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Pope calls all Catholics to be missionaries of God’s mercy CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ROME – All Christians are called to become missionaries, sharing the Gospel of God’s love and mercy with others, Pope Francis said. “Today Jesus tells us, too, ‘Peace be with you! You are precious in my eyes. Peace be with you! You are important for me. Peace be with you! You have a mission. No one can take your place. You are irreplaceable. And I believe in you,’” the pope said April 11. Pope Francis celebrated the Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday at the Rome Church of the Holy Spirit, just a block away from St. Peter’s Square. The church is the Rome Shrine of Divine Mercy, a devotion begun by St. Faustina
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Catholics prayed a multilingual rosary in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral April 10 before the prayer service for an end to violence against Asian Americans. The Vietnamese Catholic community handed out roses to the crowd to honor Mary and ask for her intercession.
Archbishop leads prayers for unity, end to ‘virus’ of racism NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Mother against mines: Replacing the remnants of war with sustainable agriculture
A recent report by Stop AAPI Hate found 3,795 racially motivated incidents against Asian Americans across the country between March 2020 to February 2021. Physical assaults were 11.1% of CHRISTINA GRAY that total. In response to violence against Asian CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Americans, the Biden administration published in March a series of actions including the estabHeidi Kühn’s mission to remove landmines from the lishment of a Department of Justice initiative to soil and souls of people in conflictaddress anti-Asian violence. torn countries and replace them with HEIDI KÜHN H sustainable farmland they can prosSan Francisco is “a place where no one has to H wander anymore to find a welcoming and stable per from began with an unscripted home,” Archbishop Cordileone said, drawing toast in the living room of her San on the opening lyrics of one of the city’s official Rafael home. songs: “San Francisco, open your Golden Gate/ “May the world go from mines You’ll let no stranger wait outside your door/San to vines,” she said to a roomful of Francisco, here is your wanderin’ one/Saying I’ll anti-landmine activists and landmine wander no more.” survivors from around the world on The archbishop noted that San Francisco has Sept. 21, 1997. always attracted immigrants, from the Irish and The group was in San Francisco to raise awareness of Italian immigrants of the city’s earlier days to the an international treaty to ban the production and use of men and women from Mexico and other Central landmines. The young mother serendipitously offered and South American countries seeking freedom to host the reception for the Commonwealth Club in the personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. from oppression and aAbetter life. woodsy hilltop home her grandmother Lucretia McNear M E M O I R / M O T I VAT I O N A L
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“Guided by the leadership of Heidi Kühn, Roots of Peace has saved lives, transformed communities, and advanced peace around the globe. Long after the bombs have been
silenced and the peace treaties have been signed, the deadly threat of landmines remains. We must maintain our drumbeat of activism and action until every child and parent can live free from the senseless devastation caused by landmines.”
HEIDI KÜHN
From Landmines to Grapevines, One Woman’s Mission to Heal the World
eidi Kühn’s commitment to fostering peace and raising awareness has been a driving force in her
—Nancy Pelosi
farmers and family members, spanning seven coun-
tries. Thanks to Roots of Peace, over one hundred thousand landmines and unexploded ordnances
“My late husband, Senator John McCain, served in the Vietnam War, which ended
almost fifty years ago. Unfortunately, over one hundred thousand innocent Vietnamese children and farmers have been maimed or killed due to the continued devastating
effects of landmines. Thank you to Heidi Kühn for her groundbreaking efforts in . . . removing unexploded ordnance and planting sustainable peace.”
have been removed since 2001.
Her numerous awards include the 2002 Alumni
of the Year Award for Excellence in Achievement
—Cindy McCain
Business owner, philanthropist, and humanitarian
“Breaking Ground is a testament to Heidi’s faith and raw courage and to her persistence
from UC Berkeley, the 2005 World Association of
in the face of seemingly impossible odds. It is an affirmation of the human capacity to do
Award, the 2006 Skoll Award for Social Entrepre-
—Ambassador George Moose
Non-Governmental Organizations Peace & Security
good in the world, one that could not be more welcome or more timely.”
Vice Chair, U.S. Institute of Peace
neurship, the 2007 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefitting
Local Communities, and the 2019 Mahatma Gandhi Seva Medal.
“In her new book Breaking Ground, [Heidi] inspires us to do our part, to get engaged, and [to] support innovative solutions that plant the seeds for future prosperity and peace.”
—Pat Mitchell
Heidi is a graduate of the University of California,
Chair, Sundance Institute, and author of Becoming a Dangerous
Berkeley, and a former CNN reporter and producer.
She lives in San Rafael, California, with her husband, Gary, with whom she has four children—Brooks, Tucker, Kyleigh, and Christian.
For more information about Roots of Peace,
please visit www.rootsofpeace.org.
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“There are an estimated sixty million landmines in over sixty countries, [the] aftermath of civil wars. They maim or kill farmers and children. They also cause terrible harm to
life—from her early days as a student at the Univer-
animals, domestic livestock and wildlife alike. . . . Thank you, Heidi Kühn, for writing
sity of California, Berkeley, to her time as a reporter
Breaking Ground, [which] discusses this mostly forgotten aspect.”
—Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE
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the world of another form of cancer that has plagued
the world for decades—landmines—in regions as farflung as Croatia, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
Inspired by the work of the late Princess Diana,
Heidi began the humanitarian organization Roots of Peace from the basement of her Northern California home. She gained the support of famed Napa Valley
vintners Robert Mondavi and Mike Grgich, and soon her mines-to-vines mission began to take hold.
In this powerful memoir, Heidi tells the Roots
of Peace story, guiding the reader from the early days
in which she built her vision to her current pres-
ence on the global stage, where she has worked with presidents, prime minsters, landmine survivors, and religious leaders from around the world to spread a message of peace and recovery. In the years since the
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founding of Roots of Peace, its agricultural projects
have made tremendous progress in the fight against landmines, revitalizing devastated land and uplifting the lives of countless people in the process.
Through recalling her journey, Heidi reveals the
remarkable change an ordinary person can inspire.
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Amid a surge in violence across the country against Asian-Americans, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led a prayer service for unity, healing and peace April 10. “Our city has always been known as a place that welcomes the foreigner, a place of harmonization of diverse cultures where all can be who they are and thrive in community with others,” the archbishop said in his homily at the afternoon prayer service at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The prayer service, attended by about 100 people, was open to Catholics and people of other faiths. It was organized by Divine Word Father Peter Zhai, director of the archdiocese’s Chinese ministry. Before the prayer service, local Catholics gathered on the cathedral steps for a multilingual rosary. The Bay Area has been the site of shocking assaults and robberies against Asian Americans, especially the elderly. One San Francisco victim, 84-year-old Thai American Vicha Ratanapakdee, died after he was assaulted in January.
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EARTH AWA R E
Preface by KEN RUTHERFORD
Her story is one of faith, healing, and the compas-
sion needed to grow a more peaceful world. Breaking Ground will encourage you to do the extraordinary and help plant the seeds of change for a brighter future.
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NEED TO KNOW FIRST SATURDAY MASS AND ROSARY FOR LIFE: The monthly first Saturday Mass and rosary for life takes place May 1, 2021 at 8 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. A walk after Mass will take the assembly to pray at the site of the new Planned Parenthood clinic on Bush Street. All are welcome to join. For more information, email prolife@sfarch.org. LIVE FROM ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL: Enjoy the longest continuously running organ concert series in San Francisco, and other instrumental and vocal recitals as well, Sundays at 4 p.m. Currently not open to the public, the recitals are livestreamed at www.youtube. com/channel/UCy-mr3hbtmS85aebzGvGX5g. VALLOMBROSA ONLINE RETREAT: Thomas Merton’s Epiphanies: A Spiritual Journey in Three Acts, April 24, 2021 with sessions 10 a.m.- noon and 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Thomas Merton is one of the towering figures of contemplative spirituality over the last century. This day of reflection will focus on three key “epiphanies” or moments of profound spiritual encounter in Merton’s life — at a Catholic Mass in Cuba in 1940; on a busy urban street corner in 1958; and at a Sri Lankan Buddhist temple in 1968 just days before Merton’s death at the age of 53. Retreat Church Goods & Candles Religious Gifts & Books leader is lay Trappist and author Carl McColman. Fee is $20. A recording of the day will be available for ticket holders. Register at www.vallombrosa.org/calendar/. (PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO) Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone preached against the “virus of racism” April 10 during a prayer service for peace and an end COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO CATHOLIC CLUB: to violence against Asian Americans at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Students at College of San Mateo are invited to come define, refine, and fulfill their spiritual goals. Meetings 5 locations in California are second and fourth Thursdays, 2:10-3 p.m. (415) 614-5594; marianoc@sfarch.org; csmcatholicclub@ Your Local Store: gmail.com. Visit www.instagram.com/csmcatholic/. 369 Grand Ave., S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 ARCHBISHOP ISSUES DECREE ON BAPTISM: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone issued new instructions March 19 regarding baptism in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The document was issued after a June 2020 decision by the Vatican that baptisms using an unapproved formula were invalid. The archbishop decreed that priests should be morally certain that those entering the church or receiving new sacraments have been validly baptized. The instructions offer a guide to discerning the validity of a baptism, how to proceed in the absence of a valid baptism and the validity of baptisms in other denominations. To read the decree, visit sfarch.org/chancellors-office.
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The “one constant of immigration” in San Francisco has been immigrants coming from China and other Asian nations, he said. “That racial violence would rear its ugly head here, then – especially against Asians who have been such a vital part of this city’s life and culture from the beginning down to the present time – is very disturbing indeed,” Archbishop Cordileone said. The archbishop quoted Pope Francis, who tweeted in March, “Racism is a virus that quickly mutates and, instead of disappearing, goes into hiding, and lurks in waiting. Instances of racism continue to shame us, for they show that our supposed social progress is not as real or definitive as we think.” “Very sobering words indeed,” Archbishop Cordileone continued. “We are not as accomplished as we thought when it comes to welcome, inclusion, and living in peace among a diverse population. What, then, are we to do?” Drawing a connection between racism and COVID-19, the archbishop said it is important to find an
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Thomas willed to her on one condition: that she “do something for peace.” During an April 1 visit with Catholic San Francisco, Kühn said faith and family propelled her as a young mother to front a cause championed by Diana, Princess of Wales, just weeks after her sudden death on August 31, 1997. A book detailing her continuing journey to advance an “agriculture of peace” was released last April. “Breaking Ground: From Landmines to Grapevines. One Woman’s Mission to Heal the World” (EarthAware, 2020). COVID-19 pandemic restrictions postponed the official launch of the book until April 22, 2021. Kühn’s hostess toast turned out to be a prophetic one. She was a 30-year-old CNN reporter and producer with three children under the age of five at home when she was diagnosed with late-stage cervical cancer. She was not expected to survive, but did. Motherhood and what she believes was a miraculous healing led her to an “epiphany,” she said. “I felt very deeply in my heart that cancer is a landmine, and landmines are a cancer to the world,” she said. “And the solution for both is removal.” Kühn is mother to four children: Brooks, Tucker, Kyleigh and Christian. The youngest got his name because he was “a gift from God,” born after doctors told her “nothing will grow there” of her post-cancer womb. That same year she founded a humanitarian organization, later called Roots of Peace, in the basement of her home. Supported by presidents, prime ministers, religious leaders, landmine survivors and others from around the world, Kühn was eventually joined by her husband Gary. Together they continue to spread a message of peace and recovery in devastated lands. To date, Roots of Peace has helped remove 100,000 landmines from countries such as Afghanistan, Angola, Croatia, Cambodia and Vietnam, Kühn said. By removing landmines, Roots of Peace begins to heal both the land and the farmers who work it from the wounds of violence. “One of the most pressing issues facing
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Roots of Peace founder Heidi Kühn, pictured in the vineyard at her San Rafael home April 1, has worked for more than 20 years to “de-mine the soil, de-mine the soul,” of people in seven war-torn countries, “turning mines to vines” to benefit local farmers and advance peace. smallholder farmers as they try to recover from war is how to rebuild a source of income that can sustain themselves and their families,” the Kühns explain at rootsofpeace.org. Roots of Peace helps these farmers build “agricultural value chains” that increase and stabilize their income. The “mines to vines” approach has helped over one million farmers and families build sustainable agricultural economies. In Afghanistan alone it has helped plant over 5 million trees, create over 100,000 full-time jobs and facilitate exports of fruits, nuts and spices to new markets that by 2020, valued $1.4 billion. Kühn said more than 60 million landmines in 60 countries remain. “For me as a Catholic mother, it was an epiphany of turning killing fields into vineyards, blood into wine,” she said. In the foreword to “Breaking Ground,” Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan writes: “Because they are small and destroy lives one by one, their horrific and heartbreaking consequences can go as unnoticed as the mines themselves,” she wrote.
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Indeed, surviving the wreckage landmines wreak involves overcoming traumas far beyond physical injury or death, or its constant threat, she said. Landmines perpetuate hatred of the enemy who planted the mine, economic havoc, political instability and social unrest. “For any mother that has had to see a child who took a wayward footstep and lost a limb to a landmine, the hatred goes on for the enemy that put that mine there,” said Kühn. “Landmines violate everything that
my family had ever instilled in my heart,” said Kühn, 63, who was raised Catholic in San Rafael and as a child attended the now-closed Dominican Garden School. She sees her work as “in her DNA.” Her paternal great-great-grandfather, John Augustus McNear, was an early and prominent settler in Marin and Sonoma counties. Outraged by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, he invited a group of Chinese families to settle on his bayshore lands where they created a shrimp exporting industry. “He stood up for justice and that always meant a lot to me,” said Kühn. Her maternal grandfather also was San Quentin State Prison’s first director of education, proving that the incarcerated could and should be educated. She said there is another reason why she’s been willing, as she says in the introduction to her book, “to take chances a more reasonable person would decline; I am a believer.” Many well-intentioned supporters including some Catholics warned her that writing about her faith in “Breaking Ground” would be a disaster for her. She could lose her credibility and contracts with the State Department. “If I can’t write it through the eyes of my faith, then this isn’t my story,” she said. “This book isn’t for commercial purposes. This is about the true footsteps that I have taken as just one mother with a deep vision to plant the roots of peace on earth.” Visit rootsofpeace.org
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Doing good, door-to-door: St. Rita retiree recognized for life of public service CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Jack Hayes of Fairfax was reticent when Catholic San Francisco called to talk about the big award he just received for doing what comes as naturally as breathing: Helping struggling families. “I would much prefer you talk to others,” the 82-yearold St. Rita parishioner humbly requested April 9 in an email after being recognized as a local recipient of the Jefferson Award for contributions in public service. Hayes, a St. Rita parishioner and co-chair of the Fairfax parish’s St. Vincent de Paul conference was named in March as one of the Bay Area’s “quiet heroes” selected for KPIX-TV’s 2021 Jefferson Awards. Established in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the Jefferson Award recognizes people at both local and national levels who make a difference in their communities. “Jack has written a life-script of compassion and giving to his fellow man and causes greater than himself,” read just one of the statements offered by fellow parishioners and members of the parish’s SVdP conference in the anecdote-filled written nomination of Hayes. “Our St. Rita parish and the local Fairfax community have indeed been blessed with the presence of our parishioner Jack Hayes,” offered pastor Father Kenneth Weare. Hayes helped shape St. Rita’s SVdP conference which serves at-risk women, families and senior citizens in Fairfax, San Anselmo and the San Geronimo Valley that stretches into West Marin. He also mentored a teenage parishioner to assess “food insecurity” in the community and helped her create the parish’s well-stocked parish food pantry. Now an adult school teacher, Megan Dillon co-chairs the conference with Hayes. Father Weare called Jack’s dedication to helping meet the needs of the local poor, especially families with young children, “truly emblematic of the Christian life to which all of us are called by the risen Jesus Christ.” Hayes has been blessed with a long marriage of 59 years, six children and 13 grandchildren. He and his two brothers were raised in San Francisco by his Irishimmigrant mother after his father’s death at an early age, a personal witness to the struggles of working class families. He told KPIX in a televised spot on his award that he longed for the “hands-on” work of helping vulnerable families in Marin County after his retirement 17 years ago from a long career in education, including as Sonoma County schools superintendent. The COVID-19 pandemic of the past year amplified the economic hardships in the community, especially to those who were already living on the financial margins. Hayes helped almost 50 families secure more than $85,000 in local and county rental assistance by personally walking each application through the approval process. Conference volunteers including Hayes deliver weekly food bags, and are able to assist with past-due utility
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2021 Jefferson Award winner for public service Jack Hayes, center, is flanked to his left by Lily McGraw, one of his 13 grandchildren, and Megan Dillon, right, who was mentored years ago in high school by Hayes and now co-chairs the SVdP Conference at St. Rita Parish with him. The January 2020 photo was taken at the 12th Annual Marin County Free Throw Championship Jack started. To date it has raised $175k to benefit the local people SVdP serves.
bills, transportation costs, clothing, furniture and other life basics to people and other nonprofits. An innovative, annual fundraiser masterminded by Hayes 13 years ago is largely to thank. Drawing inspiration from his final career role as executive director of the California Interscholastic Federation governing high school athletics, Hayes created the Marin County Annual Free-Throw Competition which has raised $175,000 to date. Every penny goes for local SVdP assistance. Over the years the championship has grown to become a beloved and highly successful tradition in the community, with local merchants, larger companies and corporate donors pitching in to help along with individual and family donations. Linda Howard, who suddenly assumed custody of her two young grandchildren some years ago told KPIX that she is “grateful beyond words” for the help she has received for the family’s food, clothes and tutoring. Hayes insists on visiting the homes of families served by the SVdP so he can just sit and listen to them. He said the visits also help him see if there are other needs a family might have that he can help with. It was this spirit of accompaniment that brought Howard to tears in speaking about Hayes’ visits. “It’s not like, ‘You’ve failed, so I’m here,’” she said. “It was, ‘Let me help you, I want to help you, don’t worry about it.’” SVdP volunteer Mike Marovich quoted St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata in the Jefferson Award nomination of Jack Hayes.“‘We can’t do great things, but we can do small things with great love.’ That defines Jack,” he said.
CAPUCHIN FRIARS ANNOUNCE NEW PROVINCIAL LEADERSHIP: The Western American Capuchin Province of Our Lady of Angels, California, announced new leadership March 24, 2021 with a term in office that commenced on March 25, 2021, Solemnity of the Annunciation of our Lord. Named are Provincial Minister, Father Joseph Seraphin Dederick, OFM Cap.; ProvinProvincial cial Vicar, Father Hai Minh Minister, Father Ho, OFM Cap.; 2nd Councillor, Joseph Seraphin Father Christopher Michael Dederick, OFM Iwancio, OFM Cap.; 3rd CounCap. cillor, Brother Tran Vu, OFM Cap.; 4th Councillor, Father Hung Nguyen, OFM Cap. The friars’ prayer for the new council says in part: “Let us strive to help build on earth what you have promised us in heaven. In the face of all danger present and yet to come, let us lead our brothers beside quiet waters – The quiet waters of the Good Shepherd.” “Grateful to the Lord, we entrust all the brothers of the Province to the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, patroness of our Order and of your Province,” Capuchin Father Roberto Genuin, General Minister, said in the appointment decree from Rome. Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame has been entrusted to the Capuchin Friars since its founding in 1926.
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SILVER ROSE MASS: Three local Knights of Columbus councils delivered the Silver Rose to St. Mary’s Cathedral for a March 28 Mass celebrated by pastor Father Arturo Albano. The Silver Rose Program is a KOC traditional pilgrimage honoring the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12, 1531. Since 1960, it has gathered Knights from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada from early March through mid-December, as councils steward the Silver Rose along routes from Canada to its final destination in Mexico.
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From Palm Sunday through Easter morning, Holy Week liturgies celebrated throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco this year marked a cautious but joyous return for the faithful to the communal traditions of the Easter season. Last Easter and for much of 2020, churches were closed to worshippers to help stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Catholic San Francisco offers this visual timeline of Holy Week observances this year. RIGHT – Palm Sunday, March 28: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone processes into St. Mary’s Cathedral marking the first day of Holy Week.
BELOW – Easter Sunday, April 4: Parishioners of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo enjoyed an open-air Mass celebrated by their pastor Msgr. John Talesfore, center. MIDDLE – Easter Vigil, Saturday, April 3: Candles held by the faithful at St. Mary’s Cathedral commemorate Christ’s passage from the darkness of death to new life. BOTTOM LEFT – Good Friday, April 2: A purple-shrouded cross can be seen behind pews of women religious in prayer at St. Mary’s Cathedral. BOTTOM RIGHT – Holy Thursday, April 1: The Blessed Sacrament is led in procession through the plaza at St. Mary’s Cathedral to an Altar of Repose for adoration.
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Olema: Sacred Heart returns to traditional Good Friday celebration LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO
Santiago Mazariegos played Jesus of Nazareth in a play on Good Friday at Sacred Heart Church in Olema. The pandemic precluded praying the rite on Good Friday 2020. “I even get goosebumps (to be able to act the Stations of the Cross again) because last year we couldn’t do anything due to the pandemic,” Mazariegos said. This year being here, well, there are no words to express the joy. Churches have to be open for these events.” The actors who performed the Stations of the Cross at Sacred Heart came from Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato. The actors did not speak their roles, only making gestures with their hands and head movements while a narrator read each one of the Stations of the Cross. The audience sat in the plaza six-feet apart to watch. Father Erick Arauz, pastor of Sacred Heart and St. Mary Magdalene Mission in Bolinas said he welcomed the actors of Jóvenes para Cristo and said it feels important to have these kinds of celebrations when it is possible. Good Friday in Olema included the dramatized Stations of the Cross, a
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Santiago Mazariegos, from the group Jóvenes para Cristo of Our Lady of Loretto in Novato, played Jesus of Nazareth in a play of the Stations of the Cross in the plaza of Sacred Heart Church in Olema, April 2, Good Friday. bilingual liturgy, the procession and adoration of the cross and Communion. Martha Jiménez, from the presenting group Jóvenes para Cristo, was the narrator of the Stations of the Cross and in previous years has played Mary, the mother of Jesus. She said that the play keeps faith alive because through
acting, “people remember what Jesus did for us.” Jiménez has been performing with Jóvenes para Cristo for five years. Nadine Booras, a parishioner of Sacred Heart for more than 25 years, a lector and member of the parish choir said this was the first time she’d seen a dramatized Stations of the Cross
here. She told San Francisco Católico she was moved by the acting of Jesus’ death on the cross. Another Sacred Heart parishioner, María de la Asunción Alcalá, compared the Holy Week of last year with the experience of this Good Friday in Sacred Heart. “I think it is very nice (the celebrations again in the church) because last year what I watched on television was a priest with the Blessed Sacrament walking through the empty streets in Mexico,” said Alcalá. “It was very sad, it made me cry to see Our Lord looking for us.” She added the entire Good Friday celebration at Sacred Heart was beautiful. “Although I wish we could have walked each of the Stations of the Cross (instead of sitting in the plaza), I understand that there are still restrictions,” she said. In his homily, Father Arauz emphasized the meaning of the cross for the Christians and why on Good Friday it is venerated in a special way. “To worship the cross is to remember how Jesus identified himself with the poor, with the sick, with the weakest. Today when we leave here, let us not forget what Jesus suffered for us, let us never forget it,” Father Arauz said.
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Holy oils Over 100 priests concelebrated the annual Chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral March 30 where Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blessed three holy oils: the Oil of the Catechumens, the Oil of the Sick and the Sacred Chrism oil. Each oil has a distinct purpose in the sacramental life of the church and will be used by every parish of the archdiocese in the coming year. Whenever the holy oils are used, the ministry of the bishop who blessed and consecrated them is symbolically present. The Mass takes its name from the blessing of the holy oils used in the sacraments throughout the year, which are then given to priests or extraordinary lay ministers to take back to their parishes.
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Once again, Catholic agencies step in to help minors at the border RHINA GUIDOS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
As the U.S. took in almost 19,000 migrant minors in March, faith-based organizations such as Catholic Charities throughout the U.S. have been doing their part to help. In Texas, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio set up over 2,000 cots for their guests at the Freeman Coliseum to “welcome and care for unaccompanied migrant children,” the organization said March 30 on its website. Staff as well as volunteers from local churches have assembled hygiene kits of toothpaste and soap to give to minors who have been allowed into the country at its southern border with Mexico and are waiting to be reunited with family or who will soon go live with sponsors. “It is a privilege to serve the community and an honor to help as much as we can these children who have been separated from their parents for some time, especially in a country that is not their own,” said Antonio Fernandez, president and CEO of San Antonio’s Catholic Charities. “While I understand that this could be considered a political issue for many, it is strictly a humanitarian one to us at Catholic Charities,” he said. Such scenes are not foreign to agencies such as Catholic Charities and
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In 2018, MRS executive director Bill Canny, told Catholic News Service that the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement, which has the responsibility of releasing unaccompanied children from federal custody, reached out to the Catholic organizations, as well as the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and other agencies to help with family reunification. “Protection of families is a foundational element of Catholic social teaching and this moment calls on all people of goodwill to lend a hand to reunite these children with their parents,” MRS and Catholic Charities USA said in a joint statement in 2018 during a crisis that year involving the separation of children from their families. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic leaders say that task has become even more important since the agencies aren’t just trying to reunite families but also trying to keep them safe from the highly contagious coronavirus, which has changed their protocols for assisting migrants. In San Antonio, incoming children have been received with the essentials, food and a place to sleep and shower, but also toys, soccer balls and stuffed animals, something to remind them that they’re children, until they can find their families or someone else can care for them. “Kids are kids regardless of where they live,” said Fernandez. “I can never stop thinking about my daughter in a place like this, and the thought moves me to try harder to be the best for these unaccompanied children.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California’s Catholic bishops “remain committed to the complete resumption of indoor worship in a responsible and safe manner,” said an April 13 statement issued by the Executive Committee of the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the bishops. The bishops also reiterated their earlier call for Catholics to get one of the COVID-19 vaccines if available to them so they can protect themselves, their family and the wider community, but noting: “One should always consult with their doctor regarding any personal medical concerns.” Their statement came a day after the state of California lifted all attendance limits on indoor worship. State officials said the new guidance was a response to several U.S. Supreme Court rulings striking down the mandates as a violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion. Health restrictions such as masking and social distancing are still in effect. In its most recent decision, the high court sided with a couple of pastors, members of a Bible study group and other plaintiffs in Santa Clara County, who sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials over restrictions in-home Bible study or worship. The rules limited such gatherings to people from only three households, with no more than 15 individuals allowed to attend – “including hosts and guests, children and adults.” In an unsigned 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court’s majority noted the state’s rules for private religious gatherings did not equally apply to secular indoor gatherings. “Where the government permits other activities to proceed with precautions, it must show that the religious exercise at issue is more dangerous than those activities even when the same precautions are applied,” the justices wrote. “Otherwise, precautions that suffice for other activities suffice for religious exercise too.” Under its new guidelines, the California Department of Public Health still “strongly discouraged” indoor gatherings and suggested attendance should be limited to 25% of a building’s capacity for the
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INDIANAPOLIS – Expressing sorrow for the loss of life in yet another mass shooting in the U.S., Archbishop Charles C. Thompson prayed for the victims and their families. He also prayed that “these senseless acts of violence will stop. Once again our nation is mourning the loss of lives in a mass shooting and this time it is eight of our own neighbors who were killed at the Indianapolis FedEx Ground center.” Eight people were killed April 15 at the FedEx facility and several others were wounded by a former employee who then killed himself. “The U.S. Catholic bishops have long supported changes in the law to control the sale and use of firearms,” the Indianapolis archbishop said. “May we all recognize that we are made in the image and likeness of God and continue to do what we can to end this senseless violence and to live together in peace.”
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WASHINGTON – The decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s acting commissioner to suspend enforcement of the agency’s in-person prescribing requirement for the abortion drug Mifeprex, or mifepristone, used to end pregnancies during the first 10 weeks, endangers women’s health and possibly their lives, pro-life leaders said. On April 12, Dr. Janet Woodcock said the FDA will “exercise enforcement discretion” as long as President Joe Biden’s declaration of a public health emergency for COVID-19 remains in place. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said “With this decision, not only are women being sold the lie that abortion will solve their problems, but also that chemical abortion is a safe and easy way to go about it,” he said in a statement. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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Fourth Sunday of Easter ACTS 4:8-12 Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: “Leaders of the people and elders: If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved, then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. He is the stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.” PSALM 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29 The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.
The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me and have been my savior. The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. By the Lord has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes. The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; we bless you from the house of the Lord. I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me and have been my savior. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; or his kindness endures forever. The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. 1 JOHN 3:1-2 Beloved: See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been re-
vealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. JOHN 10:11-18 Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd. This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”
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n fairy tales like “The Princess and the Goblin” and “Cinderella,” or even “The Lion King,” the monarch is loving, wise, and self-sacrificing. This teaches children that authority and leadership are exercised for service. Children learn to trust and be loyal to authority figures who have these virtues. In these stories, kings often do battle at great cost for the sake of their subjects. Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is the good king who sacrifices all for his children. He is the wise, fierce protector, whose discerning eye sees the danger coming, and prepares to meet the challenge. Utterly defenseless, sheep cannot survive without protection. When Jesus says, “I am SISTER MARIA the good shepherd…” he CATHERINE casts his role as shepherd TOON, OP against the relief of “hired guns”; men who work for pay and have little regard for what they protect. The hired mercenary conducts himself more like a third-string quarterback. Uninterested in the good of the team, he lives only for his paycheck, and the security of a steady job. In the hands of the
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Each priest’s vocation matters; no one is called to be a placeholder, or a benchwarmer in the kingdom of God. Pharisees, the people are “without a shepherd,” as described in St. Matthew’s Gospel. He claims they look “mangled and cast away” (Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis’ translation of Mt 9:36). When shepherds go through the motions and abandon the sheep they leave them to be devoured by sin, temptation, and erroneous philosophies. Meeting danger head-on is the measure of a true shepherd versus a benchwarmer. A well-known story from “The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi,” recounts how St. Francis bravely faces off with a wolf who terrorizes the city of Gubbio. This well-known saint relies on the power of Jesus Christ to square a deal with the wolf: The city will feed him if he stops menacing the city. As the story reads, all parties end satisfied, and when the wolf dies two years later, the town thinks of him fondly and mourns him. Just like the townsfolk in the city of Gubbio, the Catholic faithful are mangled and cast away without solid leadership. We rely on our bishops and priests to face off with the dangers that plague us. Those who hold these offices need our fidelity and obeisance.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, APRIL 26: Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 11:1-18. PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4. JN 10:14. JN 10:1-10. TUESDAY, APRIL 27: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 11:19-26. PS 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7. JN 10:27. JN 10:22-30. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chanel, priest and martyr. Optional Memorial of St. Louis Mary de Montfort, priest. ACTS 12:24-13:5a. PS 67:2-3, 5, 6 and 8. JN 8:12. JN 12:44-50. THURSDAY, APRIL 29: Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor. ACTS 13:13-25. PS 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27. SEE RV 1:5ab. JN 13:1620. FRIDAY, APRIL 30: Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Pius V, pope. ACTS 13:26-33. PS 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11ab. JN 14:6. JN 14:1-6. SATURDAY, MAY 1: Saturday of the Fourth Week of
Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker. ACTS 13:44-52. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. JN 8:31b-32. JN 14:7-14. SUNDAY, MAY 2: Fifth Sunday of Easter. ACTS 9:26-31. PS 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32. 1 JN 3:18-24. JN 15:4a, 5b. JN 15:1-8. MONDAY, MAY 3: Feast of Sts. Philip and James, apostles. 1 COR 15:1-8. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. JN 14:6b, 9c. JN 14:6-14. TUESDAY, MAY 4: Tuesday of Fifth Week of Easter. Acts 14:19-28. PS 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21. See Lk 24:46, 26. Jn 14:27-31a. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5: Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Acts 15:1-6. PS 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5. Jn 15:4a, 5b. Jn 15:1-8. THURSDAY, MAY 6: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Acts 15:7-21. PS 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10. Jn 10:27. Jn 15:9-11. FRIDAY, MAY 7: Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Acts 15:22-31. PS 57:8-9, 10 and 12. Jn 15:15b. Jn 15:12-17.
Bishops and priests are called to be faithful to the magisterium when there are social pressures (and legal ones) to break the seal of confession, compromise evangelizing, and surrender religious freedom. This is to say nothing of the pornography, abortion, and new proposals to redefine marriage, that also threaten to crush and maim souls in our time. The shepherd’s role has to be seen in light of the cross. Our Catholic bishops and priests are called to defend the identity of Christ in the Eucharist, combat sin in the pulpit, and heal it in the confessional. Jesus is not mercenary. He works for love as he builds his “upside down kingdom”; where one grows up to become a child; one loses one’s life to gain it; and leaders humble themselves in order to serve their subjects. In this season of mercy, run to Jesus the Good Shepherd, who protects us from error, sin, and temptation. Let’s pray for our bishops and our priests, that they may be faithful shepherds, seeking to have courageous, loving, and humble hearts for all that they face. Each priest’s vocation matters; no one is called to be a placeholder, or a benchwarmer in the kingdom of God. Lastly, let us also examine our own hearts that we might be loyal and faithful children to our priests and bishops, but above all to Jesus and the church’s Magisterium. SISTER MARIA CATHERINE is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
POPE FRANCIS PRAYER, NOT MONEY, POWER OR MEDIA, BOOST FAITH
VATICAN CITY – Without prayer, initiatives for church reform become just proposals by “entrepreneurs of faith” and not the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis said April 14 during his weekly general audience. “Everything in the church originates in prayer and everything grows thanks to prayer,” he said. If there is no prayer, the church becomes “like an empty shell” that has lost its bearings and “no longer possesses its source of warmth and love,” he said. Continuing his series of talks on prayer, the pope reflected on the role of the church as a school of faith and prayer. “The breath of faith is prayer,” the pope said. “We grow in faith inasmuch as we learn to pray,” and over time, especially after crises or difficult periods in life, “we become aware that without faith, we could not have made it through and that our strength was prayer.” CATHOLIC NEW SERVICE, EDITED BY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
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The power of beauty
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he world will be saved by beauty! Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that, Dorothy Day quoted it, and centuries before Jesus, Confucius made it central to his pedagogy. They were on to something. Beauty is a special language that cuts through and sidelines all the things that divide us – history, race, language, creed, ideology, FATHER RON politics, ecoROLHEISER nomic disparity, gender, sexual identity, and personal wounds. Beauty melts down all differences. Its speech, like that of a newborn, has no explicit words, but is a language so perfect that it can only be soiled by violating oneself. Two things in this world cannot be argued with, beauty and a baby. They also cannot defend themselves and have only their own vulnerability as protection. In classical Western philosophy, beauty is seen as one of the transcendental properties of being, and therefore as one of the properties of God. God is understood as having four transcendental qualities, namely, as being one, true, good, and beautiful. Hence, beauty possesses a divine, sacred quality. Artists and everyone sensitive to aesthetics have always recognized this, not necessarily in that they affirm explicitly that beauty
is a property of God, but that they recognize a godly quality in beauty; they sense a “blaspheme” whenever it is defaced and feel the energy to create as divine. Beauty, as we know, takes many forms. Who of us has not at times felt the stunning power of physical beauty? Who has not been momentarily transfixed by the beauty of a sunset, an ocean, a mountain range, the stars, a full moon, a desert landscape, a particular tree, a thunderstorm, fresh snow, a gentle rain, an animal in the wild, a work of art or architecture, or a human body? Physical beauty is selfjustifying. It cannot be argued with and may never be denigrated by an appeal to something higher and more spiritual. It is unequivocally real and thus needs to be recognized, affirmed, and blessed. For most of us, when we hear the word beauty, physical beauty is what comes to mind. Now, while that beauty is real, powerful, and can transform the heart, there are other kinds of beauty equally as powerful and transforming. I am not sure what language works in terms of what I am about to describe, so forgive me if my expression here is amateur and awkward, but we can speak, and need to, of beauty in the emotional and moral realm. There is something we might call emotional beauty or moral beauty. Emotional beauty is not the beauty of a sunset or a great painting but is the beauty of a particular expression of love, of empathy, or of compassion that, like a beautiful sunset, we are
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give up their lives for others. These are powerful examples of moral beauty, but many of us see this firsthand in our own families and circle of friends. For example, I look at my own mother and dad who for most of their lives sacrificed to provide for a large family and, especially, to provide that family with what is more important than food and clothing, namely, faith and moral guidance. There was a moral beauty in their sacrifice, though sometimes during those years, by Hollywood standards, my mom and dad looked more haggard than beautiful. Moral beauty, though, is measured by a different standard. That being said, there is also the need to be cautious here: While emotional beauty carries the risk of sentimentality, moral beauty carries the risk of fanaticism. Fanatics, serial killers, and snipers are also highly focused morally. Morality, like anything else, can be misguided. The world will be saved by beauty! True, though I would employ the present tense, the world is being saved by beauty. OBLATE FATHER RON ROLHEISER is former president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas where he is now a full-time faculty member in the school’s Spirituality Institute.
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et me adapt to recent circumstances a thoughtexperiment theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar proposed decades ago: Imagine that a friend contracts a severe case of COVID-19 and medicine can do no more for him. The doctors inform his widowed mother and us, so we gather with her for the final scene in the drama of this life. The ventilator is removed; the man grows weaker from lack of breath and whispers his final farewells. We hear the deathrattle. Then he expires and takes on the pallor of death. The mortician prepares the GEORGE WEIGEL body for burial. With appropriate prayers, we consign our friend to the earth and, taking a cue from our Jewish friends, toss a clod of earth onto his coffin as it lies deep in the open grave. The grave is then closed, and we leave for our homes, saddened, perhaps a bit disoriented, remembering our friend’s past and unsure about our own futures. Then two days later, our friend suddenly stands before us, like one just returned from a brief but important journey. He greets us by name. Physical barriers like doors mean nothing to him. What would happen to us? We would be stunned, incapable of knowing the appropriate reaction: shock, fear, overwhelming joy? What is happening shatters the boundaries of experience and strains emotion’s limits to the breaking point. Reality itself seems to be detonating around us. We wonder: Can this be real? Then our friend shows himself to us again and again, whole and renewed. He explains things as he used to do, eats with us, challenges us to be greater than we typically think we can be. He now seems to live in another dimension of existence – thoroughly human, but radiantly more so. By placing ourselves imaginatively in that situation today, we begin to get some idea of what the friends of Jesus experienced on Easter Sunday and in the period between that explosive day and his leave-taking, 40 days later. But there is more. For slowly and haltingly, those who met the Risen One, and those who believed what his closest friends said about him, came to understand that the now transfigured Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth “truly was the son of God” (Mk 15:39).
A man had returned from a journey to the realm of the dead. Death, relentless in its finality, no longer had the last word about the human condition. What God had had in mind for humanity “in the beginning” (Gn 1:1) had been reclaimed by the son of God for all who believed in him and bound themselves to his cause. So, history now seemed quite different to those first believers. History was no longer an arena of ultimate personal defeat. History, and our personal stories, they came to understand, played to a divine melody: everlasting communion with the Creator, disclosed in the resurrection. What happened on Easter Sunday was the most explosive experience in human history, shattering all previous expectations of human destiny. Before Easter, some of the philosophically inclined imagined an immortal human soul; certain Jews expected what they called the resurrection of the dead at the end of history. But no one expected this. For the Risen One was not a disembodied spirit (“…handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have” (Lk 23:39), and the Risen One was alive in history, such that history continued in a transformed key. The first witnesses to the resurrection were all Jewish and the dramatic ways in which these early Christians changed bear eloquent witness to the explosive nature of their experience of the Risen One. The Sabbath had been sacrosanct; now there was a new “Lord’s Day,” the Day of Resurrection. They once expected that the “end times” would ring down the curtain on history and the kingdom of God would begin; now, they understood what Jesus had meant when he taught them that “the kingdom of God is in the midst of you” (Lk 17:21) – they could live kingdom life, life in union with God, here and now, through communion with the Lord Jesus in the Eucharist. And their understanding of their responsibilities changed. What they had experienced demanded to be proclaimed and shared, as they grasped the full implications of Jesus’s injunction, “Freely you have received, freely you must give” (Mt 10:8). They must offer friendship with the Risen One “to all nations” (Mt 28:19). The Easter explosion created a communion of disciples in mission. We are their heirs. We can bring light to a darkened world if we believe with the intensity they did. GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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“We do not confess to abase ourselves, but to be raised up,” he said, and “we – all of us – need this badly.” Speaking to priests, Pope Francis said that anytime they hear someone’s confession, they “ought to convey the sweetness of mercy ... the sweetness of Jesus, who forgives everything. God forgives everything.” The day’s first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, recounted how the early Christian community shared everything they had in common. “This is not communism, but pure Christianity,” the pope said. The disciples “discovered that they shared the mission, the forgiveness and the body of Jesus, and so it seemed natural to share their earthly possessions,” he said. “Their fears had been dispelled by touching the Lord’s wounds, and now they are unafraid to heal the wounds of those in need, because there they see Jesus. Because Jesus is there in the wounds of the needy.” Catholics today, he said, need to ask themselves if they show others the mercy they have been shown by God and if they feed the hungry like Jesus feeds them in the Eucharist. “Let us not remain indifferent,” Pope Francis said. “Let us not live a one-way faith, a faith that receives but does not give, a faith that accepts the gift but does not give it in return.”
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Apostolic nuncio to Mexican bishops: ‘Look reality in the eye’ DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
MEXICO CITY – The apostolic nuncio to Mexico urged the country’s bishops to “look reality in the eye” as the country’s non-Catholic population increases and Mexicans increasingly identify as nonreligious. Speaking April 12 at the opening of the Mexican bishops’ conference biannual gathering, Archbishop Franco Coppola also told the virtual audience to rethink their pastoral approaches as fewer people participate in parish life and don’t get married in the church. “The decline in the Catholic population in this land of Guadalupe is extremely worrying,” Archbishop Coppola said. “We’re seeing now with ever more clarity just how much in recent decades the formation of the faith has not been able – as we thought or would have wanted – to permeate those who are baptized.” “We have to recognize that, if the Gospel and our Lord Jesus Christ will always continue to be attractive, it’s evident our ‘traditional’ methods today don’t work, nor can they work in any of the areas of evangelization.” Mexico’s most recent census, in 2020, showed the Catholic population declining by 5 percentage points to 77.7% of the population. Observers see the decline as part of a trend of people falling away from the
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A child is pictured in a file photo being baptized at a church in Mexico City. The apostolic nuncio to Mexico has warned the country’s bishops to “look reality in the eye” as the country’s non-Catholic population increases and Mexicans increasingly identify as nonreligious. church throughout Latin America, although in some northern and western states such as Zacatecas and Guanajuato, more than 90% of the population still professes Catholicism. That figure falls to just 54% in the largely Indigenous state of Chiapas, where evangelical congregations have gained ground. The census, which is carried out every 10 years, has caused some discomfort for
Mexico’s bishops, who have expressed concerns with the way the questions on religion are asked. But, when faced with criticism, they’ve pointed to census data showing the percentage of Mexico’s population professing Catholicism to be higher than most Latin American countries. Archbishop Coppola, however, spoke of several worrying trends, including
people falling away from all forms of faith. The 2020 census showed the number of people identifying as nonreligious nearly doubling to 8.1% of the population, while another 2.5% of the population considered themselves religious, but without any professed confession. Protestants and evangelicals grew from 7.5% of the population in 2010 to 11.2% of the population in 2020. “From 2010 to 2020, the decline in the Catholic population has benefitted atheists more than Protestants,” Archbishop Coppola said. Young people, he said, were also abandoning the church and not celebrating the sacrament of marriage. Religious marriages dropped from 431,000 in 1998 to 229,000 in 2018, the nuncio said. “Half of all Mexicans are under the age of 30. ... We’re a young country. But we cannot say half of those participating in our liturgical assemblies are young people under the age of 30,” Archbishop Coppola said. “There is no doubt ... that our families, our parishes, our organizations could be ‘attractive’ today for young people and men and women of our time,” he continued. One partial success in recent years, Archbishop Coppola said, was in vocations. The number of diocesan priests had increased, though “the age of our priests continues climbing.” The number of consecrated religious, however, had fallen 60% over the past 20 years.
U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan may risk civil war, says priest in Kabul CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – The biggest risk Afghanistan might face with a withdrawal of U.S. troops could be civil war, said the Italian priest in charge of the small Catholic community in Afghanistan. “Will the Afghan government be able to guarantee security?” asked Barnabite Father Giovanni Scalese in a note to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples,
April 16. Up until now, he said, talks that should have been happening between the government and the Taliban “have never seriously taken off or at least haven’t led to any results.” The goal, according to the Doha agreements between the U.S. and the Taliban in 2020, was to build a transitional government of national unity and then hold free elections to determine new government leadership, he said. “But if the different sides don’t talk,
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Papal nuncio urges Filipinos to live out Catholic faith JOSEPH PETER CALLEJA UNION OF CATHOLIC ASIAN NEWS
MANILA, Philippines – The apostolic nuncio to the Philippines has challenged Filipino Catholics to live out the faith they received 500 years ago from Spanish missionaries. Archbishop Charles Brown, Pope Francis’ envoy to the Philippines, also urged Filipinos to take up modern-day challenges in the Catholic faith. He laid down the challenges during a Mass on April 14 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the country’s first-ever baptism in Cebu. “Let us recommit ourselves to our own baptismal calling so that we will be witnesses to the light of Christ not only here in the Philippines but indeed throughout the world,” Archbishop Brown said in his homily. He called Filipino Catholics modern missionaries because so many were overseas working around the globe. “The Catholic faith is being carried throughout the world by Filipino Catholics, not as colonizers but in many cases as overseas Filipino workers,” he said. Archbishop Brown said the primary motivation of Spanish expeditions was commercial in nature but in the process they planted the seeds of faith in Philippine soil. “The history of the church in Asia is
CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS MUST SPREAD HOPE, SAYS VATICAN MESSAGE FOR RAMADAN
VATICAN CITY – Christians and Muslims share a conviction that God calls them to be “witnesses, restorers and builders of hope” both in this life and for the life to come, said the leaders of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. In a message wishing Muslims a peaceful and fruitful month as they fast during Ramadan and a joyful celebration of Id al-Fitr when Ramadan is over, the officials focused on the religious value of hope and its importance today amid the coronavirus pandemic. The message was signed by Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso, council president, and Msgr. Indunil Janakaratne Kankanamalage, council secretary. For believers, they said, “hope arises from our belief that all our problems and trials have a meaning, a value and a purpose, however difficult or impossible it may
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Archbishop Charles Brown celebrates Mass in Cebu at an event to commemorate the first Christian baptism in the Philippines 500 years ago. as old as the church herself, for it was in Asia that Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit upon his disciples and sent them to the ends of the earth to proclaim the good news and gather communities of believers,” said the papal nuncio, quoting a John Paul II apostolic exhortation.
Filipino Cardinal Orlando Quevedo thanked the papal nuncio for his message. The cardinal said there were three ways to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines. “Filipino Catholics should respond
be for us to understand the reason for them or to find a way out of them.” In addition, they wrote, “hope also carries with it belief in the goodness present in the heart of every person.”
suspension of this harsh and unclear statutory instrument.” Churches in the Irish Republic have been closed for public worship since Dec. 26, but the government has claimed that this was just a matter of regulation rather than law. However, on April 16, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly signed a new law – known as a statutory instrument – making attendance a criminal offense. “We consider the publication of this statutory instrument, together with associated penal provisions, to be provocative and formally enacting a potential infringement of religious freedom and of constitutional rights,” Archbishop Martin said.
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unfortunately, more reliance on text or phone in lieu of direct face-to-face communication. As always, our clients are most accommodating, welcoming, and thankful for our timely response and any assistance we may be able to offer.” Each conference chooses its direction of association and assistance. “Though unified in purpose, individual conferences each act primarily on their own, focusing first on their locale and addressing situations and cultural needs in their specific areas,” Stark said. “The strength of our society is not one giant organization, but rather each conference unifying its individual members to agree to action assisting its specific community needs.” Currently, conferences have, in some cases, instituted Zoom or phone meetings, Stark said. Individual volunteer interaction at SVDP outreach centers has been prohibited by public health mandates to protect both clients and Vincentians. “I feel this is an understandable, though not desirable, circumstance under which we must operate, but also clearly apparent to both us and our clients,” Stark said. He looks to “less stringent guidelines” as COVID vaccinations increase and cases of the disease decrease. Among SVDP’s outreach centers is the MSC shelter at Fifth and Bryant streets in San Francisco. The facility has been redesigned to allow for social distancing and the following of all CDC guidelines governing safe COVID-19 practices. The number of beds has been reduced from 320 to 111 with 91 beds for men and 20 for women. A 10-person
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LITURGY & PRAYER WEDNESDAYS, RECURRING: Online Cancer Prayer Support with Mercy Center: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. An ecumenical Christian group for men and women who have or have survived cancer, and for their support persons. In general we spend little time talking about cancer itself and its treatments. This is a prayer group where we read scripture, inspirational reflections and focus on healing. Apart from sharing and prayer, we support members with daily prayer and medical appointments. Visit mercy-center.org/eventcalendar. THURSDAYS THRU MAY 27: Book of Psalms. Weekly Online Course with Father William Nicholas: These 150 prayers express a variety of sentiment and feeling covering a wide range of spirituality from earthy to mystical, thanksgiving to regret, deep affection to equally deep resentment, joy to the depths of despair. Father Nicholas presents an overview of the prayers 7-8:30 p.m. Visit frbillnicholas.com/zoompresentations.
MUSIC & ART SUNDAY AFTERNOONS: St. Mary’s Cathedral Sunday Afternoon Livestream Concerts: Enjoy the longest continuously running organ concert series in San Francisco, and other instrumental and vocal recitals. For the time being, these musical meditations are not open to the public but are being livestreamed. Visit smcsf.org/event/musical-meditations-3.
LEARNING THURSDAY, APRIL 22: Earth Day 2021, California Bishops’ message: The Bishops of California released a pastoral statement called “God Calls Us All to Care for Our Common Home” with a two-fold vision: to animate and energize the implementation of what we are called to do as we face the current environmental crises in the world and to offer a teaching tool that energizes our Catholic faith community and beyond to respond. Visit cacatholic.org/protect-ourcommon-home. TUESDAY, APRIL 27: Loss of trust and crisis of leadership - Responses with the help of St. Thomas Aquinas: The annual Aquinas lecture of
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Olema: Sagrado Corazón vuelve a las tradicionales celebraciones el Viernes Santo tras la pandemia LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO
Santiago Mazariegos representó este Viernes Santo a Jesús de Nazaret en una dramatización en la iglesia Sagrado Corazón en Olema. En contraste con la Semana Santa del 2020 en la cual el grupo Jóvenes para Cristo no pudo actuar el viacrucis debido a la cuarentena por el coronavirus. “Hasta se me enchina la piel (de poder dramatizar el viacrucis de nuevo) porque el año pasado no pudimos hacer nada por la pandemia y este año estar aquí, pues, no hay palabras para expresar la alegría. Ya hacía falta que se abrieran las iglesias para estos eventos”, dijo Mazariegos. El grupo que dramatizó el viacrucis en Sagrado Corazón pertenece a la iglesia Nuestra Señora de Loreto en Novato. Debido a que en su parroquia no se pudo dramatizar las estaciones de la cruz este año, lo hicieron en la parroquia vecina con modificaciones al guion debido a las restricciones sanitarias por el COVID-19. Como parte de las modificaciones en la dramatización, los actores no hablaron solamente hicieron gestos con las manos, y movimientos de cabeza mientras la
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El grupo Jóvenes para Cristo de Nuestra Señora de Loreto en Novato, dramatizan el viacrucis en la plaza de la iglesia Sagrado Corazón el 2 de abril de 2021, Viernes Santo. narradora leía cada una de las estaciones de la cruz, los fieles miraron sentados a seis pies de distancia uno de otro en la plaza frente a la iglesia. El padre Erick Arauz, párroco del Sagrado Corazón y la Misión Santa María Magdalena en Bolinas, dijo que se dio la oportunidad de que el grupo Jóvenes para
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Cristo de Nuestra Señora de Loreto fuera a dramatizar el viacrucis a su parroquia en Olema. Agregó, “pienso que hay que hacer estas celebraciones, cuando se puede”. Martha Jiménez del grupo Jóvenes para Cristo, narradora del viacrucis ha dramatizado en años anteriores el personaje de María la madre de Jesús, dijo al San Francisco Católico que estas dramatizaciones ayudan a mantener la fe viva porque a través de la actuación las personas recuerdan lo que Jesús hizo por nosotros. Jiménez lleva cinco años actuando con el grupo Jóvenes para Cristo. El año pasado debido a la pandemia no hubo servicios religiosos con público durante la Cuaresma ni la Pascua. Ella
vio el viacrucis desde su casa en una transmisión en vivo. Nadine Booras, parroquiana del Sagrado Corazón desde hace más de 25 años, lectora y miembro del coro de la parroquia vio por primera vez en su iglesia un viacrucis dramatizado y se impresionó con la escena de la muerte de Jesús en la cruz. Otra parroquiana del Sagrado Corazón que observó el viacrucis en la plaza de la iglesia fue María de la Asunción Alcalá, ella comparó la Semana Santa del año pasado con la experiencia de este Viernes Santo en el Sagrado Corazón. “Me pareció muy bonito (las celebraciones de nuevo en la iglesia) porque el año pasado, inclusive, yo miré en la televisión cuando salió un sacerdote con el Santísimo por las calles vacías en México y fue muy triste. Me hizo llorar de ver a Nuestro Señor buscándonos”, dijo Alcalá. Agregó que le alegró poder vivir toda la liturgia de este Viernes Santo en la iglesia. “Me hubiera gustado que hubiéramos podido caminar cada una de las estaciones de la cruz, (en lugar de estar sentados en las plazaa observando) pero entiendo que todavía hay restricciones”, dijo. En su homilía el padre Arauz, enfatizó el significado de la cruz para los cristianos y por qué el Viernes Santo se le venera de forma especial. “Adorar la cruz es recordar como Jesús se identificó con los pobres, con los enfermos, con los más débiles. Hoy al salir de aquí no olvidemos lo que Jesús sufrió por nosotros, no lo olvidemos nunca”, predicó el padre Arauz.
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Misión Dolores continuará ministerio virtual cuando la iglesia abra con máxima capacidad LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO
La Basílica Misión Dolores comenzó hace un año un servicio de oración diario, a través de Facebook Live para acompañar a los fieles en sus casas. La iglesia anunció recientemente que el servicio continuará por tiempo indefinido. Tuvo su primera transmisión el 20 de marzo del 2020 por iniciativa del párroco de Misión Dolores, padre Francis Garbo. Diácono Mario “Cuando comenzó la cuarentena Zúniga por el COVID-19, el padre Francis me pidió que ofreciera este espacio de una hora de oración en español cada día a las 7 p.m. y que él lo haría a las 8 p.m. en inglés”, comentó el diácono Mario Zúniga. El diácono Zúniga de Misión Dolores dijo que continuarán transmitiéndolo cada noche porque
tienen una gran audiencia a la cual van a seguir acompañando a través de esta hora de oración. “Este es un mandato de Jesús, ‘Velen y oren para que no caigan en tentación’, así que estamos haciendo esto en obediencia a este mandato”, dijo Zúniga. El diácono ha estado al frente de este servicio de oración los siete días de la semana durante más de un año. Cuando sus obligaciones pastorales le demandan estar afuera a la hora de la oración, su esposa Carolina Zúniga dirige la oración. El servicio de oración en vivo incluye el rezo del rosario, algunos días la liturgia de las horas, la coronilla de la Divina Misericordia, o el viacrucis. También se ofrece formación básica sobre la fe católica, como por ejemplo las partes de la misa, los tiempos litúrgicos y explicaciones sobre las devociones a los santos entre, destacando la devoción a san José a quien la Iglesia le ha dedicado este año. El servicio de oración se transmite a través de la cuenta de Facebook de Basílica Misión Dolores, es interactivo porque los seguidores participan enviando
mensajes de texto por medio de los cuales piden oración por sus necesidades, por los enfermos, por las personas que están sufriendo por el COVID-19, y por muchas otras intenciones. En las últimas semanas, el servicio de oración ha logrado incluir llamadas telefónicas en vivo. Las personas que quieren participar pueden llamar, a un número de teléfono que se proveen durante la oración, y hacen sus peticiones directamente, explicó el diácono Zúniga. Una vez por semana el diácono lleva al convento de las carmelitas en San Francisco una lista con todas las peticiones que se han presentado durante la oración, para que también las monjas oren por estas necesidades. El diácono Zúniga recalcó que durante el servicio de oración, siempre le dicen a los seguidores que pueden participar en este servicio, de Misión Dolores, o algún otro programa de oración. “Lo importante es reservar un tiempo cada día para la oración y ser constante”, enfatizó.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS, COLMA Michael James Abercrombie Eduardo G. Alonso, Sr. Jo Marie L. Alonso Yolanda N. Altares Dean K. Anderson Sara C. Angulo Frank P. Antonini, Jr. Ernesto Aparicio Leo Eugenio Aragon Albert Arce Yolanda G. Ardossi Dominic Smith Arguelles Mario Tibajia Arguelles Jean Arnold Kathy M. Ash Albert Attard Diana Aviles Tony Barreiro Dolores A. Benson Rudolph C. Bertolozzi Bridget Boyle Dennis T. Brady Gerald James Burke Atilana C. Calloway Ludger R. Camp, III Sr. Rosemary Theresa Campi Timothy B. Canlas Judith Elena Carlos Irene Clare Casserly Kathryn Ann Castro Lareen L. Cerelli Louise R. Ciarlanti Dorothy G. Clancy Alice Catherine Tognotti Collins Nelly Colocho Ernesto Orlando Cordero Eamon Corry Michael J. Coyle Esperanza M. Dasco Benjamin Joseph De Alba, Sr. Mary C. De Alba Ronald De Alba Juan Miguel Ruiz De Alda Maria Teresa Del Castillo Claire M. Del Grande John E. Dilag Edward Gerard Donohoe Elisabeth Doyle Rosalie Henrietta Edrington Maria Escobar Luis Gonzalo Escoto Francisco Vall Fabregat Patricia Anne McEvoy Fakkema Marilyn Vall Falvey Dante G. Fangon
Irma E. Ferrari Jimmy Flores Philip Michael Gambucci Richard T. Gardiner Edna Gentile Queen E. Gipson Edward Craig Goldman Teresa Gomez-Froschl Sr. Jacquel McDonald Graham Brianna Destiny Guardado Concordia R. Guerrero Flory Guidry Frederick Guillory Yvette Ghazal Hauer Maria Libania Herrera Daniel P. Iannitelli Gerard Pierre Jean, Jr. Frank Jerabek Bernadette M. Jhangiani Erik Juul Sandra Kallas Justina Lima Kebisek Stephen King Joseph E. Lambert Robert Lane Socorro S. Laron Philip F. Leanio Patricia Conklin Lopez Antonio Lopez-Fonseca, Jr. Flora L. Lucas MaryAnn Lujan Conchita Saludes Macabeo Paula Macaspac John Gregory Mansanet Eric Salvador Marquez De’Vone L. McClinton John Robert McGee, Sr. Thelma Theresa Medaglia Rose L. Meissner Leticia Melendez Angelica Meschi Clara A. Millar Suzanne E. Miller Phyllis Teresa Moylan Rafael Angel Munoz James Philip Murphy Maurice Phillip Murray Franklin Napitan Emelia Rose Nava Jamileh N. Nazzal Patrick C. O’Donoghue Maria Osorio Gail Diana Partee Mateo Perez, Jr. Daniel Misael Pineda Mark J. Powers Rita Jacqueline Prado “MA” Nelson Ramos
Romulo S. Raval Daniel R. Ries Francisco C. Rodriguez Julia M. Rojo Ana Jeannette Ruiz Robert Sacchetti Concepcion R. Salazar Gloria Salter Charles Carlos M. Sandino Mauricio Carlos Sandoval Yvonne Julie Serratto Daniel T. Shea MaryAnn Smetzer Frances A. Solari Manuel Sotomayer Julia M. Souza Norma E. Stone Rocco Svevo Alfonso N. Talmadge Theresa Marie Thomson Anthony W. Tin Edgardo Torres Hilda O’Campo Tovar Richard J. Velasquez Steve L. Vidovich Danilo Villarina Concordio C. Viray, Sr. Blake Richard Waterlyn Clarita B. Yabut Alice Marie Zukowski
MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Jose M. Amaral Barbara Diamond Eugene Fitzpatrick Florence Gelatti Milton “Milt” Kelly Anna Struck Lorraine I. Urban Mary Welch Paul A. Wischmeyer
HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Jean Bollhoffer Mary Coyle Filipe Finau Douglas Anthony Tozzini Marjorie Thompson Wagstaffe
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Eleanor D. Machado
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma While we will not be having a First Saturday Mass in May, we encourage you to remember in prayer all our beloved dead at rest in our Catholic Cemeteries.
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma CA | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1975 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park, CA | 650-323-6375 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery 926 Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA | 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas, CA | 415-479-9021 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA | 415-479-9021