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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis announced he would make 14 new cardinals June 29, giving the red cardinal’s hat to the papal almoner, the Iraq-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church and the archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan, among others.

Announcing his choices May 20, the pope said that coming from 11 nations, the new cardinals “express the universality of the church, which continues to proclaim the merciful love of God to all people of the earth.”

Pope Francis’ list included three men over the age of 80 “who have distinguished themselves for their service to the church.” see CArdinals, page 21

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Mercy SF’s first Mary crowning Mercy High School seniors Alex Lewis, left, and Jnelle Aganan process to the school gym with other members of the Class of 2018 for the all-female school’s first May crowning liturgy. Mercy High School is dedicated to Our Lady of Mercy. See story and more photos on Page 6.

Faithful invited to Holy Hours to pray for priestly vocations Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

The Office of Vocations for the Archdiocese of San Francisco has announced Holy Hours June 10, 3 p.m., at churches in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties.

“There will be seminarians and probably some discerners Father Patrick at the various Holy Summerhays Hours, but it is open to everyone to come and pray for vocations to the priesthood in response to ‘Jesus’ command to pray to the Har-

hays said. “Church of the Epiphany Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordilvest Master that he might send laborcurrently has one on second Sundays eone will preside at the Holy Hour in ers into his vineyard,’” Father Patrick of the month and St. Hilary Parish Summerhays, director of vocations for San Francisco at St. Cecilia Church. has one on the third Friday of the the Archdiocese of San Francisco, told Father Tom Martin will preside at the month. We also invite all people to Holy Hour at St. Matthew Church in Catholic San Francisco.

The Holy Hours, held at a time of year San Mateo, and Father Andrew Ginter pray individually for vocations.” Signing up at Invisible Monastery website, will preside at the Holy Hour at St. when the archdiocese usually ordains he said, is a specific way people can new priests, are “in response to our hav- Isabella Church in San Rafael. Both commit to personally pray for vocaing no ordinations to the priesthood this priests are also assistant directors of tions: www.invisiblemonastery.com/ vocations for the archdiocese. year in San Francisco,” Father CamerAccording to its website, Invisible “We are encouraging parish initiatives on Faller, assistant director of vocations Monastery is a worldwide community to pray regularly for vocations,” Father for the archdiocese, said. Holy Hours in of people committed to praying for Faller said, naming eucharistic adoraeach county will make the prayer opvocations. tion on first Fridays or offering one hour portunity accessible to as many people in particular for praying for vocations as possible, Father Faller said.

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need to know Annual communication appeal: The annual collection for the Catholic Communication Campaign will be held May 26-27. This annual national appeal supports efforts in the United States and around the world to use the media, internet and print publications to help people connect with Christ. Half of the funds collected in our archdiocese remain here to support local communications efforts. The other half is used to support national projects in the United States and in developing countries around the world. Locally these funds help underwrite our newspapers (English and Spanish); websites; e-newsletters; Mosaic TV; social media; and support to chancery departments, parishes and schools, including a recent conference on digital communication.

‘Fake News and Journalism for Peace’: For the first time, SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communications) and the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications are launching a global poster and video competition on the theme of the 2018 World Communications Day message, “The truth will set you free: Fake News and Journalism for Peace.” The organizations en(Courtesy photo) courage talent from all over the world to showcase their Friends and family members of St. Mark parishioners are greeted by parish administrator Father Joe Bradley and members work on this important topic. There will be monetary of the parish council in the parish center after Mass on May 20. Every Saturday and Sunday in May, parishioners were enprizes and global recognition for the winners. Contest couraged to bring a friend, family member, neighbor or co-worker to Mass.

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‘STRENGTH FOR THE JOURNEY’: Support group for people with life threatening illness, June 1, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe room, Gough Street lower level entrance, 1-2:30 p.m. Session will also provide guidance on Catholic teaching and the preparation of Health Care Directives for medical care. No charge. Deacon Christoph Sandoval facilitates. Sister Elaine Stahl, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218; estahl@stmarycathedralsf.org.

Archbishop cordileone’s schedule May 30: Chancery meetings May 31: Chancery meetings June 1: Mass, Kensington June 5: Episcopal ordination, Auxiliary Bishop Christian, 11 a.m., cathedral; public reception, 1 p.m., Patrons’ Hall June 6: Cabinet and chancery meetings June 7: Presbyteral Council, College of Consultors, Benedict XVI Institute board and chancery meetings June 9: Confirmation, 4:30 p.m., St. Peter, Pacifica June 10: 50th anniversary Mass, St. Anthony, Novato; Seminarians’ Dinner, St. Robert

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Catholics moving into the area and those returnIn May, parishioners of the Belmont parish ing to the church.” were urged from the pulpit, on the website and “We brainstormed about 50 ideas and decided in print to invite neighbors, friends, co-workers, that ‘Bring a Friend to Mass Month’ would make family members and others to Mass to experience a Catholic liturgy and meet the parish community the most difference,” Gillanders said.

“We believe there are people in our community during “Bring a Friend to Mass Month.” The inthat would come to church if only they were invitation was extended to lapsed Catholics, Chrisvited,” he said. “We’re asking our parishioners to tians of other denominations and non-Christians. reach out to people they know and extend a warm “My thought right off the bat is that nothing invitation. We’re not asking them to twist people’s beats a personal invitation,” said Father Joe arms.”

Bradley, who was appointed administrator of the “Bring a Friend to Mass” month was promoted Belmont parish with the passing of Msgr. Taranon the parish website, and a flyer hailed the projtino. Father Bradley grew up at St. Mark Parish ect’s goal of sharing “the good news of Jesus with and celebrated his first Mass as a priest there. others and welcome them into our parish family.”

With only three weeks on the job, Father The flyer also offered a primer with possible Bradley told Catholic San Francisco May 18 that talking points for how to invite a newcomer to a though he hasn’t seen a formal count of how many “newcomers” the parish saw in the first two Catholic Mass.

“Mass is what Catholics call their weekly gathweeks of May, his guess is that anywhere from ering to pray, sing and learn about the word of five to 10 friends were brought to each weekend God and how to apply it to our lives. Mass culmiMass. nates with a celebration of the Holy Eucharist According to pastoral council chair Joe Gillandbased on the Last Supper. Mass lasts about an ers, the outreach plan evolved from a 12-point hour.” vision developed by the pastoral council under Church Goods & Candles

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Jubilarian: Priesthood’s role is to help others ‘assimilate Gospel message’ Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Five priests celebrating their 50th vocation anniversary and one marking his 25th gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral on May 9 for evening prayer and fellowship and a message of inspiration from 50-year jubilarian Msgr.

Michael D. Harriman, who spoke to his fellow priests about the ongoing challenge of helping the faithful assimilate the Gospel message.

“I would say that one of our greatest challenges as priests, especially in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is to help our people to assimilate the Gospel message, especially with the culture we are surrounded by and the sometimes lack of religious freedom,” Msgr. Harriman told a group including Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, fellow priests and guests in remarks during vespers.

Msgr. Harriman was one of five honored priests who were formed during the years of the Second Vatican Council from 1962-1965 and ordained in 1968. The other 50-year honorees were his childhood friend Bishop Emeritus William J. Justice, Father Donald S. D’Angelo, Sulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman and Father Brendan McBride. The event, organized by the archdiocese, also honored Father Paul O’Dell, who is celebrating 25 years of priesthood.

Msgr. Harriman, who retired in 2017 and served as pastor of San Francisco’s

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Among jubilarian priests honored May 9 and pictured here at the event with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone are, from left, Father Donald D’Angelo, 50 years; Father Paul O’Dell, 25 years; Bishop William J. Justice, 50 years; Msgr. Michael Harriman, 50 years.

Msgr. Michael D. Harriman, celebrating his 50th anniversary of priestly ordination, spoke to Archbishop Cordileone, fellow jubilarian priests and guests during vespers May 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

St. Cecilia Parish for 23 years, said he had not considered a vocation until a group of seniors at Junipero Serra High School sat around talking about where

they were headed after graduation.

His friend Bill Justice announced to the group that he was going to St. Patrick’s Seminary in the fall.

“He had never talked to me about that before, and I remember very clearly asking him, ‘How do you know as a senior in high school that you are going to be a priest?’” Msgr.

Harriman, said, retelling the story of his own vocation. “He said to me, ‘You don’t go down to the seminary saying you’re going to be a priest, you go down to the seminary to find out if you’re being called to be a priest.’”

No one had said that to him before.

“Suddenly I thought, ‘I wonder if I might be called to be a priest,’” Msgr.

Harriman said.

Msgr. Harriman noted the significance of the Second Vatican Council in his priestly formation and the blessing of having then-Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken return from Rome to share the conciliar process and document drafts.

He described the time as “alive” and exciting and said he was fortunate to have been a part of it.

“The beauty of our church is that the church comes together, meets and talks and comes to conclusions, and has documents and ways of implementing something,” Msgr. Harriman said. “We’re a centralized church and we can do that very well.”

Getting people to assimilate what was decreed, he said, “takes time.”

An important role of the priesthood, in trying to imitate the one true priest Jesus Christ, is to “help our people and ourselves to assimilate the Gospel message,” Msgr. Harriman said.

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Retiring Marin principals will miss ‘school and parish community’ and ‘singing with students at Mass’ Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Linda Kinkade has been a Catholic school educator for 35 years, 31 at St. Patrick School in Larkspur. Her path at St. Pat’s started with her teaching third grade, then teaching sixth and eighth grade. She later became a math specialist and assistant principal and then principal. Linda will retire at end of this school year.

Linda Kinkade “A Catholic school education is a lifelong influence on a child and helps shape the minds, values, faith, and character of children who will grow into our future leaders,” Linda told me via email.

“I will miss our school and parish community. I will miss our students and our teachers. I will miss the challenge of the job and having the privilege of working with so Susan Naretto many dedicated people who are devoted to Catholic education and excellence.”

Retirement will take Linda to San Diego. “I will join a new parish and explore options for volunteering. I am excited about experiencing a new beginning!”

For those entering the teaching profession Linda advises staying calm: “Remember that there isn’t a problem or an issue that won’t eventually be resolved so never lose sleep at night. Depend on your prayers to comfort you. Truly, don’t sweat the small stuff or the large stuff.”

Susan Naretto has been at St. Isabella School, San Rafael for six years. She will retire as principal at end of this school year. Susan also served for 16 years at Catholic schools in Santa Barbara.

“I am so grateful that I was able to end my career in education as a Catholic school educator,” Susan told me via email. Her best moments at St. Isabella have been many including “hiring some outstanding classroom teachers, hiring an art teacher and establishing an art show, reviving the garden program, and singing with the students during Masses.”

Susan’s being principal allowed her to enjoy time

REUNION: Alumnae numbering more than 140 from San Francisco’s St. John Ursuline High School gathered April 15 at San Francisco’s United Irish Cultural Center for the school’s annual all-school reunion. “Not bad for a school that has been closed for almost 30 years,” said alumnae president Theresa Keane in a note to this column. Theresa said they “were thrilled to have Ursuline sisters in attendance” including Sister Dianne Baumunk, Sister Lillian Repak, Sister Michelle Domecus and Sister Shirley Garibaldi. Nancy Halloran ‘68, wrote and recited a poem reminding alumnae how grateful all should be for what the Ursuline Sisters taught them. Golden Diplomas were presented to each of the 1968 graduates. Pictured from left are alumnae sisters Maggie Murphy ‘79, Mary Murphy ‘77, Shelia Murphy ‘75, Cathy Murphy Cooper ‘68 and Clare Murphy ‘67. The women’s family connection to St. John’s also includes their mom Eileen Albrecht Murphy ‘37, aunts Kathleen Albrecht Morris ‘39, and Margaret Albrecht Murray ‘41, and cousin Jeanne Morris Petrini ‘64. The school has active alumnae from Class of ‘52 to the Class of ’89. with all students at St. Isabella’s. She cherishes them all including “listening to the kindergarteners share their writing with me” and “playing in the annual eighth grade and faculty kickball game.” In retirement, Susan looks forward to travel, reading, gardening and visiting family.”

WINNING SCRIBES: YMI St. John Bosco Council #613 presented scholarship awards totaling $17,000 to winners of its annual essay contest April 14. “The award banquet was attended by nearly 200 people and all enjoyed a wonderful Italian meal beforehand prepared by the brothers and wives of YMI Council #613,” Mike Amato, president, told me in a note to this column.

Contestants including students from sixth grade through college wrote on topics including the period of time they’d travel to if they could; the famous person they would invite to speak at their school and why; the one piece of advice would they would give to high school freshmen. Pictured from left are some of the top winners: Jack Kavanagh, St. Thomas More; Katelyn Chang, Sacred Heart Cathedral; Mike Amato; Amaelia Bringas, St. Thomas More; Juliana Kavanagh, Skyline College; Krystal Cheng, UCLA; Marie Althaus, El Camino High School; Ainsley Rosenthal, El Camino High School.

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A DAY FOR US ALL: Everyone is welcome to the episcopal ordination of Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP, June 5, 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Bishop-designate Christian attended San Francisco’s St. Brendan School and St. Ignatius College Prep and has served caringly and well in his 48 years as a Dominican friar. A reception follows the Mass in the cathedral’s downstairs halls.

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Left, Mercy High School, San Francisco’s, “Dolce” vocal ensemble in an animated moment during the performance of a Marian hymn at the all-girls school’s first-ever May crowning liturgy May 16. Center, alumna and board secretary Sister Rosann Fraher, Class of 1960, takes part in a junior/senior transition ceremony at the end of the program. Right, a statue of Our Lady after the crowning.

Mary honored at Mercy SF’s first May crowning liturgy Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

A statue of Mary was crowned by Mercy High School San Francisco students for the first time in the school’s 66-year history on May 16.

In a lyrical and lavish liturgical program in the school gym, seniors Raquel Zumaeta and Cynthia Gutierrez placed the floral crown on Mary during a Mass presided by Father Augusto Villote, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Daly City.

Classmates voted for the young women who they thought most embodied the characteristics of Mary.

Mary was her age when she said yes to the Angel Gabriel, said Zumaeta, something that made her easy to relate to. But could she herself have said yes to God so easily? “I can’t even imagine what I would do,” she said.

Zumaeta was familiar with the Marian ritual and had even been chosen by her seventh-grade class at St. Philip School in San Francisco to crown Mary. But the experience was entirely new to Gutierrez.

“My mom had told me about it but I had never practiced it at my other Catholic school,” she said.

Senior Amanda Neubarth welcomed the crowd of students, staff, faculty, alumnae and guests lining the bleachers and explained the

‘Society is run by men. We need that female figure to ground us and show us we can do amazing things too.’

Cynthia Gutierrez

Mercy High School, San Francisco, senior meaning of the crowning ritual to the similarly unindoctrinated.

“Today we gather to honor Mary, the patroness of our school, as we crown the image of the Madonna and Child,” she said. “During the month of May, a month named for and dedicated to Mary, Catholics around the world traditionally honor our Blessed Mother with special services like our May crowning.”

In 1965 Pope Paul VI noted the venerable tradition of May devotions to Mary and their importance. “... It has been a custom dear to our predecessors to choose this month, dedicated to Mary, for inviting the Christian people to offer up public prayers, whenever the needs of the church demanded it, or whenever danger hovered menacingly over the world.”

Mercy High School’s “Dolce” vocal ensemble led a mix of traditional and more modern Marian hymns throughout the two-hour liturgy and a trio of liturgical dancers in blue from Mercy’s dance ensemble called “Soul Sisters” gracefully enacted the lyrics.

As the last all-school liturgical event of the school year, the May crowning

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also served as moving, visual “transition” for seniors who will graduate June 2. Mercy alumnae participated in the “Circle of Mercy” ceremony.

“It took many hands and hearts to put this together,” said Angelica Quinonez, associate head of school for mission and religious studies department chairwoman.

Quinonez is one of two staff members who conspired successfully to introduce the May crowning ritual to the allfemale student body for the first time.

She and the new campus ministry director, Sarah Manzano, Class of 2010, felt strongly about emphasizing Mary’s spirit and influence at the school, dedicated as it is to Our Lady of Mercy.

The Mercy High School seal includes the Latin phrase: “Ad Jesum Per Mariam,” which means “To Jesus Through Mary.”

Although a blossom-filled Marian grotto is a prominent feature of the campus and has been since the earliest days of the school, Quinonez said she and Manzano “wondered why there weren’t more Marian devotions at a school dedicated to Mary.”

They approached head of school Scott McLarty late last year with the idea of a introducing a May crowning liturgy and he enthusiastically revised the school calendar to accommodate it.

Mercy board secretary Mercy Sister Roseann Fraher, Class of 1960, sat

with Mercy board chair Diane Lawrence, Class of 1965, in the first row of the bleachers and recalled fondly the May crownings of their childhoods.

Lawrence said it was “very possible” that many of the young women had never before experienced a May crowning. She said the consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary last fall has helped renew devotions to Mary.

Not surprisingly, appreciation and reverence for Mary to the students of an all-female school in 2018 has a broader context. “For the longest time the only view I had of Mary was as the mother of Jesus,” said Zumaeta. But she has come to honor “how strong she was a woman, not just as a mother.”

“Being a mother is an awesome honor, but you are also a person in your own right,” she said. “Getting to know her as a person outside of that relationship, I found I could relate to her a lot.”

Gutierrez said she keeps a “little Mary altar” at home. Her image, she said, is “very empowering” for women in an all-girls Catholic school.

“Society is run by men,” she said. “We need that female figure to ground us and show us we can do amazing things too.”

For her part, Quinonez said her goal was to give the young women at Mercy a different vision of idealized womanhood than the ones that saturate the media, while reconnecting them to a beloved Catholic tradition.

“I want them to see Mary as a woman whose yes, is strong; strong in faith, strong in openness, strong in that responsive call to what God is asking for in her life,” she said. “The example of Mary’s quiet strength is what I wanted the girls to take away from this.”

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St. Peter honoring Mercy Sister Ana Maria Pineda Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

San Francisco’s St. Peter School is pulling out all the stops to honor alumna Mercy Sister Ana Maria Pineda in rites including Mass June 10. Sister Ana Maria is a graduate of the Mission District school and entered the Sisters of Mercy from the nowclosed St. Peter’s Academy high school in 1963. The special afternoon congratulates Sister Ana Sister Ana Maria Maria on her having been elected to the new leadership team of the Pineda, RSM Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, West Midwest Community and pays tribute to her immigrant roots.

Born in El Salvador, Sister Ana Maria migrated to the United States with her parents when she was 2 years old. In addition to her years as a student

Catholic cemetery’s demise greatly exaggerated

Mark Twain’s remains lie in New York but a paraphrase of his remark about statements regarding his death being greatly exaggerated lives on at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, where reports of the cemetery running out of space are just as overstated.

“Yes, despite the predicament that other cemeteries are facing, Holy Cross is blessed to have over 100 acres of land that are yet to be developed,” Monica Williams, director of cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, told Catholic San Francisco.

Williams said some neighboring cemeteries “are approaching a crisis of space” and “a few have approached us with an interest in purchasing land from us.”

Williams affirmed the cemetery’s mission: “Our ministry is to provide the corporal work of mercy, burying the dead, and the spiritual work of mercy to pray for the dead for as long as possible.” The cemetery’s “business plan” is “long-term in nature,” she

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at St. Peter, she also has taught at the school and served in the parish.

“My entire family went to St. Peter’s,” Sister Ana Maria told Catholic San Francisco. “My parents prized education, and entrusted us to St. Peter’s.

They were not disappointed. We were given a wellrounded education that demonstrated the care for the whole person. Aside from learning the basics, we were given an ethical foundation. Thankfully, the education we received prepared us for our future involvements. In our family, St. Peter’s is a special place that we remember with profound gratitude and affection.”

Sister Ana Maria has been a tenured faculty member of the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University for 21 years, and is a former director of the school’s Graduate Pastoral Ministries Program. A focus for her has been “mentoring many Latino students, as well as coordinating and convening the Latino faculty on campus,” the Mercy Sisters said in a statement.

“Sister Ana Maria and her family represent the riches of talent brought to San Francisco by immigrants. Her ministry, which has revolved around some aspect of Hispanic ministry and theology, has reflected her deep commitment to her heritage.”

Sister Ana Maria is also a former faculty member and director of the Hispanic Ministry Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and has been invited by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to participate in its committee for women and committee for Hispanic ministry.

Sister Ana Maria is the author of “Romero and Grande, Companions on the Journey,” which describes the spiritual life and friendship of Oscar Romero and Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande both martyrs of El Salvador.

said, and the fact that the cemetery has made careful plans for assisting Catholic families into the future should be no surprise.

In 1886, Archbishop Patrick Riordan purchased approximately 300 acres of land in Colma. Holy Cross Cemetery opened a year later: “Since that time, we have been operating on 200 of the original 300 acres and are not close to capacity on that parcel of land,” Williams said. “We serve over 1,600 families each year. As the number of cremations has increased, we have made many options available to those choosing cremation” including cremation graves, niches, columbarium placement and placement of the urn in an existing family site enabling “family members to be interred together and conserve space. We anticipate being able to provide Christian burial to the members of the Catholic community in our archdiocese for well over a hundred years.”

The state of California requires that endowment funds be established for cemeteries to provide for the

maintenance and care of cemeteries after they cease to be able to generate revenue as an active cemetery, Williams said. Each time a person purchases the rights to a space at Holy Cross, a portion of that purchase is designated for the Endowment Care Fund.

She also noted that “in-perpetuity doesn’t exist in legal cemetery language any longer” and cemeteries throughout the country handle that intent differently.

“New Orleans has a ‘rental’ set-up where you can continue to lease the space or the cemetery will move the remains to a common site, and ‘re-use’ the space,” Williams said. That mode is seen in other countries, as well, she said. “We’re nowhere near even considering such a thing in our area.”

Mass will be celebrated June 10, 2:30 p.m., at St. Peter Church, 1200 Florida St. at 24th Street. A reception with Sister Ana Maria and her family follows.

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SACRAMENTO – A May 15 ruling by a California judge overturning the state’s law allowing assisted suicide is encouraging because it “was a bad law,” said Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference.

“Our opposition to assisted suicide is no secret, but this legislation was also opposed by a broad coalition of doctors, nurses, seniors and the disabled community, who fought this bill for many, many reasons,” said Dolejsi said in a May 16 statement.

Judge Daniel A. Ottolia of Riverside County Superior Court ruled that the California Legislature violated existing law when it passed the End of Life Option Act during a special session dedicated to health care. The 2015 law, which went into effect in June 2016, authorized doctors to prescribe lethal prescriptions to any patient determined by two doctors to have six months or less to live.

In a tweet late May 16, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said: “We celebrate the news that the CA law legalizing assisted suicide has – for now – been overturned. Assisted suicide is not health care. We pray that this ruling will stand and that lawmakers will rethink this tragic mistake, reject assisted suicide and protect all patients.”

Religious leaders urge new envoy on anti-Semitism

WASHINGTON – One cardinal and two bishops are among the more than 1,200 U.S. clergy and lay religious leaders urging new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to appoint a new envoy to combat anti-Semitism.

The post, which was mandated by Congress, has gone unfilled since January 2017, when President Donald Trump took office.

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tacks have been made on Jews and Jewish institutions,” the religious leaders said in a May 15 letter to Pompeo. “Physical harassment of Jews who wear a kippah (a small head covering) in public is all too common.”

The letter added, “New campaigns of Holocaust distortion have been waged and there are proposals in some countries to ban central Jewish religious practices.”

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York was one of the signers, as was Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, and Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Cardinal: Separating abortion from Title X funds ‘greatly needed’

WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman praised the Trump administration’s move to reinstate Reagan-era regulations banning any family planning clinic that receives Title X federal funds from making abortion referrals or sharing space with abortion providers.

“The news that the Trump administration will be issuing new regulations to separate abortion from the federal Title X family planning program is greatly needed and deeply appreciated,” New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said in a May 18 statement.

“Abortion always takes the life of a child and often harms the mother, her surviving children, and other family and friends as well,” said the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

Other U.S. pro-life leaders around the country and several members of Congress echoed his remarks, prompted by the administration’s release of the “Protect Life Rule” through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After a period

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Cardinal Dolan said the USCCB will offer comments during that period.

President Ronald Reagan issued the Title X regulations in 1988. Planned Parenthood of New York City immediately challenged the rules, claiming the denial of public funds violated their constitutional rights of free speech.

In 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 the government had the right to establish rules funding only family planning programs which do not “encourage, promote or advocate abortion.’’ When President Bill Clinton took office, he reversed the regulations.

Honduran Jesuit, delegation plead for end to US military aid

WASHINGTON – A group of Hondurans led by a Jesuit priest pleaded with U.S. lawmakers May 17 to stop military aid to the Central American nation and to allow the country’s citizens living under a particular immigration status in the U.S. to remain here until conditions improve in their native country.

“We need you to support them so that they continue living in the United States because their return to our country is dangerous,” said Jesuit Father Ismael Moreno, who traveled with a group of five Hondurans to 10 cities in the United States.

They spoke to groups and organizations hoping to garner support for some 57,000 Hondurans benefiting from the Temporary Protection Status program, which the Trump administration said would end in 2020, but also for a bill named after one of Father Moreno’s friends, a human rights activist killed in 2016 in Honduras.

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On Pentecost, Irish bishops urge ‘no’ on abortion referendum Michael Kelly Catholic News Service

DUBLIN – Irish bishops used Pentecost Sunday Masses to make a final appeal for people to reject a government proposal to remove the right to life of unborn children from the country’s constitution and pave the way for abortion up to 12 weeks’ gestation.

Voters go to the polls May 25 in a referendum on whether to remove the Eighth Amendment, which was passed in 1983 and gives unborn children an equal right to life “with due regard” to the life of the mother. Minister for Health Simon Harris has announced plans to allow abortion on demand up to 12 weeks, up to 24 weeks on unspecified grounds for the health of the mother, and up to birth where the child is diagnosed with a life-limiting condition that means he or she may not live long after birth.

In a message read at Masses across the Archdiocese of Armagh, Northern Ireland – which includes parts of the Irish Republic – Archbishop Eamon Martin urged worshippers to be “missionaries for the cause of life.”

The archbishop, president of the Irish bishops’ conference, pointed out that Ireland’s Supreme Court has clarified that “if the Eighth Amendment is repealed, unborn children in Ireland will have absolutely no constitutional rights.”

“A vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment on May 25 would therefore pave the way for a very liberal abortion regime in Ireland, including completely unrestricted access to abortion during the first three months of pregnancy,” Archbishop Martin said.

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Thousands gathered in Dublin May 12 to say “Love Both” and “Vote No” to abortion on demand. They were protesting abortion on demand in the forthcoming referendum May 25.

He warned that this was a departure from the current medical and legal culture in Ireland, “where the equality of life of a mother and her unborn baby is written into our constitution.”

“Women’s lives are precious, to be loved, valued and protected. Their babies’ lives are precious, to be loved, valued and protected. Both lives deserve protection from the tragedy and irreversible decision of abortion,” Archbishop Martin said.

He insisted that “to be against abortion is not simply ‘a Catholic thing.’

The innate dignity of every human life is a value for the whole of society – for people of all faiths and none. It is

rooted in reason as well as in faith. To take away an innocent human life can never be simply a matter of personal choice.”

The archbishop concluded his message with a direct appeal to voters: “When you go inside the voting booth on May 25, pause and think of two lives – the life of the mother and the life of her baby – two hearts beating; two lives which are both precious and deserving of compassion and protection.

“Love them both. Pray for both.

Choose life for them both. Say ‘no’ to

repealing the Eighth Amendment, and then do everything you can to ensure that our country will always provide the best possible care and support for all mothers and their unborn children,” he writes.

In Dublin, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin had asked parishes to hold a special time of prayer for the protection of life. Many parishes held holy hours, and a message from the archbishop was read at Masses.

He told Massgoers that the church “must always be pro-life. That means that the Christian community must be a beacon of support for life, especially at its most vulnerable moments, and a beacon of support at vulnerable moments of any woman or man along their path of life.

Reflecting on the past, Archbishop Martin said that “for too long, a mentality was common in Ireland in which single mothers were ostracized and humiliated. This narrow moralistic culture was often sadly enhanced by the attitude of the church.”

He said “it was women who stood up and challenged that culture and affirmed their desire and right to be able to keep and give love to their children.

We owe a debt to those women who, then and now, witness to life.

“Ireland has a great record in the care of mothers and of children. The overall ethos of medicine in Ireland has been marked by a passionate commitment to do all to protect the life of both mother and child,” Archbishop Martin wrote.

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All of Chile’s bishops offer resignations after meeting pope on abuse

VATICAN CITY – Every bishop in Chile offered his resignation to Pope Francis after a three-day meeting at the Vatican to discuss the clerical sexual abuse scandal.

“We want to announce that all bishops present in Rome, in writing, have placed our positions in the Holy Father’s hands so that he may freely decide regarding each one of us,” Bishop Juan Ignacio Gonzalez Errazuriz of San Bernardo said May 18 in a statement on behalf of the country’s bishops.

The unprecedented decision was made on the final day of their meeting May 15-17 with Pope Francis.

Auxiliary Bishop Fernando Ramos Perez of Santiago, secretary-general of the Chilean bishops’ conference, said the pope had read to the 34 bishops a document in which he “expressed his conclusions and reflections” on the 2,300-page report compiled

by Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and his aide, Father Jordi Bertomeu, during a visit to Chile to investigate the scandal.

“The pope’s text clearly showed a series of absolutely reprehensible acts that have occurred in the Chilean church in relation to those unacceptable abuses of power, of conscience and sexual abuse that have resulted in the lessening of the prophetic vigor that characterized her,” Bishop Ramos said.

After reflecting on the pope’s assessment, he added, the bishops decided to hand in their resignations “to be in greater harmony with the will of the Holy Father.”

Shortly after the announcement, Juan Carlos Cruz, one of three survivors who met privately with Pope Francis in April, tweeted, “All Chilean bishops have resigned. Unprecedented and good.

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Pope to canonize Blesseds Paul VI, Oscar Romero in Rome Oct. 14

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will declare Blesseds Oscar Romero, Paul VI and four others saints Oct. 14 at the Vatican during the meeting of the world Synod of Bishops, an institution Blessed Paul revived.

The date was announced May 19 during an “ordinary public consistory,” a meeting of the pope, cardinals and promoters of sainthood causes that formally ends the sainthood process.

During the consistory, Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, formally petitioned the pope “to enroll in due course among the saints” six candidates for canonization “for the glory of God and the good of the whole church.”

Each of the candidates, the cardinal told the pope, gave “a convinced and coherent witness to the Lord Jesus. Their example continues to enlighten the church and the world in accordance with the perspective of mercy that your Holiness never ceases to indicate and propose.”

Briefly giving a biographical sketch of the candidates, Cardinal Amato said that during El Salvador’s civil war, Archbishop Romero, “outraged at seeing the violence against the weak and the killing of priests and catechists, felt the need to assume an attitude of fortitude. On March 24, 1980, he was killed while celebrating the Mass.”

Reviewing the facts of Blessed Paul’s life, Cardinal Amato highlighted how, as a high-level official in the Vatican Secretariat of State during World War II, the future pope “organized charitable assistance and hospitality for those persecuted by Nazism and Fascism, particularly the Jews.”

Pope: Church must go where people are indifferent, hostile to faith

VATICAN CITY – The most desolate places in the world in need of Christ are where people are indifferent, even hostile to God and his love, Pope Francis said.

The church’s mission is to bring the faith to the ends of the earth, he said, especially to these “extreme peripheries,” and to use the many means possible, including social networks, he said.

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The pope’s remarks came in his message for World Mission Sunday, which will be celebrated Oct. 21. This year’s message, titled “Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all,” was dedicated to young people.

In the message, released at the Vatican May 19, Pope Francis said the upcoming Synod of Bishops in Rome in October, the month of the missions, will be devoted to young people, offering “an opportunity to understand more fully, in the light of faith, what the Lord Jesus wants to say to you young people, and, through you, to all Christian communities.”

Having the synod and month of missions coincide “will prove to be one more occasion to help us become missionary disciples, ever more passionately devoted to Jesus and his mission, to the ends of the earth,” he said.

Pope moves 12 sainthood causes ahead

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued decrees recognizing that 12 candidates for sainthood, including U.S. Sacred Heart Brother Norbert McAuliffe, lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way.

The decrees promulgated by the pope May 19 are the first major step in the sainthood process. A miracle attributed to the candidate’s intercession would be needed before beatification and another miracle would be needed for the person’s canonization.

Brother McAuliffe was born Sept. 30, 1886, in New York. After joining the missionary Brothers of the Sacred Heart, he was sent to Uganda where he founded the order’s first mission in Gulu, in the north of the country. He died there July 3, 1959.

Among the other decrees was one recognizing the “heroic virtues” of Polish Cardinal August Hlond, archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw during World War II. He died in 1948.

A Colombian bishop, Bishop Miguel Angel Builes Gomez of Santa Rosa de Osos, who died in 1971, also was among the candidates whose causes advanced.

The others were five priests and four religious women including one known as the “Angel of Auschwitz,” Trinitarian Sister Angela Maria Autsch. Born in Germany, she entered a novitiate in Austria. Turned into the Gestapo by a Nazi informant who had heard she criticized Hitler, she was held in the Innsbruck jail before being sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp and, eventually, to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she died Dec. 23, 1944.

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NFP ‘changed everything’ This is the seventh in a series on the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae.”

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Lisa and Jack Murphy did not start out their married life using natural family planning. In fact, they saw nothing wrong with the birth control pill, even though NFP was bought up at their Engaged Encounter. “We weren’t paying attention,” Lisa Murphy said.

Through a series of circumstances, the Holy Spirit, Lisa says, the couple found themselves using NFP. The family lives in Mill Valley, but has been involved with telling other couples about their experiences through Bill and Pat Turrentine, who are NFP teachers at St. Dominic Parish.

“It changed everything. It changed our marriage.

It changed how we viewed sex ourselves and, even though it was just quote unquote ‘birth control,’ it affected how we saw sexuality,” Lisa said.

Jack Murphy said when the couple speaks about their experience, “we always make a point that it’s amazing we live in this part of the country where everyone is super focused on health and well-being.’

“Meanwhile, all these women are doing pretty tough things to their bodies – or at least putting their bodies through a lot of hurdles,” Jack said. “This is the most organic, natural thing you could be doing as a woman other than nothing at all. And all it is, is paying attention to the natural biorhythms of your body.”

The Murphys had two children, but Lisa had some precancerous cells discovered after the first baby so she shifted from taking hormonal birth control to an IUD. (The Pill has been implicated in increased risk for some kinds of cancer.) Jack always wanted four children, but coming from a traditional Catholic background in Long Island, he thought of NFP as an easy way to end up with 10 children, Lisa said.

“When my youngest child was about 2, I started to feel a tug at my heart,” Lisa said, and told her husband, “I think we are called to have more kids. He said, no, we can’t afford another kid.”

“We were in very different places. I said to him I won’t bring it up. Promise me that you won’t close your heart,” Lisa said. Meanwhile, about three quarters of a year later, “I discerned God saying to me, ‘How can you say you want more kids if you are 99

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Lisa began researching NFP on her own, reading books. “I was really convicted by them.” She felt she should talk to her husband. “I think it was the Holy Spirit. He said, you are clearly right. We have been clearly brainwashed by our culture and this is wrong and we should stop.”

They found the Couple to Couple League and met the Turrentines. Along the way, the Murphys decided to have another baby, because they felt it was right “rather than just looking at the physical metrics of finances.”

“He is almost 4. We have continued to use NFP,” and times have been rocky financially. But the Murphys are convicted of the power of NFP to help their faith and their marriage.

“I think especially for me as a woman, it makes a huge difference to really respect the power I have in my body for life,” Lisa said.

“We see it as a more cooperative relationship between us and God,” Lisa said.

Before, said Jack, “My perspective was I never needed to be involved.”

April 26: “Human ecology and family planning,” Dr. Lynn Keenan May 10: “Natural methods help overcome infertility,” Valerie Schmalz

Today, Lisa texts her temperature to her husband and he records it so that they are both taking time out of their day to monitor her fertility. “As a guy not only does it tune you into your natural cycle and tune you into your wife,” Jack said. “It enlists a man.”

The couple is open to discussing this very personal turn their marriage has taken because others’ testimony affected them, Lisa said. “A friend had shared in a moms’ group that she used NFP. I remember thinking she was crazy. When I started discerning, that was who I turned to. That’s why I am not shy to talk about it.

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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity DEUTERONOMY 4:32-34, 39-40 Moses said to the people “Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created man upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of ? Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live? Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the Lord, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other. You must keep his statutes and commandments that I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you forever.”

PSALM 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22 Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full.

Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made; by the breath of his mouth all their host. For he spoke, and it was made; he commanded, and it stood forth.

Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.

Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you.

Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

ROMANS 8:14-17 Brothers and sisters: For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

MATTHEW 28:16-20 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.

When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”

The most holy Trinity

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n the first reading from Deuteronomy, Moses reminds his people that just as they were saved by God’s mighty acts of deliverance, so they will be transformed by God’s mighty acts of redemption.

In the second reading, we are reminded that God is more than the source of life. He is, in fact, a continuing, life-giving presence in our lives. We are part of his family. In the Gospel from Matthew, the evangelist speaks of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We call this the doctrine of the Trinity.

To the writers of the New Testament, this would have been an incredible concept.

It would never have occurred to them to try to reduce God to a mathematical formula.

Deacon In addition, they had no faiva Po’oi plans to “write theology.”

They did not even know that that was what they were doing. Their goal was simply to share a personal experience – to talk about something that had

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happened to them. God had touched and transformed their lives. They found that they could not adequately express everything that God meant to them without using those three names: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

After Jesus had died and then risen from the dead, he remained with the disciples for a short time, and then ascended beyond their sight. At first they felt terribly alone. It was as if God, himself, had forsaken them. Slowly, however, they began to realize that they were not alone after all, for this same eternal God who had been revealed to them in Jesus was still present with them in the power of his Holy Spirit.

So, on this Trinity Sunday, our question is not really whether we believe in God or whether we understand the Trinity as a doctrine. The important question that each of us needs to consider is whether or not I experience God as a reality in my life.

Jesus said, “Know that I am with you always, until the end of the world.” That is the place we must start – right here – not with God far away, but here with God near at hand. The God who becomes real to you and me is the God of our daily experience, the one who touches our lives in some real and vital and personal way. Through the Bible, we discover that this is the only way anyone has ever known

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, May 28: Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Pt 1:3-9. Ps 111:1-2, 5-6, 9 and 10c.

2 Cor 8:9. Mk 10:17-27.

Monday, June 4: Monday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Pt 1:2-7. Ps 91:1-2, 14-15b, 15c-16.

See Rv 1:5ab. Mk 12:1-12.

Tuesday, May 29: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Pt 1:10-16. Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4.

See Mt 11:25. Mk 10:28-31.

Tuesday, June 5: Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr. 2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18. Ps 90:2, 3-4, 10, 14 and 16. See Eph 1:17-18. Mk 12:13-17.

Wednesday, May 30: Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Pt 1:18-25. Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20. Mk 10:45. Mk 10:32-45.

Wednesday, June 6: Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, bishop. 2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12. Ps 123:1b-2ab, 2cdef.

Jn 11:25a, 26. Mk 12:18-27.

Thursday, 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.

Friday, June 1: Memorial of St. Justin, Martyr. 1 Pt 4:7-13. Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13. Jn 15:16. Mk 11:11-26.

Saturday, June 2: Saturday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs. Jude 17, 20b-25. Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6. See Col 3:16a, 17c. Mk 11:27-33.

Sunday, June 3: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Ex 24:3-8. Ps 116:12-13, 1516, 17-18. Heb 9:11-15. Jn 6:51. Mk 14:12-16, 22-26.

Thursday, June 7: Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Tm 2:8-15. Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10 and 14. See 2 Tm 1:10. Mk 12:28-34.

Friday, June 8: Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9. Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6.

Eph 3:8-12, 14-19. Mt 11:29ab or 1 Jn 4:10b. Jn 19:31-37.

Saturday, June 9: Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, deacon and doctor. 2 Tm 4:1-8.

Ps 71:8-9, 14-15ab, 16-17, 22. See Lk 2:19. Lk 2:41-51.

God as a living reality. He was never a God who was distant and far away, but always a God near at hand – the God of personal experience.

To Adam and Eve, he was the one who walked in their garden in the cool of the day. To Moses, who spent so much of his life in a burning desert, God was the shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land. To David, he was a shepherd who walked with him through the dark valleys of life. St Paul introduced him to the Athenians as “the one in whom we live and move and have our being.” Again and again, we read of a God who was not far away, but a God always near at hand.

The New Testament tells us that we are the temple of God … that the Spirit of God dwells in us. That is who, and what, and where God is – a living presence who goes where we go. If we fall into trouble, he is there. If we celebrate some great achievement, he is there. If we enjoy the company of friends, God is there. If we face death, he is there.

You and I may never understand the doctrine of the Trinity, but we can know God as a living reality, and we can set our minds and hearts to share this reality with others.

Deacon Faiva Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

pope francis Church is a mother, not a bachelor

VATICAN CITY – Without its feminine dimension, the church risks becoming an old boy’s club and incapable of love, the pope said.

The church must “remain female” and “have this attitude of a wife and mother” who nurtures her children, the pope said in his homily May 21 during a morning Mass commemorating the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church.

“When we forget this, it becomes a masculine church; without this dimension, it sadly becomes a church of old bachelors, who live in this isolation, incapable of love, incapable of fruitfulness,” the pope said.

The feast, decreed by Pope Francis in March, is celebrated on the Monday after Pentecost.

According to the decree, the pope approved the Marian feast day after “having attentively considered how greatly the promotion of this devotion might encourage the growth of the maternal sense of the church in the pastors, religious and faithful, as well as a growth of genuine Marian piety.”

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On friendship

ne of the richest experiences of grace that we can have this side of eternity is the experience of friendship.

Dictionaries define friendship as a relationship of mutual affection, a bond richer than mere association. They then go on to link friendship to a number of words: kindness, love, sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, loyalty, understanding, compassion, comfort, and (not least) trust. Friends, the dictionaries assert, enjoy each other’s company, express their feelings to each other, and FATHER ron make mistakes without fear of rolheiser judgment from the other.

That basically covers things, but to better grasp the real grace in friendship a number of things inside that definition need explication.

First, as the Greek Stoics affirmed and as is evident in the Christian spirituality, true friendship is only possible among people who are practicing virtue. A gang is not a circle of friendship, nor are many ideological circles. Why? Because friendship needs to bring grace and grace is only found in virtue.

Next, friendship is more than merely human, though it is wonderfully human. When it is genuine, friendship is nothing less than a participation in the flow of life and love that’s inside of God. Scripture tells us that God is love, but the word it uses for love in this case is the Greek word agape, a term which might be rendered as “family,” “community,” or “the sharing of life.” Hence the famous text (“God is love”) might be transliterated to read: God is family, God is community, God is shared existence, and whoever shares his or her existence inside of community and friendship is participating in the very flow of life and love that is inside the Trinity.

But this isn’t always true. Friendship and family can take different forms. Parker Palmer, the contemporary Quaker writer, submits: “If you come here faithfully, you bring great blessing.” Conversely, the great Sufi mystic, Rumi, writes: “If you are here unfaithfully, you bring great harm.” Family and community can bring grace or block it. Our circle can be one of love and grace, or it can be a one of hatred and sin. Only the former merits the name friendship.

More deeply than we ache for a sexual partner, we ache for a moral partner, though these desires aren’t mutually exclusive, just hard to combine.

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Friendship, says St. Augustine, is the beauty of the soul.

Deep, life-giving friendship, as we all know, is as difficult as it is rare. Why? We all long for it in the depths of our soul, so why is it so difficult to find?

We all know why: We’re different from each other, unique, and rightly cautious as to whom we give entry into our soul. And so it isn’t easy to find a soulmate, to have that kind of affinity and trust. Nor is it easy to sustain a friendship once we have found one. Sustained friendship takes hard commitment and that’s not our strong point as our psyches and our world forever shift and turn. Moreover, today, virtual friendships don’t always translate into real friendships.

Finally, not least, friendship is often hindered or derailed by sex and sexual tension. This is simply a fact of nature and a fact within our culture and all other cultures. Sex and sexuality, while they ideally should be the basis for deep friendship, often are the major hindrance to friendship. Moreover, in our own culture (whose ethos prizes sex over friendship) friendship is often seen as a substitute, and a secondbest one at that, for sex.

But while that may be in our cultural ethos, it’s clearly not what’s deepest in our souls. There we long for something that’s ultimately deeper than sex — or is sex in a fuller flowering. There’s a deep desire in us all (be that a deeper form of sexual desire or a desire for something that’s beyond sex) for a soulmate, for someone to sleep with morally. More deeply than we ache for a sexual partner, we ache for a moral partner, though these desires aren’t mutually exclusive, just hard to combine.

Friendship, like love, is always partly a mystery, something beyond us. It’s a struggle in all cultures.

Part of this is simply our humanity. The pearl of great price is not easily found nor easily retained.

True friendship is an eschatological thing, found, though never perfectly, in this life. Cultural and religious factors always work against friendship, as does the omnipresence of sexual tension.

Sometimes poets can reach where academics cannot and so I offer these insights from a poet vis-à-vis the interrelationship between friendship and sex.

Friendship, Rainer Marie Rilke suggests, is often one of the great taboos within a culture, but it remains always the endgame: “In a deep, felicitous love between two people you can eventually become the loving protectors of each other’s solitude. … Sex is, admittedly, very powerful, but no matter how powerful, beautiful, and wondrous it may be. If you become the loving protectors of each other’s solitude, love gradually turns to friendship.”

And as Montaigne once affirmed: “The end of friendship may be more important than love. The epiphanies of youth are meant to blossom and ripen into something everlasting.”

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

The Holy See, China and evangelization

n a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state of the Holy See, suggested that certain critics of a deal between the Vatican and the People’s Republic of China were misconstruing the Holy See’s motivations: “There are those who’ve accused us of only wanting diplomatic relations as a sign of some sort of success. But the Holy See, as the pope has said many times, is not interested in diplomatic successes.”

It’s just possible that, among other things, His Eminence had in mind an online article I published at Foreign Policy. george weigel com this past February. There, I argued that the decades-long passion of some Vatican diplomats for securing diplomatic relations with the PRC reflected an outmoded view of the Holy See’s role in world affairs, in which the Vatican is imagined to be a third-tier power trying to punch above its weight (as the cardinal secretary of state of Pius VII, Ercole Consalvi, did at the Congress of Vienna in 1815). That is no longer the case, I suggested, for the only real power the

Holy See can deploy in 21st-century world politics is the power of moral witness and argument. That moral authority is compromised, and the life of the church under totalitarian or authoritarian regimes is weakened, when deals are made by the Vatican that concede far too much authority in church affairs to communist regimes. Which is what happened under the so-called Ostpolitik of Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Agostino Casaroli: A policy of accommodation that led to grave problems for the church in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and caused unnecessary headaches for the church in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s, before the Ostpolitik was effectively jettisoned by the most geopolitically consequential pope in centuries, John Paul II. So the issue here is not an untoward eagerness for diplomatic success; the issue is one of confusing diplomatic accomplishment with evangelical achievement. And that gets me to the oft-repeated nub of my critique of the putative deal between the Vatican and the People’s Republic of China: Any arrangement by which the Chinese communist authorities are conceded a significant role in the appointment of Catholic bishops will weaken the church’s evangelical see weigel, page 15

Letters Pray for an end to abortion

Recently, St. Ignatius Parish held a ministry fair highlighting over 50 ministries for parishioner involvement. I shared information about the Gabriel Project which provides help to mothers in crisis pregnancies. I made available actual size models of 12-week-old preborn babies along with literature that describes the gestational development from week one through week 12, (the heart starts beating at week four!) I was amazed at the number of people who were surprised at how much the 12-week-old models look like a baby. To hold the model in the palm of your hand brings home the realization of the humanity of the baby. One abortion is too many.

We have had 60 million abortions since the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973. It is important for us to know the development of the preborn child, so that we can stand up for life and save the babies. For the sake of future generations, believe in the power of your prayers and pray for an end to abortion.

Dolores Tulkoff San Francisco

Cardinal Dolan not telling it like it is

Re “Cardinal Dolan tells it like it is,” Father John Catoir, May 10.

Father Catoir and right-wing GOP favorite Cardinal Dolan have joined the ranks of other evangelicals like Franklin Graham, etc., who have now taken sides as political lobbyists instead of ministerial counselors.

Their choice, but to so openly endorse the Republican Party of anti-women, Trumpled anti-immigrant, NRA-backing, cyberbullying and name-calling is inexcusable.

To boot, all the well-documented lack of qualifications and dishonesty of the current administration, protected by the gutless Senate and House Republicans coming off eight years of racist-inspired obstruction, in my circle eliminates Dolan, Catoir and any of the other right-leaning hierarchy from any serious consideration.

Theirs is the kind of political pandering and Neanderthal thinking that has sent the masses heading for the exits.

Cardinal Dolan may be seeking more media attention; but he is not telling it like it is in the country many millions feel has totally lost its way.

Peter Mandell San Francisco

Pro-life, broadly speaking

With all due respect, I do not think that Cardinal Dolan actually tells it like it is. Society has become more secular, but that does not mean that all Catholic Democrats espouse the party line about abortion. Cardinal Dolan should understand that being pro-life is not only for the unborn. Being pro-life also includes taking care of our children, the sick, the poor, the elderly and the disabled. The current administration is in the process of shredding the safety net by slashing the Children’s Health Insurance Program, food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Pope Francis encourages all of us to take care of the poor. The current administration is the antithesis of his teaching and a good reason why I cannot support their conduct.

Ann Hunt Tiburon

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Consenting to sex

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ecent news articles exploring the post#MeToo world of romance have noted the phenomenon of cellphone “consent apps,” allowing millennials to sign digital contracts before they have sex with their peers, sometimes strangers they have just met. Many of these apps are being refined to include a panic button that can be pressed at any time to withdraw any consent given. Lawyers reviewing the practice, as might be anticipated, have urged caution, noting that consent apps are not able to provide definitive proof of consent, because feelings may “change throughout an evening, and even in the moments before an act.”

When we look at modern father tadeusz views about sex, it’s not a pacholczyk stretch to sum them up this way: as long as two consenting adults are involved, the bases are covered.

When it comes to “sex in the moment,” consent is touted as key, allowing for almost all mutuallyagreed upon behaviors or practices.

Yet this approach to sex is fundamentally flawed, and it’s often the woman who is the first to notice. Even when consenting unmarried couples scrupulously use contraception, there remains an awareness, particularly on the part of the woman, that a pregnancy could follow, and a concern about who will be left holding the bag if that were to happen. Sex between men and

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women involves real asymmetries and vulnerabilities, with men oftentimes being, in the words of sociologist Mark Regnerus, “less discriminating” in their sex drives than women, eager to forge ahead as long as there appears to be some semblance of consent. Women often sense, rightly, that consent for a particular sexual act ought to be part of something bigger, a wider scope of commitment.

Consenting to sex, of course, signifies the surrendering of our self to another. Sex ultimately speaks of giving our self, and receiving another, in a total, rather than a fragmentary way. This is part of the reason why this unique human activity holds a perennial fascination for us; it goes far beyond other forms of communication, exchange, and bonding. To give our self fully to another, and to receive that person fully, forms a bond with them that extends beyond the morning dawn. Human sexual union is not a mere joining of bodies, but is preeminently a joining of human hearts. It is, at its core, consenting to share one of the deepest parts of our self with another. As Dr. Angela Franks has perceptively noted: Sexuality is not simply a matter of something that I have, as though my body is another possession just like my wallet or my car. If, as Gabriel Marcel said, I am my body, then sexuality has to do with my very person, which has a deep value.

To use the language of Pope John Paul II, when a person is reduced to being merely an object for another’s desire, then the experience violates the core of one’s sense of self.

In casual sexual encounters, the consent we give each other may seem sincere and genuine, expressing our desires within the moment, but this kind of consent is largely transactional and temporary. By consenting to pre-marital or extra-marital sex, we declare, in effect, that we are giving ourselves, our bodies and our hearts to each other, although in truth, our giving remains partial and conditional, and we may be out the

door the next morning or the next month. Our consent, limited and qualified as it is, amounts to little more than an agreement to use each other as long as it’s convenient, and when the break up occurs, we are hurt, because we thought we had something special, even though we didn’t really want to commit to anything special.

In the final analysis, human sexual activity calls for something much deeper and more abiding than mere transactional consent, namely, the irrevocable and permanent consent of spouses.

Professor William May describes it this way: In and through his act of marital consent… the man, forswearing all others, has given himself irrevocably the identity of this particular woman’s husband, while the woman, in and through her self-determining act of marital consent, has given herself irrevocably the identity of this particular man’s wife, and together they have given themselves the identity of spouses. …Husbands and wives, precisely because they have given themselves irrevocably to each other in marriage, have established each other as irreplaceable, non-substitutable, non-disposable persons and by doing so have capacitated themselves to do things that non-married individuals simply cannot do, among them to ‘give’ themselves to one another in the act proper and exclusive to spouses – the marital act – and to receive the gift of life.

Through the enduring commitment of marital consent, a man and a woman establish the foundation for personal sexual consent. In the absence of that larger marital commitment, all other consents, even with legalized authorization or electronic notarization, ring hollow.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did postdoctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org

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Weigel: The Holy See, China and evangelization FROM PAGE 13

possibilities – today, and especially in the China of the future. Kowtowing to communists is bad for achieving a full reconciliation among the currently divided factions in the Catholic Church in China. But first and foremost, it is bad for mission and evangelization, now and in the future.

I am skeptical of the claim, often heard in Vatican circles, that China will inevitably become the lead power in the world. Yes, China has made enormous strides economically since Deng Xiaoping abandoned Maoist economic madness and unleashed the creativity of the Chinese people. Yes, the Chinese model of efficient authoritarianism is now a serious competitor to democracy.

And yes, the communist regime’s claim to have restored the Middle Kingdom’s dignity after a century of quasi-colonial degradation has significant appeal among Han Chinese (if not among Tibetans and the Uighurs of Xinjiang). But the one-child policy that China brutally enforced for decades has created serious demographic and social problems; there’s little in the way of a social safety net for an increasingly elderly Chinese population; and it seems unlikely that today’s restraints on free expression in China will be tolerated indefinitely by a rapidly growing middle class.

The communist regime in China is inherently unstable, despite what appears on the surface to be a successful, alternative model of development. Chinese communism will not rule China forever. And when a post-communist China finally opens itself fully to the world, China will become the greatest field of Christian mission since the Europeans came to the Western hemisphere in the 16th century.

A Catholicism that has become identified with a discarded communist regime, because the Vatican once conceded the communists a significant role in the church’s internal life, will be at a grave evangelical disadvantage in the postcommunist China of the future, where evangelical Protestants and Mormons will be very, very active.

And that evangelical concern, I would respectfully remind Cardinal Parolin, has long been the core of my argument against granting the Chinese communist regime a significant role in the choice of bishops.

Or to quote Pope Francis, any such deal would be an impediment to living out the Holy Father’s vision of “a church permanently in mission.”

Ultimately, it’s your experience that matters.

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

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Help stop a proposed new campus abortion mandate

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lease contact your Assembly member to oppose SB 320, California legislation which would institutionalize a bias toward abortion as women’s health care on campus by requiring every campus health center to dispense medication abortion commonly known as RU 486.

The bill has passed the state Senate and is now before the state Assembly. You can express your opposition by going here www.nocampusabortions. valerie com/ for more information schmalz and to find your Assembly member.

Feminists for Life of America executive director Serrin Foster wrote

an op-ed opposing SB 320. Her article, “SB 320: Should public universities offer abortions via the pill? Feminists for Life Say ‘No,’” was published in April on Naomi Wolf ’s website DailyClout and is reprinted below.

SB 320 institutionalizes a bias toward abortion on college campuses, telling a woman that the way to succeed is to destroy her baby. It would mandate that campus health centers offer the two part abortion pill regime, which terminates the pregnancy by denying the growing baby progesterone, the hormone needed to continue pregnancy. It is prescribed up to 10 weeks gestation.

While medication abortion typically induces heavy bleeding and expulsion of the tissue of the unborn baby, campus health centers do not offer round the clock care. RU 486 is touted as the simple private abortion, but even the bill’s authors acknowledge in the legislation text that medica-

tion abortion can require emergency room care or a surgical abortion. Further, Californians for Life notes that medication abortion is available an average of six miles away for the 23 California State University campuses and 11 University of California campuses.

The California Catholic Conference, the bishops’ public policy arm, notes: “SB 320 purposefully narrows a woman student’s alternatives, and on an issue of moral significance and continuing controversy, puts the state in a position of actually promoting, facilitating and potentially funding abortion.”

Let us give students real choices – not the bitter pill of an abortion. As Feminists for Life’s slogan states, “Women Deserve Better than Abortion.”

Valerie Schmalz is director of the Office of Human Life and Dignity, Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Should public universities offer abortions via the Pill? Feminists for Life say ‘No’ Serrin Foster

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Most essential, all counselors should be encouraging pregnant women to know all their options, where the resources are located, that they will be fully supported if they choose to parent, to place a baby for adoption, or prefer to explore kinship care or guardianship options.

or guardianship options.

At least $14 million, and possibly up to $20 million has been pledged to train clinic staff how to advise and administer RU-486 to students, which makes one wonder how even-handedly they will also advise women of their other parenting choices or how readily they will make them aware of available help on and off campus, and of the opportunity to achieve their degree through the UC online options.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal for an online community college could significantly help better serve pregnant women and parents at risk of dropping out: With significant private support, that idea – unlike SB 320 – actually listens to the voices of at-risk students.

California legislators, as well as university administrators, have a choice to make and an opportunity to fulfill the unrealized vision of our feminist foremothers like Susan B. Anthony who first championed women’s acceptance to college and who urged the movement to address the unmet needs of women that often resulted in abortion.

Today, women, especially parenting students, need to hear that they are welcome and supported.

cross the U.S., student parents, especially single mothers, are struggling to graduate college to lift themselves out of poverty while California legislators are considering a bill to require public university health centers to offer abortion by medication.

Abortion is a symptom of, not a solution to, the problems faced overwhelmingly by women who don’t have what they need and deserve. Abortion reflects our failure to serve women. Women deserve better. SB 320 is not an answer.

Rather than the bitter pill of RU 486, we need legislators and administrators to send a strong message of support for pregnant and parenting stu- colleges and universities for having women’s health centers, lactation rooms, and many online options. dents to end the feminization of poverty that can However, while most have child care and even drive women to abortion. That includes economic infant care, only 44 percent have family housing. poverty that starts by lack of completing an educaWait listing is an issue, and prices vary widely. Sigtion – as well as a lack of accommodation in the nificantly, only 39.4 percent of universities explicworkplace and on campus. itly include the rights of pregnant and parenting According to the Guttmacher Institute, three students in their Title IX statements. out of four women who have an abortion are the California universities and colleges have been poorest among us. Sixty-one percent are women of progressive in so many ways in support of pregcolor, and 59 percent are mothers who already have Serrin M. Foster is president of Feminists for Life of nant and parenting students, but they can do even dependents.

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An homage to two believers Isabelle de Gaulmyn

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request to cancel their subscription to Prions en Église arrived. The monthly magazine published by the Bayard group, entitled “Living with Christ” in the U.S. and Canada, contains liturgical texts for each day and reflections on Mass readings.

They sent just a few words, handwritten on white paper: “Hello. At 91 and 84 years of age, we are carrying on as best we can. We attend church on Saturdays to listen and pray. We can’t read as much as we used to. The Prions en Église magazine accompanied our prayers for a long time, for this we are grateful. It is with regret that we wish to cancel our subscription. Yours sincerely.”

Just a few simple and dignified lines that evoke their lives. I try to imagine this couple. Is it he who is 91 and she 84, or the other way around? I’ll never know.

For years they’ve been going to Saturday evening Mass, their copy of Prions en Église tucked under an arm, carrying on “as best they can” as they say.

They’re lucky to have one another.

Their children probably flew the nest long ago.

Now their sight is not so good, and maybe it is becoming more difficult to get to church on Saturdays.

I imagine that they’ve rarely missed a Mass over their years of marriage. They’ve gone together all this time; it would be hard to imagine going alone.

I imagine their devoted attendance to church, obstructed now only by old age. Their faith was self-evident, and they would be hard pressed to explain it, “it’s just they way it is” they’d say, as it has been from birth.

And now they have to renounce the magazine that accompanied them in their prayer. They do so “with regret,” because growing old is always with some regret. But for them it is without bitterness, and they have the rare generosity to give thanks for what Prions en Église brought them.

These two former subscribers go under the radar.

Few pay attention to these white-haired folk who return week after week to their pews, prayer book in one hand, walking stick in the other. Each year they are a little more stooped, they hear a little less as the prayers are recited. But it doesn’t matter if they can’t hear all the words; their Mass takes place internally.

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Is anyone thinking about this generation of believers who were so abundant? Where are their specialist sociologists, and what programs have been made about them?

As Catholics, we seem to prefer not to see them, perhaps because we know deep down that they won’t be replaced. When they are no longer with us, no one will attend church with the same regularity, coming to Mass on Saturday evenings to their cold and empty churches. One day they won’t be there anymore, and then the church will have to start things from scratch.

We would like to ask one last thing of our two courteous former subscribers. Without their subscription, they will continue to pray, because they couldn’t do otherwise. What we ask is that they pray for us, pray that their gradual decline doesn’t prevent us from forging ahead with our faith.

This article appeared on La Croix International, the English language website of the European independent Catholic daily La Croix. Visit https://international. la-croix.com.

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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament All Souls Parish: 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-871-8944. 1st Friday: Immediately after the 5:15 pm (English) Mass or 6:30 pm (Spanish) Mass.

St. Anne of the Sunset Parish: 850 Judah St., San Francisco 94122; 1-415-665-1600. 1st Friday: after 8:45 am Mass until 10 am (Benediction).

Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption: 1111 Gough St., San Francisco 94109; 1-415-567-2020.

1st Friday (24 hours): 8:30 am Friday- 8 am Saturday.

St. Anthony of Padua Parish: 1000 Cambridge St., Novato 94947; 1-415-883-2177. 1st Friday: 9:30 am to 5 pm; Tuesday: 8:30 to 9 am.

Church of the Assumption of Mary Parish: 26825 Shoreline Hwy., Tomales 94971; 1-707-878-2208.

Sunday: 6pm; Monday, Tuesday; noon (bilingual).

St. Bartholomew Parish: 300 Alameda de las Pulgas (at Crystal Springs), San Mateo 94402; 1-650-347-0701.

Church of the Epiphany Parish: 827 Vienna St., San Francisco 94112; 1-415-333-7630. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5 pm.

Church of the Good Shepherd Parish: 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica 94044; 1-650-355-2593. Friday: 7:30 am-5 pm.

Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish: 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas; 1-650-593-6157. 1st Friday: 7-8 pm Holy Hour.

Church of the Nativity Parish: 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park 94025; 1-650-323-7914. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Church of the Visitacion Parish: 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco 94134; 1-415-494-5517. 1st Friday: 7:30 am6:30 pm (7 pm Mass).

Holy Angels Parish: 107 San Pedro Rd., Colma 94014.

1-650-755-0478. Monday: after 5:45 pm Mass; 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

Holy Name of Jesus Parish: 1555 39th Ave., San Francisco 94122; 1-415-664-8590. Every Wednesday: after 9 am Mass-noon (Benediction).

Mater Dolorosa Parish: 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-583-4131. 1st Friday: 8:30-10 am Mission Dolores Basilica: 3321 16th St. (at Dolores St.), San Francisco; 1-415-621-8203. 1st Friday: 6 pm (Adoration) (Old Mission, bilingual English/Spanish).

Our Lady of Mercy Church: 1 Elmwood Drive, Daly City, 94015; 650-755-2727. Fridays: 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., concluding with Evening Prayer & Benediction at 6:00 p.m.

First Fridays: Eucharistic Adoration from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Benediction & MASS at 6:00 p.m.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish: 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley 94941; 1-415-388-4190. Tuesday: 8:30 am; Wednesday: 7:30 am.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish: 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014; 1-650-756-9786. 1st Friday: 8:30 am6:30 pm; Wednesday: 8:30 am-6:15 pm.

St. Andrew Parish: 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City 94015; 1-650-756-3223. 1st Friday: after the 7 pm Mass.

St. Brendan Parish: 29 Rockaway Ave., San Francisco 94127; 1-415-681-4225. Wednesday: 7-8 pm; Saturday: 4-4:45 pm.

St. Bruno Parish: 555 San Bruno Ave. West, San Bruno 94066; 1-650-588-2121. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

St. Cecilia Parish: 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco 94116; 1-415-664-8481. 1st Friday (24 hours): 7 am Friday-7 am Saturday.

St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas: 450 W. Cintura Ave., Lagunitas 94938; 1-415-488-9799. Monday: After 8 am Mass.

St. Charles Parish: 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos 94070; 1-650-591-7349. 1st Friday: 9 am-10 pm.

St. Dominic Parish: 2390 Bush St., San Francisco 94115; 1-415-567-7824. 1st Friday: 2-4:30 pm; 9 pm-7:30 am (Saturday).

St. Elizabeth Parish: 459 Somerset St., San Francisco 94134; 1-415-468-0820. 1st Friday: after 8 am Mass (Holy Hour in the church).

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St. Gregory Parish: 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403; 1-650-345-8506. 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass.

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St. Thomas More Parish: 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco 94132, (Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way) ; 1-415-452-9634. 1st & 3rd Friday: 7-8 pm St. Veronica Parish: 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-588-1455. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm (except holidays and special events in the church).

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Presentation Sisters honor jubilarians The Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary honored sisters celebrating 60 and 70 years as religious in ceremonies April 29 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco.

Sister Gemma Wilson, PBVM, 60 years, has served as teacher, nurse, trainer of guide dogs, and visitor of the sick.

Sister Giovanna Campanella, PBVM, 60 years, taught for 25 years at schools including Epiphany, San Francisco and has served in the sisters’ leadership councils.

Sister Antoinette Martinez, PBVM, 60 years, has served as the director of pastoral care at the sisters’ motherhouse since 2009, and earlier in similar capacities at Presentation Center in Los Gatos for 40 years.

Sister Mary Ruth Patrick, PBVM, 70 years, (not available for photo) is former assistant director of studies at Presentation High School, San Francisco, and chaplain at sites including San Francisco’s St. Mary Hospital and St. Luke Episcopal Hospital.

obituary Sister Marian Hurley, BVM

(Courtesy photo)

Pictured from left are Sister Gemma Wilson, PBVM; Sister Giovanna Campanella, PBVM; and Sister Antoinette Martinez, PBVM.

Sister Marian Hurley (William Marie), 90, died May 1 at Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa.

She entered the BVM congregation Sept.

8, 1946, and professed first Sister Marian vows on March Hurley, BVM 19, 1949, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1954.

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Sister Marian taught at St. Brigid School in San Francisco. She also taught at schools in states including New York and Illinois, and served in parish ministry in Los Angeles.

Survivors include sisters-inlaw Irene Hurley, Jane Hurley and Patricia Hurley.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003.

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Praying the Rosary The rosary is prayed at the following locations on days and times specified.

St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco, Monday through Saturday, 8:35 a.m.

Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Saturday 3:20 p.m.; second Sundays 3:15 p.m. for priests and vocations; Holy Rosary Society third Sundays 1 p.m., St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel; 2,000 Hail Mary Devotion, second Saturday after 8:30 a.m. Mass; Tuesdays 7:30 p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament in the church.

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St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, San Francisco, Monday through Friday after the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, San Francisco, second Sunday of the month in Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http://salesiansspp.org/.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco, Porziuncola Chapel, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy. www.ShrineSF.org, info@shrinesf.org, (415) 986-4557.

St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf at St. Francis Xavier Church, 1801 Octavia Street, San Francisco, rosary in sign language, all Sundays except June, July and August, 9:45-10:15 a.m.; stbenz1801@gmail.com; www.sfdeafcatholics.org. Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/stbenedictparish.

St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, Monday through Friday, following the 12:05 p.m. Mass; Saturday, before the 8 a.m. Mass, (415) 422-2188.

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St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave., San Francisco, Fridays after 9 a.m. Mass, (415) 648-5751.

St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, Monday thru Saturday following the 8 a.m.

Mass; info@SaintStephenSF.org.

Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Monday through Friday following 8 a.m. Mass, Saturday following 8:30 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m.

St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Monday through Saturday 7:50 a.m.

St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152.

Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, Monday through Saturday approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m.

Mass, (650) 755-0478.

St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Monday through Saturday, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass.

St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Monday through Saturday 7:30 a.m., Monday and Wednesday 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net.

St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Monday through Saturday following the 8:30 a.m.

Mass.

St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Monday, 5 p.m. includes four mysteries, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, adoration; (415) 479-1560.

St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Monday through Saturday after 9 a.m. Mass.

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If your parish has a regular praying of the rosary to which all are invited, just send the day, time, location and contact information to Tom Burke, burket@sfarch.org.

415-485-4090

The information should come from a person in authority in the parish who can be emailed for follow up and who would be responsible for contacting CSF with changes to the parish rosary schedule.

Questions? Contact Tom Burke, burket@sfarch.org.

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Cardinals: Pope names 14 FROM PAGE 1

When the pope made the announcement, the College of Cardinals had 213 members, 115 of whom were under the age of 80 and therefore eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope.

Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, was to celebrate his 80th birthday June 8.

Under Pope Francis, the idea that some church posts and large archdioceses always are led by a cardinal is fading, but is not altogether gone.

His latest choices included the papal vicar of Rome, Cardinal-designate Angelo De Donatis, and the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal-designate Luis F. Ladaria. But other traditional cardinal sees like Venice and Milan in Italy or Baltimore and Philadelphia in the United States were not included in the pope’s latest picks.

With the new nominations, the number of cardinal-electors – those under 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave – will exceed by five the limit of 120 set by Pope Paul VI. But previous popes also set the limit aside without formally changing the limit.

After the consistory June 29, Pope Francis will have created almost half of the voting cardinals. Nineteen of those under 80 in late June will be cardinals given red hats by St. John Paul II; 47 will have been created by retired Pope Benedict XVI; and 59 will have been welcomed into the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis.

The new cardinals hail from: Iraq, Spain, Italy, Poland, Pakistan, Portugal, Peru, Madagascar, Japan, Mexico and Bolivia.

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The new cardinals, listed in the order Pope Francis announced them, are: – Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, 69, Iraq.

– Spanish Archbishop Luis F. Ladaria, 74, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

– Italian Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, 64, papal vicar for the Diocese of Rome.

– Italian Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, 69, substitute secretary of state.

– Polish Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, 54, papal almoner.

– Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan, 72.

– Bishop Antonio dos Santos Marto of Leiria-Fatima, Portugal, 71.

– Archbishop Pedro Barreto of Huancayo, Peru, 74.

– Archbishop Desire Tsarahazana of Toamasina, Madagascar, 63.

– Archbishop Giuseppe Petrocchi of L’Aquila, Italy, 69.

– Archbishop Thomas Aquinas Manyo Maeda of Osaka, Japan, 69.

– Archbishop Sergio Obeso Rivera, retired archbishop of Xalapa, Mexico, 86.

– Bishop Toribio Ticona Porco, retired prelate of Corocoro, Bolivia, 81.

– Spanish Claretian Father Aquilino Bocos Merino, 80.

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Visit Cappadocia, home of Sts. Basil and Gregory Nazianzen, with its surreal landscape. Celebrate Mass at the home of the Blessed Mother in Ephesus. And much more. Fr. Mario has a PhD in New Testament and can help you appreciate the missionary journeys of the great Apostle Paul which began at Antioch where the followers of Jesus were first called Christians.

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sus. See the most magnificent excavations in the world.

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Egyptian Pyramids-Old Cairo-Aswan-Temple of Philae-Kom Ombo-Temple of Horus-Esna-House of Mary Ephesus Theater Day 6: Thursday 10/18, DELPHI / ATHENS Luxor-Mount Sinai-Masada-Baptismal the River Jordan-Dead Sea-Bethlehem-JerusalemOur first stop today is the ruins of DelphiSite thaton were onceDolorosa-Old the famed Temple of Apollo.

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Day 7: Friday 10/19, ATHENS/ PIRAEUS / MYKONOS For more information, please We call: board the ship and set sail for Crete.

This morning, we board our ship at the Piraeus pier for an Aegean cruise. Once we set sail, our first stop is the Day 9: Sunday 10/21, HERAKLION (CRETE) / SANTORINI picturesque 29 square-mile island St. of Mykonos, known Augustine Catholic Church SHORE EXCURSION - KNOSSOS PALACE & MUSEUM IN for its narrow winding paths, windmills, and over 350 HERAKLION: Crete is the largest and the most rugged of 3700 Callan Blvd.the Greek islands. tiny chapels that beautifully paint the island’s characEn route from Jerusalem to Rome, St. teristically blue and white canvas. We enjoy some free Paul was forced to anchor here for a few weeks because South San Francisco, CA 94080 time to wander its streets, browse the many shops near of a hurricane. During his stay, he preached to the nathe harbor, or relax and enjoy the breathtaking view.

We Phone: (650) 873-2282 & (650) tives.255-9464 Crete is also the home of the great Minoan Civilireturn to the ship to set sail for Kusadasi, Turkey. [B] Space is limited, book zation earlyand the mythological home of Zeus. After a short drive through the town of Heraklion the tour will arrive Day 8: Saturday 10/20, KUSADASI (EPHESUS) / Tour Operator at Knossos excavations. Here, Sir Arthur Evan’s archaeoPATMOS logical discoveries revealed a civilization dating back to SHORE EXCURSION - ANCIENT EPHESUS AND THE HOUSE 4000 BC, when a great empire flourished on the island of OF VIRGIN MARY: Drive through the colorful town of KuCrete. Based on the wealth of artifacts that were found, sadasi to reach Mt. Koressos. Situated in a small valley, it Evans theorized that this was the site of the ancient Miis here where you will visit the humble chapel which lies noan Kingdom. These findings will be viewed in detail, as on the site of the little house where The Virgin Mary is your guide will lead you on a journey of discovery to learn believed to have spent her last days. Despite the many of the sophisticated culture that flourished thousands controversies, the Christian World still favors this belief of years ago on this island. The tour will continue to the and the site has been officially sanctioned by the Vatican Museum of Heraklion which houses the treasures from for pilgrimage. Continue on to Ancient Ephesus and acthe findings of Knossos, Phaestos, Zakros and others less companied by your guide, walk through the Magnesian known cities.

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Church of the Visitacion, San Francisco: The Knights of Columbus, Church of the Visitacion Council 12683 in San Francisco, organized a volunteer event at the San Francisco Food Bank earlier this year. More than 70 volunteers from the parish community worked 210 hours to pack 24,000 pounds of food for the Senior Food Program, and an additional 1,500 lbs. of dry food. The San Francisco Food Bank feeds more than 225,000 people through 260 pantries.

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MATER DOLOROSA PARISH, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO: The Portuguese Santo Cristo Society of Northern California are pictured May 6 in procession from Mater Dolorosa to nearby Santo Cristo Hall following its annual Mass in Portuguese “commemorating the ideals and customs of the Portuguese people in South San Francisco,” the group told Catholic San Francisco. “The tradition of this celebration is a religious one.

It is held on the fifth Sunday following Easter. The Portuguese people feel it is very important to take time from their daily lives to publicly honor Christ for all favors received throughout the year by offering a free lunch to anyone who sits down with them on the day of the celebration.” Mater Dolorosa pastor Father Rolando De La Rosa was principal celebrant of the Mass.

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ALL SOULS YOUNG ADULTS: The South San Francisco parish is currently in the early stages of forming a young adult group and is seeking men and women ages 18-40 to join them on the leadership team. If you are interested or want more information, contact Robert Dunn at redunn111@gmail.com. The group is open to every parish and nonCatholics. The formators will be following the goals and guidelines established by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

They are looking to provide a leadership formation program to recruit, form, catechize, energize, and equip young adult leaders of diverse backgrounds to form a peer community.

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 Ethan Bortnick; events@CatholicCharitiesSF.org; (415) 972-1273; visit CatholicCharitiesSF. org/LoavesAndFishes.

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

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

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EPISCOPAL ORDINATION: Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP will be ordained to the episcopate by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral,

ROSARY: 2018 rosary gathering, 1 p.m., Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco.

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Shuttle available at main gate 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

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Congratulations, Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP 18th Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (Photo by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)

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Inside auxiliary bishop christian special edition:

Bishop Christian’s coat of arms

Local Dominican friars discuss their vocation . . . . . . . 4 Dominican pioneers of Northern California . . . . . . . . 14 A conversation with Bishop-designate Christian . 12-13 ‘E pluribus unum’ and Christian unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

All are welcome: Ordination Mass set for June 5, 11 a.m.

The episcopal ordination Mass for Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP, the 18th auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral at 11 a.m. on June 5.

There will be ample open seating for the public on a first-come basis. Doors open at 10.

Parking will be extremely tight. Valet parking will be available, but most of the cathedral lot will be reserved for bishops and those requiring assistance. Carpooling and public transportation are strongly recommended.

A public reception in Patrons’ Hall will follow the approximately two-hour Mass.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will deliver the homily during the Mass, which will be attended by retired Los Angeles archbishop Cardinal Roger Mahony, Vatican nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Christophe Pierre and at least 16 other bishops.

The ordination rite takes place after the Gospel and involves the presentation of the bishop-designate, reading of the apostolic letter, consent of the people, homily, examination of the candidate, Litany of the Saints, laying on of hands by all bishops present, prayer of consecration (during which the open Book of the Gospels is held over the ordinand’s head), anointing of the bishop’s head and presentation of the Book of the Gospels.

The rite concludes with the bishop’s investiture with ring, miter and pastoral staff, and the kiss of peace by all bishops present.

Following Communion, the new bishop will go throughout the cathedral blessing the people and then will make some remarks.

For more information on Bishop-designate Christian and the Dominican community, visit www.opwest.org/ bishopchristian/.

Bishop-designate Robert. F. Christian, OP, described his episcopal coat of arms in an email to Catholic San Francisco: “The cross with the ihs shield represents the Dominican Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus – my province. The crossed arms are, of course, Christ and St. Francis – so a reference to San Francisco.

And the motto also recalls the name of Jesus: ‘Hallowed be thy name.’”

Archbishop José H. Gomez, the Auxiliary Bishops, the clergy, religious and laity of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles offer congratulations and best wishes to Bishop Designate Father Robert Christian Archdiocese of San Francisco

May God shower his blessings upon you as you exercise your new ministry.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Cardinal William Levada, Auxiliary Bishops Emeriti William Justice and Ignatius Wang, together with the Clergy, Religious, and Laity of the

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Bishop Robert Christian on his appointment by His Holiness, Pope Francis, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

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DISTINCTLY Dominican: 6 Dominicans talk about what it means to belong to the Order of Preachers Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

On the occasion of the upcoming episcopal ordination of Dominican Father Robert F. Christian as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic San Francisco asked five other Dominican priests and one novice to share their experiences in the Order of Preachers. St. Dominic, a Spanish priest, founded the order in 1216 in response to a need for informed preaching at the time.

Holy fire: Father Michael Hurley, OP Dominican Father Michael Hurley has been a Dominican for 18 years and a Dominican priest for 10 of them. For the past five years he has been the pastor of St. Dominic Parish located in the geographic center of San Francisco at Bush and Steiner. The 145-year-old Dominican parish lures the faithful from all parts of the city and Bay Area with the motto: “Radiating the Joy of the Gospel from the Heart of the City.”

“As Dominicans, the reason we get up in the morning is to preach for the salvation of souls.

From that, everything else flows,” Father Hurley said. “The question is for us, how can we best strategize in a spiritual, a practical and a human way to be most effective in doing that?”

Father Hurley noted that the Dominican order is the only religious community defined by “what we do” rather than with the name of the founder.

“We are the Order of Preachers, not the Order of St. Dominic,” he said.

He’s only recently returned from a self-styled “Camino Santa Domingo” pilgrimage with a group of parishioners in April, when they walked through Spain and Southern France in the footsteps of the saint. It offered him, he said, a

‘As Dominicans, the reason we get up in the morning is to preach for the salvation of souls. From that, everything else flows.’

unique opportunity to reflect on the man who saw a desperate need for an order of priests dedicated solely to preaching and evangelization.

Many people think of preaching as only a liturgical act, Father Hurley said. And though most Dominicans do have a special facility and love for the pulpit, it goes far beyond that. “Even outside of a liturgical setting, there should be a way in which our very life and the way the brotherhood interacts with the community serves as a light or a kind of beacon to others.”

Living in community, as Dominicans do, is what shapes both the message and the messengers, he said.

“The virtues that we need to be holy men and women come from living in a family,” Father Hurley said. “The family teaches you to be patient, how to be generous, how to be encouraging, how to be sacrificial. Hopefully that plays out in whatever particular ministry we have for the salvation of souls.”

Dominican preaching is always the “fruit of the collective” he said.

“Here at St. Dominic, you have one person who preaches on a Sunday at a Mass, but that really comes from the heart of the community,” he said.

“So it’s really the entire community you hear, not just the individual.” He said the Dominicans – priests and novices – at St. Dominic get together

Father Michael Hurley, OP

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DISTINCTLY Dominican: Friars’ perspective on the Order of Preachers

‘When we come to an issue, a problem or some aspect of great concern, Dominicans look not to agree with it right away, nor to disagree with it right away, but to make a distinction by proposing something we can talk about.’

When asked for an example, he offered this: “If someone come to us and says ‘The church hates people with AIDS,’ we would not disagree with it, nor would we agree with the statement,” he said. A Dominican might ask the person who made it to consider what that means in the context of the fact that the church was the first on the scene in San Francisco when it came to ministering to people suffering with AIDS. Dominicans, he said, invite critical thought and reflection.

“We don’t offer teaching as top down, we propose it within the context of what the person is going through at the time or how that person can learn,” he said. “We are not preaching to a theoretical community. We are preaching to a real parish with human beings with real problems.”

“Dominicans are good at making distinctions,” said Father Hilander. “Rather than approving or condemning, we are good at making good decisions and judgments, though not in an inquisitorial spirit.”

Another defining aspect of the Dominican charism, according to Father Hilander, is this “missionary aspect of bringing our charism outward into new places.” Dominicans are not just preachers, but also teachers and missionaries, he said. The first saint of the Americas was a Dominican saint, St. Rose of Lima.

Dominicans are on the forefront of new frontiers for sharing the Gospel message, said Father Hilander. “You’ll see a lot of Dominicans on Facebook and on Twitter.”

It was in fact a Dominican priest from France, Father Eric Salobir, who founded a Catholic think tank in 2012 to promote research and innovation in the use of “disruptive” technologies for evangelization: The OPTIC (Order of Preachers for Technology, Information and Communication) Network.

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early in the week and read and reflect on the Gospel and share ideas. Four times a day the community chants the Divine Office in the church, which may sound like “song” but it is in fact, group prayer.

The image of fire is a symbol of Dominican evangelization, according to Father Hurley.

“The idea of fire radiating outward is part of our tradition,” he said. He noted that St. Dominic’s mother had a dream before his birth of a dog with a torch in its mouth, a visual which became emblematic of the Dominican Order. St. Catherine of Siena, a Dominican nun, also famously said: “Be who God wants you to be and you can set the world on fire.”

“Dominicans are very comfortable with holy inflammatory language,” Father Hurley said. “Fire encapsulates the energy of what God’s grace is about to us.”

Critical thought: Father Augustine Hilander, OP

Dominican Father Augustine Hilander, parochial vicar at St. Dominic for the past three years, said a distinction of the Dominican order is – making distinctions.

“In our studies we are taught never to deny something and seldom to affirm something and always to make distinctions. This is an important element of our thought,” he said. “When we come to an issue, a problem or some aspect of great concern, we look to not agree with it right away, nor to disagree with it right away, but to make a distinction by proposing something we can talk about.”

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DISTINCTLY Dominican: Friars’ perspective on the Order of Preachers these questions, and this age group is so critical,” he said. “This is often the time young people make life decisions and I wanted to be present and help and inspire as I could.”

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Mission spirit: Father Isaiah Mary Molano, OP

Catholic San Francisco spoke to Father Isaiah Mary Molano hours before he was to board a flight for a two-week missionary trip to Asia with the St. Xavier Lay Missionary Society.

In addition to his role as parochial vicar and chaplain of the young adult ministry at St. Dominic Parish, Father Molano is the spiritual director of the nonprofit missionary society, which trains and dispatches Catholic lay missionaries in Asia.

It was founded by Stanford graduate Tricia Bolle, whom he met many years ago at a campus ministry event there.

In Hong Kong, Father Molano will share his vocation story with young adults at events sponsored by the Archdiocese of Hong Kong. From there the missionaries will serve the poor in Calcutta, then travel to Goa, a “very Catholic” beach resort town in southern India where they will offer guidance to Catholic hotel and motel owners who want to find ways to evangelize through their work.

Father Molano first encountered the Dominican order in campus ministry at his college in Southern California.

He said he was “really affected” by the presence of Dominicans at his college in Southern California, and their desire to be “spiritual fathers” to that age group.

Inclusive perspective: Father Bruno Gibson, OP

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‘What impressed me about the Dominicans was their dedication to the young adult community, the young church.’

Father Isaiah Mary Molano, OP As an art major, he turned to his own Catholic family’s tradition to help figure out what the Catholic Church said about the meaning of truth and beauty, and found a “treasure trove” there.

“I’m clearly not the only person who has had

After 60 years of priesthood and at 87 years of age, “retired” Dominican Father Bruno Gibson could easily stay tucked away in his room in the peaceful ridge top home he shares in Tiburon. Instead, he gets up early each Sunday morning with his housemate as his faithful driver, and travels 30 miles west to celebrate Mass at tiny St. Mary Magdalene Church in coastal Bolinas.

One of four rural Catholic parishes in West Marin County, St. Mary Magdalene is actually a mission of Sacred Heart Parish in “nearby” Olema. Three years ago, Father Bruno offered to provide Sunday morning relief to the pastor there who technically has pastoral responsibility for all four of the churches separated from one other by many dozens of country miles.

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DISTINCTLY Dominican: Friars’ perspective on the Order of Preachers the Gospel,” he said. Our society is “steeped in superficiality” he said, and people are yearning for a spiritual life.

On any given Sunday, traditional Catholics, lapsed Catholics, nonbelievers and the merely curious might be led into the pews of St. Mary Magdalene by Father Gibson’s welcoming smile alone.

Dominicans seek “dialogical encounter,” with people, he said. “Our perspective is not an exclusive perspective. The Dominican perspective is an inclusive perspective,” he said.

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white robes flapping in the wind as he stands outside welcoming all who enter.

“Stored grain rots.” Father Gibson, told Catholic San Francisco, a quote from St. Dominic. He who drove his followers, he said, “to the edges” to spread the Gospel message.

“Wherever the frontiers call us,” he said, with his omnipresent smile.

“In many ways Bolinas is a frontier town.”

The San Francisco-born priest ordained in 1960 has served at Dominican parishes and centers in Oregon, Washington and California including two separate stints as pastor of another St. Mary Magdalene Parish, the one in Berkeley. He left in 2013 shortly before the Dominicans left the parish in 2016.

Father Bruno developed “A View from the Ridge,” a retreat series “from a Dominican perspective” offering preaching, meditation, and silent contemplation in the same home in which he now shares with a local Catholic who opened the home to him. Participants came from all over the Bay Area to participate.

Today, with a small corps of friends and followers to help him, Father Bruno is recreating those day retreats in Bolinas with a “A View

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‘The Dominican perspective is not an exclusive perspective; it’s an inclusive perspective.’

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own by offering free housing in the homes of local Catholics.

Father Bruno said that he sees the same “hunger” that St. Dominic saw at the time he founded the order.

“People don’t really know our Lord Jesus Christ, they don’t know

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A conversation with Bishop-designate

Robert F. Christian, OP

The Dominican priest to be ordained June 5 as the 18th auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese discusses sacred art, Dominican life, the importance of transmitting the faith and the resurgence of social thought

sit with white shirts and Block Club sweaters to form a large SI block in the stands. The whole school would turn out. If you weren’t playing on the field, you were sitting in the stands cheering on the team.”

His favorite teachers at SI included two Jesuit scholastics who later became priests – Charles Gagan, SJ, who taught Latin in the 1960s and who later served as pastor of St. Ignatius Parish, and Richard McCurdy, SJ, “who was a great English teacher” and who later became principal at SI in the 1970s. “The Jesuits were inspiring and made me want to be one of them.”

After graduating from SI in 1966, he majored in English at Santa Clara University. While there, Father Christian joined the Gonzaga in Florence program in his junior year and found himself in a Dominican parish for the first time. “That was my chance to see another order that was viable in the church. With the Dominicans, this was an order with a common prayer and community life.”

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wice yearly, the pope delivers a papal address known as “Urbi et Orbi” – to the city and to the world. That phrase is just one way to describe the life of Father Robert Christian, OP, who will be installed as San Francisco’s newest auxiliary bishop June 5 at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.

A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Father Christian’s ministry has seen him rooted in several cities since his ordination in 1976, including San Francisco, Oakland and Rome. He has also traveled to every continent on the globe save Antarctica in his work for the church, especially in its attempts to find common ground with other religions.

Born to Robert and Gloria Christian, Father Christian was the oldest of seven children. Even though six of the seven were sons, the Christian household wasn’t a rowdy one. “My mother thought it was much easier to raise boys than girls,” he added.

His younger brother John (who works for the Archdiocese of San Francisco heading its real estate division) noted that “when Bob was left in charge of us at night, he always made sure we said our prayers before going to bed.”

Father Christian, John added, “had an inkling of a religious vocation even in grammar school. Our parents, however, advised him not to enter the minor seminary but to gain some real-life experience in high school and college before making a decision on his vocation. From the start, my brother has always been in love with God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

He is perfect bishop material – smart as well as pragmatic.”

(Photo by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)

‘The bottom line is that the transmission of faith is key, especially of belief in Christ’s life, death and resurrection and the promise of eternal life. If that isn’t passed on, then everything else becomes irrelevant.’

Bishop-designate Christian is pictured in April at St. Albert’s Priory in Oakland, the house of formation for the Western Dominican Province.

Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP

Their father gained a modicum of fame as an inventor with Christian Engineering, the family’s company. He helped Ore-Ida make use of leftover slivers of potatoes by creating a device to turn them into Tater Tots. “Ore-Ida used to shower our family with potato products every Christmas,” said Father Christian.

He attended St. Brendan School and transferred to St. Vincent de Paul before going on to St. Ignatius High School and graduating with the Class of 1966. There, he joined the Debate Society and the Forum, “both of which helped me overcome my shyness and taught me public speaking skills, which was good preparation for becoming a Dominican.”

He loved the school spirit he found at SI, including the crowds that would gather to watch games at Kezar. “Students would

Studying in Italy also gave him exposure to the great art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. “That’s where I learned to see art as a means of communication. Years later, at the Chagall Museum in Nice, I saw a painting of Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac.

That work speaks to the connection between the Old and New Testaments, of the sacrifice of Isaac prevented by an angel and of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, one freely offered. It became for me a wonderful tableau for preaching on Good Friday.”

After finishing his bachelor’s degree, he answered the call to the priesthood “at a time when vocations were declining and the prospect of working alone as a priest was looming, but I didn’t think I could live alone.” He considered joining the Jesuits and one other order but chose the Dominicans “as it seemed the best fit for me.”

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He studied first at St. Albert’s Priory in Oakland, made his solemn profession of vows in 1974 and was ordained in 1976. After teaching at Dominican College, he continued his studies at the Angelicum University in Rome, where he received his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 1981 and his Doctorate in Theology in 1984.

He gained experience in pastoral work at Newman Centers at UC Riverside and the University of Washington before being sent back to the Angelicum to teach theology. He remained there, off and on, until 2014.

He returned to the U.S. twice, first for a sabbatical at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and at Yale, and later to serve as Vicar Provincial for the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, which comprises 10 Western states.

He accepted several Vatican appointments, including membership on the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, where he and Catholic and Anglican colleagues work to achieve, in his words, “a full, visible unity – based on a shared faith, a shared government and a shared worship – but a unity that makes due allowance for legitimate differences.” Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 also appointed him to serve as Consultor for the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

His Bay Area roots also kept him busy locally, as he has been elected to attend almost every Dominican provincial chapter meeting since 1981, as well as three general chapters. Currently he serves as master of students for the Dominican’s Western province based out of St. Albert’s.

Dominican decision-making

That notion of being elected is an important one for Father Christian, who values the principles that guide the Dominicans.

“We are the most democratic order in the church. We even elect our local superiors, so there is a good scrappiness at times as well as a good deal of cross pollination and discussion on common projects. We also know that if a decision isn’t the right one, we can change it in a few years. Our basic values aren’t up for grabs, but our implementation of policies can change as time goes by. This gives us all in the order a sense of ownership, where decisions are imposed by the common will and not from above.”

What all Dominicans have in common, he added, are charisms defined by two mottos. Veritas – truth – and contemplari et contemplata aliis tradere (to contemplate and to give to others the fruits of contemplation).

The latter motto, Father Christian noted, “implies that our common prayer and study life are two aspects of contemplation.

We don’t compartmentalize them, and they are subordinate to our preaching mission. And while we can never know the truth in its entirety, we can know much, because God has revealed himself to us. We want people to know that the truth will set us free.”

Also key to the Order of Preachers is the act of preaching.

“We work to praise, to bless and to preach. That’s what we do in our lives. We praise what God has made, and we preach about the goodness of God.” He is approaching his new work as auxiliary bishop with some excitement and some trepidation. “It will be a steep learning curve, as I don’t know canon law. In some ways, I feel as if I’m being kidnapped. I’ve been a Dominican for 48 years. This will be a big change. I’m excited, but I confess I’m dreading it just a little bit.”

Father Christian first met Archbishop Cordileone in Rome when the latter was a seminarian studying at the Gregorian.

Both were members of the Cal-Neva Club, which brought together U.S. clerics from California and Nevada who were studying or teaching in Rome.

Transmitting the faith

The two share a common concern – “that the transmission of faith isn’t happening,” said Father Christian. “The crisis will grow worse before it gets better. The ‘nones’ – those who have no religion – won’t be passing along the faith that they don’t have to children they might have. We are approaching a cliff and looking at a landscape where we may no longer have a large faith community. People react to this fear by going to one of two extremes rather than moving to the middle; they either adopt an eccentric rigidity or they throw in the towel.”

One solution, he noted “is to work on good preaching, but that will only be heard by those still coming to hear us. The other part is good family formation and evangelical outreach. The bottom line is that the transmission of faith is key, especially of belief in Christ’s life, death and resurrection and the promise of eternal life. If that isn’t passed on, then everything else becomes irrelevant. We need to deal with this gracefully without being combative or self-righteous. The answer is not found in a sledgehammer approach.”

The other challenge the church faces, he added, is the need to respond to global threats that affect the most vulnerable communities. “The poor live with rising sea levels brought on by climate change, and they suffer from human trafficking, even here in Oakland, which is a center for this. The poor will sell organs so that wealthy people can have a kidney or an eye. The homeless camps we see on the streets are both a symptom of and a repudiation of the separation of rich and poor. For many, the poor are a problem to be hidden away. Others abuse the principle of subsidiarity – they believe local authorities need to deal with problems, but local governments are unable to do much without federal or state funding.”

Resurgence of social thought

The church, which historically has excelled at education and health care, is strongest today in areas of social justice, he added. “Social thought is also enjoying a renaissance of acceptability in both government and academic circles. The church is stressing both the common good and the common dignity of the human person. We are losing, however, the Catholic identities of our schools, and we need to stress this more.”

When he is installed as auxiliary bishop, he hopes to bring his Dominican sensibilities to the job. “We have had four Dominican popes over the years, and the first archbishop of San Francisco, Joseph Alemany, was a Dominican. Prayer and study is part of our lives, though subordinate to preaching the good news.”

While he has yet to choose his coat of arms, he has chosen his motto: “Sanctificetur nomen tuum – Hallowed be thy name.

That echoes the name of our province, and it lets people know that I’ll continue to preach the name of Jesus, who teaches me to be grateful for all that I have, including a good family, many friends, an education, my Dominican life and travels all over the world. This gratitude calls me to wonder if I’m using all these gifts as best I am able. God is the giver of all good gifts and has given me the opportunity to be something of a gift to others.”

Paul Totah serves as director of communications at St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco.

Timeline: Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP

1948:

Robert and Gloria Christian with baby Robert Francis, their firstborn.

1954:

(Family photos courtesy John Christian)

St. Brendan School days.

1965:

With his six siblings.

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1966:

With fellow St. Ignatius College Preparatory senior Forum men.

2001:

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Dominican novice.

With parents at his 25th ordination anniversary.

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Dominican pioneer priests and sisters of Northern California Here are excerpts from “Mission West: The Western Dominican Province, 1855-1966,” written by Dominican Father Fabian Stan Parmisano and published by the Western Dominican Province, based in Oakland.

Reprinted with permission of the Western Dominican Province.

San Francisco was a genteel, laid-back sort of town from its early Spanish beginnings in the 1700s to the drifting in of pioneering Europeans and U.S. citizens. But shortly after the cry “Gold!” was heard from Sutter’s Mill in January, 1848, even the most sober and settled of its citizens caught the fever and joined in the rush. Overnight, carpenters dropped their hammers, masons their trowels, bakers their loaves, clerks their pens, to rush to the American River. Schools were closed as both teachers and pupils deserted; shopkeepers hung signs on their doors – “Gone to the Diggings,” “Off to the Mines” – and disappeared. By June 15 [1849] San Francisco was a ghost town, with houses and shops empty, and all who could walk, ride, run, or crawl rushing toward the Sierras.” A ghost town, yes, but not for long. A year later San Francisco was alive again with those returning from the mines, rich or as poor as ever, and with latecomer from near and far stopping off to cash in. The town soon became “the City,” percentage-wise as cosmopolitan as we find it today. So a wide-eyed seminarian, later ordained by the city’s first archbishop, wrote to the

Society of the Propagation of the Faith on September 18, 1851: “What a port! What a town! What a population! … Christians, pagans, Protestants, atheists, brigands, thieves, convicts, firebrands, assassins; little good, much bad; behold the population of San Francisco, the new Babylon teeming with crime, confusion and frightful vice.”

of the Catholic Church in California. It also was the beginning of the presence of the Order of Preachers in the whole of the western United States. For Bishop Alemany had come not just to oversee the California Church but also to establish in California a new province of the Dominican Order.

Alemany: A bishop for the California wilds

Before his departure from Rome where his consecration took place, Alemany had spoken to Fr. Jerome Gigli, the Vicar General of the Order, of his intentions with regard to the new foundation, and had been given the green light. Once arrived in his new diocese he immediately set to work not only as bishop but as “provincial.” Within a few days of his arrival we find him writing to the new Vicar General, Fr. Alexander Vincent Jandel, requesting more explicit directions with regard to the province. Fr. Jandel responded graciously but also rather sharply that “It is entirely forbidden to any Dominican religious elevated to the episcopacy to retain any jurisdiction in the Order itself: this is clear in our Constitution and confirmed, if I mistake not, by a bull of Benedict XIII. Since I am unable to give you the authority to establish our Order in California, I send with this answer letters patent to Father Vilarrasa to do so.” Jandel’s letter, however, did not reach Alemany until some weeks

The archbishop who ordained this young enthusiast was Joseph Sadoc Alemany, then, as the above letter was being written, simply bishop of the two Californias, Alta and Baja, Nevada, most of Utah and a fair slice of Arizona, with his episcopal see in Monterey. Less than a year prior to this date, Alemany, a Dominican friar newly ordained bishop expressly for the wilds of California, arrived at the port of San Francisco. It was the night of Friday, December 6, 1850. With him was another Dominican friar, Fr. Francis Sadoc Vilarrasa, and a Dominican sister, the Belgian-born Sr. Mary Goemaere. Next day Alemany with his party was formally welcomed and the following day, December 8, he presided at the Mass of the Immaculate Conception in the small wooden church of St. Francis, the only Catholic church in San Francisco besides the mission. After the Mass he was presented with a gift of $1,400.00 to cover the expenses projected for the visitation of his vast diocese. Such was the modest ceremony, prayerful and practical, that began a new era in the history

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after its writing, thus permitting the bishop in good faith to take some initial steps in the establishment of the western Dominicans, both men and women.

Although Fr. Vilarrasa under the title of “commissary general” became the founder in legal fact of the province, it is to Alemany that the idea and inspiration of the province originally belong. Even before he was consecrated bishop, as the newly appointed provincial of the Eastern Province he had begun the process. A young Dominican, Fr. Peter Augustine Anderson, had come to him asking to be missioned in California. Alemany immediately granted the request, hoping that Fr. Anderson would restore the Dominican missions in Baja California and thereby lay the ground for another Dominican province. And, when made bishop, one of his first acts was to enlist Fr. Vilarrasa as companion to help in the new foundation. A further indication of his initiative and seriousness in this regard was his invitation, dutifully accepted, to some Dominican sisters to participate in the work.

It was St. Dominic over again: as the Dominican Order in its very inception was composed of both women and men, so it would be with the Order in its newest and newly challenging terrain.

Alemany’s ‘tireless begging pen’

One of Alemany’s chief activities as archbishop was to staff his archdiocese with priests and religious, both sisters and brothers. This was his

The town soon became ‘the City,’ percentage-wise as cosmopolitan as we find it today. So a wide-eyed seminarian wrote on September 18, 1851: ‘What a port!

What a town! What a population!’ first concern when consecrated bishop in 1850. He immediately set to work pleading for help, from the Propagation of the Faith by letter and personal visits, but also from individual dioceses and religious orders directly. He wrote to his brother Dominican, Henri Lacordaire, asking for Dominicans, and to John Henry Newman requesting the aid of the Oratorians; and many other similar requests issued from the tireless begging pen of Alemany all through his tenure as bishop.

The episcopacy of Patrick Riordan, Alemany’s successor, has been called “the Age of the Builder,” for it was under Riordan that Catholic schools and hospitals and other Catholic centers multiplied.

But Riordan could build buildings only because he had the personnel to staff them, and these came largely through the efforts of his predecessor. We have seen how Alemany insured that at the very start of his work as Bishop in California there would be sisters to educate the young. Other invitations quickly followed, some rejected, at least for a

time, others accepted. In March of 1851 Alemany welcomed to San Francisco the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and in the following July they opened the doors of their convent in San Jose to its first pupils. Here was the beginning of the college which would, in 1923, be moved to Belmont and function there to the present day.

Daughters answer Alemany’s appeal

In August of 1850 Alemany had visited the superior of the Vincentian Fathers and the Daughters of Charity with the request for help. This resulted in the arrival in California in June, 1851, of five Daughters of Charity. Seven had set out from Emmittsburg, Maryland, but two succumbed to Yellow Fever along the Isthmus of Panama. Their initial losses, and other trials, weighed heavy upon this pioneer group, as the following letter, dated “March, 1853,” of Sr. Francis McEnnis to her U.S. superior betrays: … I had not the heart to write to anyone, our prospects were so bad. I was truly disappointed and not only myself, but everyone is so, when they come here. It is so different from what we expected but God had dealt with us for the best. It was His Holy Will that we should suffer, and we ought to obey Him under all circumstances … Our prospects are brighter now; it seems to me as if the sun was under a cloud since we have been here. The last time the Bishop was in the city I went to see him. I was much pleased and I find he will do anything he

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can for us. He even told me, if he could get Sisters of Charity he preferred them to any other Order.

I must tell you that I was not much pleased with the Bishop when I first saw him, but indeed, I am now … A good concerned bishop and, evidently, a shrewdly politic one! In a final note Sister Francis reveals perhaps the main reason for her and her sisters improved though continuing sadness with their San Francisco mission: “This is a strange place, a real bad place. Immorality seems to be the favorite virtue here. God pity us! We need prayers and good fervent ones, for we see nothing good in this miserable place.” But they made the most of it.

In October, 1852, the Daughters opened St. Vincent’s School at St. Patrick’s church in Happy Valley (south Market), and soon an orphanage was added.

In 1854 Alemany sent Fr. Hugh Gallagher to Ireland to gather more recruits from the sisterhoods there. The mission proved highly successful.

On November 13, 1854, five Presentation Sisters of County Cork arrived in San Francisco and in little more than two weeks had opened a free school on Green Street and laid the cornerstone for a permanent foundation on Powell Street. Less than a month later, on December 8, 1854, eight Sisters of Mercy arrived from Kinsale, Ireland. Initially they visited the homes of the sick, but were soon ministering at the City Hospital. But it was in the following year of 1855 that the Mercy Sisters proved their mettle and became endeared to San Franciscans generally.

It was in this year that a severe plague of cholera broke out in the city, and the Mercy Sisters were in the forefront of those nursing the sick and the dying.

At the prodding of the persistent archbishop, priests, too, continued to volunteer for California, and of course the Catholic laity grew with the fast growing population of the newest State. “By the end of 1855, the number of Catholics under Alemany’s pastoral care had grown to 68,000. Forty-six priests served the diocese (all foreign-born), but encouragement was to be found in the fact that a diocesan seminary, located at Mission Dolores and christened by the Dominican archbishop St. Thomas Seminary, contained 10 students for the diocese.

Moreover, 15 other aspirants were studying for San Francisco in the Irish seminaries of All Hallows and Carlow and in the Roman College de Propaganda Fide. The City Hospital, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, was caring for 200 sick persons. There were two orphan asylums, one housing 30 boys at San Rafael and one for girls under the Sisters of Charity in San Francisco with one hundred in residence. There was a convent of Dominican Fathers in Benicia, as well as “Female Academies, number of ladies, two hundred.”

Mother Pia Backes, superior of the Dominican Sisters of Mission of San Jose. sanction of his archbishop, founded the Sisterhood of the Holy Family whose purpose it was, as stated in Sadlier’s Catholic Almanac and Ordo for 1879, to “devote themselves to the sick and the poor, provide for the Christian education of young children, and take care during the day of small children whose mothers have to go from home to work.” On November 11, 1876, a second congregation of Dominican sisters arrived. Originally from Ratisbon, Bavaria, these sisters had, in 1853, founded the Convent of the Holy Cross in Brooklyn which in a short time gave birth to ten other distinct offshoots of U.S. Dominican sisters. The sisters who accepted Alemany’s invitation to come to California settled in Mission San Jose and became the Congregation of the Queen of the Holy Rosary. Originally they were to serve the German Catholics of the Bay Area, but in a short time we find them in addition conducting many schools for whatever nationality throughout and beyond the archdiocese.

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most attention and admiration. They were to the forefront in the very beginnings of the diocese, and in works that were at the heart of life itself – physical life in their nursing and administration of hospitals, intellectual life in their teaching and establishment of schools, spiritual life in the living of their own spirituality and their teaching of religion.

Catholics may have come to take them for granted, as children do their parents, but the non-Catholic population in and about San Francisco could not help but wonder at them. For them they were something new and different among womankind, at once displaying and expanding its potential. A statement in this regard appeared in an article of September of 1873 in one of the local newspapers noting the growth and influence of the Catholic Church. It was evidently written by a Protestant, but one intrigued by “Romanism,” at least as he was observing it in the San Francisco of his day. He seems to have been especially appreciative of the opportunities it offered in its sisterhoods for the advancement of the “female sex”: The San Francisco diocese has 104 churches and chapels and 92 priests. Among the convents are “Presentation Convent” and Dominican monastery on Bush St., the convent of the S. Heart and several others. The majority of these establishments have schools attached, and it is noticeable in these as in all other institutions of this church that women are employed most unhesitatingly in the most responsible positions. One cause of the success of Romanism is found in the fact that it opens so many avenues for women, cultivated and otherwise, see pioneers, page C18

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to engage in legitimate work. … If the network of this organization [Romanism] which covers the land could be someday suddenly presented before the public gaze in its entirety, like the instantaneously illuminated powder traceries of a fourth of July fireworks exhibition, people outside of the Roman communion would be greatly startled. …

A demanding but forgiving pastor

Although Alemany was always eager, and often desperate, for priests and religious to satisfy his present needs and future plans, he was properly selective and was circumspect with regard to discipline. “Good priests and religious or none at all,” was the qualification of his every petition. He was understanding of failure and sin and was quick to forgive and reinstate, as early evidenced in the case of the suspended Dominican, Fr. James Aerden.

But he demanded real change of heart. There are instances of his issuing of reprimands to individual priests, always, however, with paternal charity, even in the most recalcitrant cases. Thus he wrote to one of his problem priests: “You know that I have loved and do love you as a dear son. I have admonished you and advised you as a father – and you have turned a deaf ear. This I feel very deeply in my soul, but, as a Bishop, I feel myself obliged to take away your faculties. But remember that, when you repent and behave yourself and do as you are told, I am ready to lift the suspension.”

By the time of his retirement in late 1885 the Monitor of February 4 of that year offered the

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following summary of the apostolic work accomplished in and through the leadership of this Dominican archbishop: It is only 36 years since a small wooden shanty on Vallejo Street sufficed to hold the Catholics of San Francisco he desired to worship Almighty God. The churches in the other portions of the vast diocese were simply the ruined adobe buildings left by the missionary Fathers. The native congregations were scattered and rapidly disappearing, but our venerable Metropolitan has lived to see this spiritual wilderness blossom as a rose, and has been the husbandman of Heaven who has labored to bring about this state of Christian cultivation in the Lord’s vineyard. More than 150 churches and chapels to the glory of God attest to the zeal of the pastor and the generosity of the flock. Nearly 200 priests, the majority of whom were educated and ordained for this diocese, lift up their voices to the throne of God and ask Him who sent them such a beloved bishop to bless his last days even as his whole life has been blessed.

A theological seminary, 6 colleges, 18 academies, 5 asylums, and 4 hospitals are all living monuments of the watchful care of the prudent pastor for his people. … The flock which has grown up from a few hundred to 200,000, finds itself surrounded by churches, schools and institutions wherein they can find salvation for their souls, solace for their afflictions, mental strength to serve God in their religion, or to preserve their faith while fighting the battles of life. We would not dare to offend the well-known humility of our holy Archbishop by any reference to his corporal works of mercy. The recording angel will reveal them on the last day.

Congratulations Congratulations Bishop Robert F.F.Christian!

Bishop Robert Christian!

1. Denis J. O’Connell, Dec. 24, 1908-Jan. 19, 1912 2. Edward J. Hanna: Auxiliary bishop, Oct. 22, 1912; Archbishop, June 1, 1915-March 2, 1935 3. Thomas A. Connolly: June 10, 1939-Feb. 28, 1948 4. Joseph T. O’Dowd: May 22, 1948-Feb. 4, 1950 5. Hugh A. Donohoe: Aug. 2, 1947-Jan. 27, 1962 6. Merlin J. Guilfoyle: Aug. 24, 1950-Nov. 12, 1969 7. Mark J. Hurley, Nov. 21, 1967-Nov. 19, 1969 8. Norman F. McFarland: June 5, 1970, to Dec. 6, 1974 9. William J. McDonald, July 26, 1967-June 5, 1979 10. Francis A. Quinn: April 24, 1978-Dec. 18, 1979 11. Daniel F. Walsh, June 20, 1981-Jun. 3, 1987 12. Carlos A. Sevilla, SJ: Dec. 6, 1988-Dec. 31, 1996 13. Patrick J. McGrath: Dec. 6, 1988-June 30, 1998 14. John C. Wester: June 30, 1998-Jan. 8, 2007 15. Ignatius C. Wang: Dec. 13, 2002-May 16, 2009 16. Robert W. McElroy: July 6, 2010-March 3, 2015.

17. William J. Justice: April 10, 2008-Nov. 16, 2017 18. Robert F. Christian, OP: March 28, 2018 Source: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Auxiliary Bishop-Elect Robert Christian, in honor of his episcopal ordination as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San Fr ancisco Bishop-elect Christian served for many years as a professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (The Angelicum) in Rome, where Bishop David Ricken was one of his students.

ArchbishopJohn John C. C. Wester, Archbishop Wester, May God Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan Archbishop Michael Bless You! andEmeritus the priests, deacons, religiousJ. Sheehan and laity the Archdiocese of Santa Fereligious send their and theofpriests, deacons, Bishop David L. Ricken best wishes on the occasion of your nd laity of love theand Archdiocese of Santa Fe send their Bishop Robert J. Banks, Emeritus Episcopal Ordination.

Robert F. Morneau, Emeritus Auxiliary love and best wishes on the occasion of your Bishop and the priests, deacons, religious and lay faithful of the Diocese of Green Bay Episcopal Ordination.

We ask God to send his richest blessings to you and the people you serve.

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‘E pluribus unum’ and Christian unity The following article by now-Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP, and introductory editor’s note appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of Genesis, the quarterly magazine of his high school alma mater St. Ignatius Preparatory, and is reprinted with permission.

Since March 2011, Rev. Robert Christian, OP ’66, based in Rome, has worked to unify the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches. A member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, Fr. Christian works as part of 20-person committee (10 from each Church) towards the goal of achieving “full, visible unity – a unity based on a shared faith, a shared government, and a shared worship – but a unity that makes due allowance for legitimate differences.” In August, he came to Oakland’s Claremont Country Club to speak to the local chapter of the Knights of the Order of Malta, led by his brother, John Christian ’76. He wrote the article, below, a few months after his talk.

Rev. Robert Christian, OP ’66

American coins bear the words “e pluribus unum” – from many, one. Throughout its short history, the U.S. has struggled to define – and to live – the relationship between unity and diversity. At one time, our country seemed to endorse the “melting pot” theory: diversity fusing into unity. Now we “celebrate” diversity, but at the same time worry whether diversity fractures unity.

Although the Catholic Church takes her mandate for promoting unity among all Christians from Jesus’s prayer that all his disciples be one (cf. John 17:21), the working motto for the ecumenical endeavor could well be “unum tamen plures”: one while yet many.

A civil society or a Church that insists that unity demands uniformity is totalitarian, intolerant of deviations from prevailing norms and orthodoxies. In her long history, the Catholic Church has lived through periods in which Roman authorities tried to ensure unity by promoting uniformity. One only has to recall the suspicions engendered by the work of the Jesuit missionary to China, Matteo Ricci (d. 1610), and the “normative” corrections issued by the Inquisition (at that time under the control of my own order, the Dominicans) to have an example of a mentality that sees difference as threatening.

But the Church has also lived through long periods in which diversity was seen as a positive and enriching expression of underlying unity. Un-

Ecumenical dialogue requires patience, candor, charity and a willingness to see one’s own position through the eyes of others, along with a willingness to hazard opinions provisionally in the hope of being able to express the truth in a common language. til quite recently, the Latin Church (the Church directly governed by the pope) approved of many distinctive liturgical rites – the Mozarabic Rite in Spain, the Ambrosian Rite in Milan, the Gallican Rite in France, the Sarum Rite in England, as well as the rites proper to many religious Orders: the Carthusians, Cistercians, Premonstratensians, Dominicans and Carmelites among others. Since the Church holds that how we pray conditions how we believe (lex orandi lex credendi), approved liturgical differences indicate that even theological differences can be seen as potentially positive contributions to the human quest to know the God who is Love. While worship of false gods is incompatible with the Church’s life, there are many ways of offering true worship to God, all of which trace their authority back to the Last Supper.

In recent centuries, some communities have entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, coming from the Churches we call Orthodox or Eastern. These communities are properly called churches since they have always had a hierarchy enjoying apostolic succession by means of episcopal ordinations, and have, therefore, always had the valid celebration of the Eucharist.

Thus, there is the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Chaldaean Catholic Church, the Coptic Catholic Church, the Armenian Catholic Church and so on. And from its beginning, the Maronite Church in Lebanon has been a church in its own right (sui iuris), in full communion with Rome. These churches have not only distinctive liturgies, but also distinctive legal systems and particular cultural and historical patrimonies. In many of these churches, married men can be ordained.

Theological terms common in Latin Christianity, such as original sin, sacramental character and even confirmation, are expressed quite differently

from, say, the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

For the first time since the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, the Catholic Church has now extended a welcome to communities of the Anglican Communion to come into full communion with the Catholic Church without renouncing their own distinctive spiritual, cultural and historic patrimony. Although the Catholic Church does not view Anglican holy orders as valid, she does view positively many characteristics of Anglican life and sees them as indeed graced by the Holy Spirit. Since 2003, communities of Episcopalians who have entered the Catholic Church have prayed with The Book of Divine Worship¸ which contains many elements taken from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Now, under the leadership of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., these communities are being grouped together into a non-territorial diocese, or ordinariate, just as is happening in other parts of the English-speaking world. For the time being, at least, the clergy in the ordinariates can be married as has long been the practice of Anglicans.

Understandably, the phenomenon of communities of Anglicans becoming Catholics has put some strain on ecumenical relations between the two bodies. On the one hand, the provision for legitimate diversity calms any fears the participants in the dialogue may have about whether unity means absorption: The melting pot image does not pertain. On the other hand, some suspect that the Catholic Church is unfairly offering refuge to Anglican faithful who are choosing to become Catholic because of their anger with the situation in their own communion rather than because of a deliberative, calm discernment. see from many, one, page 20

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In March of 2011, Swiss Cardinal Robert Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, appointed me to be one of the Catholic members of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), the body that conducts the dialogue between Catholics and Anglicans at the worldwide level. Led by Catholic Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham, England, and Anglican Archbishop David Moxon of New Zealand, the 20 participants – 10 Catholics and 10 Anglicans – come from England, the USA, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, South Africa, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

The stated goal of the dialogue is the achievement of full, visible unity – a unity based on a shared faith, a shared government and a shared worship – but a unity that makes due allowance for legitimate differences.

In the current climate, such a goal can seem remote indeed, and within the Protestant world there are examples of bilateral agreements that settle for much less, basically declaring that a recognition of many elements of sanctification and truth, without agreement on all such foundational elements, is as much as can realistically be attained. ARCIC has resisted lowering the bar, confident that the unity for which Christ prayed can

be brought about with the help of Divine Providence. Nevertheless, ARCIC is realistic enough to recognize that unity will only be achieved by taking small, sure steps. Already ARCIC has taken small steps in the form of some consensus regarding authority, ministry and the place of Mary in the Church. The current mandate of ARCIC, given it by the pope and by the archbishop of Canterbury, is to explore the notions of communion at the universal and the diocesan levels, and the way the Church arrives at moral decisions on both levels. My own task lies in the first area, and in addition to participating in the plenary meetings, I am responsible for working jointly with an Anglican theologian to formulate proposals for common consideration.

Ecumenical dialogue requires patience, candor, charity and a willingness to see one’s own position through the eyes of others, along with a willingness to hazard opinions provisionally in the hope of being able to express the truth in a common language. Full unity is a long-term project. It is a privilege to try to nudge our communities a little closer to that goal, and it is spiritually rewarding to learn the timeless lesson that failures and dying to established ways of doing things are often God’s way of bringing about his design.

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Father Robert and greetings from Southern most part of the Archdiocese.

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DISTINCTLY Dominican: Friars’ perspective on the Order of Preachers FROM PAGE C10

‘I found the brothers had a great sense of humor, they were very lively, they had a great view of the future, they were normal, natural people.

And the life wasn’t gray, it was delightful and joyful and happy.

It took me, it really took me.’

His group’s quarters were near the Dominican Convent of San Marco, former home to Dominican painter Fra Angelico.

“I’d see Dominicans every day walking on the street, and I thought, ‘how quaint,’ but I never thought one day I’d be one of them,” said Father Rosevear, novice master for the Western Province in residence at St. Dominic.

It wasn’t as if he’d never thought about religious life growing up Catholic in Butte, Montana. In fact, he said, the thought was always there, but he pushed it away. (photo by christina gray/Catholic San Francisco)

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Father Anthony Rosevear, OP “I had a real concern that it would turn my life completely gray,” he said.

In Florence, he happened to befriend now-Bishop-designate Robert Christian, then a student at Santa Clara University on a similar study year abroad. The two stayed in touch.

Neither was on a priestly track at that point, but Robert would later enter the Dominican novitiate at St. Albert’s Priory in Oakland.

Back in Butte, the possibility of a religious vocation continued to nag the future Father Rosevear. The Jesuit-educated young man assumed that would be his path. He wrote his friend and asked his opinion “be-

cause he was a peer, and since he wasn’t committed yet.”

“He wrote me back a three-page, single-spaced typewritten letter that said, ‘I think you are much more Dominican than you are Jesuit’ and this is why,” said Father Rosevear.

“He listed point after point, and he was right on all the way through.”

The very things that were attracting him to religious life were the things that are written into Dominican life, he said, the communal prayer and living, the intellectual tradition of the order and the preaching apostolate.

Father Anthony was invited by his friend to Oakland to get a look at Dominican life.

He laughed when he recalled how defensive he was on that visit, afraid to “let them get their hooks into me.”

“Yet I found the brothers had a great sense of humor,” he said.

“They were very lively and had a great view of the future. They were normal, natural people. And I saw the life wasn’t gray. It was delightful and joyful and happy. It took me, it really took me. At the end of four days, if they had given me the habit I would have stayed.”

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he thinks about how he orchestrated his life as a Dominican.

“Look, God, how you planned everything out without me even being aware,” he said.

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‘I saw immediately the energy that the Dominicans had for preaching when I was a young kid. When I first felt inclined toward the priesthood when I was about 18, the natural choice was the Dominicans.’

Brother Elias Guadalupe Ford, op

Sharing God’s mercy and love: Brother Elias Guadalupe Ford, OP Dominican life was not foreign to Brother Elias Guadalupe Ford, a second-time-around novitiate at St. Dominic.

“I grew up here in the city knowing the Dominicans,” Brother Elias told Catholic San Francisco.

His father and extended family have a strong devotion to St. Jude, and though they belonged to another parish, his family regularly came to St. Dominic to visit the St. Jude Shrine, go to confession and to Mass.

Brother Elias was in the novitiate for a year from 2012-13, struggled in his discernment and left.

He has returned, this time with full conviction in choosing the Dominican order.

“I saw the energy immediately that the Dominicans had for preaching when I was a young kid,” he said. “When I first felt inclined toward the priesthood when I was about 18, the natural choice was the Dominicans.”

Brother Elias said the zeal and ardor he saw for the faith had really attracted him. “That was the zeal I felt when I claimed it as my own,” he said. “I wanted to spread the reality of Jesus Christ and show and share God’s mercy and love with the world.”

The pillars of Dominican life – community life, group prayer, study and evangelization attracted him, but he struggled with the idea of being “alone” without a wife and children. He wondered whether his life without a family would become colorless.

“What I found out after I left is that it was the outside world that seemed gray,” Brother Elias said. “Coming back now with full conviction, the joy I see and experience is the joy and love we have for each other. It’s a great life.”

Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ, and the faithful of the Diocese of Oakland offer our warmest congratulations to

Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, who spent his formation and taught in our diocese

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Joseph Alemany, O.P.

Robert Christian, O.P.

In 1853, Pope Pius IX named Joseph Alemany, of the Order of Preachers, to be the first Archbishop of San Francisco. In 2018, Pope Francis now asks the friars of the Western Dominican Province to offer up once more one of our own for the episcopal ministry.

We celebrate with immense joy the ordination to the episcopacy of our Dominican brother, BishopElect Robert Christian, O.P. We are grateful to God for the many gifts with which He has blessed him, and we trust that the Church too will be blessed by those same gifts, as our brother returns them to the Lord with gratitude as a bishop.

He has lived his priestly life of forty-two years as a preacher and teacher, dedicated to God's people by service to them throughout the world. We are confident that, by God’s grace, the people of San Francisco will benefit from his good work.

To our brother, Robert: we offer you our prayers through the intercession of St. Dominic and our sincere congratulations as you embark upon your episcopal ministry, favored with the evangelical and missionary zeal God granted our brother, Archbishop Joseph Alemany, O.P., some 165 years ago.

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