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SPECIAL NEEDS: Mothers meet challenges with abiding faith

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ORDINATIONS: Archbishop ordains three new priests

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Dominican sisters revive beekeeping at Mission San Jose CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Barbara Hagel and Jeanette De Young became accidental beekeepers after a friend offered the community a single beehive two years ago.

Both said they have been “swept away” by what they have learned since then, not the least of which is the parallels between bees and community life among women religious.

“Every bee could not exist without the rest of them,” said Sister Hagel, who oversees the community garden where tomatoes, asparagus and other organic vegetables are grown to feed the sisters who reside there. She is also the community’s care for creation coordinator.

“It’s the colony that’s the organism, not the individual bee,” she said.

When it comes to living in community and working together and everyone doing their share, “bees do it beautifully,” said Sister De Young.

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Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose Barbara Hagel is pictured inspecting a new hive in the apiary on the grounds of the sisters’ motherhouse in Fremont.

She and Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose Jeanette De Young revived the community’s long tradition of beekeeping by chance when a friend gave them a single beehive. Left, a bee colony may appear to be an undifferentiated mass but in reality is a community made up of individuals with distinct roles.

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Pope: Freedom, mercy are martyred bishops’ legacy JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BLAJ, Romania – The memory and witness of Romania’s martyred bishops are a reminder that Christians are called to stand firm against ideologies that seek to stifle and suppress their cultural and religious traditions, Pope Francis said.

On the last leg of his visit to Romania, the pope June 2 celebrated a Divine Liturgy during which seven Eastern-rite Catholic bishops, who died during a fierce anti-religious campaign waged by the communist regime in Romania, were beatified.

“These pastors, martyrs for the faith, reappropriated and handed down to the Romanian people a precious legacy that we can sum up in two words: freedom and mercy,” the pope said.

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Missouri could become first state where no abortions can be performed said the clinic must provide state-mandated counseling services, conduct an additional pelvic exam on a woman prior to performing her abortion and resolve ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Department of Health what health officials described as “deficient practices” and Senior Services has told Planned Parenthood by doctors at the clinic. officials it will not renew its St. Louis clinic’s license Dr. Leana Wen, Planned Parenthood’s CEO, said unless the clinic makes changes to comply with varithe possibility the clinic might close is “a real public ous state health regulations. health crisis,” adding: “Abortion care is health care.

Hours before the license was to expire May 31, St. Period.”

Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzers issued a tempoMeanwhile, Parson signed into law the Missouri rary restraining order allowing the clinic to stay open Stands for the Unborn Act May 24. It bans abortions until June 4. Stelzers issued his order after a May 29 on or beyond the eighth week of pregnancy. hearing requested by Planned Parenthood.

Set to take effect Aug. 28, the law provides an excepThe Planned Parenthood clinic is the only abortion in cases of medical emergencies, but there are no tion facility in Missouri. If it closes, Missouri will be exceptions for rape or incest. Doctors who perform the first state without an operating abortion facility abortions after eight weeks face five to 15 years in since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on Roe prison. There is no punishment for the mother. v. Wade in 1973. Women who want an abortion would With the ban, the state’s lawmakers “have taken a have to go to the neighboring state of Illinois. giant step forward for the pro-life movement,” said CBS News May 28 quoted Planned Parenthood ofA personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. ficials as saying that the state had informed them May St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson. “We need to youfacility have received a flag your loved one's military service and would like topersistence donate it continue to show and determination in 20 that Ifthe might losehonoring its license. to the cemetery to be flownreport, as part ofstate an “Avenue of officials Flags" on Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans' Day, proclaiming a culture of life.”

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NEED TO KNOW MISSION DOLORES CONCERT: The Philippine Saringhimig Singers present “Gratitude,” a concert to celebrate 45 years of choral performance, June 22, Mission Dolores Basilica. 16th and Dolores streets, San Francisco. Conductor George Hernandez leads this internationally renowned group in a performance of European classics, gospel spirituals and contemporary choral arrangements, as well as Filipino folk songs and pop tunes. The concert is a send-off for the choir’s summer concert tour in Spain. Tickets are $50 reserved, $25 general admission, and are available at saringhimigsingers.eventbrite.com.

“DYNAMIC CATHOLIC” EVENT AT ST. DOMINIC: Tickets available online for a Sept.

27 talk, 6:30-10:30 p.m., at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco by Jonathan Fanning based on Matthew Kelly’s book “The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic.” Fanning “will present four habits that will change your life,” event planners said. Go to dynamiccatholic.com/sanfrancisco or call (859) 980-7900.

WOODSIDE PRIORY APPOINTS NEXT HEAD OF SCHOOL: Woodside Priory School has named Patrick Ruff to become the next head of school, effective July 1, 2020, the school announced May 17. Tim Molak, who announced in October 2018 that he would be retiring in June 2020 after 30 years of service, will continue as head of school until June 30.

Ruff comes from St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco, where he has served as principal for eleven years.

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Mothers of special needs children overcome challenges with abiding faith ARACELI MARTINEZ SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Gabriela Fajardo and Soledad López are two mothers who have found in their faith the necessary strength to face the demands needed to raise their children born with special needs.

During a 2016 conference for disabled persons, Pope Francis said that “differences cause fear in all because encountering a person that has serious differences represents a challenge,” but at the same time he emphasized that diversity “is a richness.”

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But months after the procedure, noticing a growing abdomen, she returned to see the doctor who confirmed with amazement that she was over five months pregnant.

After the baby was born her crying never stopped.

A week after a checkup by her doctors, Gabriela learned that her baby had Down syndrome.

“My husband did not take well the news. He was very mad. We started to blame each other and to ask ourselves if we or the doctors had done anything wrong but geneticists told us that Down syndrome occurs at the moment of conception and had nothing to do with anything else,” Gabriela said.

Gabriela says that she cried her heart out but found consolation in knowing that children with Down syndrome have a better chance at development when they have other siblings. “They become their teachers,” she was told.

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his cultural heritage and his Christian roots in China, and his concerns and his prayers are unceasingly with the church in China,” Father Peter Zhai said in a letter announcing the celebration.

“As we all are aware that the church in China is under tremendously growing external pressure and needs prayers more than ever,” Father Zhai said.

A banquet in honor of Bishop Wang will be held after Mass. Tickets are $30. To purchase tickets, contact Father Zhai at zhaip@sfarch.org or (415) 614-5575 by June 15.

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Parish ‘welcomes all’ with special needs faith formation NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

At the heart of Sandra Zicke’s mission as a catechist has been the radical inclusion at the heart of the church.

“Everyone has a right to the sacraments,” she told Catholic San Francisco.

Zicke, a retired special education teacher, has taught in the special needs faith formation program at St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco since it began in 1999. She said her involvement began because she never saw any of her classroom students in church on Sundays.

At the same time, BVM Sister Julie O’Neill had been fielding requests for special needs catechesis from parents in St. Veronica.

“It started as a small program out of need and grew from there – like most things,” said Zicke.

The parish offers sacramental preparation classes for first communion and confirmation, taught by Zicke and fellow parishioners Rosa Avalos and Ken Sweeney. Each program takes two years to complete and students may enter at any age. Zicke said this year’s students ranged from 8-25 years old. The special needs program is supported by the archdiocesan Office of Faith Formation and funded by the Knights of Columbus.

Students can have “delayed cognitive skills, or be on the autism spectrum, or have severe behavioral issues, so there’s quite a range,” Zicke said.

In February three students were confirmed and in May another five students received their first communion.

Zicke said catechizing students with special

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Pictured at their first Communion May 11 at St. Veronica Church are, front, students Alan Alvarado, Ferdinand Feria, Patrick Viola and special needs catechist Sandra Zicke; back, student Kristopher Mariano and special needs catechist Ken Sweeney.

needs requires determining what their learning styles are and modifying the materials to serve them.

“We have a general overview to get students to understand, and then we weave those concepts into different learning styles,” she said.

The Saturday morning classes draw families from around the Bay Area. Parents stay in the classes with their children, which helps to reinforce at home what students learn about in class.

Zicke said she’s noticed over the years parents being more comfortable bringing their special needs children to church. Parents used to be afraid their children’s behavior “wouldn’t be acceptable” during Mass, she said, but she has seen “a huge change where parents are bringing kids to church at very young age.”

“It’s about feeling welcomed into the church,” she said. Zicke said special needs students, and by extension their families, often felt challenges with inclusion, “and we want to make sure they’re always included in church.”

For more information about special needs catechesis at St. Veronica, contact the parish’s faith formation coordinator Karen Guglielmoni at (650)588-1455.

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Faith at heart of retired fire chief ’s life CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Newly retired Woodside Fire Protection District Chief Dan Ghiorso admits to some parallels between fighting fires and the priesthood, a vocation he discerned for a time as a young man. But he thinks the path he Dan Ghiorso chose was probably the easier one.

“Maybe it’s just because I am more comfortable in these boots, but I think being a priest is extremely demanding and rewarding, but very trying,” said Ghiorso, who retired in April after nearly 30 years spent dashing into infernal landscapes to save souls in peril.

Dan, who turns 60 this year, told Catholic San Francisco May 21 that his family was very involved at Our Lady of Visitacion Parish and School and that all seven children spent a lot of time in and out of the parish rectory. Religious life was so familiar to the Ghiorso boys – Mike, Dave and Dan – that each moved toward religious life themselves in adulthood.

Mike, the oldest, was ordained into the permanent diaconate and now serves as director of diaconate ministry and life for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Dave became a priest and is now pastor of St. Matthias Parish in Redwood City and St. Charles Parish in San Carlos. Dan, the youngest, entered the seminary at Junipero Serra High School but graduated knowing what he really wanted was a marriage and family.

Dan discovered what he called his “true calling” after the death of a stranger. Untrained during a

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ST. CECILIA MEMORIES: “Seventy-seven years ago, in 1942, Sister Mary Herbert taught the fourth grade class of 68 lucky, uniformed kids,” Jerry Heckert, who was one of them, told San Francisco in sharing this photo of a luncheon gathering with Sister Mary and a group of old classmates at St. Cecilia School in San Francisco. Sister Mary, who taught the same group in fifth grade, hosted six students at a lunch at Mercy Center in Oakland May 6. Jerry says Sister Mary will be 102 on June 4 “and is as alert and sharp as ever!” Retired Sister Pat Hunter, also a St. Cecilia alum, helped facilitate the affair. Behind Sister Mary, standing from the left, are Dan Collins, Donna Boyd, John Moriarty, Diane (Hastings) Murphy, Marie (Ahern) Moran, Jerry Heckert.

ESSAY CONTEST WINNER: Fifth grader Mireille Del Santo of St. Matthew School in San Mateo was one of two winners of a statewide essay contest sponsored by the Elks’ Club. In her winning entry on the theme “What makes you proud of America?” Del Santo highlighted religious freedom, cultural diversity and equality. Sponsored by the Elks’ Grand Lodge Fraternal Committee, the essay contest is for students enrolled in grades 5-8 and aims to encourage patriotism. Del Santo read her essay in front of more than 1300 people Friday, May 17 at the annual Elks’ state convention in Fresno. Mireille Del Santo said she was “very excited to win, especially because my grandparents came to this country to give my Mom and Dad a better life. That inspired me to write about the rights and freedoms we enjoy here and should never take for granted.” medical emergency, he was unable to render medical aid to the dying man. Within a week or two both he and his wife Maggie, parishioners of St. Luke Parish in Foster City,

were taking CPR and first aid at the local fire department.

“This is where I began to understand what I was truly meant to do, to be a public servant,” Dan said.

The retired fire chief is quick to point out that his big brothers deserve the spotlight more than he does.

“We get a lot of praise as firefighters,” he said, “but I still think their service is way more than I have ever done.”

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The traditional outdoor Memorial Day Mass was celebrated May 27 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.

Pictured are the main celebrant, Father Bartholomew Hutcherson, OP, from St. Raymond Parish, with concelebrants Father Larry Goode and Father John Coleman from St. Francis of Assisi Parish. More than 400 people attended the Mass. The archdiocese offers Mass on Memorial Day at Catholic cemeteries for all those who have lost their lives in service to our country and for all loved ones interred in the cemeteries, said cemeteries director Monica Williams.

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‘Pray without ceasing:’ Three priests ordained NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Fathers Kyle J. Faller, Ernesto M. Jandonero and Michael P. Rocha were ordained May 18 at St. Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop Cordileone. Cardinal William J. Levada, retired Auxiliary Bishops Ignatius C. Wang and William J. Justice, Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, and retired Bishop of Santa Rosa Daniel F. Walsh concelebrated the Mass, along with more than 60 other priests.

Archbishop Cordileone emphasized that prayer makes possible a priest’s pastoral attentiveness and holy service to God and his people.

Without it, he said, priests fail in their calling to follow the Lord.

In his homily, the archbishop urged the men to “‘Pray without ceasing’: Make this always the center of your life, that it may animate all you do and are as Christ’s priest for his people.”

The archbishop closed his homily by quoting Pope Francis on the “one truly important thing in the life of the priest. “‘Carry out with joy and charity, with sincerity, the priestly work of Christ, solely intent on pleasing God and not yourself. Priestly joy is found only by going down this path: seeking to please God,’” he said.

Following the homily, the rite of ordination began, with the three seminarians promising to uphold all the duties and responsibilities of priesthood. After they prostrated themselves before the altar, the archbishop and each priest placed their hands upon them and then Archbishop Cordileone said the prayer of consecration over each. Afterward, they were vested in new stoles and chasubles and concelebrated the Mass.

During the reception afterward in the cathedral hall, the new priests received congratulations and offered their blessing to those who had attended.

Sitting a few feet from her son, Emilia Rocha told Catholic San Francisco that she was “very happy.

This is such a blessing and he’s very excited,” she said.

Rocha said she had prayed for Father Rocha’s vocation since he was a child and told her he would become a priest.

“I feel I’m blessed,” she said. “I’m not worthy to have a son as a priest.

He’s going to be a good priest and I pray for him and all priests.”

Father Kyle Faller is the second son in his family to become a priest: his older brother Father Cameron Faller, ordained in 2015, is currently parochial vicar at Church of the Epiphany and is the incoming vocations director for the archdiocese.

Bonnie Faller, their mother, said it was “very emotional seeing them both together” on the altar during the Mass.

While she never anticipated having one son become a priest, let alone two, she said the brothers had been raised from childhood to be open to hearing God’s call, wherever it would lead them.

“I think in this day and age to have a young person listen to the call and do it is unexpected. I’m proud of them for listening,” she said.

Father Patrick Summerhays, the archdiocesan vocations director, said the trio of ordinations was “a joyous day for the whole archdiocese.

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Above, from left, Father Ernesto Jandonero, Father Michael Rocha and Father Kyle Faller kneeling on the altar at their ordination Mass. Right, during the rite of ordination, all priests present participate in laying their hands on the candidates for ordination to the priesthood.

Archbishop Cordileone with Father Jandonero

Above, Father Rocha and Father Jandonero distribute Communion at their Mass. Left, the archbishop with the three new priests.

“They’ve learned to love the people of God in the local church and are ready and very excited to serve on a full-time basis,” he said.

Father Summerhays asked that the archdiocese continue to pray

for the newly ordained men as they “grow in ministry and learn to be Christ’s priests for his local church.”

All three men have been given assignments as parochial vicars in the

archdiocese. Father Faller has been sent to St. Pius in Redwood City, Father Jandonero has been assigned to St. Hilary in Tiburon, and Father Rocha will go to Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco.

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(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Priests and friends assembled at a cathedral vespers service honoring jubilarian priests.

Jubilarian priests honored at cathedral vespers Priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco marking 50 and 25 years of religious life were joined by friends inside and outside the priesthood for vespers at St. Mary’s Cathedral May 15.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Bishop Ignatius Wang and Bishop William J. Justice, both retired auxiliary bishops of the archdiocese, were on the altar and joined the jubilarians for a celebratory banquet following vespers.

50 years

Father Zacharias “Freddie” Thomas; Father Daniel J. Maguire; Father Dominic Savio Lee; Father Joseph E. Specht; SJ, Father Diarmuid C. Casey, CSSp

25 years

Father James Hagan; Father Thom-

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Deacons invited to support parish-based mental health initiative CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Deacons, who are often at the front lines in consoling parishioners suffering personal loss, are being encouraged to support an archdiocese-wide plan to create parish-based mental health ministries.

Ed Hopfner, director of the Office of Marriage and Family Life, and others involved in planning the project made their pitch to a group of about 50 permanent deacons, diaconate candidates and their wives during a diaconate training day May 4 at Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco.

“This is person-to-person ministry. It’s not a sacramental ministry, but it’s a very important ministry where the deacons and their wives can be involved,” Hopfner told Catholic San Francisco.

Hopfner organized the day featuring presentations by three grief and mental health experts with a triple purpose: to de-stigmatize the nature of grief, mental health and suicide; to better educate deacons about different kinds of loss; and to gain their support for creating volunteer-led mental health ministries at every parish in the archdiocese.

“If you are suffering from grief and I come and sit with you, I take on some of the suffering,” Hopfner said. “Shared suffering is lessened suffering.”

Last year, the Archdiocese of San Francisco was one of five dioceses in the nation to win a two-year grant from the University of San Diego to establish mental health ministries based on a model launched by the Diocese of San Diego in 2015.

In San Diego, parish ministry teams composed of trained volunteers serve as “prayerful companions” to fellow parishioners experiencing mental or emotional challenges. They do not serve in a counseling capacity but walk suffering people through the treatment process including locating mental health services.

The grant will help the Archdiocese of San Francisco do the same.

“We’ve got a big problem and it is growing,” said Dick Collyer, who was hired last summer as project manager to lead the archdiocese’s mental health ministry. His job over the next two years and perhaps beyond will be to assist parishes as they develop their individual mental health ministries.

Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, who as bereavement coordinator for the archdiocese trains consolation ministers for parish work, spoke to the deacons about grief and suicide.

“We think of death, but we must recognize there are many life events that cause grief,” she said, noting injury, illness, old age and loss of job, home or pet as changes that can trigger grief.

Suicide is highly preventable but has seen an alarming rise in recent years, she said. It is the

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Hopfner made a point to include an expert in “reproductive loss.” which he described as abortion, stillbirth and miscarriage. It could include a failure to conceive.

Michaelene Fredenberg, author of a self-published book called, “Changed: Making Sense of Your Own or a Loved One’s Abortion Experience” (2008), talked about the long-reaching effects of reproductive loss and the care needed to pastorally respond to it.

“Oftentimes the father suffering from a reproductive loss is totally ignored as all the attention is given to his wife,” she said. “Both are clearly suffering the same loss, but it seems only her grief is acknowledged because she carried the baby.”

Collyer said that he surveyed the deacons group

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after the event and got nearly unanimous support for the initiative. When deacons were asked about whether they could see the ministry in their own parish, he said, the response was more guarded.

“Ultimately, what we will have to get is the pastor’s support in building these ministry teams,” he said. He and Hopfner acknowledged that certain parishes with cultural communities that do not easily speak about personal issues may find the task more challenging.

In coming months, the concept will be pitched to clergy and Collyer also will visit parishes to educate parishioners who may want to train for a parish mental health ministry role. Professional experience is not the main qualifier.

“It’s the spiritual accompaniment that is the most important,” Collyer said.

“You don’t need a degree in epidemiology or oncology to accompany someone with cancer,” Hopfner said. “It’s the same kind of thing.”

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BEEKEEPING: Sisters revive tradition at Mission San Jose FROM PAGE 1

protective beekeeper suits during a May 23 visit to the grounds where the community’s motherhouse hugs the Fremont hills behind the old mission. Rows of ancient fruit and olive trees shade the peaceful grounds and hawks circled above a chicken coop that produces the sisters’ eggs.

“We found we were participating in an ancient tradition that has helped sustain our planet over thousands of years,” Sister Hagel said about their beekeeping venture which has grown to a dozen hives. It also produces enough honey to sweeten the sisters’ tea and to jar and sell once a year along with Mission olive oil.

Through the 1950s or so, beekeeping was “just part of who we were” as a selfsufficient community, she said, the bees pollinating the property’s olive trees, the largest remaining mission-era grove in California.

Black-and-white photos on the community’s website attest to the fact that the sisters once tended over 30 beehives and produced 80 gallons of honey a year.

Beekeeping, they keep discovering, is still a good fit for the community which lists ‘care for creation’ as one of its critical concerns.

“Bees provide pollination for a third of our food crop,” said Sister Hagel, who explained that while California has “tons” of native bees, there are no native honeybees. Honeybees were brought from Italy with early settlers.

“We need them all,” she said.

Since World War II, pesticide use, and industrial agriculture have wreaked havoc on bees and other insects.

“All these things have very much hurt the bees,” said Sister De Young.

Pesticides like Roundup, used routinely by homeowners for weed control, have caused the collapse of colonies, she said. “Mono-cropping,” a mass agriculture practice of planting acres of single crop, has utterly altered honeybee food sources.

“Imagine eating the same thing every day,” said Sister Hagel. “The bees go out for maybe a mile and a half to find food and there would be nothing but one crop.”

(PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose Sister Jeanette De Young wears a protective suit for beekeepers outside the community’s vegetable gardens.

Climate change has affected the bees and other important insects, too.

“With the temperatures being too high at certain times and too much rain at other times the food supply is all mixed up,” said Sister De Young. “Food will be ready before the insect needs it and be gone when it does.”

“I’m not a bee expert,” said Sister Hagel, who said she has learned a tremendous amount about bees and community from local “bee people” and from the bees themselves.

The life of the hive follows the queen and her temperament, she said. “Some hives are amazingly calm,” she said, while one right next to it appears noticeably agitated or nervous.

“Once we started delving into the world of bees we were mesmerized,” said Sister Hagel.

Their complexity is amazing, she said.

Not unlike life in a convent, individual bees have roles that contribute to the community as a whole.

“Bees have a sense of connection and oneness that we need to learn from as a world community,” she said. “It is a wonderful example of God’s creativity.”

The sisters said they had read a U.N. report released in May on widespread decline in the world’s natural systems.

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POPE: Freedom, mercy are martyred bishops’ legacy FROM PAGE 1

According to the Vatican, an estimated 60,000 people filled Blaj’s Liberty Field, while some 20,000 people followed the liturgy on big screens set up in various squares around the city.

For Eastern Catholics in Romania, the field – located on the grounds of Blaj’s Greek Catholic Theological Seminary – is both a symbol of national pride and sorrow.

It was in Liberty Field where, during the 100th anniversary of the Romanian nationalist revolution, communist authorities formerly dissolved the Eastern-rite Romanian Catholic Church.

One of the newly beatified bishops, Bishop Ioan Suciu, the apostolic administrator of Fagaras and Alba Iulia, refused to appear at the event, which was perceived by his flock as a sign that they were called to remain steadfast in their faith and follow the path of persecution and martyrdom.

Thirty years after the fall of communism, the sun shined brightly and solemn hymns echoed over the field that was once the site of the Eastern Catholic Church’s darkest period.

Men, women and children, many dressed in traditional outfits, held up images of the seven martyred bishops who gave their lives defending their

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In his homily, the pope remembered the sufferings of Eastern-rite Catholics who were forced to “endure a way of thinking and acting that showed contempt for others and led to the expulsion and killing of the defenseless and the silencing of dissenting voices.”

The martyred bishops left a “spiritual patrimony” for future generations demonstrated by their “exemplary faith and love for their people,” the pope said.

Their faith, he added, was matched only by their willingness to suffer martyrdom “without showing hatred toward their persecutors and indeed responding to them with great meekness.”

“The mercy they showed to their tormentors is a prophetic message, for it invites everyone today to conquer anger and resentment by love and forgiveness, and to live the Christian faith with consistency and courage,” the pope said.

However, Pope Francis warned that even today there are new ideologies

that “attempt to assert themselves and to uproot our peoples from their richest cultural and religious traditions.”

“Forms of ideological colonization that devalue the person, life, marriage and the family, and above all, with alienating proposals as atheistic as those of the past, harm our young people and children, leaving them without roots from which they can grow.”

Like the newly beatified bishops, he added, Catholics are called to bring the light of the Gospel to others and resist those ideologies rising in the world.

“May you be witnesses of freedom and mercy, allowing fraternity and dialogue to prevail over divisions, and fostering the fraternity of blood that arose in the period of suffering, when Christians, historically divided, drew closer and more united to one another,” the pope said.

On his final stop before departing for Rome, Pope Francis visited members of the Roma community living in the neighborhood of Barbu Lautaru. According to the Vatican, a newly erected church and pastoral center were built to assist the Roma community to fully integrate within the social fabric of the city of Blaj.

“In the church of Christ, there is room for everyone,” the pope told members of the community, “otherwise it would not be the church of Christ.”

The pope told the Roma community that his heart was heavy due to “the many experiences of discrimination, segregation and mistreatment experienced by your communities,” inflicted upon them, including by members of the Catholic Church.

He asked forgiveness from them “for those times in history when we have discriminated, mistreated or looked askance at you” instead of defending them in their “uniqueness.”

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‘No priest may obey’ proposed law, Oakland bishop says CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

OAKLAND – Oakland Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, has said he would sooner accept arrest and prison than comply with a state law that would force priests to violate the seal of confession. Barber made the statement in a letter released to the diocese May 28.

“I will go to jail before I will obey this attack on our religious freedom,” Bishop Barber wrote.

“Even if this bill passes, no priest may obey it. The protection of your right to confess to God and have your sins forgiven in total privacy must be protected.

I urge you to contact your State Senator today to protest this bill.”

The bishop said he is entirely in favor of laws that protect children from abuse and supports the work undertaken by the church to ensure the safety of minors. But, he insisted, this support does not extend to Senate Bill 360, a proposed state law which would force priests and other religious ministers to report suspected cases of child abuse in violation of priest-penitent privilege.

Barber said that a local priest had come forward to tell him his teenage parishioners were now afraid to receive the sacrament of reconciliation out of fear the priest would go to the police with their sins. He called the bill “misguided,” and said it “does nothing to support our efforts” to promote safe environments.

Senate Bill 360 was amended to require the sacramental seal be violated in instances where a priest learns of or suspects abuse while hearing the confes-

sion of a fellow priest or colleague. The bill was originally drafted to require priests to violate the seal if they came to suspect abuse following the confession of any penitent whatsoever.

The bill passed the California Senate on Thursday by an overwhelming margin, with legislators voting 30-4 in favor of the measure.

In a statement after that vote, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez said he was “deeply disappointed” by the result and that, even with the amendments that had been made to it before the vote it “still denies the sanctity of confession to every priest in the state and to thousands of Catholics who work with priests in parishes and other Church agencies and ministries.”

The bill’s sponsor, Democratic Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo, has claimed that “the clergy-penitent privilege has been abused on a large scale, resulting in the unreported and systemic abuse of thousands of children across multiple denominations and faiths.”

The senator has claimed that such abuse has been revealed through “recent investigations by 14 attorneys general, the federal government, and other countries.”

Despite recent investigations into the clerical sexual abuse crisis in different countries and jurisdictions, no data exist establishing or indicating the use of sacramental confession either to facilitate or perpetuate the sexual abuse of minors.

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Illinois House OKs abortion bill; vote called ‘collective moral failing’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – In a 64-50 vote May 28, the Illinois House passed an abortion bill the Catholic Conference of Illinois called “an extreme measure” that allows “for the abortion of unborn life at any stage of pregnancy and for any reason.”

The legislation now goes to the state Senate for consideration. If it passes, it heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who said he plans to sign the legislation into law.

In a May 29 statement, the Catholic conference, which is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, urged senators to reject the measure, asking them “to consider carefully what message a vote for this legislation sends to our people.

“Upholding the right to life of unborn human beings also upholds the right to life of all people, promised in our Constitution and enshrined in our laws,” it said.

In its May 28 reaction to the House vote, the Catholic conference said the lawmakers’ decision “to take up and pass the so-called Reproductive Health Act is a grave tragedy and a collective moral failing.”

“Illinois has previously distinguished itself by recognizing and upholding human dignity,” the conference said. “It has welcomed and defended the rights of immigrants and refugees and eliminated the death penalty. It is therefore incomprehensible to us that the General Assembly has prioritized denying protection to the most vulnerable among us by enacting some of the most liberal abortion access laws in the nation.”

Two days ahead of the House vote, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, who heads the Chicago Archdiocese, and the bishops who head the state’s other five dioceses, urged state lawmakers

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Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, pictured in a Jan. 18, 2015, photo, and other Illinois bishops, are urging the state’s lawmakers to take no action on a bill that “dramatically rewrites current abortion law, and goes further than Roe v. Wade.” not to act on “the misnamed ‘Reproductive Health Act,’” which they said was the result of efforts by lawmakers to “propel the legislation into the endof-session rush.”

The bishops in their statement said the version of the bill that was introduced “rewrites current abortion law, going further than Roe v. Wade in stripping human rights and dignity from the unborn child with this single statement: ‘A fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of this state.’”

“The fundamental premise of the bill is flawed, and no amendment or tweak to the language will change the fact that it is designed to rob the vulnerable life in the womb of any trace of human dignity and value,” the bishops said.

Instead of rushing the bill through before the May 31 end of the legislative session, the bishops had urged the lawmakers to set aside consideration of it, “especially since no final

form of the bill has been published, vetted through hearings or fully discussed.”

Action was needed on several major issues requiring “bipartisan cooperation and unity,” they said, including passage of “a balanced budget for the health, education and safety of Illinois residents and crafting a statewide construction plan with unresolved funding.”

“Conversations on these matters need to take place in an atmosphere of comity and civility and any talk of abortion will only sow more divisiveness and disharmony in today’s polarized political climate,” the bishops said.

In its statement on the House action, the Illinois Catholic Conference called it “a truly sad day for Illinois.”

Supporters of the abortion bill “portrayed it as a simple cleanup bill, taking old statutes off the books,” it said. “This is false. The bill includes new provisions that render any regula-

tion of abortion impossible, strip away standards for – and regulation of – clinics where abortions are performed, and mandate private insurance plans subject to Illinois’ authority to cover abortion.”

“It sends a message to everyone in our state that life is cheap,” the conference said, adding, “We will continue to make our case against such callous disregard for human life whenever it appears in society.”

The Catholic Church understands “the complex and difficult challenges facing women who have unplanned pregnancies or who carry babies destined to have short or difficult lives,” it said. “They deserve all the support society can give them.”

“But to deny that the lives growing within these women is anything other than human or that they would, in the vast majority of cases, develop into healthy children is simply to deny reality,” the conference added.

In other reaction to the House vote, the Thomas More Society, a pro-life law firm based in Chicago, said legislators who supported the bill leave a legacy of “cruel dehumanization on a mass scale.” It predicted if the measure becomes law, Illinois would be positioned “to become a major U.S. abortion destination.”

Peter Breen, a former Illinois state representative, who is the organization’s vice president and senior counsel, said House members “rejected the deep convictions of a strong majority of Illinoisans and voted to legalize late-term abortions without limit, wipe away health and safety licensing requirements, and make abortion a ‘fundamental right’ under Illinois law, ahead of even the right to free speech.”

“This bill expressly strips all rights from unborn children and wipes nearly every abortion regulation off the books in Illinois,” Breen added.

Louisiana governor to sign heartbeat bill CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Louisiana House of Representatives has passed a fetal heartbeat bill, making it the latest state to move towards adopting such legislation. The bill passed the house with bipartisan support on May 29, by a margin of 79-23 in favor.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has previously spoken in favor of the bill. Following its passage by the house, the governor said he would sign the legislation.

The bill, which passed the state senate earlier this month with equal crossparty support, would ban abortion as soon as a heartbeat can be detected in the unborn child, usually between six to eight weeks of pregnancy.

“I know there are many who feel

just as strongly as I do on abortion and disagree with me – and I respect their opinions,” Edwards said in a statement.

“As I prepare to sign this bill, I call on the overwhelming bipartisan majority of legislators who voted for it to join me in continuing to build a better Louisiana that cares for the least among us and provides more opportunity for everyone.”

Edwards was elected governor in 2015 on an expressly pro-life platform.

His promise to sign the bill comes as several Democratic candidates for president have reiterated their uncompromising support for abortion rights.

Illinois Congressman Dan Lipinski, one of the few remaining pro-life Democrats in the House, is currently

facing a second consecutive primary challenge over his pro-life stance.

The Louisiana governor said he considered himself to be pro-life in a broad sense, highlighting his efforts to expand healthcare coverage in the state, provide extra resources for education, and pass criminal justice reforms.

“I ran for governor as a pro-life candidate after serving as a pro-life legislator for eight years. As governor, I have been true to my word and beliefs on this issue. But it is also my sincere belief that being pro-life means more than just being pro-birth,” said Edwards.

“For each of the last three years, my administration has set records for the number of children being adopted out of our foster care system.”

Last month, the Supreme Court is-

sued a stay against another pro-life law in Louisiana. That measure required that any abortion doctor have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion facility. Abortion providers have argued that since only one abortionist in the state has such privileges, the legislation effectively outlaws abortion.

Louisiana is the fifth state to pass a heartbeat bill in 2019, with Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio having already passed similar laws.

Other states, most notably Tennessee, have considered heartbeat laws alongside so-called “trigger bans” which would outlaw abortion in the event Roe v Wade were overturned. Alabama recently passed a sweeping pro-life measure making abortion a felony offense.

Supreme Court allows fetal burials, rejects Indiana abortion limits CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on two different aspects of Indiana abortion laws May 28.

It upheld a state law – reversing an appeals court ruling – that requires

abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains. It also refused to take up a challenge to a block of the state law that would prevent women from obtaining abortions based on the gender, race or a potential diagnosis of Down syndrome of the fetus.

“We’re pleased that they did rule in favor of one part of it – recognizing

the dignity of the fetus and proper disposal is an important part of the sacredness of life – and disappointed, of course, that (the court) is not dealing with the question of abortion based on sex, race or disability,” said Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the Indiana Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops.

“At least one is a step in the right direction,” he said, noting that “fetal life is life and should be treated in a respectful or proper way.”

The court’s three-page decision, issued without oral arguments, was unsigned. It said its decision to uphold SEE SUPREME COURT, PAGE 19

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For candidates and voters, faith plays part in 2020 contest CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Even though people often advise against talking about religion and politics in public, a recent panel discussion at Georgetown University went there by examining current presidential candidates’ beliefs and how faith plays a role in elections.

“Politics for some is the new religion,” said John Carr, director of Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, which sponsored the May 22 discussion 530 days prior to the presidential election.

The panelists – two journalists, the former press secretary to President Bill Clinton and the former chairperson of the Republican National Committee – spoke about how presidential candidates this year have been vocal in talking about their faith and how voters’ faith plays a part in influencing candidates they support.

By the nature of his beat, Jack Jenkins, a religion and politics reporter for Religion News Service, has always zeroed in on the faith of political candidates but he said this election season he is hardly the only one looking for this combination because so many of the presidential candidates have been up front about their religious beliefs.

He said there are “23 theologies to parse on any given day,” referring to the 23 Democratic candidates for president. But he also noted: “Politics is relative; this could change.”

He and other panelists on the Georgetown University stage noted the increased activism from those in the religious left, which they attributed as a reaction to the President Donald Trump and the evangelical Christian base supporting him.

Essentially, it’s a new religious ballgame in this upcoming election, speakers noted.

Or as Christine Emba, an editorial columnist for The Washington Post, put it: “Faith doesn’t have to be a handi-

(CNS PHOTO/RAFAEL SUANES, COURTESY GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY)

Michael Steele, a political analyst for MSNBC and former chairperson of the Republican National Committee, gestures during a May 22, 2019, panel discussion at Georgetown University in Washington on how presidential candidates have talked about their beliefs and how faith plays a role in how people vote. Also pictured are: Jack Jenkins, religion and politics reporter for Religion News Service; Christine Emba, columnist for The Washington Post; John Carr, director of Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life; and Mike McCurry, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton. cap for Democrats and it will no longer be a net that Republicans can use to get voters.”

She emphasized that the religious right is no longer the main faith of American politics. She also said when Democratic candidates discuss their faith on issues such as abortion, they open up discussion to examine: “What does pro-life actually mean?”

Although several Democratic candidates have been outspoken about their faith, the name that came up repeatedly during the discussion was Pete Buttigieg, the Episcopal mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who has spoken publicly of his own beliefs and criticized what he has described as the religiosity of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

He also has called evangelicals’ support for the president hypocritical.

Michael Steele, a political analyst for MSNBC and former RNC chairperson, similarly didn’t mince words about Trump, whom he said faces “no consequences for his actions,” and some of his religious supporters, whom he described as having done so much damage

Bishops urged to renew vigilance in latest clergy abuse audit CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The 16th annual report on diocesan compliance with the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” shows a significant increase in the number of abuse allegations over last year’s report because of additional claims received in five New York dioceses after implementation of their Independent Reconciliation and Compensation programs in the last year.

Released May 31, the 2017-2018 report, based on the audits of compliance firm StoneBridge Business Partners, states that 1,385 adults, twice as many as last year, came forward with 1,455 allegations. Twenty-six of the new allegations involved current minors.

“These current allegations point to the reality that sexual abuse of minors by the clergy should not be considered by bishops as a thing of the past or a distant memory,” said Francesco Cesareo, chairman of the National Review Board, which oversees the audits.

Cesareo warned against complacency by dioceses and raised concerns about poor recordkeeping, failure to train and background check church employees and volunteers who interact with

children, and parishes’ lack of cooperation in implementing safe environment requirements.

More than half of new allegations reported in the latest audit year, or 55 percent, are alleged to have occurred or begun before 1975, and 41 percent occurred or began between 1975 and 1999.

The data shows that more than nine in 10 alleged offenders, or 92 percent, identified during the 2017-2018 survey year were already deceased, already removed from ministry, already laicized or missing.

Dioceses, eparchies and religious institutes reported paying out $262,619,537 for costs related to allegations between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018. This includes payments for allegations reported in previous years. That payout figure is just under the amount reported the previous year.

In the report’s preface, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, USCCB president wrote, “While much has been done to ensure survivor ministry and the protection of the vulnerable are core values of the church, improvements still must be made.

When it comes to the protection of young people, the question must always be ‘what more can be done?’”

to faith “by their hypocrisy, faithlessness and politics.”

Trump has used faith as a weapon to stir passions, said Mike McCurry, Clinton’s former press secretary, who is currently a professor at Wesley Theological Seminary.

McCurry, who has switched gears from political to religious spheres, said faith can be misused in politics but he said it should be embraced because it provides direction for how to “operate in the public square.”

He said President John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, hardly spoke about his faith at all. He also said President Jimmy Carter was the last president to speak openly about his faith, but Jenkins disagreed, mentioning how President Barack Obama discussed grace and even sang “Amazing Grace” at the 2014 funeral for the South Carolina state senator and pastor killed in a church shooting.

Jenkins mentioned other candidates who stand out for what they’ve said about faith including: – Julian Castro: Former mayor of San Antonio who is Catholic and announced

his candidacy in January in San Antonio’s Plaza Guadalupe, an outdoor venue across from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church and adjacent to the Guadalupe Theater.

– Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, a Methodist, who explained in a CNN Town Hall in March how her Christian faith shapes her politics, particularly compelling her to serve those in need.

– Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, who has spoken frequently about his Christian faith and his embrace of other religious traditions.

Other Democratic presidential candidates who were either raised Catholic or continue to practice the faith are: Joseph Biden, former vice president; Steve Bullock, governor of Montana; Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City; John Delaney, former U.S. representative from Maryland; Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. senator from New York; Beto O’Rourke, former U.S. representative from Texas; and Tim Ryan, U.S. representative from Ohio.

Abortion is an unsettled issue in the discussion of faith and politics. Emba said most voters aren’t the extreme of New York, which recently passed legislation to expand abortion in the state, or Alabama, which passed legislation banning most abortions in the state.

As far as the Catholic vote goes, Pew Research analysis of exit polls shows that Obama won the overall Catholic vote in 2008 and in 2012, and in 2016 Trump won 52 percent of Catholic vote overall, with white Catholics supporting him over Hillary Clinton by a 23-point margin.

“One of the things that’s divided people,” Emba said, “is that when candidates say they are religious, in many minds that automatically aligns them with the right, with this dogmatism.

Hopefully in the 2020 election we’ll see a lot more flexibility on this. Voters won’t necessarily assume that candidates who hold a faith will use that faith to tie them down or to force them to ally with perspectives that they don’t believe in.”

USCCB releases pope’s book on devil, spiritual tools to combat evil the devil,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, who is chairman of the U.S. bishops’ WASHINGTON – The U.S. ConCommittee on Communications. ference of Catholic Bishops has Those tools, he said, released a new book include “the word of of Pope Francis’ God, adoration of God teachings on the hisin the Blessed Sacratory of the devil, “his ment, participation empty promises and in the sacraments, works” and “how we fasting, prayer and can actively combat the intercession of him.”

Mary, Mother of God, Titled “Rebuking through the most holy the Devil,” the book rosary.” is meant for a wide “We must recognize audience and “shows that there is a devil us how to recognize who is alive and acthe tricks of the tive, but there is also enemy, avoid his traps a shield against him and defeat his efforts through the power of through the power of Jesus Christ!” Bishop God in Jesus Christ,” (CNS/USCCB) said a May 29 USCCB The U.S. Conference of Catholic Burbidge said. news release.

Bishops is releasing this new Additional books and The book is $12.95 book featuring teachings by resources pertaining to and now available Pope Francis on the history of other topics including for purchase through the devil, “his empty promises marriage and family the USCCB’s online and works, and how we can life, the Catechism of bookstore at https:// actively combat him.” the Catholic Church, bit.ly/2YYla4u. the Vatican, ministry and more, can be “In this important book, Pope found by visiting the USCCB’s online Francis tells us how to use powerbookstore at https://store.usccb.org. ful tools of spiritual combat against CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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SUNDAY READINGS

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

PSALM 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD, my God, you are great indeed! How manifold are your works, O LORD! The earth is full of your creatures; Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD be glad in his works! Pleasing to him be my theme; I will be glad in the LORD. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

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

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

1 CORINTHIANS 12:3B-7, 12-13 Brothers and sisters: No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but

the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.

JOHN 20:19-23 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”

On the ‘bright wings’ of Spirit

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boy was flying a kite on a windy day. The kite kept going higher and higher, and after some time, it got so high that it was out of sight.

A passerby, seeing the boy holding onto a string, asked him, “How do you even know that you have a kite up there?” The boy replied, “Because I can feel it.”

How do we know the Holy Spirit exists? The answer is blowing in the wind. The Holy Spirit’s presence is felt in us. The wind rustles through the trees and the breath gives life to us. It is in the impact of the Holy Spirit that we experience him. He cries out “Abba, Father” in our hearts and bestows on us the vitality much needed for love and service.

FATHER CHARLES American transcendentalPUTHOTA ist Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.” Often times, we feel powerless and helpless to do what we want and ought to do, though we have the good will. The urgent need is the Holy Spirit who will make us do what we can for God’s glory and the service of others. With his storm-like power and breath-like touch he will empower us toward authentic human, religious, Christian, and Catholic dimensions of our existence.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

To be authentic followers of Jesus, we need the Holy Spirit constantly and desperately.

Celebrating the Feast of Pentecost, we acknowledge that the Holy Spirit gave vitality to the Christian community. Luke’s chronicle of Pentecost in the Acts is rich in symbolism for us. When the Holy Spirit comes with “a noise like a strong driving wind” and “tongues as of fire,” he fulfills the Mt. Sinai covenant accompanied with thunder and lightning. The Church is gathered, anointed, purified, empowered, and sent out to extend Jesus Christ into time and space.

The Jewish diaspora gathered in Jerusalem hears and understands the Christian message in their different languages, and the church will go to all the nations and preach the good news.

Through the power of the Holy Spirit, the ancient confusion of Babel is resolved at Pentecost. There is promise for people of different “languages” of culture, religion, politics and economics to understand each other and become the human family filled with God’s blessings. Within the church as well, through all the different gifts, forms of service and workings, as Paul points out in the Corinthians, the Spirit forges unity and communion.

The Holy Spirit liberates the apostles holed up in fear and anxiety and fills them with unimaginable courage and power in their witnessing to the risen Christ. The Spirit does the same for us shackled by fears of various kinds, and fills us with hopes and dreams for what we can become

in Christ, the children of God capable of deep joy and inner freedom, despite our struggles and sadnesses.

Conversion is at the heart of Pentecost. People are cut to their hearts and experience transformation. Our lives are a mixture of sin and grace.

We are graced sinners; wounded healers. It is the Spirit who is at work in us ceaselessly sanctifying us so that we may not be disheartened by our sinfulness but be filled with hope for love and holiness. Where there is sin, grace abounds.

In the Johannine Pentecost which takes place on Easter evening, by breathing on the apostles and giving them the Holy Spirit, Jesus recreates them as new beings, in echoes of God breathing and creating Adam in Genesis. The Spirit is mingled now in the breath of the apostles – and in our own. We are freed from fears, filled with peace, and sent as messengers of God’s mercy and forgiveness.

In the life of Jesus, from his conception through his ministry to his resurrection, the Holy Spirit accompanies him always. To be authentic followers of Jesus, we need the Holy Spirit constantly and desperately. Despite the crude human pursuits, as Gerard Manley Hopkins says in his poem “God’s Grandeur”: “There lives the dearest freshness deep down things. … because the Holy Ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco, and director of pastoral ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JUNE 10: Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Monday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time. GN 3:9-15, 20 or ACTS 1:1214. PS 87:1-2, 3 and 5, 6-7. JN 19:25-34.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11: Memorial of St. Barnabas, apostle. ACTS 11:21b-26; 12:1-3. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. MT 5:16. MT 5:13-16.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12: Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 COR 3:4-11. PS 99:5, 6, 7, 8, 9. PS 25:4b, 5a. MT 5:17-19.

THURSDAY, JUNE 13: Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, priest & doctor. 2 COR 3:15-4:1, 3-6. PS 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14. JN 13:34. MT 5:20-26.

FRIDAY, JUNE 14: Friday of the Tenth Week in

Ordinary Time. 2 COR 4:7-15. PS 116:10-11, 15-16, 17-18. PHIL 2:15d, 16a. MT 5:27-32.

SATURDAY, JUNE 15: Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 COR 5:14-21. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12. PS 119:36a, 29b. MT 5:33-37.

SUNDAY, JUNE 16: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. PRV 8:22-31. PS 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. ROM 5:1-5.

CF. RV 1:8. JN 16:12-15.

MONDAY, JUNE 17: Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 COR 6:1-10. PS 98:1, 2b, 3ab, 3cd4. PS 119:105. MT 5:38-42.

TUESDAY, JUNE 18: Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 COR 8:1-9. PS 146:2, 5-6ab, 6c7, 8-9a. JN 13:34. MT 5:43-48.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19: Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Romuald, abbot. 2 COR 9:6-11. PS 112:1bc-2, 3-4, 9.

JN 14:23. MT 6:1-6, 16-18.

THURSDAY, JUNE 20: Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 COR 11:1-11. PS 111:1b-2, 3-4, 7-8. ROM 8:15bc. MT 6:7-15.

FRIDAY, JUNE 21: Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, confessor. 2 COR 11:18, 21-30. PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. MT 5:3. MT 6:19-23.

SATURDAY, JUNE 22: Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop and confessor; Sts. John Fisher, bishop and martyr and Thomas More, martyr. 2 COR 12:1-10.

PS 34:8-9, 10-11, 12-13. 2 COR 8:9. MT 6:24-34.

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Jean Vanier (1928-2019)

ur differences are not a threat but a treasure.

Jean Vanier, the Founder of L’Arche, who died in Paris on May 7, wrote those words, but their truth is far from self-evident. One might question whether those words are simply a nice-sounding poetics or whether they contain an actual truth. Our differences, in fact, are often a threat.

Moreover, it’s one thing to mouth those words; it’s quite another thing to have the moral authority to speak them. Few have that authority. Jean Vanier did. His FATHER RON whole life and work testify to ROLHEISER the fact that our differences can indeed be a treasure and can, in the end, be that precise element of community that serves up for us the particular grace we need.

Vanier saw differences, whether of faith, religion, culture, language, gender, ideology, or genetic endowment, as graces to enrich a community rather than as threats to its unity. And while Vanier gave witness to this in all aspects of his life, he was of course best known for how he appropriated that apposite among the differences that have, seemingly since forever, separated people with intellectual disabilities from the rest of the community, isolating them, assigning them second-class status, and depriving the rest of us of the unique grace they bring. Someone once described Vanier as initiating a new Copernican revolution in that, prior to him, we used to think of our service to the poor one-sidedly, we give to them. Now that we recognize our former arrogance and naiveté, the poor bring a great service to us.

One of the persons who gave a powerful personal testimony to that was Henri Nouwen, the renowned spiritual writer. Tenured at both Yale and Harvard, an immensely respected speaker, and a man loved and adulated by a large public, Nouwen, nursing his own disabilities, was for most of his life unable to healthily absorb very much from that immense amount of love that was being bestowed on him and remained deeply insecure within himself, unsure he was loved, until he went to live in one of Vanier’s communities. There, living with men and women who were completely unaware of his achievements and his fame and who offered him no adulation, he began for the first time in his life to finally sense his own worth and to feel himself as loved. That great grace came from living with those who were different. We have Jean Vanier to thank

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for teaching that to the rest of us as well.

I first heard Vanier speak when I was a 22-yearold seminarian. For many of my colleagues, he was a spiritual rock star, but that idolization was a negative for me. I went to hear him with a certain bias: Nobody can be that good! But he was!

Admittedly that’s ambiguous. Talent and charisma can seduce us towards selfishness just as easily as invite us toward nobility of soul. Someone can be a powerful speaker without that charisma witnessing at all to that person’s human and moral integrity and without that seductiveness inviting anyone to what’s more-noble inside him or her. But Vanier’s person, message, and charisma, through all his years, suffered from no such ambiguity. The transparency, simplicity, depth, wisdom and faith that were contained in his person and his word beckoned us only in one direction, that is, towards to all that’s one, good, true, and beautiful, which are the properties of God. Meeting him made you want, like the disciples in the Gospels, to leave your boats and nets behind and set off on a new, more radical road. Few persons have that power.

Perhaps the best criterion by which to judge Christian discipleship is look at who’s moving downwards, who fits this description of Jesus: “Though he was in the form of God, he did not deem equality with God as something to be grasped at. Rather he emptied himself and took the form of a slave.” Jean Vanier was born into a world of privilege, blessed with exceptional parents, a gifted intelligence, a handsome body, enviable educational opportunities, financial security, and a famous name. Those are a lot of gifts for a person to carry and that kind of privilege has more often ruined a life than blessed it. For Jean Vanier, however, these gifts were never something to be grasped at.

He emptied himself by immersing himself into the lives of the poor, letting his gifts bless them, even as he received a rich blessing in return. He modeled a true discipleship of Jesus, namely, stepping downward into a second baptism, immersion into the poor, where community and joy are found. And to this he invited us.

In her poem, “The Leaf and the Cloud,” Mary Oliver wrote: “I will sing for the broken doors of the poor, and for the sorrow of the rich, who are mistaken and lonely.” Jean Vanier, through all the years of his life, stepped through the broken doors of the poor and found community and joy there.

For him, our differences were not a threat but a treasure.

FATHER RON ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Restoring, and strengthening, episcopal credibility

ope Francis’s recent “motu proprio” on sexual abuse, “Vos estis lux mundi” (You Are the Light of the World), was a welcome addition to church law, as world Catholicism seeks to heal the wounds of abuse victims, promote chaste living, foster mutual accountability within the body of Christ, and restore the credibility of the church’s leadership.

The response to the motu proprio by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of GalvestonHouston, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, ably GEORGE WEIGEL summed up that document’s achievement: “Vos estis lux mundi calls for the establishment of easily accessible reporting systems, clear standards for the pastoral support of victims and their families, timeliness and thoroughness of investigations, whistleblower protection for those making allegations, and active involvement of the laity. It also leaves latitude for national bishops’ conferences, such as the USCCB, to specify still more to account for local circumstances ... Vos estis lux

mundi ... [is] is a blessing that will empower the church everywhere to bring predators to justice, no matter what rank they hold in the church. It also permits the church the time and opportunity to bring spiritual healing.”

The motu proprio is also a vindication of the church in the United States and its bishops. Many of its provisions for handling abuse cases have been common practice in the U.S. since 2002 (and in some American dioceses, earlier than that). Amidst the frustration that has boiled over here this past year, too many American Catholics, misled by irresponsible reporting or grandstanding by state officials, may not realize that the church in the United States has been a world leader in addressing the sin and crime of clerical sexual abuse. This leadership has not always been welcomed, in Rome and elsewhere.

But much of what was pioneered in the United States is now universal church law. By making abuse-reporting obligatory and providing canonical protection for clerics reporting abuse, Pope Francis has improved on the American achievement of the past decade and a half.

As Cardinal DiNardo noted, Vos estis lux mundi not only universalizes strong legal and procedural SEE WEIGEL, PAGE 16

LETTERS Commentary contradicted church teaching

Given the poor state of catechesis in the church today, I was surprised that the Catholic San Francisco would publish Father Rolheiser’s “Who goes to hell and who doesn’t?” which is heavy on speculative theology and actually contradicts church teaching.

Although the church has never definitively declared that any particular person is in hell, it has definitively declared that to gain heaven we must die in the state of grace – God might overlook a “sulk or a pout” but not willful sin. Father Rolheiser correctly stated that anyone in hell is there because that person wanted to be distant from God’s love. God will never force anyone into heaven! But the church teaches that at the moment of death, when the soul is detached from the body, we face the particular judgment and receive our eternal fate – heaven or hell; and there is no future chance of repentance for those judged to hell. Although Father Rolheiser asks us to hope that even Lucifer himself will convert and love God, the church affirms the testimony of the Scriptures that hell is an everlasting punishment for the devil and his demons, and for those who die in a state of mortal sin (Catechism nos.

1033-1035; Matthew 5:22, 10:28, 13:42, 25:41, Mark 9:43-48).

The impossibility of God’s forgiveness to extend to those in hell is an article of faith.

Catechism no. 393: It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels’ sin unforgivable. “There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.”

Overall, Father Rolheiser’s article seems to be reflective of the change in mentality and worldview amongst Catholics over the last few years that holds the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to Heaven.

Almost everyone is going there. But the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to destruction and few are going there. Which is, of course, just the opposite of what Jesus taught (Matthew 25:41).

Thomas Dolan Novato

Fallacious theology on hell

I often appreciate Father Rolheiser’s writing. But his May 16 Opinion (“Who goes to hell and who doesn’t?”) seems to me to sing a typical post-Vatican II refrain.

“If there is anyone in hell,” and stating that “when Lucifer converts” is not fanciful but is actually part of Christian hope, are but two of the fallacies he puts in there. Both of these clearly contradict the Bible including the words of Jesus in numerous places, which are easy for a reader to find.

St. Faustina among many others warned that it is far better for us to be aware of our mortality, seek to avoid sin, particularly mortal sin, and pray constantly for ourselves and for others while we cultivate the Christian virtues. None of us can or should condemn anyone, but ask, has the teaching in his opinion on hell, variations of which have appeared many times in my lifetime, helped the souls of the faithful draw nearer to Jesus or led them astray?

With discipline comes clarity, with laxity comes fog.

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Can a Democrat be pro-life? / Missing Mass while traveling

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Recently, Time magazine ran an article about Tim Ryan, a Democrat congressman from Ohio, who announced his campaign for president. The article says that he “was against abortion rights until 2015.” It also says that he is a devout Catholic and names his parish. Ryan is quoted as saying, “To me, my faith is about love and compassion.”

Having lived in Minnesota at one time, I know that in the Midwest it is a cultural expectation for Catholics to belong to the Democratic Party. Is it possible to be a Democrat and pro-life? And is it possible to be a devout Catholic and pro-choice?

(Mt. Angel, Oregon) FATHER It is not possible to KENNETH DOYLE be a faithful Catholic and adopt a pro-choice position on abortion. As the U.S. Catholic bishops stated in 1989 (“Resolution on Abortion”), “No Catholic can responsibly take a ‘pro-choice’ stand when the ‘choice’ in question involves the taking of innocent human life.”

As to whether it is possible to be a Democrat and still be pro-life, I believe that it is. In fact, since 1999 there has existed an organization called Democrats for Life of America, established to coordinate national efforts of pro-life Democrats.

Sadly, though, as an article in Politico in 2018 pointed out, pro-life Democrats “represent

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a dying breed in American politics.” Pro-life advocates, the article notes, “feel increasingly unwelcome in a Democratic Party that is moving left on abortion, as it did in 2016, when the party’s platform called, for the first time, for the elimination of the ban on federal funding of abortion.”

I should note that the church’s position is not meant as an absolute dictate with regard to a Catholic voter’s choice of candidates.

The U.S. bishops’ 2015 document “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” says, “A Catholic cannot vote for a candidate who favors a policy promoting an intrinsically evil act, such as abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, deliberately subjecting workers or the poor to subhuman living conditions, redefining marriage in ways that violate its essential meaning, or racist behavior, if the voter’s intent is to support that position” (No. 34).

But the same document is quick to note: “There may be times when a Catholic who rejects a candidate’s unacceptable position even on policies promoting an intrinsically evil act may reasonably decide to vote for that candidate for other morally grave reasons” (No. 35).

Q.

Now is the time of year when I book a summer tour for my family. I always try for a place where I know there will be an accessible Saturday evening or Sunday Mass; although my intentions are good, sometimes I am not successful. We then go to Mass as soon as we can on the trip, or right away when we arrive home. Is it OK to go to Mass during the week to make up for an unintentional miss on Sunday? (Johnstown, Pennsylvania)

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If this happens only rarely, I think you are fine, and I admire that you want to “catch up” by attending Mass later. But what I would do – if you foresee that Sunday Mass will not be possible – is to talk to a priest ahead of time and get a dispensation.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church notes that “the faithful are obliged to participate in the Eucharist on days of obligation, unless excused for a serious reason (for example, illness, the care of infants) or dispensed by their own pastor” (No. 2181).

Relaxation and recreation are legitimate needs, but the Eucharist happens to be the one specific way that Jesus asked us to keep his memory alive, so I wouldn’t use this permission too often.

When I was in the seminary, one of the world’s pre-eminent moral theologians was a Redemptorist priest named Father Francis Connell. He had been dean of theology at The Catholic University of America and served as a “peritus” (expert) at the Second Vatican Council.

In 1965, in a book called “More Answers to Today’s Moral Problems,” Father Connell responded to the same question you ask. His answer was that, in the circumstances you indicate, someone would be justified in missing Mass, perhaps once or twice a year. (But he also said, “Certainly a person would not be excused from attending Mass merely because the journey to church would take an hour by car.”)

FATHER KENNETH DOYLE writes for Catholic News Service.

Questions may be sent to Father Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York 12203.

WEIGEL: Restoring, and strengthening, episcopal credibility FROM PAGE 15

norms for dealing with clerical sexual abuse; it also allows, and might even be seen to call for, creativity on the part of national bishops’ conferences to build on the foundation Pope Francis has laid.

That “latitude for national bishops’ conferences ... to specify still more” should now be utilized by the U.S. bishops at their June meeting: to honor the Pope’s invitation to devise particular solutions for particular situations, according to the Holy Father’s principle of “synodality”; to meet the expectations of the most dedicated, committed Catholics in the United States; and to offer the world church further models to consider. Vos estis lux mundi, like the particular church law in place in the United States since the abuse crisis of 2002, deals primarily with sexual abuse by priests. The next

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steps in this process of Catholic reform involve devising mechanisms for guaranteeing episcopal accountability, in terms of both a bishop’s personal conduct and his handling of abuse allegations in the diocese entrusted to his care.

There seems to be a consensus, in Rome and the U.S., that these mechanisms should operate at the level of church “provinces,” with the metropolitan archbishop of each ecclesiastical province as the responsible party (or the senior suffragan bishop in a province, if the metropolitan archbishop is being charged with an offense). To make that mechanism credible, and to provide the metropolitan archbishops the assistance they need in handling allegations against other bishops, three more provisions seem necessary: 1. Lay Catholics – presumably the archdiocesan review board of the province in question – must be informed of an allegation against a bishop, from the point at which that allegation is made to the metropolitan archbishop. Such a requirement

embodies the principle of mutual accountability within the church while protecting the metropolitan archbishop from any future suggestion that he is burying an allegation to protect a brother bishop.

2. Competent and discreet lay professionals should be involved in the investigation of any allegation against a bishop.

3. It must be guaranteed that, when the entire process has been completed in the U.S. and Rome, and a decision reached, there will be a public explanation of the decision and the rationale for it, perhaps released through the relevant archdiocesan review board.

Adopting these provisions in June will accelerate the healing of a wounded church and enhance the bishops’ credibility, while heeding the pope’s call for local creativity.

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The work behind true understanding

“T

he noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

As daily news becomes increasingly anxiety-ridden, this quote from Leonardo da Vinci challenges us to ask, “Where do we start to create the noble joy in understanding?”

In his book “The Virtues,” FATHER EUGENE theologian HEMRICK Father Romano Guardini directs us to the first principle of understand-

ing, “First, there is a talent for this, a keenness of sight, a delicacy of feeling, an ability to put oneself in another’s place. ... These are important qualities which establish community between individuals.”

In a parish I served, one day the pastor invited me to lunch with parishioners in their workplace.

Before this experience, whenever I celebrated Mass and preached, the parishioners were “out there” with me looking down at them from the pulpit. After the experience of being with them in their working environment, I drastically recrafted my homilies.

The result was a deeper sense of delicacy of feeling and keenness of sight of which Father Guardini speaks.

Many of our communities sometimes reflect artificiality. The saying “familiarity breeds contempt” is ever so true. It is easy to become matter-of-fact and routine, to take our family, co-workers and acquaintances for granted. Our keenness of sight and delicacy in relations with them lose their sharpness.

When playing the violin, music frequently calls for delicacy. There are days when that delicate touch is there and days when it is not there.

Maintaining delicacy in speech and demeanor to understand each other requires asceticism.

Asceticism is often portrayed as leading a rigorous life devoid of fun. Its Greek meaning, however, is uplifting: the exercise in the proper

directing of one’s life. It is antithetical to chaos, where disorder and misunderstanding reign. Asceticism, on the other hand, aims at producing harmony resulting from assiduous understanding.

We must wonder if the joy of understanding of which Leonardo da Vinci speaks is present today, as we live in an age of jumping to quick decisions and ignoring our contemplative abilities.

Many of us have been taught there is nothing free in life, meaning we are required to work in order to get. This is especially true of understanding and the work needed to practice it well.

FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK writes for Catholic News Service.

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The public outcry following these revelations, and the subsequent FBI investigation and legal prosecution of the funeral home directors, reminds us how easy it is to transgress important moral boundaries when we fail to respect the remains of the deceased.

Indeed, legal measures can remind us of our duties towards the dead, whether through laws that criminalize grave robbing, for example, or those forbidding the use of executed persons’ bodies for research. A few years ago, Chinese officials were timing the capital punishment of their prisoners in order to harvest their organs as soon as well-paying foreigners had arrived in Chinese hospitals to receive those transplanted body parts. International pressure quickly mounted to ban the practice.

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How to accept criticism: a spiritual exercise

ore than 19 million people tuned in to watch the final episode of “Game of Thrones” May 19, making it the most viewed show to ever air on HBO. Yet many were dissatisfied with what they saw, hurling gripe after grouse online.

The finale didn’t fit the ethos of the show, they insisted.

It was overly sentimental. It tarnished the show’s legacy.

More than 1 million people signed an online petition to re-make the show’s final season.

Several “Game of Thrones” CHRISTINA actors took umbrage, includCAPECCHI ing Sophie Turner, who called the criticism “disrespectful” and defended the show’s writers and filmmakers.

Whether the many critiques are fair remains subject to debate, but one fact gives me pause: the petition was drafted before the show’s finale aired, meaning a million people lobbied for a re-made season before seeing how it would resolve.

We live in an unfortunate era for online criticism.

Critics fling insults they would never dare utter face to face. Defendants – typically privileged pub-

lic figures – bristle with self-righteousness, dubbing their critics “haters,” earning praise for “clapping back” in their own defense.

I wonder if we’re growing too defensive. When we clap back so fiercely, do we take the time to consider the criticism? Are we cooling down enough to find the teaching moment in the hot exchange? Or are we digging our heels in and sticking our fingers in our ears?

A media executive once offered a handy guide on when to take criticism to heart. Ask yourself two questions about your critic, she said: Can you trust that this person is acting in good faith and not on some ulterior motive? Does this person have some knowledge of this particular situation that I do not?

If the answers are yes, then heed their words.

If the answers are no, make like Taylor Swift and shake it off.

Lately I’ve been struggling to determine when to be gentle with myself and when to push myself to a higher standard. In my sleep-deprived days with an infant, it’s easy to justify the former. But there are moments I look at my choices and I know I can do better. More green smoothies, earlier bedtimes.

Less binge TV, fewer donuts. I know it’s all connected: sleep, sugar, the limits of my patience, the frequency of my prayer.

I used to cling to St. Francis de Sales’ quote: “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have

patience with yourself.” It is so tender, so loving.

But I’d been missing his subsequent statement, meant to be taken as a whole, to moderate the first part: “Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them. Every day begin the task anew.”

This is a high bar: address a shortcoming “instantly.”

St. Francis’ charge is two-fold, pointing us to a middle ground: to both be patient with yourself and to consider your imperfections.

Catholic spirituality equips us with the tools for an examination of conscience and asks us to do so bravely, honestly, daily. This may be harder to do than ever before, in this time when social media makes our personal lives feel public, and we sink in the quicksand of fearing others’ judgment while too readily casting judgments of our own.

It may be harder to do than ever before but also more important. We must learn to cast aside unfounded criticism while accepting difficult feedback from trusted sources: a sibling or spouse, a spiritual director, a confessor. And then, with courage and humility, we can “set about remedying” and find a path toward progress. Again and again, sunrise, sunset – we can begin anew.

CHRISTINA CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

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alleged to be the implied consent of the child, this has to be characterized as a false, even violent, presumption. The activity of harvesting tissues under these circumstances would only exacerbate the original evil act that terminated the child’s life.

Taking cells or tissues without consent would be a callous extension of the original desecration of his or her bodily life.

Additionally, it is important to recognize that even if the mother of an intentionally aborted child were to sign the dotted line saying she granted her permission for the baby’s cells and organs to be donated, that consent would necessarily be null and void. Because she arranged for the taking of the child’s life, she already categorically demonstrated that she does not have the child’s best interests in mind. From the ethical vantage point, she disqualifies herself from being able to provide valid consent

on behalf of her now-deceased child by the very decision to have the abortion in the first place.

While the action of taking bodily tissues without consent would be a lesser evil than the act of killing, this does not lead to the conclusion that we can therefore permit or encourage fetal corpse raiding at abortion clinics simply because we some good use in mind, like pushing forward the frontiers of biological knowledge, or producing a new vaccine or even developing an important therapy for a serious disease.

Wherever cells from directly aborted fetuses are used in research or product development, alternative and ethically non-controversial cell sources should instead be pursued, using, for example, cells obtained from routine surgeries like the removal of an appendix, or foreskin removal during newborn circumcision, or fetal remains following a spontaneous miscarriage, after valid informed consent is able to be properly obtained from the parents.

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Consent given after the natural loss of a pregnancy would be analogous to granting permission for an organ donation from a couple’s naturally deceased newborn.

Even though significant scientific breakthroughs may have occurred in the past using illicitly gained cells and tissues from direct abortions, this cannot ethically sanitize this approach to tissue procurement, nor justify the continuation of the practice in the future. In fact, outlawing the use of the remains of abortion victims by scientists and researchers would be a small but highly important first step towards showing proper societal respect for the many unborn children who unjustly perish in abortion clinics today.

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Former secretary says officials knew McCarrick’s ministry was restricted CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI had imposed restrictions on the public ministry of former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick in 2008, but they were not formal sanctions and were not followed strictly, Msgr. Anthony J. even during the paFigueiredo pacy of Pope Benedict himself, McCarrick’s former secretary said.

Msgr. Anthony J. Figueiredo, who was the former cardinal’s secretary for nine months in 1994-1995, but continued to assist him from Rome, released extracts from correspondence May 28, saying he wanted the truth out about what was known about McCarrick, when and by whom.

Besides knowing about the restrictions himself, the monsignor also said he had evidence that recently retired Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington knew about them, as did Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, then-prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then-Vatican secretary of state, and Archbishop Pietro Sambi, who was nuncio to the United States at the time.

Msgr. Figueiredo said he decided to publish online excerpts of correspondence in his possession – available at http://thefigueiredoreport.com/ – after attempting “since September 2018 to share and discuss these with the Holy See and other church leaders.” He did not publish the full texts of any of the correspondence or emails he quoted online.

The monsignor, who in October was suspended from driving in England for 18 months after pleading guilty for drunk driving and hitting a car

driven by a pregnant woman, said in his online report that “the hierarchy’s abuse of authority and cover-up, in their various and serious manifestations, have inflicted consequences upon me,” including by “seeking consolation in alcohol.”

Pope Francis removed McCarrick from the priesthood in February after he was found guilty of “solicitation in the sacrament of confession and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power.”

After an initial investigation in the Archdiocese of New York, the Vatican ordered McCarrick’s removal from ministry last June. A month later, Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals.

In August, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former nuncio to the United States, published a document calling on Pope Francis to resign because, he claimed, Pope Francis had known there

were sanctions on McCarrick and not only did he lift them, he allegedly made McCarrick a trusted confidante and adviser on bishops’ appointments in the United States.

Archbishop Vigano later clarified that Pope Benedict issued the sanctions “privately” either because McCarrick was already retired or because the pope thought “he was ready to obey.”

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, current prefect of the congregation, in a response to Archbishop Vigano’s allegations, said in October that McCarrick “was strongly exhorted not to travel and not to appear in public so as not to provoke further rumors” about his sexual misconduct.

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SUPREME COURT: Allows fetal burials, rejects Indiana abortion limits FROM PAGE 12

the law concerning the disposal of fetal remains “does not implicate our cases applying the undue burden test to abortion regulations” nor does it involve a challenge that the law “imposes an undue burden on a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.”

The court said the state has “a legitimate interest in proper disposal of fetal remains,” referring to a 1983 court decision, Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. The justices voted 7-2 to uphold the fetal remains aspect of the state’s law, with

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting.

The court also examined the appellate court’s ruling which struck down a provision in the state law that prevented women from obtaining abortions because of fetal characteristics.

Both laws were signed in 2016 by Vice President Mike Pence when he was Indiana’s governor and were blocked by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year.

Ginsburg and Sotomayor said they would have denied review of both issues in the case.

Justice Clarence Thomas in a

20-page opinion, not joined by other justices, said he agreed with the court for not taking up the issue of abortion limits at this time but said it would have to do so in the future, warning that the provision promotes a “compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.”

“Given the potential for abortion to Tour 91009 become a tool of eugenic manipulation,” he added, “the court will soon

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Pope Francis denies knowing of allegations against McCarrick JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Nearly a year later, Pope Francis denied claims made by a former apostolic nuncio to the United States who accused him and other church officials of failing to act on accusations of abuse of conscience and power by former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.

“I knew nothing, obviously, of McCarrick. Nothing, nothing. I said several times that I didn’t know, that I had no idea,” the pope said in an interview with Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki published by Vatican News May 28.

In an open letter published in August, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who served as nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016, claimed he told the pope of the allegations in 2013.

However, the pope told Alazraki, “I don’t remember if (Vigano) spoke to me about this.”

“If it is true or not, (I have) no idea! But you know that I didn’t know anything about McCarrick; otherwise, I would not have stayed quiet,” Pope Francis said.

The pope, who was in Dublin for the World Meeting of Families at the time, refused to comment directly on the allegations at the time and told reporters to “read that statement attentively and make your own judgment.”

The pope told Alazraki that response was “an act of faith” in people reading the document. “Maybe

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Pope Francis waves outside St. Patrick in the City Church in Washington, Sept. 24, 2015, while accompanied by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, then the apostolic nuncio to the United States. In a published report May 28, 2019, Pope Francis denied Archbishop Vigano’s claims that the pontiff and other church officials failed to act on accusation of abuse of conscience and power by former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.

when a bit of time has passed, I’ll talk about it,” he had said on his return flight to Rome.

At the time, he said, he had not read Archbishop Vigano’s entire letter and decided to “trust in the honesty of journalists” and asked them to make their own conclusions.

Pope Francis said the reporting on inconsistencies in Archbishop Vigano’s testimony “was very good, it was better than me explaining to defend myself. (Journalists) judged with the proof they had in their hands.”

Another reason for remaining silent, he said, was to try to imitate the approach Jesus took on Good Friday, where in the face of “a climate of viciousness he closed his mouth.”

“The Lord taught us that path and I follow it,” the pope said.

“In front of a climate of viciousness, you cannot answer,” Pope Francis said. “And that letter was vicious as you later realized by the results, that it was – as some of you reported – paid for. I do not know (if that is true) but I look at the consequences.”

LifeSite News reported that Archbishop Vigano accused the pope of lying.

“What the Pope said about not knowing anything is a lie. [...] He pretends not to remember what I told him about McCarrick, and he pretends that it wasn’t him who asked me about McCarrick in the first place,” the online news website quoted the archbishop as saying in comments made to LifeSite after the documents were released.

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The institute said it signed the 19-year lease for the abbey in February 2018 and that it had been formally handed over after the legal papers were signed in January.

However, the culture ministry announced May 31 that it found evidence of a number of contractual obligations being violated and other factors that support annulling the permit. The violations were discovered during an investigation into the authorization of the permit, which had been granted by the previous government administration.

The ministry’s undersecretary, Gianluca Vacca, said in a press release that the inquiry discovered improper procedures in the bidding process, including that the institute did not have the required juridical status when it filed its bid and it lacked the necessary documentation, knowledge and experience in protecting and promoting cultural heritage sites.

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Harnwell told The Washington Post in a statement May 31 that the institute would fight against the decision with “every resource at its disposal no matter how many years it takes.”

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When the little one was born, she already had a brother and two sisters.

Her given name at baptism was Mercy María. “Mercy in honor of the mercy that God has shown us and María in honor of our mother in heaven,” she said.

Seven years after the birth of her daughter she is joyful. She recognizes the sacrifices and great dedication it entails but since Mercy was born, the blessings in their lives have multiplied.

“Mercy is blessing, a treasure and a gift. The happiness has been great in our lives. She is our companion for life. We feel that God sent us a mission, to help her out.”

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“Jimmy was four years old when his father and I divorced. I was left with eight children. Jimmy was the youngest one of all. But my older children provided great support and helped me care for him. Back then I had to be at work at 5 a.m. at a retreat center in Portola Valley,” she said.

Ever since her son was born, Soledad has fought for him against all odds.

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Soledad doesn’t deny the sadness she felt when told her son had been born with Down syndrome. None of her seven other children were different.

Despite all of that, looking back at the past 28 years, she says that she is happy with having her son Jimmy in her life.

“There are days when I am so tired that I don’t want to even get up from bed, but my love for him makes me get up to help him,” she said.

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Knights of Columbus getting a new look after 79 years CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

TORONTO – A long-standing tradition will end this summer as the Knights of Columbus discard the ceremonial capes and plumed chapeaus of its fourthdegree members.

July 1 will mark the end of a 79-year era when the Knights change the ceremonial Color Corps regalia long associated with the fraternal Catholic order. The Color Corps, which acts as an honor guard at religious and civic functions, is distinguishable by its official regalia of tuxedo, cape, chapeau, white gloves and sword.

(CNS PHOTO/KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS) The preferred dress for A member of the Knights fourth-degree members of Columbus is shown worldwide will no longer sporting the Knights new include the cape and chauniform. peau. The new uniform will be a jacket and beret. The ceremonial swords will continue to be part of the uniform.

It’s all part of the Knights’ efforts to attract new members, particularly younger men, said Dan Heffernan, Ontario state deputy for the organization.

The Knights have undertaken extensive research in how to attract new members and have heard one constant from men as to why they won’t join the order.

“If I had to wear that regalia, I wouldn’t join the Knights,” is the refrain Heffernan said he has heard often.

It was a major point raised in a roundtable in March at the Archdiocese of Toronto chancery when the Knights gathered a group of men to discuss their impressions of the organization. Several men noted the cape and chapeau as drawbacks.

POPE SAYS HE’S STRENGTHENED, ENCOURAGED

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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM ROMANIA – Pope Francis said that he continues to visit retired Pope Benedict XVI, 92, who is like a grandfather who continues to encourage him and give him strength.

“I take his hand and let him speak. He speaks little, at his own pace, but with the same profoundness as always. Benedict’s problem are his knees, not his mind. He has a great lucidity,” the pope told journalists June 2 on his return flight from Romania. The pope spent about 35 minutes with reporters on the short flight, answering five questions.

When asked about his relationship with this predecessor, the pope said his conversations with Pope Benedict make him stronger and he compared the knowledge he receives from his predecessor as the sap “from the roots that help me to go forward.

“When I hear him speak, I become strong,” he explained. “I feel this tradition of the church. The tradition of the church is not a museum. No, tradition is like the roots that give you the sap in order to grow. You won’t become the root; you will grow and bear fruit and the seed will be root for others.

“The tradition of the church is always in motion,” he said. “The nostalgia of the ‘integralists’ is to return to the ashes,” but that is not Catholic tradition; tradition is “the roots that guarantee the tree grows, blossoms and bears fruit.”

IRISH ARCHBISHOP WANTS ‘SHOW FUNERALS’ FOR GANG MEMBERS TO END

DUBLIN – In the midst of a bitter gangland feud in the Irish capital, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has moved to ensure that funerals of those killed are not used as overt shows of wealth or perceived influence.

Speaking at Mass in St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral to mark the feast of the archdiocesan patron St. Kevin June 3, Archbishop Martin warned that “where it can be ascertained that individuals hold direct responsibility in this traffic in evil, they will no longer be allowed to exploit religious services in the Archdiocese of Dublin to enhance their image.”

A feud between two rival drug gangs has left at least 20 people dead in Dublin. Police have said the murders often are linked to “turf wars” over who controls the import and sale of illegal drugs in Ireland. Funerals often have been ostentatious occasions with wreaths commemorating overt symbols of wealth such as Rolex watches and high-powered sports cars.

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MURCIA, Spain – In one his first acts following his ordination as bishop, a prelate in Spain confirmed 50 men and 12 women inmates at the Murcia II Penitentiary Center in the town of Campos del Río.

The May 18 visit to the prison marked the first confirmations celebrated by Bishop Sebastián Chico since his ordination as bishop one week prior.

According to the Diocese of Cartagena-Murcia, this was the first time the sacrament was conferred inside the penitentiary.

Before beginning the confirmation, the bishop personally received in the assembly hall each of the inmates that was going to receive the sacrament.

Father Antonio Sanchez, one of the prison chaplains, said the bishop encouraged the prisoners to not lose hope “and to dare to dream, because your life is not marked by your mistakes but by your dreams, and God dreams with them.”

After the confirmation ceremony, a small celebration was held. Prison management joined with the inmates to celebrate their reception of the sacrament.

While organizing the event required a significant amount of work, Father Sanchez said, “we believe it was worth the effort, because we felt the presence of God and, how through this sacrament, he was able to come to many people.”

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Archbishop Martin has taken a leading role in confronting gang violence and many of the murders have been committed within the boundary of his cathedral parish.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 14 MASS FOR SRI LANKA VICTIMS: The public of all faith communities in the Bay Area is invited to St. Lucy Church, 2350 Winchester Blvd., Campbell, at 7:30 p.m. for a commemorative Mass for the 259 people who died on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka when bombs went off during Masses and Christian services. Sponsored by the Joseph Naik Vaz Institute, Berkeley. Celebrants will include Father Mark Arnzen, pastor of St. Lucy Church and Rev. Kannadeniye Santa of the Sri Lankan Buddhist Dharmapala Institute of the Bay Area. Reception and light refreshments to follow. Jayal.fernando777@gmail.com or (408) 930-2193.

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PHILIPPINE SARINGHIMIG SINGERS CONCERT: The Philippine Saringhimig Singers present “Gratitude,” a concert celebrating 45 years of choral performance, 7 p.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica. Conductor George Hernandez leads this internationallyrenowned group in a performance of European classics, gospel spirituals, contemporary choral arrangements as well as Filipino folk songs and pop tunes. The concert is a send-off for the choir’s summer concert tour. Tickets are $50 reserved, $25 general admission and can be purchased in advance at saringhimigsingers.eventbrite.com, or (415) 244-0808.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 15 BISHOP CHRISTIAN CELEBRATES MASS AT NATIVITY: Auxiliary Bishop Robert Christian, OP, will celebrate the 11 a.m. Mass of St. Josemaria Escriva at Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Confession will be available from 9 a.m. All are welcome.

Msgr. Jim Kelly, (415) 317-6116.

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS: On June 15 and 16 at 2 p.m., there will be a blessing of the animals at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco, by Father John De La Riva, OFM Cap, shrine rector, in conjunction with the North Beach Festival. Religious items will also be available for purchase.

SEX EDUCATION SEMINAR: Know your rights as parents: 9:30 a.m., coffee and donuts; seminar 10-noon. San Bruno Church parish hall, 555 San Bruno Ave. W. San Bruno, CA 94066.

Speakers: Raymond Burnell, California Catholic Conference, Director of Education; Ed Hopfner, Archdiocese of San Francisco, Director of Marriage & Family Life; Sister Maria Concepcion MC, Missionaries of Charity, Superior, Pacifica; Aileen Blachowski, Informed Parents of

GOLF TOURNAMENT: Our Lady of Loretto Parish’s 15th Annual Youth Ministry Golf Tournament and Parish Dinner.

Golf check-in 10:30 a.m., Indian Valley Golf Club, and Parish Dinner, Our Lady of Loretto Parish Hall. No-host cocktails 5 p.m.; dinner 6:30. $150 per golfer includes golf, golf cart, prizes, lunch and dinner. Sign up individually or with a foursome. Dinner available at $25 for adults, $10 for youth 12-18, and under 12 free. Registration forms available at www.ollnovato.org. Send reservations/payment to Youth Ministry Golf, Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, 94947. For more information, Mike Morris, (415) 897-6862. All proceeds benefit Youth Ministry Fund. Event is sponsored by OLL Youth Ministry Golf Committee and the Knights of Columbus, Our Lady of Loretto Council #3950.

POST-ABORTION HEALING SUPPORTERS NEEDED: Do you feel called to walk alongside someone seeking healing after an abortion? The Archdiocese of San Francisco Hope & Healing After Abortion Ministry (Project Rachel) is seeking accompaniment mentors. A training for prospective mentors will be held at noon in San Mateo, led by Project Rachel spiritual director Father Vito Perrone and by Life Perspectives. For more information, contact the Office of Human Life & Dignity – Project Rachel, (415) 614-5567, projectrachel@sfarch.org

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WEEK: Producer Megan Harington and comedian actor Christopher Meehan will speak and present on what is happening with pro-life and Christian films. 6 p.m., Sts. Peter and Paul Church. Sponsored by the Office of Human Life and Dignity, Archdiocese of San Francisco.

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WEEK: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will lead vespers in commemoration of Ss. Thomas More and John Fisher for Religious Freedom Week. 5:45 p.m., Star of

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FRIDAY, JULY 5 MONTHLY SUPPORT GROUP FOR PEOPLE WITH LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS: Free monthly support session on the first Wednesday of the month, 1-3 p.m., is led by Deacon Christoph Sandoval, who will also provide guidance on Catholic teaching and the preparation of health care directives.

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BISHOP WANG 60TH ANNIVERSARY MASS: All are welcome to join retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang in a special 10 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, at which Bishop Wang will be the principal celebrant. He will offer a Mass of thanksgiving to God for his priesthood, will celebrate the Feast of the Chinese Martyrs, and will dedicate a day of prayer for the Catholic Church in China. Following the Mass, there will be a banquet with Bishop Wang in the cathedral Events Center. Banquet tickets are $30 per person. For tickets or information, contact Father Peter Zhai, SVD, zhaip@sfarch. org, (415) 614-5575. Please register by June 15. The Mass will be livestreamed on the archdiocesan website.

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