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Vatican hosts experts to discuss tenderness Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Close to 100 financiers, philanthropists, artists, tech experts, physicians, politicians and religious leaders spent more than an hour in a Vatican meeting room talking about tenderness.

A project called “Humanity 2.0,” supported by the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, designed the daylong event April 20 to kick off a process of connecting people with different resources, but who all are committed to improving the lives of others.

During the meeting, the discussions moved from the concept of tenderness to ways tenderness becomes action and to a multisession discussion about the worrying state of maternal and prenatal medical care and ways to address it. see Vatican, page 16

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St. Brigid students confirmed

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone confirmed 15 eighth grade students from St. Brigid School at a 5:30 p.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral April 21. Cathedral pastor Father Arturo Albano and retired Father Larry Finegan concelebrated. “Archbishop Cordileone encouraged the children to be open to what God wants them to do,” Immaculate Conception Sister Angeles Marin, the school’s principal, told Catholic San Francisco, noting that April 22 was World Day of Prayer for Vocations.

Good Shepherd pastoral assembly pivotal event in parish renewal Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

About a quarter of the Church of the Good Shepherd Parish’s 450 parishioners teamed up at tables inside the school gym on April 14 – even on a rare fog-free Saturday in coastal Pacifica – to score the parish’s effectiveness, identify its challenges and map out its future together.

The pastoral assembly – the first in the 67-year-old parish’s history – was a spirited, interactive day that parish leaders hoped would serve a second purpose by helping form new alliances between attendees that spanned all ages of the parish community from students to parish stalwarts to relative newcomers.

“When we are in Mass there is a sense of community while we are in the physical church,” said Scott Buskey, 58. “But as soon as Mass is over everyone is off to their busy lives. That clearly is one thing most of us want to resolve.”

Buskey, who grew up in Pacifica and attended Good Shepherd School, is a member of the finance committee and now a parent of a Good Shepherd fourth grader. He served as the facilitator at the table of six delegates where Catholic San Francisco sat in to observe for a half-day.

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Good Shepherd pastoral council members Kelley Chawke and another parishioner record graded marks parishioners said the parish earned for the wording and execution of the parish mission statement during the first-ever pastoral assembly at the Pacifica church. The April 14 event drew nearly a quarter of Good Shepherd’s faithful.

upon two years ago not long after the assignment of pastor Father Luello Palapac in 2014, pastoral associate Suzanne Chinn said.

This gathering of about 130 members of the community was the culmination of hours of individual interviews and consultations, data-driven surveys and focus group discussions, Chinn said. Delegates received a copy of the “Parish Vision Guide” distilled from the results of these efforts, which identified “lights,” or positive pastoral realities of the parish, and challenging “shadows.” Participants of the day were tasked with grading the wording and execution of the parish mission statement as well as prioritizing goals and objectives identified in the document.

The faithful who serve as “pillars” of the church are growing older, Chinn said, causing great concern for the future. There are also the national phenomena of the religiously unaffiliated “nones,” declining church attendance and people leaving the church.

“We needed to do something now,” Chinn said, noting that “Father Lu,” as he is affectionately experience in renewing church communities. “He has taken this vision to heart.”

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Need to know Episcopal ordination: The episcopal ordination of Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP, appointed

by Pope Francis to be an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will be held June 5 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. There will be reserved seating for family and friends, clergy, religious and schools, but lots of open seating. A public reception will follow in the conference center.

VOCATION MASS: A new Mass setting named for St. Joseph will be sung May 1, 11 a.m., at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is principal celebrant. Father Vito Perrone, founder of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph, will concelebrate with members and candidates for the congregation in attendance. The public is invited. A reception follows. RSVP to cosj.rsvp@ gmail.com, cosjmonastery.com.

Knights and Ladies of Peter Claver: The Knights and Ladies will provide blankets, coats, socks and sleeping bags to the homeless as they gather April 27-29 in Portland, Oregon, for their Western States District Conference. Representing the Archdiocese of San Francisco are Councils and Courts 120, 136, and 230 including 55 Knights and 65 Ladies. The order maintains the African-American Catholic tradition in cities throughout the nation while reflecting the multicultural face of the 21st-century Catholic Church.

Archbishop cordileone’s schedule April 30: Mass and dinner, USF Jesuit community May 2: Cabinet & chancery meetings May 3: Chancery meetings; confirmations, St. Dunstan, 5 p.m.

May 6-7: St. Paul parish visit and Mass; school visit and Mass May 9: Chancery meetings; jubiliarian celebration vespers, cathedral, 5 p.m.

May 10: Presbyteral Council, Priest Personnel Board and chancery meetings May 12: Cathedral confirmations, 10 a.m.

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“The shadows are situations where we are weak and where we need to work on because these impede us in our growth and development as a community of Christ’s missionary disciples,” Father Lu said in opening remarks that emphasized the communitywide need to drive the revitalization of the parish.

Limited awareness and understanding among parishioners about the parish’s vision, the purpose and function of pastoral and finance committees, Scott Buskey Joanne Kendrick David Loder inconsistent Church communication Goods & Candles about ministries and Religious Gifts & Books other parish organizations, and a lack of activities for prayerful celebration of the liturgy and sacraments.

We welcome all, embracing our diversity and seeking youth were among the “shadows” described. to grow as a loving and nurturing community serving Communal commitment was emphasized moments others with our God-given talents and gifts.” before in an opening liturgy during which symbols of At Buskey’s table, Joanne Kendrick, a retired high the parish including a large Viking boat and an oar school teacher, former school parent and parishioner were held up and laid at a Marian5altar. locations in California of almost three decades, said the mission statement is “We are not just passengers sitting in one corner written for the people who are already in the parish, enjoying the view, lost in our individual thoughts our Your Local Store: not for those it might want to attract. own agenda,” he said. “Today we are here to assess 369 Grand Ave., S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 “It doesn’t address getting new people into the parthe condition of our boat, the parish, and how to imExit 101 Frwy @ish Grand and it doesn’t address those that were once part prove her condition, soNear that SF we Airport can sail- faster toward of the parish that are now gone,” she said. “I think our common destiny, heaven.” www.cotters.com about my 26-year-old daughter who says ‘Good ShepThe dozen or so tables of six to seven personscotters@cotters.com each herd doesn’t speak to me anymore.’ Kendrick said her were asked to evaluate the parish mission statement daughter is going to a Christian church where they and give it a grade. Pastoral council leaders Peter know her by name.

Gresh and Kelley Chawke recorded the grades from Across the table, Kim Loder, a teacher at Archbisheach table on big sheets of paper. op Riordan High School in San Francisco, questioned It was visibly clear before half the tables were done the lack of emphasis on diversity. “I’m not sure we that the parish mission statement – wording and exare embracing the diversity that we should or say we ecution – earned a “C” average. are,” she said.

The parish mission statement reads: “We are grateful disciples of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, striving to be a faith-filled community through the see GOOD SHEPHERD, page 3

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The table agreed the mission statement deserved a “C.” Facilitators from other tables largely did the same, where the sense of “welcome” and the “nurturing” environment was critiqued as well.

“The consensus of the group is that it ‘checked all the boxes,’” Buskey said. “But in reality it’s more of an aspirational statement we feel the parish is more in the ‘C’ range about achieving.

We feel that we verbally welcome people in this statement, but do we really?”

“As a community we need more warmth in this parish,” said one young man who said his table gave the statement a “B-“ grade. He also said: “Father Lu, we love you, but every time there is a change of pastor there is a lack of continuity in how we deal with each other as parishioners.”

During the second half of the pastoral assembly, the same groups worked together to narrow

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Good Shepherd pastor Father Luello Palapac speaks with pastoral council member Peter Gresh.

down the 10 objectives outlined in the Parish Vision Guide to a prioritized five. In the days and weeks following the assembly, delegates will attend follow-up meetings with a goal of narrowing those five into three solid goals with actionable plans for implementation.

Chinn said that it will take years to see a “big picture result” in the parish and that there will be many issues to take into consideration – turning the parish culture from being priest-dependent to one of empowered “true disciples” for one.

But the enlightening day has already produced “little fruits.”

“One of the greatest gifts of the day was the sense of pride and empowerment that the faithful been able to reclaim for themselves,” she said.

“Being given the opportunity to vote and grade the church community in a concerted effort has now provided the impetus for an amazing growth period at Good Shepherd.”

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Lorraine Moriarty meets Pope Francis during the U.S. Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue at the pope’s Castel Gandolfo residence in June 2015.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County has established a “Children of God” community impact fund in support of its direct services to feeding and clothing the homeless. While not bearing the name of Lorraine Moriarty, in whose honor the fund was established, it bears the name by which she was known by many. Moriarty is the recently retired executive director of SVdP. “Aside from all of the many

important titles and positions Lorraine has held throughout the years, when she introduces or describes herself, she always says she is a ‘child of God first and foremost,’” SVdP told Catholic San Francisco “This is a name we know Lorraine would really be comfortable with as it is how she defines herself.”

The fund was created as a result of requests from SVdP supporters seeking to recognize Moriarty for her contribution to St. Vincent de Paul and the impact she has made

on lives in the community, the society said.

Moriarty served SVdP for 29 years: “Her primary role as she would say is ‘trying to live my life daily as a child of God,’” the society said. “She spent her years with SVdP encountering and accompanying thousands who have reached out for services.

Her legacy is remarkable and will go down in SVdP history!”

Donations to the fund will start to be accepted at SVdP’s “Hands & Hearts Making a Difference” gala May 3.

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Much ado about something Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

The next year, beginning with a Block Party, May 6, will celebrate San Francisco’s St. Agnes Parish and all it has meant to the Catholic Church, its members, and its leadership during the last 125 years. Diane David is chair of the anniversary committee. “It’s been a wonderful experience so far with strong and dedicated committee members,” Diane told me via email. A mission Father Ray statement for the year was born Allender, SJ of the group almost immediately: “Come to the Feast! Join us in a yearlong celebration of St. Agnes 125th Anniversary. We are a parish filled with hope, rich in Catholic traditions with a vibrant presence in the Haight.” The core committee numbers 12 and a large number of others have also volunteered their help, Diane said.

Diane and her family have been parishioners of St. Agnes since 1994 a date that coincides with the parish’s being entrusted to the Jesuits. “I was looking for a parish that was dynamic, up with the times, welcoming and deeply spiritual, and St. Agnes fit that bill,” she said. In those 25 years Diane’s family has had first Communion, confirmation, weddings, baptisms, and funerals at the parish. “St. Agnes has very much become a part of our life for me and my family.”

A lot about St. Agnes is among Diane’s favorite things. “What I like best about this parish is that it’s a picture of the city, geographically in its heart: We are diverse and inclusive and Jesuit and each of those aspects are very important. I look forward to Mass every Sunday, for the liturgy, the prayerfulness, the music, the homily and the people.”

The 125th celebration begins May 6 at the 10:30 a.m. Mass. Jesuit Father Russell Roide, pastor 19942001, will be principal celebrant. Jesuit Father Ray Allender, pastor since 2009, has undergone back surgery and will miss the kick-off but will be back as soon as possible, he told me on the phone.

A special banner by artist Stefan Salinas will be carried in the opening procession as well as prayer flags designed by members of the parish.

“Families in our parish each designed a prayer flag designating what St. Agnes Parish means for their family,” Diane said. The flags will be installed in a small courtyard between the church, the rectory and the garage during the anniversary year. The block party will be held on Page Street between Masonic and Ashbury and in the gym with food trucks, bouncy houses, a ministry fair, music, a talent show, a bake shop, beer and wine for sale, food for younger children, and drinks. A speaker series with talks from Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordil-

TOP LIMB: Honored March 11 with the rank of Eagle Scout, Scouting’s highest accolade, were Victor Uriel Martinez, James Patrick Schmalz, Riley Michael Lucey Mihelich, and Evan Leo Grandvoinet. Each of the young men completed a series of leadership rank advancements, and organized and led an Eagle project. The new Eagle Scouts are part of Boy Scout Troop 343 which is supported by San Francisco’s St. Thomas More and Daly City’s Our Lady of Mercy parishes, and Elks Lodge #3 of San Francisco where the special ceremonies took place. Just 2 percent of Scouts achieve the Eagle rank.

Block party hours are noon-3 p.m. Admission is $25 for adults, $10 for children; angel tickets are available for those who need help attending. No one will be turned away. A raffle offers prizes including a week at a coastal Welsh cottage, dinner at the rectory, and cash prizes of $3,000 and $1,000. www.

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WINNING ANSWERS: The annual Bay Area Junior High Quiz Bowl took place at Archbishop Riordan High School on March 24.

Pictured are the team of eighth graders from Notre Dame School, San Francisco who took first place in the contest: Liam Hansbury, Jay Williams, Jacob Boi, and Clementine Mohun. Nativity School, Menlo Park placed second, and St. Gabriel School, San Francisco placed third. eone, former pastors of St. Agnes and others as well as additional anniversary events will precede a special year-end Mass in April 2019.

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Faith can help cleanse societal waters of racism, says Cardinal Wuerl Mark Zimmermann Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – With faith, people can confront and help overcome the evil of racism, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl said in an April 17 talk at The Catholic University of America.

“The elimination of racism may seem too great a task for any one of us or even for the whole church,” he said.

“Yet we place our confidence in the Lord, because in Christ, we are brothers and sisters, one to the other. With Christ, we stand in the spirit of justice, peace and love.”

Cardinal Wuerl, who as the archbishop of Washington is Catholic University’s chancellor, was invited by its president, John Garvey, to speak on his recent pastoral letter, “The Challenge of Racism Today.”

Speaking at the university’s Pryzbyla Center to an audience consisting mostly of seminarians and other students, the cardinal compared racism to a residue that has contaminated streams that flow into the societal well from which people drink. He warned that the unhealthy contaminants causing racism in our culture can be subtle and ubiquitous.

“We have the possibility to be that fresh stream of water flowing into the societal well,” he said.

Noting that the U.S. bishops in their 1979 pastoral letter “Brothers and Sisters to Us,” identified racism as a sin, the cardinal said that evil has spanned continents and centuries and continues in today’s world.

“In societies around the world, the social construct of race has been used to classify ‘us’ and ‘them,’ separating those who are seen as ‘different’ – those who come from a different place or look differently or speak a different language,” Cardinal Wuerl said. “This construct has then led to the assertion

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People in Memphis, Tennessee, carry union signs and signs with the “I Am A Man” slogan from the 1968 sanitation workers strike on Beale Street April 4. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed April 4, 1968, in Memphis as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in front of room 306 where he was staying. He was in the city to support the sanitation workers. of innate superiority of one group over the other. This has real destructive effects in society and in the lives of individuals and families.”

He said the concept of race is not a biological reality, but a social construct.

“Properly understood, there are not multiple races, but objectively there is only one race – the human race,” he explained. “We are all one species, one people, one human family, albeit manifested in diverse ethnic, cultural and societal ways.”

He added, “We are, all of us, brothers and sisters, children of the same God.” Quoting from his pastoral letter on racism, Cardinal Wuerl said, “Today we need to acknowledge past sins of racism and, in a spirit of reconciliation, move toward a church and

society where the wounds of racism are healed.”

Noting that African-Americans because of their skin color have borne “the social scars of denigration and a cultural classification rooted, fostered and experienced in slavery in this nation and the denial of their fundamental human dignity,” he said the societal impacts of racism endure today.

“The context in which our response to racism takes place,” the cardinal said, “must also include a recognition of the lingering effects of slavery and segregation and of the many social inequities that exist, including the disparate negative impact that certain policies have had, including the concentration of people by race in residential neighborhoods, de facto segregation in public schools, with many African-American children be-

ing consigned to poor quality schools, the inequities manifested in employment opportunities, health care and incarceration rates.”

In his pastoral letter, Cardinal Wuerl emphasized the importance of church efforts to foster social justice, opportunity and hope in facing those problems.

Speaking in the month that marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Cardinal Wuerl praised him as being first and foremost “a man of faith.”

“His Christian faith is what animated his life and kept him going day after day,” the cardinal said. “Always faithful to the Lord and his Gospel, he also insistently, forcefully, yet without violence, reminded this nation that we are all brothers and sisters, because we are all children of the same God.” Cardinal Wuerl also praised Cardinal Patrick O’Boyle, the first resident archbishop of Washington in 1948. Immediately he began working to integrate the archdiocese’s schools, six years before the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregation in public schools. Then-Archbishop O’Boyle also gave the invocation at the beginning of the 1963 March on Washington, which featured Rev. King’s immortal “I Have a Dream” speech.

In February, Cardinal Wuerl blessed commemorative bronze plaques honoring unknown enslaved men, women and children buried throughout the Archdiocese of Washington. The plaques will be installed this spring in the archdiocese’s five cemeteries, to prayerfully remember those enslaved people buried in unmarked graves.

As he concluded his talk, the cardinal said, “My brothers and sisters, it is possible that we can build a new city, a new heaven and earth, a new community. … We’re capable of a much better world. Each one of us can renew the face of the earth.”

Georgetown gathering seeks to overcome polarization within church Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago and Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles will be among dozens of U.S. church leaders convening in June to address the troublesome polarization that marks church Cardinal Cupich and political life and develop steps to work toward achieving the common good.

The June 4-6 gathering at Georgetown University, “Though Many, One: Overcoming Polarization Through Catholic Archbishop Social Thought,” is Gomez meant to be a starting point to bring about Pope Francis’ vision of the church responding to human hurts and social challenges by living out the joy of the Gospel, organizers said.

The two prelates, at times perceived as representing “liberal” (Cardinal Cupich) and “conservative” (Archbish-

op Gomez) perspectives in the American Catholic Church, will be part of an emerging dialogue that planners hope will build stronger relationships and overcome long-standing divides.

“This is a much-needed step to help overcome the polarization we see in our church and in our country,” said Kim Daniels, a planner of the gathering who is a consultor to the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty and a member of Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. “That polarization hurts our evangelizing and witness for the common good.”

John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, which is convening the gathering with other church organizations, echoed Daniels’ concern.

“This is an attempt in a more focused and strategic way to look at how this unnecessary and unhelpful polarization reduces our ability (as Catholics) to make a difference in a really divided country,” Carr said.

“We’re not going to debate economic issues or this controversy or that controversy. We’re going to explore the causes, the costs and how to overcome polarization which undermines (the church’s) public witness,” he told Catholic News Service.

“The beauty of Catholic social teaching is it connects things that are not connected in politics-as-usual and we want to help make those connections,” he added.

The June gathering also will advance the pope’s new apostolic exhortation, “Gaudete et Exsultate” (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), on “the call to holiness in today’s world.”

Participants will include on-theground Catholic leaders, including emerging leaders, from diverse backgrounds in response to appeals

by Pope Francis for the church to be more loving and caring in the world, Daniels said.

“We’re trying to respond to Pope Francis’ reminder that the church is a field hospital and to work in the concrete and not the abstract and work across ideological and political and economic lines,” she explained.

The meeting is expected to draw up to 80 people from across the spectrum of church ministries, including pro-life, religious freedom, education, social justice and grass-roots organizations.

In addition to Cardinal Cupich and Archbishop Gomez, a public session will feature Helen Alvare, professor of law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, and Sis-

ter Teresa Maya, a member of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word from San Antonio, who is president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Daniels and Carr stressed that the meeting is about building long-term relationships among the attendees in the hope that those links will lead to new bonds of understanding and respect in local communities.

The planners expressed concern that the divisiveness within the church and society has become more widely apparent with the growing influence of social media. They said such divisiveness leads to a wider perception that the church has no standing offer guidance on public issues.

By convening church leaders in face-to-face discussions at Georgetown, discussions on behalf of the common good will move forward more rapidly, the planners said.

Participants also will be asked to develop an action plan to follow up on when they return to their home offices, dioceses and parishes. The idea is for each participant to “address polarization in their spheres,” Daniels said.

“We’re high on building relationships,” Carr said. “It’s hard to prejudge people that you’ve met.”

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Fewer refugees accepted impacts resettlement programs

WASHINGTON – Nearly 20 U.S. Catholic refugee resettlement programs have closed in the past two years and dozens of others have scaled back because there are fewer refugees being admitted into the country, said Richard Hogan, director of resettlement services for Migration and Refugee Services, an arm of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

When President Donald Trump took office in 2017, his administration made it clear it wanted to reduce the number of refugees the country would take in.

The number of refugees authorized for admission to the U.S. in fiscal year 2018, which began Oct. 1, 2017, was cut by more than half to 45,000, but the State Department has admitted only 10,548 in the first six months.

Catholic Charities agencies traditionally resettle roughly 25 percent of all refugees admitted into the U.S. each year.

“There is not a Catholic Charities program that has not been impacted in some way,” Jim Kuh, senior director of immigration and refugee services for Catholic Charities USA, told Catholic News Service, adding that the “picture is not a pretty one.”

Priests’ group recommends revisions in US priestly formation

WASHINGTON – An organization of 1,200 priests has called for revisions in the way seminarians are prepared for ministry so that the U.S. Catholic Church can better address challenges that include declining membership and falling seminary enrollment.

The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests addressed five areas of concern, saying that priests must get closer to the people they serve and better understand what it means to be a disciple of Jesus as envisioned

by Pope Francis. The concerns were outlined in a March 29 letter and eight-page document sent to Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations.

The committee, which includes eight other archbishops and bishops, is reviewing the Program for Priestly Formation, the fifth and most recent edition of which was published in 2006. The committee is expected to submit revisions for a new edition of the guide at the November 2019 USCCB fall general assembly.

The AUSCP, which represents a minority of US priests, said its comments were influenced by several challenges facing the U.S Catholic Church: the “departure of millions of Catholics from active participation and membership in the church”; the decreasing number of priests and men entering studies for the priesthood; the declining number of church marriages and baptisms; fewer parishes; and the “growing identification of Americans as ‘spiritual’ rather than ‘religious.’”

Poll: Americans still consider abortion a complicated issue

WASHINGTON – Despite abortion having been part of the national debate for nearly a half-century, it remains a complex and complicated issue to a significant majority of Americans, according to a survey released April 17.

Sixty-two percent of Americans “see abortion as a complicated issue,” with 36 percent saying “it is simple and straightforward,” said the survey, “Young People Set to Impact the Debate on Women’s Health Issues,” issued by the Public Religion Research Institute.

“Americans who say abortion should be either legal in all cases or illegal in all cases are more likely to say the issue is simple and straightforward than those who hold more qualified attitudes,” with close to half of the absolutists declaring it simple and straightforward. By comparison, only about a quarter of those who believe abortion should be legal – or illegal – in most, but not all, cases say the issue is simple and straightforward.

“In the general population, attitudes have remained fairly stable over the last couple of decades,” said Robert P. Jones, PRRI’s CEO, in an April 17 phone interview with Catholic News Service.

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In ‘historic’ move, pope names three laywomen to doctrinal congregation

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis appointed three women as consultors to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It marks the first time women and laypersons were named as active contributors – not support staff.

The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, called decision to appoint the women “historic.” The Vatican announced the appointments April 21.

The new female consultors are Linda Ghisoni, one of two women Pope Francis named to be undersecretaries of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life in 2017 and a seasoned canon lawyer and jurist; Michelina Tenace, a professor and head of the department of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University and one of the six men and six women the pope appointed in 2016 to a commission to study the issue of women deacons; and Laetitia Calmeyn, born in Belgium in 1975, a consecrated virgin who teaches theology at the College des Bernardins in Paris and a nurse specializing in palliative care.

The pope also named two priests as consultors for the doctrinal congregation: Italian Father Sergio Paolo Bonanni, who teaches theology at the Gregorian University; and Spanish Claretian Father Manuel Arroba Conde, a judge serving the Diocese of Rome, professor at Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University.

English, Welsh bishops raise concerns over rise of gender ideology

MANCHESTER, England – The bishops of England and Wales have raised concerns over the rise of gender ideology, saying it is creating confusion among people about the truth of human nature.

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In a statement issued at the end of their April 16-19 bi-annual plenary meeting in Leeds, the bishops acknowledged some people did not “accept their biological sex” but said they, as pastors, were “committed to their pastoral care.”

The bishops said the notion that gender was a social construct rather than a biological fact ran counter to the intuition of most people.

“The idea that the individual is free to define himself or herself dominates discourse about gender. Yet our human instinct is otherwise,” they said in the statement.

“We know that there is so much about our lives that is foundational,” they said. “Today we are faced with an ideology of gender.”

The bishops continued: “We are deeply concerned that this ideology of gender is creating confusion.

“As we continue to reflect on these issues, we hope for a renewed appreciation of the fundamental importance of sexual difference in our culture and the accompaniment of those who experience conflict in their sense of self and God-given identity,” they said. “We all have a duty to protect the most vulnerable.”

The bishops assured transsexuals that they wished “to understand their experience more deeply and ... to accompany them with compassion, emphasizing that they are loved by God and valued in their inherent God-given dignity.”

“There is a place of welcome for everyone in the Catholic Church,” the bishops added.

The statement came about a month after Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster suggested to teachers that children would find their “greatest joy” in their biological sex rather than by selecting a gender of their choice.

Earlier this year, the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, an academic institute serving the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland, said in a briefing paper that children in particular “should not be encouraged or assisted to make life-changing and potentially permanent legal changes of status or medical changes to their bodies.”

In the U.K., increasing numbers of young people have been “self-declaring” in one or more of dozens of new genders over the last three years.

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Ordaining new priests, pope asks them to be merciful

VATICAN CITY – Ordaining 16 men to the priesthood, Pope Francis urged them to be merciful with the people who approach them, especially in the confessional.

Marking the World Day of Prayer for Vocations April 22, the pope ordained 11 men for the Diocese of Rome, four for the Family of Disciples and one for the Sons of Divine Providence. The new priests ranged in age from 26 to 41 and came from Italy, Colombia, Croatia, El Salvador, Madagascar, Myanmar and Vietnam.

As is his custom for ordinations, Pope Francis used the homily prescribed by the Italian Missal but paused when he reached the description of how, through each sacrament, the new priests would minister to the people.

“With the sacrament of penance, you will remit sins in the name of Christ and the church,” he read from the text. “And here I’m going to stop to ask you, please, never tire of being merciful. Think of your sins, your wretchedness, which Jesus forgives. Be merciful.”

Seperately, the pope told Bitish seminarians that the current “culture of the temporary” makes it more difficult than ever for young people to make lifelong commitments to God. “It is good to see young people preparing to make a firm and lifelong commitment to the Lord. But this is harder for you than it was for me, because of today’s ‘culture of the temporary,’” Pope Francis told staff and students from the Venerable English College, the Rome seminary of the bishops’ conference of England and Wales.

Pope Francis welcomed the group to the Vatican April 21 as part of the celebrations of the of 200th anniversary of the restoration of the college and the 900th anniversary of the birth of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury, whose life story Pope Francis cited during the meeting.

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Latin American church proposes synod gathering on women

The Pontifical Commission on Latin America is urging the pope to make the role of women in the church the theme for a future summit of the Synod of Bishops.

“There still exist ‘macho,’ bossy clerics who try to use women as servants within their parish, almost like submissive clients of worship and manual labor for what is needed. All of this has to end,” said members of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America at the end of their plenary meeting March 6-9 at the Vatican.

They proposed that the Synod of Bishops hold an assembly “on the theme of the woman in the life and mission of the church.”

L’Osservatore Romano reported April 11 that Pope Francis had chosen the theme of the four-day meeting, “The woman: pillar in building the church and society in Latin America.”

In addition to 17 cardinals and seven bishops who are members of the commission, the pope asked that some leading Latin American women also be invited. Eight laywomen and six women religious participated in the four-day meeting and in drafting its pastoral recommendations, the Vatican paper reported.

The gathering expressed apprecia-

tion for and based many of its proposals on the Latin American bishops’ Aparecida document.

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio headed the drafting committee for the final document of the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, in 2007 in Aparecida, Brazil.

The Aparecida document’s call to renew the church’s commitment to mission must be followed through by local churches, especially by “denouncing every form of discrimination and oppression, violence and exploitation that women suffer in various situations,” the Pontifical Commission for Latin America’s final document stated.

While expressing appreciation for the Christian witness given by women in consecrated life, it also mentioned mothers who are “authentic ‘martyrs’ giving their lives for their families” and widows who serve their communities in charity.

The commission document said women can and should play a greater role in church life, including in the formation of future priests and that it is important for married women and consecrated women “to participate in the formation process.”

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Sunday readings

Fifth Sunday of Easter ACTS 9:26-31 When Saul arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. Then Barnabas took charge of him and brought him to the apostles, and he reported to them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus. He moved about freely with them in Jerusalem, and spoke out boldly in the name of the Lord. He also spoke and debated with the Hellenists, but they tried to kill him. And when the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him on his way to Tarsus. The church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace. It was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord, and with the consolation of the Holy Spirit it grew in numbers.

PSALM 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32 I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.

I will fulfill my vows before those who fear the Lord. The lowly shall eat their fill; they who seek the Lord shall praise him: “May your hearts live forever!”

I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; all the families of the nations shall bow down before him.

I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.

To him alone shall bow down all who sleep in the earth; before him shall bend all who go down into the dust.

I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people..

And to him my soul shall live; my descendants shall serve him. Let the coming generation be told of the Lord that they may proclaim to a people yet to be born the justice he has shown.

I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.

1 JOHN 3:18-24 Children, let us love not in word or speech but indeed and truth. Now this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And his command-

ment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us. Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them, and the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he gave us.

JOHN 15:1-8 Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches.Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”

The unique intimacy of the mystical marriage

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here is much talk of “intimacy” in our time.

To know and be known, to love and be loved; these pursuits dominate the lives of most of those around us.

The pursuit of intimacy is good and natural, as far as it goes. However, the great crisis in most of our lives is the discovery that human intimacy in fact does not go quite as far as we would like. One hears those with long experience in a healthy and holy marriage share what great loneliness it is to discover that even the beloved spouse cannot truly know and love the other perfectly.

Jesus Christ proposes a different kind of intimacy in Father Joseph our Gospel for this Sunday.

Previtali “I am the vine,” He says, “you are the branches.” St. Augustine explains that “He says this as being the Head of the Church, of which we are the members, the Man Christ Jesus; for the vine and the branches are of the same nature.” By using this evocative metaphor, Our Lord is emphasizing the true identification that exists between Him and us, according to the life of grace.

Just as one cannot separate vine and branches,

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nothing can separate us from being known and loved by Christ, as St. Paul would proclaim joyfully in his epistle to the Romans!

Indeed, this is what it means to be a member of the Catholic Church, which St. Paul calls the Bride of Christ and the Body of Christ. We are one flesh with Christ, in a spiritual marriage with Him. In this life of grace, we discover the perfect intimacy for which we are always longing! This is the basis of the objective perfection and excellence of the life of consecrated virginity: The marriage of the Vine and branches always takes precedence in our heart’s fulfillment.

The unique intimacy of the mystical marriage of the Vine and branches is, like a healthy and holy marriage, not closed in on itself. The branches are given the dignity of bearing the fruit of the Vine, which is the good works of love of God and neighbor. “All the fruit of good works proceeds from this root,” explains Alcuin. “He who has delivered us by His grace, also carries us onward by his help, so that we bring forth more fruit.”

Our marriage with Christ is intimate and fruitful; the deepest longings of the human heart are fulfilled in communion with Him and obedience to His grace. “Without me,” He says, “you can do nothing.”

The Catholic Christian has been given an extraordinary dignity in the intimacy and fruitfulness of mystical marriage with Christ. St. Augustine teaches us that this dignity carries with it a grave responsibility. “For the branches

of the vine are as contemptible, if they abide not in the vine, as they are glorious, if they abide.

One of the two the branch must be in, either the vine, or the fire: if it is not in the vine, it will be in the fire.”

How do we know that we are abiding in the Vine and bringing forth His fruit? “For then may His words be said to abide in us, when we do what He has commanded, and love what He has promised,” Augustine says. This is the teaching of St. John in the epistle for this Sunday: “And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him.”

We have a terrible ability to delude ourselves, to convince ourselves that we are fruitful branches abiding in the True Vine. Our Lord has given us an objective measure: if we follow the teachings of His Catholic Church, then we are abiding in Him. If we are not following the teachings of the Church, then we do not truly love God and we cannot live in Heaven.

The Good News of Divine Mercy is that Our Lord deeply desires that we bear fruit by following His teachings: “Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.” For this purpose, He has given us the teachings of the Church and the sacraments, which cleanse us intellectually and morally, bringing us back into fruitful intimacy with the Vine.

Friday, May 4: 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.

Wednesday, May 9: Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Acts 17:15, 22—18:1. Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14. Jn 14:16. Jn 16:12-15.

Father Joseph Previtali is currently studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, April 30: Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Pius V, pope.

Optional Memorial Blessed Marie de l’Incarnacion, religious. Acts 14:5-18. Ps 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16.

Jn 14:26. Jn 14:21-26.

Tuesday, May 1: Tuesday of Fifth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker.

Acts 14:19-28. Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21. See Lk 24:46, 26. Jn 14:27-31a.

Saturday, May 5: Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Acts 16:1-10. Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 5. Col 3:1. Jn 15:18-21.

Sunday, May 6: Sixth Sunday of Easter. Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48. Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4. 1 Jn 4:710. Jn 14:23. Jn 15:9-17.

Wednesday, May 2: Memorial of St. Athanasius, bishop and doctor. Acts 15:1-6. Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5. JN 15:4a, 5b. Jn 15:1-8.

Monday, May 7: Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Acts 16:11-15. Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b.

Jn 15:26b, 27a. Jn 15:26—16:4a.

Thursday, 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 8: Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Acts 16:22-34. Ps 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8. See Jn 16:7, 13. Jn 16:5-11.

Thursday, May 10: Ascension of Our Lord. Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster, priest. St. John of Avila. Acts 1:1-11. Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9. Eph 1:17-23 or Eph 4:1-13 or 4:1-7, 11-13. Mt 28:19a, 20b. Mk 16:15-20.

Friday, May 11: Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter.

Acts 18:9-18. Ps 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. See Lk 24:46, 26.

Jn 16:20-23.

Saturday, May 12: Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of Sts. Nereus and Achilleus, martyrs. Optional Memorial of St. Pancras, martyr. Acts 18:23-28. Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10. Jn 16:28. Jn 16:23b-28.

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Moral outrage

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oral outrage is the antithesis of morality.

Yet it’s everywhere present in our world today and is everywhere rationalized on the basis of God and truth.

We live in a world awash in moral outrage. Everywhere individuals and groups are indignant and morally outraged, sometimes violently so, by opposing individuals, groups, ideologies, moral positions, ecclesiologies, interpretations of religion, interpretations of Scripture and the like. We see FATHER ron this everywhere, television rolheiser networks outraged at the news coverage of other networks, church groups bitterly demonizing each other, pro-life and prochoice groups angrily shouting at each other, and politics at its highest levels paralyzed as different sides feel so morally indignant that they are unwilling to contemplate any accommodation whatever with what opposes them.

And always, on both sides, there’s the righteous appeal to morality and divine authority (however explicit or implicit) in way that, in essence, says: I have a right to demonize you and to shut my ears to anything you have to say because you’re wrong and immoral and I, in the name of God and truth, am standing up to you. Moreover, you’re immorality gives me the legitimate right to bracket the essentials of human respect and treat you as a pariah to be eliminated – in the name of God and of truth.

And this this kind of attitude doesn’t just make for the angry divisions, bitter polarizations, and the deep distrust we live with today within our

society, it’s also what produces terrorists, mass shootings, and the ugliest bigotry and racism. It produced Hitler – someone who was able to capitalize so powerfully on moral outrage that he was able to sway millions of people to turn against what was best inside themselves.

But moral outrage, however much it tries to justify itself on some lofty basis, religion, morality, patriotism, historical hurt, or personal injustice, remains always the opposite of genuine morality and genuine religious practice? Why? Because genuine morality and religious practice are always characterized by the opposite of what’s seen in moral outrage. Genuine morality and genuine religious practice are always marked by empathy, understanding, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, respect, charity, and graciousness – all of which are glaringly absent in virtually every expression of moral outrage we see today.

In trying to draw us into a genuine morality and religiosity, Jesus says this: Unless your virtue goes deeper than that of the scribes and the Pharisees you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. What was the virtue of the scribes and Pharisees? On the surface, theirs was a very high virtue. To be a good scribe or Pharisee meant keeping the Ten Commandments, being faithful to the prescribed religious practices of the time, and being a man or woman who was always just and fair in your dealings with others. So what’s lacking in that?

What’s missing is that all of these things (keeping the commandments, faithful religious observance, and being fair to others) can be done with a bitter, accusatory, unforgiving heart just as easily (and perhaps even more so) than with a warm, empathic, forgiving heart. Keeping the commandments, going to church, and being a just person can all be done (as is only too clear sometimes) out of moral outrage. To paraphrase Jesus: Any-

one can be gracious to those who are gracious to you. Anyone can love those who love you. And anyone can be good to those who do good to you … but can you be gracious to those who are bitter towards you? Can you be loving towards those who hate you? And can you forgive those who kill you? That’s the litmus test for Christian morality and religious practice – and nowhere inside of anyone who passes this test will you still find the kind of moral outrage where we believe that God and truth are asking us to demonize those who hate us, do us evil, or try to kill us.

Moreover what we do in moral outrage is deny that we are ourselves morally complicit in the very things we demonize and pour our hatred out on. As we watch the world news each day and see the anger, bitter divisions, violence, injustices, intolerance, and wars that characterize our world, a deep, honest, courageous scrutiny should make us aware that we cannot fully separate ourselves from those things. We live in a world of longstanding and present injustice, of ever-widening economic inequality, of endemic racism and sexism, of countless people living as victims of plunder and rape in history, of millions of refugees with no place to go, and in a society where various people are branded and ostracized as “losers” and “sickos.” Should we be surprised that our society produces terrorists?

However sincere and innocent we might personally feel, how we’re living helps create the ground the breeds mass killers, terrorists, abortionists, and playground bullies. We’re not as innocent as we think we are.

Our moral outrage is not an indicator that we are on the side of God and truth. More often than not, it suggests the opposite.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Letters Mass celebration deserves reverence

How enlightening it is to read letters to the editor. Meaningful thought, sharing and caring.

Recently Robert Jimenez from Millbrae wrote about the Mass (“Liturgical music supports Communion,” March 29). A wonderful letter about the “serious religious celebration of the agonizing suffering and death of our Lord.” His letter reminded me about serving Mass as an altar boy at St. Brendan Church in San Francisco in the ‘50s and four years serving at St. Ignatius Church when the school was located on Stanyan Street in the ‘60s.

Serving at the altar, responding to the priest in Latin and spending time with the Jesuits who served on many difficult missions throughout the world convinced me that reverence to the Lord, Jesus Christ, was the most powerful and rewarding devotion in my life. The Last Supper is repeated every day, and near every day I attend this most beautiful reverent and special sacrament: Communion.

Years later serving as a police officer I am convinced that the Lord saved me from many, many life and death experiences. My prayers in church during the Mass are the sine qua non in my life, the life of my wife and children.

The Mass is a celebration deserving of reverence, meditation, deep connection with the Lord and spirituality.

Mass should not be taken to the secular level of tambourines, microphones and noise. The loud music and conversations between and among parishioners during Mass should be taken outside of the church. Keeping in mind that the Lord is present in the tabernacle and meditations that each parishioner may share with the Lord, Jesus Christ must be respected.

Just my thoughts but respectful of many fine choirs.

Richard Bodisco San Francisco

Commendable article on NFP

Catholic San Francisco should be commended for the balanced article by Dr. Elisa Yao (“Family planning in the 21st century,” April 12, Page

11). It makes the honest and true statement that when natural family planning is practiced imperfectly, the accidental pregnancy rate is around 22 percent. Taken together with Father Tad Pacholczyk’s statement that “nobody is perfect” (“The wrong-headedness of ‘wrongful-birth’ lawsuits,” April 12, Page 15) we can all make our own decisions.

Dennis Sadowski’s article about Archbishop Chaput in the same issue (“Catholic teaching guides teaching on contraception, archbishop says,” Page 8) needs further comment. Given how much disagreement within the theological community there is on “Humanae Vitae,” Catholics must make some serious choices. Archbishop Chaput insists that humans are endowed with free will. This implies choices that must be based on an objective personal examination of conscience.

As part of the series of educational articles now running in CSF, readers may hope that one will provide real guidance on conscience. Such an article should be written without reference to the emotionally charged concerns of family planning because the use of conscience in the decision-making process is the same for each potential action. The article should give detail of how conscience must be based on full information, including moral directives of the church, the underlying technology or science, and the personal situation that requires the free will decision process.

Peggy Saunders San Carlos Editor’s note: Father Mark Doherty’s commentary “On conscience” appeared in the Feb. 8, 2018, issue. It may be viewed at https://catholic-sf.org/ news/on-conscience. A U.S. bishops’ article, “Understanding Conscience,” may be viewed at www.

usccb.org/about/pro-life-activities/respect-life-program/2017/understanding-conscience.cfm.

‘Gadarene’ means headlong

It would be most helpful to readers of Catholic San Francisco if a glossary of unusual words found in some of the columns was listed in the paper.

An example: George Weigel’s column “Parsing the ‘T’” (March 15) had the word “Gadarene” (“California leading the Gadarene rush over the cliff as usual”). The word Gadarene is not listed in my copy of Webster’s Dictionary.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Marian H. Ritchie San Francisco Editor’s note: Our in-house dictionary at Catholic San Francisco, Webster’s New World Collegiate Dictionary, 4th ed., defines “Gadarene” as an adjective for “moving rapidly and without control; headlong.” It is derived from the Gadarene swine (Luke 8:26-39) that ran into the sea after demons possessed them.

Remembering Dr. King

Thank you for the magnificent tribute to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (“Rallies, prayer services recall legacy of slain civil rights leader,” April 12).

I’m an old Anglo from Chicago but have always been an idealist. Dr. King was one of my great heroes. Your excellent article caught the essence of a majestic, giving, caring individual who was taken from us much, much, too soon. Our faith is based on such an individual.

Celebrating the good and mourning the loss is something that our faith is based on.

Dr. King was another magnificent model. May his memory endure forever.

Richard Steinbach Novato

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Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome

he defense of the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people. That was the case with the defenders of slavery and legalized racial segregation; it has become the case with abortion.

I’ve long thought that the most callous, coldhearted contribution to the national debate on abortion was penned by the feminist ideologue, Barbara Ehrenreich, in a 1985 column for the New York Times. There, Ms. Ehrenreich deplored the “lasting ... damage” done by the pro-life movement by “getting even pro-choice people to george weigel think of abortion as a ‘moral dilemma,’ an ‘agonizing decision,’ and related code phrases for something murky and compromising ... Regrets are also fashionable, and one otherwise feminist author wrote recently of mourning, each year following her abortion, the putative birthday of her discarded fetus. I cannot speak for other women, of course, but the one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.”

Ms. Ehrenreich remains in a class, so to speak, of her own. But now comes Ruth Marcus, op-ed columnist and deputy editorial page director of the Washing-

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ton Post, who, while admitting in a March 9 column that “the new Gerber baby with Down syndrome is awfully cute,” went on to announce that, “I can say without hesitation” that, had pre-natal testing shown her carrying a child with Down syndrome, “I would have terminated those pregnancies ... grieved the loss and moved on.” Ms. Marcus went on to praise “families that knowingly welcome a baby with Down syndrome into their lives,” but candidly confessed that such a baby was “not the child I wanted ... You can call me selfish, or worse, but I am in good company. The evidence is clear that most women confronted with the same unhappy alternative would make the same decision” to abort the Down syndrome child.

“Not the child I wanted.” There, in a single phrase, is the moral dereliction at the center of Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome: if a pregnancy is inconvenient for career purposes, or the child to be born seems unlikely to tick all the boxes of one’s expectation, one makes the choice – “tragic,” as Ms. Marcus admits, or No Big Deal, on the Ehrenreich scale of values – to destroy the indisputably human life one has procreated. Lebensunwertes leben, “life unworthy of life,” German eugenicists and legal scholars called it in the 1920s. And we all know, or should know, where that lethal logic led when the definition of the “unworthy” was extended beyond the mentally handicapped to include certain ethnic groups, thought not to be the kind of people other people wanted as neighbors and fellow-citizens.

The refusal to recognize that lethal logic is another

facet of Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome. There can be no denial that the object of an abortion is a human being; elementary genetics teaches us that. And if the lethal logic of Lebensunwertes leben prevails, where will the proponents of an unrestricted abortion license stop, when it comes to eliminating the inconvenient? Will the 14 self-identified Catholic U.S. senators who voted recently against a late-term abortion ban stand firm against euthanasia? Will they defend the conscience rights of Catholic medical professionals who refuse to participate in those euphemisms known as “pregnancy termination” or “death with dignity”?

Don’t hold your breath.

Which brings us to the recent Democratic primary in Illinois’s Third Congressional District. There, the heroic Dan Lipinski, a stalwart pro-lifer, survived a vicious challenge from another victim of Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome, Maria Newman. A few weeks before the primary, Ms. Newman told a rally of her supporters, “I know what’s in his heart, and it’s called hate.

That is what Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome has done to our politics: It’s made it possible to say that what’s in the heart of a mild-mannered gentleman like Dan Lipinski is “hate” – and get away with it.

The defense of the indefensible leads to rage, and rage becomes a form of madness.

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

America’s children crusade for gun reform

he impact I witnessed during the “March for Our Lives” demonstration in San Francisco was overwhelming: Instead of crying there was speaking, instead of mourning there was protesting, in place of defeat there was drive, instead of waiting, youth made their voices heard about gun violence. I witnessed hope and not despair, the first chapter of a new era where public morality is the issue. I was swept up into a nationwide movement spearheaded by student survivors of the Parkland massacre.

Fearless young voices railed against the National Rifle FATHER gerald Association with the result D. Coleman, PSS that many corporations are bailing out of their deals with the NRA. The energy of these students, along with thousands of parents who stood at their side, was crackling. A tipping point had been reached. Their demand is vocal, clear and ongoing: The personal cost of unabated gun violence must stop.

Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic. Nearly 1,300 children die yearly in shootings. Another 5,790 survive

gunshot wounds from handguns, rifles and shotguns.

Gunshot wounds amount to the third leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 17. So far this year, nearly 650 children have been injured or killed. Black and Brown children are killed by guns 10 times more often than white children. These deaths, mostly in urban areas, evoked little national protests, rallies, or news conferences.

After massacres in Newtown, Las Vegas, Sandy Hook, Columbine and so many other places, a paradigm shift occurred on the afternoon of Feb. 14, 2018, at the Marjory Douglas High School in the affluent neighborhood of Parkland, Florida. A former student entered the school with an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle with multiple magazines. For six minutes and 20 seconds he fired indiscriminately at students and teachers, killing 14 students and three staff members, while wounding 17 more. President Trump offered prayers and condolences and flags were flown at halfstaff. The killer was labelled a “maniac.” Political and religious leaders called for tighter control to prevent mentally disturbed people from purchasing guns.

BBC News described these responses as “dodging the debate on gun control.”

The young survivors of this slaughter agreed, disenchanted by banal responses. In March, they flooded out of their classrooms and ushered in a new

dawn in the struggle against gun violence. Some 800,000 students and parents gathered in Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and hundreds of thousands more at 844 nationwide events for the “March for Our Lives.”

Huge crowds chanted their way through the streets holding signs reading “Hunting season is over” and “I want to read books, not obituaries.” They demanded reasonable gun control measures and a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The New York Times hailed this moment as “a tremendous display of power,” especially in those places where school administrators tried to prohibit students from participating.

Some pundits issued vitriolic condemnation of “these idealistic, mush- brained kids.” They foolishly underestimate the fact that this generation of young adults have grown up in an era of mass shootings and have had enough. They want tangible change. They will supply several million new voters every year between now and 2030.

Change will happen. Naysayers will be silenced. Narrow-minded gun supporters will be quieted. America’s youth is rumbling and demanding radical changes to eliminate gun violence. It will happen.

Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman is an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University.

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Heart, humility and the Most Holy Name Tony Rossi

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o you put more of your head or your heart into your prayers? While author Gary Jansen acknowledges that you need the right balance, he suspects that over-intellectualizing prayer is a common problem, so we need to focus more on the heart.

And one way to do that is through devotions.

During a “Christopher Closeup” interview with me about his book, “Life Everlasting: Catholic Devotions and Mysteries for the Everyday Seeker,” Jansen explained that his interest in devotions developed over the course of his own life. A self-described worrywart who was raised Catholic but not too steeped in the faith, he found relief from anxiety when someone introduced him to the writings of Thomas Merton. That led him to other writers like Henri Nouwen and Fulton Sheen. “The more I read what they were talking about, the more [I saw] they were dealing with their anxiety and fear and how to overcome it.”

An experience with his young son also taught Jansen a lesson about responding to fear. The two of them went to the grounds of St. Ignatius Retreat House in Long Island years ago to walk around and play. As it started getting dark, Jansen held his son’s

hand as they walked, and the boy said, “Dad, don’t let go. I’m afraid.”

Jansen recalled, “I’ve been frightened many times in my life, and [didn’t] reach out to my father’s hand and say, ‘Abba, hold onto me. Don’t let me go.’ When you can [say], ‘God, hold my hand,’ it changes everything.”

The humility required to do that is part of the reason Jansen believes we sometimes need to let our hearts guide our heads. He views the church as “a huge brain with a big heart,” but worries that overintellectualizing prayer can keep us from reaping its benefits. He explained, “You could read tons of books, but that doesn’t mean you’ll ever know anything more about God unless you have this personal experience along the way.”

That’s where devotions, Scripture, and even biology come in: “When you think of devotions, you never see the sacred mind of Jesus; you see the Sacred Heart of Jesus. You don’t see the immaculate head of Mary; you see the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And when Gabriel comes to Mary and says, ‘You’re going to be the mother of God’...what happens? She ponders this in her heart. And think about this…When a fetus is developing, the first thing to develop is the heart.

That happens about 14 days after conception. An-

other 14 days after that, that’s when the brain starts.

So the heart is sending information that creates the brain… [Putting] the mind at ease through the power of devotion, through the power of heartfelt prayer and meditation, can revolutionize the way that you experience God.” So how can people start practicing devotions?

Jansen said, “One of the things that works for me … is the Most Holy Name of Jesus devotion. You repeat the name of Jesus throughout the day and allow the supernatural power of Jesus’ name, the love that is embedded in that name, to be on your lips throughout the day. When you’re standing in line at the grocery store, repeat the name of Jesus over and over. It’s like thought substitution. Instead of worrying about stuff, repeat Jesus’ name ... St. Paul said, ‘Pray ceaselessly.’ He didn’t really tell us how to do that, but I think the devotion to the Most Holy Name is key to finding out how.”

Rossi is director of communications, The Christophers.

For free copies of the Christopher News Note “Accepting That God Loves You,” write: The Christophers, 5 Hanover Square, New York, NY 10004; or e-mail: mail@ christophers.org.

Pope Francis cites women writers frequently and at length Rita Ferrone La Croix International

The first thing that jumped out at me in Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on holiness, “Gaudete et exsultate,” is how much he has put women in the foreground. Women are usually in the background of papal statements, if they appear at all. Not here. They are upfront and visible.

Right at the outset (§ 3), Francis brings up the witness of Sarah (along with Abraham), and calls attention to the role of our own mothers and grandmothers as holy witnesses who have shaped our faith.

He continues to name outstanding women believers within the exhortation. These include Maria Gabriella Sagheddu (§ 5), Josephine Bakhita (§ 32), Theresa of Calcutta (§ 100), the martyred seven sisters of the monastery of the Visitation in Madrid (§ 141), Scholastica (§ 142), Monica (§ 142), and, of course, Mary, the mother of Jesus (§ 124 and § 176). It’s traditional that papal statements end with an appeal to Mary, but here she also appears within the document, as an exemplar of joy (§ 124).

Francis makes particular mention of the “genius of woman” in § 12, drawing attention to how the Holy Spirit has worked through women saints like Hildegard of Bingen, Bridget of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse of Lisieux, whose witness emerged at crucial times in history. These saints “produced new spiritual vigor and important reforms in the Church,” Francis says. Yet he also credits “unknown or forgotten women who, each in

her own way, sustained and transformed families and communities by the power of their witness” (§ 12).

Indeed, the one paradigmatic example Francis gives of holiness in everyday life is a woman (§ 16). He describes how she faces four different moments of decision in her day, and every time opts for charity, justice, compassion, and faithfulness – each of these moments, as he describes it, is a “step” toward holiness. He also speaks affirmatively of the holiness of men and women who work hard to support their families: literally to “bring home the bread” (§ 7). This papal acknowledgment of women as economic actors is striking.

There’s more. Francis cites women writers frequently and at length. Early in the exhortation he uses a long quote from the philosopher-saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (§ 8). He also includes quotes from Teresa of Calcutta (§ 107), Teresa of Avila (§ 149), and Thérèse of Lisieux (§ 54 and § 105).Of course, he quotes men too, and male saints are well represented. But Francis’ inclusion of so many references to women is noteworthy. It seems to me that by doing so, he is making a statement: women are important to how the church experiences and understands what it means to be holy.

Initial readings of the document have picked up on his references to the “middle class” of holiness, his pushback against his critics among church conservatives, his commitment to migrants and refugees, his pastoral reflections on the beatitudes, his warnings on the reality of struggle against Satan and evil, and his now-familiar

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criticisms of Pelagianism and Gnosticism in the church today.

All these things are true. Yet it would be a shame if we missed another true thing about this exhortation: There are also women there.

Rita Ferrone is the author of several books about liturgy, including “Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium” (Paulist Press). She is a contributing writer to Commonweal.

This article first appeared on La Croix International, the English-language website of the European independent Catholic daily La Croix.

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Human ecology and family planning water treatment plants, will remove the glucuronide and return the synthetic hormones to active status. Concentrations that can affect wildlife have been detected up to 60 miles downstream from a water treatment plant. Concentrations vary at treatment plants, but in the U.K. (where many of the studies have been done), three of seven plants measured ethinyl estradiol (EE2 – the synthetic hormone in the pill) between 0.2-7 ng/L. Although natural estrogen breaks down in about three days in a water treatment plant, the synthetic EE2 can persist in the sludge.

Several changes have been found in the environment related to EE2. Male rainbow trout exposed at 0.1 ng/L rapidly develop protein that should only be found in female fish making eggs. A single dose of 2ng/L of EE2 can retard the development of testes by 50 percent in male trout. Other fish have similar dosage responses; in one study, complete sex reversal (male fish becoming female) took place after exposure to 2 ng/L. Even courtship behaviors have been shown to change with estrogens in the water, with females less attracted to the male fish at levels of 0.5-1 ng/L. There are generational effects as well. A study

by Zha, exposed minnows to EE2 at 0.2 ng/l, which resulted in increased mortality. The next generation of minnows showed no male developed to maturity if still exposed to 0.2 ng/l. Adult female minnows of the second generation were mated with unexposed/healthy male minnows and no fertile eggs were produced. Many surface waters have concentrations of EE2 in the 0.2 ng/l level which caused the profound reduction in fish reproduction.

Although the studies in animals show gender effects at low levels, little is known about the impact on humans. However, a study by Margel compared type of contraceptive use in females to areas of highest prostate cancer incidence and mortality.

The highest rates of prostate cancer occurred in the areas of the highest hormonal contraception, as opposed to the areas with higher non-hormonal contraception, suggesting the sterilizing hormones do have an effect on the health of the community.

Many people do not understand the scientific advances in modern methods such as NFP. These are great choices to support responsible parenthood without harming the environment. In “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis teaches us: “The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the father and our common home, whereas thinking we have power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation. Learning to accept our body, to care for it and to respect its fullest meaning, is an essential element of any genuine human ecology”.

This is the fifth in a series on the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae.”

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enesis 1:31 tells us “God looked at everything he made, and he found it very good.” Our world has been created with a beautiful balance to bring forth life, or, as in “Laudato Si’,” “the book of nature is one and indivisible.”

In human ecology, God created our reproductive systems with an intricate balance of hormones that produces a window of fertility about a quarter of the time in a healthy woman.

The balance of fertility allows most of the month for a connection between dr. lynn keenan unitive husband and wife without the expectation of a child.

For couples using natural family planning and trying to postpone a pregnancy, the time of fertility becomes a time to grow the relationship in other ways, to reinforce that it is the person, not the act, that is the treasure. Like day and night, or the cycle of the moon, or the changing of the seasons, each time period has a purpose. Yet while it would be odd to think of having a permanent summer or winter, when it comes to the ecologically balanced menstrual cycle, control of a woman’s body has been taken for granted, in fact nearly expected, in our culture.

One of the most common ways to control a woman’s fertility is with hormonal contraception, with synthetic estrogens and progestins. Initially this was tried with natural hormones, but they are naturally broken down quickly in a woman’s body, so she would have to take a pill four times a day to suppress fertility. With the change to synthetic sterilizing hormones, by the addition of a carbon-carbon triple bond (which our bodies don’t have enzymes to break down), very low doses can

HV 50 series: Monthly schedule February 8: “The science of fertility,” Dr. Mary Davenport March 8: “One couple’s path into the Catholic Church,” Mariana Lopez and Carlos de la Torre March 29: “The great good of NFP for marriage,” Deacon Bill Turrentine April 12: “Family planning in the 21st century,” Dr. Elisa Yao April 26: “Human ecology and family planning,” Dr. Lynn Keenan Additional articles are scheduled monthly from May through July.

Natural family planning resources U.S. bishops’ comprehensive resource: www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/ marriage-and-family/natural-family-planning/.

U.S. bishops’ For Your Marriage website: www.foryourmarriage.org/connections-living-natural-family-planning.

Archdiocese of San Francisco: https://sfarch.org/nfp.

Family Medicine Education Consortium: www.factsaboutfertility.org/what-ischarting/.

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NEW YORK – Even if one acknowledges that our new cultural moment finally allows “Humanae Vitae” (“Of Human Life”) to be heard and discussed in a fair and open way, there are many who find it difficult to take the document seriously given the relationship of contraception to abortion.

There is what seems like a common-sense view, held by even very faithful Catholics, that the church’s position on contraception undermines its position on abortion. If one really cares about the abortion rate – about actually saving the lives of prenatal children – then surely one will want to give women as much access to contraception as possible to limit unwanted pregnancies.

Such a view is intuitive, often deeply so, but it is not borne out by the facts.

The first thing to keep in mind is that most contraception – due to the mechanism of abortion and user error – has a fairly high failure rate. Combine this with the fact that someone with access to contraception is more likely to have risky sex, one can already see problems with the claim more contraception leads to fewer abortions.

Indeed, research consistently shows that something close to a majority of women who have abortions were regular users of contraception during the month they got pregnant.

Though in need of more study, there is some evidence to show long-acting contraceptive devices, like IUDs, may reduce abortion rates, but a recent study in the United Kingdom found that many women do not want contraception that requires a physical for removal and instead prefer targeted, rather than long-term, protection. Many also are increasingly wary of the higher levels of hormones present in such implanted devices, especially given recent research showing the side effects of such hormones.

Interestingly, the “pro-choice” author of the U.K. study argued that the failure rate of contraception

was an important reason for keeping wide access to abortion, understanding abortion as necessary for women to control their reproductive lives.

In the United States it also is worth noting that “blue,” or liberal, states – which have fewer abortion restrictions and more funding and access to family planning – actually have higher abortion rates than “red,” or conservative, states that have more abortion restrictions and access to family planning.

One could point to European policies with regard to family planning – and their generally lower abortion rates – as pushing in a different direction, but it isn’t clear why most European countries have a lower abortion rate than the United States. Most such countries have significantly more restrictive abortion policies compared to the U.S., with cutoffs in the 12- to 16-week range. Also likely contributing to the lower abortion rate is a larger social welfare system: paid family leave, help with child care, etc.

If the United States had the abortion rate of the average European country, we’d have about 600,000700,000 abortion each year, still a massive slaughter of the most vulnerable. And a relatively small percentage of the lower numbers would come from increased family planning via contraception.

Indeed, in light of the above evidence, it may be the case that a contraceptive mentality actually requires broad access to abortion as a “fail safe” for a culture which sees a wide gulf between sex and procreation.

Indeed, the idea that pro-lifers – by insisting on abortion restrictions which protect vulnerable prenatal children with the law – are often understood as wanting to “punish women for having sex” drives home this point. Rather than seeing pregnancy as part of what sex is designed to do, a contraceptive mentality pushes the culture to disconnect sex and procreation. In this view, consent to sex cannot be consent to support a child, and when contraception fails abortion must be there to keep the disconnect in place.

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Perhaps the best-known abortion article of all time is Judith Jarvis Thomson’s piece that compares pregnancy to being forced by a violent group of music lovers to sustain a famous unconscious violinist against one’s will for nine months.

That such an article could be so popular, read by thousands of undergraduates each semester for the last five decades, shows just how disconnected sex and procreation have become in the cultural imagination. Again, pregnancy is more akin to a violence intrusion rather than something which happens quite naturally as a result of sex.

This view not only belies common biological sense, it also makes it difficult to explain why we would force men to pay child support to mothers who bear their children. If consent to sex is not consent to supporting a child for women, then presumably it would apply to men as well.

There are important arguments to be had about creative ways to reduce abortion and save more prenatal children from death.

New pro-life movements are challenging the traditional movements to focus not only on reducing abortion availability, but also reducing abortion demand. The evidence suggests that a focus on increasing access to contraception, however, should not be part of this movement. It will not substantially reduce abortion rates, and there is a good reason to believe the mentality it produces actually makes abortion a cultural necessity.

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“Healthier mothers are an investment in the health and well-being of our communities and our world,” Marie-Louise Coleiro, president of Malta, told the gathering. She particularly challenged Humanity 2.0 participants to brainstorm concrete ways to improve holistic care – medical, psychological and spiritual – for pregnant women and new mothers who are migrants or refugees.

“The challenge is to translate our love for humanity into real service to our brothers and sisters,” said Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Vatican office for migrants and refugees. “We cannot claim to have or promote ‘integral human development’ if we leave some people out.”

Jennie Joseph, a midwife and executive director of Commonsense Childbirth in central Florida, spoke about the increasing rate of maternal mortality in the United States – the only developing nation in which the rate of mothers dying during or shortly 5: Wednesday afterDay delivery has in- 10/17, KALAMBAKA / DELPHI Today, wethe begin in Kalambaka, where we visit the archicreased over last tectural wonder of Meteora Monasteries, prominently 25 years.

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We enjoyhas some free “virtuous, alsoitsother motivating henear time tobut wander streets, browse thefactors,” many shops the harbor,News or relaxService. and enjoy the breathtaking view. We told Catholic return to the ship to set sail for Kusadasi, Turkey.

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SISTERS OF MERCY: The congregation elected new leadership for the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, West Midwest Community April 7 during the West Midwest Community Assembly in Chicago.

Pictured is the new leadership team: Seated, from left: Sister Susan Sanders, RSM, president, and Sister Ana María Pineda, RSM, vice president. Standing, from left: Sister Margaret Mary Hinz, RSM, Sister Maria Klosowski, RSM, and Sister Peg Maloney, RSM. The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas West Midwest Community is one of six communities that comprise the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, vowed Roman Catholic women religious serving people in poverty and sickness with a special concern for women and children. The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas has more than 2,800 sisters who serve in North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Guam and the Philippines. www.sistersofmercy.org.

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SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION: The sisters and alumnae from Presentation High School made Valentine’s Day cookies for the homeless Feb. 11 at the San Francisco motherhouse. A detail from the group later distributed the goodies to the poor in the Tenderloin. “Some of the homeless expressed their gratitude by saying, ‘God bless you!’” the sisters said.

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STS. PETER AND PAUL SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The North Beach school was the site for Gratitude Day honoring and thanking the Salesian Sisters April 15. The day rotates annually through parishes and schools in the congregation’s Western Province where the sisters have served during the last 75 years.

Patrick Gee, a 1986 Sts. Peter and Paul alumnus, has a special place in his heart for the sisters. “A lot of us came from immigrant families and our parents worked so the sisters kept us busy after school with the Boys and Girls Club, youth group, community service and then summer camp. My success today is in a great way thanks to the sisters. A lot of us owe who we are to those younger years.” Salesian Sister Rosann Ruiz, congregation provincial and pictured here with school

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ST. ROBERT SCHOOL, SAN BRUNO: Student council members coordinated a cancer and free dress fundraiser April 13 raising $660 for cancer research. Students were invited to wear a color representing a cancer that has affected their families.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 28 OUR LADY OF MANAOG: Anniversary Mass, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m., free parking, refreshments. Nelly Sarmiento, (415) 9393678, megamilly54@gmail.com.

MONDAY, APRIL 30 CONCERT: For young adults, whether single, married, engaged, divorced, whoever you are, you’re invited to see internationally-known recording artist Amanda Vernon in concert. Amanda invites you to ask, “Jesus, where are you in my relationships?” Discover how God wants to work everything for the good in our lives, even relationships that are broken, and how sometimes the best blessings come through the worst heartache. Free to attend, Richmond Republic Draught House, Clement Street, San Francisco, 7 p.m.

It’s for young adults ages 21-40. Free drink ticket to the first 50 young adults to arrive. georgea@sfarch.org.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 5

3-DAY CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC CONVENTION: “The Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done,” May. 25, 26, 27, Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway.

Speakers and Bishop Sam G. Mass celebrants Jacobs include retired Louisiana Bishop Sam G. Jacobs, Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia, Father Raymund Reyes, Father Gary Thomas. Days include liturgies, Holy Hour, veneration of Our Lady with sessions in English, Vietnamese and Spanish.

Seminars for adults, young adults, teens, and children’s program, www.NCRCSpirit.org; Norma G. Guerrero, (650) 219-4556

EPISCOPAL ORDINATION: Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP will be ordained to the episcopate

by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, Bishop-desigSan Francisco, 11 nate Christian a.m. A reception for the public will follow the ordination in the cathedral conference center. The archdiocese’s new auxiliary bishop is a San Francisco native and graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco. He entered the Dominican order in 1970 and was ordained a priest in 1976. Mass will be livestreamed at www.sfarchdiocese.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 6

THURSDAY, MAY 10

SHELTER WALK: San Francisco Interfaith Council, 1:30 p.m., parking circle at Lake Merced and Sunset boulevards, http://winterfaithshelterwalk. dojiggy.com.

EPIPHANY CENTER LUNCH: The center’s “Celebrating Mothers Luncheon” featuring orchid sale, silent auction, and lunch on the bay, 11:30 a.m., St. Francis Yacht Club, 700 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, (415) 567-8370; TheEpiphanyCenter.org. The event raises funds for San Francisco’s most vulnerable women and children.

‘LIFE IN SPIRIT’ SEMINAR: All are invited to this series, Tuesdays, 7-8:45 p.m., St. Dominic Church, parish hall, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco.

Evenings will include praise and worship music, small group discussions, and TUESDAY, MAY 8 refreshments. Come explore a deeper relationship with Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Speakers include Father ‘LIFE IN SPIRIT’ SEMINAR: All Ray Reyes, vicar for clergy, Archdiocese are invited to this series, TuesB L Deacon I William C BrenA T days, I O ofU San Francisco; 7-8:45N p.m., S St. Dominic nan, Salesian Father Thomas ThoduChurch, parish hall, 2390 Bush St. kulam. Sponsored by the SF Catholic at Steiner, San Francisco. Evenings Charismatic Renewal. For more informawill include praise and worship tion or to RSVP, go to sfspirit.com or call music, small group discussions, Deacon Ernie at (650) 906-3451. and refreshments. Come explore a deeper relationship with Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Speakers include Father Ray SATURDAY, MAY 5 Reyes, vicar for clergy, Archdiocese of San Francisco; Deacon William Brennan, Salesian Father Thomas LECTURE: “The Christian Imagination: Thodukulam. Sponsored by the SF Anthony Esolen & Dana Gioia,” 12:30 Catholic Charismatic Renewal. For p.m., ballroom at the Asian American more information or to RSVP, go to Activities Center (A³C), 524 Lasuen sfspirit.com or call Deacon Ernie at Mall, Stanford. More information: bene(650) 906-3451. dictinstitute.org/featured-events.

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SUNDAY, MAY 20 FLEA MARKET: All Souls Church hall, 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Set up begins at 9 a.m.

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THURSDAY, MAY 24 ‘LOAVES AND FISHES’ GALA: Catholic Charities Loaves & Fishes Dinner and Gala celebrating the power of extraordinary charity and justice to change lives every day. Recipient of the Loaves & Fishes Award for Faith in Action is Kathleen “Katie” Cardinal with entertainment by celebrated musical virtuoso Ethan Bortnick. Contact us: events@CatholicCharitiesSF.org; (415) 972-1273; visit CatholicCharitiesSF.org/LoavesAndFishes.

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