing in embryos introduces changes that will be passed into the human gene pool, establishing permanent and irrevocable changes to our own humanity. How does one adequately evaluate the risks of such changes?

The fact remains that we’ve been willing to tolerate an abundance of human carnage up to this point with IVF, and one of the great tragedies of our age has been our tone deafness to the evils of IVF. JK argues that we are similarly poised to accept the production of gene-edited babies as yet another variation on the theme.

Will his brazen instrumentalization of human beings call forth gasps of disbelief, serious reflection and action, or only a few more passing yawns?

FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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POPE: Bishops must realize severity of crisis

BE FATHERLY SHEPHERDS, NOT OVERBEARING ADMINISTRATORS, POPE TELLS BISHOPS

PANAMA CITY – Bishops should follow the example of St. Oscar Romero, who cared for his flock with the heart of a father rather than become authoritarians lording over those in their care, Pope Francis said.

Meeting with Central American bishops in Panama Jan. 24, the pope said the World Youth Day celebrations offer an opportunity for bishops to “encounter and draw even closer to the experiences of our young people, so full of hope and desires, but also many hurts and scars.”

“Snatch them from the streets before the culture of death can entice their young minds and sell its smoke and mirrors, or offer its chimerical ‘solutions’ to all their problems. Do so, not paternalistically looking down from on high, because that is not what the Lord asks of us, but as true fathers and brothers to all,” he said.

After meeting with government authorities earlier in the day, the pope made his way by foot to the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, a 17th-century church near the historic section of Panama City.

He was greeted with cheers from hundreds of pilgrims gathered outside.

In his speech, the pope recalled the lives of laypeople and religious men and women, as well as priests and bishops who gave their lives to keep the church’s voice alive “in the face of injustice, the spread of poverty and the abuse of power.”

Their names, he said, were often besmirched and considered “bad words.” Nevertheless, their “persistence showed the way.”

Among the most prominent, he continued, was St. Oscar Romero, whose legacy remains an inspiration for bishops who are “likewise called to the daily martyrdom of serving our people.”

His name, he said, “was also a ‘bad word’: suspected, excommunicated and (a victim of) the murmuring of many bishops.”

The grace of martyrdom, he said, “has nothing to do with faintheartedness” but instead comes from a sense of true love and appreciation for the church and “the unmerited blessings we have received.”

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Asked about the expectations for the meeting, especially the expectations of Catholics who have grown frustrated with the repeated reports of abuse and cover-up by some bishops, the pope said people need to realize “the problem of abuse will continue.”

“It is a human problem, a human problem (that is) everywhere,” he said.

But if the church becomes more aware of the tragedy of sexual abuse, the pope said, it can help others face the crisis of abuse, especially in families “where shame leads to covering up everything.”

Speaking with journalists for nearly an hour, the pope was asked whether he would consider a general acceptance of married men into the Latin-rite priesthood in a way similar to the practice of the Eastern Catholic churches.

“In the Eastern rite, they can do it. They make the choice between celibacy or marriage before they’re ordained into the diaconate,” he explained. “When it comes to the Latin rite, a phrase said by St. Paul VI comes to mind: ‘I would rather give my life than change the law on celibacy.’”

The pope said he personally believes that “celibacy is gift to the church” and that while the prospect of married priests could one day be considered in remote areas that lack priests, he did not agree “with allowing optional celibacy.”

“My decision is: no optional celibacy,” the pope said. “I will not do this. I don’t feel like I could stand before God with this decision.”

Pope Francis also was asked about his response to the political crisis in Venezuela as well as the Vatican’s seemingly neutral stance despite widespread belief that the election giving a second term to President Nicolas Maduro was rigged.

Earlier in the day, while visiting a Catholicrun hospice in Panama, the pope prayed for the people of Venezuela and expressed his hope that a “just and peaceful solution may be sought and achieved to overcome the crisis.”

Although the United States and several European countries have recognized National Assembly President Juan Guaido as the country’s legitimate head of state, the Vatican has not.

Pope Francis told journalists that while he fully supports the suffering people of Venezuela, picking a side in the crisis “would be pastoral imprudence on my part and would cause damage.”

“That is why I had to be – I don’t like the word ‘balanced’ – I must be a shepherd to all and if they need help, then they must come to an agreement and ask for it,” he said.

The pope said that he thought carefully about his words to the people of the country because “I suffer for what is happening in Venezuela in this moment.”

“What is it that scares me? Bloodshed,” the pope said. “And that is why I ask for generosity from those who can help resolve the problem.”

Pope Francis also addressed the issue of abortion, which was among the themes of the Via Crucis at World Youth Day Jan. 25.

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Asked how the words could be in harmony with his calls for mercy, including for women who have had abortions, Pope Francis said that the “message of mercy is for everyone, including the human being that is gestating.”

Forgiving women who have had abortions is not the problem, he said; rather it is learning to accompany women who have understood and regret what they have done.

People do not understand the trauma women go through after an abortion, the pope said. Often those who regret their abortions “feel the need to reconcile and rejoin their child.”

“I tell them, ‘Your child is in heaven, talk to him, sing them the lullaby you were never able to sing to them,’” Pope Francis said. “There, a path of reconciliation can be found between mother and child. Forgiveness with God is already there.

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Aside from witnessing the canonization of his mentor, as well as predecessor (St. Romero was national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of El Salvador from 1974 to 1978), what Father Turcios said he would like to see is a prosecution of those responsible for St. Romero’s death.

But Father Turcios said he looks for justice where he can find it and the canonization of St. Romero was “an enormous gift,” and a form of divine justice, one he didn’t think he would live to witness.

“It was an incredible joy, a great satisfaction and a beautiful gesture by the church to recognize him as the saint we knew him to be,” he said. “And now he is eternal.”

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The suit, originally filed last August in federal court on behalf of a group of youth being held in Virginia and their sponsors, claims that an “alarming number

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of children continue be held for long periods of time” and the situation is now at a crisis level, according to a news release from CLINIC. The suit charges that the situation is primarily the result of “a deliberate policy to deter Central Americans from traveling to the U.S. and an ongoing partnership between the Office of Refugee Resettlement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

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To Apply Interested and qualified candidates should submit electronically in one email and as separate documents (preferably PDFs) the following materials: • A cover letter expressing their interest in this particular position; • A current résumé; • A one-page statement of educational philosophy and practice; • A list of five professional references with name, phone number, and email address of each to: Barbara Daush | Senior Consultant barbara.daush@carneysandoe.com Karen Neitzel | Search Consultant karen.neitzel@carneysandoe.com Bob Regan | Senior Consultant Practice Group Leader, Catholic Schools bobregan@carneysandoe.com

Christine Escobar Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION “All school staff of St. Robert School shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.” (Administrative Handbook #4111.4)

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PRESENTATION HIGH SCHOOL – SAN JOSE Seeks President Desired Qualities and Qualifications • A practicing Catholic who will embrace and promote Catholic values while exemplifying those values in his/her daily leadership; • A strategic and visionary thinker and “friendraiser” who can execute Presentation’s Campus Master Plan; • Excellent communication skills; • Experience in Catholic and/or independent high school; • A passion for social justice and community service; • Experience in advocacy for single-sex education; • Proven experience leading at an organization that has had turmoil and has brought them out of it successfully; • A charismatic leader with strong business sense capable of serving as a high-profile leader in the Silicon Valley community and within the school; • A collaborative yet decisive management approach with a willingness to make the hard choices; • Interested in making a long-term commitment to be a fully engaged member of Pres and the greater community.

We are seeking a practicing Catholic, who has an administrative degree and extensive elementary school experience. Salary for this full-time position is commensurate with Archdiocese Guidelines. Applications and resumes should be submitted to:

FLSA Status: Full Time Exempt TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARD YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY 1.

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To work with the present Youth & Young Adult ministries in parishes to strengthen and guide them toward an increase in membership and activities in terms of spiritual, pastoral, and social events.

To help individual parish groups interact and network with Youth and Young Adult Ministry groups in neighboring parishes within the local deanery and with groups in deaneries.

To recruit, train, and create effective faith-filled, talented youth ministry leaders to animate both the Youth and Young Adult Ministry groups.

To accompany the youth actively and creatively in their faith journey by way of spiritual, liturgical, scriptural, sacramental events.

To be engaged in target-based, result-oriented invigoration of Youth Ministry in parishes and deaneries in terms of increasing number of youth, number of parish ministries, and various events organized, including at least one countylevel event per county and one Archdiocesewide event annually.

6. Help prepare youth for the Sacrament of Confirmation and organize Archdiocesan Confirmation retreats in collaboration with the Youth Council.

7. Develop and maintain database of addresses and contact information for youth and young adult ministry members of the Archdiocese and the progress of this ministry.

8. Facilitate “Theology on Tap” program.

9. Organize World Youth Day participation and maintain informational and financial database of participants.

10. In order to bring focus and dedication to this parish-based work, the coordinator will be exclusively working within the boundaries of parishes and deaneries within our Archdiocese and NOT outside of the Archdiocese for events, seminars, and conferences, except with prior approval of the Director of Pastoral Ministry.

QUALITIES & QUALIFICATIONS: • Strong interpersonal and problem resolution skills.

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• Experience in youth/young adult ministry, faith formation or related fields • 4-6 years of experience in parish and diocesan ministry • Valid California driver’s license with clean driving record and car for work • Able to work evenings/nights and weekends • Able to work collaboratively with the pastors, deans, and other parish-based organizations in helping start new youth and young adult ministry groups in parishes and deaneries.

Send cover letter, resume and three references to Christine Escobar escobarc@sfarch.org at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates with criminal histories considered.

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Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2019-2020 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position.

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IHM is a PK-8 coeducational school that serves approximately 230 students. The IHM school community believes in the four-fold purpose of Catholic education: to teach Catholic doctrine and to proclaim Gospel values, to build a community, to worship, and to foster service. The school partners with families in its effort to develop the total person spiritually, intellectually, physically and morally.

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General Duties and Responsibilities – The highest priority for a Catholic school principal is building a learning community that fully integrates the Catholic faith and academic excellence. The principal provides leadership in the development and direction of an instructional program designed to achieve Archdiocesan and parish objectives. The principal is responsible for the complete operation of the school, including all its approved functions and services. Clearly, the principal will work with and under authority of the current pastor, Fr. Mark G. Mazza. The principal must commit to working the school into the parish life and community.

Requirements/Qualifications

A qualified candidate must: 1. Be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, fully embracing the Catechism of the Catholic Church. A strong Catholic leader is required.

2. Hold a valid California Standard Teaching Credential or its equivalent from another State, 3. Have a minimum of five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience.

4. Have attained one or both of the following: Masters degree in an educational field and/or an California administrative credential.* 5. Be certified as a catechist at the basic level.** 6. Have a deep commitment to the Catholic life of the school, making sure that all is done to assist parents in handing on the integral Catholic faith to their children.

7. Have demonstrated expertise in the area of curriculum and technology in the classroom.

8. Be adept at inspiring teachers and galvanizing them around the pursuit of educational excellence.

9. Have strong interpersonal skills and be adept at building and maintaining relationships. The principal is to model the qualities of a Catholic lady or gentleman. *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from the date of hire ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion, must have completed the process before they start their position.

Application Process To be considered for the principal position, candidates must: 1. Complete the official application from the Department of Catholic Schools (DCS) 2. Establish a personnel file with the DCS (applicants with existing DCS personnel files are required to create a new file) 3. Attend an introductory/prescreening interview with the Department of Catholic School’s Human Resources Manager Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/employment The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted to: Christine Escobar, Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Completing the application process does not guarantee an interview for a principal position,nor does it assure hiring as a principal in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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OBITUARIES FATHER JAMES CLEARY, OFM CAP.

Capuchin Father James Lawrence Cleary died Jan. 15. He was 81 years old. He entered the Capuchin Order on Sept.

4, 1964, and was ordained a priest on Sept. 5, 1970.

“Father Jim was known by his brothers as a man of prayer and good humor,” the Capuchins said in a Father James statement. “He was skilled Cleary, OFM Cap. not only at pastoral work but with his hands. He had a deep faith. He was a compassionate man who treated everyone with kindness.”

Father Jim is a former pastor of Old Mission Santa Ines in Solvang, and was director of postulants at the Capuchins San Buenaventura Friary in San Francisco.

He also served as a chaplain at St. Francis Medical Center in Los Angeles.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated Feb. 9 at Old Mission Santa Ines with interment at the Capuchins’ nearby San Lorenzo Friary.

Remembrances may be made to Capuchin Franciscan Order, 1345 Cortez Ave., Burlingame 94010.

MSGR. JOHN R. PERNIA

Msgr. John R. Pernia, retired pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Daly City, died Jan. 11 in Southern California where he moved in 2017 to be closer to family. Msgr.

Pernia, 85, celebrated his 60th year as a priest in 2018.

Born in the Philippines, Msgr. John R. Msgr. Pernia is a former Pernia chaplain of the Military Vicariate of the Philippines, where he served for 20 years achieving the rank of colonel.

He applied for ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco March 1, 1986, where his first assignment was at St. Brendan Parish. Assignments followed at parishes

including All Souls, South San Francisco, St. Paul’s and Star of the Sea. He was incardinated in the archdiocese in 1992 and retired in 2004 with residence at Star of the Sea, San Francisco; Holy Angels, Colma; and Mater Dolorosa, South San Francisco.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 16 at Mater Dolorosa Church.

Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

SISTER JOAN PANELLA, SNDDEN

Notre Dame Sister Joan Panella (Marie Angele) died Dec. 30. She was 78 years old. Sister Joan was born in San Francisco and entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1958 taking the name Sister Marie Angele. She taught in Notre Dame elementary schools in Sister Joan Salinas, Campbell, Folsom Panella, SNDdeN and at Notre Dame High School, Alameda. Sister Joan held a graduate degree and clinical license in social work and additionally served in campus ministry at San Jose State University.

Sister Joan served in outreach to network and provide resources for individuals, parishes and priests ministering to the LGBT community. She was also a medical social worker for 15 years at the Community Hospital in Los Gatos ensuring that those being discharged were able to access the care and services they needed.

She is a former administrator of her congregation’s Notre Dame de Namur Province Center in Belmont and more recently in ministry at St. Nicholas and St. William Parish in Los Altos.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 11 at the Province Center with interment at Santa Clara Mission Cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.

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Tanya Roberts, Landings coordinator at Our Lady of Angels, said another strength of the program is its focus on group members sharing stories about their spiritual life.

“Each one of us has a story, and it’s super enriching and rewarding to hear other people’s stories. You realize even if you’ve wavered, gone off the path, drifted away, there are so many other people just like you who have had the same thing happen,” she said Roberts understands where many of the people who join Landings are coming from, having left the church for about 20 years. She came back several years ago after seeing a church bulletin’s advertisement for a returning Catholics program.

“I went through that, and it was beautiful. It made it so much easier after so many years to go back to church and feel comfortable,” she said. After moving to Burlingame and joining Our Lady of Angels parish, she decided to start a returning Catholics program there.

The other volunteer leaders on Roberts’ team also reconnected to the church through Landings, which she credited with helping to strengthen the ministry.

Copero praised the program for creating a space for people like her to wrestle with their uncertainties about a church they had grown distant from. While not everyone who went through her program rejoined the church, Copero said for everyone Landings is “a good opportunity for introspection.”

“People either come back, or it opens them to explore again, and dig into their past, into faith,” she said.

Roberts said for both its leaders and participants, Landings shows the persistence of God’s love.

“What we’ve observed hearing all these different stories is people may leave the Catholic Church, but God never leaves us.”

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FRIDAY, FEB. 1 MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club welcomes Tricia Bolle, a lay missionary. Morning begins with Mass at 7 a.m., St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, followed by breakfast and talk in parish hall. Members breakfast $10, nonmembers $15.

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For information as to time and place, contact Project Rachel coordinator Leslie Low: (415) 614-5567, lowl@ sfarch.org, www.sfarchdiocese.org/ post-abortion-healing-project-rachel.

SUNDAY, FEB. 3 SATURDAY, FEB. 2 WORLD DAY OF SICK: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for Mass commemorating World Day of the Sick, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Anointing of the Sick will take place. The Benedict XVI Schola will lead song. Sponsored by the Order of Malta, whose members can arrange rides for people who need transportation to Mass. All are welcome to experience a special time of prayer and sharing, of offering one’s suffering for the good of the church. The Mass will be livestreamed on the archdiocesan website. Contact Knight of Malta Kenneth Ryan, (415) 613-0395; kenmryan@ aol.com; www.sfarchdiocese.org/ events/healingmass.

PEACE MASS: Our Lady of Mercy Church, One Elmwood Drive, Daly City, 9 a.m. Father Domingo Orimaco, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

FIRST SATURDAY MASS: Father Cameron Faller will offer Mass for the souls of all the faithful departed interred in our Catholic cemeteries, Holy Cross Cemetery, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 1500 Mission Road, Colma. Monica Williams (650) 756-2060 www.holycrosscemeteries. com. Everyone is welcome to attend PROJECT RACHEL TRAINING: Walk with women seeking healing from abortion. Respect Life Ministry is offering a training for all Project Rachel volunteers. Life Perspectives, a San Diego organization specializing in healing from abortion and reproductive grief, will present the daylong training.

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CONSECRATED LIFE MASS: Mass celebrating women and men religious in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco followed by reception. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, conrottor@ sfarch.org; (415) 565- 5535.

TUESDAY, FEB. 5 HEALING MASS: St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae, 7 p.m., Oblate Father Richard McAlear, principal celebrant and homilist. Sponsored by: Archdiocese Of San Francisco Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

Personal healing prayer following the Mass. Rose Payán, (510) 332-8552; www.SFSpirit.com.

THURSDAY, FEB. 7 SUPPORT GROUP FOR ILL: For people with life threatening illness, 10 a.m.-noon, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room. Deacon Christoph Sandoval facilitates, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218; csandoval@ stmarycathedralsf.org.

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CHINESE NEW YEAR MASS: Mass commemorating Chinese New Year, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 2:30 p.m. Divine Word Father Peter Zhai, director of Chinese ministry, (415) 6145575; zhaip@sfarch.org; sfchinesecatholic.org. The Chinese Ministry of the archdiocese of San Francisco extends a warm invitation to all priests of the archdiocese and their parishioners to attend the celebration. A ticketed banquet follows the Mass. Contact Father Zhai to purchase tickets.

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ESSAY AWARDS MASS: Respect Life Essay Contest Mass and awards presentation, 11a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Bishop Robert Christian, OP, principal celebrant and homilist. Mitchell Tu, tum@sfarch.org; (415) 614-5616; www.sfarchdiocese. org/essay-contest.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 14 SATURDAY, FEB. 23 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch, both in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Please RSVP by contacting Diane Prell, activities coordinator, (415) 452-3500; www.

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ABUSE CRISIS DISCUSSION: St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, 1-3 p.m., with Thomas Plante, Ph.D. of Santa Clara University. Eileen Barsi (650) 438-7877; www.stpeterpacifica.org. Admission is free.

CRAB BASH: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School Crab Bash dinner and auction, 5-9 p.m. in school auditorium. The menu includes allyou-can-eat crab, pasta and salad, garlic bread and dessert or chicken parmesan. Tickets $40 chicken, and $50 crab in advance, $50/$60 at the door. Parking available in school lot off Shotwell Street. Constance Dalton (415) 642-6130; dalton_constance@ yahoo.com.

SUNDAY, FEB. 10

SATURDAY, FEB. 9 ANNIVERSARY MASS: Mass for Couples with 5-year anniversaries, 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Ed Hopfner (415) 614-5547; hopfnere@ sfarch.org. Couples who in 2019 will celebrate anniversaries ending in 5 or 0 (5 years, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40) and all couples married more than 40 years,

SUNDAY, FEB. 24

EPIPHANY CENTER GALA: Epiphany League’s party and show benefiting the Daughters of Charity’s Epiphany Center helping the most vulnerable women and children. Evening includes cocktail reception, elegant dinner, silent auction, and an outstanding live performance featuring an all-star cast plus dancing to Nigel & Clive, The Family, 545 Powell St., San Francisco.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 31, 2019

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of December HOLY CROSS, COLMA Karim S. Abudayeh Beata Capil Aguinaldo Helen A. Amezquita Bruno Andrighetto Amado Frillarte Ante Florence Apodaca Ann Marie Azzopardi Frank Leo Balistreri Michelle J. Barroso Florida Binder Gary J. Bouquet Marie Antoinette Brouqua Lynn Marie Burke Marie Anne Busalacchi Josephine Ramirez Carnecer Lawrence J. Caserza Fung Chen Chan Sui Kuen Choy Veryle Coke Jilma Corea Beverly Curran Nilda C. Del Bianco John A. Demattei Joseph Charles Denefeld Poteniciano Diguangco Delia Maria Dominguez Barbara Mae Dubay Richard Francis Dugan Victor Manuel Estrada Alice M. Fabbri Marie Pagelli Ferrari John M. Frederick Pilar Tamayo Gacayan Nora Rimando Baladad Geren Walter “Duke” Godtfredsen, Jr. Carlos Ramon GrossGranizo

Lena S. Humphrey David Paul Infusino Kathreen M. Johnston Leo Juarez Angel Carlos Jusino Sr. Kathleen Marie Kinney C. Thomas Kramer Frances Lanthier Penitito Lemana Enez Rose Lembi Noel E. Lemos Rosario Lopez Elizabeth Lopez Margaret Lovell Nicholas N. Manalang Jr. Justin Dominic McCarthy Gregorio P. Mendoza Lena DeVille Metoyer Mary A. Moreira Elvia Munoz Rufina Del Carmen Murgas Alyce M. Murphy Dolores Bridget Murray Jaleleh Sami Nazzal Daniel M. Nealon, Sr. Belen T. Novicio Donald D. Nuti Margaret C. O’Connell Steven William Pacatte Josephine Palmieri John W. Perez John G. Pericic Zenaida Peters Frank Donald Petiti Anneliese Helene Pettet Joan K. Piazza Carmela Millie Podesta Evelyn C. Pracale Conrad F. Praetzel, Jr. Joseph L. Puccinelli Jr. Hermie B. Ramos Philo M. Remedios

Sister M. Eleanor Rizzi Maureen D. Roberts Maria De Jesus Rodriguez Conchita B. Santos Eileen Sanvictores James T. Sawai Vernon Conrad Scherba Ellen Scott Cesar Enrique Flores Solorzano Welhelmina Y. Sowders Glenn Arthur Swanson Barbara Jean Swanson Wilhelmina Lindo Tañedo Almarosa Tenorio Elizabeth Adriano Ting Emmanitta Torres Juliana G. Unana Pablito A. Valderama Robert E. Vandis John Walsh Norma E. Watson Frank D. Willey Odetta A. Wolfe

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Ann Haley Emma E. Hannan Joseph P. Herrera Marguerite M. Kelly Coral O’Hara Paul Thermidor

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Victor D’Angelo Chavez Posada

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS Saturday February 2, 2019 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Fr. Cameron Faller , Celebrant Parochial Vicar, Church of the Epiphany

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