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THE NEXT CHAPTER OF CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Cathedral celebrates 50th anniversary jubilee St. Mary’s Cathedral, the mother church of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will celebrate its 50th anniversary May 5 with a vespers service led by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. o celebrate the jubilee year of the cathedral, known formally as the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, the archdiocese will offer a lecture series during the year and hold an art exhibit in October.

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VATICAN CITY – Calling for formal recognition of “those lay men and women who feel called by virtue of their baptism to cooperate in the work of catechesis,” Pope Francis has instituted the “ministry of catechist.”

“The Spirit is calling men and women to set out and encounter all those who are waiting to discover the beauty, goodness and truth of the Christian faith,” the pope wrote in “Antiquum Ministerium” (Ancient Ministry), his document released at the Vatican May 11.

In addition to releasing texts of the document in Italian, French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish, the Vatican distributed a video of the text translated into Italian sign language.

Pastors must support laypeople in answering the Spirit’s call and “enrich the life of the Christian community through the recognition of lay ministries capable of contributing to the transformation of society through the ‘penetration of Christian values into the social, political and economic sectors,’” the pope said, quoting what he had written about the vocation of laypeople in his 2013 document, “The Joy of the Gospel.”

Bishops’ conferences will need to determine the “process of formation and the normative criteria for admission to this ministry” and devise “the most appropriate forms for the service which these men and women will be called to exercise,” the pope said.

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Just weeks after joining the Twitter universe, the archbishop has more than 12,000 followers.

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A parishioner receives a blessing from Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone at St. Peter Church in San Francisco May 2, 2021 following release of the archbishop’s pastoral letter on the dignity of the unborn, reception of holy Communion and the behavior of Catholics in public life.

Hispanic Catholics embrace pastoral letter Noguera direct a ministry dedicated to marriage at St. Peter. She told San Francisco Catolico that the pastoral letter is a resource of great help to families and she will include it in her ministry.

The day after he released his first pastoral letter “We believe that this pastoral letter is a remedy on abortion, the holy Eucharist and the responto heal the wounds in families, because many sibility of Catholics in public life, Archbishop families today are carrying the pain and wounds Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated Mass at St. of the traumas that abortion leaves behind,” BerPeter Church, one of the three “Mission parishes” rios said. in San Francisco’s Mission District.

She said that the document is also an exhortaOn May 1, Archbishop Cordileone published tion to recover the love of the holy Eucharist. the document titled: “Before I Formed You in the Noguera said the pastoral letter is a call to care Womb I Knew You: A Pastoral Letter on the Human Dignity of the Unborn, Holy Communion, and for the work of God. “We have to defend it (life), that is the challenge that we have today as citizens Catholics in Public Life.” and as Catholics, to work for the reign of goodness, In his homily, Archbishop Cordileone preached for the reign of peace, and above all for the reign about the sanctity of the Eucharist, the “bread of of life,” he said. life,” and compared it to the human dignity of the Noguera exhorted Catholics to defend the digunborn. nity of human life. “About this we have to work as He lamented that “fewer and fewer Catholics beCatholics and give testimony each day in our lives lieve that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist,” and in the places where we live and work.” and for this reason do not “behave in a way that is In his pastoral letter “Before I Formed You in consistent with this teaching.” personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. the Womb I Knew You,” Archbishop Cordileone ParishionersAreacted to the homily and to the If youof have a flagletter. honoring your loved one's military service and would like to donate it content thereceived pastoral toDamaris the cemetery to be flown asher part of an “AvenueAugusto of Flags" on Veterans' Day,LETTER, PAGE 3 Berrios and husband C.Memorial Day, 4th of July andSEE PASTORAL LORENA ROJAS

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NEED TO KNOW ARCHBISHOP’S RESPONSE: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone issued a May 17 statement in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments regarding his pastoral letter “Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You: A Pastoral Letter on the Human Dignity of the Unborn, Holy Communion, and Catholics in Public Life.”

Read the pastoral letter at InTheWomb.org. Read the archbishop’s response to Speaker Pelosi at https://sfarch.org/letters-and-statements.

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A week before the May 1 publication of the letter, Parish office (415) 435-1122, Darby Duke (415) the archbishop joined Twitter @ArchCordileone. Two 497-5605; dmduken@gmail.com. weeks earlier, his first video condemning abortion and supporting women who are pregnant posted on TikTok @sf.lifeanddignity. A week later the archbishop had nearly 12,000 followers on Twitter and nearly ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE 30,000 views of his videos on TikTok. On May 28, a Zoom panel discussion with the archbishop will be moderated by Antonin Scalia Law MAY 22: Confirmation, St. Anthony of Padua, School Professor Helen M. Alvaré on the topic of Menlo Park, 11:00 a.m.

“Life in the Womb: The Preeminent Issue.” Cosponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and HuMAY 23: Pentecost, Adult Confirmation, St. Mary’s man Life Action, the event is free, with registration Cathedral, 5:30 p.m. at IntheWomb.org and there will be an opportunity to submit questions via Zoom. It will also be streamed JUNE 5: Ordination of Dominicans, St. Dominic, on Facebook @sflifeanddignity.

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PANELIST KRISTAN HAWKINS is president of Students for Life of America since 2006 and has led a grassroots activist organization that has established Students for Life groups at campuses nationwide.

Among her publications is the book, “Courageous: Students Abolishing Abortion in This Lifetime,” 2012.

PANELIST LILA ROSE is founder of the human rights non-profit Live Action. As an undercover journalist, Rose recorded Planned Parenthood employees advising purportedly underage girls on getting abortion and ignoring cases of sexual abuse. Rose just this month published “Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World.”

PANELIST KATHY FOLAN is a birth mother and prolife speaker. Folan is a wife, mother and director of family and youth ministry at St. Dominic’s Church in San Francisco.

PANELIST NATHAN SULLIVAN is an engineer and Kathy’s son, who she placed with a Catholic family in an open adoption more than 30 years ago.

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Parishioners of San Francisco’s three “Mission” parishes gathered for a May 2 Mass at St. Peter Church celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. In his homily, the archbishop spoke about his first pastoral letter published the day before titled: “Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You: A Pastoral Letter on the Human Dignity of the Unborn, Holy Communion, and Catholics in Public Life.”

PASTORAL LETTER: Hispanic Catholics embrace FROM PAGE 1

delves into the dignity of the human life of the unborn, addressing the topic from four perspectives: the gravity of the evil of abortion, cooperation in moral evil, the meaning of choosing to receive the holy Eucharist, and the responsibilities of Catholics in public life.

The archbishop emphasized in his homily the bravery of early church martyrs who gave their lives to defend the sanctity of the Eucharist. Italian martyr Simeon Cardon and other religious of his congregation were killed in 1799 when they went to recover the consecrated hosts profaned by French soldiers during the Napoleonic wars.

If we do not act in accordance with what we say that we believe, said the archbishop, “We begin to think that it must not really be true, then our faith weakens and we move away from God.” Noting the Gospel passage that says, “By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples,” the archbishop explained

‘This is the sacrament of our communion with him, but to commune with integrity, this act has to express a personal communion with Christ, otherwise the communion would be a lie.’ that those fruits “begin in the church, in the Mass, and in the attitude toward the holy Eucharist.”

“This is the sacrament of our communion with him, but to commune with integrity, this act has to express a personal communion with Christ, otherwise the communion would be a lie,” explained the archbishop.

Parishioner Rosario Haro agreed.

“We, by coming to Mass and receiving Communion, are saying that we are Catholics, that we believe in the church, and that we believe that these

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Deacon Mynor Montepeque of Corpus Christi Church in San Francisco said the letter explains “basically to live the Catholic faith.”

Deacon Montepeque talked about the implied agreement in receiving the gift of the holy Eucharist.

“When we participate in it we are in communion with the church,” he said.

“This signifies that we believe in everything that the church teaches us.”

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Magazine profiles lives reclaimed through after-jail scholarships CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Trung Tong had a hard time adjusting to a new country, racial discrimination and poverty after he and his family left Vietnam for San Jose when he was 9-years old.

After being called names like “gook” and “chink,” Tong started hanging out with kids who had gang ties, and drinking and taking drugs. Crime and violence soon became a secret part of his world.

“I was living a double life” he told Deacon Dana Perrigan in the first issue of Excell Network Magazine launched this May by Julio Escobar, founder of the Excell Network. The nonprofit raises scholarship money to help formerly incarcerated men and women turn their lives around through education and mentorship.

Tong, a Boy Scout working on his Eagle Scout rank killed a man and let his look-a-like brother take the rap for two years. He eventually turned himself in and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

The fledgeling magazine profiles Tong and other young people who have been able to reclaim their lives through reentry scholarship grants financed through a grant to the California Catholic Conference restorative justice programs from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).

Escobar is the longtime coordinator of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Restorative Justice Ministry and the founder of Communidad San Dimas, a nonprofit Catholic restorative justice ministry.

By founding the cleverly named Excell Network and launching the magazine filled with dozens of stories of lives reclaimed, Escobar hopes to provide more scholarships to the formerly incarcerated.

Network breakfasts will be held the second Saturday of each month at St. Agnes Parish in San Francisco, where community members can meet scholarship winners and help fund scholarships that are helping them rewrite their stories.

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ST. GABE FIRST IN ACADEMIC DECATHLON: St. Gabriel School in San Francisco placed first overall in the region’s first-ever online National Catholic Academic Junior High Decathlon March 6. Director of advancement Georgia Wasley shared a photo of students who participated in this event. St. Gabriel was part of a competitive field of 25 schools and approximately 250 children.

In addition to winning first-place overall, and winning first-place in the Super Quiz category, individual student subject wins include: Val K., first place in Fine Arts; Emily T., first place-in English; Ava Rose, first place in Social Studies; Ella W., second place for Literature; Amrita R., third-place for Science.

The team moved to the national round on March 13 where they took home an additional subject win of third place in Social Studies.

Trung Tong Tong, now 25, was accepted into the Project Rebound program at San Francisco State University and is majoring in psychology. He applies to graduate school this fall and plans to become a licensed clinical social worker. He also works as a substance abuse counselor and serves the homeless in Alameda County.

His conversion from prison inmate to graduate student began with attending Christian worship services in prison. Tong enrolled in the the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults and entered into the Catholic Church at Easter.

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60.5 YEARS AND COUNTING: Fern (Fernando) and Marina (nee’ Petri) Maza celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with their children Steve, Joanne and Sharon on May 1, 2021. The fete came some six months after their actual 60th anniversary on Dec. 17, 2020. The longtime parishioners of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame postponed their family celebration of their anniversary because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fern and Marina graduated from different Catholic high schools in San Francisco, both in 1955: Fern, from Sacred Heart High School, and Marina from Sts. Peter and Paul School.

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Pius X awards highlight parish catechesis amid ‘extraordinary challenges’ NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Catechists, parish ministry leaders and high school seniors were honored May 6 for their contributions to faith formation and parish ministry at the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s annual Pius X awards dinner, held online this year.

Organized by the Office of Faith Formation, the online awards presentation featured Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and other speakers who expressed their gratitude for the honorees and offered attendees the ability to chat virtually with neighbors and award winners.

In his message, the archbishop said the church recognizes “that so many of you have provided consistent years of service to adults, youth and children” in a variety of parish ministries and roles.

“In this Easter season, we renew our baptismal commitment and respond to the call to be missionary disciples. You have welcomed this call as catechetical ministers. Your faithfulness is an example of hope in this time of extraordinary challenge.

I thank you for the witness you are giving. We share this ministry, this vocation, together,” he said.

Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the Office of Faith Formation, said the honorees “were a great gift to the archdiocese,” because of their ministry as parish catechists, youth leaders, or catechist trainers. She also thanked the archdiocese’s pastors for their critical support of parish catechetical work.

The archdiocese recognized 89 parishioners for catechesis service awards. Awardees came from 17 parishes, with the greatest number of honorees, 19, coming from Corpus Christi Parish, San Francisco.

A number of the awardees have served for a quarter century or more at their parish, including Ken Del Ponte at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, Buena Dandan and Christian Community Sister Nona Barairo at St. Augustine Parish, Margaret and Joseph Murphy and Diana Powell at Mater Dolorosa Parish, Deacon Alvaro Ortega, Yamilet Ortega and Hilaria Collins at Corpus Christi ParNewspaper Newspaper ish and Mary Beaudry at St. Veronica Parish.

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Women religious catechists at Holy Angels Parish, Colma, Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City and St. Augustine Parish, South San Francisco sang the opening hymn at St. Augustine for the Pius X awards presentation.

St. Augustine pastor Father Raymund Reyes thanked catechists and directors of religious education for the ”indispensable role you do as providers and shapers of the faith of our children as well as their parents.

Obviously, the COVID-19 pandemic has made this year so difficult, and yet you have persevered, you have become more resilient, resourceful and courageous in front of a live camera. Congratulations, God bless you all and thank you for all you do,” he said.

Six people completed the archdiocese’s master catechist certification, showing they are ready to be involved in training other catechists, and 9 people completed the archdiocese’s foundational training course for parish catechetical leaders. The archdiocese also recognized 16 high school seniors for their service to their parish.

Deacon Fred Totah, director of the archdiocese’s Office of Pastoral Ministry, said teaching the faith holds a special place in the church.

“You hold the words and image of Jesus for so many who have come to know and say yes to our loving God and church,” he said. “Your example has given fire to adults, children, youth and families.”

The awardees are an example of

Pope Francis’s call to missionary discipleship, he said, and through their work “have joined a long line of saints in heaven and earth eager to tell the story of our faith,” he said The awards dinner happened only a few days before Pope Francis formally instituted the ministry of catechist in the Roman Catholic Church on May 11 in his apostolic letter “Anti-

quum Ministerium” (Ancient Ministry).

The pope said the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments will publish a Rite of Institution for the lay ministry of catechist.

Bishops’ conferences will need to determine the “process of formation and the normative criteria for admission to this ministry” and devise “the most appropriate forms for the service which these men and women will be called to exercise,” he said.

Pope Francis often has spoken of the importance of selecting, training and supporting catechists, who are called to lead people to a deeper relationship with Jesus, prepare them to receive the sacraments and educate them in the teachings of the church.

At meetings of the Synod of Bishops over the past 30 years, especially synods for individual regions of the world, bishops highlighted the important role of lay catechists in building and sustaining local Christian communities and called for more resources to be devoted to their training and support and for greater recognition and respect for their contributions.

The Statistical Yearbook of the Church, a Vatican publication, said that as of Dec. 31, 2019, there were more than 3 million catechists serving the church.

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Prayers for cathedral’s past and present Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led a vespers service May 5 to mark the 50th Anniversary of the dedication of St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

The archbishop spoke of the cathedral’s design and its link to the Second Vatican Council.

“The Council certainly urged the church to be engaged with the world,” he said. “So our cathedral is filled with clear glass windows that see out onto the city, onto the world in which we are to be engaged while we are here in God’s house that represents the community of heaven.”

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Upcoming cathedral jubilee lecture will explore dogma of Mary’s Assumption NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Archdiocese of San Francisco will inaugurate a lecture series celebrating the 50th anniversary with a look at the dogma St. Mary’s Cathedral is dedicated to, the Assumption of Mary.

On May 30, Jesuit Father Dorian Jesuit Father Llywelyn will speak Dorian Llywelyn about the historical background and popular belief in the Assumption at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

“It’s a fascinating topic,” he said.

I’m honored to be talking, honestly, and it’s a gift of a subject to talk about.”

Father Llywelyn, the current president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at University of Southern California and a Mariologist, will discuss the development of belief in the Assumption in Eastern and Western Christianity. The lecture will include examples of art depicting the Assumption to help guide the conversation. The hope, he said, is to think “with the audience about what

the dogma means and why it is important” and what difference it makes on a daily basis to Catholics.

Although the belief in Mary’s assumption stretches back to the early church, it was only in 1950 that Pope Pius XII made an infallible statement on the dogma of Mary’s assumption.

The Assumption, together with the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception, motherhood of God, and perpetual virginity, are the foundational dogmas regarding Mary.

In both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches, Mary’s assumption is celebrated as a feast day on August 15, but the two traditions differ about the precise details. Eastern Churches believe that Mary died before being assumed into heaven, while the Roman Catholic Church has made no official statement on whether she died.

For Father Llywelyn, Mariology – the theological study of Mary – is an area where he can always find something new to learn, because Mary stands at the intersection of many church teachings and expressions of Catholic life. In some countries such as Poland or Mexico, Mary becomes closely entwined with national identity. On a popular level, people feel

emotionally close to Mary because she is a mother, and nearly every Catholic culture has a locally inspired devotion to Our Lady that expresses deep affec-

tion for Mary and confidence in her intercession.

While his lecture will be focused on the past and present, Father Llywelyn said St. John Paul II’s emphasis on Mary as the “Star of Evangelization” is a fruitful idea Catholics can continue to explore.

“It’s sometimes easier to access unbelievers when talking about Mary than Jesus, and she’s of infinite interest to all sorts of people. There’s something there everybody can latch onto and something that attracts them and draws them in,” he said.

At Father Llywelyn’s Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC, a multi-year project has begun to bring together scholars from across disciplines to discuss Our Lady of Guadalupe and her influence on culture, art and religion.

Father Llywelyn said the institute exists to build connections among scholars as much as between all lay Catholics.

“We live in a very polarized world and that polarization finds its way into the church. We want to make sure there’s a place for everyone at the table but that nobody’s excluded; we want to keep dialogue open in the church,” he said.

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WASHINGTON – Diocesan Respect Life coordinators and the Pro-Life Secretariat of the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops are encouraging Catholics to speak out against the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, legislation which bans federal Medicaid funding of abortions.

“It is so important for people in our parishes to learn about the Hyde Amendment and the life-saving, conscience-protecting impact it has had for the past 45 years. Without this protection, our federal tax dollars will contribute to millions more abortions around our nation and beyond,” said Rachel Hendricks, diocesan Respect Life coordinator for the Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey.

The Hyde Amendment, which first became law in 1976, prohibits use of federal Medicaid dollars for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the woman would be endangered.

Named for former Representative Henry Hyde, Illinois Republican, the amendment is renewed every year as part of the appropriations bill for what is now the Department of Health and Human Services.

It was excluded, however, in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act that was signed into law March 11 by President Joe Biden.

As the amendment faces an uncertain future, the USCCB’s Pro-Life Secretariat is encouraging Catholics to sign the petition asking members of Congress to oppose the Hyde Amendment’s repeal at https://www.notaxpayerabortion.com/.

The petition urges members of Congress “to ensure that the Hyde Amendment and all similar life-saving appropriations riders remain in place during the 117th Congress and beyond.”

“Do not force Americans to subsidize the taking of innocent life,” it adds, urging Congress to “oppose any bill, including any appropriations bill, that expands taxpayer funding of abortion.”

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SEATTLE – Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne has formed a Racial Justice and Cultural Diversity Commission to guide the archdiocese on issues and initiatives “concerning intercultural competency and the sin of racism. As members of the body of Christ, we must continue to break down prevailing attitudes and any expressions of racism – both in the church and in our communities,” Archbishop Etienne said in a May 6 news release announcing the 13-member commission. “We will confront racism and injustice directly so that healing can occur. As Catholics, we are called to transform our institutions and society into one that respects the dignity and rights of all people,” he said. He named 13 Catholics of various races and ethnicities as members of the commission.

They hail from parishes across the 19-county archdiocese in western Washington and include lay Catholics, clergy and a Religious Sister of Mercy.

The archdiocese said the commission’s focus will be ongoing reform, but it will begin its work with three key initiatives: terminology, standards of behavior and intercultural training.

CLEVELAND – Catholic proponents of nuclear disarmament joined scientists in calling on President Joe Biden to pursue an ambitious plan to end the threat nuclear weapons pose to the planet. In a statement to the White House May 12, a group of 14 disarmament advocates – seven Catholics, including three bishops, and seven scientists – urged Biden to seek a new agreement with Russia to continue reducing nuclear weapon stockpiles and work worldwide to achieve their abolition. “We are scientists committed to protecting health and safety and Catholic leaders committed to the common good of all people,” the statement begins. “We are uniting in calling on President Biden to reduce the nuclear threat as our nation works with others for a world without nuclear weapons.” The Union of Concerned Scientists’ Global Security Program and Stephen Colecchi, former director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of International Justice and Peace, collaborated on developing the statement.

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A Palestinian man stands next to damaged shops in the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, in Gaza City May 13, 2021.

U.S. bishop urges end of Holy Land violence between Israelis, Palestinians CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace called on Israelis and Palestinians to end the violence in Jerusalem and Gaza that has claimed dozens of lives and left hundreds of people injured.

“The maiming and killing of one’s neighbor only serves to demonize one’s adversary and deepen passions that divide and destroy,” Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, said in a May 13 statement released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In calling for peace between Israel and the Islamic political party Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, Bishop Malloy cited the words of Pope Francis, who on May 9 expressed concern over the ongoing clashes between Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem.

“I invite everyone to seek shared solutions so that the multireligious and multicultural identity of the Holy City is respected and fraternity prevails,” the pope said then. “Violence begets violence. Enough with the clashes.”

He also said bishops were “saddened that simmering tensions erupted into violence in the Holy Land.”

The statement comes in the wake of the most violent fighting in several years between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

The violence has left at least 83 Palestinians, including 17 children and seven women, dead and more than 500 wounded, Gaza’s Health Ministry said May 13. The same day, the Associated Press reported seven fatalities in Israel, including a soldier killed while patrolling the Gaza border and six civilians; one was a 6-year-old.

The violence was triggered by events in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Jewish settlers have been invoking a law that allows them to reclaim homes lost during 1948 Arab-Israeli

war if they have old land deeds. The settlers have threatened to evict Sheikh Jarrah’s Palestinians, who do not have rights to reclaim homes from which they fled.

In addition, Israel has imposed stiff gathering restrictions during Ramadan. Palestinians have been protesting since April, and clashes have turned increasingly violent.

Following a May 10 confrontation at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, militants in Gaza sent rockets into Israel.

In response to the rocket attacks, Israel launched airstrikes, sent more troops to the border and called up military reservists.

Bishop Malloy said the U.S. bishops have long supported upholding the Status Quo of the Holy Places, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The status quo is an understanding among religious communities regarding nine shared religious sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, West Bank.

“We affirm the need to adhere to international law in settling these disputes, rightly rooted in moral law, the rights of nations, and equal dignity of every people,” Bishop Malloy said.

The statement said the U.S. bishops join Pope Francis, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and others who have “called on the international community to intervene in the promotion of a just peace in the Holy City.”

“We especially offer our prayers for all those who rightfully call the Holy Land home, as it is through them any lasting peace will come,” he said. “May the primary adversaries in this conflict be given the guidance, strength and courage that only comes from on high to build trust amidst those who are eager for belligerence. With our suffering Lord as our model, we renew our enduring commitment to our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land.”

Protests spread to West Bank cities over the weekend. Neither side has backed down from the violence, even as U.S. and Egyptian officials have tried to mediate a cease-fire.

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As COVID-19 spikes, Indian church officials look for ways to help CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI – Catholic officials in India are working to help citizens get help during the second wave of COVID-19 and the accompanying lockdown.

“Our priority now is to save as many lives as possible,” Archbishop Victor Henry Thakur of Raipur told ucanews.com. He said with movements restricted, the archdiocese is reaching out to as many people as possible through neighborhood networks to provide food and medical help, including getting patients admitted to hospitals.

Bishop Jose Chittooparambil of Rajkot told ucanews. com: “We are providing medical care to people under trees and makeshift tents, as our priority is to save as many lives as possible.” Suspected patients who need home quarantine are provided accommodation in church buildings, he said, since most village families live together in small mud houses where quarantine is not possible.

Archbishop Thakur said that, during the first wave of the pandemic last year, Catholic activists helped migrant workers with cooked meals, drinking water and other basic requirements.

“The priority has changed now,” the archbishop said.

Ucanews.com reported medical facilities are overwhelmed with more than 300,000 new infections across India daily.

Despite best efforts, “many people die for want of medical care as hospitals, including Catholic facilities, are unable to accommodate even seriously affected people,” Archbishop Thakur said.

On May 12, India reported 4,120 COVID-19 deaths and 348,000 new cases, increasing total cases to 23.7 million.

“Our hospitals are full and we have no way to accommodate more patients,” said Bishop Chittooparambil.

“We are now busy equipping our clinics in villages with the minimum needed facilities and medicine to attend to COVID-19 patients. Critical patients are referred to nearby government-designated COVID-19 hospitals,” he said.

Rajkot Diocese is distributing cooked food to 100 families where all members are infected and unable to prepare food.

Delhi Archdiocese, also badly hit by the pandemic, is in contact with families who have lost members and providing online counseling, said Father Savarimuthu Sankar, archdiocesan spokesperson.

“We also distribute raw food to poor families through parishes to ensure they do not suffer because of job losses on account of the lockdown,” he said.

The archdiocese is helping COVID-19 patients who cannot return to their homes with temporary accommodation.

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These desks also provide free medical consultancy with doctors, said Father Nigel Barrett, spokesman for Mumbai Cardinal Oswald Gracias.

“Our effort is to provide every help possible to ensure that no one dies without medical care for want of information,” said the priest.

“Our work is not restricted to Catholics. It extends to everyone irrespective of caste, creed or religion,” Father Barrett told ucanews.com.

Catholic hospitals in Kerala state have spearheaded a movement against private hospitals trying to exploit the situation by overcharging for medical facilities.

“Our priority is to make health care affordable to the needy in this crisis when hospital beds are becoming scarce,” said Father Jacob Palackappilly, deputy secretary-general of the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council.

The bishops’ body has instructed Catholic hospitals to set an example by providing affordable medical care to everyone battling the pandemic.

The Kerala council also offers online counseling and help desks “as part of our initiative to be with the people,” Father Palackappilly said.

Some dioceses in Kerala also give families a kit that contains a pulse oximeter, digital thermometer, inhaler, mask and sanitizer to help people monitor their health and go to the hospital only when necessary.

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By Paul Larson MILLBRAE – In the weeks leading up to Memorial Day, observed on the last Monday of every May, many of us like to plan ahead for this long weekend so we can “live it up”. Some of us think of Memorial Day as a precursor to summer and a time to rev up the party.

Then there are those of us who like to spend this time with our families at picnics or other activities. Some go on extended weekend trips of wine tasting or spa relaxation. Many observe the holiday by taking advantage of Memorial Day sales and go shopping, or by attending popular annual events such as festivals or concerts. Still, some stay home as to avoid all the weekend shenanigans.

There are others, though, who prefer to reflect on the purpose and meaning of Memorial Day. Remembering those who gave their lives in service of their country, while protecting the United States of American and its citizens, and in many cases protecting citizens of other countries, or while serving in various other capacities.

This is what we all should make a point of thinking about as we’re enjoying our long holiday weekend.

There are a good number of families who have first hand experience with a loved one losing his or her life as a member of the Armed Forces. For those families Memorial Day is a little different. They may spend that weekend at a Memorial Service for those who’ve served, or they may prefer to quietly visit their loved one at the cemetery.

Some will go to church and pray, and others will reflect privately in a quite place. Then

again there are others who will participate fully in the Memorial Day weekend surrounded by family and friends. There is no one way to mourn, honor or celebrate a lost loved one’s life.

It’s easy to associate Memorial Day with members of the Armed Services who were lost in recent memory, such as those serving in many parts of the world including the Middle East, Viet Nam, Korea or during World War II, and for a good many during World War I, but it is vital for us to remember that the sacrifices made by those during more historical conflicts are equally important to reflect on and learn about. It’s because of those who fought hard to keep our country together, and fought valiantly to create this country as a whole, is why we live the way we do, and why our country is looked upon as a beacon of freedom. It is for these reasons that we have floods of immigrants, legal and illegal, wanting to take great risks to live here. Just the fact that this is happening shows that our country has qualities that are remarkable among the rest, and exists due to those who’ve given up their lives to create and preserve it.

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Cardinal at Fatima shrine: World needs ‘spiritual restart’ after pandemic CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

A cardinal celebrating Mass at Portugal’s Fatima shrine May 13 said that the world needs a “spiritual restart” as well as economic reconstruction after the pandemic.

Preaching on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church, said financial recovery required an accompanying spiritual revival.

He said: “At this present crossroads of history, we cannot allow the revival of hope to coincide solely with the concern for the material expression of life.

There is, no doubt, an urgent need to supply food, and this demanding task, which is essentially one of economic reconstruction, must unite and mobilize our societies.

“But our societies also need a spiritual restart. We do not live without bread, but we cannot live only on bread. The deepest moments of crisis have always been overcome by infusing a new soul, proposing paths of interior transformation and spiritual reconstruction of our common life. This was the message of Fatima, in that distant year 1917, as the world was plunged into the first chemical war in history and one of the deadliest.”

The 55-year-old Portuguese cardinal was preaching at a Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima on the anniversary of the day in 1917 that three shepherd children – Lucia dos Santos, Francisco, and Jacinta Marto – saw the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Addressing a reduced number of pilgrims due to coronavirus restrictions, the cardinal said: “What did the Virgin ask to humanity, through the little shepherds? Prayer, penance, and conversion, that is, concrete means of interior reconstruction.”

With the wind tugging at his vestments, the cardinal noted that Thursday marked the 40th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square.

A year after the incident, on May 13, 1982, the Polish pope traveled to Portugal to thank Our Lady of Fatima for saving his life.

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In 2020, the annual May 13 celebrations at the Fatima shrine took place for the first time without the physical presence of pilgrims due to COVID-19 restrictions.

ACI Digital, CNA’s Portuguese-language news partner, reported that this year’s international anniversary pilgrimage at Fatima began May 12 with the rosary and a candlelit procession as the statue of Our Lady of Fatima was carried from the Chapel of the Apparitions to the outdoor Prayer Area.

Mendonça, a poet and theologian who received the red hat in 2019, then presided over a Celebration of the Word in the presence of around 7,500 pilgrims.

Concluding his homily, Mendonça said: “We pilgrims always come to Fatima empty-handed. But from Fatima, we carry, awake within us, a dream. Fatima teaches us how to illuminate a world which is in darkness. Be it the small world of our heart, be it the heart of the vast worvld.”

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The cardinal said: “Thirty-nine years ago, Pope St. John Paul II presided at this Eucharist ‘to thank Divine Providence in this place which the Mother of God seems to have chosen in a particular way’ that his life had been spared in the attack in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. And John Paul II’s appeal is that one should recognize in Fatima the preparation of a new spiritual time.”

Referring to Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Fratelli tutti, the cardinal said that post-pandemic reconstruction would require a profound sense of fraternity.

He said: “The world, exhausted by this pandemic that is still going on, and which requires each one of us to be vigilant and responsible, is not only hungry and thirsty for normality: it needs new visions, other grammars, it needs us to take the risk to have dreams.”

“Especially to the young people, and to the young Portuguese who are preparing to welcome the World Youth Day in 2023, I want to say from Fatima: instead of being afraid, have dreams. Discover that God is the ally of your most beautiful dreams. Dare to dream of a better world. Feel that the future depends on the quality and consistency of your dreams.”

He continued: “And finally, I turn to you, dear pilgrims. And I want to tell you that I feel not only close to all of you, but truly consider myself one of you. The message of Fatima, seen from the outside, seems formatted and austere. And many, only seeing the surface of the shrine, see only the dramatic expression of so many tears, demands, and promises. But the pilgrims to Fatima experience that it is much more than that.”

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Pentecost Sunday ACTS 2:1-11 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language. They were astounded, and in amazement they asked, “Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? Then how does each of us hear them in his native language? We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.” PSALM 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

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Christian unity is marked by love; one that is self-giving, sacrificial, and seeks the good of the other. This love is what builds true community and fraternity, that is often so marred in our cultures. Recognizing this lack in our own culture, some groups pursue false unity which SISTER MARIA seeks a kind of forced “sameCATHERINE ness” that often breeds anger, or TOON, OP contempt for another group. All of these St. Paul mentions in his letter to the Galatians as “works of the flesh”: Our sinful choices motivated by pride,

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Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord be glad in his works! Pleasing to him be my theme; I will be glad in the Lord.

Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

If you take away their breath, they perish and return to their dust. When you send forth your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth.

Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

1 COR 12:3B-7, 12-13 Brothers and sisters: No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.

As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.

SEQUENCE VENI, SANCTE SPIRITUS Come, Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial

home shed a ray of light divine! Come, Father of the poor! Come, source of all our store! Come, within our bosoms shine. You, of comforters the best; You, the soul’s most welcome guest; Sweet refreshment here below; In our labor, rest most sweet; Grateful coolness in the heat; Solace in the midst of woe. O most blessed Light divine, Shine within these hearts of yours, And our inmost being fill! Where you are not, we have naught, Nothing good in deed or thought, Nothing free from taint of ill. Heal our wounds, our strength renew; On our dryness pour your dew; Wash the stains of guilt away: Bend the stubborn heart and will; Melt the frozen, warm the chill; Guide the steps that go astray. On the faithful, who adore And confess you, evermore. In your sevenfold gift descend; Give them virtue’s sure reward; Give them your salvation, Lord; Give them joys that never end. Amen. Alleluia.

JOHN 20:19-23 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.

The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”

Pentecost 2021 jealousy, and lust. True Christian unity produces fruitful results that he also details in the same letter: love, joy, peace, patience, and kindness, among others.

Authentic unity fosters our dependency upon God and other members of the body of Christ. Paul aptly notes that each member of the body functions in its own capacity, but also necessarily needs other members. This dependency means that each person’s needs will be supplied and the whole group will flourish simultaneously.

Our spiritual life depends on this principle of participating in and building up the common good.

Because of this God the Father can say to St. Catherine of Siena, “I could easily have created men possessed of all that they should need both for body and soul, but I wish that one should have need of the other…Whether man will or no, he cannot help making an act of love.”

God’s love orders each of us individually and collectively to this unity and dependence.

The Holy Spirit’s descent marks the Apostles with permanent dispositions that puts them at the service of this solidarity. The Holy Spirit’s gifts enable them to understand and know the things of God while having a holy fear of sin (understanding, knowledge, and fear of the Lord), to order their lives in light of God’s providential plan (wisdom), to persevere in prayer and in

fighting the good fight of faith (fortitude and piety), and to respond to the guidance of the Holy Spirit (counsel).

Receiving these gifts allows the Apostles to deepen their own love for God. Likewise, it arms them to spread the faith so that God’s kingdom can be born in the hearts of men everywhere, regardless of ethnicity, culture, or social status. We partake in these very graces through the sacrament of confirmation. In this sacrament, the Holy Spirit rushes upon us with his gifts. The Holy Spirit generously doles these out according to one’s openness.

Thus, preparing souls for confirmation helps a soul to be docile to receiving these seven gifts. Strengthened by the sacraments we are able both unified with one another and dependent on God. We can return to the graces we received at confirmation, by asking the Holy Spirit to stir these up in us.

These beautiful gifts God lovingly bestows help us to courageously witness to the love and transformation that God wills for the world. Through the intercession of St. Catherine and the Holy Spirit may we become who we are meant to be through these gifts, so that we “will set the world on fire” with his love.

SISTER MARIA CATHERINE TOON is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MAY 24: Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. GN 3:9-15, 20 or ACTS 1:12-14. PS 87:1-2, 3 and 5, 6-7. JN 19:25-34.

TUESDAY, MAY 25: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor; St. Gregory VII, pope; St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, virgin. SIR 35:112. PS 50:5-6, 7-8, 14 and 23. SEE MT 11:25. MK 10:28-31.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26: Memorial of St. Philip Neri, priest. SIR 36:1, 4-5a, 10-17. PS 79:8, 9, 11 and 13. MK 10:45. MK 10:32-45.

THURSDAY, MAY 27: Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury, bishop. SIR 42:15-25. PS 33:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. JN 8:12. MK 10:46-52.

FRIDAY, MAY 28: Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 44:1, 9-13. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b.

SEE JN 15:16. MK 11:11-26.

SATURDAY, MAY 29: Saturday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Paul VI, pope.

SIR 51:12cd-20. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. SEE COL 3:16a, 17c. MK 11:27-33.

SUNDAY, MAY 30: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. DT 4:32-34, 39-40. PS 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22.

ROM 8:14-17. RV 1:8. MT 28:16-20.

MONDAY, MAY 31: Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ZEP 3:14-18a or ROM 12:9-16.

ISAIAH 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6. SEE LK 1:45. LK 1:39-56.

TUESDAY, JUNE 1: Memorial of St. Justin, martyr.

TB 2:9-14. PS 112:1-2, 7-8, 9. SEE EPH 1:17-18. MK 12:13-17.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2: Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs. TB 3:1-11a, 16-17a. PS 25:2-3, 4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9. JN 11:25a, 26. MK 12:18-27.

THURSDAY, JUNE 3: Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga

and Companions, martyrs. TB 6:10-11; 7:1bcde, 9-17; 8:4-9a. PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. SEE 2 TM 1:10. MK 12:28-34.

FRIDAY, JUNE 4: Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time. TB 11:5-17. PS 146:1b-2, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10. JN 14:23. MK 12:35-37.

SATURDAY, JUNE 5: Memorial of St. Boniface, bishop and martyr. TB 12:1, 5-15, 20. TOBIT 13:2, 6efgh, 7, 8.

MT 5:3. MK 12:38-44.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. EX 24:3-8. PS 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18. HEB 9:11-15. LAUDA SION. JN 6:51. MK 14:12-16, 22-26.

MONDAY, JUNE 7: Monday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Cor1:1-7. PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. Mt 5:12a. Mt 5:1-12.

TUESDAY, JUNE 8: Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Cor 1:18-22. PS 119:129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135. Mt 5:16. Mt 5:13-16.

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Gaia, false gods, and public policy

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claim no expertise in climate science. I do claim a certain competence in detecting spin in the media; for I’m a card-carrying member of that clan, as I’ve committed print journalism for more than 40 years and worked in television for over 20.

Thus credentialed, I rise to note that serious spin has dominated media coverage of climate change for a long time now.

There are, to be sure, exceptions to this rule. Since Hurricane Katrina, though, it’s generally been all-hysteria-all-the-time in reporting and commentary on weather and climate change.

This may get eyeballs onto GEORGE WEIGEL screens and newspaper pages; it doesn’t do much for cool, calm public debate.

So when the chief scientist from the Obama administration’s energy department, who’s also a professor of physics at Cal Tech, challenges the spin and the hysteria, attention should be paid. That’s precisely what Steven E. Koonin does in the recently published “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters” he takes on just about every shibboleth emboldening today’s crusaders against climate change. Professor Koonin doesn’t deny that the planet is warming and that human beings have something to do with that.

He does question some of the claims behind the present drive to do something through massive governmental interventions.

Thus, to quote from the Wall Street Journal review of his book, Koonin shows, from the scientific data, that “tornado frequency and severity are…not trending up; nor are the number and severity of droughts. The extent of global fires has been trending significantly down. The rate of sea-level rise has not accelerated. Global crop yields are rising, not falling. And while global CO2 levels are obviously higher now than two centuries ago, they’re not at any record planetary high – they’re at a low that has only been seen once before in the past 500 million years.”

Not shocked (or angry) at Koonin yet? Then try his own words: “Heat waves in the U.S. are now no more common than they were in 1900…the warmest temperatures in the U.S. have not risen in the past 50 years…. humans have had no detectible impact on hurricanes over the past century….Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago… The net economic impact of human-induced climate change will be minimal through at least the end of this century.”

As I said, I’ve no credentials to judge the accuracy of Koonin’s assertions. I do like his against-the-grain

I certainly can’t be the only person who’s noticed that carbon tradeoffs are the new religion’s form of indulgences – the selling of which in the 16th century led to a lot of trouble.

boldness, and I certainly agree with his argument that the science – not media and activist spin on the science, but the actual data from the many authoritative reports he cites – should govern decision-making about public policy and climate change. I also have an idea of why the climate debate has become so emotionally fraught. It’s not just because of media spin and political opportunism, although both of those play their part. It’s because environmentalism has become an ultramundane pseudo-religion.

That religion has a deity: Gaia, the Earth. It has a sacred text: Rachel Carson’s 1962 book “Silent Spring,” which began the transformation of the American conservation movement (which respected the natural environment without deifying it) into contemporary environmentalism. It has its religious holidays, “Earth Day” being the Pentecost of the new religion and the occasion for homiletics that mimic Peter in Acts 2:14-36. (A pre-K student, I’m told, brought home from school this past April 22 the revelation that “we should get rid of our cars because they’re bad for the air.”) Gaia-religion has a kind of ersatz sacramental life: I’ve been in circumstances where there are seven recycling bins, which certainly rings bells in the Catholic mind. It inculcates a moral code; some of it makes sense – How can anyone object to the fact that our highways and national parks are virtually litter-free these days? – but other parts of it veer into the worst forms of elitist, anti-natalist zealotry, as when some of the new religion’s prophets urge shrinking the planet’s human population by 6 billion people in the name of saving (or appeasing) Gaia. And I certainly can’t be the only person who’s noticed that carbon trade-offs are the new religion’s form of indulgences – the selling of which in the 16th century led to a lot of trouble.

Is ours a secular world? Or is it a world that’s traded authentic religion for a modern form of idolatry – one that’s corrupting our politics because it displaces reason with the kind of existential dread the ancient Canaanites once felt about Moloch?

GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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One of the questions the priest or deacon asks a couple during the wedding ceremony is this: “Are you prepared to accept children lovingly from God and bring them up according to the law of Christ and his church?”

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Thus, he could go out on a stage, radiate a powerful energy, and then step off the stage and within minutes break down in tears and beg someone to console him. In terms of his sexuality, though he was a vowed celibate who remained faithful to his vows, occasionally he would fall in love so obsessively with someone that he was able to keep his vows and his sanity only by checking himself into a clinic for professional help.

This isn’t the stuff you normally read in the lives of saints, at least of those who are officially canonized and held up as models of sanctity; but that is in fact the stuff of saintliness. Soren Kierkegaard, whom Henri idealized, defined a saint this way: A saint is someone who can will the one thing. Not an easy task. Not because the right thing is hard to will, but because we also will many other things. Thomas Aquinas affirmed that every choice is a renunciation. That’s an understatement. Every choice is a series of renunciations, and that makes both choosing and saintliness difficult.

Writing his diaries, Nouwen describes his struggle in this way: I want to be a great saint, but I also want to experience all the sensations that sinners experience. I want to withdraw into the silence of prayer, but I don’t want to miss anything happening in the world. I want to bury myself in anonymity among the poor, but I also want to write books, be known by others, see places, meet people, and do interesting things. That’s what he wrestled with, just as we all do, but he managed, in the end, to will the one thing.

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How did he do it, how did he become a saint despite it all? He did it through a humble honesty that never denied his struggles. He did it by accepting his own complexity, by falling to his knees in prayers of helplessness when his own strength wasn’t enough, and by letting the poor love him. And he did it by sharing his wounds with the world, by seeking professional help whenever he broke down, and by learning from all the pain, obsessiveness, and heartache that, in the end, our hearts are stronger than our wounds; because of that we can keep our commitments and ultimately find peace inside of complexity, temptation, and struggle.

The saints of old, no doubt, had their own struggles in trying to will the one thing, to healthily channel their wild energies and give themselves over to God. However, the stories we hear of their lives tend to highlight more their virtue than their struggle. For example, Mother Teresa is also a saint from our generation, and a very inspirational one at that. For many of us, her life and her virtue seem so far removed from our own earthy and messy struggles that we look at her as a saint we can admire but not quite imitate. That’s unfair of course. She also had her struggles, mammoth ones. Still, it is not her struggles that are generally highlighted when her story is told.

Henri Nouwen’s story and his writings highlight his struggles, not just his virtue and wisdom.

Knowing the earthiness of his struggles can give the impression that there is less in him to admire than in someone like Mother Teresa. Perhaps. But, in Nouwen we see someone we can more easily imitate.

OBLATE FATHER RON ROLHEISER is former president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas where he is now a full-time faculty member in the school’s Spirituality Institute.

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Simone Weil wrote that, and she is right. We need saints demanded by the present moment and I would like to propose someone whom, I believe, fits that description, Henri Nouwen, the priest and popular spiritual writer who died in 1996. What was his saintliness and why is it particularly apropos in terms of the present moment?

Henri Nouwen is arguably FATHER RON the most influential spiritualROLHEISER ity writer of our generation.

However, his spirituality was not born out of an easy temperament nor an untested faith. As Michael Higgins writes in his biography of Nouwen, his was a “genius born of anguish.” Nouwen was a saint wracked with anxiety, an ideal patron for a generation awash with it.

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POPE: Establishes formal ministry of catechist priests or consecrated persons, but as authentic laymen and laywomen who, in the distinctive nature of their ministry, are able to experience the full of extent of their baptismal vocation of witness and effective service in the community and the world.”

Laypeople who feel called to the ministry of catechists should be actively involved in the life of their Catholic communities and faithful to the Gospel and the teaching of the church, he said. But they also must receive “suitable biblical, theological, pastoral and pedagogical formation to be competent communicators of the truth of the faith.”

“Catechists are called first to be expert in the pastoral service of transmitting the faith as it develops through its different stages from the initial proclamation” of the Gospel, preparation for receiving the sacraments and support in living a Christian life, the pope said.

Presenting the document to reporters, Archbishop Fisichella said catechesis “cannot be improvised.”

“Those who will be catechists must know that they speak in the name of the church and transmit the faith of the church,” he said.

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The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, he said, “will soon publish the Rite of Institution of the lay ministry of catechist.”

The congregation already is working on revised rites for the ministries of lector and acolyte, which Pope Francis opened to women in January.

While millions of lay men and women around the world already serve as catechists, readers and altar servers, formal institution into the ministries signifies that the service is stable, delegated by the bishop and publicly recognized by the church.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, noted how St. Paul VI wrote in 1975 about the importance of laypeople using their gifts for the growth of the entire church.

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Laudato Si’ 2.0: Divesting is a ‘moral imperative’ On May 24, 2015, Pentecost Sunday, Pope Francis formally promulgated his seminal encyclical “Laudato Si’.”

It was immediately recognized as a defense of our planet, the Earth, gifted to us by God our Father Kenneth creator. It stands as Weare an encyclical letter written in defense of our children, our grandchildren, and our great grandchildren, and the future of both humanity and the natural world.

“Laudato Si’” was also written in defense of science. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei were condemned and science was denied by the Catholic Church. Today, the church has evolved to become a demonstrated leading proponent of science, and in particular the science of climate change.

Pope Francis offers to the world a unique argument on climate change.

His is an immensely prophetic and challenging teaching with a pointed focus on the moral dimension of climate change.

The impact of climate change on the world is multifaceted and ever increasing. Perhaps most striking is the accelerated global glacier mass loss. Due to global warming, glaciers (distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets) are shrinking rapidly, altering regional hydrology, raising global sea level, and elevating natural hazards. Today, 200 million people live on land that is predicted to fall below the high-tide lines of rising sea levels by

the end of this century. More immediately, upward of 1 billion people could face water shortage and food insecurity just within the next three decades.

Last year, to mark the fifth anniversary of “Laudato Si’,” the Vatican published a 225-page document as a manual for implementing the environmental and social change initiatives advocated by Pope Francis.

With the title, “Journeying Toward Care for Our Common Home,” Catholics everywhere are told to divest from fossil fuels. They are advised to avoid investing in “companies that are harmful to human and social ecology, … and to the environment, such as fossil fuels.” Needless to say, the Vatican itself, as an economic entity, does not invest in fossil fuels.

The call from Pope Francis has not been ignored. The University of San Francisco, Georgetown University, the University of Dayton, and other Catholic educational institutions have all accepted and effectively implemented the call to divest.

But Catholics are not alone. Last year, a group of 42 religious institutions jointly announced their decision to divest from the fossil fuel industry. These included Catholics, Anglicans, Methodists, United Reformed, Baptists, Quakers, and Buddhist traditions, with active ministries in 14 different nations. It was the largest ever such joint announcement from religious organizations.

In “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis is explicit about the responsibility to transition to renewable sources of energy as quickly as possible. Pope Francis states: “We know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels – especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser de-

gree, gas – needs to be progressively replaced without delay.”

Without careful attention to the way money is being invested, there is a strong possibility of unwittingly supporting the very practices that are degrading our planet Earth.

For any Catholic institution, fossil fuel divestment is first of all a choice of moral consistency. It is about putting “Laudato Si’” into practice and hearing “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”.

To financially invest and hence to support and endorse the fossil fuel industry, is a direct contradiction to Pope Francis and the teaching of the Catholic Church.

Last year on Jan. 16, 2020, during an official meeting of the local Marin deanery, Marin County priests voted unanimously to propose that the Archdiocese of San Francisco adopt the policy position of fully divesting from all fossil fuel industries, in accord with the teaching of Pope Francis.

Pope Francis and nation leaders worldwide have declared climate change to be a real and present danger, in fact, an emergency.

In summary, it is both immoral and unethical to invest in fossil fuel entities, putting at risk the very lives of our children, and the future of our God-given home. As Pope Francis flatly states: “The climate crisis requires our decisive action, here and now.” The only option then for any Catholic institution is to divest from fossil fuels, and to do it now.

FATHER KENNETH WEARE is a moral theologian and pastor of St. Rita Church in Fairfax.

He serves on the California Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Environmental Stewardship.

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Sister M. Leona Marchand, a Dominican Sister of San Rafael for 70 years, died April 25, 2021. She was 90 years of age.

“Deeply committed to her call to religious life, Sister Leona led a life of quiet joy, exuding a sense of peace Sister M. Leona and calm, and offered Marchand, OP a special sense of presence to all with whom she came in contact,” the sisters said in a statement.

Born in Lodi, one of seven children, Sister Leona first met the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael when she attended St. Anne grammar school. “Those formative years of growth in scholarship and faith laid the foundation for a rich life of ministry and service with a strong commitment to lifelong learning,” the sisters said.

Earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in education from Dominican College, Sister Leona went on to serve in education as an elementary school teacher and administrator in various schools and locations over a more than 30-year career.

Sister Leona made a career switch in the mid-1980s serving the remainder of her active ministry life in the health sector. Sister Leona took a position as a chart analyst in the medical records department at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, which was founded by the Dominican Sisters. She was a valued team member at the hospital for 15 years.

“Sister Leona eased into community life anywhere she resided,” the sisters said.

“Easy-going by nature, she formed wonderful relationships and possessed enviable skills in cooking, baking, and sewing as well as bookkeeping which quickly earned her house leadership roles.”

Sister Leona resided at her community’s Our Lady of Lourdes Convent in San Rafael.

Survivors include a nephew, Jason Gaydosh.

A funeral Mass was celebrated May 5 in the Dominican Sisters Gathering Space with interment at St. Dominic Cemetery in Benicia. Due to precautions for COVID-19, attendance was limited to immediate family and the Dominican Sisters.

Remembrances in honor of Sister Leona may be made to the Retirement Fund, Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, Advancement Office, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael 94901.

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LITURGY & PRAYER WEDNESDAYS, RECURRING: Online Cancer Prayer Support with Mercy Center: 11 a.m.-noon.

An ecumenical Christian group for men and women who have or have survived cancer, and for their support persons. In general, we spend little time talking about cancer itself and its treatments. This is a prayer group where we read Scripture, inspirational reflections and focus on healing. Apart from sharing and prayer, we support members with daily prayer and medical appointments. Visit mercy-center.org/ event-calendar.

MONDAY, MAY 31: Online Memorial Day Cemetery Mass: While there is no Mass at the cemetery over Memorial Day weekend, Catholic Cemeteries is offering an 11 a.m. online Mass celebrated

by Msgr. Harry Schlitt. Visitors are encouraged to visit their beloved dead at the cemeteries.

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THURSDAYS THRU MAY 27: Book of Psalms.

Weekly Online Course with Father William Nicholas: These 150 prayers express a variety of sentiment and feeling covering a wide range of spirituality from earthy to mystical, thanksgiving to regret, deep affection to equally deep resentment, joy to the depths of despair. Father Nicholas presents an overview of the prayers 7-8:30 p.m. Visit frbillnicholas.com/zoompresentations.

Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology: How is virtue related to happiness? What makes a human act right or wrong? Join Father Michael Hurley, O.P. and Father Justin Gable, O.P., on an online tour through the Nicomachean Ethics, lectures on moral philosophy given by Aristotle in Athens in the 4th century B.C. Explore the basic principles of virtue, the nature of responsibility and the importance of friendship. 10 a.m.-noon. $100. Visit dspt.edu/continuingeducation.

MUSIC & ART SUNDAY AFTERNOONS: St. Mary’s Cathedral Sunday Afternoon Livestream Concerts: Enjoy the longest continuously running organ concert series in San Francisco, and other instrumental and vocal recitals. May 23, Folias Duo, featuring Carmen Maret, flute, and Andrew Bergeron, guitar; May 30, Duane Soubirous, organ.Visit smcsf.org/event/musical-meditations-3.

LEARNING TUESDAYS, MAY 4-JUNE 8: Short course on C.S. Lewis with Dr. Peter Kreeft: The School of Pastoral Ministry presents a five-week online course on some of C.S. Lewis’ lesser known works of fiction and non-fiction. This course will explore six of C.S. Lewis’ most powerful and life-changing books, “Surprised

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SATURDAYS, MAY 22, 29; JUNE 12, 19, 26: The Foundations of Virtue, a lecture series from the

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26: On the Front Line with the COVID-19 Vaccine: University of San Francisco graduate Fred Angulo ‘78, MS ‘79, who after a long career working for the CDC joined Pfizer, will join USF professors PhD. Taryn Vian and PhD Christina TzagarakisFoster for an online panel discussion of the history of the vaccine’s development, the science behind the vaccine, the ethics of distribution, and public health perspectives on the vaccine.

THURSDAY, MAY 27: Unlocking Divine Action-A Wise Habits lecture from the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology: Father Michael Dodds, OP, will take a look at how our understanding of divine action is inherently tied to our idea of causality. Visit dspt.edu/events.

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RETREATS FRIDAY, MAY 28: “Life in the Womb-The preeminent issue,” a free webinar with San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone: moderated by law professor Helen Alvare and panelists Lila Rose (Live Action), Kristan Hawkins (Students for Life of America), and pro-life speakers Kathy Folan and Nathan Sullivan. 2 p.m. Visit sfoar.ch/life for more information and to register.

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Las catequistas del programa de formación de fe de las iglesias del Naufragio de San Pablo y Todos los Santos en Bayview y San Francisco respectivamente, están preocupadas por la salud mental de algunos estudiantes en el programa y el resultado del curso virtual este año. Las dos parroquias trabajan bajo la misma administración.

Algunos estudiantes han mostrado síntomas que podrían estar ligados a depresión o ansiedad, dijo la hermana Estela Martínez pastoral asociada y catequista de la iglesia del Naufragio de San Pablo.

Desde el año pasado cuando comenzó la catequesis en octubre y tuvieron que enseñar a través de Zoom, han tenido que lidiar con nuevos retos, además de los que se presentan cada año.

Enseñar la fe católica de forma virtual ha presentado problemas que aunados a otros como consecuencia de la pandemia, podrían estar afectando la salud mental y el resultado del aprendizaje de los estudiantes del programa de catequesis, manifestó la hermana Martínez.

Algunos estudiantes muestran síntomas que pueden estar ligados a problemas como depresión y ansiedad. Niños que al inicio del curso se les veía alegres, participativos y puntuales, pocas semanas después fueron cambiando. Ahora se les ve desmotivados, distraídos, comienzan la clase tarde y se van antes de terminar, no asisten a la misa, ni participan en los proyectos.

Los retos en general se presentaron desde el comienzo del curso. Primero tuvieron problemas para conectarse a las clases virtuales, algunos niños no enfocan las cámaras de sus computadoras a sus caras y los catequistas no pueden mirarlos, y en algunos casos se les hace difícil comunicarse con los padres de familia, alertó la hermana Martínez.

Otra dificultad que están enfrentando es sobre como evaluar el curso y pasar a los niños a la siguiente etapa que es recibir la Primera Comunión.

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La hermana Estela Martínez, pastoral asociada y catequista de la iglesia del Naufragio de San Pablo en Bayview se ve durante una procesión del Día de la Hispanidad. Derecha, la familia Aguiano posan para una foto de la Primera Comunión, sus cuatro hijos asisten a la catequesis en esta parroquia. que es un requisito del programa y como calificar la participación de los estudiantes en las clases.

Javier y Mariela Aguiano tienen a sus cuatro hijos en el programa de catequesis de la iglesia del Naufragio de San Pablo en Bayview, y han visto una gran diferencia en la catequesis este año comparado con los anteriores a la pandemia, los niños no se motivan en la clase a través de la computadora.

“Cuando los niños asistían a la catequesis en el salón, salían de ahí compartiendo lo que habían aprendido y eso era una gran satisfacción para mí como papá porque estaban poniendo atención en la clase”, dijo Javier Aguiano.

Los tres hijos mayores de los cuatro que tienen los esposos Aguiano, Gabriela, Douglas y Graciela ya hicieron la Primera Comunión. Gabriela y Douglas

están este año en el programa de catequesis para la Confirmación. La menor de los cuatro, Ariana, asiste a la catequesis para recibir la Primera Comunión este verano.

Su papá piensa que Ariana es la más afectada con el programa virtual, ya que no ha podido memorizar las oraciones, y está desmotivada porque no le gustan las clases en la computadora, dijo.

Este papá del Valle de la Visitación, entiende que todos estos cambios son consecuencia de la pandemia, pero, le preocupa que sus hijos se están perdiendo de compartir y experimentar con diversos recursos durante las clases de catequesis como lo hacían antes, espera que el catecismo vuelva pronto a los salones, dijo Aguiano.

El verano del 2021 atrae nuevos servidores a la Iglesia La pastoral Hispana Arquidiocesana espera que muchos católicos se inscriban en las clases de formación para lectores y ministros extraordinarios de la Eucaristía que se ofrecerá los meses de julio y agosto en la iglesia San Pedro en San Francisco y en otras iglesias en San Mateo y Marín de las cuales se dará a conocer.

El diácono Mario Zúniga, coordinador de este programa de formación motivó a los católicos de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco a registrarse para que puedan enriquecer la fe con el aprendizaje basado en: la espiritualidad, el estudio de la Biblia, la liturgia y su técnica.

Las clases son una vez a la semana, los martes, comenzando el 6 de julio hasta el 24 de agosto, de 7 p.m. a 9 p.m.

La formación estará a cargo del padre Rafael Bermúdez y el diácono Mario Zúniga en San Francisco. En San Mateo, los profesores serían el padre Armando Gutiérrez y el padre Jorge Arias, y en Marín los diáconos Juan Michel y Sergio Gómez, en las iglesias que se dará a conocer.

Al final de la formación se celebra una misa de instalación de los nuevos lectores y ministros y les entregan su certificado.

El programa también le da la bienvenida a los lectores y ministros que ya han estado sirviendo y que desean refrescar los conocimientos, y a las personas que no han decido servir como lectores o ministros extraordinarios de la Eucaristía, pero que les interesa aprender sobre estos temas.

El programa acepta una donación de $30 por los dos meses.

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Parroquianos de varias iglesias en San Francisco alzan sus manos durante una clase para lectores y ministros de la Eucaristía en la iglesia San Antonio en el verano de 2019. De pie el profesor del curso el diácono Mario Zúniga. Abajo un lector de la iglesia Nuestra Señora del Pilar se ve durante una misa en el patio de la iglesia.

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Escuela Hispana de Liderazgo emerge de la pandemia con cambios LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

La escuela de Liderazgo Pastoral Hispana Arquidiocesana llegó a su 4º año en el 2020 durante la pandemia, y aunque las clases se ofrecieron vía Zoom, esta forma de enseñanzaaprendizaje no dio resultado y los estudiantes del 4º año van a repetir el curso cuando se reanuden las clases en los salones a partir de septiembre del 2021.

La escuela, después de la pandemia, regresa con cambios, las clases se impartirán en los salones del centro pastoral de la Pastoral Hispana Arquidiocesana, ubicado en las instalaciones de la iglesia San Antonio en la calle César Chávez en San Francisco, y ofrecerá nuevos cursos.

Los estudiantes de los condados San Mateo y Marín que ya estaban asistiendo a clases en sus comunidades, continuarán los cursos en el centro pastoral hispano de la arquidiócesis, dijo el padre Moisés Agudo.

El programa básico en la Escuela de Liderazgo Pastoral Hispana requiere cinco años de formación, y ofrece los cursos: Sacramentos, Historia de la Iglesia, Cristología, Escatología, Eclesiología y Mariología.

Después de los cinco años básicos, los estudiantes pueden elegir continuar dos años más, sexto y séptimo para concluir una especialización, ya sea en derecho canónico con énfasis en el vínculo matrimonial, liturgia o catequesis.

En el programa básico, el padre Rafael Bermúdez enseña los cursos Sacramentos y Escatología. El diácono Mario Zúniga enseña también el curso de Sacramentos, la hermana Teresa Malave enseña las clases de Historia de la Iglesia y Mariología, y el profesor Carlos Ayala enseña los cursos Cristología y Eclesiología.

Los estudiantes deben asistir a cuatro clases por mes, dos horas cada una, en total reciben ocho horas de clases al mes por cada curso.

La inversión que hace el estudiante

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Estudiantes de la Escuela de Liderazgo posan al final del curso en la iglesia Todas las Almas, en el centro, con sombrero y abrigo azul, se ve al profesor del curso Carlos Ayala y a su derecha el padre Jorge Arias, también profesor del curso.

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El diácono Juan Michel y su esposa Lucy Michel se ven conversando con el profesor de la Escuela de Liderazgo Pastoral Carlos Ayala, durante el receso de una clase en la iglesia San Francisco de Asís en East Palo Alto. es de $75 por trimestre o 25 por cada mes. La escuela ofrece becas a los

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El padre Moisés Agudo fundador de la Escuela Hispana de Liderazgo Pastoral de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco y vicario para los hispanos de zla arquidiócesis, trabaja con los profesores para incluir nuevos cursos en el programa de la escuela.

estudiantes que no pueden pagar.

Los ingresos que se obtienen por el pago de las clases se usan para cubrir los honorarios de los profesores, altamente calificados para enseñar estos cursos, resaltó el padre Agudo, fundador de la escuela.

Durante el verano de este año, los estudiantes de segundo a cuarto año recibirán una carta con la información sobre los cambios y las nuevas opciones que ofrece la escuela, así mismo las parroquias recibirán panfletos informativos acerca del regreso de las clases presenciales. Comenzarán una campaña de promoción de la escuela

para nuevos estudiantes que deseen ingresar.

Durante esta campaña de información y promoción acerca de los cambios de la Escuela de Liderazgo Pastoral Hispana, los integrantes de la mesa directiva de la Pastoral Hispana invitan a todos los representantes de las parroquias a unirse para motivar a más católicos a conocer la escuela y los cursos que ofrece.

El centro pastoral hispano arquidiocesano acoge estas clases así como otros eventos pastorales de los hispanos a nivel arquidiocesano, dijo el padre Agudo.

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Una parroquiana de la iglesia San Pedro recibe la Eucaristía durante una misa presidida por el arzobispo Cordileone en esta iglesia, un día después de la presentación de su carta pastoral sobre la dignidad de los no nacidos, la Sagrada Comunión y los católicos en la vida pública. Derecha, el arzobispo Cordileone bendice a los parroquianos al final de la misa.

Parroquianos de la Misión acogen carta pastoral del arzobispo Cordileone Damaris Berrios y su esposo Augusto C. Noguera, parroquianos de la iglesia San Pedro en la Misión, recibieron con esperanza la carta pastoral “Antes de formarte en el seno de tu madre ya te conocía”, escrita por el arzobispo Salvatore J. Cordileone de San Francisco.

La carta fue presentada el 1 de mayo día de San José Obrero. Un día después, el arzobispo Cordileone celebró la misa a las 11 a.m. en la iglesia San Pedro, – una de las tres iglesias que conforman Misión Parishes – durante la homilía de esta misa el arzobispo se refirió a su carta pastoral “Antes de formarte en el seno de tu madre ya te conocía”.

El mensaje de este documento llenó de esperanza a los esposos Noguera Berrios por el llamado a cuidar la vida que es la obra de Dios, dijo Noguera, y porque exhorta a rescatar el amor a la sagrada Eucaristía, agregó Berrios.

En su carta pastoral “Antes de formarte en el seno de tu madre ya te conocía”, el arzobispo Cordileone toca cuatro puntos importantes sobre la defensa de la vida humana, estos son: La gravedad del mal del aborto, la cooperación en el mal moral, el significado de elegir recibir la Sagrada Eucaristía, y las responsabilidades de los católicos en la vida pública.

La carta completa y el resumen se puede leer en https://sfarchdiocese.org/carta-pastoral-en-espanol.

NÚMEROS DE AYUDA PARA VÍCTIMAS DE ABUSO SEXUAL DE PARTE DEL CLERO 0 MIEMBROS DE LA IGLESIA Este número 415-614-5506 es confidencial y Ie atiende Rocio Rodríguez, LMFT, Coordinadora de la oficina arquidiocesana de ayuda a las víctimas de abuso sexual.

Si usted prefiere hablar con una persona que no está empleada por la arquidiócesis por favor marque este número: 415-614-5503; es también confidencial y usted será atendido solamente por una persona que ha superado la experiencia traumática del abuso sexual.

Reporte el abuso sexual de un obispo o su interferencia en una investigación de abuso sexual a un tercero confidencial: 800-276-1562. www.reportbishopabuse.org

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of April HOLY CROSS, COLMA

Irene Angelina Acosta Ron Alfonso Mele Allen Jose T. Alvarez, Sr. Alma Suzette Amador aka Alma Suzette Romero Mary Jane Anderson Juan H. Aquino Joseph Edward Archer Rose Ann Bava Robert M. Bellina James A. Bielli George V. Borg George Cabelin Cabilin Eugenia M. Callan Antonio “Tony” Wong Campoy Victoria G. Cantiller Maria A. Carrillo Bianca Ratto Caserza Lillian A. Ceruti William Westerman Crowley Deacon Michael Curran Anicia Mangundayao Datuin Carlos H. David Dianne Regina Davies Maria Delarrazabal Maria De Los Angeles Raymond Dennehy Alejandro E. Dimas Virginia A. Eleazar George Thomas Escobedo Jean V. Fazzio Anita G. Feliciano John Michael Finn Catalina Peinda Garcia Harold John Garrett Aleli V. Geronimo Luisa Cawaring Gornot Sydney Ann Hamilton Mary Patricia Harber Martha Herzbrun Genevieve Lucy Hoffman

Eleanore J. Howard Margarita S. Jimenez Primitivo Abad Lakilak Victor A. Lampe Raymond Lee Ruben Alcera Madrid Enrique R. Maginniss Mary V. Maglio Eileen Marshall Thomas R. Martin Sylvia Martorella Daniel W. Mathiesen Gregory A. Mattus James William Mills John E. Moore, Sr. John Carroll Morrissey David Florence McAuliffe Terence McCauley Venkat Jai Naidu Bich Sy Nguyen Margaret A. O’Hara Fernando Orantes Henry Parra, Sr. Mary E. Peccolo Alicia Perez Maria Perez Deacon Lernito L. Prudenciado Theresa Ann Quiery Sally Jane Raycraft-Bell Roy Joseph Re Mario A. Reyes Norman Devis Reyes Mario Rivas Maria Rivera Christopher “Perry” Rodriguez Jorge Rodriguez, Jr. Michelle Karina Rodriguez Patricia B. Romo Edward John Rossi Marie Rouse Barbara Ruck Glenn F. Ruggiero Joseph Thomas Ryan, Jr. Virginia Dolores Ryan Manuela Salazar

Consolacion Aquino Santos Priscilla Sarinas Alberto Sevillano Gerald Sheehy Raji J. Soudah Arleen Delight Johnson Stanton Edward Stokes Evelina V. Tanada Robert Lee Taylor Manuel Torrao Juan Francisco Tremillo Ronald Louis Valmassy, DPM Cesar Vega, Sr. Marie J. Wagner Kin Wai Ngai AKA Mary Kin Wai Ngai August Bautista Young

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Albino Genevro Jim Palmer Carmel Payton Adriiel Reign Sanchez Jesus Valencia Guerra Juan Bautista Yuriar

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Guy Thomas Bonfiglio Miguel Angel Gonzalez Chavez Alexandra Faltermeier Frank Faltermeier Mary P. (Rivardo) Rodriguez Brian Zahl

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CELEBRATE ONLINE MASS for Memorial Day with Rev. Msgr. Harry Schlitt Monday, May 31 at 11:00 am

On Catholic Cemeteries’ social media sites: YouTube: holycrosscemeteries Facebook: @holycrosscemeteries | Twitter: @HolyCrossColma | Website: holycrosscemeteries.com While we will not have Mass in person this year, we encourage you to visit the cemeteries over Memorial Day weekend, remembering all our beloved dead, and especially those who have given their lives in service to our country.

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