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Drive-up penance as Marin priests mobilize for mercy

Latin America’s poor struggle as COVID explodes

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Public Masses make a return under pandemic guidelines NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Marin Catholic salutes Class of 2020 live on Instagram

Marin Catholic High School surprised the Class of 2020 and their families with an Instagram Live sendoff that marked the milestone date with pancakes, confetti, candlelight and prayer. The live video feed took students on a socially distanced tour through the Kentfield campus students hadn’t seen since March when the coronavirus pandemic closed it and all schools through the end of the academic year. Story on Page 5.

San Mateo County parishes celebrated Mass publicly for the first time in nearly three months after the county health officer relaxed shelter in place restrictions on religious gatherings. Almost a third of the archdiocese’s parishes in the county resumed Sunday liturgies the weekend of June 6.

At Menlo Park’s Church of the Nativity, the church’s doors opened for Mass on June 1, the earliest date allowed by the amended San Mateo County shelter in place order. Its pastor, Msgr.

Steven Otellini, said there has been an obvious “sense of gratitude and enthusiasm” by parishioners at returning to church for Mass.

When the parish first announced public Masses would resume, “people were very happy about SEE PUBLIC MASSES, PAGE 12

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Students at DeMarillac Academy, Mission Dolores Academy, St. James School and St. Peter School in San Francisco created 50 rainbows in what was originally an art project to symbolize hope during the pandemic.

“They have now become also emblematic of another kind of future – that no black person should experience what George Floyd, Ahmaud Aubery, Breonna Taylor and countless other precious souls before them have suffered in the name of hate,” Tony Nemia, interim executive director and program and clinical director for the USF Center for Child

and Family Development, School Based Family Counseling, shared with Catholic San Francisco.

The center “stands for the abolition of white supremacy and racism in any form,” she said. “The students in the schools we serve are primarily children of color. Our commitment is to love them, teach them, and counsel them toward lives of utter fulfillment.”

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In Reaction to the Death of George Floyd and the Aftermath

NEED TO KNOW ARCHBISHOP’S PODCAST: “At Your Word,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s recently launched podcast is available online at archdiocesesf.libsyn. com/at-your-word-episode-1-051220. New programs are taped monthly with the archbishop and host Jan Potts. The first episode traces the show’s title as well as the archbishop discussing his ministry in these unprecedented times. Archbishop Cordileone’s homilies are archived at sfarch.org/audio.

YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY: Opportunities for youth, young adults and youth leaders with the archdiocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry are available and explained at sfarch.org/ youthministry. Members for a Service and Leadership Team are sought from youth, youth ministry coordinators and young adult volunteers. The group “will assist in planning, advising on, and executing spiritual and social events for youth throughout the archdiocese,” said office director, Chris Mariano. A youth team leadership course kicks off June 23. Liturgical training for youth and young adults takes place in August. Call (415) 619-5594; email MarianoC@sfarch. org; visit sfarch.org/youthministry.

HOW LONG MARRIED?: The nomination period for the 2020 Longest Married Couple Project, sponsored

by Worldwide Marriage Encounter and now in its 10th year, has been extended to July 31, 2020. The project, overseen here by the archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life, will honor the longest married husband and wife in the country. State winners are also honored. Visit wwme.org/LMC2020_Nominations and enter the name of the couple, their wedding date, the city and state they live in and the name, phone number and email of the nominator. You can also email the information to Ray.Roberta.Montes@wwme.org.

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can’t breathe.” George Floyd’s final words haunt us, horrify us, as he was senselessly suffocated to death.

“I can’t breathe.” What a contrast to these days in Church time, when we are still basking in the light of Pentecost. God’s gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church harkens back to the very beginning, when the Spirit of God moved over the waters at the creation of the world.

In Biblical language and mentality, “spirit” is synonymous with “breath.”

ARCHBISHOP What a contrast: when we SALVATORE J. celebrate the infusion of God’s life breath into the CORDILEONE Church, a defenseless man has his life breath snuffed out of him.

George Floyd is the latest, and most brazen, example of a pattern of injustices and discrimination against people of color in our country. The violence in response to this act of violence reveals the extent to which the outrage over this has become unbearable. And yet, it does not change the perennial truth that violence begets violence.

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“I can’t breathe.” Many people are feeling spiritually suffocated in so many different ways.

As Catholics, we are called to walk in the light of Christ and follow the Spirit’s lead, so that God’s life breath might infuse all sectors of our society with justice for the oppressed, compassion for the vulnerable, and reverence for human life in all of its stages and conditions.

I call upon all Catholics, and all people of goodwill, to live lives that manifest the spiritual metanoia so needed in our society at this time, and to join together in prayer for an end to racism in all its pernicious manifestations and an end to the deadly violence that is taking place in many cities across the country at this time.

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Future priests: St. Patrick’s Class of 2020

Pictured are men recently graduated from St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. From left: Rev. Mr. Ian Quito, Archdiocese of San Francisco; Rev. Mr. Honorio Pangan, Jr., Archdiocese of Agaña; Rev. Mr. Benjamin Rosado, Archdiocese of San Francisco; Rev. Mr. Junee Valencia, Archdiocese of Agaña; Br. Francis Joseph Mary of the Most Holy Trinity Coyne, COSJ, Contemplatives of St. Joseph; Mr. Candelario Jimenez Rosales, Diocese of Oakland; Not Pictured is Father John Plass, a graduate and recently ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Santa Rosa.

“These seven young men have completed their priestly formation at St. Patrick’s Seminary and are on the final path to priesthood,” the seminary said on its website, adding that “the entire St. Patrick’s community is blessed to have these young men as our newest alumni. They will make excellent priests and future leaders of our church. Please pray for them!”

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COVID-19 threatens livelihood of Catholic retreat centers NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANICSCO

The coronavirus pandemic has dealt severe financial blows to Bay Area retreat centers, putting some of them in danger of closing.

After nearly five months without any income, St. Clare’s Retreat Center, a ministry of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows, is looking at the end of its 70 year mission to provide spiritual peace and healing.

“The retreat house has very small margins. What we bring in is what we pay out,” Franciscan Sister Christine Marie Chauvel of St. Clare’s Retreat House said.

Even before COVID-19 shut down St. Clare’s revenue, the Soquel retreat center had been hit hard financially. In September, Santa Cruz County stopped grandfathering property easements, forcing the sisters to account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in unplanned expenses to destroy old wells and upgrade the retreat house’s kitchen and dining room. Then the chapel floor and some of the campus roofs needed to be fixed.

Franciscan Sister Mary Vincent Nguyen, the retreat directress, said that was manageable until the shelter in place order meant no money was coming in at all to cover their ongoing expenses.

Sister Mary Vincent said she has halved the retreat house’s operating expenses to about $25,000 per month, but even on such a reduced budget they’ve run through their savings. They have been able to cover the salaries of their two full-time employees but had to furlough their 4 part-time employees.

Now the sisters are looking to raise $237,000 to cover their financial needs. Sister Mary Vincent said the sisters are “praying mightily that God has the bank account to get it all handled,” but she said they have to face the possibility they might not be able to reopen the retreat center’s doors.

“We would hate that because so many people count on us being here,” she said. Since every mission has to be financially self-supporting, “if we had to shut down and not do retreats, we’d have to find some other way to be here.”

Last year about 2000 people came through St. Clare’s doors, with an average of 60-80 people per retreat. County rules will likely prohibit hosting that many people at once when they receive permission to reopen.

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Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows Maria Gabriel Standfield, Christine Marie Chauvel, Carol Ann Kos and Mary Vincent Nguyen are pictured at St. Clare’s Retreat Center in Soquel in Santa Cruz County. The retreat center, a mission of the order for 70 years, needs to raise nearly $250,000 to cover their financial costs.

Even after that, Sister Mary Vincent was not sure how many people would be able to attend, since many of their regular retreatants are elderly or on fixed incomes.

For the community at St. Clare’s, the past few months have been hard. Sister Mary Vincent said she has had “to learn how to trust God more.”

People are also missing the spiritual aspect of coming to retreats and finding peace. Sister Christine Marie said people have called asking “why is God doing this?

“I kept on saying God isn’t doing this, he’s allowing it,” she said. “As I prayed more about it and talked to the sisters, it seemed he was allowing it so people could know more what was essential – so we can see better what is essential for our lives and what isn’t.”

While St. Clare’s situation is more dire than others, Bay Area retreat centers have all been hit hard by the downturn in business. “Right now every retreat center has this problem: you don’t know when income will come in and what you do in the meantime,” Dave Fencl, operations and finance manager at Vallombrosa Center, said.

A paycheck protection program loan will fund staff salaries there through July 3, but the retreat center’s future is uncertain after that. The company that provides much of the staffing for Vallombrosa has reassigned some workers, so retreat center employees have had to take on additional responsibilities. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in cancellations has depleted the center’s accounts.

The financial difficulties at Vallombrosa are especially hard for Fencl because the retreat center was on track to have its most profitable year ever, rewarding a half-decade of work to make it an attractive destination for retreats. Now he has to focus on which bills get paid first and which ones get delayed.

“I’m just amazed at what we have to think about, things we had never considered before. There’s just so much uncertainty,” he said.

Fencl said his staff have been working out how to safely run retreats under California’s reopening guidelines, looking at breaking up group to keep low numbers and changing how food service, meetings and housing are handled.

“We could work with those restrictions to distance everyone, protect everyone and maintain social distance,” he said.

Since the beginning of May the center has also been holding online mini-retreats, with a free reflection offered the Tuesday before the retreat happens on Friday. Dave Leech, Vallombrosa’s coordinator of public and digital programming and marketing, said the retreats have seen a good response, averaging about 25-35 attendees.

The online retreats have been “a real opportunity to expand our ministry,” he said, and will be an ongoing part of Vallombrosa’s ministry, even after in-person retreats return. Not only can online retreats reach people beyond the archdiocese, but they can also be attended by people who are homebound or otherwise unable to attend in person.

Vallombrosa has scheduled online retreats into August, including a daylong retreat run by Father Ron Rohlheiser.

While there are concerns about how the center will keep on going forward, Leech said he is encouraged “that people are deriving benefit from what we’re offering. We want to make sure people are not alone and can use whatever is available to them to grow and connect.”

St. Raphael SVdP celebrates history of ‘small acts of mercy’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

St. Raphael parishioner Frank Lindh reflected on the parish’s longtime “mission of mercy” amid the current public health crisis in an essay he wrote marking the 60th anniversary of its St. Vincent de Paul Society Conference.

“Sixty years of steady service to the poor of San Rafael is surely a remarkable milestone,” Lindh wrote in the essay sent to Catholic San Francisco in advance of the May 23 anniversary.

“Although it might seem sad, or even ironic, that the anniversary is occurring in the midst of a terrible pandemic, the fact is that the long record of organized charitable work by the St. Vincent’s Conference at St. Raphael has prepared us well for this moment in history,” he said.

Current members of the conference marked the anniversary with a Mass livestreamed because of the current closure of public Masses in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

On May 23, 1960, parishioners formed the local conference, becoming part of what Lindh called “an

old, deeply-ingrained tradition of compassion dating to the parish’s origins as a Spanish mission over 200 years ago.”

Sixty years after its launch and in response to material and spiritual needs created by the ongoing pandemic, he said, volunteers with the parish conference are on the premises providing groceries, grocery gift cards, homemade face masks, and “friendly words of encouragement.”

Other Vincentians are off-site responding to requests for help with rent, medical expenses and other needs from client families, he said.

Mission San Rafael was founded in 1817 as a convalescent hospital (asistencia) for native people from the Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco.

They were gravely sickened by exposure to European diseases, to which they had little or no immunity.

“It was the pandemic of their time,” said Lindh.

The founding friars made a deliberate choice in naming the new mission in honor of the Archangel Raphael, he said. Raphael is venerated by Christians, Jews and Muslims alike as the patron of good health and is considered a messenger “who announces the healing of God.” In a separate email, St. Raphael Vincentian Barbara Beaulieu summed up the “Vincentian call.”

“The Vincentian vocation is the intimate desire to participate personally and directly in helping the needy through person-to-person contact and by the gift of one’s own heart and friendship, doing so within a community of faith of persons each inspired by the same vocation,” she said.

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Father Erick Arauz, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Olema, is seen hearing the confession of a penitent on May 23 in the St. Raphael rectory parking lot. Father Arauz has joined Father Andrew Spyrow, the San Rafael parish’s pastor, for car-window confessions Saturdays 3:30-4:30 p.m.

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Left to right: Father Andrew Spyrow, pastor of St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael, and Father Erick Arauz, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Olema, are pictured in the St. Raphael rectory garden after hearing confessions.

Mobilized for mercy: Marin priests hear car confessions CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Father Andrew Spyrow and Father Erick Arauz stood on the sunbaked blacktop of the St. Raphael Parish parking lot for an hour May 23 hearing the car-window confessions of local Catholics. Their white clerical robes were topped by sunglasses and sun hats.

The 3:30-4:30 Saturday time slot is the Marin parish’s regular weekend confession time.

Pastor Father Spyrow told Catholic San Francisco he decided to see if there was an appetite in his parish community for this unique alternative to the physical confessional. His have been closed to the faithful since March to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

“Mother Church is always here,” said Father Spyrow as he waved to the driver of a Toyota Prius whose sins he has just absolved. “We’re like the postal service in that way.”

His face is largely concealed by a black mask, but his eyes say he is smiling.

In the absence of public Mass and the physicality of the sacraments, many who come to confession, he said, are “very appreciative just to see their priest.”

Some weekends he only sees one car, he told Catholic San Francisco, and

sometimes, “none at all.” Other weekends a caravan of vehicles will arrive.

Today, a work-worn utility truck with a ladder strapped to the rack rumbles up the drive with a sign tacked to its front window with blue painter’s tape. It reads: “Essential Worker.”

Approaching the passenger side of the vehicle to maintain “social distance,” Father Spyrow hears the driver’s confession while the engine sputters, the sandy-pink St. Raphael Church steeple rising behind penitent and confessor.

Rosary beads swing from the rearview mirror as the truck lurches off the lot and a red Mercedes takes its place.

The drive-through confessions bring out Catholics who make a confession regularly, said Father Spyrow, but also those who may not have been inside a church confessional for some time.

“I bring these little Act of Contrition cards with me,” he said, reaching for his pockets, for when penitents stumble over the traditional prayer.

Father Erick Arauz, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Olema, joins Father Spyrow some Saturdays for help with Spanish language confessions.

He said penitents bring more to their confessions in the pandemic-era.

There’s more time to think about things, he said, like one’s good and bad choices, family relationships – and death and eternity.

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Father Andrew Spyrow, pastor of St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael hears the confession of a man in a work truck May 23 in the parish parking lot.

“People feel well when they talk,” said Father Arauz. “Confession isn’t just about sin, it’s also about listening.”

Father Spyrow also hears private, face-to-face confessions by appointment in the rectory, as do other priests in the archdiocese.

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco has allowed individual pastors to approach confession differently during the pandemic.

Father William Brown, pastor of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon said associate pastor Father Ernie Jandonero’s career as a nurse before being ordained a year ago has been “a great help to me in making decisions that are safer for our people.”

Confessions there are outdoors in the coastal air and by appointment only.

“Sometimes a whole family comes, one-by-one from the family car; sometimes it’s one person who needs to talk,” he said.

How Father Spyrow has adapted confession to pandemic public health restrictions has seemed to also capture the curiousity of the secular world.

National Geographic was at St. Raphael a few weekends ago taking photos of the Saturday confession hour after the local Marin Independent Journal ran a story a few weeks earlier.

The photos taken of Father Spyrow and Father Arauz by Catholic San Francisco for this story were posted to Facebook May 25. The post quickly went viral.

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Marin Catholic surprises seniors with Instagram live sendoff CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Thanks to the spirited creativity of Marin Catholic High School faculty and staff, the date May 28, 2020 can be remembered as a day of delight instead of disappointment by the 159 seniors who would have graduated publicly that day.

The school surprised the Class of 2020 and their families with an Instagram Live sendoff that marked the milestone date with pancakes, fireballs, confetti, candlelight and prayer.

The live video feed took students on a socially distanced tour through the Kentfield campus they hadn’t seen since March when the coronavirus pandemic closed it and all schools through the end of the academic year.

Public commencement exercises will likely take place the first weekend of August, Marin Catholic president Tim Navone said.

Navone told Catholic San Francisco that the school began planning the “This is Not Your Graduation” event when it became clear that enduring public health restrictions would force the cancellation of graduation ceremonies scheduled for May 28.

While some schools opted for virtual Zoom commencement exercises or drive-through conferrals of diplomas, Navone said Marin Catholic wanted to do something different, “We wanted it to be more personal,” Navone said of the video feed that unsuspecting seniors and their families were invited to watch on May 28, their would-be graduation day.

In advance of the Instagram Live event, faculty, staff and administration personally delivered a graduation bag to the homes of seniors with gifts that symbolized hope for the future, he said.

It included, among other things, their cap and gown, a framed class picture and a laundry bag for college imprinted with the verse Isaiah 41:13, the schoolwide theme for 2020.

The verse reads: “For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, who says to you, ‘Do not fear, I will help you,’” in the New American Standard Bible.

Also included, a blessed “miraculous medal,” a sacramental that is a “visual reminder of our salvation in Jesus Christ,” according to miraculous medal.org.

“The video was kind of our gift to them,” Sandy Starkey, community and alumni relations manager, told Catholic San Francisco June 2. “I think it gave

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The Dominican Sisters of Marin Catholic were among faculty and staff of the Kentfield school who offered messages of hope and to seniors in an Instagram Live video feed May 28. The school’s public commencement exercises originally scheduled for that day have been postponed until later this summer. them hope and I think it gave them joy and there wasn’t a lot of that in a while.”

Starkey said she got the idea for the Instagram Live event as a way to bring the graduating class back onto the campus they had to leave suddenly in the last few months of their senior year.

Starkey, Navone, principal Chris Valdez and his assistant Cathy Lese loosely scripted the event and invited 15 of the school’s more than 100 staff members to participate.

The limitation on the numbers of participants was strictly for ease of “social distancing” during the filming in the school’s hallways, classrooms and chapel, said Starkey. Everyone wore masks.

The 15-minute event led by campus ministry director Michelle Vollert, mixed fun and faith, Starkey said.

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The camera found history teacher Paul Hamel flipping hotcakes, the fulfillment of a promise to seniors he couldn’t keep when the school closed.

Science department chair Peter Berkhout delivered a helium-fueled fireball with his greeting and the school’s Dominican Sisters laughed and held onto bunches of balloons.

Others held signs that said, “See you in July,” a reference to actual commencement exercises.

“It was live and we couldn’t edit it and that was the most fun,” Starkey said.

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the nearby St. John Paul II National Shrine for the 41st anniversary of the beginning of St. John Paul’s historic nine-day visit to Poland in 1979 during which he called for religious and political freedom in that country. Left, a woman religious and protesters in Washington gathered near the Capuchin College June 2, 2020.

Trump visits JPII shrine amid Floyd protests DENNIS SADOWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington June 2 before he signed an executive order back at the White House to expand U.S. support for international religious freedom efforts.

The crosstown trip was excoriated by several Catholic leaders, including Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, who said he found it “baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles” by allowing the visit.

The Trumps’ visit to the shrine in Northeast Washington came on the 41st anniversary of the start of St. John Paul II’s pilgrimage to his native Poland, the first trip by the pope during which he repeatedly addressed religious and political freedom.

The White House said the president offered no remarks during the visit. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accompanied the Trumps during the brief stay at the shrine.

Over 100 people, including children and their parents, had gathered near the shrine and began chanting slogans calling for justice for George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis May 25.

Archbishop Gregory said Catholic teaching calls the faithful to “defend the rights of all people, even those with whom we might disagree.”

The evening before the shrine visit, Trump walked from the White House to St. John Episcopal Church, which was set afire during protests May 31 that called for the nation to address racism and police violence.

Authorities fired flash-bang shells, gas and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd that had gathered in Lafayette Square across from the White House so Trump could walk to the church, where he held up a Bible as photographers captured the scene.

The crowd was present in the park to protest the death of Floyd and other African American people at the hands of police.

Archbishop Gregory in his June 2 statement questioned the decision

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Martin Gugino, 75, of Amherst, New York lays on the ground after he was shoved by two Buffalo police officers June 4, 2020 during a protest against police violence against minorities.

A longtime peace activist and a member of the Catholic Worker Movement, Gugino remained hospitalized June 8 in serious but stable condition. to disperse the protesters in such a manner.

“St. John Paul II was an ardent defender of the rights and dignity of human beings. His legacy bears vivid witness to that truth. He certainly would not condone the use of tear gas and other deterrents to silence, scatter or intimidate them for a photo opportunity in front of a place of worship and peace.”

The shrine issued a statement about the visit less than two hours after the president and first lady left.

It said White House officials originally scheduled the visit “as an event for the president to sign an executive order related to global religious freedom.”

“This was fitting given St. John Paul II was a tireless advocate of religious liberty throughout his pontificate,” the statement said. “International religious freedom receives widespread bipartisan support, including unanimous passage of legislation in defense of persecuted Christians and religious minorities around the world.

“The shrine welcomes all people to come and pray and learn about the legacy of St. John Paul II,” it added.

At least one other bishop was critical of the shrine visit.

Bishop John E. Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, tweeted early June 2 that he hoped during the visit “someone proclaims today’s Gospel

(Mark 12:13-17) where Herodians and Pharisees are called out for their hypocrisy.”

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said the bishops would not comment on the event because it “was not ours.”

Returning to the White House, Trump signed an executive order during the noon hour that the White House described as prioritizing U.S. support for religious freedom worldwide.

The order calls for the U.S. to allocate at least $50 million annually for international religious freedom programs. It also would widen economic incentives to support countries that expand religious practice and address attempts to restrict religious practice. In addition, the order would align foreign assistance “to better reflect country circumstances,” restrict issuing visas and implement sanctions under the 2012 Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which targets human rights abuses and global corruption.

The law is named for Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer, who died in 2009 after being arrested and tortured in custody by officers of the Russian Ministry of the Interior.

A final provision of the order would mandate more federal employees who work abroad to undergo international religious freedom training.

Several observers questioned the president’s commitment to constitutionally protected freedoms given his efforts to limit the rights of refugees seeking asylum and past policies seeking to separate immigrant children from their parents.

Trump said June 1 he supports the rights of nonviolent protesters seeking justice for Floyd but that it is necessary to quell rioters who have looted businesses and set buildings and vehicles afire during clashes with authorities that have resulted in millions of dollars in damage and left dozens of people injured.

Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, a short distance from the shrine, charged that Trump was misappropriating religious symbols for political gain rather than broadly supporting religious freedom.

“He’s torn down the wall between church and state ... and instead (is) weaponizing religion for his own political goals,” she told Catholic News Service.

McGuire called on the U.S. Catholic bishops to stand “shoulder to shoulder at this shrine and tell him in no uncertain terms that this promotion of religion for political purposes is wrong.”

Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service, who is executive director of the Catholic social justice lobbying group Network, accused the president of having “no clue about the teaching of Pope John Paul II or of our Catholic faith.”

“His refusal to acknowledge the racism and police violence that started this and has been rife in our nation, that he exacerbates show he has no evidence of insight or remorse,” Sister Campbell said.

“This is crass politics at its worst,” she added. “It’s ignoring the reality of our nation. This is not about religious liberty. This is about human life, human dignity and police violence.”

The Trumps’ stay at the shrine lasted about 20 minutes. At one point the couple exited the shrine and posed for pictures next to a statue of St. John Paul II bedecked with a wreath of red and white flowers and a red, white and blue ribbon.

They turned to stand in front of the statue for a minute and faced photographers again before returning indoors.

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Panelists discuss ‘virus’ of racism, praise protesters’ message MARK ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Just as the world is facing the coronavirus pandemic and its deadly impact, racism likewise is a deadly virus that must be cured, Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said June 5.

He made the comments during an online dialogue on racism sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. The dialogue was viewed by 7,900 people watching it via livestream.

During the panel discussion on “Racism in our Streets and Structures: A Test of Faith, A Crisis for Our Nation,” Archbishop Gregory was asked why he referred to racism as a virus when he issued a statement about the death of George Floyd – the African American man who died while in police custody May 25, when a white Minneapolis officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

“It’s an appropriate image at a moment when we’re all thinking about a virus that threatens us,” he said.

Archbishop Gregory said questions experts are asking in confronting the coronavirus equally apply to racism: “How is racism, this silent but deadly virus, passed on to other people? Is it learned at home? Is it transmitted through our structures? Is it part of the air that we breathe, and how do we find a vaccine, how can we protect ourselves, how can we render it ineffective?”

He opened the discussion with a prayer. He asked God to “bless those who take to our streets to protest injustice” and also prayed law enforcement officers will have “a commitment to equal justice for all, and respect for the lives and dignity of all those they serve and protect from harm.”

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A demonstrator is seen in the Brooklyn borough of New York City June 6, 2020.

Floyd’s death, the nationwide protests it sparked and urgent calls to address racism were the key topics discussed by the panelists, who also included Marcia Chatelain, an associate professor of history and African-American studies at Georgetown University; Ralph McCloud, director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty program; and Gloria Purvis, host of the EWTN radio show “Morning Glory.”

The four panelists, who are all African American, each shared the emotional reactions they felt when they, like people around the world, saw the videotape of Floyd’s death that was recorded by an onlooker during the arrest.

“I recall being physically sick, almost to the point of fainting and passing out,” McCloud said.

Purvis said when she watched it, “I remember saying, ‘Stop! In the name of God, stop!’ I thought this was so grievous to do to another human being.

The image of God was being abused in front of me.”

Archbishop Gregory said seeing the video of Floyd’s killing brought back a flood of memories.

“As a youngster, I was taken to the viewing of Emmett Till,” he said, of the 14-year-old African American youth lynched in Mississippi in 1955, whose body was displayed in an open casket in Chicago where he grew up, and which was the home city of young Wilton Gregory.

The archbishop, who also issued a statement decrying the recent shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a young African American man, by white assailants in Georgia, said that Floyd’s death reminded him of “a whole collage of individuals who have been assassinated for no other reason than the color of their skin.”

Chatelain said Americans were able to witness Floyd’s last moments, and are also “witnesses to the indifference that allows death to come that way. ... The knee on that man’s neck was weighted by all of the systems that have sanctioned that behavior.”

She said the protests across the United States and around the world represent “a referendum about capitalism, colonialism and at the heart of it, white supremacy. ... This is about a series of interconnected systems.”

The educator noted the societal inequities facing communities of color are not new. In the commissions established to examine the deadly race riots of 1919, she said, black leaders a century ago identified the problems of “police brutality, not enough jobs, poor schools for our kids (and) lack of health care.”

Racial justice is a pro-life issue, says leading pro-life legislator CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pro-life advocates must speak out in defense of all human life – including issues of racial justice and deaths at the hands of police, a prominent pro-life lawmaker said.

Louisiana state Sen. Katrina Jackson said in a June 3 interview that the pro-life movement “has made great strides in becoming more racially diverse” and should now be speaking out against racism and the killings of black men by police or by other people who target them for their race.

Pro-lifers cannot remain silent in the face of injustice, she said, quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that “a time comes when silence is betrayal.”

Jackson, who has been lauded for her bipartisan efforts to pass some of the country’s most stringent restrictions on abortion, said she is “pro-life from conception until death.”

“I tell people that it’s not enough that we ask someone not to have an abortion and keep going,” she said.

She lamented the “alarming amount of African American males that are killed by murderous hands,” including those killed by police officers. Such deaths, she said, are “a life issue.”

Racism, and the deaths of young black men, have been “plaguing our nation for years,” she said. “It has to stop, because it goes directly against the pro-life stance that every life has value.”

“Right now, the pro-life movement could be holding very diverse online town hall meetings to discuss this issue,” she said, to “talk about life being important at every stage of life.”

Jackson also called for a more visible presence by pro-life advocates in peaceful protests, holding signs with language such as “life matters at every stage.”

While Jackson appeared with President Donald Trump at the 2020 March

for Life, and has praised pro-life measures enacted by his administration, she expressed concern about the president’s response to the riots and protests.

“President Trump is doing more to incite and to perpetuate anger over this issue than he is doing to calm it down,” she said.

Last week, while threatening to deploy the U.S. military to quell riots, Trump tweeted that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Jackson said the president’s words, under the guise of upholding law and order, might have exacerbated lawlessness.

The next day, Trump offered an explanation for his use of the phrase, saying that violent riots could lead to other acts of violence. “Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night,” he tweeted.

The tweet was nevertheless interpreted by many to justify police firing rubber bullets or live rounds at those protesters who are looting stores.

“What the president needs to understand is that — as the leader of the free world—what he tweets, what he says, has great consequences,” Jackson said, adding that, in her view, Trump “needs to understand that.”

“And it’s becoming very disturbing,” she added, that “he seems not to.”

She said the president’s comments could encourage some people to take the law into their own hands: “There may be someone who goes out and shoots someone who’s looting because the president said it’s okay,” Jackson worried.

Defining pro-life “around the very narrow meaning of being antiabortion” has allowed people of faith to give political leaders “a pass” on other issues of social justice, Father Bryan Massingale, professor of theological and social ethics at New York’s Fordham University, told an online forum at Fordham on June 3.

Father Massingale, who is black,

said there have been times when he has been invited to a parish or school to speak about racism and is asked how to enter such a conversation “in a way that doesn’t make white people uncomfortable.”

“The presumption is that we should be able to talk about this issue in a way so that white people are never

made to feel uncomfortable and can leave the conversation at the end of the day and feel good about themselves,” he continued.

“That’s the biggest mistake I think the Catholic Church has made,” he said.

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Domestic violence called ‘pandemic within a pandemic’ GINA CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PHILADELPHIA – Amid global coronavirus lockdowns, domestic violence has emerged as “a pandemic within a pandemic,” said Catholic clinical psychologist Christauria Welland.

“Our rates in the U.S. for physical and sexual violence against women were already at one in three,” she said. Based in California, Welland has counseled both those who are abused and their abusers for decades.

During periods of economic crisis and natural disasters, such rates tend to rise, said Welland, adding that the coronavirus has aggravated conditions for domestic abuse, also known as “intimate partner violence.”

“We’re seeing huge increases in anxiety, uncertainty and feelings of powerlessness,” she said.

“When those who abuse manage their relationships using a template of power that says, ‘I’m in control of you,” this kind of insecurity makes them feel vulnerable and puts them at risk of becoming violent.”

Unemployment, food and financial instability, confinement and substance abuse have increased the risk of abuse.

In early April, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “peace in homes around the world” in response to a “horrifying surge in domestic violence” due to stay-at-home orders.

Italy, France, Spain, Russia, India, Australia and Belgium are among the nations that have reported spikes in domestic assaults, with figures ranging from 32% to 75%.

In Pennsylvania, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office detected an 8% to 9% jump in domestic violence calls from January to April, compared to the same period last year.

Although pastoral messages have focused on the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to strengthen families, stay-at-home orders can have the opposite effect, and Catholics are not exempt, Welland told Catholic Philly.com, the new website of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

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Welland also founded Pax in Familia, an international Catholic ministry dedicated to preventing violence and abuse in families and serves as a faculty associate for The Catholic University of America’s “Catholics for Family Peace” initiative.

The coronavirus lockdowns have compounded the sense of isolation felt by those who are abused, said Welland.

“We’re distancing from our normal social supports, and there have been some closures in services such as drop-in places and therapy groups,” she said.

Living in close quarters under constant surveillance from perpetrators, those being abused may find it harder to access help, Welland added.

“Some abusers will engage in even more controlling behavior, going through emails, texts, phones and social media accounts,” she said. “Some will literally hang over an abused person’s shoulder, and she or he cannot find a free moment or quiet place to call for help.”

There are still ways to report domestic violence but “finding an opportunity might be hard,” Welland said.

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While “we don’t have anything like that in the U.S.,” said Welland, the use of code words by prior arrangement to alert family and friends can protect those who are being abused.

“If the abuser enters the room and you have to hang up, you’ve said the most important word that alerts your safety net,” Welland said.

Above all, those experiencing domestic violence should “do their own safety planning” while trying to “be at home in the safest way possible” until they can access resources for help, she said.

“Obviously, there are situations where you just have to get out of there,” said Welland. “But we have a lot of full shelters right now.”

More than ever, abused persons need to “stay calm and use logic and reason” in extricating themselves from danger.

In addition to using code words and keeping in contact with loved ones, Welland recommended teaching children to “stay back from domestic arguments” to avoid injury, and to call 911 in emergencies.

If tension escalates, she said, those at risk of abuse should steer clear of kitchens and bathrooms.

“Kitchens contain weapons such as knives, and bathroom fixtures can cause serious head injuries,” she said. “Move toward the door instead.”

The presence of firearms – sales for which soared in the U.S. prior to state lockdown orders – heightens the risk of injury or death, she said, advising abused persons to hide guns if possible.

Welland also urged those being abused to call 911 if they are in immediate danger, and to contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at (800) 799-7233 ((800) 787-3224 TTY), through which advocates are available to speak 24/7 in more than 200 languages.

“Don’t be afraid or ashamed to reach out,” said Welland. “Everyone in these situations needs help.”

Seeking divine assistance also is important, she said, noting that both “those being abused and their abusers” should “pray for protection and peace.”

“Stay close to the Lord to navigate this time of anxiety and stress,” said Welland. “Ask Our Lady to keep your minds calm and your bodies safe.”

If you believe you are at risk of becoming abusive, she said, try to use short breaks such as a neighborhood walk “as a time of prayer” and an occasion “to ask for protection from the darker side of yourself.”

Families can be assured that the Lord remains fully present to them, even amid a time of social distancing, she said.

“God protects us by showing his love through people,” said Welland. “Reach out to those people now.”

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VATICAN CITY – People experiencing crises in their communities need to be accompanied so the experiences can be lived as an important opportunity to build something new, Pope Francis told teenagers, parents and teachers meeting online to celebrate World Environment Day. Crises are part of life – much like a flower pot that breaks because the plant’s roots need more room Pope Francis to keep growing, he said in Spanish in a video message June 5. “But that is life – it grows, it breaks,” and it would be a terrible thing not to have this kind of crisis. When everything seems “flawless, tidy, starched,” he said, it would mean humanity is “very, very sick” or asleep.

The original meaning of crisis, he added, was not just “rupture,” “opening” and “danger,” but also “opportunity.” So if a crisis calls people to a new opening or opportunity, the danger lies in not being taught to connect with or how to relate to this new opening, he said.

MARKING WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, POPE SAYS: DON’T LOOK THE OTHER WAY

VATICAN CITY – Building a healthier, better world depends on everyone, Pope Francis said in his message marking World Environment Day June 5.

“We cannot remain silent before the outcry when we realize the very high costs of the destruction and exploitation of the ecosystem. This is not a time to continue looking the other way, indifferent to the signs that our planet is being plundered and violated by greed for profit, very often in the name of progress,” he wrote.

“We have the chance to reverse course, to commit ourselves to a better, healthier world and to pass it on to future generations. Everything depends on us, if we really want it,” he added.

VATICAN TO COLLABORATE WITH NEW VIDEO-STREAMING PLATFORM

VATICAN CITY – Vatican officials expressed their support for a new video-on-demand service aimed at adding religious programming and content to the already jam-packed field of video-streaming services.

During a news conference June 4 announcing the launch of “VatiVision,” the new streaming site, Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, said the platform will allow people to “access content of quality and value that would be otherwise unobtainable, lost or forgotten” Despite its name, Ruffini said that VatiVision is an independent initiative and that the Vatican is neither funding the service nor does it have any say in what content will be made available.

AUSTRALIA’S BISHOPS, RELIGIOUS CONSIDER PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE IN GOVERNANCE

MUDGEE, Australia – Australia’s bishops and religious are considering the recommendations for change in a 208-page review into the governance of the church. If implemented, they would see administrative and financial control of dioceses and parish-

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CHINA MAKES PREACHING PATRIOTISM COMPULSORY TO REOPEN CHURCHES

BEIJING – Catholics are upset about a directive from China’s communist government asking priests to “preach on patriotism” as a condition for reopening liturgical services, suspended earlier this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ucanews.com reported the Catholic Patriotic Association and the Chinese Catholic educational administration committee of Zhejiang province jointly issued a notice May 29 on the resumption of liturgical activities.

“Religious places that meet the conditions of epidemic prevention will resume services from June 2,” it said while adding the patriotism requirement.

Father Liu of Hebei told ucanews.com it would be good to resume church activities, but the requirement on patriotism “is wrong. As members of the universal Catholic Church, we cannot accept and glorify what communists consider patriotic education.” Jacob Chung, a Wenzhou parishioner, said the government’s move “has seriously interfered in the internal affairs of religion.”

HEALTH OFFICIALS LIFT CAP ON WORSHIP SIZE DIOCESE SAW AS ‘UNJUST’

MADISON, Wis. – Health officials in the city of Madison and in Dane County June 5 lifted a 50-person cap instituted for houses of worship, a limitation that Madison Bishop Donald J. Hying earlier called unjust and said was stifling the church’s “pastoral mission.”

Bishop Hying said the diocese was pleased city and county officials “have ended the unequal 50-person cap on religious gatherings. As bishop, it is my duty to ensure that Sunday Mass be available as widely as possible to the Catholic faithful, while following best practices when it comes to public health,” he said.

City and county officials announced the modification of an earlier public order outlining a reopening process for a range of public and private entities in response to the slowing of COVID-19. This modification “means churches that wish to have services can do so up to 25% of their capacity,” they said. The earlier cap implemented May 22 limited religious services to 50 people regardless of the size of the building. For some churches this meant a 5% capacity.

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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Bishop George V. Murry, the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown, died June 5 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, after a two-year battle with leukemia, the diocese announced. He was 71.

Bishop Murry had been admitted to Sloan Kettering for in-patient treatment May 30, a few days after submitting a letter of resignation to Pope Francis.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ DEUTERONOMY 8:2-3, 14B-16A Moses said to the people: “Remember how for forty years now the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments.

He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord. “Do not forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery; who guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers.”

PSALM 147: 12-13, 14-15, 19-20 (167) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

Glorify the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.

Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

He has granted peace in your borders; with the best of wheat he fills you. He sends forth his command to the earth; swiftly runs his word!

Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

He has proclaimed his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. He has not done thus for any other nation; his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia.

Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

1 CORINTHIANS 10:16-17 Brothers and sisters: The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?

The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.

Sequence Lo! the angel’s food is given To the pilgrim who has striven; see the children’s bread from heaven, which on dogs may not be spent. Truth the ancient types fulfilling, Isaac bound, a victim willing, Paschal lamb, its lifeblood spilling, manna to the fathers sent. Very bread, good shepherd, tend us, Jesu, of your love befriend us, You refresh us, you defend us, Your eternal goodness send us in the

land of life to see. You who all things can and know, Who on earth such food bestow, Grant us with your saints, though lowest, Where the heav’nly feast you show, Fellow heirs and guests to be. Amen. Alleluia.

JOHN 6: 51-58 Jesus said to the Jewish crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

Corpus Christi: The devotion

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What difference? During the Nicene Creed, I can feel held hostage by examiners in a theological seminar. I see words projected onto the wall, and for some unpreventable reason, I notice the repetition of “begotten.” I get distracted by “consubstantial.” I wonder why Pontius Pilate, a Roman governor, gets remembered along with God, the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

It is sometimes inconvenient to be a theologian.

But when I sing the same words? The melody is serene affirmation. No arguments, no stopping to puzzle or question. I feel uplifted, the music leads the words, and the words are responsive, flexible, altogether a different reality than argument. Voices unite and divide into harmonious chords. Instruments support, carry, lead and follow the notes bearing the words. Leroy Kromm, our symphony choir maestro, urges us to capture the spirit of the Baroque composer, “Forget the words, just sing the notes!”

Yes, Corpus Christi is a day to review theological definitions like transubstantiation, to explain why children and new converts receive the sacraments of baptism and penance before Eucharist. We can mull over Scripture behind Jesus saying, “Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood. ...” But from a believer’s lived spiritual history, this is a day to remember a timeless spiritual continuum of daily and Sunday Communion, or evening exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on first Fridays. It is not merely nostalgia to remember 40-hour devotions with the Eucharist on the altar for a prolonged period of parish prayer, the monstrance carried under a canopy through the church – and in European towns, through the

streets – the sign of Jesus’ human presence here and everywhere in the world. The incense – that sweet fragrance used to be a centuries-old prompter of higher consciousness, though today the swinging of the thurible is rarer as a signal of communal faith – this is holy ground.

I think of Corpus Christi as a day to remember my first Communion, visits to the Blessed Sacrament, the feeling of personal devotion and communal faith at the singing of “O Lord I Am Not Worthy,” the calming of the heart at the first notes of “Panis Angelicus” and “O Sacrum Convivium,” the feeling of being spiritually at home during the singing of “Tantum Ergo” – strengthened in carrying burdens, eased in grief, led through darkness, interconnected in aloneness, calmed in distress.

We have come to be convinced, especially since Vatican II, of the “we” of Corpus Christi. We are the body of Christ, right now, with these human beings, believers and unbelievers alike, a world interconnected by news media, by pandemic, by protest. The suffering of George Floyd and the black community is not “his” but ours, not “theirs” but ours. The justice and reform demanded is a change needed in the whole body, not a benefit for merely one part, one ethnic population.

Corpus Christi is a day to repeat as our own the words of Jesus, “I in them, and you in me” (John 17.23) prayed with devotion.

MONDAY, JUNE 15: Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 21:1-16. PS 5:2-3ab, 4b-6a, 6b-7. PS 119:105. Mt 5:38-42.

SATURDAY, JUNE 20: Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. DT 7:6-11. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 10. 1 JN 4:7-16. MT 11:29ab. MT 11:25-30.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16: Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 21:17-29. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 11 and 16. JN 13:34. MT 5:43-48.

SUNDAY, JUNE 21: Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 2 CHR 24:17-25. PS 89:4-5, 29-30, 31-32, 33-34. LK 2:19. LK 2:41-51.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24: Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist Vigil. JER 1:4-10. PS 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15ab and 17. 1 PT 1:8-12. See JN 1:7; LK 1:17. LK 1:5-17.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17: Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 KGS 2:1, 6-14. PS 31:20, 21, 24. JN 14:23. MT 6:1-6, 16-18.

MONDAY, JUNE 22: Monday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop and confessor; Optional Memorial of Sts. John Fisher, bishop and martyr and Thomas More, martyr. 2 KGS 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18. PS 60:3, 4-5, 12-13. HEB 4:12. MT 7:1-5.

ister Suzanne Toolan wrote the hymn “I Am the Bread of Life” within a few years of my joining the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame. I belong to the very sisterhood whose gifted composer’s song from the “Bread of Life” discourse in John 6-7, is sung in churches all over the world in many languages. When we sing it in Burlingame at the Sunday Eucharist, or at a funeral Mass for one of our sisters, it has a special meaning because it’s “ours.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, famous Dominican theologian, author of theology volumes called the “Summa Theologica”, is lesser known as a poet and composer of a 1264 hymn titled by its first lines in SISTER ELOISE Latin, “Lauda Sion” (Praise, ROSENBLATT, RSM O Zion, your salvation). This “sequence” or hymn-poem for Corpus Christi is known as the “Pange Lingua” (Sing, my tongue).

A hymn carries a feeling a catechism lesson doesn’t. There’s a big difference between thinking about theological issues when I recite the Nicene Creed at Mass, in contrast to singing those same words during rehearsal of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” or Mozart’s “Mass in C” with the San Jose Symphonic Choir.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

ELOISE ROSENBLATT, RSM, is Sister of Mercy and Ph.D. theologian, as well as an attorney in private practice in family law. She lives in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS

THURSDAY, JUNE 18: Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 48:1-14. PS 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7. ROM 8:15bc. MT 6:7-15.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19: Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. DT 7:6-11. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 10. 1 JN 4:7-16. MT 11:29ab. MT 11:25-30.

TUESDAY, JUNE 23: Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 KGS 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36. PS 48:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 10-11. JN 8:12. MT 7:6, 12-14.

THURSDAY, JUNE 25: Thursday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 KGS 24:8-17. PS 79:1b-2, 3-5, 8, 9. JN 14:23. MT 7:21-29.

FRIDAY, JUNE 26: Friday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, priest. 2 KGS 25:1-12. PS 137:12, 3, 4-5, 6. MT 8:17. MT 8:1-4.

SATURDAY, JUNE 27: Saturday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor. LAM 2:2, 10-14, 18-19. PS 74:1b-2, 3-5, 6-7, 20-21. MT 8:17. MT 8:5-17.

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Advice on prayer from an old master

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t the risk of being simplistic, I want to say something about prayer in a very simple way.

While doing doctoral studies, I had a professor, an elderly Augustine priest, who in his demeanor, speech and attitude, radiated wisdom and maturity. Everything about him bespoke integrity. You immediately trusted him, the wise old grandfather of storybooks.

One day in class he spoke of his own prayer life. As with everything else he shared, there were no filters, only honesty and humility. I don’t FATHER RON recall his exact words, but I ROLHEISER remember well the essence of what he said and it has stayed with me for the nearly 40 years since I had the privilege of being in his class.

Here’s what he shared: Prayer isn’t easy because we’re always tired, distracted, busy, bored and caught up in so many things that it’s hard to find the time and energy to center ourselves on God for some moments. So, this is what I do: No matter what my day is like, no matter what’s on my mind, no matter what my distractions and temptations are, I am faithful to this: Once a day I pray the Our Father as best I can from where I am at that moment. Inside of everything that’s going on inside me and around me that day, I pray the Our Father, asking God to hear me from inside of all the distractions and temptations that are besetting me. It’s the best I can do. Maybe it’s

a bare minimum and I should do more and should try to concentrate harder, but at least I do that. And sometimes it’s all I can do, but I do it every day, as best I can. It’s the prayer Jesus told us to pray.

His words might sound simplistic and minimalistic. Indeed the church challenges us to make the Eucharist the center of our prayer lives and to make a daily habit of meditation and private prayer. As well, many classical spiritual writers tell us that we should set aside an hour every day for private prayer, and many contemporary spiritual writers challenge us to daily practice centering prayer or some other form of contemplative prayer.

Where does that leave our old Augustinian theologian and his counsel that we pray one sincere Our Father each day – as best we can?

Well, none of this goes against what he so humbly shared. He would be the first to agree that the Eucharist should be the center of our prayer lives, and he would agree as well with both the classical spiritual writers who advise an hour of private prayer a day, and the contemporary authors who challenge us to do some form of contemplative prayer daily, or at least habitually. But he would say this: At one of those times in the day (ideally at the Eucharist or while praying the Liturgy of the Hours but at least sometime during your day) when you’re saying the Our Father, pray it with as much sincerity and focus as you can muster at the moment (“as best you can”) and know that, no matter your distractions at the moment, it’s what God is asking from you. And it’s enough.

His advice has stayed with me through the years and though I say a number of Our Fathers every day,

I try, at least in one of them, to pray the Our Father as best I can, fully conscious of how badly I am doing it. What a challenge and what a consolation!

The challenge is to pray an Our Father each day, as best we can. As we know, that prayer is deeply communitarian. Every petition in it is plural – “our,” “we,” “us” – there’s no “I” in the Our Father. Moreover, all of us are priests from our baptism and inherent in the covenant we made then, we are asked daily to pray for others, for the world. For those who cannot participate in the Eucharist daily and for those who do not pray the Liturgy of the Hours, praying the Our Father is your eucharistic prayer, your priestly prayer for others.

And this is the consolation: none of us is divine.

We’re all incurably human which means that many times, perhaps most times, when we’re trying to pray we’ll find ourselves beset with everything from tiredness, to boredom, to impatience, to planning tomorrow’s agenda, to sorting through the hurts of the day, to stewing about who we’re angry at, to dealing with erotic fantasies. Our prayer seldom issues forth from a pure heart but normally from a very earthy one.

But, and this is the point, its very earthiness is also its real honesty. Our restless, distracted heart is also our existential heart and is the existential heart of the world. When we pray from there, we are (as the classical definition of prayer would have it) lifting mind and heart to God. Try, each day, to pray one sincere Our Father! As best you can!

the present administration. I am writing to urge you, as a church leader, to convey my strong objection to this failure in judgment on the part of those Cardinals.

Instead, we have a better example in the actions of a modern saint in Archbishop Oscar Romero who spoke to the corrupt power of the military in El Salvador.

Shannon Close Griscom Palo Alto

As for me, at 89 years old, I have a strong excuse to not attend. Oh, I know my obligation. I shall send an envelope by mail because I cannot reach the collection basket.

For pastors who feel they must open, even for 100 people, please keep this in mind. We should keep records of every person who attends and the day of attending for at least the next three months. At the end of the three months we can look back and know for sure if we were the cause of our parishioner’s illnesses. Hopefully, the answer will be that no one who attended has become ill. But if that is not the case, we at least have traceability and a way to warn those who were there at the same time. I believe this is a minimal, essential, obligation for the church, as well as a way of providing the proof that we did nothing wrong.

Alex M. Saunders, M.D. St. Charles Parish Redwood City

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

LETTERS Dove and serpent

Re “Social justice leaders urge cardinal to step back from praise of Trump,” May 7, 2020: Jesus cautions us to be as innocent as doves and wily as serpents. By inference he hopes we will not be so stupid as to smoke while filling the gas tank of our car or leave the electric power on while changing a broken light switch or squander the church’s prestige by giving fawning support to a ruthless narcissist. An over-eager lunge by a dove is the serpent’s fondest wish.

Brian Gagan San Francisco

Cardinal’s missed opportunity

I am writing to protest the message that emanated recently from key Catholic clergymen in their phone call with President Trump and their statements on Fox News. As a Catholic with more than 16 years of Catholic education, as well as a grounding in history, I am outraged that prominent leaders would so try to ingratiate themselves to a president who has consistently proved himself and his administration to be opposed to the basic values that I learned growing up as a Catholic.

The leaders on that phone call, especially Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, shocked many of their flock by flattering a president who is only interested in securing the “Catholic vote.” Dolan spoke of Trump in glowing praise: “I really salute his leadership,’ Dolan said, and when Trump said that Dolan was “a great friend of mine,” the cardinal responded, “the feelings are mutual, sir.” Really? Does Cardinal Dolan really consider himself an admiring friend of a president who regularly denigrates people of color, immigrants, women, the free press and anyone who disagrees with him? Why does he praise a president who calls demonstrators with Nazi emblems, Confederate flags, and anti-Semetic chants, “very good people.” We who have studied church history would hope that our present leaders not repeat the sad legacy of Catholic leaders in the not distant past, church leaders who have turned a blind eye to priestly sexual abuse, to silent support for dictators and tyrants, and to similar pastoral failures.

Instead, what a strong statement it would have been for Cardinal Dolan to express his hope that Trump would find compassion and support for immigrants and the poor, that as president he would cease trying to undermine health care accessibility for the poor, that he would seek to find solutions to the global threat of climate change in alliance with other nations. As a major church leader, Dolan could have taken a significant stand against the racism, xenophobia and cruelty of

The best president

President Trump is by far the best president the U.S. has ever had. He is pro -life and respects our great Constitution. Liberal, “so-called” Catholics and other enemies of the church, support abortion and Marxism, and seem to have no problem destroying our country with phony climate change charges, Marxism, and propaganda from the far left.

Unfortunately, our church is being infiltrated by these misguided souls. They will ultimately face our dear Lord’s wrath. God is in charge and bless Donald Trump.

Carol J. Marshall San Carlos

Wisdom of Leviticus

A brief, cynical, look at Leviticus 13, 45-46 may help us understand why the current urge to return to church community is misguided. Anyone with a chronic skin disease was “unclean” with leprosy. We now know dozens of not infectious skin conditions that Leviticus considered “unclean.” But the Levites were right in thinking, “Why take a chance? Even one person with true leprosy living in close quarters in our tents would create a disaster!” Best to isolate, and to teach that the victims be willing to isolate themselves.

Today, we do not know who is unclean. At least 35% of COVID-19 virus carriers never show one symptom.

Yet they are almost as likely to pass the virus on as the patient struggling for every breath. Why take the chance for one sneeze in a church causing a disaster?

Here is advice for any brave soul who finds herself in church in the next three months. Sit as close to the air conditioner blowing into the church as possible.

That way the air that blows past your eyes is least likely to be a concern. Such probabilities can be calculated, and you need to become aware of them.

Science, not emotion, should drive reopening

After reading the letters (May 21 issue) demanding the reopening of the churches, I am disappointed and disheartened. It is the same when I hear about people demanding for hair salons, fitness centers and nail salons to be reopened. I know it is not the same thing, but in all these cases including reopening the churches, people are confined in an indoor space for a length of time. (This is very different from going to a grocery or hardware store where the visit is short.)

I wonder where is the patience; where is the value of the common good? The true severity of COVID-19 and the lockdown are based on science. Such decisions are based on critical thinking and not emotion. How is it that people cannot understand that the virus is easily transmitted from person to person? There must be little concern that people at Mass can become carriers of the disease and pass it along to others. What is the value of a human life? Why are people willing to take risks for themselves or their loved ones just to return to church for a face-to-face Mass? Have American Catholics forgotten how to pray at home? And have we become a society that is not willing to sacrifice what we are accustomed to for the benefit of others?

Richard Morasci San Francisco

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PUBLIC MASSES: Make a return under pandemic guidelines FROM PAGE 1

that and very anxious to receive the Eucharist again. This is their first opportunity in almost three months, and the response certainly speaks to their hunger for this,” he said.

Parishes that are reopening are following guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, statewide recommendationst on religious gatherings adopted by the county, and parish safety protocols issued by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

California state health guidelines currently require religious gatherings be limited to 100 people or 25% of a building’s capacity, whichever is lower.

Religious congregations must develop a COVID-19 prevention plan that covers physical distancing, at-risk populations, face mask usage and cleaning and disinfection routines.

Three weeks after a county adopts the guidelines, California’s Department of Public Health will coordinate with county health officers to reassess the restrictions and whether they can be further lifted.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco has also issued safety protocols for the duration of the pandemic restrictions.

Archdiocesan Catholics are dispensed from their Sunday Mass obligation, and high-risk populations or those who feel ill are encouraged to stay home as well.

Among the changes are mandatory

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Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney distributes Communion after Mass at Our Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame on June 7. Archdiocesan and county protocols to lessen the risk of spreading coronavirus will change how parish Masses look for the foreseeable future. face masks, no shaking hands during the sign of peace, no choirs or congregational singing, no hymnals or missalettes, shortened Masses, reservation systems to observe attendance limits and distributing the Eucharist after Mass has concluded. Parishes in San Mateo County are also collecting informed consent forms from parishioners at the recommendation of the county health officer.

Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney,

pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame, said his parishioners had adjusted quickly to the new instructions and were happy to return but he hoped that the changes would be very temporary.

With muted congregational responses and no contact between people, “The liturgies are functional but without spirit or energy – there’s a sadness about it that hopefully will go away as greater freedom comes and there’s the

possibility to feel a sense of community again. It’s a good start but I hope it doesn’t stay this way for too long,” he said.

Even after public Masses resume, St. Raymond Parish in Menlo Park will keep livestreaming Mass and its other devotions like the rosary and Scripture reading.

Dominican Father Jerome Cudden, pastor of St. Raymond, said the online offerings would continue because “some people won’t be able to attend in person, some people can’t come out, and my mom in New Jersey likes to watch it.”

Father Cudden said reopening in June while coronavirus continues to threaten public health will present unique challenges for reconnecting the parish community. With the state loosening restrictions, some parishioners could be away traveling. Elderly parishioners, on the other hand, could find it hard to reconnect because of cautions around getting sick. As a pastor, he said, the question is “how do I rebuild community when people are out of town or don’t want to come out because of the virus?”

The state guidelines for reopening religious services were issued May 25

by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Marin County allowed outdoor religious gatherings to occur starting June 6 and San Francisco will permit religious services to resume June 15.

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As Latin America becomes center of pandemic, churches confront hunger BARBARA FRASER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LIMA, Peru – Diego Ramirez, a single father in a rural village in southern Guatemala, worked in a restaurant and kept a chicken farm, selling the birds in a market to support his three daughters.

Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and in April, Guatemalan officials ordered a lockdown in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease, which had arrived with a resident who returned home from Europe.

With the restaurant and market shuttered, Ramirez is now selling off his chickens, one by one, to keep the family afloat. Facing an uncertain future, his faith keeps him going.

“God alone knows what will happen with this pandemic,” he said. “I know it will pass – it will just take time.”

Latin America is now the epicenter of the pandemic, with Brazil leading in cases and deaths, followed by Peru. The region has reported nearly 1 million cases and some 50,000 deaths, although offi-

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Diego Ramirez, a single father of three teenage girls in Guatemala, stands among his family and chickens in this undated photo. With the restaurant and market where Ramirez had been working shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic, he is now selling off his chickens, one by one, to keep his family financially afloat. Facing an uncertain future, his faith keeps him going. cials say the real figures are probably higher.

With the health crisis has come an economic crisis in a region where millions of people labor in informal

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With entire countries in lockdown in an effort to avoid overwhelming hospitals with COVID-19 patients, those workers saw their income vanish, followed by their scant savings.

Argentina’s lockdown, one of the toughest quarantines in the hemisphere, has lasted more than 70 days and was scheduled to be lifted June 8. Church officials have backed the strict measures, despite calls from opposition politicians to restart the economy.

“We have to make health the priority (because) the vulnerable feel the greatest impact,” said Father Miguel Angel Moreyra, parish vicar at the St. Cajetan shrine in Buenos Aires, where people in search of work go to pray.

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LATIN AMERICA: Becomes center of pandemic, churches confront hunger FROM PAGE 13

their churches into places where the elderly can self-isolate.

“The biggest problem we have is the lack of work and hunger,” said Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia of San Justo, in suburban Buenos Aires. He said his diocesan soup kitchen now serves 11,000 meals daily, an elevenfold increase from pre-pandemic levels.

Complicating matters, Argentina must renegotiate its international debt, having just defaulted for the ninth time in its history.

“When this pandemic is over, the lack of work, lack of business activity and debt are going to provoke a social and economic collapse in Argentina,” Bishop Garcia said.

Mexico planned to reopen its economy June 1, but COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to increase, and critics say the country is undercounting the lives lost. The country has recorded more than 9,000 COVID-19 deaths, according to the health secretariat, which originally predicted a death toll of about 6,000.

Priests have questioned Mexico’s health policy, noting that the country responded slowly and never imposed a strict quarantine.

Government officials said they wanted to avoid hurting poor people working in the informal economy.

The official response also promised “austerity” and government cuts rather than economic stimulus, leaving millions not enrolled in social programs to fend for themselves.

“If we had had a real quarantine of three weeks ... this would have been controlled,” said Father Rogelio Narvaez, national director of Caritas, which has organized programs to feed the hungry and listen to people suffering psychologically.

The country now confronts a “crisis of hunger” and collapsed economy, he added.

Colombia, with 28,000 COVID-19 cases, has so far been spared some of the problems faced by neighbors like Brazil and Peru. But social distancing and lockdowns have taken

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Venezuelan migrant Alejandro Romero and his partner Erica Sequera pose for a photo May 29, 2020, after receiving a free food package outside of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Bogota.

Migrants have been hit hard economically by Colombia’s COVID-19 lockdown as they lose their jobs and struggle to pay rent. a toll, with unemployment doubling to 20% in April, according to government figures.

Construction sites, factories and some shops have been allowed to reopen, but many people still struggle to make a living.

With live music venues closed and no one hiring musicians for parties, mariachi singer Maximo Gonzalez and his five-member band walk residential streets in Bogota. They play in front of apartment buildings, hoping residents will throw them tips from above.

“We’re professional musicians,” Gonzalez said. “But we have no other source of income now. The only thing we can do is entertain people at their homes and rely on their collaboration.”

Others have fared worse. Venezuelan migrant Alejandro Romero peddled sweets and cigarettes on Bogota’s streets before the pandemic, but police confiscated his wares when they saw him selling during the recent lockdown. Now he roams the city’s streets with his wife and

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“The toughest thing is coming up with rent money,” Romero said as he waited for a free food package outside Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Bogota. “But, thankfully, there are humble people with good hearts who have helped us out.”

In some places, neighbors have joined to face the crisis together.

In El Salvador, senior citizens fear the virus, but they also fear being an economic burden to children who have lost their income during the lockdown that began in March, said Yessenia Alfaro, 43, coordinator in that country for Unbound, a Catholic-founded nonprofit organization that works with families around the world.

Mothers who have children are volunteering to look after senior neighbors who do not have family nearby, checking on their welfare and providing food or helping them get medicines, Alfaro said.

Families in a low-income neighborhood on a hill overlooking Lima, Peru’s capital, have organized to

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Peruvians are allowed to leave their homes only to buy food or medicine. Because only about half of the country’s households have refrigerators, however, people in poorer neighborhoods must buy food more frequently, and crowded markets have become flashpoints for spreading the virus.

To limit exposure, some neighborhoods have chosen several people to shop for multiple families, Lopez said. Families also pool their supplies, with several people cooking food that is then delivered to the homes to keep contact minimal.

In Venezuela, malnutrition is on the rise as the lockdown has left thousands of people without work. In April, 18% of the children weighed by a Caritas health program were severely malnourished, said Janeth Marquez, Caritas Venezuela director.

Venezuela has had relatively few coronavirus cases, because few international flights arrive and because gasoline shortages have limited people’s ability to travel within the country. But Marquez warned that that contagion could pick up as people go back to work.

That could be devastating in the country, where hospitals have been underfunded for years, are short of personnel and frequently suffer from power and water shortages.

Our Lady of Chiquinquira Parish in Caracas has been handing out packages of grains and rice to people who used to go to the parish food pantry. The church is closed to avoid contagion, but the pastor, Father Luis Salazar, broadcasts his Masses through Instagram live. That has helped him stay in touch with parishioners while other priests struggle to reach the faithful.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Called ‘pandemic within a pandemic’ FROM PAGE 8

manifold,” Sister Lucy Kurien, founder and director of Maher, a community and interfaith organization for abused and destitute women and children, told UCA News.

The U.S.’s Kluge said the U.N. Population Fund “has sounded the alarm loud and clear – if lockdowns were to continue for six months, we would expect an extra 31 million cases of gender-based violence globally. Beyond the figures, only a fraction of cases is ever reported.”

Kluge said evidence shows that interpersonal violence tends to increase during every type of emergency.

He said support for government domestic violence victims “should be considered a moral obligation to make sure services to address violence are available and resourced, and expand hotlines and online services.

He said communities and the public should not consider violence a private matter but should stay in touch, contact and support your neighbors, acquaintances, families and friends.

In Thailand, recorded cases of domestic violence have nearly doubled in the wake of a nationwide lockdown and an economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s Social Development and Human Security Ministry said, the Union of Catholic Asian News reported May 11.

Between the beginning of February and the end of April, nearly 500 incidents of domestic abuse and violence were recorded on the ministry’s hotlines. The rate is considerably higher than during the same period last year, and the actual rate of domestic violence is likely to be far higher than the official tally because many cases go unreported.

“Women and children were usually the victims of violence and most complaints stemmed from incidents of assault or arguments related to extramarital affairs and jealousy,” a Thai newspaper reported, citing officials.

Mental stress exacerbated by the economic slump and stay-at home rules have been highlighted as the main causes behind the worsening domestic abuse.

Over the past two months an estimated seven million Thais have lost their jobs. Mass unemployment has pushed millions of families to the edge of dire poverty and even starvation in a nation with few social security benefits for the poor.

In India, church leaders, activists and lawyers urged the Indian government to take action after a state-run helpline received more than 92,000 calls from women and children facing domestic abuse during the coronavirus lockdown, UCA News reported April 15.

The South African Council of Churches said the cases of domestic abuse in the region had reached frightening levels, with the survivors living in lockdown with their abusers.

On May 9, the council released a pastoral letter in which it urged all its members, including the

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Catholic bishops’ conference, to form ecumenical family support units in all communities.

Bishop Victor Phalana of Klerksdorp said the bishops’ justice and peace commission has moved to focus on changing men’s behavior in efforts to tame the violence.

In Harare, Zimbabwe, the Jesuits’ Silveira House is using national radio to urge an end to domestic violence, said Yvonne Fildah Takawira-Matwaya, who chairs the Zimbabwe bishops’ justice and peace commission.

Zimbabwe’s lockdown began March 30. In two weeks, more than 800 cases were reported in Harare, the capital. This was way above the normal 500 cases reported in each month, according to the social services organization Musasa Project.

In May, Bishop George Zumaire Lungu, president of the Zambian bishops’ conference, urged the

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Activists in Paris denounce the increase in violence against women May 11, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. In early April, U.N. SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres called for “peace in homes around the world” in response to a “horrifying surge in domestic violence” due to stay-at-home orders. Left, a woman walks out of her family home in Harare, Zimbabwe, May 9, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Church officials and experts say domestic violence in Africa is rising during government-enforced measures to fight COVID-19.

country’s Christians to shun violence and use the lockdown period to consolidate family ties.

“This is the time when families need to sober up, unite and allow the nation to fight the common enemy, COVID-19,” the bishop said.

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Sisters of Providence mark jubilees Sisters of Providence whose service included ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco are celebrating jubilee anniversaries as women religious.

Sister Nancy Reynolds, a canonist, entered the Sisters of Providence in 1960 professing first vows on Aug. 15, 1963, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1968.

Sister Nancy served as associate director of the Department of Canon Law of the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 1987-2001.

Sister Nancy is a native of Indiana and holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. She completed canon law studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In 2001, she became a member of the Congregation’s Leadership Team serving for 10 years. Since

2013, Sister Nancy has been a canonical consultant to religious congregations.

Sister Edna Scheller is celebrating 70 years as a Sister of Providence.

She currently ministers in residential services at her congregation’s Providence Hall at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.

Sister Edna is a former prinSister Edna cipal of Good Shepherd School Scheller, SP in Pacifica.

Sister Edna entered the congregation in 1950 professing first vows on Aug. 15, 1952 and perpetual vows on Aug. 15, 1957.

Sister Edna graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-

Woods College with an undergraduate degree in education later earning a graduate degree in education from Indiana University. In addition to Good Shepherd, she has taught at schools in states including Indiana, Illinois, and North Carolina.

The Sisters of Providence are Sister Nancy a congregation of nearly 250 Reynolds, SP women religious. They have their motherhouse at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, located just northwest of downtown Terre Haute, Indiana. The Sisters of Providence were founded by St. Mother Theodore Guerin at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1840.

knew her and by the Sisters of the Holy Names and their affiliates.

A funeral Mass of Resurrection will be celebrated in Sister Herbert’s memory at a future date. Gifts in her memory may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Names, P.O. Box 907, Los Gatos, CA 95031 or on-line at www.snjmca.org.

Her educational ministry then expanded to the University of San Francisco where she became an associate professor of education and then director of the Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership known proudly as ICEL. After 30 years at USF, Sister Mary Peter retired in 2006.

“Sister Mary Peter had a passion for the critical role of Catholic education in the church which she shared through her teaching and educational leadership, especially in the National Catholic Education Foundation,” the sisters said in a statement.

“Her influence in Catholic education and research extended from the West Coast, across the United States to countries around the world where her students led Catholic educational institutions.”

Survivors include Sister Mary Peter’s sisters Patricia Traviss and Beverly Traviss Thomas, as well as nephews and a niece.

Due to COVID-19 protocols, the sisters’ motherhouse is closed.

A livestreamed funeral Mass was celebrated May 28 from the Motherhouse Chapel with interment at the congregation cemetery, God’s Acre.

Remembrances may be made to the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont 94539.

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Sister Mary Herbert Raphael, SNJM, (Margaret Elayne Raphael) died May 20, 2020. She was almost 103 years old and a professed Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary for 84 years.

Sister Mary Herbert spent over 65 years ministering in formal education. She started at the elementary level for 16 years Sister Mary beginning in Los Angeles and Herbert Raphael, Santa Monica before coming to SNJM St. Cecilia, San Francisco, St. Francis de Sales, Oakland and St. Anselm, San Anselmo. For nearly 50 years she taught, was dean of studies, dean of students or registrar at Holy Names High School, Oakland; St. Andrew, Pasadena; Marin Catholic, Kentfield; and Ramona High School in Alhambra.

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Tanzanian Catholic diocese works to protect girls from abuse LYNN F. MONAHAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

When she was only 8 years old, Ghati was sold by her older brother to a 55-year-old man, who put the orphan on a motorcycle and rode to his house near Musoma, Tanzania. There, the man raped her.

After two weeks of daily assaults, Ghati escaped while the man was working in his fields. On the path to the local village, she met a young woman and appealed for help. The woman, who had legal training, advised Ghati to return to the man’s house and wait until she could come for her that evening. When the woman arrived that night, she brought the police, who confronted the man. “Oh, no,” the man said. “She’s just my house girl.”

“But you call me your wife,” Ghati said. The man was arrested and eventually sentenced to prison.

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Young women are seen in the garden at the Jipe Moyo center in Musoma, Tanzania. Jipe Moyo, a program of the Musoma Diocese, cares for children who have been living on the street or have been abused.

identity, was taken to the city of Musoma, on the shore of Lake Victoria, and placed in a shelter under the care of the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa.

“What the center does is support vulnerable children,” said Sister Annunciata Chacha, director of the shelter called Jipe Moyo, a Swahili term meaning To Give Heart. Jipe Moyo, a program of the Musoma Diocese, cares for children who have been living on the street; children who run away from domestic violence; children who flee from female genital mutilation (FGM), which is sometimes called female circumcision; and girls escaping from child marriages.

Jipe Moyo shelters 70 minors, most of whom are girls, some as young as 2 years old, who’ve been orphaned or abandoned.

The center’s location in north central Tanzania is no coincidence. The Mara region of Tanzania, of which Musoma is the capital, has some of that country’s highest rates of child marriage and female genital mutilation, even though both are technically illegal in Tanzania.

In the Mara region, 55% of marriages involve minors under the legal age of

18; many of those involve girls as young as 12 or 13, said Elizabeth Mach, a Maryknoll lay missioner who works as assistant director of the office of planning and development for the Musoma Diocese. “So we have child marriages, we have domestic abuse, we have kids running from FGM, we have trafficking of kids, we’ve got everything, and it all comes under that one big umbrella of gender-based violence,” Mach said.

Gender-based violence, mostly against women in various forms, occurs around the world, including in the U.S., where underage marriage remains an issue.

Mach credits Musoma’s Bishop Michael Msonganzila with leading the effort to counter female genital mutilation in the area.

When he was installed in 2008, he urged elders in the region to end the practice, and he inaugurated rescue camps to prevent girls from being cut while home during school breaks. More than 600 girls are now under protection.

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se remonta al principio, cuando el Espíritu de Dios se movía sobre las aguas en la creación del mundo. En el lenguaje y la mentalidad bíblica, “espíritu” es sinónimo de “aliento” o “soplo”. Qué contraste: cuando celebramos la infusión del aliento de vida de Dios en la Iglesia, a un hombre indefenso se le quita el soplo de la vida.

George Floyd es el último y más descarado ejemplo de un patrón de injusticias y discriminación contra la gente de color en nuestro país. La violencia en respuesta a este acto de violencia revela hasta qué punto la indignación por esto se ha vuelto insoportable. Y sin embargo, no cambia la verdad perenne de que la violencia engendra violencia.

Las numerosas protestas pacíficas que se han llevado a cabo honran la vida de George Floyd y denuncian el racismo que se ha vuelto sistemático en nuestra sociedad. Pero debemos entender la necesidad de un cambio “sistémico” en un sentido amplio, ya que el cambio estructural por sí solo no llegará muy lejos. Necesitamos un cambio cultural, una transformación de la mentalidad cultural, en última instancia, una metanoia espiritual. Y ese cambio de mente, corazón y alma no puede comenzar sin la admisión del pecado, tanto personal como social.

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Julio Escobar dirige el rezo del rosario en teleconferencia desde su casa, el 25 de mayo.

Bernadette Sandoval conduce el rezo del rosario por teléfono el 10 de mayo desde su casa, para honrar a las madres de la Jornada del Rosario en el Día de las Madres.

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Margaret Sandoval, reza el rosario por teleconferencia el 10 de mayo en la Jornada del Rosario.

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La oficina de Vida y Dignidad Humana de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco comenzó la Jornada del Rosario el 16 de marzo por teleconferencia para ayudar a las personas en cuarentena por COVID-19.

Pero, ¿Qué pasará cuando las iglesias vuelvan a abrir para las misas y otros servicios? El coordinador de la Jornada Rosario, Aprildel 5 and 12, Julio 2020 Escobar anunció que el rosario continuará, y además lo ha unido al grupo de oración por las personas víctimas homicidios.

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De las personas que regularmente se reúnen a rezar el rosario cada noche a las 7 p.m., Jacinto conoce a dos, a las demás personas las conoce por sus May voces 3, cuando ingresan al final para hacer 10 and 17, 2020 peticiones. Pero ha sido tan fuerte el sentido de comunidad que “siento que los conozco a todos”, Adijo.

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Sin embargo, los Sandoval se negaron a abortar a Margaret, y Haydee reclamó que dejaran de intentar persuadirla porque ella estaba disfrutando de su embarazo y lo iba a llevar hasta el final. La niña nació saludable.

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Caridades Católicas espera atender a unos 30 mil indocumentados para ayuda por COVID-19 LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Unos 30 mil inmigrantes del Área de la Bahía podrán beneficiarse del estímulo económico del estado de California para personas indocumentadas a través del programa Asistencia para Inmigrantes Afectados por la Pandemia de Covid-19, (Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants, DRAI) administrado por Caridades Católicas para los condados de la Bahía.

Caridades Católicas, una de las 12 agencias designadas por el estado para procesar las aplicaciones comenzó el 18 de mayo a recibir las solicitudes de los inmigrantes indocumentados del Área de la Bahía y continuará hasta el 30 de junio de este año, mientras tengan fondos.

El estado de California presupuestó 75 millones de dólares para esta ayuda que beneficiaría a unos 150 mil californianos adultos indocumentados en todo el estado. De estos fondos, 15 millones de dólares fueron destinados para los condados de Alameda, Contra Costa, Marín, San Francisco, San Mateo y Santa Clara en el Área de la Bahía, dijo Diana Otero, directora de operaciones y servicios de apoyo del Centro de Servicios Legales y Apoyo para Inmigración de Caridades Católicas de San Francisco.

Caridades Católicas de San Francisco habilitó la nueva línea telefónica directa (415) 324-1011 a partir del martes 19 de mayo, como el único número para ingresar y llenar la solicitud.

Otero dijo que aunque los recursos son limitados (los 15 millones de dólares) la posibilidad de que “se agoten en la primera semana o en la segunda semana es prácticamente imposible”.

De acuerdo a la cantidad de personas recibiendo las llamadas y procesando la información de los solicitantes, se estima que los fondos van a estar disponibles durante las seis semanas que se había calculado, dijo Otero.

El solicitante puede adelantar

Diana Otero hace un llamado a las personas que van a solicitar esta ayuda del estado para que cuando llamen, tengan a mano los documentos con los que creen que pueden demostrar su identidad, el domicilio y la forma cómo han sido afectados por COVID-19, dijo.

Es importante que tomen fotos de los documentos antes mencionados. Si tienen los recursos tecnológicos pueden convertir las fotos en documentos de PDF para que las personas que verifican la información puedan leerlos claramente.

Los solicitantes deben tener un correo electrónico para mandar los documentos. A las personas que no tienen uno, Otero les recomienda que pidan ayuda para abrir una cuenta de correo electrónico o que busquen algún familiar o amigo que tenga uno para que puedan enviarlos.

El proceso de solicitud se puede hacer en un día y consta de dos partes, primero ingresar por una llamada telefónica para una entrevista.

El segundo paso es enviar las pruebas de los documentos legibles al siguiente enlace Ahope@ catholiccharitiessf.org.

El tiempo de espera para que los solicitantes reciban la ayuda a través de una tarjeta de débito con la suma de 500 dólares por persona podría tardar unos diez días después de la aprobación de la solicitud, dijo Otero al San Francisco Católico.

Si en una familia hay más de una persona que califica para la ayuda, cada una puede recibir una tarjeta de débito con 500 dólares, pero no más de 1.000 dólares por familia.

Otero aseguró que el programa va bien y Caridades Católicas continuará trabajando en coordinación con el estado para hacer llegar la ayuda por COVID-19 a los inmigrantes indocumentados que califiquen para recibirlo y que hayan podido ingresar a la línea directa y presentar los documentos correctos.

“Nosotros seguiremos con las instrucciones del estado. Ellos nos encargaron la tarea de ofrecer esta ayuda a la comunidad. A pesar de que es una tarea muy compleja porque estamos hablando de un número muy grande en un pequeño tiempo seguiremos todos los días aquí dando lo mejor de nosotros”, dijo Otero.

La subdirectora de comunicaciones y mercadeo de Caridades Católicas de San Francisco, Liza Cardinal

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Hand pidió a los solicitantes tener mucha paciencia porque la cantidad de llamadas es muy alta. Agregó que no se está recibiendo solicitudes en las oficinas ni a través de otras líneas de Caridades Católicas.

A lo largo del estado de California fueron designadas las siguientes 12 organizaciones sin fines de lucro para recibir las solicitudes,

California Human Development Corporation, para el Norte de California, Catholic Charities of California, para el Área de la Bahía, Mixteco/ Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) y Community Action Board Santa Cruz, para la Costa Central, United Farm Workers Foundation (UFWF) y California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF), para el Valle Central, Asian Americans Advancing Justice y Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights – CHIRLA para Los Ángeles y Orange, Central American Resource Center - CARECEN para Los Ángeles, San Bernardino Community Service Center y TODEC Legal Center Perris, para Inland Empire y Service of San Diego, para San Diego.

La Coalición para los Derechos Humanos de los Inmigrantes (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, CHIRLA), del condado de Los Ángeles y Orange anunció en un comunicado de prensa al final del día 18 de mayo cuándo se abrió la solicitud de aplicaciones que había recibido 1 millón 137 mil llamadas telefónicas, de las cuales había atendido 668 solicitantes el primer día.

La primera familia en recibir ayuda en la línea directa fue una compuesta por el esposo, un residente permanente y la esposa indocumentada quienes trabajan como vendedores ambulantes de mazorcas de maíz y no habían podido trabajar en tres meses.

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