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Catholic detention ministry volunteers honored CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

For some, “visiting the prisoner” may not be the most instinctive of the seven corporal acts of mercy. This is not the case for more than 100 Catholics recognized by the restorative justice ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at a service appreciation awards dinner April 25 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Alone or in groups of other volunteers, they visit city, county and state prision, and juvenile justice centers to read, to pray, to sing, but mostly just to be with prisoners as they struggle with the consequences of their actions, and the uncertainty of their circumstances and human worth.

While Catholic San Francisco is not able to tell the stories of each of the individuals honored for their work in Catholic detention ministry, the following profiles honor the spirit of all who spend time with the incarcerated and reveal that the decision is often a personal one driven by an abiding faith.

Ramon and Patricia Marquez

Ramon and Patricia Marquez’ youngest child Michael, was by their account, a compassionate young man who even from a young age saw others as human beings, not as their circumstances or problems.

“He was very protective and always wanted to do more for people,” Patricia Marquez told Catholic San Francisco. “When we saw an ad in the paper looking for foster families he asked, ‘why don’t we take in someone and I’ll share my room?’”

Their response to his murder at age 22 almost five years ago was to model the open heart he offered others during his life by becoming volunteers with Comunidad San Dimas, a Christian youth detention ministry served by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“My husband said, ‘let’s do this together,’” said Patricia, who was raised in St. Stephen Parish by her late parents Deacon Gary West and his

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Ramon considers the time he and his wife spend together with the incarcerated nothing short of a moral imperative of being Catholic.

“I’m just doing my little part,” he said, adding that “going to church on Sunday is not enough. Jesus calls us to act.”

He said he and his wife are sowing the seeds of hope and faith with them.

“They may not realize it now,” he said, “but as they grow older they may realize that a little seed was planted by someone in their heart and in their mind.”

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is urging the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to write letters to members of the California state Assembly in opposition to SB 360, a proposed law that threatens the seal of confession.

Archbishop “SB 360 would take Cordileone away from priests and from everyone who works with priests in parishes and Church agencies across the state the full right to confess their sins with the assurance of confidentiality,” the archbishop said in a letter to the faithful issued June 17 and intended for distribution at Masses the weekend of June 22-23.

SB 360 – which passed in the California Senate May 23 in a 30-2 vote – would force priests to disclose information about child sexual abuse that they learn when they are hearing another priest’s confession or when hearing the confession of a co-worker.

The bill is expected to have a vote in the Assembly in September.

“The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation is protected by the seal of confession,” the archbishop wrote.

“Under no circumstance can a priest disclose anything he hears during confession. This protection afforded to our Catholic people assures them that what they say in confession will never be revealed, so that they may have full confidence in attaining peace of conscience. It is a protection the Church has respected from time immemorial.

“Importantly,” the archbishop added,

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In response to the murder of their youngest child, Michael, five years ago, Ramon and Patricia Marquez became volunteers bringing compassion to youths in the juvenile justice system. “He was very protective and always wanted to do more for people,” Patricia Marquez told Catholic San Francisco.

‘We are part of one body. When one part hurts, we all suffer.’ wife Julie, and attended St. Emydius School and Mercy High School.

Two Mondays each month for the past three years, Patricia and Ramon, who go to Mass together at St. Stephen since Ramon’s conversion 10 years ago, pray with other volunteers before meeting the youth in an open recreation room at the juvenile justice center. They bring the upcoming Sunday’s readings and Gospel, music and a message of God’s forgiveness.

“We are part of one body and when one part hurts we all suffer,” said Patricia. “These young people need to know that they have dignity and value even when people look down on them.”

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2 ARCHDIOCESE NEED TO KNOW ARCHBISHOP TO LEAD VESPERS: On Friday, June 21, at 5:45 p.m., Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will lead vespers commemoration of Ss. Thomas More and John Fisher. The archbishop will invite Father Barouyr Shernezian, pastor of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church, to share his reflections on religious freedom and persecution. This event will take place at Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. The archbishop will then invite young adults to a reception at Steins Austrian Pub on Clement Street.

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Deacon Dana Perrigan

It’s been well over 50 years since Deacon Dana Perrigan was a wayward 14-year-old boy, angry and isolated in a cell at San Francisco Juvenile Hall.

He brings that boy and the man he became to his longtime role as a volunteer at Comunidad San Dimas, a Catholic ministry to incarcerated teenagers in San Francisco.

“I’m an old guy now, but it was one of the most grueling things I’ve ever experienced,” Perrigan told Catholic San Francisco. “My heart goes out to those kids because I know what they are going through.”

Ordained into the permanent diaconate in 2012 after a career as a journalist and currently assigned as Catholic DEACON DANA PERRIGAN ESPERANZA NAVAS chaplain to San Francisco’s youth detention ministry, Perrigan began “saving” him after he was released volunteering at Comunidad San Dimas and to sit and talk to them about what from juvenile detention. With their as part of the diaconate formation the Scripture means to them. help and a conversion experience, he process.

“I tell them that is important to look turned his life around.

For nine years he has been going for God,” she said. When they approach “What these kids need is what we all three days a week to share biblical their release date she tells them that need,” he said. “But they are really up readings, play guitar and sing songs, “if they do not have a plan they can fall talk and simply establish a relationship against it, statistically. The goal is to again.” give them some hope for their lives.” of mutual trust.

Being a restorative justice volunteer “It helps a lot when I say, I was sitting is something that “gives me life,” Navas where you are,” he said. “The kids’ ears said, and keeps her positive despite the Esperanza Navas really perk up and they start to ask Esperanza Navas, a parishioner of St. loss of her son. questions because I’m not just some She said she has always felt safe and Peter Parish in the Mission District, beguy coming in preaching at them and never felt threatened by any of the gan volunteering with Comunidad San telling them how they need to act.” inmates.

Dimas, a Catholic detention ministry He said the incarcerated youth are “Sometimes I am in a room alone for incarcerated youth, after her only predominantly African-American or with six young men, and I am not son was killed.

Latino andChurch come from impoverished afraid,” she said.

That was 18 years ago.

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San Dimas before he died and Navas Some of the youth ask Perrigan to “The reward is so enormous that one wanted to continue doing “positive come to court dates with them because does not feel tired of doing it,” she said. things” in his memory. they “don’t have anyone who can step Navas visits the juvenile detention up for them,” he said. center San Francisco each Sunday to LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO EDITOR CONTRIBUTED TO 5 locations in in California He credits his own grandparents for bring young inmates the daily readings THIS STORY.

‘What these kids need is what we all need.’

‘TOGETHER IN HOLINESS’: The St. John Paul II Foundation will hold its fourth annual “Together in Holiness” marriage conference in the archdiocese, Saturday, Aug. 3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Belmont, in collaboration with the archdiocesan Office of Marriage & Family Life. To learn more visit togetherinholiness.org or email conference coordinator Susie Lopez at susie@forlifeandfamily.org.

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‘JUBILARIAN PRIESTS HONORED AT CATHEDRAL VESPERS’: The article erred on the ordination anniversaries of Father James Hagan and Father Thomas J. McElligott. Both celebrated their 50th.

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ARCHBISHOP: Urges faithful to write letters in opposition to SB 360 FROM PAGE 1

“this legislation will do nothing to protect children.

Priests and Church officials are already mandated reporters of sex abuse of children. In our Archdiocese and in all California dioceses, strict policies are already in place to protect children and to require and facilitate reporting to law enforcement of any suspected abuse. Any violation of a child is unconscionable, and the Church is committed to protecting all children from abuse of any kind.”

The archbishop’s letter supports a letter-writing campaign by the archdiocesan Office of Human Life & Dignity. Letters will be available for signature at Masses, to be collected later and delivered to Sacramento during Religious Freedom week. Parishioners may also send an electronic letter via a special web page at www.sfarch.org/KeepTheSeal.

With the archbishop’s letter, the San Francisco archdiocese joined the Los Angeles archdiocese and other dioceses in the state in a push to defeat the bill.

“Our lawmakers have good intentions. They want to prevent child abuse,” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in a letter he issued June 10 that was to be read at Masses the following weekend. “But there is no evidence that this legislation will do that.

Instead, it threatens a practice that is essential to our faith and religious identity.”

“We need your help to protect this sacrament of the church and to keep confession sacred,” he said. “And we need to continue our commitment to building a society where every child is loved, protected and safe.”

The Catholic Church in California set up a new website, KeepTheSeal.com, which is a hub that gives people easy access to materials about SB 360 as well as a way to send emails to their legislators.

As it is in many U.S. states, California requires priests, teachers, social workers, doctors and other professionals to be “mandated reporters.” That means by law they are required to report any case of suspected abuse to authorities.

There is currently an exemption in California law for any clergy member “who acquires knowledge or a reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect during a penitential communication.”

ARCHDIOCESE HAS NEW WEBPAGE ON SB 360

The Archdiocese of San Francisco has a new webpage with resources on Senate Bill 360, a proposed California law that would violate the seal of confession. The page may be accessed at Sfarchdiocese.org/keeptheseal.

The page includes video from Catholic priests on the seal of confession, a letter template for writing to your Assembly member, and suggested pulpit and bulletin announcements.

The state’s Catholic bishops have called the penitential seal “one of the most sacrosanct of Catholic beliefs.”

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Penitent Elizabeth E. Santamaria prays after confession May 8, 2019, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in East Palo Alto.

For Catholics, that penitential communication would be in the confessional.

“The sacrament of penance and reconciliation, what we call confession, was the first gift that Jesus gave to the world after rising from the dead,” Archbishop Gomez said in his letter. “On the first Easter night, he breathed his Holy Spirit into his apostles,

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“Jesus gave us this gift so that we could always come to him, personally, to confess our sins and seek his forgiveness and the grace to continue on our Christian journey.”

Catholics confess their sins not to a man but to God – the priest “stands in the place of Jesus,” he said, and the confessor’s words are “addressed to God.” As SB 360 made its way through the Legislature, the California bishops urged lawmakers to strengthen and clarify mandated reporting requirements while maintaining the traditional protections for “penitential communications.”

Before the measure went to the Senate floor, lawmakers “accepted several of the church’s recommendations to strengthen mandated reporting requirements for clergy,” as Archbishop Gomez noted in a May 20 statement.

But in the end he and other Catholic leaders were “deeply disappointed” by passage of the measure because under it priests would still have to break the seal of confession to disclose information about child sex abuse heard in the confessional.

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ST. HILARY ‘ANGELS’: Gabriel Project “angels” showered a local family with new items for their new baby boy at a shower held at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon May 26. The parents of Naum, who was born in January, were surrounded by love and baby products supplied by the parish’s Gabriel Project volKatrina, center, and baby boy Naum unteer angels. The with a St. Hilary’s Gabriel Project Gabriel Project is a ministry “angel,” who helped throw a shower for the new mother May 26 parish-based ministry to support in Tiburon. pregnant mothers in need and their unborn children.

Leaders of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County are pictured after the April 12 blessing of a new prayer and meditation room for formerly incarcerated women at the agency’s Catherine Center in San Mateo. The room was made possible by the Menlo Church, a neighboring evangelical church. From left are Mercy Sister Marguerite Buchanan, executive director of the SVdP of San Mateo County Jim Lonergan; Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan; former SVdP executive director Lorraine Moriarty; retired Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice; chaplain Martin Schurr and Catherine Center program director Vivian Clausing.

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Formerly incarcerated women hoping to turn their lives around at the St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County’s Catherine Center can now retreat to an in-house prayer and meditation room thanks to the generosity and goodwill of a local evangelical Presbyterian church.

“We always wanted a prayer room,” SVdP executive director Jim Lonergan told Catholic San Francisco.

The Catherine Center is a residential safe house in San Mateo for women recently released from prison. It’s a joint venture of the Sisters of Mercy headquartered in Burlingame and the SVdP of San Mateo County’s restorative justice ministry. The home offers residents of the yearlong program an opportunity to put their past behind them through staffguided spiritual and emotional development.

Lonergan said residents and staff had “made

do” by finding quiet spaces for prayer within the walls of Catherine Center until the Menlo Church, which does a volunteer project every year asked, “What do you need?”

The SVdP envisioned a former storage space at Catherine Center being converted into a prayer room.

“They went back and prayed on it and so did we,” Lonergan said. “Sure enough it became a reality.”

The new space was blessed April 12 by retired Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.

Menlo Church, founded in 1873 as Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, provided the time, labor, materials and covered the costs for the project and refurbished some pews and a pulpit Catherine Center had in storage.

In the blessing, Lonergan and the Sisters of Mercy expressed their gratitude to their Menlo Church neighbors for making the new sacred space possible.

“It’s a really nice Holy Spirit-filled prayer space,” he said.

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A LONG LIFE WELL LIVED: Evaristo “Bert” Agcaoili Albano, longtime catechist and eucharistic minister at St. Patrick’s Church in San Francisco will be missed by family, friends and fellow parishioners. Albano, 95, died May 30. A vigil was held at St. Patrick June 13 and Bert was laid to rest after a funeral Mass June 14.

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50 HAPPY YEARS: Congratulations are in order for Santo and Grace Moscuzza.

The longtime parishioners of Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato celebrate 50 years of marriage this year, according to daughter Anna Voltattorni, who proudly sent us her parents’ wedding photo from 1969 along with a current photo.

Grace Gauci grew up in the Portola District of San Santo and Grace MoscuFrancisco and attended St. zza were married Jan. 26, Elizabeth School and Notre 1969, at St. Paul of the Dame High School. She met Shipwreck Parish. the love of her life, Santo Moscuzza, a native of Sicily, at Fugazi Hall in North Beach. They were married on Jan. 26, 1969, at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church in San Francisco. The Moscuzzas are active at OLL and the Italian Catholic Federation. Their extended family includes daughter Anna and her husband Jeff, second daughter Lisa Kersey and her husband Josh, and four grandchildren, Ryan, Gianna, Tyler and Callie.

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BALTIMORE - Representatives of lay organizations expressed caution over the steps taken by U.S. bishops to boost accountability and transparency in dealing with clergy sexual abuse, saying future actions by the bishops will determine how successful the initiatives ultimately will be.

Full collaboration with laypeople will be the key to the success of the measures adopted by the bishops, they said in a series of statements following the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ spring general assembly in Baltimore June 11-13.

“Catholics are looking for robust actions and long-term solutions to the twin crises of abuse and leadership failures,” Kim Smolik, CEO of the Leadership Roundtable, said in a June 13 statement.

“While the bishops took important initial steps, more remains to be done to address the root causes and create a new culture of leadership that values accountability, transparency and co-responsibility with clergy and laity,” she said.

The Leadership Roundtable was founded in the wake of the 2002 abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston.

It was officially formed in 2005 by lay, religious and ordained leaders to help the church address the abuse crisis and promote best practices and accountability in all areas. It has been working since then to help dioceses address leadership and governance issues.

The bishops approved four measures during their assembly including the operation of an independent third-party reporting system to accept abuse allegations and the implemen-

‘While the bishops took important initial steps, more remains to be done to address the root causes and create a new culture of leadership that values accountability, transparency and co-responsibility with clergy and laity,’ KIM SMOLIK, CEO, Leadership Roundtable tation of Pope Francis’ norms, “Vos Estis Lux Mundi” (“You are the light of the world”), to safeguard church members from abuse and boost accountability of church leaders.

Smolik said that while she had not seen the final directives, her organization was “pleased that multiple bishops intervened to specify the need for greater lay involvement.”

The roundtable had sent recommendations to the USCCB prior to the assembly calling for national standards to support the measures under consideration and a study into what led to the mishandling of incidents of clergy abuse.

“New procedures are a start,” Smolik’s statement said, “but the pervasive culture that led to the crises is still in place. A new culture of leadership is necessary if we are to truly address the crises.

“It starts by acknowledging the leadership failures, looking at the root causes, providing new information in seminaries and other educational institutions, setting up governance structures with checks, balances, etc.,” she said.

“Lay Catholics are lending their expertise and look forward to continued work with the clergy to create a new culture of co-responsible leadership,” she added.

During a news conference at the close of the bishops’ meeting, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, acknowledged that the “twinheaded scandal” of clergy abuse and mismanagement by bishops “is costing people their faith.”

He said that laypeople inevitably would be involved in the new systems being implemented even if the adopted measures did not specifically call for their participation.

“Proceeding with what we legislated today for us, the possibility of doing that without qualified laypeople I would say is next to impossible. It is impossible and it would be highly irresponsible,” Cardinal Tobin said.

Still, skepticism remained from Catholic-led organizations that have been highly critical of the bishops’ handling of clergy abuse for years.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said June 13 that none of the measures adopted require all allegations of misconduct to be immediately forwarded to civil law enforcement authorities.

The plan governing the third-party reporting system will find reports funneled through a central receiving hub, which would then be responsible for

sending allegations to the appropriate metropolitan, or archbishop, and to the papal nunciature in Washington. The metropolitans will be responsible for reporting any allegation to local law enforcement authorities as the first step toward investigating a claim.

SNAP said in its statement that “church officials have so far refused to mandate lay involvement, instead leaving it up to each metropolitan to decide, and have not yet said if every allegation received will be routed to police.”

“Without these mandates, there is no guarantee that reports will be routed to police and investigations will be transparent and public,” SNAP said.

The organization called for each metropolitan to establish “a truly independent” lay review board with members to include least one clergy abuse survivor and two members chosen from investigators recommended by the appropriate state attorney general.

SNAP also wants any investigation of a bishop to be conducted “in a locale far from the area where the complaint originated.” It said full transparency and accountability requires that the investigations and lay review board reports and findings must be publicly released with appropriate redactions to protect victims.

Terrence McKiernan, president and co-director of BishopAccountability. org, said June 13 that it was “encouraging that the bishops are grappling at last with sexual and managerial misconduct in their own ranks.”

In a statement, he called for greater involvement by laypeople in all aspects of the new standards.

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Church should focus on getting ‘nones’ back, bishop says CAROL ZIMMERMANN

‘Half the kids that we baptized and confirmed in the last 30 years are now ex-Catholics or unaffiliated,” he said, and “one out of six millennials in the U.S. is now a former Catholic.’

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BALTIMORE – Although the U.S. bishops’ spring assembly in Baltimore was mostly devoted to responding to the sexual abuse crisis in the church, the bishops also considered something described as the second-most important issue currently facing U.S. church leaders: How to get religiously unaffiliated, or “nones,” particularly young people, back to the Catholic Church.

This is a top priority for our church, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, who is known for his website, “Word on Fire,” and for hosting the documentary series “Catholicism.”

In a June 11 presentation, the bishop said a group of experts who’ve examined why young people are leaving the faith in increasing numbers recently spoke with his committee about this and will share their findings during a lunch presentation at the bishops’ fall assembly in Baltimore.

“How many are leaving? The short answer is: a lot,” the bishop said, noting the sobering statistic he said many in the room probably were aware of – that 50% of Catholics 30 years old and younger have left the church.

“Half the kids that we baptized and confirmed in the last 30 years are now ex-Catholics or unaffiliated,” he said, and “one out of six millennials in the U.S. is now a former Catholic.”

Another statistic that particularly affects him is this: “For every one person joining our church today, 6.45 are leaving” and most are leaving at young ages, primarily before age 23. The median age of those who leave is 13.

“Where are they going?” he asked, and in response to his own question, he again gave a short answer: They’re “becoming nones” although some, in much smaller percentages, join other mainstream religions or evangelical churches.

Bishop Barron said church leaders don’t need to speculate about why people are leaving because there are plenty of studies and surveys that answer this. The No. 1 reason, he said, is that they simply no longer believe the church’s teachings, primarily its doctrinal beliefs.

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In his opinion, he said, this is “a bitter fruit of the dumbing-down of our faith” as it has been presented in catechesis and apologetics.

Other reasons he said young people are leaving have to do with relativism, science and the church’s teachings on sexuality.

The bishop’s hope, in this environment, is that the young, religiously unaffiliated can still be reached because as he put it, most have drifted away versus storming away from the faith. “We’re not up against a fierce opponent at every turn,” he said, adding: “Most are ambivalent to religion rather than hostile to it.”

He also mentioned what he called the “Jordan Peterson phenomenon,” which he prefaced by saying, “Please don’t take this as a one-sided endorsement” of the Canadian psychology professor and author who is popular on social media.

“He speaks at a very high level about serious things and big ideas,” Bishop Barron said, noting Peterson’s current YouTube talks on the Bible. He said the fact that millions of young people, young men in particular, are watching this speaker talk about “our book, the Bible” is worth reflecting on and is a sign of hope.

Not everyone on Catholic social media agreed with this point. Some questioned how the bishop could present a speaker who has stirred controversy with his complaints against political correctness as a model, while others called him an example of someone who takes on the big questions.

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“We should be able to speak about the Bible in a way that people would want to hear” is the message he said he was trying to get across to the bishops.

The other examples Bishop Barron pointed to as signs of hope were Catholic campus missionary groups, like the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, or FOCUS, that are “getting traction with young people.”

He also said the amount of engagement about social media in religion is a good thing, even those angry about religion. He said he was recently part of an “AMA” (Ask Me Anything) feature on Reddit, an internet news aggregator, where he said he was a Catholic bishop who loved to talk with atheists and ended up with more than 12,000 questions in under an hour.

In the discussion period after his Baltimore presentation, several bishops agreed with his analysis and one bishop asked for clarification and spelling of Reddit.

Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vermont, said it was “wonderful that we’re talking about this issue and I think we need to make it front and center at all of our gatherings.” He said he hoped the discussion on the topic at the bishops’ fall meeting also would examine cultural and sociological issues influencing young people to leave the church.

For example, he said the “paradigm of parish membership” does not work for millennials since many of them move so frequently, and this also applies to society in general where so many no longer join communities which leads to isolation and loneliness.

In response, Bishop Barron said young people who are leaving can be reached in a broader sense through social media.

“We have to go get them and we do have the means to do that through social media – with all of its negativity.”

He said the paradox is that social media can also lead to further isolation because people are connected only though their screens, but at this point in time, he said using it as “an evangelical tool is required now, given the fact that people aren’t going to come to our institutions.”

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BORDER BISHOPS ADDRESS DIFFERENT KIND OF CRISIS INVOLVING CHILDREN

BALTIMORE – While the sex abuse crisis consumed the June meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, prelates who work on the border, such as Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, have been facing a different crisis also involving children.

In less than a year, at least six children are believed to have died while in the custody of immigraBishop Daniel E. tion officials along the border.

Flores While immigration along the U.S. southern border once involved almost exclusively men looking for work, women with children or entire families are now the ones regularly making the dangerous trek, fleeing poverty and violence.

“I know this gathering has been dominated by the question of abuse and we have to deal with (it),” Bishop Flores said in an interview with Catholic News Service June 12. “It has to be clear that this is something that will not be tolerated.”

However, he said, the church also must “express” itself more strongly about its teachings when it comes to migrants and the situation along the border.

“I feel that as a (bishops’) conference, we must express ourselves more strongly when it comes to the dignity of immigrants, to say that they are not criminals, that they are vulnerable families and we need to invite all the governments involved, not just the U.S., to defend the migrant as a human being, to not cast the person aside as someone who doesn’t matter and is a problem,” Bishop Flores said.

Specifically, he was addressing the recent announcement by the government of Mexico that it will take stricter measures to prevent the flow of migrants traveling to the north – a measure taken to ward off a threat made by U.S. President Donald Trump. The president threatened to place higher tariffs on the country’s goods that come into the U.S. unless Mexico does more to prevent migrants from reaching the border.

“Governments shouldn’t treat immigrants as pawns, like chess pieces,” said Bishop Flores.

YOUNG WOMEN URGED TO REJECT EGO, FOCUS ON LIFE OF INTEGRITY, HONESTY

WASHINGTON – Spiritual advice was mixed with practical suggestions at the GIVEN Catholic Young Women’s Leadership Forum held at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

“To prepare yourself for motherhood, consider getting rid of your television and your smartphone,” said Jeanne Schindler, an author, lecturer and former college professor at the forum’s June 14 session. She said that not only does it end distractions, but it also supports the notion of a home “as a place of order and wonder.”

Elizabeth Kirk, director of the Institute of Faith and Culture at the University of Kansas, found herself in full agreement. “We got rid of our TV on Oct. 27, and my husband and I consider it the best decision we ever made,” she told 120 attendees, most of whom were laywomen between the ages of 21 and 30.

GIVEN is a year-round initiative that began in 2016 with the goal of helping young women embrace what St. John Paul II called the “feminine genius.”

Among its objectives are leadership training, faith formation, and the support of mentors to help young women better understand and pursue their particular mission and/or vocation. It was originated by the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious. The nonprofit GIVEN Institute was founded last September. The forum is held annually; this year’s event was June 12-16.

JUDGE: MISSOURI’S ONLY ABORTION CLINIC CAN STAY OPEN AT LEAST UNTIL JUNE 21

WASHINGTON – A circuit court judge in St. Louis ordered the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services June 10 to allow the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, Missouri’s only abortion clinic, to stay open at least until June 21, when he said the agency must decide if it will renew the facility’s license.

If it closes, Missouri would be the first state without an operating abortion facility since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on Roe v. Wade in 1973. Women who want an abortion would have to go to the neighboring state of Illinois.

Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer set a new hearing for the morning of June 21.

His most recent ruling followed his earlier temporary restraining order he handed down to allow the clinic to remain open until June 4. That action came after the state health department said the facility would have to close May 31 because it failed to make changes the department said were necessary to have its license renewed.

The state agency had informed Planned Parenthood May 20 that it might not renew the clinic’s yearly license due to its failure to comply with regulations. Just hours before the license was to expire May 31, Planned Parenthood had requested a temporary restraining order from Stelzer.

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION WRESTLING WITH SEX ABUSE CRISIS OF ITS OWN

As the U.S. Catholic bishops met in Baltimore to discuss new mechanisms to hold themselves accountable on sex abuse, the Southern Baptist Convention was wrestling with the same vexing issue at its annual meeting June 11-12 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Rocked by media reports that revealed Southern Baptist pastors, church employees and volunteers sexually abused more than 700 people, most of them children, over the past two decades, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination took new steps to expel member churches that cover up or mishandle sexual abuse allegations.

“This was a defining moment for the Southern Baptist Convention,” said the Rev. J.D. Greear, the pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, who serves as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Greear told reporters that the Southern Baptist Convention wants to ensure that its member churches are safe environments for children and vulnerable people, and that the convention will consider “all solutions” that could include advocating for legislation to amend statute of limitations on sex abuse crimes.

“We are going to be people who are marked by awareness, transparency, a willingness to own mistakes that are made and a desire to treat each other charitably,” said Rev. Greear, who last year formed an advisory group to draft recommendations on how to confront the sex abuse issue.

Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the moral and public policy entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, said during a news conference that having member churches report sexual abuse complaints “right away” to civil authorities is “a major part” of the convention’s new Caring Well education curriculum to prevent sex abuse and care for survivors.

RETIRED WYOMING BISHOP TO FACE VATICAN TRIAL ON ABUSE ALLEGATIONS

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Retired Bishop Joseph H. Hart of Cheyenne will face a Vatican trial for allegations that he sexually abused several minors years ago.

Cheyenne Bishop Steven R. Biegler announced June 12 that such a trial of the retired prelate would take place. Bishop Biegler included Bishop Hart’s name in a list of all Catholic clergy with substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of minors or vulnerable persons for whom the diocese had files and who were in active ministry from 1950 to the present in the Diocese of Cheyenne.

Bishop Hart is one of 11 clergy on the list published on the diocesan website, https://bit.ly/2WzvyxW, and in the June online issue of the Wyoming Catholic Register, Cheyenne’s diocesan newspaper. After the prelate’s name, the listing states: “Pope Francis imposed restrictions and authorized a penal process.”

Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican press office, confirmed June 13 with Catholic News Service in Rome that “an administrative penal process by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, authorized by the Holy Father, has begun regarding Bishop Hart.”

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VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church must find ways to reach indigenous Catholics deprived of the sacraments in the most remote areas of the Amazon rainforest, and that may include ordaining married elders, said the working document for the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon.

“Affirming that celibacy is a gift for the church, in order to ensure the sacraments for the most remote areas of the region, we are asked to study the possibility of priestly ordination for elders – preferably indigenous, respected and accepted by the community – even though they have an established and stable family,” said the document.

Published by the Vatican June 17, the document also said the church should consider “an official ministry that can be conferred upon women, taking into account the central role they play in the Amazonian church.”

The document, drafted after input from bishops’ conferences and local communities, acknowledged that in the church “the feminine presence in communities isn’t always valued.”

Those responding to a synod questionnaire asked that women’s “gifts and talents” be recognized and that the church “guarantee women leadership as well as increasingly broad and relevant space in the field of formation: theology, catechesis, liturgy and schools of faith and politics,” the 45-page document said.

The synod gathering in October 2019 will reflect on the theme “Amazonia: New paths for the church and for an integral ecology.”

When he announced the synod in 2017, Pope Francis said it would seek to identify new paths of evangelization, especially for indigenous people who are “often forgotten and left without the prospect of a peaceful future, including because of the crisis of the Amazon forest,” which plays a vital role in the environmental health of the entire planet.

The Amazon rainforest includes territory spread across Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Suriname, Peru,

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A woman reads the Bible during a workshop in St. Ignatius, Guyana, April 5, 2019. The workshop was to help laypeople improve their reading of the Sunday Scriptures in their own languages, so they can better lead liturgies in their own indigenous communities.

Colombia, Bolivia, Guyana and French Guiana and is the largest rainforest in the world, covering more than 2.1 million square miles in South America.

While rich in biodiversity, natural resources and cultures, the Amazon rainforest has experienced significant deforestation, negatively impacting the indigenous populations in the area and leading to a loss of biodiversity.

“This synod revolves around life: the life of the Amazonian territory and its people, the life of the church (and) the life of the planet,” the document said.

Divided into three main parts, the synod document first laid out the importance of the Amazonian region as well as the environmental threats facing it and its indigenous populations.

“Currently, climate change and the increase in human intervention – deforestation, fires and changes in the use of land – are driving the Amazon to a point of no return with high rates of deforestation, forced population displacement and pollution, putting its ecosystems at risk and exerting pressure on local cultures,” it said.

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To respond to the needs and challenges facing the Amazon and its indigenous populations, it added, the church must have a “new sense of mission” that “opens new spaces” for finding ways to minister with and to the region’s people.

“This is the moment to listen to the voice of the Amazon and to respond as a prophetic and Samaritan church,” the working document said.

The document’s second part highlighted the dangers facing the region and its people who are threatened by those “guided by an economic model linked to production, commercialization and consumption, where the maximizing of profit is prioritized over human and environmental needs.”

Drug and arms trafficking, corruption, violence against women, forced migration and the exploitation of indigenous people and their territories, particularly those in “voluntary isolation,” are among the other challenges that the church must confront.

Among the suggestions proposed in the working document’s third part was the formation of indigenous laity so they can take on a greater role, especially in remote areas lacking the presence of priests and religious men and women.

However, those who are preparing for ordained ministry in the region must also receive adequate formation in the church’s “philosophical-theological culture,” although in a way adapted to Amazonian cultures.

The document also proposed “the reform of the structures of the seminaries to encourage the integration of candidates to the priesthood in the communities.”

Liturgy also plays an important role in expressing the church’s closeness to indigenous people in the Amazon, the document said.

Citing the Second Vatican Council document on the sacred liturgy and Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium,” the document highlighted “the enculturation of the liturgy among the indigenous peoples,” adding that cultural diversity poses no threat “to the unity of the church but rather expresses its genuine Catholicity by showing the ‘the beauty of her varied face.’”

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VICTORIA BISHOPS BECOME ‘CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS’ TO ASSISTED SUICIDE LAW

MELBOURNE, Australia – As euthanasia becomes legal in Australia’s Victoria state, its bishops said Catholic health care services will not cooperate with the facilitation of suicide.

“We cannot cooperate with the facilitation of suicide, even when it seems motivated by empathy or kindness,” Archbishop Peter Comensoli of Melbourne, Bishop Paul Bird of Ballarat, Bishop Patrick O’Regan of Sale and Bishop Leslie Tomlinson of Sandhurst said in a June 14 pastoral letter.

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act takes effect June 19 in Victoria. Any resident of the southeastern state over 18, with a terminal illness and with less than six months to live can request a lethal dose of medication under the new legislation.

“All of us who hold a principled opposition to euthanasia are now, in effect, conscientious objectors,” the bishops said.

“These words will sound hard to hear, but as pastors” of Victoria’s dioceses “we feel a responsibility not just to say ‘no’ to VAD, but to give every encouragement to model a way of life” that renders euthanasia unnecessary, they said.

MITIGATE GLOBAL WARMING, SPARE FURTHER INJUSTICE TO THE POOR, POPE SAYS

VATICAN CITY – Faced with a climate emergency, the world must act immediately to mitigate global warming and avoid committing “a brutal act of injustice” on the poor and future generations, Pope Francis told a group of energy and oil executives and global investors.

“Time is running out! Deliberations must go beyond mere exploration of what can be done and concentrate on what needs to be done from today onward,” he said.

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Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris celebrates Mass in the Chapel of the Virgin inside Notre Dame Cathedral June 15, 2019. It was the first Mass since a huge blaze devastated the landmark building in April.

“We do not have the luxury of waiting for others to step forward or of prioritizing short-term economic benefits. The climate crisis requires our decisive action, here and now,” he said June 14 at the Vatican.

The pope spoke to leaders taking part in a conference June 13-14 on “Energy Transition and Care for Our Common Home,” sponsored by the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

It was the second private meeting – the first was in June 2018 – aimed at dialogue with invited executives of leading energy, petroleum and natural gas companies, global investment firms, climate scholars and academics.

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Pope Francis thanked participants for returning for the second meeting, saying it was “a positive sign of your continued commitment to working together in a spirit of solidarity to promote concrete steps for the care of our planet.”

BISHOP TO REMAIN WITH HONG KONG PROTESTERS ‘NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY STAY’

HONG KONG – As massive protests continued in Hong Kong, the auxiliary bishop pledged to remain with those opposing a controversial

extradition bill and the resignation of the Chinese territory’s leader.

Although Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam announced June 15 that she had suspended the bill, Hong Kong people were not satisfied and turned out in even greater numbers June 16 than the 1 million estimated to have marched on June 9, reported ucanews.com.

The Civil Human Rights Front estimated that about 2 million people joined the latest rally – a record for a protest in Hong Kong – but police claimed only 338,000 attended.

Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chishing of Hong Kong took part in a continuous ecumenical prayer meeting outside the Legislative Council building with thousands of Christians overnight after the latest rally, ucanews.com reported.

Asked by media at midnight whether he would leave the young protesters, the 60-year-old bishop said: “I don’t care. No matter how long they stay, I will continue to stay with them.

The shepherd should not just be with the sheep but also guide them.”

The Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Students, the Justice and Peace Commission of Hong Kong, Diocesan Youth Commission of Hong Kong and the Justice and Peace Group of the Franciscans organized a Mass and a prayer meeting.

The extradition legislation, officially called the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019, would allow mainland China extradition rights over any Hong Kong resident, including foreign nationals and tourists.

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Catholic high schools graduate 1,865 Class of 2019 seniors

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Estafan Granucci Archbishop Riordan High School

Jordan Manlulu Archbishop Riordan High School

Ryan Quock Archbishop Riordan High School

Caroline ‘Kiki’ Apple Convent High School

Gordon ‘Leet’ Miller Stuart Hall High School

Alexis Balocating ICA-Cristo Rey High School

Alexandria Literato ICA-Cristo Rey High School

Nicholas Lochrie Junipero Serra High School

Lee Moyer Junipero Serra High School

Juliano Rodriguez Junipero Serra High School

Parker Brown Marin Catholic High School

Sophia Doerschlag Marin Catholic High School

Emerson Dawes Mercy High School, Burlingame

Jordyn Eleazar Mercy High School, Burlingame

Christiana Wong Mercy High School, Burlingame

Kamille Dyan Fernando Mercy High School, SF

Tatania Jimenez Mercy High School, SF

Zoe De Bretagne Notre Dame High School

Preyasi Kumar Notre Dame High School

Nathaniel Jew Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory

Grace Murphy Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory

FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

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s we close another academic school year, I want to send a note of congratulations to our recent high school graduates, as well as to the faculty and administrators who guided them during their tenure in Catholic high schools. I would also like to thank the parents for entrusting their children’s education to us. It is clear that graduates of the Catholic school system are not only better prepared to meet the academic rigors of college, but leave their schools knowing that their knowledge is to be used to do more. Society needs Pamela Lyons leaders with a Christocentric worldview. I am proud to send our graduates out into this world with an understanding that Christ walks with them in all of their endeavors.

I am so proud of our nearly 2,000 graduates from Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2019. This school year, more than 23,000 students attended Catholic schools in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties. We welcome those members of our community who are not currently attending a school in the Archdiocese to send your child to one of our 21 preschools, 55 elementary schools, and 13 high schools. Join us in our mission to grow our students’ understanding that they are God’s beloved so they may fully realize God’s plan for them.

Many Blessings,

Pamela Lyons Superintendent of Schools Archdiocese of San Francisco

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

Archbishop Riordan High School graduated 148 young men on May 25 in the James Lindland Theatre. Andrew Currier, president, and Timothy Reardon, principal, presented diplomas. The Class of 2019 earned millions of dollars in merit

scholarships, and will be attending top universities across the U.S. and pursuing military careers and trade programs. They also completed 17,000 hours of service to the community during their time at Riordan.

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART AND STUART HALL HIGH SCHOOLS, SAN FRANCISCO

Convent High School graduated 59 students on May 31 at 2222 Broadway, San Francisco while Stuart Hall High School graduated 53 students the same day at 1715 Octavia St., San Francisco.

Convent High School valedictorian is Caroline

“Kiki” Apple. Stuart Hall High School valedictorian is Gordon “Leet” Miller. Diplomas were conferred at both schools by Gabriela Parcella, chair of the board, and Ann Marie Krejcarek, president.

Outstanding students pictured are among those honored at recent high school graduations.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY/CRISTO REY, SAN FRANCISCO

ICA-Cristo Rey celebrated 90 young women on May 31 at USF’s St. Ignatius Church. Graduates from the class of 2019 earned nearly $17 million in scholarships and grants and were accepted at over 580 schools nationwide. Diplomas were presented

by school president Sister Diane Aruda, and principal Dr. George Fornero. Also in attendance was assistant superintendent, curriculum and instruction, and ICA alumna Susana LapeyradeDrummond.

JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL, SAN MATEO

Two hundred seniors graduated from Junipero Serra High School on June 1 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. This year’s graduates received $29.5 million in college scholarships and completed 30,813 hours of community

service. The graduation Mass was celebrated

by Father Joe Bradley ‘73, and diplomas were presented by principal Barry Thornton. Valedictorians were Lee Moyer, Nicholas Lochrie and Juliano Rodriguez.

MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, KENTFIELD

Marin Catholic presented diplomas to 161 graduates on May 30 at the Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium at the Civic Center in San Rafael.

Parker Brown was honored as valedictorian and Sophia Doerschlag as salutatorian. The Class of 2019 received over 800 acceptances to colleges and

universities nationwide. They are recognized for their achievements including 29,067 Christian service hours contributed to people in need locally and around the world. Presenting diplomas were Marin Catholic president Tim Navone and principal Chris Valdez.

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME

Mercy High School, Burlingame graduated 87 seniors on June 2 at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. Graduates were accepted to 159 colleges and

universities in the United States and internationally, and were awarded over $9.7 million in scholarships.

Karen Hanrahan, head of school, presented diplomas.

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

Mercy High School, San Francisco, graduated 81 young women on June 1 at Holy Name of Jesus Church, San Francisco. This year’s graduates were accepted to more than 127 colleges and universities throughout the United States and were awarded more than $12 million in scholarships toward

their college education. Kamille Dyan Fernandez and Tatiana Jimenez have both have been on the honor roll each year. Sister Carolyn Krohn, head of school; Emily Ambrosino, dean of teaching and learning; and Raquel Oliva-Gomez, dean of student life and school culture, presented diplomas.

Hannah Cevasco Sacred Heart Preparatory

Rayan Rizvi Sacred Heart Preparatory

Jonathon Abad St. Ignatius High School

Sophia Leon Guerrero St. Ignatius High School

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL, BELMONT

Notre Dame Belmont celebrated 102 graduates on May 30 at St. Pius Church, Redwood City. All graduates will be attending college in the fall and received nearly $9 million in scholarships. Maryann

Osmond, head of school, and Carolyn Hutchins, associate head of school for student affairs, presented diplomas. Zoe De Bretagne and Preyasi Kumar were, valedictorian and salutatorian respectively.

SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SAN FRANCISCO

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory graduated 308 seniors at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday, May 25. Graduates were accepted into 275 colleges and universities across 46 states and eight different countries. Notable acceptances include

Stanford University, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University and Duke University. Diplomas to the Class of 2019 were presented by president Melinda Lawlor Skrade and principal Gary J. Cannon.

SACRED HEART PREPARATORY, ATHERTON

Sacred Heart Preparatory graduated 149 students on May 23. Graduates from the Class of 2019 will attend 78 institutions. Thirteen students earned recognition by the National Merit Scholarship program, and the class was awarded more

than $12 million in merit scholarships. Twenty-five have committed to play intercollegiate athletics.

Diplomas were presented by Richard A. Dioli, director of schools; Jennie Whitcomb, principal; Anna McDonald, assistant principal for academic

Emma Jaeger Woodside Priory High School

Andrew Sirenko Woodside Priory High School

life; and Shami Ravi, chair of the Board of Trustees. Class valedictorian Hannah Cevasco and classmate Rayan Rizvi, were recognized as

“dark blue ribbon” students for embodying school values and goals. Classmate Walker Seymour was elected by his peers to give the salutatory address.

ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, SAN FRANCISCO

St. Ignatius College Preparatory presented diplomas to 354 members of the Class of 2019 at the June 1 commencement exercises at USF’s Memorial Gym presided over by president Ed Reese, SJ, and principal Patrick Ruff. Members of the class earned more than $35 million in scholarship aid

and completed thousands of hours of community service. Sophia Leon Guerrero served as valedictorian and Jonathan Abad received the Ignatian Award, the school’s highest honor. Lizzy Reardon served as salutatorian and other top awards went to Sean Fitzgerald and Robert Velasco.

WOODSIDE PRIORY HIGH SCHOOL, PORTOLA VALLEY

Woodside Priory High School graduated 73 students on June 1 at the Father Christopher Field on the Priory campus. Emma Jaeger served as valedictorian and Andrew Sirenko as salutatorian. Priory graduates were accepted to more than 150 colleges and universities

throughout the world and were offered more than $3.3 million in scholarships toward their college educations. Brian Schlaak, head of the upper school recommended the graduates to Tim Molak, head of school, who presented them with their Priory diplomas.

12 FAITH

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 20, 2019

SUNDAY READINGS

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 1 GENESIS 14:18-20 In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine, and being a priest of God Most High, he blessed Abram with these words:” Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

your birth, in holy splendor; before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.”

You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The LORD has sworn, and he will not repent: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

PSALM 110:1, 2, 3, 4 You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.”

You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The scepter of your power the LORD will stretch forth from Zion: “Rule in the midst of your enemies.” You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek. “Yours is princely power in the day of

1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26 Brothers and sisters: I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

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The food that sustains us

mong the items on the menu of the Passover meal are flat bread, made without leaven, and wine. In the course of the meal, the host prays blessings over them.

Jesus hosted a Passover meal on the night before his death and prayed the customary blessings, but then added something. As he distributed the bread, he told his disciples, “this is my body that is for you.” Passing the cup, he said, this is “the new covenant in my blood.”

During his year or so with his disciples, Jesus had made many statements that puzzled his disciples. His words about the Passover may have been the most mystifying of all. How could bread and KEVIN PERROTTA wine be his body and blood?

And what could that mean?

The disciples, being devout Jews, would have detected terrifying allusions.

A body separate from its blood is one from which the life has bled out. “My body for you” is language drawn from the practice of animal sacrifice. “Covenant” and “blood” joined in the same phrase echo Moses’ declaration of God’s covenant with the Israelites when he

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sprinkled them with the blood of slaughtered bulls.

At the Passover meal, Jesus was giving himself to his disciples as he would be the following day – handed over to those who hated him and tortured to death.

His words over the bread and wine indicated both his imminent death and the reason for it: It would be the gift of his life to God to wipe away human sins and bring God and humanity into a new relationship – a new “covenant.”

And so, uncomprehending, awed, and perhaps frightened, the disciples received the Master who was about to die for them.

When he passed the cup, Jesus added something more. “Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” He did not mean that they should simply recall that he died. He meant that as they ate this meal in the future as a way of remembering him, they would encounter him.

The bread would continue to become his body, the wine his blood. Again and again, they would receive the one who gave his life to God on their behalf.

That is how we receive him: as the friend beyond all friends who suffered death for us – who suffered to become the food that sustains us in our own sufferings.

PERROTTA is the editor and an author of the “Six Weeks With the Bible” series, teaches part time at Siena Heights University and leads Holy Land pilgrimages.

He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

LUKE 9:11B-17 Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God, and he healed those who needed to be cured.

As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve approached him and said,” Dismiss the crowd so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms and find lodging and provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.” He said to them, “Give them some food yourselves.” They replied, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have, unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people.” Now the men there numbered about five thousand.

Then he said to his disciples,” Have them sit down in groups of about fifty.” They did so and made them all sit down .Then taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing over them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. They all ate and were satisfied. And when the leftover fragments were picked up, they filled twelve wicker baskets.

POPE FRANCIS DON’T LET QUAKE SHAKE YOUR HOPE

CAMERINO, Italy – Wearing a firefighter’s helmet painted white and gold for the occasion, Pope Francis entered the earthquake-damaged cathedral in Camerino and prayed before a statue of Mary missing the top of its head.

The pope began his visit June 16 outside the historic city by visiting the temporary modular homes of dozens of families who lost everything when an earthquake struck the region in October 2016.

The centerpiece of the pope’s visit was the celebration of Mass in the small square outside the still-closed cathedral.

In his homily, Pope Francis focused on the question from Psalm 8: “What is man that you are mindful of him?”

“With what you have seen and suffered, with houses collapsed and buildings reduced to rubble,” the pope said, it is a legitimate question for people to ask.

Faith and experience, though, make it clear that God always is mindful of his human creatures. “We are small under the heavens and powerless when the earth trembles, but for God we are more precious than anything.”

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LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JUNE 24: Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist. IS 49:1-6. PS 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15. ACTS 13:22-26. SEE LK 1:76. LK 1:57-66, 80.

SUNDAY, JUNE 30: Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 19:16b, 19-21. PS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11. GAL 5:1, 13-18. 1 SM 3:9; JN 6:68c. LK 9:51-62.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25: Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 13:2, 5-18. PS 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5. JN 8:12. MT 7:6, 12-14.

MONDAY, JULY 1: Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Saint Junipero Serra, priest. GN 18:16-33. PS 103:1b-2, 3-4, 8-9, 1011. PS 95:8. MT 8:18-22.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26: Wednesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, priest . GN 15:1-12, 17-18. PS 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9. JN 15:4a, 5b. MT 7:15-20.

THURSDAY, JUNE 27: Thursday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor. GN 16:1-12, 15-16 or GN 16:6b-12, 15-16. PS 106:1b-2, 3-4a, 4b-5. JN 14:23. MT 7:21-29.

FRIDAY, JUNE 28: Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. EZ 34:11-16. PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. ROM 5:5b-11. MT 11:29ab or JN 10:14. LK 15:3-7.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29: Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, apostles. ACTS 12:1-11. PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. 2 TM 4:6-8, 17-18. MT 16:18. MT 16:1319.

TUESDAY, JULY 2: Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 19:15-29. PS 26:2-3, 9-10, 11-12.

PS 130:5. MT 8:23-27.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3: Feast of St. Thomas, apostle.

EPH 2:19-22. PS 117:1bc, 2. JN 20:29. JN 20:24-29.

THURSDAY, JULY 4: Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 22:1b-19. PS 115:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9. 2 COR 5:19. MT 9:1-8.

FRIDAY, JULY 5: Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Zaccaria, priest; St. Elizabeth of Portugal. GN 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67. PS 106:1b-2, 3-4a, 4b-5. MT 11:28.

MT 9:9-13.

SATURDAY, JULY 6: Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St.

Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr. GN 27:1-5, 15-29. PS 135:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. JN 10:27. MT 9:14-17.

SUNDAY, JULY 7: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. IS 66:10-14c. PS 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20. GAL 6:14-18. COL 3:15a, 16a. LK 10:1-12, 17-20.

MONDAY, JULY 8: Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 28:10-22a. PS 91:1-2, 3-4, 1415ab. SEE 2 TM 1:10. MT 9:18-26.

TUESDAY, JULY 9: Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, Chinese martyrs.

GN 32:23-33. PS 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b and 15. JN 10:14. MT 9:32-38.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10: Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 41:55-57; 42:57a, 17-24a. PS 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19. MK 1:15. MT 10:1-7.

THURSDAY, JULY 11: Memorial of St. Benedict, abbot. GN 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5. PS 105:16-17,1819,20-21. MK 1:15. MT 10:7-15.

FRIDAY, JULY 12: Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 46:1-7, 28-30. PS 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40. JN 16:13a, 14:26d. MT 10:16-23.

OPINION 13

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 20, 2019

LETTERS Extortion and hypocrisy

Bishop Thomas Paprocki withholds Communion from certain Democratic officials as a public “litmus test” and statement against their position on abortion. Father Kenneth Doyle says “It is not possible to be a faithful Catholic and adopt a pro-choice position on abortion.”

This is “cafeteria Catholicism” as extortion and hypocrisy, and only the right wing of the church seems to practice it. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops identified seven key themes of Catholic social teaching, and these include policies on abortion, capital punishment, social justice/immigrant rights, health care, dignity of workers, environmental stewardship and global peace. Democrats tend to agree with the majority of these conference teachings and Republicans tend to oppose them, and yet I’ve never heard of a Catholic priest withhold Communion for a Republican who voted for a war or an execution.

Would Father Kenneth Doyle also declare that such a Republican cannot be a “faithful Catholic”?

Peter Albert San Francisco

Pride and Catholicism

Our diocese and faith communities are committed to the right to life as evidenced in the archdiocese’s involvement in pro-life initiatives.

As a proud gay Catholic, I urge our community to consider an essential pro-life issue impacting our GLBT+ youth.

1. LGBT adolescents have the highest rate of suicide attempts (“Study: Tolerance Can Lower Gay Kids’ Suicide Risk,” Joseph Shapiro, National Public Radio, Dec. 29, 2008. Accessed at https://n.pr/2Zn9vwq).

2. Sexual minority youth were more than three times as likely to attempt suicide as heterosexual peers (“Estimating the Risk of Attempted Suicide Among Sexual Minority Youths: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” Ester di Giacomo, et al, JAMA Pediatrics, December 2018. Accessed at https://bit.ly/2WzLVdK).

3. 40 percent of those identifying as transgender have attempted suicide in their lifetime (“Suicide Statistics That We’d Like to See Changed in 2019,” Hannah Kwawu, Crisis Text Line, Sept. 24, 2018. Accessed at https://bit.ly/2KgiCv8).

During Pride month, I urge us as Catholics to do whatever it takes to fight for our youth by becoming more welcoming, inclusive, and non-judgmental. I also hope we can fight for these lives with the same tenacity, commitment, and voice as other pro-life concerns.

Tom Hehir San Francisco

Dangerous legislation

The California Senate recently passed SB 360, which will endanger priests’ lives, and SB 24, which will diminish our religious freedom. SB 360 requires

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a priest to report the confession of a sex abusing priest and to give testimony in court. However, the public may not distinguish exposing sex abuse of priests from exposing the criminal activity of nonclergy; and, subsequent legislation may also blur the distinction. A criminal who had confessed his guilt, may “silence” the priest. And, SB 24 requires California public university (and, later, high school) health clinics to provide the “abortion pill.” This makes abortions quick and easy, which cheapens life and diminishes responsibility. Under such socialist policies, nothing is sacred; the “thought police” determine what is moral.

Michael F. McCarthy Hayward

Priests, beekeepers, Knights, and more

I saw with pride and admiration that our archdiocese has three new priests. Events coverings all these were well-written, plus pictures and stories accompanied them. From cover to cover, the index, dates, time and place, covering our past bishops, covering China, along with parish mothers of special needs [children], even beekeepers, Mission Dolores Basilica, the Philippine Saringhimig Singers, the Knights of Columbus helping the archdiocese, plus a change in their fourth-degree uniforms after 59 years – they look taller and changed hats. Priests’ anniversaries, the archbishop’s schedule, USSCB releases, the pope’s look on the devil, spiritual tools to combat evil, write-ups by Father Ron Rolheiser, Father Charles Puthota, Father Eugene Hemrick, Father Kenneth Doyle, Msgr. Anthony J. Figueiredo, Christina Capecchi – all these articles and more. Home Service and the Professionals – slow down and look for many more businesses close to your home.

Bob G. Huerta San Francisco

Christ sidelined at graduation

Having attended a number of Catholic grammar and high school graduations, I can’t help but notice what seems to be an omission of Jesus Christ from the opening invocation to the final remarks of the ceremony, not one mention of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. While secular poets are quoted, and God is mentioned in a non-triune fashion, it seems Jesus Christ is left to the sidelines to such an extent, that one has to question if this is indeed premeditated.

While many Scripture passages would be good to include, two in particular come to mind that would have been perfect for the graduating class. In John 15:5, Jesus says, “for without me you can do nothing.” And in Matthew 10:33, “But he that deny me before men, I will also deny him before my father who is in heaven.”

Of course St. Paul’s exhortation to the Philippians puts things into perspective about the name of Jesus: “… at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of

those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10). But, no, not even one mention.

Oh, I know, the defense might be offered that there was a graduation Mass a few nights earlier where Christ was mentioned, and though Jesus was not mentioned during the graduation ceremony God was, and even the sign of the cross was made. Notwithstanding, this response will fall flat, as 2 Timothy 3:5 reminds us. “Having an appearance indeed of godliness, but denying the power thereof.” Finally, in the words of St. Patrick: “… Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ above me. …” Good advice to a graduating class and a great prayer for all of us!

Tony Morgan Mill Valley

Questions on confession bill

Re California Senate Bill 360, sponsored by state Sen. Jerry Hill: Catholic San Francisco states that his bill requires that priests must report a penitent who confess a sin of sexual abuse to the police. Would the author of this bill also require an attorney to report to the police a client who admits that he has committed a capital crime? Any defense attorney would agree to this. Why should a priest be required to report the penitent, but the attorney is not?

Robert J. Theis Daly City

Penance and civil penalties

Re “No priest may obey proposed law,” June 6: Forgiveness of sin in the sacrament of reconciliation only follows if a sinner is genuinely contrite. The point of confession is not only to anonymously wipe the sinner’s slate clean. More important, confession must be a true change of heart. A contrite sinner willingly carries out the penance the priest asks for.

It follows to me that a sinner must also to be willing to accept legal consequences for their behavior. The way I see it, a humble penitent should seek spiritual grace of reconciliation first. Then they should go forward and accept whatever action civil society needs to impose. With all due respect, couldn’t a priest give a sinner the penance of reporting their crime to the police and accepting the consequences?

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An ode in praise of a beloved friend

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Rachel Held Evans, 1981-2019

o community should botch its deaths. Mircea Eliade wrote those words and they’re a warning: If we do not properly celebrate the life of someone who has left us we do an injustice to that person and cheat ourselves of some of the gift that he or she left behind.

With this in mind, I want to FATHER RON underscore the ROLHEISER loss that we, the Christian community, irrespective of denomination, suffered with the death of Rachel Held Evans who died, at age 37, on May 4.

Who was Rachel Held Evans? She defies simple definition, beyond saying that she was a young religious writer who wrote with a depth and balance beyond her years as she chronicled her struggles to move from the deep, sincere, childlike faith she was raised in to eventually arrive at a questioning, but more mature, faith that was now willing to face all the hard questions within faith, religion, and church. And in this journey, she was beset with opposition from within (it’s hard to courageously scrutinize your own roots) and from without (churches generally don’t like being pressed by hard questions,

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hen my barber David Knight who worked in the U.S. Senate building died, it felt like losing a beloved family member.

One meaning of family is a group of people in the service of an individual.

For years, Dave and his partners FATHER EUGENE were family HEMRICK to me. The moment I entered the barber shop, their greeting had the familiar sound of my mom and dad when coming home; a joyful sound of friendship and a feeling of being at a home away from home.

As I would get into the barber chair, Dave would ask, “How are you doing?” This usually led to discussions about parish life and topics like both of us being left-handed baseball players.

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especially from their own young). But the journey she made and articulates (with rare honesty and wit) is a journey that, in some way, all of us, young and old, have to make to come to a faith that can stand up to the hard questions coming from our world and the even harder ones coming from inside of us.

Carl Rogers once famously said: “What is most personal is also most universal.” The journey Rachel Held Evans traces out from her own life is, I submit, by and large, the universal one today, that is, the naive faith of our childhood inevitably meets challenges, questions and ridicule in adulthood and that demands of us a response beyond the Sunday school and catechism of our youth.

Not least among these questions and challenges is the one of church, of justifying belonging to one, given the propensity within our churches for infidelity, narrowness, judgmental attitudes, reluctance to face doubt and the perennial temptation to wed the Gospels to their favored political ideology.

Rachel Held Evans struggled to make the journey from the naiveté of childhood, with all its innocence and magic, where one can believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny and take biblical stories literally, to what Paul Ricouer calls “second naivete,” where, through a painful interplay between doubt and faith, one has been able to work through the conscriptive sophistication that comes with adulthood so as to reground the innocence and magic (and faith) of childhood on a foundation that has already taken seriously the doubt and disillusionment that beset us in the face of adulthood.

The Irish philosopher John Moriarty, whose religious story plays out along similar lines as Rachel’s, coins an interesting expression to describe what happened to him. At one point in his religious journey, he tells us, “I fell out of my story.” The Roman Catholicism he had been raised into was no longer the story out of which he could live his life. Eventually, after sorting through some hard questions and realizing that the faith of his

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youth was, in the end, his “mother tongue,” he found his way back into his religious story.

Rachel Held Evans’ story is similar.

Raised in the Southern U.S. Bible Belt inside a robust Evangelical Christianity she too, as she faced the questions of her own adulthood, fell out of her story and, like Moriarty, eventually found her way back into it, at least in essence.

In the end, she found her way back to a mature faith (which now can handle doubt), found a church (Episcopalian) within which she could worship, and, in effect, found her way back to her mother tongue.

The church and faith of her youth, she writes, remain in her life like an old boyfriend. … Where, while not together anymore in the old way, you still end up checking Facebook each day to see what’s happening in his life.

Many Roman Catholics and mainline Protestants, I suspect, may not be very familiar with Rachel Held Evans or have read her works.

She wrote four best-selling books, “Inspired,” “Searching for Sunday,” “A Year of Biblical Womanhood” and “Faith Unraveled.” The purpose of this column is therefore pretty straightforward: Read her! Even more important, plant her books in the path of anyone struggling with faith or church: loved ones, children, spouses, family members, friends, colleagues.

Rachel Held Evans arose out of an Evangelical ecclesial tradition and out of the particular approach to Christian discipleship that generally flows from there. She and I come from very different ecclesial worlds.

But, as Roman Catholic priest, solidly committed to the tradition I was raised in, and as a theologian and spiritual writer for more than 40 years, reading this young woman, I haven’t found a single line with which to disagree. She’s trusted food for the soul. She’s also a special person that we lost far too soon.

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When are we judged?/ Do Catholic movie ratings bind in conscience?

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So immediately when we die, each individual is judged as either worthy of eternal life in heaven (there may be a temporary stop in purgatory FATHER for purification from the remKENNETH DOYLE nants of sin) or deserving of eternal punishment in hell.

In the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ” (No. 1022). That particular judgment will be private.

But then at the end of the world, when Jesus returns in glory, there will be a public “general” judgment at which each one’s particular judgment will be confirmed and revealed to all. Again, in the words of the catechism: “The Last Judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life” (No. 1039).

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Are the movie ratings done by Catholic News Service binding in conscience? I am a young adult and am curious to know whether all movies rated as acceptable either for general

patronage, for adults and adolescents or only for adults are OK for me to watch so long as they do not lead me to sin.

In other words, if a film contains occasional sinful action – bad language, impure jokes, sexual content (no nudity), violence – is it OK for me to attend or is my own presence scandalous since it might encourage attendance by others for whom the same scenes might be more troublesome? (Oklahoma City) Since 1936, the Catholic Church in America has been rating and reviewing movies to help people determine which films might be suitable for their viewing in accord with Catholic values.

As Catholic News Service explains on its website, the material provided by its Media Review Office is intended “to provide the public with a spiritual, moral and artistic evaluation … based on the standards of faith and morals presented in Scripture and transmitted by the church’s teaching authority.”

The office’s determination of a movie’s merit and acceptability is made not so much on whether a film portrays immoral and unethical behavior but on “the extent that any film ... positively endorses such behavior as either normative or acceptable.”

The office’s reviews and classifications are meant simply to offer guidance; only the individual knows how a film might affect him or her, and you correctly indicate that one should avoid any movie that might create temptations to which one is likely to succumb or move the viewer away from Christian values.

To your question, I think you needn’t worry that your own presence at an A-I, A-II or A-III movie night be scandalous to someone else; that person needs to make his own decision. What I would not do, though, is bring anyone else to see a problematic film if I were not sure how that other person might react.

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HEMRICK: An ode in praise of a beloved friend

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xtra credit question: Name the author of this admonition about the insecure cultural foundations and potentially perilous future of the American republic – “Seeds of dissolution were already present in the ancient heritage as it reached the shores of America.

[And] perhaps the dissolution, long since begun, may FROM PAGE 14 one day be consummated.

Perhaps one day the noble Sometimes he would check my fingertips to see many-storeyed mansion of if my violin playing had created grooves that democracy will be dismanreflected hours of practice. tled, leveled to the dimenHaircuts were never rushed. When I thought sions of a flat majoritarianhe was finished, he would say, “Let’s sharpen ism, which is no mansion this up a little bit more, you got to look your GEORGE WEIGEL but a barn, perhaps even a best for your people.” He echoed my mom who tool shed in which the weapwas forever encouraging me to look dressed up. ons on tyranny may be forged. Perhaps there will American journalist Charles Kuralt once one day be wide dissent from .... [the understandsaid, “The love of family and the admiration of ing] that the eternal reason of God is the ultimate friends is much more important than wealth origin of all law [and] that this nation in all its and privilege.” As I mourn Dave’s death, I aspects – as a society, a state, an ordered and free now realize more than ever how important his relationship between governors and governed – is friendship was and how honored I have been. under God ...”

It is sad that it takes the death of a friend to OK, who wrote that? A millennial Tradinista? realize the privileges of life we enjoy. Anglican A proponent of the new integralism? A “tradiBishop Desmond Tutu sums this up beautifully, tional Catholic?” A political theorist down on “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s John Locke? A Catholic commentator revolted by gift to you, as you are to them.” several states embracing a “fundamental human Dave was not only a gift from God, but the right” to infanticide? A “populist” with a surprisgift of a gentleman. In the book “The Idea of ingly elegant pen? a University,” Cardinal John Henry Newman Well, no, actually. The author of that limpid wrote that a gentleman “makes light of favors prose and prescient warning was Father John while he does them, and seems to be receivCourtney Murray, SJ, and he raised that cauing when he is conferring.” Dave exuded this tionary flag 60 years ago. So much, then, for the gentlemanly spirit par excellence. charge that Father Murray mortgaged Catholic I counsel young people to cherish their parsocial thought to an uncritical “Americanism,” ents while they are still alive because you don’t an indictment also laid against those of us who’ve have them forever. Dave may have departed tried to follow in Murray’s footsteps as theological from us, but thanks to cherished memories, his analysts of American democracy. spirit will live on in all of us who knew him.

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In my forthcoming experiment in historical revisionism, “The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform” (which Basic Books will publish on Sept. 17), I outline the development of the Church’s social magisterium from Pope Leo XIII to the present, with special emphasis on the social teaching of Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. I don’t know whether either of those voracious readers ever read Father Murray’s “We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition.” The thinking of these three men about liberal democracy ran along parallel tracks, however.

Murray, John Paul and Benedict were all convinced that the institutions of liberal democracy – popular self-government through democratic participation in republican representation; separation of powers; rotation in office; enumerated civil and political rights limiting the state’s reach into society – were dependent on a moral and cultural foundation those liberal institutions could not generate. Democracy was not a machine that could run by itself. It took a critical mass of mechanics – mature citizens – to operate the machinery of democracy so that politics helped advance individual human flourishing and social solidarity. Democratic self-governance could fail, and the results would not be pretty if it did.

Yet these three men of the church were also convinced that there was no plausible, real-world alternative to the institutions of liberal democracy for those interested in a humane future.

Monarchy, benign or otherwise, was done, and only nostalgics indulged in fantasies of altar-andthrone restoration. Various 20th-century authoritarianisms had produced either social, economic, and cultural stagnation or genocidal mass violence. Thus the real-world option – the real-world imperative – was the hard work of building and maintaining the moral and cultural foundations essential to the liberal democratic political project, while playing good defense against the temptation of the modern democratic state to impede that reconstruction by using its coercive power to impose on everyone a dumbed-down notion of freedom as personal willfulness or “choice.”

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Book describes a dark side of Mexico’s Catholic history AGOSTINO BONO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“SAINTS AND SINNERS IN THE CRISTERO WAR: STORIES OF MARTYRDOM FROM MEXICO” BY MSGR. JAMES T. MURPHY. Ignatius Press (San Francisco 2019). 286 pp. $17.95.

Mexican Catholicism is symbolized by the positive image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the country’s patroness. The image recalls the Dec. 12, 1531, appearance of Mary to a native of the New World, her indigenous features encapsulating the desire to infuse Catholicism into Latin America’s native populations. Mexico also is the world’s second largest Catholic country, population wise.

Yet Mexico’s Catholic history also has its dark side, sometimes deeply painted in blood. The country’s faithful faced decades of repressive anti-clerical governments from the second half of the 19th century unztil well into the 20th century. During this time Mexico’s government leaders were strongly influenced by the Enlightenment and French Revolution making anti-clericalism a cornerstone of politics.

Bishops were forced into exile. Priests had to register with the government. Church buildings were confiscated. A Catholic education system was prohibited.

Perhaps the most dramatic event was the 192629 Cristero War, a grassroots rebellion by rural ill-equipped but strongly motivated Catholics. It was David vs. Goliath, with sandal-footed farmers facing the well-trained and armed Mexican army.

When it started few predicted the rebels would last more than a few months. Instead, the war dragged out for three years and the Cristeros actually held and administered swaths of rural areas.

The book notes that they could have controlled more were it not that many of the farmer-fighters didn’t want to wander too far from home so that they could regularly visit their families and get a good meal. Many refused to fight during the harvest season because they would lose their crops.

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Picture of the officers from the regimento “Castañon,” 1926.

The men were aided by women who not only encouraged their brothers and husbands to fight but also used guile and money to buy ammunition from corrupt soldiers to pass along to the Cristeros.

The term Cristero comes from the soldiers’ battle cry, “Viva Cristo Rey,” Spanish for “Long live Christ the King.” In 2000, St. John Paul II declared as saints 25 Catholics martyred during the fighting.

But this book is more than a war chronicle. It dissects the religious, social and political aspects of Mexico’s anti-Catholic history. It is also excellent in describing the nuanced, complex negotiations involving the Mexican government, the bishops and the Vatican to end the war and water down

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Mexico’s legal anti-Catholicism. Mediating these negotiations was the U.S. government aided by a U.S. Jesuit priest.

The author, Msgr. James T. Murphy, a journalist, is scrupulous in presenting balanced reporting.

Now retired, he was the director of communications for the Diocese of Sacramento, California, and managing editor of its newspaper. Although the book’s title refers to “saints and sinners,” he shows that not everyone who fought with the Cristeros was saintly. Some ex-priests who took up fighting were corrupt and womanizers. And not all the anti-clerical leaders were without political virtue as they promoted many programs compatible with Catholic social teachings.

Actually, few of the 25 saints canonized in 2000 are mentioned in the book. More time is spent on the nuanced and diverse approaches used by Catholics to fight the anti-clericalism in keeping with their individual moral consciences. The author notes that many Catholics, while opposing the government’s anti-clericalism, did not join the rebels in part because they supported major government efforts to improve the economy, health standards and the transportation system to the benefit of the general population.

The book also notes how the war forced major soul-searching among the clergy regarding how to support the rebellion. In general, bishops opposed taking up arms, favoring an underground church in which clergymen in disguise celebrated Masses and performed the other sacraments in secret in homes, abandoned buildings and secluded rural areas. Many priests also served as noncombatant chaplains to the Cristeros as their bishops turned a blind eye.

The book is a tribute to the strong faith and tenacity of Mexican Catholics who kept their belief alive whether as warriors or nonviolent resisters.

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MERCY FUNDRAISER FOR EDUCATION OF YOUNG WOMEN: On May 2, Mercy High School Burlingame hosted the 15th annual Making a Difference Scholarship Benefit Dinner. Over 400 people attended the fundraiser which raised $320,000 for tuition assistance for young women. Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan, left, received the Catherine McAuley Award for her contributions to Mercy and global Catholic communities.

Head of school Karen Hanrahan, right, who is retiring this year, received the same award for her leadership and commitment to girls’ education.

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MARYKNOLL FATHER JOSEPH A. KLECHA CELEBRATES 50TH JUBILEE: Retired Maryknoll Missionary Father Joseph A. Klecha, ordained on May 24, 1969, celebrated 50 years as a priest with a Mass and reception at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco May 26. “Papa Joe,” as he is known in the Castro parish community where he ministered to those suffering from HIV/AIDS during the height of the epidemic, is in residence at MHR. He celebrates Mass several days a week and is an active member of Reconnecting, a program designed to bring lapsed Catholics back to their faith. He is pictured with MHR parishioner Maria Brann.

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‘JUDE DUDE’ FETED ON 60TH ORDINATION ANNIVERSARY: Nazareth House in San Rafael was the setting for a June 15 Mass and reception celebrating the 60th jubilee of Dominican Father Thomas J. Hayes, former director of San Francisco’s St. Jude Shrine. Ordained in San Francisco in 1959, Father Hayes served a myriad of roles in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as in Anchorage, Alaska. As director of the St. Jude Shrine housed inside St. Dominic Church, Father Hayes said he was given the nickname “Jude Dude.” He later served as prior at St. Dominic Priory and director of Western Dominican preaching. Father Hayes is in residence at Nazareth House.

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TRIBUNAL TRAINING FOR DEACONS: Seven deacons and their wives completed six weeks of training on June 1 to become advocates for the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s metropolitan tribunal. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone invited the couples to the training because he felt they could make a pastoral contribution in working with both petitioners and respondents during the annulment process. The archbish-

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op, judicial vicar Msgr. Romulo A. Vergara and staff from the tribunal and the marriage and family life office taught the group who met each week at the chancery. Deacon Fred and Dorothy Totah, Deacon Robert and Gail Meave, Deacon Ricardo and Marilyn Cepriano, Deacon Abbie and Josephine Nepomuceno, Deacon Jerry and Jennifer Quinn, Deacon Mynor and Claudia Montepeque and Deacon Tom and Catherine Boyle participated.

SANTA CRISTO FESTA COMMEMORATES LOCAL PORTUGUESE: The Festa de Santo Cristo dos Milagres was celebrated May 26 with a procession from Santo Cristo Society Chapel in South San Francisco to nearby Mater Dolorosa Church for Mass and back again. The annual tradition commemorates the history, faith and culture of Portuguese immigrants who started a new life in South San Francisco in the years following the California Gold Rush. The Santa Cristo statue purchased by immigrant families and brought from the Azores Island in 1922 was carried in the procession. The Knights of Columbus from the San Pedro Calungsod Assembly 3412 formed the honor guard for the procession.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WEEK: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will lead vespers in commemoration of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher for Religious Freedom Week. 5:45 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, San Francisco. Sponsored by the Office of Human Life and Dignity, Archdiocese of San Francisco.

SATURDAY, JUNE 22 PHILIPPINE SARINGHIMIG SINGER CONCERT: The Philippine Saringhimig Singers present “Gratitude,” a concert celebrating 45 years of choral performance, 7 p.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica. Conductor George Hernandez leads this internationally-renowned group in a performance of European classics, gospel spirituals, contemporary choral arrangements as well as Filipino folk songs and pop tunes. The concert is a send-off for the choir’s summer concert tour. Tickets are $50 reserved, $25 general admission and can be purchased in advance at saringhimigsingers.eventbrite.com, or (415) 244-0808.

POST-ABORTION HEALING COUNSELORS NEEDED: The Archdiocese of San Francisco Hope & Healing After Abortion Ministry (Project Rachel) is seeking accompaniment mentors. A training for prospective mentors will be held at 8:30 a.m. at Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco, led by Project Rachel spiritual director Father Vito Perrone and by Life Perspectives.

For more information, contact the Office of Human Life & Dignity – Project Rachel, (415) 614-5567, projectrachel@ sfarch.org

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WEEK: Producer Megan Harington and comedian

actor Christopher Meehan will speak and present on what is happening with pro-life and Christian films. 6 p.m., Sts. Peter and Paul Church. Sponsored by the Office of Human Life and Dignity, Archdiocese of San Francisco.

SUNDAY, JUNE 30 PARISH RAVIOLI DINNER: Hosted by the Italian Catholic Federation at Our Lady of Angels Parish school gym.

No-host cocktails from 4-5 p.m. with dinner at 5. Includes antipasto, salad, ravioli, dessert, wine. $25; 12 and under $9. RSVP by June 25 to Donna Cervelli, (650) 343-3790.

MONDAY, JULY 1 PRIESTHOOD DISCERNMENT MEETING: Hosted by the Office of Vocations for young men wishing to explore a vocation to the priesthood.

Program runs from 5:45-8:30. Includes Eucharistic Adoration followed by dinner and discussion. St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City.

For more information and to RSVP contact Father Thomas Martin at martin.thomas@sfarch.org.

THURSDAY, JULY 4 WEST KICKOFF PRO-LIFE CROSSCOUNTRY RELAY RUN: Called the largest pro-life event in the world, runners come to the starting line in San Francisco, San Antonio, Grand Forks and New York City and finish 39 days later in Kansas City. The West Kickoff includes 8:30 a.m. Mass at Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. Prayer at Planned Parenthood and relay starts at the Golden Gate Bridge. Visit liferunners.org for more information.

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

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SATURDAY, JULY 20 RETROUVAILLE ANNUAL FAMILY PICNIC: Potluck family picnic at 110 Garner Court, Novato, noon-3. Hot dogs and sausages will be provided (options will include natural, chicken, vegetarian and gluten-free. Please bring a side dish to share. There’s a pool, so swimmers should bring swimsuits and towels. RSVP by July 11. sfretro.bui@gmail.com.

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

Angele Goyeneche Robert Keith Gray Charles Dean Hale Alvin Aguirre Mary Claire Herold Josephine R. Alberto Conor Joseph Hurley Thelma A. Alonso Madeline Carmen Ippolito Ramon O. Arellano Wallace Douglas Jennings Ernest “Chuck” Ayala Francesca Ortisi Johnson Anacoreta Badio Rochelle J. Jovick Audrey R. Barrett Kyung Ae Jun Juan Ravelo Barrientos Fred-A Rose Jurian Michael Bermingham Michael S. Lee Josephine F. Lopez Emanuel M. Biagini Edward W. Boscacci Evelyn D. Malibiran Cathryn J. Brash Catherine Marconi Catherine O. Briand Bridges I. Marte Michael Browne James Joseph McCracken Frank Buhagiar Judith M. McLaughlin John L. Burnside Alice E. Meschi Cesar B. Calderon Mary Margaret Knights Miller Josephine J. Camozzi Elizabeth A. Moreno Rena V. Cattaneo Janice Marie Mott Marija Cekovic` William B. Mott Leslie J. Cepillo Helen Mugarbane-Lahlouh Peter Bou An Chang Astrid May Murphy Margaret M. Keough Cheney Robert C. Page Juliet M. Conrad Richard G. Pellizzari Sheila Corry Jose M. Quiambao Enriqueta A. Cu Lilia A. Ramiro Edwin J. Daum Gayle Cummins Longo Ray Steven Michael Davis Helen Jean Roach Sister Rose Davis Edward Joseph Ruegg Justiniano C. De Dios Rosine Ryan Lawrence P. Delucchi John A. Sanbrailo Jacqueline De Nola Sharon A. Savage Juliet I. Domingo Evelyn M. Schiappacasse Delbert A. Enbom William N. Schwarz Filipina O. Estrada Gloria Brigaudit Smith Angelina Fioretti Margaret Klinge Smyth Jose M. Flores Mary Ellen Somers Anthony Joseph Flores Kathleen Spencer Josephine Scott D. Flores Kevin Talesfore Delia W. Foster Brandon Talesfore Carmen Freytes Jane Irwin Trainor Errol Anthony Gaines, Sr. Sister Elise Triglia Dionisio C. Gatmen Carmel L. Triska

Susan R. Turla Evangelina Garcia Valenzuela Ildefonso Vigil Ronald W. Weston Peter A. Williams Jillian Rene Wilson Lorraine L. Witsoe Dolores Marie Wolterbeek Frances L. Wood Rita Xuereb Douglas J. Zafferano David J. Zafferano Jr Elito Zepponi Song Zhang

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Maryanne L. Brunn Ida C. Camgros John T. Cronin Thelma Theresa Gaches William B. May Christina T. Silveira Giovanni “John” Torresan

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Catherine O. Briand Fred-A Rose Jurian Richard G. Pellizzari Helen Jean Roach Margaret Klinge Smyth Carmel L. Triska David J. Zafferano Jr Douglas J. Zafferano

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR James Fortado Edward Lea

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS Saturday July 6, 2019 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Daniel E. Carter, Celebrant Our Lady of Lourdes Church

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