February 28, 2019

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High schoolers impress as St. Hilary youth coaches

Parish choirs Romebound to ‘praise, glorify’ God

Catholics reflect on racial prejudice as a ‘life issue’

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Essay contest winners witness humanity of the unborn

Grand-prize winners in the archdiocese’s 30th Annual Respect Life Essay contest gathered with Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, for a celebratory picture during the awards ceremony Feb. 10 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. From left, Louisse Bella (Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory); Matthew Gonzalez (St. Catherine of Siena); Elise Lau (Star of the Sea); Sammy Ariyoshi (St. Isabella), Hudson Hertel (St. Anselm). See Page 5 for an article on the contest and a photo of the first-prize winners. Students wrote on the theme, “The Unborn Child: One of Us.”

VATICAN CITY – The time has come for an “allout battle” against the abuse of minors, erasing this abominable crime from the face of the earth, Pope Francis said, closing a global four-day summit on child protection in the Catholic Church.

For quite some time, the world has been aware of the “serious scandal” the abuse of minors by clergy has brought to the church and public opinion, both because of the dramatic suffering it has caused victims and because of the “unjustifiable negligence” and “cover-up” by leaders in the church, he told people gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Since the problem is present on every continent, the pope said he called leaders of the world’s bishops and religious superiors to Rome because “I wanted us to face it together in a co-responsible and collegial way,” he said after praying the Angelus Feb. 24.

“We listened to the voice of victims, we prayed and asked for forgiveness from God and the people hurt, we took stock of our responsibility, and our duty to bring justice through truth and to radically reject every form” of sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience, he said.

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Archdiocese to organize parish network of mental health resources NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Mental health care is on track to become a pastoral priority in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

After winning a grant from the University of San Diego, the archdiocese has hired Dick Collyer, a former businessman, to organize a network of mental health resources in local parishes modeled on an initiative in Diocese of San Diego.

Four years ago, the San Diego diocese launched a mental health ministry to equip as parishes as mental health resources and help remove the stigma around mental illness. San Diego’s minis-

‘It’s important to get to the parish level with people who have a lay ministry way.’

DICK COLLYER try teams do not assume professional counseling or therapeutic roles, but offer prayer and support for parishioners with mental illness. Ministry teams are also educated on how to talk appropriately to people with mental illness. No services are provided at parishes: instead, ministry teams

connect Catholics to local professional resources to help treat their mental illness.

In August 2018, the University of San Diego announced grants for dioceses to establish their own mental health ministry based on San Diego’s model.

In California, San Francisco, San Jose and Orange dioceses won grants to establish ministries, along with two others nationally.

Collyer, who will lead the archdiocese’s mental health program for the next two years, has experience in both corporate and ministerial work. After taking an early retirement from Chevron Corp., Collyer became involved in ministry in the Oakland SEE MENTAL HEALTH, PAGE 21

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2 ARCHDIOCESE NEED TO KNOW SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone with the Presbyteral Council of the archdiocese has announced “The Light is on for You” campaign. The Lenten effort makes the sacrament of reconciliation available at all parishes of the archdiocese on all Tuesdays of Lent from 6-8 p.m. In his letter to pastors, Archbishop Cordileone said: “We hope this archdiocesan-wide effort will be a sign to our people of our shared belief in the power of this sacrament as well as a witness of our desire to be readily available to them.” Parish listings are available from the archdiocesan website sfarchdiocese.org as well as the directory of the archdiocese at catholic-sf.org.

EXTRAORDINARY FORM MASS: Traditional Latin Mass at Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, March 9, 9 a.m.. Father Alvin Yu, director of worship at St. Patrick Seminary & University and parochial vicar, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, will be principal celebrant. For more information, (650) 323-7914.

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS MASS: The De La Salle Christian Brothers celebrate the 150th anniversary of their educational mission in the Western U.S. with Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, March 16, 11 a.m.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant. Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly, a graduate of Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco, one of the Christian Brothers’ first secondary schools in the West, and now Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, will be homilist. A reception follows in the cathedral’s downstairs halls. The Mass and reception are open to all. The Mass will be livestreamed at sfarchdiocese.org/events/christian-brothers-150-years.

ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE FEB.28: “Mass of the Americas,” Tijuana cathedral MARCH 1: St John Vianney relic Mass, St. Augustine, noon; Presbyteral Council executive committee meeting MARCH 3: Installation Mass of pastor, St. Cecilia, 11:30 a.m.

MARCH 6: Cabinet and chancery meetings; Ash Wednesday Mass, cathedral, 12:10 MARCH 7: Presbyteral Council, Priest Personnel Board, chancery meetings; Catholic Charities board meeting MARCH 9: Deacon advocates training, chancery; Archbishop’s Circle Lenten retreat MARCH 10: Mass, cathedral, 11 a.m.; Rite of Election, cathedral, 4 p.m.

MARCH 11: Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth conference call

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 28, 2019

High schoolers inspire, impress CYO players they coach LIDIA WASOWICZ

An innovative play that took verve and vision to introduce into the Catholic Youth Organization sports program at St. Hilary School in Tiburon now seems like a slam dunk: Using high school students as coaches.

“It’s a win-win,” said Pat Clemens, mentor, parent, parishioner and parish CYO athletic director whose plan met with some skepticism when he first proposed it in 2014.

“We believe that young, independent voices – read non-parents – resonate far more effectively with middle schoolers,” he explained. “It also provides high school kids unique leadership opportunities and professional development experiences.”

A full-court press of such arguments scored enough points to expand the program from boys and girls basketball to volleyball and from zero to three adolescent head coaches, and five assistant adolescent coaches.

The strategy gained further support in 2018 when then Redwood High School junior Jules Wagner, in his debut as head coach, took his seventh grade boys basketball team to the championship match.

“There was a lot of doubt going into the season,” recalled August Evans, a 17-year-old senior at Redwood who assisted Wagner. “We ended up four and four in the regular season, went into the wild card position, won our way into the playoffs, lost the final game by 11 points and came in second in the league.”

The feat threw any uncertainty about the effectiveness of teen trainers out of bounds. “(Parents) were cautious at first and now embrace and support us fully,” as the players and adult coaches did from the onset, Wagner said.

Although Wagner’s duties duplicate those of more mature head coaches – conduct tryouts, set the roster, create plays, organize and lead practices, communicate with players and parents, call rotations, substitutions, time outs and otherwise manage the game – his age makes him more relatable to his charges.

“Look at the NFL and the current trend toward very young coaches,” Wagner noted. “As high school coaches, we appreciate better that the kids are balancing school work and changes, especially in eighth grade (which he currently coaches), as they are readying for transition to high school.”

The compatibility was on full display during a recent drill at the St. Hilary gymnasium. Grade-school players pivoted, pranced and pounced in intent imitation of an instructor four years their senior as he ran them through a dribbling, passing, shooting routine.

“With younger coaches, it feels like a livelier practice because they were in our shoes not long ago and know exactly what and how to teach us,” said Abbott Wagner, 14, a St. Hilary eighth grader coached by adults for all but two of his six years on the CYO circuit. “We feel more comfortable and connected with them.”

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From left, Abbott Wagner, 14, an eighth grader at St. Hilary; Jules Wagner, a Redwood High School senior and eighth grade boys basketball head coach; Vanessa Veto, a Redwood senior and seventh grade girls basketball head coach; and Montana Hendricks, 12, seventh grader at St. Hilary, praise the new program of using high school students as CYO coaches.

Equal enthusiasm echoed on the girls’ side of the court.

Taylor Lynch and Montana Hendricks, both 12, in seventh grade at St. Hilary and on CYO teams since age 8, said although they drew more lessons from adults’ richer repertoire of life experiences, they felt more intimate with coaches closer to their age.

“Having high school students mentor young athletes is so special because we get to be role models for them and provide an example of how to behave on and off the court,” said Vanessa Veto, a St. Hilary graduate, Redwood senior and head coach of two seventh grade girls’ basketball teams.

Veto scores high in achieving those goals, said parent coach and adviser Naomi Leonard, who assisted the teen with two eighth grade girls’ teams last season.

“To have a role model that is relatable, close in age and still engaged and successful in sports, greatly increases the chance girls stay in sports,” Leonard said.

As graduates of the parish program, the young coaches “understand the culture and values we want to instill,” said T.J. Leverte, St. Hilary CYO board member and fourth grade girls’ basketball coach. “I think it offers good preparation for college and future jobs and is a great resume builder.”

Another avid fan, pastor Father William Brown, expressed particular appreciation for the program’s engagement of young people in the church.

“It gives them the firm knowledge that they have something important to offer the community,” he said. “They may not want to become lectors or catechists, but these particular high school students might feel very much at home serving as coaches.”

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‘Praising, glorifying God’ to mark choirs’ Rome visit TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Choir members from St. Augustine Parish, South San Francisco, will soon board planes for Rome to participate in the Rome Festival of Peace and Brotherhood. The ensemble includes 35 adults and 25 children. An additional 75 parishioners will also make the trip as chaperones and tourists. The choirs will sing at up to eight churches in and around Rome March 21-25.

Two certain stops where they will lead song are St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and St. Anthony of Padua Basilica in Padua.

“The festival concerts will take place in breathtaking venues throughout the cities and towns of the areas surrounding the southeast of Rome,” Vivian Ramos, a member of the choir for eight years and a St. Augustine parishioner for almost 20, told Catholic San Francisco. “The main highlight of the trip is St. Peter’s Basilica, where our very own St. Augustine ensemble will be singing at a holy Mass, making this truly an experience of a lifetime.”

Ramos said the festival goals align with parish values to spread brotherhood and sisterhood and peace. “In today’s divided world, our efforts to share our love and to share Jesus beyond St. Augustine community, beyond the San Francisco Bay Area and now extend it to the world makes it even more special,” she said. “We are beyond grateful.”

Choir members are mostly Filipino with “a deep sense of representing the Filipino community and our ancestry,” Ramos said. “We are simply dedicated to praising and glorifying God. We want to share God’s love through our voices and engage worshippers at Mass and the

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Father Ray Reyes, pastor, is pictured with the St. Augustine Parish adult and children’s choirs. The ensemble will be in Rome in March to sing for the Festival of Peace and Brotherhood. The choirs include 35 adults and 25 children. Sites where the group will lead song include St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and St. Anthony of Padua Basilica in Padua. A choir member called the trip “an experience of a lifetime.” community through our music wherever we are needed.”

Expenses for the trip were covered by choir members and others traveling with them. A special fundraising and send-off concert for the group March 2 will cover sundry expenses including ground travel vehicles and special wardrobe.

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Learn how ‘no act of charity is foreign to SVdP’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

You know how you sometimes think you know everything about something but then new information crosses your path?

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Cecilia Aguirre I have had deep respect for SVdP for many years especially the close to 35 years I have known them as a ranch hand in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Many Vincentians have been models for me as true and humble disciples. I have learned, however, for the first time of SVdP San Mateo’s “Ozanam Orientation.” More than 100 people generally attend. Cecilia Aguirre, director of SVdP’s Peninsula Family Resource Center, filled me in on the effort now in its more than 20th year.

“The St. Vincent de Paul ‘Ozanam Orientation’ introduces new members to ‘who we are and what we are all about’ and re-acquaints existing members with our ‘spirituality and heritage,’” Cecilia told me via email. She said the target audience includes existing members, new members, prospective members, and interested parties and the day gives an “overview of the history, spirituality, organization, and current endeavors of the society, as well as an in-depth home visit segment.”

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LONG SERVICE: Oswald “Ozzie” Barbosa, pictured in center among his colleague St. Andrew Parish Vincentians, was honored for his 35 years as a Vincentian in ceremonies Sept. 18. “Due to a fall that had him in the hospital, he was not available to receive his award, the beautiful crucifix pendant he is wearing, until January,” SVdP said. In 2012, Ozzie received the Ozanam Service Medallion, which is awarded to self-giving persons who have devoted Church Goods & Candles Gifts superlative service without seeking personal recognition. Ozzie is a member of theReligious Joyful Spirit Choir&atBooks St. Andrew’s as well as an ensemble that sings monthly at St. Francis Pavilion Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Daly City.

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Respect Life Essay Contest entries highlight humanity of the unborn baby MITCHELL TU

The theme of this year’s 30th Annual Archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest, “The Unborn Child: One of Us,” highlighted the essential humanity of the baby in the womb – and God’s personal love for these smallest of all human beings.

This essential humanity is understood by the students. The students’ essays exhibit an empathy and intuitive grasp of the immorality of abortion that contrasts sharply with the mental abstractions that politicians create to justify their support for abortion.

In their essays, the students demonstrate that they understand that unborn babies are human beings who are born, become toddlers, school children and finally adults. These babies-turnedadults are the people who change the world. “Think,” one student wonders, after listing Apple founder Steve Jobs, Pope St. John Paul II, and Italian singer and songwriter Andrea Bocelli, “of what we would have missed had they been aborted?” Another student challenged the reader to “picture the faces of the individuals you have befriended … those you hold dearest in your heart,” before asking what would’ve happened if they were never given the chance to exit the womb.

All of the potential and future of each individual life, our students grasped, begins in the womb, because we all began in the womb. And if this is the case, then how horrendous is it to snuff out growing popes, CEOs, and opera singers as if they are truly nothing more than a “clump of cells” with no future?

Our students understand this disconnect – and we are proud and honored to have had their involvement, and their excellent essays, in this year’s contest.

We thank all who attended the Feb. 10 Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral celebrat-

(PHOTO BY DEBRA GREENBLAT/OFFICE OF HUMAN LIFE & DIGNITY, ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO)

First-prize winners in the 30th Annual Respect Life Essay Contest are pictured with Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian. Back row from left: Allesandra Alioto (St. Anselm); Conner Baird (St. Anselm); Brianna Niizawa (St. Catherine of Siena); Halley Hodges (St. Isabella); Bishop Christian; Hillary Marie Jimenea (Holy Angels); Tess Fernandez-Gotico (Epiphany); Lorenzo Bolls (Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory). Front from left: Layla Apour (St. Catherine of Siena); Mario Argueta Jr. (Epiphany); Cecilia Mitchell (St. Isabella PSR); Olivia Moyer (St. Catherine of Siena); Lilah Monserrat (St. Thomas the Apostle); Kylie Abrego (Star of the Sea). ed by Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, and the awards ceremony that followed. Thank you to the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women who helped host the reception, and United for Life of Northern California for donating the funds for the prizes. Thanks especially to Vicki Evans, who recently stepped down as volunteer respect life coordinator and wrote the essay questions for this year’s contest.

This year’s 80 winners and honorable-mention recipients, chosen from the 318 essays submitted by our Catholic schools, religious education programs and homeschooling families, are listed below.

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GRAND PRIZE: Hudson Hertel, St. Anselm.

FIRST PRIZE: San Francisco, Lilah Monserrat, St. Thomas the Apostle; San Mateo, Olivia Moyer, St. Catherine of Siena; Marin, Cecilia Mitchell, St. Isabella PSR. HONORABLE MENTION: Timothy Zhu, St. Mark; Primrose Powers, Our Lady of

Angels; Owen Burns, Our Lady of Angels; Tina Caraluggio, St. Isabella PSR; Matthew Warmby, St. Anselm; Beatrice Pheatt, St. Isabella; Alexan Rodkewich, St. Monica; Jakob Lee, St. Monica; Adam Botones, Mission Dolores Academy; Chloe Suggitt, St. Finn Barr.

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GRAND PRIZE: Sammy Ariyoshi, St. Isabella.

FIRST PRIZE: San Francisco, Mario SEE ESSAY CONTEST, PAGE 7

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Catholics reflect on bishops’ letter on racism as a ‘life issue’ RICK DELVECCIO AND CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

February’s celebration of Black History month prompted reflection on the U.S. Catholic bishops’ first pastoral letter on racism in 40 years, an initiative that encourages discernment, conversion, prayer, teaching and preaching on racial attitudes the document defines as “a failure to the acknowledge another person as a brother or sister created in the image of God.” The letter, issued last November and titled “Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love,” maintains that the harm racism causes is an attack on human life that the faithful must oppose as consistently and forcefully as they do abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, the death penalty and other forms of violence against the human person.

“Too many good and faithful Catholics remain unaware of the connection between institutional racism and the continued erosion of the sanctity of life,” according to the document, which is the U.S. bishops’ first pastoral letter on racism since 1979.

Bishop Shelton J. Fabre, Bishop of HoumaThibodaux Diocese in Louisiana, chair of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, and committee staff took part in a Feb. 12 webinar with Catholic media representatives hosted by the Catholic Press Association. Marking Black History Month, the event detailed the letter and discussed institutional and personal actions Catholics may consider in response to it.

Encounter, teaching, preaching

The responses include personal encounter with groups different from one’s own, teaching that human origins and salvation in Jesus are common to all and not exclusive, and homilies on racism.

The letter also urges priests to speak about racism or Christian unity, or both, in more than once-a-year liturgies during Black History Month and for parishes to become centers of education, encounter and justice.

The letter, developed in the years following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri, points to no less than a complete “conversion of heart” for individuals and institutions, including the church itself.

Racial prejudice, discrimination and hate continue to fester because “as a nation there has been very limited formal acknowledgement of the harm done to so many, no moment of atonement,” the letter states.

The letter, which is available on the U.S. bishops’ website, acknowledges the discrimination endured by Irish, Polish, Italian, Asian, Puerto Rican and Eastern European immigrants to the United States, and recent waves of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim sentiment. It has extensive discussions on the “particularly brutal” impact of historic racism on African-Americans, Native Americans and Hispanics.

The poverty experienced by many in these groups has its roots in racist policies that continue to impede individuals’ ability to find affordable housing, meaningful work, adequate education and social mobility, the letter states.

Apologizing for church’s sins

The letter apologizes for the church’s own sins of racism, such as slave ownership or commerce.

It notes that “not that long ago in many Catholic parishes, people of color were relegated to segregated seating and required to receive the Holy Eucharist after white parishioners.”

In one historic Catholic response preceding the letter, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., publicly acknowledged its history regarding the institution of slavery. In 2016, the university responded with measures including reconciliation, engagement, memorialization, research, and teaching on public history and giving slave descendants the same consideration in the admissions process as members of the Georgetown community.

Some U.S. bishops, notably Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, have drawn on the bishops’

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Protesters are seen near Capitol Hill in Washington May 21, 2018, to demand elected officials take immediate steps to confront systemic racism. A U.S. bishops’ pastoral letter on racism issued last November invited teaching, preaching, prayer, encounter, discernment and conversion by Catholics on personal and institutional matters of race.

This portrait of Father Augustine Tolton by artist Sally K. Green was featured at a Black History Month tribute Feb. 12 at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco. The gathering was “educational and prophetic,” said Deacon Chuck McNeil, who organized the event with the St. Dominic Friends in Christ Ministry.

Tolton, born into slavery in Missouri, was ordained a priest April 24, 1886, in Rome, and said his first Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica.

A theological commission has unanimously recognized his “virtuous and heroic life,” advancing his sainthood cause and moving America’s first African-American priest a step closer to being declared “venerable” by Pope Francis. letter in responding to local concerns. In a February 2018 pastoral reflection titled “The Enduring Power of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Principles of Non-Violence,” Archbishop Lori decried the enduring gun violence in Baltimore and conflicts between residents and law enforcement.

“Weighing heavily on our minds and hearts is the sin of racism that continues, sometimes overtly but often subtly, to insinuate itself in our relationships, institutions and communities of faith, including our own,” Archbishop Lori wrote.

But some Catholic critics have said that although the letter is a step forward, it does not go far enough.

“Readers of the text are led to believe that oppression, subjugation, genocide, chattel slavery, racist violence, unjust legislation, and so, on merely befell people of color as if by chance,” wrote Daniel F. Horan, a Franciscan friar and assistant professor of systematic theology and spirituality at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, in a Feb. 20 article posted on the website of National Catholic Reporter.

“But the truth is that racism is a white problem because in this society whites hold the power, establish the institutions and set the social norms,” Horan continued. “And the new document does not come anywhere close to acknowledging or clearly stating this fact.”

Catholic San Francisco reached out to clergy and academics in the Bay Area for their thoughts on the bishops’ letter and the underlying concerns.

‘I don’t want to be seen as just a black priest.

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Alison Benders, associate dean of the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University and a lecturer on systemic theology, teaches a course that examines race, theology and justice. She said Christian theology has long been used to justify white exploitation of non-white groups and it continues in ways that “maintain the status quo.” “‘Manifest destiny’ was the motto that meant God destined white-Europeans to conquer the Western hemisphere ‘from sea to shining sea,’ regardless of how many African and American indigenous people lost their lives in the grand conquest,” Benders said. The “Puritan work ethic” that stemmed from that still blames people excluded from wealth and opportunity for their failure to get ahead rather than looking at unjust social structures, she said.

She said the “people in the pews” can resist racism by paying attention to the “color line” in the nation. “It takes honesty to see our nation as it is and take responsibility for what it does,” she said.

“We must claim racial injustice as our problem.”

Deacon Chuck McNeil at St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco said the bishops’ decision to call racism a “life issue” is “brilliant” because it aligns so naturally with Catholic social teaching.

“We Catholics believe that all men, women, children all have inherent value and worth,” said Deacon McNeil. He believes Catholics have separated life issues, “putting abortion over here and poverty over there.”

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BILL WOULD BREAK CONFESSIONAL SEAL TO REPORT SUSPECTED ABUSE

Legislation proposed Feb. 20 in the California state Senate would effectively force Catholic clergy to break the seal of confession to report suspected child abuse, a move the state’s bishops decried as unnecessary and a violation of constitutional religious liberty protections.

“Clergy are already mandatory reporters,” said Steve Pehanich, director of communications and advocacy for the California Catholic Conference.

“Inserting government into the confessional does nothing to protect children and everything to erode the fundamental constitutional rights and liberties we enjoy as Americans.”

California law mandates that members of 46 different professions, including clergy, report any known or suspected child abuse they discover in their professional capacity. The law exempts clergy from the mandated reporting law when they hear admissions of abuse heard during penitential communications, like confession.

Senate Bill 360, introduced by state Democratic Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo, would remove the religious exemption to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, which covers mandated reporting.

“SB 360 is about the safety and protection of children,” Hill said in a statement posted on his website. “The law should apply equally to all professionals who have been designated as mandated reporters of these crimes – with no exceptions, period. The exemption for clergy only protects the abuser and places children at further risk.”

The abuse and neglect reporting act specifies that penitential communications are intended to be confidential and made to a clergy member whose denomination expects those discussions to be kept secret. According to canon law, “the sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.” A priest who discusses the content of a confession is automatically excommunicated.

While the law clearly distinguishes between what a priest learns in confession versus outside it, Hill said in a Feb. 21 interview on CBS affiliate KPIX that “any communication can be conceived as a penitential communication, if it is in an office or anyplace. As long as there’s an understanding there it’s privileged, it does not have to be reported.”

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WASHINGTON – Amid current discussion that the Supreme Court could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade, the decision legalizing abortion, some states are currently working to make sure their laws legalizing abortion are secure, while other states are trying to pass laws to further restrict or ban the procedure.

There are about 20 suits chalArchbishop lenging state laws restricting Joseph F. abortion that could make their Naumann way to the Supreme Court.

The current mood “is calling for us to have a new energy and new zeal to win the culture,” said Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

The archbishop told Catholic News Service that many states are now in “somewhat of a panic attack,” stressing that states which support legal abortion want to “keep it intact” if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

In this environment, he said, it is important for pro-life activists to “ramp up our efforts on every level.” He called on Catholics to get involved in local Right to Life chapters or with state Catholic conferences to have direct interaction with state legislators.

But the archbishop also said lobbying efforts alone are not enough.

“Legislation can be lost as quickly as it is gained,” he said, stressing that public policy is important but that winning the “hearts and minds” of the American public is key, pointing out that the church is involved in the political sphere primarily to form people’s consciences.

And the most important education about the abortion issue happens one on one, with neighbors, families and co-workers, he added.

PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE IS NOT MEDICAL CARE,’ DOCTOR TELLS LAWMAKERS

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Saying that “medicine is a noble profession,” a Catholic physician told Maryland lawmakers that “physician-assisted suicide fundamentally alters the physician’s role in society.”

Dr. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot made the comments in testimony for a hearing on the End-ofLife Option Act under consideration again by the House Health and Government Operations and Judiciary committees. The measure has been repeatedly introduced in recent years and blocked in committee.

The measure would allow terminally ill adults who have six months or less left to live and who

are mentally capable to receive doctor-prescribed medication to end their lives.

Boursiquot, a board-certified internist and fellow of the American College of Physicians, was one of several testifying against the measure Feb. 15. She shared her testimony with the Catholic Review, the media outlet of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

She discussed the duties physicians have to their patients: acting in the patient’s best interest; avoiding or minimizing harm; respecting a patient’s autonomy; and promoting fairness and social justice.

“Medicalizing death does not address the needs of dying patients and their families,” she said.

“Physician-assisted suicide is not medical care.

Physicians are committed to preserving life, not in taking lives.”

PRO-LIFE GROUPS, LAWMAKERS PRAISE FINAL ‘PROTECT LIFE RULE’ FOR TITLE X

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration Feb. 22 finalized its “Protect Life Rule” preventing funds appropriated under the Title X Family Planning Program from being used in services that include abortion as a method of family planning or that make abortion referrals.

It bars Title X grant money from any clinic that performs abortion, which will especially impact Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. According to the organization’s website, Planned Parenthood affiliates receive roughly $290 million in Title X funds and serve about 41 percent of those who benefit from Title X funding.

“The Title X Program can now finally return to its originally intended purpose – the provision of family planning services, not abortions,” said Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, who is chair of the Congressional Pro Life Caucus.

“Title X funding was never intended to facilitate Planned Parenthood’s hideous dismemberment, chemical poisoning or deliberate starvation and forced expulsion of a defenseless unborn baby,” he said in a statement. He applauded the Trump administration for affirming “human life and dignity with this pro-child rule.”

The Office of Population Affairs, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and oversees Title X, published the draft final rule the afternoon of Feb. 22. It is slated to go into effect 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register.

In May 2018, President Donald Trump said his administration would reinstate Reagan-era regulations to prevent funds appropriated under Title X from being used in programs that include abortion as a method of family planning or that make abortion referrals.

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Oakland bishop: Publishing priest-abusers list an ‘act of contrition’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

OAKLAND – The Diocese of Oakland, which serves two California counties in the East Bay area, published Feb. 18 a list of priests, deacons and religious brothers who have worked in the diocese and been credibly accused of abuse, dating back to the diocese’s founding in 1962.

Bishop Michael C. Barber of Oakland, in releasing the list, said its publication was an “act of Bishop Michael contrition” and an attempt to bring C. Barber comfort to survivors of clergy abuse.

“I hope this will help bring healing to those who have suffered. I renew our offer of counseling, therapy, support and outreach to survivors,” he said in a Feb. 18 statement.

Bishop Barber said he issued the list with “a heavy heart,” but added that it is a “living list” and would be updated as needed. His intention is not “to reopen the wounds of survivors, but to declare, ‘We have nothing to hide,’” he said.

The list totals 45 priests, brothers and deacons.

“The only acceptable number is ‘zero,’” he added.

“However, there are right now more than 120 faithful, active and dedicated priests serving our 500,000 Catholics in our two-county diocese. We are on duty daily to serve you. There has been no credible incident of abuse of a minor by a priest or deacon of the Diocese of Oakland since 1988.”

“I can assure that today,” Bishop Barber added, “no priest or deacon who is in active ministry in the Diocese of Oakland has a credible allegation of abuse of a minor.”

Of the 20 diocesan priests named on the list, 14 are now dead. Of the other six, all were removed from ministry, the last ones in 2002, the year the clergy sex abuse scandal broke in the Archdiocese of Boston.

One was excommunicated in 2008, one was laicized in 2007, and three were directed to lead lives of “prayer and penance.” For the sixth, Father Thomas Duong

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Binh-Minh, who was removed from ministry in 2002, the list says, “Last known location Concord, Calif.”

The list also contains 14 credibly accused men from religious orders – 13 priests and one deacon – three priests who were ordained for other U.S. dioceses, and eight brothers with credible abuse allegations lodged against them. These men, according to the diocese, “were not under the control of the Diocese of Oakland but may have lived or worked here, going back to Jan. 13, 1962.”

The diocese added, “This list is incomplete and based on the best information the diocese could discover.”

“Today’s list is just one milestone in our efforts to investigate past abuses and bring justice to survivors,” said a Feb. 18 statement from diocesan chancellor Steve Wilcox, who was appointed by Bishop Barber to review files and compile names. “We want parents and families to know schools and parishes in the Oakland diocese will always be safe, healthy and holy places for our children.”

The list of names and facts regarding the diocese’s efforts to protect children and support survivors of abuse was published in the Feb. 18 issue of The Catholic Voice, the diocesan newspaper, and distributed to parishes and Catholic schools in the diocese, in both English and Spanish.

The list also was published electronically on both the diocesan website, https://bit.ly/2TWFCAB, and The Catholic Voice’s website, www.catholicvoiceoakland. org.

The Oakland diocese said it is one of the first U.S. dioceses to work with survivors of clergy sexual abuse to develop support systems, going back to the 1990s.

The No More Secrets group was formed in 2002, before passage of the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” and continues to meet monthly.

The diocese requires anyone who works with minors in the diocese – whether clergy, laity or volunteers – to undergo a criminal record check and to receive training in recognizing predatory behavior and how to ensure safe environments for children. Everyone is required to undergo training every three years.

COLORADO DIOCESES, ATTORNEY GENERAL LAUNCH INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS ABUSE

DENVER – Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, on behalf of the bishops of Colorado’s three Catholic dioceses, joined Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser at a news conference Feb. 19 to announce several measures to address child sex abuse, including an independent review of records on abuse claims from the three dioceses.

The three dioceses also will fund an independent, voluntary program that will compensate victims of abuse, regardless of when the abuse occurred. A separate victims’ support service will be created to assist victims/ survivors with the reparations program and connect them with resources for future care.

“The damage inflicted upon young people and their families by sexual abuse, especially when it’s committed by a trusted person like a priest, is profound,” Archbishop Aquila said. “While this process will certainly include painful moments and cannot ever fully restore what was lost, we pray that it will at least begin the healing process.”

“We also acknowledge that the bright light of transparency needs to shine on the church’s history related to the sexual abuse of minors,” the archbishop said.

“With humility and repentance, we hope the programs announced today offer a path to healing for survivors and their families.”

In his statement Weiser said he was pleased “the church has recognized the need for transparency and reparations for victims.”

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BISHOPS’ LETTER: Catholics reflect on racism as a ‘life issue’ FROM PAGE 6

unconcerned about people at the borders,” he said.

Deacon McNeil spoke about the bishops’ use of the word “conversion” as it applies to racism.

Conversion for the Christian, he said, entails taking on a “completely new field of vision,” a term he said was coined by Jesuit priest, theologian and philosopher Father Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984).

“If we are baptized into Christ everything is completely new,” said Deacon McNeil. “If you are a baptized person you are an entirely new creature and you have to think and act as a Christian. It’s a total new horizon Catholics are being called to.”

He said he has noticed that very

‘If you are a baptized person you are an entirely new creature and you have to think and act as a Christian. It’s a total new horizon Catholics are being called to.’

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The Eucharist is a sign of reconciliation, he said, “and the needs to be reconciled need to be named specifically.”

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For several years running, Deacon McNeil has organized a tribute to Father Augustus Tolton for Black History Month together with the St. Dominic Friends in Christ ministry. Father Tolton is America’s first African-America’s priest and is in line to become America’s first black saint. On Feb. 5, the feast of St. Agatha, a nine-member Vatican theological commission unanimously voted that Father Tolton’s cause be moved forward to the cardinals and archbishops in the Congregation for Saints’ Causes for a final vote to send a decree of the priest’s “heroic virtues” to Pope Francis for his approval.

An ‘educational and prophetic’ gathering

The Feb. 12 gathering at St. Dominic, which included a blessing of a painting of Father Tolton by artist Sally K. Green and a reflection by Tolton advocate Debbe Kennedy, drew almost 100 people.

“Here we are in a very divisive country where people can’t have a conversation about race without name calling, and we had a packed chapel of white people, black people, Asian people, Hispanic women praying together,” he said. “It was educational and it was prophetic.”

Paulist Father Bart Landry, former pastor of Old St. Mary’s Parish in San Francisco’s Chinatown and now in residence at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco, spoke about his experiences as an African-American priest.

“I oftentimes feel that I am a black man in a white man’s world when it comes to my vocation in the church,” he said. At the same time, he wants people to look beyond his race.

“I don’t want to be seen just as a black priest,” he said. “I want to be seen as an African-American man who responded to the generosity of God’s call to the priesthood and acknowledge the contributions I can make as an African-American.”

He said he knows that the Mass as celebrated by African-Americans makes some bishops and priests uncomfortable and wishes the church could embrace a diversity of liturgical styles.

“I think some fail to recognize it as Catholic liturgy,” he said. “What that says to a culture of people is that you must worship how I do.’”

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Experts: Newman’s vision for education united faith, reason JACOB COMELLO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – If you attended college, you probably remember the Newman Center as a place of barbecues, Bible studies and fun-loving priests trying zealously to minister to what is typically a religiously disengaged demographic.

Little known to many is that Blessed John Henry Newman, namesake of all those ministries and one of the most recent sainthood candidates to have his cause advanced by the Vatican, actually had a sweeping vision for how campuses as a whole should be run – one rooted in the underlying truth that binds faith and reason together.

On Feb. 13, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of the English cardinal, clearing the way for his canonization.

Blessed Newman, who helped found two universities in his day, suggested in his most famous writing “The Idea of a University” that students ought to be exposed to a unified model of liberal education – one that begins by letting students develop their basic intellectual faculties through the study of medieval subjects such as logic or grammar, and then progress to more specialized forms of knowledge once a unifying foundation has been firmly established.

So how have Catholic universities stacked up to that vision as Blessed Newman’s canonization day nears?

Bud Marr, director of the National Institute for Newman Studies and a professor of anthropology and theological ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, said that many Catholic universities are falling short because they are

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starting to view subjects as separate as opposed to being part and parcel of the same truth.

“A lot of Catholic universities have fallen into a division between disciplines,” Marr said, relating that the faculty and staff of many institutions were “struggling to figure out how to have a unified approach.”

In a phone interview with Catholic News Service, he said he specifically remembers a conversation he had with a science professor who “wanted to draw upon faith in the classroom but felt intimidated” because she didn’t feel like she was “staying in her lane.”

In situations like these, Marr related, “you have to take seriously what Newman said. ... If you leave out theology, you’re leaving out a key part” of what should befit a proper Catholic education.

Agreeing with Marr is Patrick Reilly, president and founder of the Cardinal Newman Society, a nonprofit that supports Catholic education and research at all levels. It is based outside of Washington in Merrifield, Virginia.

Reilly told CNS in an email about the current weaknesses he sees in Catholic education, saying, “Catholic education used to be great at cultivating mind and soul. ... As a society, we have lost much of our ability to reason ... and sadly many of our Catholic schools and colleges have sunk into the same methods” that lead secular institutions astray.

But fortunately, there are Catholic institutions fighting to keep Blessed Newman’s dream alive.

Marr explained that Catholic universities which utilize a “great books” curriculum are having outcomes that would make the late cardinal proud.

These kinds of programs are good at “integrating culture and Catholic thought,” explained Marr, and he mentioned by name Newman University in Wichita, Kansas, as an example: “They have core pillars to their gen ed (general education) but they are interdisciplinary and bring faith and reason together.”

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Abuse panel: Global church must confront power issues, need for forgiveness NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Speakers highlighted the reality of abuse across the global church at a panel Feb. 19, as discussions ranged from New Mexico to India and Uganda.

Santa Clara University’s Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley hosted a panel of speakers, including the Diocese of San Jose’s Coadjutor Bishop Oscar Cantu, to discuss abuse within the diverse contexts of the global church.

The event was the second panel organized by Santa Clara University in response to the church’s abuse crisis.

Julie Rubio, the panel’s moderator and a social ethics professor at the Jesuit school, said the university wanted to present the expertise and diversity of the church in the Bay Area. The panel’s reflections were also relevant as the Vatican hosted a summit on sex abuse from Feb. 21-24.

Bishop Cantu said that among his pastoral concerns was “a reluctance to step forward” on the part of the Hispanic community. Particularly in immigrant communities, he said, mixed legal status and an emphasis on economic goals can lessen the importance of engaging with the church. Regarding the abuse crisis, he said he was concerned that reluctance would affect reporting any kind of abuse. Bishop Cantu emphasized “the church does not report people to immigration authorities.”

Medical Sister of St. Joseph Beena Kallelly, a doctoral student at the Jesuit school, discussed sexual abuse in India and its causes. At its heart, the Catholic Church in India “fails to be a witness to God’s love for women and children,” Sister Kallelly said, pointing to its sex abuse scandals.

Last year in India a religious sister filed a police complaint that accused Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal of raping her more than a dozen times over two years. Since her case broke

‘Abuse is power translated wrongly. The lack of empowerment for religious to take their rightful place in the church is abuse.’

VIVIAN NABUULE

Native of Uganda, recent Jesuit School of Theology graduate open, other women religious in India and around the world have become more outspoken about the sexual abuse they have suffered at the hands of clergy. During an in-flight press conference Feb. 5, Pope Francis acknowledged the clerical abuse of nuns and said the church “is working on it.”

Sister Beena said the Indian church had protected its name through disregarding the plight of abuse victims.

In addition, she said, the church has “a lack of clarity” around policies for reporting abuse and who has the responsibility to investigate it. Sex abuse in the Indian church has its roots in the unequal gender relations which persist in the church, she said. “Although it is supposed to be countercultural, the Indian church continues to be a patriarchal institution,” said Sister Kallelly.

Vivian Nabuule, a recent graduate of the Jesuit school, discussed the importance of cultural formation in the abuse crisis. Taking a look at abuse in the context of Uganda, where she was born, Nabuule said clergy abuse cannot be reduced to sex abuse.

“Abuse is power translated wrongly,” she said, and argued “the lack of empowerment for religious to take their rightful place in the church is abuse.”

The economic inequality of men and women, and the deferential treatment priests receive, create the conditions for the exploitation and abuse of women religious and laity, said Nabuule.

But the roots of abuse can be found in families, she said.

“Priests are people who come from

families, so what kind of formation do they receive in families?” she asked.

Parents are responsible for giving their children moral values, and fathers need to hand on a “proper sense of masculinity” to their sons, she said, adding that the values children learn from their parents, good or bad, can persist for life.

Jesuit Father Paul Crowley, a professor of systematic theology at Santa Clara University, said achieving justice and reconciliation in the church partly depends on answering difficult questions the crisis has raised. Father Crowley said the exclusion of women and married men from priesthood and the church’s teaching on homosexuality should be examined, along with the extent to which celibacy has contributed to the abuse crisis, and why so many sex abuse cases in the church “skew toward ephebophilia,” the sexual attraction to adolescents.

Father Crowley also said the church cannot forget God’s mercy as it seeks justice. “Many people may consider forgiveness an impossibility,” he said, “but history amply shows the absence of forgiveness is the foundation of tragedy.”

In addition to forgiveness, Father Crowley said faith in Jesus Christ should be at the center of the church’s response to the crisis.

“Unless we can situate the present anguish within the mystery of the cross and resurrection, we are doomed to an apocalyptic view that can only yield to defeat,” he said.

Catholic News Service discussed clergy abuse as a global issue in a Feb. 13 report from Bangkok, Thailand. The report noted that Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, president of the doctrinal congregation board that reviews appeals filed by priests laicized or otherwise disciplined in sexual abuse or other serious cases, told reporters last October in Rome that the idea that clerical sex abuse is “a problem linked to any culture or geographic part of the world ... is a myth that has to be dispelled.”

Archbishop Simon Poh Hoon Seng of Kuching, Malaysia, is one of the few Asian prelates who has spoken out, arguing that the crisis is not one limited to the West.

The Philippines, with about 80 million Catholics, is the epicenter of the church in Asia and has seen more public cases of abuse against both minors and women in recent years than other Asian countries. These include claims by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte – a critic of the church – that he was a victim of clerical abuse as a youth.

Benedictine Sister Mary John Mananzan, a Philippine activist, told Catholic News Service she knows of multiple cases involving priests with boys, girls, nuns and laywomen. She described the problem as “big enough to be a real problem, especially at this time when we have a president who uses this issue to attack the Catholic Church.”

Fear of shame and social standing holds back abuse victims in Asia, according to priests interviewed by CNS in Pakistan, Myanmar, East Timor and Australia. Another problem highlighted by clerics and others in Southeast Asia is that priests and bishops are treated similarly to Buddhist monks, who are protected by governments and laws in a string of countries from Myanmar to Vietnam.

Survivors share harrowing stories of abuse and cover-up JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – “Every time I refused to have sex with him, he would beat me,” an abuse survivor from Africa told Pope Francis and bishops attending the Vatican summit on child protection and the abuse crisis.

The meeting began Feb. 21 with the harrowing stories of survivors of sexual abuse, cover-up and rejection by church officials.

The pre-recorded testimonies of five survivors were broadcast in the synod hall; the Vatican did not disclose their names, but only whether they were male or female and their country of origin.

In the first testimony, a man from Chile expressed the pain he felt when, after reporting his abuse to the church, he was treated “as a liar” and told that “I and others were enemies of the church.”

“You are physicians of the soul and yet, with rare exceptions, you have been transformed – in some cases – into murderers of the soul, into murderers of the faith,” he said.

Comparing the abuse crisis to a cancer in the church, the survivor said that “it is not enough to remove

the tumor and that’s it,” but there must be measures to “treat the whole cancer.”

He said he prayed that those who “want to continue to cover up” would leave the church, giving greater space “to those who want to a create a new church, a renewed church and a church absolutely free from sexual abuse.”

A woman from Africa recalled the humiliation and suffering she endured when she was sexually and physically abused by a priest beginning when she was 15; he made her pregnant three times and each time forced her to have an abortion.

“At first, I trusted him so much that I did not know he could abuse me. I was afraid of him and every time I refused to have sex with him, he would beat me,” she said. “And since I was completely dependent on him economically, I suffered all the humiliations he inflicted on me.”

“It must be said that priests and religious have a way of helping and at the same time also destroying,” she said. “They have to behave like leaders, wise people.”

A U.S. survivor told the bishops that what wounded him the most “was the total loss of the innocence of my

youth and how that has affected me today.”

“There’s still pain in my family relationships,” he said. “There’s still pain with my siblings. I still carry pain. My parents still carry pain at the dysfunction, the betrayal, the manipulation that this bad man, who was our Catholic priest at the time, wrought upon my family and myself.”

The church, he added, needs leadership, vision and courage from bishops to fight the scourge of abuse and “to work for resolution, and work for healing and work for a better church.”

The final testimony was delivered by man from Asia who said he was “abused over 100 times” and continues to endure “traumas and flashbacks” that have caused him difficulty in living his life and connecting with other people.

Another survivor of clerical sexual said “a priest from my parish destroyed my life,” Vatican News reported. “Since then, I, who loved coloring books and doing somersaults on the grass, have not existed,” the survivor said.

She spoke about how “no one noticed” as the abuse continued for five years and how she desensitized herself,

trying to escape what was happening to her. She spoke about the confusion she felt as a child, how she questioned herself and blamed herself.

She said the church can be proud that it is capable of dealing with abuse despite the legal statute of limitations, but said that a long time between the offense and the accusation should not be seen as a mitigating factor in favor of the accuser. “Victims are not guilty of their silence …

Wounds can never be the subject of a statute of limitations,” she said.

At a briefing with journalists Feb. 21, Australian Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane said that although he had listened to many survivors and their stories of abuse, he was nevertheless “surprised at the way tears, as it were, welled up.”

“I had never heard them in the extraordinary context of this gathering and, frankly, in the presence of the pope,” Archbishop Coleridge said.

“So, the setting itself added a whole new power and, in a sense, another dimension to hearing these voices that spoke very briefly, but very powerfully and very deeply and struck just the right note on the first morning of – not just a meeting – this journey of exploration.”

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Expert: Data, not contention, should ground discussion of abuse NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Discussions around clergy abuse need to be grounded in data and kept distinct from other contentious issues, like homosexuality and celibacy, Santa Clara University psychology professor Thomas G. Plante said Feb. 24 at St. Peter Church in Pacifica.

“People use this story for their own personal benefit, or their own agenda,” said Plante, who was invited by the St. Peter pastoral council to help parishioners understand more about the church and the abuse crisis.

In a conversational and wide-ranging talk, Plante, who is also an adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, a former vice chair of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ National Review Board and author of three books on clerical sexual abuse, spoke about now-defrocked Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, the Pennsylvania grand jury report, statistics on abuse at large and inside the church and the church’s response.

Plante emphasized that celibacy and homosexuality are not causes of child abuse. The vast majority of child offenders are not priests, he said, and the absence of sexual activity also does not transform a person into a pedophile.

“If you cannot have sexual relations for any reason, children do not become the object of your desire,” he said.

Child abuse mostly happens within families, he said. The extent of the problem is difficult to determine because sex crimes tend to be underreported, but the Crimes Against Children Research Center estimates that 20 percent of girls and 5 percent of boys are a victim of child sexual abuse. Plante said other Christian clergy, or such professions as teaching, report equivalent or higher rates of abuse than Catholic clergy.

Plante said no research has shown that sexual orientation is a risk factor for child abuse and noted the implicit double standard applied by those who blame homosexuality for the crisis.

“If 80 percent of victims were girls, it’s hard to imagine we’d argue the problem is heterosexuality

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Thomas G. Plante, a psychology professor at Santa Clara University, was invited by the pastoral council at St. Peter Parish in Pacifica to speak about the clergy abuse crisis. Plante, the author of three books about the crisis, talked about the importance of separating fact from fiction in identifying the causes of abusive behavior. and therefore we need to get rid of the heterosexual priests,” he said.

Plante praised the church’s efforts to “socially engineer” child safety, from safe environment training and psychological evaluations to incident investigations and the “two-deep” rule, which says that adults cannot be alone with a child unless there is another responsible adult present. Screening processes are continually under improvement and have contributed to the near lack of new abuse allegations against clergy, he said.

Plante said the Vatican abuse summit that concluded Feb. 24 had important moments where church leaders listened to victims but criticized its reliance on cardinals instead of experts in child safety and sex abuse to address.

“If there’s a leak in the Vatican, do they send a cardinal to fix it?” he asked.

Plante’s research on sex abuse was cited by Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman in a Jan. 26 talk to

the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose at the community’s Center for Education and Spirituality in Fremont.

Father Coleman, a former rector and president of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University and an adjunct ethics professor for Santa Clara University’s pastoral studies program, reviewed the clergy sex abuse crisis and rejected attempts to connect it to homosexuality. He argued that child abuse is mainly a product of “aberrant sexualities” like pedophilia and ephebophilia (sexual urges and fantasies about minors in late adolescence). In contrast to sexual orientations, he said, an aberrant sexuality “precludes any semblance of normalcy,” pointing to the lack of proportionality and victimization inherent in sexual relations between adults and children.

While abuse of minors in the church has typically been framed as a problem of clerical pedophilia, the label is inaccurate, Father Coleman said, with the “vast majority” of sexually abusive priests fixated on adolescent minors. The John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which was hired by the U.S. bishops to analyze the abuse crisis, published reports in 2004 and 2011 that found about 80 percent of victims were male.

Father Coleman said the high rate of abuse of boys did not mean abusers were homosexual.

“Homosexual men are attracted to other men, not children,” he said, adding that most abusers also identified themselves as heterosexuals.

Drawing on research from Plante and other experts, Father Coleman said that the available evidence suggests priests who abuse minors are “situational generalists,” who target young men because of low barriers to meet and abuse them.

A careful reading of the available research on clergy sex abuse “leads to the conclusion (that) homosexuals are not the cause of sexual crimes in the church,” he said.

Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee, co-director of the CES, said the sisters invited Father Coleman to present a comprehensive overview of the sex abuse crisis and “let people ask questions and hear from a wise moral theologian with his feet on the ground. We felt it was really important to help people put this in context.”

Blaming homosexuality for abuse of minors is distraction, victims say CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – People must stop using homosexuals as scapegoats for the sexual abuse of children, two male survivors of abuse by priests told reporters.

“To make this link between homosexuality and pedophilia is absolutely immoral, it is unconscionable and has to stop,” said Peter Isely, a survivor and founding member of the survivor’s group SNAP. Speaking to reporters outside the Vatican press office Feb. 18, he said: “No matter what your sexual orientation is, if you’ve committed a criminal act against a child, you’re a criminal.

That’s the designation that counts.

Period.”

Isely and other survivors were in Rome to speak with the media ahead of a Vatican summit Feb. 21-24 on child protection in the Catholic Church.

Phil Saviano, who founded SNAP’s New England chapter and is a board member of BishopsAccountability. org, told reporters Feb. 19 that he felt “there has been a lot of scapegoating of homosexual men as being child predators.”

To lay the blame for the abuse of children on homosexuality “tells me that they really don’t understand” the problem and have made a claim “that is not based on any source of reality.”

“I will admit that if a priest is abus-

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Barbara Dorris, an abuse survivor and former executive director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, center, is flanked by Zuzanna Flisowska, left, and Virginia Saldanha, during a news conference at the Foreign Press Club in Rome Feb. 19. ing a 16-, 17- or 18-year-old boy, that part of the element that is going on there is homosexuality, but that is not the root of the problem” of abuse by clergy, he said at an event at the Foreign Press Association in Rome.

Saviano was a prepubescent boy when he was abused by Father David A. Holley of Worcester, Massachusetts, and he said, very often, a perpetrator

is no longer “interested” in his victim when the child goes through puberty.

Saviano, whose story of abuse triggered the Boston Globe investigation and was featured in the film Spotlight, said he hears from victims from all over the world “and many of them are women who were abused as children.”

“Trying to lump it all together under homosexually,” he said, is “a

dodge” and will not “lead to a proper solution.”

“It is also an insult to all the women who have been sexually abused as children,” he added.

U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke and German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller released an open letter Feb. 19, urging the Vatican summit to take up the theme of homosexuality in the priesthood and other evidence of a more general questioning of traditional Catholic morality.

With the summit, they said, it seems that the “difficulty” in the church “is reduced to that of the abuse of minors, a horrible crime, especially when it is perpetrated by a priest, which is, however, only part of a much greater crisis. The plague of the homosexual agenda has been spread within the church, promoted by organized networks and protected by a climate of complicity and a conspiracy of silence.”

The report of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice on clergy abuse in the Catholic Church in the United States found there was no “causative relationship” between either celibacy or homosexuality and the sexual assault of children by church members.

The report concluded clerical sexual abuse of children was more a crime of opportunity with abusers SEE HOMOSEXUALITY, PAGE 19

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Cupich asks for new structure to ensure bishops’ accountability CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church needs “new legal structures of accountability” for bishops accused of sexual abuse or of negligence in handling abuse allegations, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago told the Vatican summit on safeguarding.

Addressing Pope Francis and some 190 presidents of bishops’ conferences, heads of Eastern Catholic churches, religious superiors and officials of the Roman Curia Feb. 22, Cardinal Cupich provided details of what some people have described as a “metropolitan model” of accountability, although he insisted the model would involve laypeople.

Church territories are grouped into provinces with an archdiocese, which is the metropolitan see, and neighboring dioceses. Under the current law governing the Latin-rite church, the archbishop or cardinal leading the metropolitan see has very little responsibility for the province; that would change under Cardinal Cupich’s proposal.

The guidelines also would name an alternate – perhaps the neighboring metropolitan or the senior diocesan bishop – in cases where the accused is the metropolitan archbishop.

The proposal made by Cardinal Cupich at the Vatican summit on child protection and the clerical abuse scandal was similar to one he made in November to the full U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The cardinal also included elements of proposals the U.S. bishops had planned to vote on in November, but the Vatican had asked them to hold off until after the Feb. 21-24 Vatican summit. The common elements included setting up a toll-free number or website for reporting bishops and establishing a fund to pay for investigations of bishops accused of abuse or negligence.

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Sex abuse survivors Denise Buchanan and Alessandro Battaglia are pictured in front of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Feb. 24, on the final day of the Vatican’s four-day meeting on the protection of minors in the church.

The Chicago prelate told reporters later that his presentation had two main differences from what the U.S. bishops initially proposed: Using metropolitans gives the process a regional character that is especially important for ensuring outreach to and follow up with the victim; and the U.S. bishops’ proposal was voluntary, whereas his would be obligatory.

Responding to questions about trusting bishops to investigate brother bishops, Cardinal Cupich said that is another reason why he insisted laypeople be involved in receiving and investigating allegations; it is essential for the transparency of the system.

Cardinal Cupich’s presentation at the summit focused on increasing accountability but doing so in a “synodal” fashion by including laypeople “in a discernment and reform that penetrates through-

out the church” and by formulating laws and procedures that flow from the church’s reality as a spiritual institution.

“We must move to establish robust laws and structures regarding the accountability of bishops precisely to supply with a new soul the institutional reality of the church’s discipline on sexual abuse,” the cardinal told the summit.

Cardinal Cupich said the need for a system where bishops, aided by lay experts, hold other bishops accountable could be seen in the events of “this past year,” presumably referring to the Pennsylvania grand jury report on abuse and the case of former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, who, in 2018, was found to be credibly accused of the sexual abuse of a minor and was dismissed from the clerical state in February after being found guilty.

“This past year has taught us that the systematic failures in holding clerics of all rank responsible are due in large measure to flaws in the way we interact and communicate with each other in the college of bishops in union with the successor of Peter,” Cardinal Cupich said.

Before the summit began, each participant was asked to meet with and listen to a survivor or survivors of abuse. The meeting included testimony from survivors, and the main speakers and the survivors gathered outside the meeting all insisted that listening to the victims is the first step.

Cardinal Cupich said listening to victims is not a courtesy and must not include conditions being placed on the survivors. “Our listening must be willing to accept challenge and confrontation and even condemnation for the church’s past and present failures to keep safe the most precious of the Lord’s flock.”

SEE CUPICH, PAGE 15

Sister: Church credibility ruined by silent hypocrisy JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The hypocrisy of Catholic leaders who claimed to be guardians of morality yet remained silent about clerical sexual abuse has left the church’s credibility in shambles, an African woman religious told bishops at the Vatican summit on abuse.

“Yes, we proclaim the Ten Commandments and ‘parade ourselves’ as being the custodians of moral standards-values and good behavior in society. Hypocrites at times? Yes! Why did we keep silent for so long?” asked Nigerian Sister Veronica Openibo, congregational leader of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.

“Let us not hide such events anymore because of the fear of making mistakes,” she said. “Too often we want to keep silent until the storm has passed!

This storm will not pass by.”

Addressing Pope Francis and nearly 190 representatives of the world’s bishops’ conferences and religious orders Feb. 23, Sister Openibo insisted the church needed to be transparent and open in facing the abuse crisis.

In a poignant yet powerful speech, the Nigerian sister reminded the bishops of the church’s universal mission to be a light for the world and a “manifestation of the Christ we know as both human and divine.”

However, she said, the “widespread and systemic” sexual abuse of children by clergy and the subsequent cover-up have “seriously clouded the grace of the Christ-mission.”

Clerical sex abuse, she said, “is a crisis that has reduced the credibility of the church when transparency should be the hallmark of mission as followers of Jesus Christ. The fact that many accuse the Catholic Church today of negligence is disturbing.”

She also called out bishops, particularly in Asia and her native Africa, who dismiss the abuse crisis as a Western problem, citing several personal experiences she confronted while counseling men and women who were abused.

“The fact that there are huge issues of poverty,

‘Let us not hide such events anymore because of the fear of making mistakes.

Too often we want to keep silent until the storm has passed! This storm will not pass by.’

Sister Veronica Openibo

illness, war and violence in some countries in the global South does not mean that the area of sexual abuse should be downplayed or ignored. The church has to be pro-active in facing it,” she said.

Outlining steps the Catholic Church can take to move toward true transparency and healing, Sister Openibo suggested beginning with the admission of wrongdoing and publishing “what has been done since the time of Pope John Paul II.” Transparency, she said, also will mean treating equally all clerics who abuse children and not shying away from acknowledging the names of abusers, even if they are high-ranking churchmen or already have died.

“The excuse that respect be given to some priests by virtue of their advanced years and hierarchical position is unacceptable,” she said. “This argument states that many of the criminal offenders are old, some no longer alive, and that we should not hurt them or their reputations by taking away their priesthood in old age. We can feel sad for those who, when they were younger committed offenses that are now being brought out to the open. But my heart bleeds for many of the victims who have lived with the misplaced shame and guilt of repeated violations for years. In some of these cases the offenders did not even see these victims as persons but as objects.”

Along with clear and comprehensive safeguarding policies in every diocese and devoting resources to help survivors heal from their suffering, Sister Openibo said the church also must give seminar-

ians and male and female novices a “clear and balanced education and training” about sexuality and boundaries.

“It worries me when I see in Rome, and elsewhere, the youngest seminarians being treated as though they are more special than everyone else, thus encouraging them to assume – from the beginning of their training – exalted ideas about their status,” she said. “The study of human development must give rise to a serious question about the existence of minor seminaries. The formation of young women religious, too, can often lead to a false sense of superiority over their lay sisters and brothers, that their calling is a ‘higher’ one. What damage has that thinking done to the mission of the church?

“What damage has that thinking done to the mission of the church? Have we forgotten the reminder

by Vatican II in ‘Gaudium et Spes’ of the universal call to holiness?” she asked.

‘Let’s put secrecy aside’ Archbishop Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, decried secrecy in remarks to journalists Feb. 23.

“Let’s put secrecy aside,” Archbishop Martin told journalists Feb. 23. “Secrecy has been one of the root causes of the problems that we are in today.

And therefore, we need to be cautious.”

He added, ”We’re not here to throw someone to the lions without a proper due process,” he said. “But I do think that I would be extremely cautious about being overly secretive at any level in this issue.”

In his speech Feb. 23 at the summit, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising discussed the issue, telling the pope and the bishops present that he saw no convincing reason why the “pontifical secret” should apply “to the prosecution of criminal offenses concerning the abuse of minors.”

Cardinal Marx also said the church should define the goal and limits of “pontifical secrecy” and redefine confidentiality and secrecy, distinguishing them from “data protection.”

Otherwise, he said, “we either squander the chance to maintain a level of self-determination regarding information or we expose ourselves to the suspicion of covering up.”

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CUPICH: Cardinal asks new structure to ensure bishops’ accountability FROM PAGE 14

Models of clergy-laity cooperation

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, who attended the summit as head of the U.S. episcopal conference, said it obviously will be up to the entire U.S. bishops’ conference to determine what proposal they will approve, but it could end up being “a kind of fusion” of a “metropolitan model” and the establishment of a special commission of mostly laypeople to receive and initially review complaints against bishops.

While some commentators thought the U.S. bishops’ proposals turned too much responsibility over to laypeople, Cardinal DiNardo said, “in our proposals the work of the laity is to collaborate – that’s pretty important” – and almost all the speakers at the summit insisted on the need to involve laypeople in the process.

The ideal, Cardinal DiNardo said, is to ensure the lay board has a certain “independence without losing being part of the church.”

In a statement issued later, the cardinal said the U.S. bishops would intensify their guidelines for handling abuse allegations.

He also noted that at the summit “a range of presenters, from cardinals to other bishops to religious sisters to laywomen, spoke about a code of conduct for bishops, the need to establish specific protocols for handling accusations against bishops, userfriendly reporting mechanisms, and the essential role transparency must play in the healing process.”

“Achieving these goals will require the active involvement and collaboration of the laity,” he said.

Throughout the summit, bishops and other speakers tried to identify attitudes and issues that have contributed to the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis; repeatedly they pointed to “clericalism,” and especially an attitude that allows priests and bishops to think that they were somehow special and above the law and common human decency. Colombian Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota, in a formal speech to the summit, blamed clericalism for promoting a culture within the church where power could be used and abused and where abuse was regularly covered up.

Cardinal DiNardo said he would lay the blame less on clericalism and more on a “sense of entitlement” among some clergy and bishops. “That can be very dangerous, particularly in a personality that already is not very healthy,” he said. Programs of priestly formation must prepare priests for a life of service, not entitlement.

In one of the most emotional presentations at the summit, Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, said he was numb and speechless after a presummit meeting with 12 victims. He said he could sense their “anger and bitterness, frustration, hurt and helplessness.” However, he said, “We met just 12, but there would be tens of thousands more that we have not met. How do we respond to them? How do we help them? This is our challenge.”

Cultivating ‘fraternal correction’

He said bishops must recognize how they have been responsible for the crisis by asking, “Do we really engage in an open conversation and point out honestly to our brother bishops or priests when we notice problematic behavior in them?”

“We should cultivate a culture of (fraternal correction), which enables this without offending each other, and at the same time recognize criticism from a brother as an opportunity to better fulfill our tasks,” he said.

Sometimes this need for collegiality and listening to brother bishops has been ignored by those who believe “only the pope can give us orders,” he said.

Instead of a Rome-centered focus, the cardinal said, there should be more discussion between bishops’ conferences and the Roman Curia to take into account and draw upon the diverse skills and competencies of “responsible shepherds” of the local churches.

Linda Ghisoni, a canon lawyer who serves as a consultant for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and is undersecretary for laity at the Dicastery for Laity, urged bishops in a formal speech to the summit to not resist having regular audits of diocesan safeguarding policies and of the ways he or he and his review board have handled allegations.

An audit, she said, “must not be misunderstood as mistrust of the superior or bishop, but rather considered an aid” for examining actions taken and sharing responsibility for them.

(CNS PHOTO/YARA NARDI, REUTERS)

People take part in a “March for Zero Tolerance” in Rome Feb. 23 during a Vatican summit on clergy abuse. Summit participants stressed accountability, transparency, listening to victims and models of collaboration between ordained and non-ordained Catholics.

“Identifying an objective method of accountability not only does not weaken his authority,” she said, “but it values him as the shepherd of a flock” whose responsibilities are “not separated from the people for whom he is called to give his life.”

When a bishop works together with priests, religious and laypeople in designing procedures and accountability models, she said, mistakes and errors are not a “stain” on the bishops’ honor, but a call for all involved to find a way to repair the damage and ensure it does not happen again.

Safeguarding children and fighting abuse must not be “a program” for the church, she said, but “must become an ordinary pastoral attitude.”

‘Let’s put secrecy aside’

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, in remarks to journalists Feb. 23, called for a culture of disclosure in the church rather than of secrecy.

“Let’s put secrecy aside,” Archbishop Martin told journalists Feb. 23. “Secrecy has been one of the root causes of the problems that we are in today.

And therefore, we need to be cautious.”

He added, ”We’re not here to throw someone to the lions without a proper due process,” he said. “But I do think that I would be extremely cautious about being overly secretive at any level in this issue.”

In his speech Feb. 23 at the summit, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising discussed the issue, telling the pope and the bishops present that he saw no convincing reason why the “pontifical secret” should apply “to the prosecution of criminal offenses concerning the abuse of minors.”

Cardinal Marx also said the church should define the goal and limits of “pontifical secrecy” and redefine confidentiality and secrecy, distinguishing them from “data protection.”

Otherwise, he said, “we either squander the chance to maintain a level of self-determination regarding information or we expose ourselves to the suspicion of covering up.”

Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna of Malta told journalists during a press briefing Feb. 23 that “there is movement” in the meeting on the issue of “pontifical secrecy” so that the church does not “bind these procedures with a top-heavy element of confidentially.”

The discussions about secrecy, he said, involve not only how the process of handling abuse cases is kept confidential, but also how the church communicates with victims, favoring a “definitive movement toward what I have called a culture of disclosure.”

‘Our own worst enemy’

Australian Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, in his homily at Mass closing the summit, also stressed putting victims first.

“Power is dangerous because it can destroy,” he said. “And in these days we have pondered how in the church, power can turn destructive when separated from service, when it is not a way of loving, when it becomes power ‘over.’”

Archbishop Coleridge warned the bishops that in giving priority to a desire to protect the church’s reputation, “we will not go unpunished.”

Those who abuse or cover up abuse use their power “not to create but to destroy, and even in the end to kill” the ones who are anointed by God, “even the weakest and most vulnerable of them,” he said.

Jesus’ command to “love your enemies” in the Sunday Gospel reading, he added, is a reminder for the church to not view as “the enemy” those who have exposed abuse and cover up in the church.

“At times, however, we have seen victims and survivors as the enemy, but we have not loved them, we have not blessed them,” he said. “In that sense, we have been our own worst enemy,” The church, the Australian archbishop said, has a mission that demands “not just words but real concrete action” that brings justice and healing to survivors, strengthens the formation of those entering the priesthood and religious life and eradicates abuse from the church.

“If we can do this and more, we will not only know the peace of the risen Lord, but we will become his peace in a mission to the ends of the earth,” Archbishop Coleridge said. “Yet we will become the peace only if we become the sacrifice.”

‘Strange blessing’ of laity’s fidelity

In another post-summit reflection by a U.S. church leader, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark invoked the Second Vatican Council in calling for “increased dialogue and synodality within the church, and greater lay participation.”

“A strange blessing of the past year has been the overwhelming evidence that laypeople haven’t given up on the church, but are in fact willing to dig in and be a part of the rebuilding,” he added in “The Power of Listening to the Peripheries,” posted Feb. 20 on the archdiocesan website, www.rcan.org.

Ideally, Cardinal Tobin said, a synod “strives to include marginalized voices in the calculus of the church’s thinking and decision-making, even at the level of the Vatican.”

Pope Francis, he added, “recognizes the power of this model and has expressed his dissatisfaction with consultation he finds too filtered.”

“He recognizes that bishops should not limit their input to safe voices who are only going to affirm only what we want to hear,” the cardinal continued.

“The ultimate fruit of this process is conversion, particularly conversion away from attitudes and behaviors that dehumanize others, whether attitudes towards those outside the church – as with antiSemitism – actions that harm our most vulnerable people – as with abuse and clericalism – or both.”

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SUNDAY READINGS

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time SIRACH 27:4-7 When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one’s faults when one speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation is the test of the just. The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so too does one’s speech disclose the bent of one’s mind. Praise no one before he speaks, for it is then that people are tested.

PSALM 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.

It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to your name, Most High. To proclaim your kindness at dawn and your faithfulness throughout the night.

Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.

The just one shall flourish like the palm tree, like a cedar of Lebanon shall he grow. They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.

They shall bear fruit even in old age; vigorous and sturdy shall they be. Declaring how just is the Lord, my rock, in whom there is no wrong.

Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:54-58 Brothers and sisters: When this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality, then the word that is written shall come about: Death is swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

LUKE 6:39-45 Jesus told his disciples a parable, “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher.

Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’ when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye. “A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thorn bushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles. A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.”

‘Reformer! Reform yourself first’

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n the first reading, we are told that we have no right to criticize others if we exempt ourselves from criticism. One way to encourage others to be truthful is to be truthful ourselves.

In the second reading, we are reminded that our efforts to do good are never done in vain because we can be confident that God is with us. God alone can give us the victory because he alone has the power to bring life out of death.

In the Gospel, Jesus makes it clear that reformation always begins at home. There is no use trying to guide a blind world if we are blind ourselves. The place to begin in making the world a better place is with ourselves.

DEACON The meaning of this FAIVA PO’OI analogy is perfectly obvious. Anyone who aspires to correct the faults of others should begin by first correcting his own faults.

What Jesus is really saying here is: “Reformer, reform yourself first.” But reformation, like charity, begins at home. Jesus tells us that if we desire to have a better world, the place to start is with our-

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selves. Unfortunately, that is something that we are loath to do. It is much easier to try to correct the faults and failures of those around us.

Why is it that we are more inclined to reform others than we are to reform ourselves? I think it is because we are often blind to our own faults and weaknesses. We simply do not see them.

Perhaps we refuse to see them. Perhaps we choose to ignore or deny their existence. Most of us tend to judge our own behavior much more leniently than we judge the behavior of others. Whereas we are quick to recognize the faults of others, we may regard our own faults as merely idiosyncrasies that are really not that important. The reality is that we can have problems and unpleasant traits of which we are unaware. For example, perhaps we are cranky when dealing with others. Perhaps we have developed the habit of nagging people.

Perhaps we frequently indulge in self-pity and never suspect that we may be feeling a bit too sorry for ourselves far too many times. We can be conceited and self-centered and yet view ourselves as humble. We can be stubborn and instead regard ourselves as courageous, never once suspecting that we may also be opinionated, narrow-minded or prejudiced.

Jesus hit the nail right on the head! We have blind spots that keep us from seeing the planks in our own eyes.

What can we do about this tendency? We could

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 4: Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Casimir of Poland. SIR 17:20-24. PS 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7. 2 COR 8:9.

MK 10:17-27.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 35:1-12. SEE MT 11:25. MK 10:28-31.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6: Ash Wednesday. JL 2:12-18. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17. 2 COR 5:20—6:2. SEE PS 95:8. MT 6:1-6, 16-18.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7: Thursday after Ash Wednesday. Memorial of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs.

DT 30:15-20. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. MT 4:17. LK 9:2225.

FRIDAY, MARCH 8: Friday after Ash Wednesday.

Optional Memorial of St. John of God, religious. IS 58:1-9A. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19. SEE AM 5:14. MT 9:14-15.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9: Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious. IS 58:9b-14. PS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. EZ 33:11.

LK 5:27-32.

start by listening to the kindly criticism of our friends! Unfortunately, we are often offended by the criticism of others and instead become defensive. But nothing is ever lost when one faces a fact with courage and honesty.

This raises another question: Is it really possible for grown people, like most of us, to make changes in our lives? Likely, many of us are a bit skeptical at this point. We are probably familiar with the proverb that says: “You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.” This may be true of an old dog, but I have seen some older people learn a few new tricks! Some have taken up golf after retirement, managing to play a fairly decent game. I have known people who began taking piano lessons after the age of 50. And they actually learned to play the piano.

We concede that it is possible for mature adults to develop new physical skills and talents. Why then, is it not possible for us to develop a new way of spiritual conversion and direction? One that is based less on judgment and criticism and more on love and mercy.

Together we pray our celebrant’s prayer that the Eucharist may bring us, not judgment and condemnation, but instead healing and peace in mind and body.

DEACON FAIVA PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

POPE FRANCIS SUNDAY, MARCH 10: First Sunday of Lent. DT 26:410. PS 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15. ROM 10:8-13.

MT 4:4b. LK 4:1-13.

MONDAY, MARCH 11: Monday of the First Week of Lent. LV 19:1-2, 11-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 15. 2 COR 6:2b. MT 25:31-46.

TUESDAY, MARCH 12: Tuesday of the First Week of Lent. IS 55:10-11. PS 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19. MT 4:4b. MT 6:7-15.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13: Wednesday of the First Week in Lent. JON 3:1-10. PS 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19.

JL 2:12-13. LK 11:29-32.

THURSDAY, MARCH 14: Thursday of the First Week in Lent. EST C:12, 14-16, 23-25. PS 138:1-2ab, 2cde3, 7c-8. PS 51:12a, 14a. MT 7:7-12.

FRIDAY, MARCH 15: Friday of the First Week of Lent.

EZ 18:21-28. PS 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8. EZ 18:31.

MT 5:20-26.

SATURDAY, MARCH 16: Saturday of the First Week of Lent. DT 26:16-19. PS 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8. 2 COR 6:2b. MT 5:43-48.

TECHNOLOGY’S ‘DANGEROUS ENCHANTMENT’

VATICAN CITY – Technology holds the potential to benefit all of humankind, but it also poses risky and unforeseen results, Pope Francis said.

The rapid evolution of increased technological capacities, for example with artificial intelligence and robotics, creates a “dangerous enchantment; instead of handing human life the tools that will improve care, there is the risk of handing life over to the logic of instruments,” he said Feb. 25.

“This inversion is destined to create illfated results – the machine is not limited to running by itself, but ends up running mankind,” the pope said.

The pope made his remarks during an audience with members of the Pontifical Academy for Life and those taking part in its Feb. 25-27 plenary assembly, which included a two-day workshop on “Roboethics: Humans, Machines and Health.”

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Celibacy: A personal apologia

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s a vowed, religious celibate I’m very conscious that today celibacy, whether lived out in a religious commitment or in other circumstances, is suspect, under siege, and is offering too little by way of a helpful apologia to its critics.

Do I believe in the value of consecrated celibacy?

The only real answer I can give must come from my own life. What’s my response to a culture that, for the most part, believes celibacy is both a naiveté and a dualism that stands against FATHER RON the goodness of sexuality, ROLHEISER renders its adherents less than fully human, and lies at the root of the clerical sexual abuse crisis within the Roman Catholic Church? What might I say in its defense?

First, that celibacy isn’t a basis for pedophilia?

Virtually all empirical studies indicate that pedophilia is a diagnosis not linked to celibacy. But then let me acknowledge its downside: Celibacy is not the normal state for anyone. When God made the first man and woman, God said: “It is not good for the human being to be alone.” That isn’t just a statement about the constitutive place of community within our lives (though it is that); it’s a clear reference to sexuality, its fundamental goodness, and its God-intended place in our lives. From that it flows that to be a celibate, particularly to choose to be one, comes fraught with real dangers. Celibacy can, and sometimes does, lead to an unhealthy sense of one’s sexual and relational self and to a coldness that’s often judgmental. It can too, understandably, lead to

an unhealthy sexual preoccupation within the celibate and it provides access to certain forms of intimacy within which a dangerous betrayal of trust can occur. Less recognized, but a huge danger, is that it can be a vehicle for selfishness.

Simply put, without the conscriptive demands that come with marriage and child-raising there’s the ever-present danger that a celibate can, unconsciously, arrange his life too much to suit his own needs.

Thus celibacy is not for everyone; indeed it’s not for the many. It contains an inherent abnormality. Consecrated celibacy is not simply a different lifestyle. It’s anomalous, in terms of the unique sacrifice it asks of you, where, like Abraham going up the mountain to sacrifice Isaac, you’re asked to sacrifice what’s most precious to you. As Thomas Merton, speaking of his own celibacy, once said: The absence of woman is a fault in my chastity. But, for the celibate as for Abraham, that can have a rich purpose and contain its own potential for generativity.

As well, I believe that consecrated celibacy, like music or religion, needs to be judged by its best expressions and not by its aberrations. Celibacy should not be judged by those who have not given it a wholesome expression but by the many wonderful women and men, saints of the past and present, who have given it a wholesome and generative expression. One could name numerous saints of the past or wonderfully healthy and generative persons from our own generation as examples where vowed celibacy has made for a wholesome, happy life that inspires others: Mother Teresa, Jean Vanier, Oscar Romero, Raymond E. Brown, and Helen Prejean, to name just a few.

Personally, I know many very generative, vowed SEE ROLHEISER, PAGE 19

‘The grace of God transforms me from within’

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ometime ago, one of our sisters wrote a very beautiful chant that describes a graced encounter with God: “The glance of God embraces me. The gaze of God enfolds me. The grace of God transforms me from within.” Helen Marie Gilsdorf, who taught music in our schools and parishes for many years, spent the last years of her life on dialysis. I think those very difficult years may have given birth to the inner joy and transformation that her chant celebrates. It is her own Magnificat.

As we move through the liSISTER JEAN turgical year and on into Lent, EVANS, RSM we can discover what the grace of transformation entails by looking at Our Lady’s life. We start with an angel’s surprise visit to this Israeli teen. Mary is told to rejoice in her blessedness – a frightened Mary listened as the angel laid out the plans for her future. She must have been bewildered at the possibility of bearing a child by the Holy Spirit, and even more so at the prospect of his being the savior. Yet, she agreed, and thus began her first step as “Theodokos,” God-bearer.

Transformation begins unawares; it is the gift of uninformed consent.

After the angel left her, “Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah … As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit” (Luke 1:39.41). Mary’s 90-mile journey to her cousin Elizabeth would have taken about a week as she walked, perhaps rode in a camel caravan up to Jerusalem. Elizabeth and Zacharia resided in Ain Karem at the top of a big hill, 140 steps from the main road, (as I saw recently).

What a reunion for these pregnant cousins!

“The soul that walks in love,” writes St. John of the Cross, “neither tires, nor wearies others.”

It reads so simply in the original Spanish: “El alma que anda en amor, ni cansa, ni se cansa.”

Mary hurried to her cousin, despite the hardships entailed, to rejoice with her. Here is another sign

of transformation – heartfelt joy in another’s good fortune.

In the ensuing months, Mary and Joseph prepared for the birth of Jesus as best they could.

When the time came for him to be born, heavenly messengers proclaimed joy to all the earth. Shepherds paid homage and spread the astounding news of a savior’s birth. Scripture says, “As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart” (Luke 2:51).

Transformation rests on the willingness to ponder the interplay of our experience and God’s word.

Within days, the little family received blessings and threats at the same time. The Magi come to pay homage to the “leader who will shepherd my people Israel” as Micah prophesied (5:1) and soon after, an angel of God urges Joseph to take Mary and the baby south into Egypt so that they will be safe from Herod’s killing squads. After Herod’s death, an angel again speaks to Joseph in a dream and tells him it is safe to return to Galilee (Matt 2:13-23). The ability to trust God despite circumstances that are both confusing and frightening is a gift of grace.

Once in Nazareth, the family life stabilized and the child grew “filled with wisdom and God’s favor was with him” (Luke 2:40-41). Years later, Jesus the teenager traveled with his parents and relatives up to the temple in Jerusalem for the Passover feast. He stayed behind, but his parents, unaware of this, began the journey home without him. The concerned parents returned to the City of David only to find their son astounding the elders with his teaching and intelligence (Luke 2:47). Things spun out of control for these parents.

Transformation challenges us to confide in God. Our next meeting with Our Lady occurs at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee. Mary attends with her adult son, Jesus. (John 2:1-12). Not long after arriving, Mary notices there is not enough wine for the wedding guests. She knows that the newlyweds and their families will be incredibly embarrassed if the wine runs out as the party has only begun. Her four words, “They have no wine” reveal her empathy for the parents SEE EVANS, PAGE 18

LETTERS Other kinds of moral depravity

I agree with columnist George Weigel (“The moral depravity of Andrew Cuomo and friends,” Feb. 14), that our country, and to some degree our church today, suffer moral depravity. But while he focuses only on legal abortion, I wonder how many Catholics would add other kinds of moral depravity that many of us tolerate or maybe ignore. I think the pro-life movement, to be authentic, should merge with those who call for an end of gun violence and capital punishment. And to be realistic, “pro-life/anti- abortion” should include promoting government safety-net care of both poor or otherwise disadvantaged mothers and their babies. How Christian is it to persuade a young, poor teenage mother to bear her child while residing in a homeless shelter unless there is a Christian community right there to make sure the needs of mom and baby are adequately met?

Susan Brown San Carlos

‘Call out’ the president, too

I wish George Weigel had the courage to “call out” the moral depravity of Donald Trump (“The moral depravity of Andrew Cuomo and friends,” Feb. 14), a man who enjoys not just loving to kiss any woman he wants to. This man has caused human misery (not paying workers, not renting to blacks, calling African countries sordid names), and now he wants to take money from emergency funding for fires and true disasters; $2.4 billion for a wall that is for his delusions and hatred of nonwhite people. That is moral depravity on the face of it as is the killing of living babies. But I bet this letter will not be printed: The hierarchy like Trump.

I sure enjoyed Dr. Alex M Saunders’ letter with teaching points on our Scriptures (“Exploring difficult Scripture readings,” Feb. 14). Thanks for printing it.

Mary Margaret Flynn, MD San Carlos

Thank you for sung prayer

As the saying goes, “Singing is praying twice.”

The music and choir at St. Augustine Church, South San Francisco, are very spirited and uplifting. It is like listening to a concert! I brought my young adult daughters on separate occasions and they both agreed that indeed the choirs were wonderful! The sharing by the priests and deacons was also very meaningful. If you have families, guests or friends from other religions or non-sectarians, inviting them to observe the service and to listen to the music on a Sunday service are a “feel good” bonding time. Check it out.

Sabina Gotuaco South San Francisco

Letter’s premise questioned

Re “Exploring difficult Scripture readings,” letter, Feb. 14): The letter asked questions I think are not good questions, in particular asking: “Does love of all God’s children today include helping overcome overpopulation in developing countries? Or should we love them while we watch them die of starvation?” I believe it is good to desire and do something that they do not have hunger or starvation.

I also believe that to desire that they do not exist because they suffer hunger or starvation is not love.

In short, the way to battle poverty is not love if you support non-existence.

As to overpopulation, there was a book in 1968, “The Population Bomb,” by Stanford professor Paul R. Ehrlich. It predicted that within a short time, which has now long passed, overpopulation would cause famine and havoc on all continents. None of it has taken place.

The attitude of the letter writer is similar to that of Stanford’s Ehrlich.

Ted Kirk San Francisco

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‘Exceptions’ and the undermining of the moral law

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henever we make small exceptions to universal moral rules, we shouldn’t be surprised that the rules themselves can be quickly undermined. Establishing an “exception” in one case makes people think they’re due an exemption for their case as well.

Certain norms of moral behavior, however, do not admit of any exceptions, and we risk undermining morality altogether if we don’t recognize them. Moral norms governing the protection of human FATHER TADEUSZ life are one such PACHOLCZYK example.

A recent and lengthy article in The Guardian took a look at the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands. It led off with this provocative title: “Death on demand: Has euthanasia gone too far? Countries around the world are making it easier to choose the time and manner of your death. But doctors in the world’s euthanasia capital are starting to worry about the consequences.” The article points out that, “As the world’s pioneer, the Netherlands has also discovered that although legalizing euthanasia might resolve one ethical conundrum, it opens a can of others – most importantly, where

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the limits of the practice should be drawn. In the past few years a small but influential group of academics and jurists has raised the alarm over what is generally referred to, a little archly, as the ‘slippery slope’ – the idea that a measure introduced to provide relief to late-stage cancer patients has expanded to include people who might otherwise live for many years, from sufferers of diseases such as muscular dystrophy to sexagenarians with dementia and even mentally ill young people.”

The logic behind these concerns is clear. If we are willing to make an exception to the rule that direct killing of an innocent human being is always wrong, then it only becomes a matter of “haggling over the price.” If killing by euthanasia can be allowed for a deeply emotional reason, it can certainly be allowed for other reasons too, and soon for nearly any reason, making it difficult, if not impossible, to put the cat back into the proverbial “moral bag.”

The almost instantaneous deployment of abortion-on-demand around the world several decades ago relied on very similar logic: First, grant a single exception, and in time virtually any instance begins to appear plausible and defensible. That exception, of course, was rape. By playing on the tragedy of sexual assault, abortion advocates managed to direct attention and blame toward the child, an innocent bystander, turning him or her, almost more than the rapist, into the culprit. After the child had been successfully targeted in situations of rape, he or she became generally targetable in other situations.

When it comes to abortion, the state of

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Louisiana in past years required some of the most comprehensive reporting in the U.S., and their detailed records are a helpful resource for determining how frequent abortions for rape really are.

Abortionists were required to fill out a form entitled “Report of Induced Termination of Pregnancy” (Form #PHS 16-ab) for every abortion. The form stated at the top: “Failure to complete and file this form is a crime.” Item 9d on the form was entitled “Reason for Pregnancy Termination.” Statistics compiled from these forms over a 14-year period reveal the reasons for 115,243 abortions in Louisiana during that time:

Reasons for Abortion in Louisiana between 1975 and 1988

Mother’s mental health: 114,231 (99.12 percent); Mother’s physical health: 863 (0.75 percent); Fetal deformity: 103 (0.09 percent); Rape or incest: 46 (0.04 percent).

These data confirm other calculations indicating that, on average, about 550 women per year in the U.S. become pregnant as a result of rape. Assuming they all ended in abortion, this means that an average of 0.04 percent (1/25 of 1 percent) of all abortions have been performed for rape – or only one out of every 2,500! Yet for every one of the more than 50 countries that now have abortion on demand around the world, the initial step taken by pro-abortion forces was intense lobbying for abortion in the so-called “hard cases” – especially rape and incest. Once abortion advocates secured the availability of abortion for the hard cases they went on to argue for abortion in any situation.

Even if one granted, for the sake of argument, that rape justified a mother’s decision to end her child’s life, could that ever justify the other abortions that occur for non-rape related reasons? It is duplicitous to justify 2,499 deaths from the one assault, unjust and traumatic as it may have been. By granting the exception, the moral rule has been, in effect, eliminated, and the doors have been thrown open to the practice of abortion for any reason. Encouraging exceptions is the entry point into a broader repudiation of our moral duties toward each other, the first of which is the duty to respect the inviolability of each other’s life.

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

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and newlyweds as well as her confidence in Jesus’ ability to act.

It takes courage to respond with empathy in an awkward situation.

Our Lady saw the need and acted.

Mercy sees need and acts.

Jesus has launched his ministry and with his rag-tag disciples travels up and down the roads of Israel preaching and healing, announcing the reign of God. People are crowding around. Jesus asks the disciples to arrange a boat so he can preach away from the water’s edge to keep from being crushed (Mark 3:9). After retiring to the mountain to pray, Jesus appoints his Twelve Apostles. They travel to Jesus’ home for dinner and find a crowd so large that they cannot stay for the meal. “When his relations heard of this, they set out to take charge of him; they said, ‘He is out of his mind.’” (Mark 3:20). Mary’s experience reminds us: There is no transformation without the suffering of misunderstanding.

The next time we see Our Lady is at the foot of the cross. She stands with John the beloved disciple and hears Jesus’ dying words: “Woman, here is your son. Son, behold your mother” (John 19:25-27).

Jesus widens the circle of family even as he breathes his last. Who is my mother, my brother, my sister, my son or daughter? The heart of a transformed person welcomes every person as kin of Jesus.

Days after Jesus’ resurrection and ascension to God, Mary remained with the disciples praying for the gift of the Holy Spirit. She is at the heart of the church awaiting the Spirit’s gifts. This is the image of one transformed by God’s grace: Someone at the heart of the church who continually intercedes for the Spirit’s outpouring.

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HOMOSEXUALITY: Blaming for child abuse is distraction, victims say FROM PAGE 13

violating whomever they had more unsupervised access to – regardless of age and gender – and that abusive priests almost always had more access to boys.

In a 2015 paper to the Australian Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse, the Australian Psychological Society said that “from a social science perspective, there are some distinctive features of the Catholic Church which are likely to contribute not so much to the number of priests and other religious who abuse children, but which enable those clergy who are child abuse perpetrators to continue to abuse.”

The paper said the features include “boundary challenges inherent in the clergy role, as well as celibacy, exclusion and denigration of women, and intense homophobia. Celibacy is not so much a cause of abuse in itself, but the lack of women in positions of power, or indeed as a formal presence, is likely to be more of an issue.”

The paper noted “idiosyncrasies of the church structure and organizational culture, particularly dysfunctional leadership” that do not necessarily create a higher prevalence of abuse but enable perpetrators to continue.

Barbara Dorris, a survivor and former executive director of SNAP,

Framing the abuse crisis ‘as a homosexual issue,’ takes the focus away from ‘the real issue, which is criminal sexual assault.’

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Clergy sexual abuse survivor told reporters in Rome Feb. 19 that in the past 17 years, she has spoken to “thousands, thousands of victims” and close to half of them were women.

“Survivors only come forward when they feel they will be believed, when they feel they can get help or when reporting the crimes will make a change, when it will help others protect children,” she said. “Most of the stories in the media in the past have been about the altar boys; the abuse of women and girls has not been the focus of coverage and when it has, unfortunately, words like ‘affair’ and ‘relationship’ have been used.”

Too many women feel they will not be believed or “will be blamed” as having tempted a priest, Dorris said.

“It’s a vicious cycle,” because victims speak up when they see other victims have been believed.

Framing the abuse crisis “as a homosexual issue,” she said, takes the focus away from “the real issue, which is criminal sexual assault.”

Focusing on homosexuality also “acts as a smokescreen; people now

are discussing homosexuality, rather than the crimes themselves,” she said.

Ahead of the summit, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, rejected the idea that abuse scandals can be blamed on priests who are gay. He warned against looking for simplistic answers or scapegoating.

However, in an interview with The Irish Catholic newspaper, Archbishop Martin also insisted that the church has to do a lot more research on the impact of an unhealthy approach to celibacy by some priests and religious.

“Let’s be cautious about thinking that we can explain away the horrendous breach of trust and breach of vocation that is abuse by a priest, or a religious. By all means, with the help of proper expert research, let’s look at all the issues,” he said.

Speaking of his experiences of meeting both male and female survivors of abuse, Archbishop Martin asked: “With young women, or women who were abused as young girls, what do

we tell them? Do we tell them it was heterosexuality? (Whether the survivor was male of female) it was the very same dynamics of deviance, of deceit, of cover-up, that all happened.”

Turning to the issue of mandatory celibacy, Archbishop Martin insisted that the church needs to “reflect on why did this happen, what are the tendencies, what was it about, who we were as a church that led to this?

“There’s been very little theology of the priesthood done, or reflection done on the whole area of sexual integration for priests, religious, those who take vows of celibacy or chastity.

What does that do to their sexuality, what does that do to the way they live their lives?” he asked.

“When we’re looking at the issue of an un-integrated sexuality, that can indeed happen with the priesthood, within religious life. When somebody who has chosen a life of celibacy, has not been able to integrate that into their lives in a healthy and fruitful way.

“The un-integration of sexuality that leads to abuse, in my view, is a deviance of sexuality which can exist within the clerical and religious world, but equally within married life or single life. It knows no bounds, and perhaps it would be simplistic of us to try to explain it away,” he warned.

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celibates whose wholesomeness I envy and who make celibacy credible – and attractive.

Like marriage, though in a different way, celibacy offers a rich potential for intimacy and generativity.

As a vowed celibate I am grateful for a vocation which has brought me intimately into the world of so many people. When I left home at a young age to enter the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, I confess, I didn’t want celibacy. Nobody should.

I wanted to be a missionary and a priest and celibacy presented itself as the stumbling block. But once inside religious life, almost immediately, I loved the life, though not the celibacy part. Twice I delayed taking final vows, unsure about celibacy.

Eventually I made the decision, a hard leap of trust, and took the vow for life. Full disclosure, celibacy has been for me singularly the hardest part of my more than 50 years in religious life … but, but, at the same time, it has helped create a special kind of entry into the world and into

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Advocates: Latin Americans reverence God’s presence in nature BARBARA J. FRASER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LIMA, Peru – Throughout Latin America, people whose lives and land have been affected by industries that extract natural resources, such as mining or oil operations, find strength in their spirituality, church leaders say.

“In many communities, there is a profound bond between the people, as community, and the presence of God expressed in the land, the trees, the rivers,” said Moema Miranda, a lay Franciscan who heads the Churches and Mining Network in Latin America.

That understanding has become stronger since Pope Francis issued the encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” in 2015.

“Pope Francis says that everything is interrelated, and that human beings have an intrinsic value” that is often overlooked in cases where mining companies come into conflict with local communities, Miranda said.

The most recent example was the collapse of a dam that sent a flood of toxic water and mud cascading through a valley in Brumadinho, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Jan. 25.

The disaster at the Vale mining company’s Feijao Mine left more than 150 people confirmed dead and at least as many missing in what Brazilian Bishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo of Belo Horizonte called “a criminal tragedy.”

“The bodies of the human and nonhuman victims remain buried and probably will never be found,” Miranda said at a Feb. 20 panel discussion, part of a workshop on extractive industries and spirituality organized by the Churches and Mining Network.

“This is not an isolated case,” she added, noting that the collapse of a similar dam at another mine owned by Vale, BHP Billiton and Samarco flooded the town of Bento Rodrigues in November 2015, killing 19 people and sending a cascade of polluted mud down the Doce River.

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Viewing those disasters and others in light of Pope Francis’ call to safeguard “our common home” leads people of faith to ask “what kind of house do we want to build in Latin America?” said Italian Scripture scholar Sandro Gallazzi, who works with the Brazilian church’s Pastoral Land Commission in the northern city of Macapa.

Noting that the prefix “eco” comes from a Greek word meaning “house,” Gallazzi said economic decisions reflect “how the (home) should function.”

“The economy clearly favors the interests of a small minority of people at the cost of the suffering and exploitation of thousands upon thousands of people,” he said, echoing the pope’s words.

The economic boom that began in Latin America in the early 2000s spurred an expansion of mining and oil and gas concessions in the region, with governments saying the export of raw materials like minerals yielded revenues necessary for reducing poverty in their countries.

“But in many communities, people say, ‘I want my land, not to get money from it, but so I can continue to have clean water, or (they say) I am rich, I have a good life because I have forest. I’m not interested in (the company’s) money,’” Miranda said.

That has led to conflicts between mining companies and communities throughout the region.

In Peru, nearly two-thirds of the conflicts affecting communities involve environmental issues, said Javier Jahncke, executive secretary of Peru’s Muqui Network, part of the Churches and Mining Network.

Latin America’s mining regions tend to be places where people are affected by other violations of their rights, Miranda said. The areas are often home to small farmers and lack good transportation, education and health services.

The Churches and Mining Network, which began work in 2014, grew out of an awareness that “resistance in defense of life in general is grounded in spirituality,” she said.

The ecumenical network now includes about 70 religious communities and church groups in 15 countries.

The members engage in dialogue with bishops about issues related to mining and extractive industries, Miranda said. The network also provides training to people who live in communities affected by mining, to help them understand and defend their rights.

That activity is increasingly dangerous for grassroots leaders who protest the construction of mines, dams and other large-scale infrastructure projects, or the clearing of forests for industrial ranching and farming.

Global Witness, a London-based nonprofit organization that tracks violence against environmentalists, recorded 201 murders in 2017, of which 57 occurred in Brazil. That is also the country where Sister Dorothy Stang, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, was killed in 2005 for defending the rights of small farmers against ranchers in a remote area of the Amazon.

Despite the political and economic power behind projects that threaten their lands, people say “we won’t leave this place,” Miranda said. What gives them strength, however, is “not just a rational principle – it is a profound connection to the place where you are, to which you belong, and a response to a cry that comes from the earth, but which is heard by God.”

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VATICAN CITY – If they are truly serious about fighting clerical sex abuse, bishops must join forces with journalists and not view them as enemies plotting against the Catholic Church, Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki said.

Alazraki, who has covered the Vatican for over four decades, told bishops at the Vatican summit on abuse Feb. 23 that journalists can help them root out the “rotten apples and to overcome resistance in order to separate them from the healthy ones.”

“But if you do not decide in a radical way to be on the side of the children, mothers, families, civil society, you are right to be afraid of us, because we journalists – who seek the common good – will be your worst enemies,” she warned.

The veteran journalist was invited to speak at the summit about the importance of transparency with journalists and media outlets.

Alazraki, who began covering the Vatican in the final years of St. Paul VI’s pontificate, said church leaders too often blamed journalists’ coverage of the

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Television reporter Valentina Alazraki of Televisa speaks during a meeting on the protection of minors in the church at the Vatican Feb. 23, in this image taken from Vatican television.

abuse scandal as a plot “to put an end to this institution.”

“We journalists know that there are reporters who are more thorough than others and that there are media outlets more or less dependent on political, ideological or economic interests,” she said.

“But I believe that in no case can the mass media be blamed for having uncovered or reported on abuses.”

Recalling the words of Pope Benedict XVI, Alazraki told bishops that clerical sex abuse is neither a rumor or a gossip but a crime that “comes not from external enemies but arises from sins within” the church.

Addressing the accusation that reporters are often harsher on the church than on other institutions when it comes to sex abuse, the Mexican journalist said that is natural “by virtue of your moral role.”

“Stealing, for example, is wrong, but if the one stealing is a police officer it seems more serious to us, because it is the opposite of what he or she should do, which is to protect the community from thieves,” she explained. “If doctors or nurses poison their patients rather than take care of them, the act draws even more of our attention because it goes against their ethics, their professional code.”

She also warned bishops on the dangers of concealing the truth, citing the case of Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, as the church’s “most emblematic case of unhealthy, corrupt communication.”

MENTAL HEALTH: Archdiocese organizing parish network of services diocese, where he lives. Shortly after graduating from Oakland’s St. Francis de Sales School for Pastoral Ministry, he worked on diocesan projects to celebrate the Year of Mercy in 2016, and served as an interim director of faith formation and evangelization in Oakland. Collyer and his wife also helped open a sober living home in Contra Costa County.

Collyer also has a personal passion for helping people who are suffering with mental illness. “I’ve had a lot of situations in my family, addiction, troubles, grief – a little bit of everything,” he told Catholic San Francisco. “When this position came up, it was really something I could sink my teeth into.”

Ed Hopfner, the archdiocesan director of the marriage and family life office who hired Collyer, said “part of what parishes are supposed to do is deal with the needs of parishioners. I think this is a great thing for the church in the Bay Area, and I’m just excited about the possibilities.”

The archdiocese has a vision of what it wants to achieve with the San Diego model, where lay teams of between eight and 10 people wil help pastors by identifying local mental health resources for parishioners. In addition, the Bay Area has significant mental health resources available for people to take advantage of. Much of the work will also involve building connections between currently existing ministries that address mental health.

“To have one person dedicated to building these connections is going to be great,” Hopfner said.

Collyer said his immediate challenge will be persuading parishes to get involved in the program.

“Not everyone understands this is a huge issue in our society, but when you ask, everyone has experience of this,” Collyer said. “We have to reduce the stigma, so it’s important to get to the parish level with people who have a lay ministry way about them,” he added.

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THIEVES BREAK INTO DUBLIN CHURCH, STEAL HEAD OF MUMMY

DUBLIN – Anglican Archbishop Michael Jackson of Dublin said he was shocked after thieves broke into a church in the Irish capital, vandalizing the crypt and taking the head of an 800-yearold mummy known as “the Crusader.”

The crypt was damaged and several of the mummies, including the 400-year-old remains of a nun, were desecrated in the incident. The Crusader’s body was turned over and his head was removed.

A spokesman said the discovery was made Feb. 25 as a guide was preparing to open the church for visitors.

“I am shocked that someone would target this ancient burial place and desecrate the remains of those lying within it,” Archbishop Jackson said. “Not only have these individuals desecrated the sacred crypt, but they have destroyed these historic mummies, which have been preserved in St. Michan’s for hundreds of years. I would appeal to those responsible to examine their consciences and return the head of the Crusader to its rightful place.”

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VATICAN CITY – Catholics should speak up when things go wrong in the church, but theirs must be constructive criticism delivered with love, Pope Francis said, otherwise the devil is at work.

“One must point out the defects in order to correct them, but when one reports the defects, denounces them, one must love the church. Without love, it’s the devil at work,” the pope said Feb. 20 during a meeting in St. Peter’s Basilica with pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Benevento, Italy.

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Church leaders have grown increasingly critical of the violence. The country’s Catholic bishops conference acknowledged in a Jan. 28 pastoral message that they had been slow in responding as a “culture of violence has gradually prevailed in our land.”

The bishops spoke “of mostly poor people being brutally murdered on mere suspicion of being small-time drug users and peddlers, while the big-time smugglers and drug lords went scot-free.”

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Discernment weekend draws men from six dioceses St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in conjunction with its partner dioceses, hosted a weekend discernment retreat for priestly vocations Jan. 18-20 providing “a quiet and prayerful environment” for men to think and talk about the priestly vocation, the seminary said. There were 22 participants ranging in age from 18-46 with varying degrees of educational experience from high school only to completed bachelor’s degrees. The men came from the dioceses of Oakland, Portland, Sacramento, Spokane, and Stockton, with nine from the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, seminary president and rector, welcomed the discerners with a brief reflection during the weekend’s opening evening prayer and led grace at mealtime. Activities for the participants included

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Spokane Bishop Thomas A. Daly is pictured with men attending the January discernment weekend at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park. Bishop Daly, a St. Patrick’s alumnus and former priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, was the main speaker for the retreat borrowing from “his experience about the joys and difficulties of the priesthood and encouraging those in attendance to persevere in their discernment despite the current bad news about the priesthood,” the seminary said.

formal conferences, an interactive seminarian panel, small group discussions, and meals with priests and seminarians. The liturgical activities during the retreat mirrored the daily liturgical life of seminarians, including morning and evening prayer, Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and opportunities for confession.

During a seminarian panel, current seminarians provided insight into their lives and answered questions.

Discerners asked questions about the formation process, the details of affiliation with a diocese, how seminarians come to peace with the discipline of clerical celibacy, and how and when they “know” that the priesthood is right for them.

The seminarians’ testimonies were among some of the most memorable moments for the discerners, the seminary reported.

Dads and sons invited to Catholic Men’s Conference For the second year, the marriage and family office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will welcome fathers and sons to the Bay Area Catholic Men’s Conference, March 2, St. Bartholomew Parish. The 2018 event “was a great success and 2019 will be even better,” said office director Ed Hopfner in information promoting the event. AuxBishop Robert iliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, F. Christian, OP OP, will be principal celebrant and homilist of the day’s Mass.

More than 100 men attended the talks last year, Hopfner said, and hopes even more will attend this year.

The day will help those attending “to be better Catholics, better fathers and husbands, better leaders at home and in the parish,” Hopfner told Catholic San Francisco. “Men have both trials and opportunities that are different from those women face – this is an opportunity to learn how to better respond to them.”

Other than sports events, men are short on gathering together, Hopfner said. “This is a chance to be with other like-minded Catholic men: To learn, to grow in their faith, to be challenged and challenge others. If the enthusiasm we saw at the last confer-

Speakers include Ralph Desimone, a husband ence is any indication, there is a great need for this and father from Oakland who “with his wife kind of event.”

Brigitte has presented retreats for married and The younger participants also have a place at the engaged couples for 38 years, coached married talks, Hopfner said. couples and trained marriage preparation pre“Fathers are powerful role models, especially in senters for 20 years,” information about the day the teen years, so it’s important for dads and sons to said. have time together, especially in a Catholic setting.

As these young people are being formed as Catholic men, we want them to be around other Catholic men. Bay Area Catholic Men’s Conference, March 2, 2019, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m., $45 per person, St. Bartholomew This is a great opportunity for these younger fellows to think about how they want to live as Catholic men, Church, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo. Ed Hopfner, The Requested Funeral Directors in of The Most Most Requested Funeral DirectorsHopfnere@sfarch.org, in the the Archdiocese Archdiocese of San San Francisco Francisco (415) 614-5680; SFBayMen.info. especially in our challenging modern culture.”

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‘Catholic women of all ages’ invited to Lent retreat

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Women and their Catholic faith have the spotlight March 12 at St. Dominic Church for the second “Walk in her Sandals” retreat.

“When women study together, the Holy Spirit flows,” Kathy Folan director of Family and Youth Ministries at St. Dominic’s and the retreat coordinator, told Catholic San Francisco. “We will unite with Catholic women of all ages and places in life Kelly Wahlquist to break open the word of God, to enter into the scene of Christ’s passion, death and resurrection with our unique gifts as women to build up the body of Christ.”

The retreat was started last year by a women’s Bible study group at St. Dominic called “the Bible chicks,” Folan, the group’s founder, said. “There is something about a room full of Catholic women studying, sharing and learning together that is so powerful and helps sustain us all.”

The retreat helps women connect. “When the friendship of women is based on Christ, we bond quickly on a deep level,” Folan said. “Coming together helps us to hear the voice of God above the clutter of our lives.”

The day’s speaker is Kelly Wahlquist a Catholic wife and mother with “a special love for speaking at Catholic women’s conferences,” according to her website.

The day’s syllabus said Wahlquist’s talks will “show how women can live as intentional disciples of Jesus by embracing the gifts of womanhood to build up the body of Christ.” The presentations will look at “what a disciple was in the time of Jesus and what it means to be a disciple today as a woman in the 21st century.”

St. Veronica who ministered to Jesus on his walk to Calvary is featured in the talks for her courage in undertaking her loving act. Also the seven sorrows of Mary who is recorded as present at Calvary understanding the will of God and remaining faithful to it.

Women will be encouraged to “embrace their gifts and live their faith with renewed confidence, conviction and hope,” the guide said.

“Women have been entrusted by God to pass on the faith and the spiritual life to our children and the world,” Folan said. “We are inspired to do so when we can gather as a community of women so we can recognize more clearly our charge.”

“Walk in Her Sandals,” March 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Dominic Church parish hall, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco. Ticket at $50 includes light breakfast and boxed lunch. Contact Kathy Folan, (415) 567-7824, ext.111, kathy@stdominics.org, stdominics.org. Mass begins the day at 8 a.m.

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MISCELLANEOUS FEES: All changes must be in writing and may ASSISTANCE: Pilgrims who require personal assistance must be acDEPOSIT AND CANCELLATION: A deposit of $600 per person is by a paying incur passenger a per-person charge for that each revision. Deposits received companied who will provide assistance. required to secure reservations, which sum will be applied to the within 92 days of departure may incur a late registration fee. MISCELLANEOUS FEES: All changes must be in w incur a per-person charge for each revision. Dep price of the tour, with the balance to be paid in full no later than AND CANCELLATION: A deposit of $500 per person DEPOSIT LAND ARRANGEMENTS: The tour operator reserves the right to 92 days of departure may incur a late regis within 7/8/2019. Payment of remaining balance received after 7/8/2019 is required to secure reservations, which sum of willemergencies be applied to change the itinerary because or extenuating cirPlease send me Copies @ $25 each: $ will incur a $50 penalty. Reservations made within 92 days ofthe deparprice of the cumstances tour, with the balance be paid in full no latLAND ARRANGEMENTS: The tour operator reserv beyond ourto control. ture may be subject to a late charge. er than 6/17/2019. Payment of remaining (Includes balancePostage received after & Handling) change the itinerary because of emergencies or e 6/17/2019 will incur a $50The penalty.

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Sister Anne Therese held a doctorate from the University of San Francisco and served at the school Sister Anne in roles including assistant dean, Therese Allen, and academic advisor to students CSJ in the College of Professional Studies. She also taught at parish schools throughout California and in Hawaii.

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POPE: Time for ‘all-out battle’ against crime of abuse FROM PAGE 1

“We want every activity and every place in the church to be completely safe for minors,” he said, which means taking every possible measure so that such crimes never happen again.

It will also entail working with great dedication together with people of good will everywhere in order to fight this “very grave scourge of violence” that affects hundreds of millions of minors around the world.

The pope’s noonday summary of what he called a “very important” meeting came after he delivered his closing remarks at the end of Mass Feb. 24.

Surrounded by the ornate frescoed walls and ceiling of the Sala Regia, the pope told some 190 cardinals, bishops and religious superiors from around the world, “the time has come, then, to work together to eradicate this evil from the body of our humanity by adopting every necessary measure already in force on the international level and ecclesial levels.”

However, despite the importance of

knowing the sociological and psychological explanations behind this criminal act of abuse, he said, the church must recognize this is a spiritual battle against the “brazen, aggressive, destructive” power of Satan.

“I see the hand of evil that does not spare even the innocence of the little ones. And this leads me to think of the example of Herod who, driven by fear of losing his power, ordered the slaughter of all the children of Bethlehem,” the pope said.

Just as the pagans once sacrificed children on their altars, such cruelty continues today with an “idolatrous sacrifice of children to the god of power, money, pride and arrogance,” he said.

While the majority of abused minors are victims of a person they know, most often a family member, he said, it is “all the more grave and scandalous” when a member of the church, particularly a priest, is the perpetrator “for it is utterly incompatible” with the church’s moral authority and ethical credibility.

“Consecrated persons, chosen by

God to guide souls to salvation, let themselves be dominated by their human frailty or sickness and thus become tools of Satan,” he said.

There is no excuse for abusing children, who are an image of Jesus, he said, which is why it has become increasingly obvious “the gravest cases of abuse” must be disciplined and dealt with “civil and canonical processes.”

“Here again I would state clearly: if in the church there should emerge even a single case of abuse – which already in itself represents an atrocity – that case will be faced with the utmost seriousness.”

In fact, he said, the church should recognize that people’s anger over the mishandling of abuse is nothing other than a reflection of “the wrath of God, betrayed and insulted by these deceitful consecrated persons.”

“The echo of the silent cry of the little ones who, instead of finding in them fathers and spiritual guides, encountered tormentors will shake hearts dulled by hypocrisy and by power,” Pope Francis said. “It is our

duty to pay close heed to this silent, choked cry.”

The church must combat this evil, both inside and outside its walls, he said, and protect children “from ravenous wolves.”

The Catholic Church must “hear, watch over, protect and care for abused, exploited and forgotten children, wherever they are,” he said.

And to do that, the church “must rise above the ideological disputes and journalistic practices that often exploit, for various interests, the very tragedy experienced by the little ones.”

The church, he said, must concentrate on the protection of children, being serious in bringing justice and healing to victims and undergoing genuine purification; proper training for priests and religious is necessary, as are strong guidelines by bishops’ conferences.

The pope urged all Catholics to help the church be liberated “from the plague of clericalism, which is the fertile ground for all these disgraces.”

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VATICAN CITY – While the four-day Vatican summit on the protection of minors has ended, the work to ensure that laws and concrete actions are in place is just beginning, said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.

During a press briefing Feb. 24, Father Lombardi, who served as moderator of the Feb. 21-24 summit, said Pope Francis will soon publish a new set of laws and guidelines concerning child protection for Vatican City State.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 2 PEACE MASS: St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco, Father Marvin-Paul R. Felipe, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

CRAB BASH: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School Crab Bash dinner and auction, 5-9 p.m. in school auditorium. The menu includes all-you-caneat 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) 6426130; dalton_constance@yahoo.com.

SUNDAY, MARCH 3 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donations requested at door. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Sign-ups with 40 Days for Life are now available at https://40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco. The campaign begins Ash Wednesday and continues through Palm Sunday, April 14 from 8 a.m.8 p.m. near Planned Parenthood facilities that will be made known.

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LIVESTREAMING: Rites of the season will be livestreamed from St. Mary’s Cathedral on the following dates: 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. Visit www. sfarch.org and click YouTube icon. Past events are also archived at the site.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9 RED AND WHITE MASS: The Young Men’s Institute celebrates its 136th anniversary with prayer and fellowship at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue Father Agnel and Vicente, San Francisco, 5 p.m. Father Agnel de Heredia, pastor, St. John the Evangelist Parish and YMI Grand Chaplain, is principal celebrant and homilist. A dinner follows in the parish lower hall. Tickets $40 adults, $17 children. Mike Amato, (650) 296-6297, www. ymiusa.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7 ‘REFLECTIONS ON GOSPELS’: Father David Pettingill takes the faithful through the Gospels of the triduum with “Reflections on the Gospel,” March 7, 14, 21, and 28, 7-8:30 p.m., St. Emydius Church, Ashton Avenue at De Montfort Avenue, San Francisco. A $20 donation includes all talks.

VOCATION MEETINGS: Prayer, dinner and discussion for men considering the priesthood continue March 7, 6:15 – 8:30 p.m., Church of the Epiphany, 826 Vienna St., San Francisco. For information or to RSVP: Father Patrick U B (415) L 614-5684; I C sumA T Summerhays, merhays.patrick@sfarch.org. The meetings with similar format take place March 4: 6:15-8:30 p.m., St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City For information or to RSVP: Father Tom Martin, martin. thomas@sfarch.org.

LENTEN SEMINAR: “Life in The Spirit,” come grow in the power of the Spirit, sessions led by very good speakers for six Thursdays, St. Mark Parish, 325 Marine Ave, Belmont, 7-9 p.m. Seminar is free. Visit SFSpirit.com or Deacon von Emster, (650) 906-3451; Rose Payan, (510) 332-8552.

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Our Lady of the Visitacion Mother’s Club, March 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., March 9, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., parish hall, 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco. (415) 494-5517.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9 ‘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

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EXTRAORDINARY FORM MASS: Traditional Latin Mass at Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 9 a.m., Father Alvin Yu, director of worship at St. Patrick Seminary & University and parochial vicar, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, will be principal celebrant. For more information, (650) 323-7914.

TUESDAY, MARCH 12 WOMEN’S RETREAT: “Walk in Her Sandals,” a retreat for women with Kelly Wahlquist, founder of “WINE: Women in the New Evangelization,” 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Dominic Church parish hall, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco. The program written by 12 Catholic women is a prayerful and creative journey through the days of Holy Week, Easter, and Pentecost. Ticket at $50 includes light breakfast and boxed I O NKathySFolan, (415) 567lunch.

Contact 7824, ext.111, kathy@stdominics.org, stdominics.org. Mass begins the day at 8 a.m.

THURSDAY, MARCH 14 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

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SATURDAY, MARCH 16 CHRISTIAN BROTHERS MASS: The De La Salle Christian Brothers celebrate the 150th anniversary of their educational mission in the Western U.S. with Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant. Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly, a graduate of Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco, one of the Christian Brothers first secondary schools in the West, and now Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory will be homilist. A reception follows in the cathedral’s downstairs halls. The Mass and reception are open to all. The Mass will be livestreamed at sfarchdiocese.org/events/christian-brothers150-years.

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