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VATICAN CITY – Christians have no need to fear in moments of trial and adversity because God’s grace is more powerful than evil, Pope Francis said.

Like Jesus’ suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane, Christians may sometimes feel alone and think that “God himself has abandoned them,” the pope said June 21 before praying the Angelus with pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

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Some 50 worshippers attended 9 a.m. Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica on Sunday, June 21, the first public Sunday Mass at the church in more than three months. Father Francis Garbo, pastor, told his spread-out congregation how happy he was to see them again. “Thanks for your time, thanks for your faith, thanks for your love for Jesus and Communion and this church,” he said.

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About half of San Francisco’s Catholic parishes celebrated public Mass Sunday, June 21, a sign of the revival of parish life and worship after nearly 100 days of shelter-inplace orders.

Father Francis Garbo, pastor of Mission Dolores Basilica, told his spread-out congregation how happy he was to see them again. “Thanks for your time, thanks for your faith, thanks for your love for Jesus and Communion and this church,” he said to the 50 worshippers attending 9 a.m. Mass.

The parish began celebrating daily Mass on June 15, following California Department of Public Health guidelines for religious worship and arch-

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One of the hardest changes will diocesan safety protocols to protect be the inability to spend time with its congregants. Outside the Dolores friends after Mass, she said. “We’re Street entrance, some volunteers Filipinos who are huggers, and we ensured people kept their distance CHRISTINA GRAY can’t even hug during the sign of and wore masks as they entered the CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO peace. But it’s so nice to see familiar church, while others checked temfaces,” Andrade said. peratures, dispensed sanitizer and The man who helped Dr. Martin For parishioners, gathering togethhandled reservations and consent Luther King Jr. draft his historic “I’ve er has been rejuvenating. Gus Torres forms. Strips of blue painter’s tape Got A Dream” speech in 1963 called said the shelter in place order has and markings on the pews made sure George Floyd’s killing a “tipping been “difficult because you can’t get people sat at a distance from one point,” but said racial injustice will out and you’re confined. It’s sort of a another. not be healed without acknowledgedark feeling. So now to get out here For Grace Andrade, coming to ment and accountability. and see everyone, it’s a good feeling.

Mass at Mission Dolores has been “Part of the process of reconciliation And I hope we’re on the road to being a way to bring back some of the is agreeing to a set of facts,” Clarence back to normal.” normal routine of pre-pandemic life.

Jones said June 17 in a Zoom webinar Torres said he personally was not “It feels a lot better being here,” she offered by the University of San Fransaid. Andrade said she originally was worried about his safety at Mass but cisco. “You can’t have reconciliation was concerned about the health of uncomfortable attending Mass in the around a set of facts that are in dispute personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. older or immunocompromised pachurch until learning more about Athe or challenge. It’s just not possible.” youin have received a flag honoring your loved one's military service and would like to donate it protective actions being Ifput place “Avenue of Flags"PAGE on Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans' convinced her to go. to the cemetery to be flown as part of an SEE REOPENING, 3 SEE Day, USF SPEAKER, PAGE 12

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NEED TO KNOW RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WEEK: “For the good of all” is this year’s theme for Religious Freedom Week June 22-29. Resources are available from the U.S. bishops conference website: usccb.org/issues-andaction/religious-liberty/religiousfreedom-week/index.cfm. Join in praying, reflecting, and taking action on religious liberty, both here in this country and abroad.

OUR LADY’S POETRY: The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship continues with its Zoom events in its effort “for the revivification of Catholic culture, supporting liturgical beauty, intellectual discussion, and fine arts.”

Wednesday, July 1, 5:30-7 p.m. welcomes poet and scholar James Matthew Wilson reading from his book “The River of the Immaculate Conception” and discussing the Catholic roots of American culture.

Wilson is an associate professor at Villanova University and poet-inresidence at the B16 Institute. For complete information and to register, visit www.benedictinstitute.org.

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When conventional church doors closed to stifle the spread of COVID-19, creative parish windows opened to stimulate communion with God and community during the imposed isolation.

Suddenly faced with empty pews and social halls, pastoMsgr. Michael ral leaders across Padazinski the San Francisco archdiocese scrambled to readjust existing programs and roll out new ones.

Crash courses in high-tech, hunts for equipment and expertise, calculations of cost in resources and logistics and unexpected feats have defined the “new normal” of the past three months.

Many of the endeavors have elicited such an encouraging response, they will endure as restrictions relax and houses of worship reopen.

For the near future at least, those unable or unwilling to venture out will have numerous alternatives for staying spiritually engaged: bilingual services via website, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube, meetings via Zoom or GoogleMeet, announcements via Flocknotes or e-bulletins, devotionals

via audio feeds, prayer sessions via phone.

St. Patrick in Larkspur, Church of the Epiphany and Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco, All Souls in South San Francisco, Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame, St. Denis in Menlo Park and Our Lady of the Wayside in Portola Valley, among others, will retain livestreamed Masses in their digital lineup.

“I would like to see everything continue,” said St. Sebastian parishioner Celeste Chapman, who has taken advantage of the Greenbrae parish’s online offerings of sacramental communion, Gospel-themed meditations, “bite-size” nuggets of church teaching, Stations of the Cross, Via Lucis, or Stations of the Light, novenas, devotions, updates and event notices.

“We will definitely stick with” Flocknotes, introduced two years ago but expanded during the pandemic, liturgical reflections and catechism course, Deacon David Previtali said.

In June, he added “Saint of the Week” to St. Sebastian’s virtual toolbox.

“Getting to know the saints is such a boon to spiritual growth and development because they show us fleshand-bone faith lived in real life by real people who were just like us and even through a crisis such as our present one,” the deacon declared.

Since public Masses resumed at the parish June 16, faith has had to carry congregants through a litany of limitations: a parking-lot setting with no seating provided, restrictive code of conduct, possibility of cancelation without prior notice, risk of being turned away if the number present surpasses the maximum permitted.

“This is by no means the ‘grand reopening’ of our doors,” cautioned pastor Father Bill Thornton. “All of these rules will substantially affect your experience of the Mass.”

In an informal survey, 70% of the 350 registered families responding indicated their desire to return, whatever the inconvenience.

Pleased with the results, Deacon Previtali trumpeted the benefits of hearing God’s word proclaimed publicly, receiving the Eucharist sacramentally, worshipping as a community and renewing tete-a-tete social ties.

With the Sunday Mass attendance obligation temporarily lifted, some prefer to play it safe.

“I really, really want to go to Mass, but I feel I can’t afford to take a chance,” said Chapman, who suffers health issues and cares for her 95-year-old mother.

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Families join Corpus Christi Mass Members of selected St. Mary’s Cathedral families who serve in cathedral ministries were invited to participate in the Spanish Mass on June 14, Corpus Christi Sunday, with Archbishop Cordileone and cathedral rector Father Arturo Albano. The Mass included a eucharistic procession to four stations in shrines in the church, with prayers for the pandemic, against racism, for family and for vocations. Pictured in the first row are family members Javier Méndez, Sebastian Méndez, Rosario López and Quetzali Méndez. Second row: Alejandro Sandoval and María Sandoval.

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A volunteer at Mission Dolores checks temperatures at the basilica’s entrance. Right, Gus Torres was among the 50 people attending the 9 a.m.

Mass June 21, the parish’s first Sunday Mass in more than three months.

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rishioners of Mission Dolores. “Even if you’re careful, you never know about something that could be unforeseen,” he said. “That nervousness will go away once we know there’s a vaccine.”

At St. Dominic Church, Deacon Dan Rosen stood in the church parking lot before Mass, directing parishioners to enter through the Steiner Street doors. The temporary rules in place for the liturgy have taken many of the things parishioners take for granted, like singing, responses and socializing afterward.

“It’s definitely a different worship experience but I think people are glad for the most part to be able to come to church. Everyone’s been pretty positive,” he said.

Outside St. Mary’s Cathedral, Fernando Cabrera said the new safety requirements were “a little headache” to manage with children, “but it’s good to be back.” He and his wife, Magdalena Pyziak, said they had been following the cathedral livestreamed Masses but came because nothing can replace praying in church and receiving Communion.

Father Moisés Agudo, pastor of the Mission parishes of St. Anthony of Padua, St. Peter and St. Charles Borromeo, told the congregation at St. Anthony during their first public Mass June 14 that “The priestly ministry makes sense if you (the parishioners) are present. It has been very difficult for me to celebrate the Eucharist in front of a camera.”

Father Agudo added that during shelter in place, public authorities began to see other things as essential and not what he called food of the

soul. Using fear of the virus “they took away the celebration of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter, they also took away Pentecost and the feast of the Holy Trinity,” he said.

His parish’s first public Mass coincided with the feast of Corpus Christi, which celebrates precisely the physical presence of Jesus. “The church is physical, not virtual,” Father Agudo said.

Father Agudo said the parishes under his care would continue to follow state guidance on attendance numbers. “They (the city) cannot force us not to open,” he said. “There are civil laws and moral authority. When the civil laws are not fair we do not have to submit to them.”

Public liturgies resumed in San Francisco on June 14. On June 15, San Francisco officially entered Phase 2B of its reopening plan, which lifted some restrictions on indoor retail, domestic services, summer camps, religious services, outdoor gathering and manufacturing, among other activities. The reopening regulations adopted by San Francisco mandate that religious gatherings and ceremonies that are open to the public can only occur outside and can be attended by no more than 12 people.

Dr. Tomás Aragón, health officer for the city and county of San Francisco, spoke June 18 at a webinar for faith leaders hosted by the San Francisco Interfaith Council. San Francisco’s reopening plans have been based on the premise of keeping the spread of the virus at a reasonably low level while reopening sectors of public life, he said. Aragón said that from a public health perspective, “gatherings are some of the highest risk activities

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Keeping the pace of opening low achieves two things, he said: the ability to monitor the impact of policy changes and allowing more time for coronavirus infections to decrease. As a health officer, he said, “I can always roll back a health order. I cannot uninfect thousands of people.”

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A PANDEMIC PASSAGE: Catholic high schools find creative paths to commencement CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

It was not the senior year anyone expected, but the Class of 2020 at Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco seemed to meet the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic with grace, courage and humor.

After schools closed in March, students, their families, faculty and staff became quick studies in the art of distance learning, and as Convent/Stuart Hall principal Tony Farrell put it, “making lemonade out of lemons.”

Seniors were set to graduate in ceremonies real and virtual, masked and distanced, postponed or as-scheduled.

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ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL: Zach Charlton’s face beamed from the car he drove through campus to pick up his cap and gown, June 1 in advance of formal commencement exercises June 27. The Class of 2020’s 138 graduates represent the school’s last all-male class, with coeducation beginning in the fall. Class speakers: Michael Gray, Adam Kolokotrones. Aidan Murtagh.

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MERCY BURLINGAME: Teachers and administrators greeted cars outside the Kohl Mansion in Burlingame May 16. Seniors picked up caps and gowns and other regalia for a drive-through, live-streamed graduation ceremony May 31. Valedictorian: Jessica Echarte.

Salutatorian: Caitlyn Brooks. Head of School General Excellence Award: Sophia Postigo.

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SACRED HEART PREPARATORY: Siblings Maddy Lee and Spencer Lee sit atop a car during the high school’s drive-through commencement exercises May 23. Family cars parked on the field for the graduation of the school’s 155 capped-and-gowned students.

Valedictorian: Parinaz Khosrovi. Salutatorian: Alan Kagiri.

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SERRA HIGH SCHOOL: Senior Nusi Malani is pictured at the all-boys school’s virtual graduation May 30. Seniors entered the campus one car at a time for conferral of diplomas. Valedictorians: Paul Mansfield, Sriyash Erra, Jack Dugon.

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NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: Noosha Steward received her diploma from Notre Dame High School head of school Maryann Osmond on May 28.

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SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREP: Like the other 296 seniors in the Class of 2020, Sam Hulan’s cap and gown and class photo were hand delivered by faculty and staff after the pandemic postponed commencement exercises at St. Mary’s Cathedral until July 18. Valedictorian: Alden Standley. Salutatorian: Tuan “Harry” Nguyen.

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MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: Father Andrew Ginter, school chaplain, blessed the 159 seniors of the Class of 2020 in the school chapel during a Facebook Live video May 28, their original graduation day. Commencement will take place the first weekend of August.

Valedictorian: Jake Chuharski. Salutatorian: Lindsey Bell.

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CONVENT AND STUART HALL: Convent senior Nisrine Rahmaoui received her diploma in early June. Fifty-one Convent girls and 55 Stuart Hall boys graduated over six days to pace the event for safety. Convent valedictorian: Arianna Nassiri.Stuart Hall valedictorian: Maximilian Tellini. Alumnae Award: Nisrine Rhamaoui.

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ST. IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: Commencement exercises on the school’s football field are postponed until July 25. A celebration in advance took place May 28 when the school’s 348 graduating seniors and their families drove through campus to pick up their caps and gowns. Valedictorian: Owen Viet.

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a godsend to the elderly, the sick, the bedridden, the homebound, even after the pandemic,” her husband Scott asserted.

Agreeing, St. Patrick pastor Msgr. Michael Padazinski reversed his initial intention to cease offering Mass virtually once he was permitted to do so face-toface.

“I don’t want people getting too comfy, sitting in their PJs, drinking their morning coffee and pushing the pause button when Father Paul the phone rings while watching O’Dell Mass,” he said. “We don’t want people to slide into a false sense of ‘well, it worked for three or four months, so why not continue.’”

Such concerns took a back seat to the bigger worry of potential harm to high-risk individuals and of a 40-person attendance cap in a parish of 800 registered families and 600 weekly churchgoers.

Father Bill For the sake of the vulnerable, Thornton Msgr. Padazinski gave the green light to ongoing digital Masses, book club meetings, religious ed classes, rosary group gatherings — with an 800 call-in number for those without a computer — and school connections among faculty, parents and students.

“It was a steep learning curve, but all of us have risen to the occasion,” said the pastor, recalling how the first two weeks of venturing into unfamiliar virtual terrain had him “pulling out my hair.”

Many of his colleagues can relate.

A one-time technological “illiterate,” Father Paul O’Dell, pastor of St. Denis and Our Lady of the Wayside, holds parish council and finance committee meetings via Zoom, livestreams Mass six days a week and emails weekly bulletins to the 800 families enrolled in both churches.

Uncertain of the cost of needed equipment, staff and volunteer resources, the Church of the Epiphany turned to more experienced parishes to borrow advice and supplies before procuring

a tripod and iPhone best suited to the cavernous structure that seats 840.

“Once parish life returns to some normality, each of the changes will be placed under the direction of the correct parish commission,” livestreaming — conducted by a staff member — under spiritual life and online giving — a first-time option in the parish — under finance, said pastor Father Eugene Tungol.

Embracing an area “not in our skill set” before the pandemic, Our Lady of Angels hired a techsavvy parishioner, purchased a $2,000 state-ofthe-art PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera and will add videographers to its liturgical ministry roster to oversee livestreaming, said Theresa Webb, administrator of the parish with 2,300 registered families, 1,200 Sunday Massgoers and a large senior contingent.

Unable to find a parishioner with the necessary know-how and wanting to work with what they had, the All Souls staff relied on internet searches, trial and error and purchased only cable and minor equipment to create an online version of liturgical activities in English and Spanish.

“The goal was not to make a TV-studio (production) but provide the parishioners with access to the Eucharist,” said pastor Father Casimir Abrahamczyk. “That goal has been fulfilled, and the parishioners appreciate it.”

The appreciation shows in “tremendous” spikes in Facebook followers, with the number of Mass viewers sometimes dwarfing that of pre-lockdown churchgoers, he said.

Among the grateful, Lourdes Yniguez Gallo found the daily online Masses “very uplifting and inspiring in bringing the parishioners back into the parish church, if only virtually.”

“The homilies were helpful in encouraging the parishioners to endure and have patience during this time of quarantine,” said the lifelong All Souls member.

Fellow congregant Marissa Andres misses praying the rosary and breaking bread at parishioners’ houses during monthly devotions to Our Lady of Fatima but is thankful the tradition continues by phone.

“It is our way of connecting with one another and loving our Mama Mary,” she said.

Connecting virtually with her parish and priest has brought special comfort to Janet Vergara.

“It gave me a feeling of home,” she said. “It helped me to know that God is with us, and I felt a little more at ease.”

The task of producing the online programs should only get easier, Father Abrahamczyk assessed, “since now we can ask some of the people coming to church to help us.”

Father Francis Mark P. Garbo, who had to climb steep walls as he wired Mission Dolores to strengthen anemic cellphone signals and avert intermittent reception for livestreaming, also thinks the worst is behind.

“There were challenges at the beginning, but looking (in) hindsight, we just went and did it,” recalled the computer-shy pastor. “Each time is a learning curve for us: weak signal, no sounds, echoes in the Old Mission (with 4-foot-thick walls) and Basilica.”

The outcome was worth the effort, he said, because 99% of the largely elderly daily Massgoers indicated a reluctance to return.

The streaming services in English and Spanish provide at-risk individuals with a significant and often sole link to the church community, said religious education director Maria Rosales-Uribe.

She will continue online faith-sharing from her house “as I have found that it has been quite uplifting, especially when we feel so disconnected.”

The efforts attract increased attention.

“I have noticed that our virtual audience has grown to more than just our parishioners, beyond San Francisco and beyond the United States,” said Gustavo Torres, Mission Dolores pastoral council vice chair and finance committee member.

The historic basilica annually draws nearly 300,000 visitors from around the world, and many are returning or entering for the first time through its newly erected digital doors, he noted.

Whatever the whims of the coronavirus bring, Deacon Dave advised keeping Christ close, praying daily, pondering the Gospel, trusting in the Lord.

“Reject all fear!” he admonished. “Memorize and repeat often to yourself 1 John 4:4: ‘He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.’”

Father John Greene retires Father John Greene retires as pastor of St. Robert Parish in San Bruno June 30.

Ordained in 1976, Father Greene is a former pastor of parishes including San Francisco’s St. Monica. He has been pastor of St. Robert for almost eight years.

Father Greene has been an anchor as chaplain for the San Francisco Fire Department for almost 40 years.

He also ministers as chaplain to Fr. John Greene North San Mateo County fire departments including Pacifica, Daly City and Brisbane.

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After Serra statue is torn down, archbishop says protests being ‘hijacked’ by violence many of those missions would go on to become the centers of major California cities.

Serra helped to convert thousands of native After the toppling of a statue of St. Junipero Californians to Christianity and taught them new Serra in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Archagricultural technologies. bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said that important Critics have lambasted Serra as a symbol of protests over racial injustice have been “hijacked” European colonialism and have characterized the by some bent on violence. missions as engaged in the forced labor of Native “What is happening to our society? A renewed Americans, sometimes claiming Serra himself national movement to heal memories and correct was abusive. the injustices of racism and police brutality in our But Serra’s defenders say that Serra was actucountry has been hijacked by some into a moveally an advocate for native people and a champion ment of violence, looting and vandalism,” Archof human rights. bishop Cordileone said in a statement June 20.

“St. Serra made heroic sacrifices to protect the The archbishop’s statement came after a group indigenous people of California from their Spanof about 100 people pulled down Serra’s statue in ish conquerors, especially the soldiers. Even with Golden Gate Park, along with statues of “Starhis infirmed leg which caused him such pain, he Spangled Banner” composer Francis Scott Key walked all the way to Mexico City to obtain speand Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant, who cial faculties of governance from the Viceroy of defeated the Confederacy in the conflict and was Spain in order to discipline the military who were later elected president. abusing the Indians. And then he walked back to The vandalism June 19 took place on JuneCalifornia,” Archbishop Cordileone said. teenth, a day that commemorates the emancipa“And lest there be any doubt, we have a physical tion of slaves in the United States. Earlier in the reminder to this day: everywhere there is a presiday, a labor-led protest drew thousands in Oakdio (soldiers’ barracks) associated with a mission land and shut down ports on the West Coast. in the chain of 21 missions that he founded, the In Los Angeles on June 20, protesters removed a presidio is miles away from the mission itself and statue of Serra in Placita Olvera downtown. “Nathe school.” tives just tore down the statue of Junipero Serra Archishop Cordileone said he did not want to at Placita Olvera in solidarity with #BLMprotest “deny that historical wrongs have occurred, even #antiracism #antislavery,” the website LA Taco by people of good will, and healing of memories tweeted, showing images of people defacing the toppled statue with red paint and what it said were (CNS PHOTO/COURTESY OF THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART COLLECTIONS, AND BOTANICAL GARDENS) and reparation is much needed. But just as historical wrongs cannot be righted by keeping them native children sitting on the statue.

This woodcut was published in 1787 with the first biography hidden, neither can they be righted by re-writing The Los Angeles Times said the peaceful action of Blessed Junipero Serra by Franciscan Father Francisco the history.” was the work of a group of artists and activistsPalou, his student and friend.

The archbishop praised the saint’s missionarguing that “all sides of the history need to be ary zeal: “St. Junipero Serra also offered them of George Floyd, a black man killed by a Minnetold.” The protesters gave a blessing before taking the best thing he had: the knowledge and love of down the statue and later placed fruits and flowers apolis police officer who kneeled on Floyd’s neck Jesus Christ, which he and his fellow Franciscan for nearly nine minutes. on the downed figured and its base, the newspaper friars did through education, health care, and “Everyone who works for justice and equality said. training in the agrarian arts.” joins in the outrage of those who have been and In contrast, on June 18 the city of Ventura “Anger against injustice can be a healthy continue to be oppressed,” the archbishop said. announced a joint agreement with the city, the response when it is that righteous indignation “It is especially true that followers of Jesus Chumash tribe and Mission San Buenaventura to which moves a society forward. But as Christ Christ – Christians – are called to work tirelessly remove a statue of Serra from near City Hall and himself teaches, and St. Francis modeled, love, for the dignity of all human beings,” he added, place it in a non-public location pending commuand not rage, is the only answer,” the archbishop noting that St. Francis of Assisi, for whom San nity discussion on a permanent solution. concluded.

Francisco was named, is “one of history’s most “We have listened and we have heard the calls Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez said in iconic figures of peace and goodwill.” from those in the community and believe the time 2015 that Serra had “deep love for the native “For the past 800 years, the various Franciscan has come for the statue to be taken down and peoples he had come to evangelize.” moved to a more appropriate non-public location,” orders of brothers, sisters and priests that trace “In his appeals, he said some truly remarktheir inspiration back to him have been exemrepresentatives of the three organizations said in able things about human dignity, human a letter to Ventura residents. “To honor the rights and the mercy of God,” the archcultural heritage of Ventura and its earlibishop added. est residents is our ultimate goal.”

In 2017, Archbishop Gomez praised SerAround the country, protesters pulled ra as an overlooked American founder. down statues of historic figures. While “Remembering St. Junípero and the some protests have torn down the statfirst missionaries changes how we reutes of Confederate figures, as part of a member our national story. It reminds us call to end systemic racism, other statues that America’s first beginnings were not have also been torn down from prominent political. America’s first beginnings were locations, including one of George Washspiritual,” Archbishop Gomez said in a ington.

2017 homily.

Commenting on the removal of Serra’s Pope Francis canonized the Franciscan statue in San Francisco, Archbishop missionary Pope Francis in Washington, Cordileone said the memorialization of D.C., on Sept. 23, 2015. historic figures “merits an honest and fair “Junipero sought to defend the digdiscussion as to how and to whom such nity of the native community, to protect honor should be given. But here, there it from those who had mistreated and was no such rational discussion; it was abused it,” the pope said in his homily at mob rule, a troubling phenomenon that the Mass of canonization. “Mistreatment seems to be repeating itself throughout and wrongs which today still trouble us, the country.” especially because of the hurt which they In a tweet, the Spanish embassy said, cause in the lives of many people.”

“We deeply regret the destruction of the (CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO) “Junipero Serra left his native land statue of Saint Junipero Serra in San A screenshot from a video showing and its way of life,” the pope continued.

Francisco today, and would like to offer a vandals removing the statue of St. “He was excited about blazing trails, reminder of his great efforts in support of Junipero Serra in Golden Gate Park going forth to meet many people, learnindigenous communities.” in San Francisco on June 19, 2020.

ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE ing and valuing their particular customs The Hispanic Council of Madrid, Spain, and ways of life. He learned how to bring and Washington, D.C., deplored that “once to birth and nurture God’s life in the faces of plary of not only serving, but identifying with, again we are sadly witnessing the demolition everyone he met; he made them his brothers and the poor and downtrodden and giving them their of the statue of another Hispanic figure in the sisters.” rightful dignity as children of God,“ Archishop United States, in this case that of Fray Junipero In 2018, San Francisco’s city government Cordileone said. “St. Junipero Serra is no excepSerra. This Spanish Franciscan, far from being a removed a statue of the saint from a prominent tion.” ‘genocide’ or a ‘racist,’ represented the opposite location outside City Hall. A statue of the saint Serra, who was canonized a saint by Pope throughout his life.” remains displayed in the U.S. Capitol.

Francis in 2015, was an 18th century Franciscan Archishop Cordileone emphasized the impormissionary who founded nine Catholic missions tance of calls for racial justice and an end to poin the area that would later become California; lice brutality, which began after the May 25 death CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CONTRIBUTED. CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

The memorialization of historic figures ‘merits an honest and fair discussion as to how and to whom such honor should be given. But here, there was no such rational discussion; it was mob rule, a troubling phenomenon that seems to be repeating itself throughout the country.’

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Gomez: Loss of Catholic schools would be an ‘American tragedy’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES – Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles said June 16 that his recent virtual message to 2020 graduates – posted on YouTube and shared on social media – is “a sign of these unusual times” amid the coronavirus.

He said his prayer is that the class of 2020 “will be remembered as a heroic generation that used the gifts of a Catholic education to love and serve and build a better world at a time of national distress, when society had been turned upside down by a deadly pandemic and faced widespread uncertainty about the future.”

But he is praying for something else, too, he said: “that we can act to sustain the schools they graduated from, because right now Catholic schools are facing enormous challenges.”

Archbishop Gomez, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, made the comments in his weekly column, Voices, in Angelus News, the multimedia news platform of the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

He urged support for government aid to help to keep Catholic schools open.

Struck by the pandemic, several dioceses in the nation have announced closures at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year, according to USCCB education officials and leaders of the National Catholic Educational Association.

“If Catholic schools are allowed to fail in large numbers, it would cost public schools about $20 billion to absorb their students, a cost already-burdened public schools should not be made to bear,” Archbishop Gomez said.

“And the loss of Catholic schools would be an American tragedy. It would set back opportunities for generations of children living in low-income and inner-city neighborhoods,” he added. “We cannot accept this outcome for America’s children.”

Before the U.S. Supreme Court’s current term ends June 30, the justices are to hand down a decision on the constitutionality of excluding religious schools from a scholarship aid program, the archbishop noted.

The case is from Montana, where the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling in 2015 that it was unconstitutional to bar religious schools from a scholarship program that provided $3 million a year for tax credits for individuals and business taxpayers who donated up to $150 to the program.

The court based its decision on the state constitution’s ban on spending public funds on religious education under the Blaine Amendment. Thirty-seven states have Blaine amendments, which prohibit spending public funds on religious education.

The Blaine amendments “are one consequence of this country’s shameful legacy of anti-Catholic bigotry,” the archbishop said.

He said Congress and the White House cannot

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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, patroness of Catholic schools in the U.S., is depicted instructing schoolchildren in a sculpture seen in front of Sts. Philip and James School in St. James, New York. Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is calling for government aid to help Catholic schools to prevent more closings. afford to wait for the outcome of the Supreme Court decision. “They should act now to provide immediate relief to help families handle their education expenses and also to expand nationwide opportunities for poor and middle-class families.”

“We should not think of this as having to choose between taxpayer-funded public schools and tuitionbased independent schools. We are in this coronavirus crisis together, as one nation. Public schools and independent schools equally deserve and urgently need our government’s assistance,” he continued.

Catholic schools graduate “an amazing 99% of our students,” and 86% of the graduates go on to college, he pointed out.

“Catholic schools provide great economic value to our country,” the archbishop added. “Per-pupil costs of public schools are about $12,000 a year. With nearly 2 million Catholic school students, that means Catholic schools are saving the nation’s taxpayers about $24 billion each year.”

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largest Catholic school system, he said, with 80% of the schools’ 74,000 students coming from minority families, and 60% of the schools located in urban or inner-city neighborhoods. “Many of the children we serve, 17%, are not Catholics,” he said.

Even though the schools have had to close during the pandemic lockdown, the archdiocese still has been serving poor students and their families, providing 18,000 meals every day, he said. That’s “more than 500,000 and counting – since the pandemic hit,” he said.

“But we are reaching the limits of what we can do through the kindness and sacrifices of our Catholic community,” Archbishop Gomez said, noting that benefactors donate to the archdiocese’s Catholic Education Foundation, established in 1987. It has granted more than $200 million in scholarships to 181,000 low-income students.

Officials at the National Catholic Educational Association and the Secretariat of Catholic Education at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops project that 100 to 150 schools won’t reopen this fall. At the higher end, the number would represent the largest number of closings in recent years, said Margaret Kaplow, public relations manager at NCEA. While NCEA has collected data from various sources on 97 closings as of June 15, education officials expect the number to grow.

In comparison, 98 schools closed before the start of the 2019-2020 school year; 93 in 2019, 110 in 2018, 86 in 2016 and 88 in 2015.

To have 97 schools already announcing they have closed sets a gloomy tone for the 2020-2021 academic year, said Presentation Sister Dale McDonald, the association’s director of public policy.

She explained that school registration for an upcoming academic year usually occurs in the spring.

This year, that did not happen because they were not operating under a normal schedule. Parents also have delayed registering their children, waiting to see if they can afford tuition and to better understand “what they’re coming back to,” she said.

What they may be coming back to could be far different than a normal classroom setting in many dioceses. For that reason, educators said, parents hold the key to the future of Catholic education, which is undergoing a rapid makeover in how students learn.

Perda and his colleagues across the country realize that families are facing tight finances themselves as many parents are unemployed or have been furloughed from work. Other families are cautious, realizing the provisions of the federal Paycheck Protection Program, which allowed small businesses to keep employees on the job for an additional eight weeks, are about to begin winding down.

“We don’t lack people who want to attend our schools,” Thomas Carroll, superintendent of schools in the Archdiocese of Boston, told CNS. “We lack people who can afford to attend our schools.”

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Church singing on hiatus but will return, say music ministers CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PORTLAND, Ore. – Liturgical experts are searching for creative ways to maintain singing at Mass without spreading the coronavirus.

The task amid the current pandemic, the experts say, is to follow the science and adapt.

“For most of the problems in the world that have arisen, people have stepped up to work on that problem,” said Luke Rosen, music director at Corpus Christi Parish in Toledo, Ohio, and choir teacher at St. John’s Jesuit High School. “The entire world is working on this one. We will come up with better solutions than to shut choirs down for two years.”

Oregon Catholic Press, which publishes much of the nation’s Catholic liturgical music, is working with liturgists and pastoral musicians around the country to find creative and safe ways to sing.

“I don’t believe removing all music and singing from Mass is the answer,” said Wade Wisler, publisher of OCP. “Our love for God and worship of him requires it.”

But one of the most dramatic instances of COVID-19 infection came March 10 when the Skagit Valley Chorale an hour north of Seattle practiced for more than two hours in a concert hall about the size of a volleyball court.

Choir members knew the virus was spreading in the metro area, so avoided shaking hands and hugging. They used hand sanitizer and brought their own copies of music. They did, however, share snacks.

A single carrier of the coronavirus – who had minor cold symptoms – spread

BISHOPS PRAISE DACA DECISION

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference praised the Supreme Court on Thursday for a decision that keeps the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program intact — for now.

“First, to DACA youth, through today’s decision and beyond, we will continue to accompany you and your families. You are a vital part of our church and our community of faith.

We are with you,” said USCCB president Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles and Bishop Mario Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington and the USCCB’s migration committee chair in a June 18 statement.

(CNS PHOTO/COURTESY LUKE ROSEN)

Luke Rosen conducts a choir at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Toledo, Ohio, sometime before the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping through the U.S. the disease to 52 of 60 choristers. Two died.

Some investigators reported that singing, more so than talking, turns respiratory droplets into vapor that can carry the virus as far as 16 feet. And singers take big gulps of air. It’s a heyday for a virus, the researchers said.

The American Choral Directors Association held a May 5 webinar in which health officials explained some views of the science. The webinar’s bottom line: There is no safe way for choirs to perform or rehearse until a COVID-19 vaccine is proven effective.

Rosen has proposed plexiglass shields or even booths to keep singers and congregations safe, at least for the next year or two.

“Choir directors around the world know we aren’t going to go back to what we were doing,” Rosen told the Catholic Sentinel, Portland’s archdiocesan newspaper. But canceling choirs for Mass and other events six months or a year ahead is unwarranted, he argues.

“The only way forward cannot be to just stop,” said Rosen, who thinks the Skagit Valley example is not enough to draw scientific conclusions. Though he wants everyone to take bold precautions now, he called for more study.

“I don’t think we are giving science enough credit,” he said, predicting that there will be quick tests to ensure choir members are healthy before they sing.

Most Catholic parishes will continue

In a majority opinion written mostly

by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan, the court said that that the Department of Homeland Security failed to meet the Administrative Procedure Act’s standard of providing “a reasoned explanation” for its ending DACA in September of 2017. Roberts wrote the opinion except for Part IV; Justice Sonia Sotomayor also joined the opinion except for that section.

ops said he is “deeply concerned” that by ruling federal law protects LGBT workers from discrimination, the U.S. Supreme Court “has effectively redefined the legal meaning of ‘sex’ in our nation’s civil rights law.”

“This is an injustice that will have implications in many areas of life,” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said June 15.

Earlier in the day the high court in a 6-3 vote said LGBT people are protected from job discrimination by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Wisler of OCP said that, under the present circumstances, a single cantor and accompanist is reasonable, as is focusing on songs the community already knows and loves.

In the Archdiocese of Portland, cantors need not wear masks, but only worshippers who have masks can sing along. But a few parishes in western Oregon have canceled music for the time being.

“Congregational singing will not be employed as I have seen little tendency toward the wearing of face masks and this is essential to have singing,” Father William Palmer said in a note to members of Sacred Heart Parish in the coastal town of Newport, where a seafood plant suffered an early June outbreak of COVID-19 that sickened more than 100 workers.

All parishes have been ordered to remove communal songbooks as a way to prevent spread of the virus. “We don’t want to have to sanitize books after every Mass,” said Father Ken Sampson, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Medford.

The real question is crafting liturgy so people can participate as fully as possible while staying safe, said Benedictine Father Godfrey Mullen, rector of St. Benedict Cathedral in Evansville, Indiana.

“We’re looking for a middle road that respects the science as we have it but respects the rights of the faithful to participate actively,” Father Mullen said. members of a different sex,” said Justice Neil Gorsuch writing the opinion in the case argued at the start of the court’s term last October.

“Only the written word is the law, and all persons are entitled to its benefit,” Gorsuch wrote. Dissenting votes were from Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh.

Archbishop Gomez said that “by erasing the beautiful differences and complementary relationship between man and woman, we ignore the glory of God’s creation and harm the human family, the first building block of society.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 25, 2020

SUNDAY READINGS

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 KINGS 4:8-11, 14-16A One day Elisha came to Shunem, where there was a woman of influence, who urged him to dine with her. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he used to stop there to dine. So she said to her husband, “I know that Elisha is a holy man of God. Since he visits us often, let us arrange a little room on the roof and furnish it for him with a bed, table, chair, and lamp, so that when he comes to us he can stay there.” Sometime later Elisha arrived and stayed in the room overnight. Later Elisha asked, “Can something be done for her?” His servant Gehazi answered, “Yes! She has no son, and her husband is getting on in years.” Elisha said, “Call her.” When the woman had been called and stood at the door, Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be fondling a baby son.”

PSALM 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19 Forever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

The promises of the Lord I will sing forever through all generations my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness. For you have said, “My kindness

is established forever;” in heaven you have confirmed your faithfulness.

Forever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

Blessed the people who know the joyful shout; in the light of your countenance, O Lord, they walk.

At your name they rejoice all the day, and through your justice they are exalted.

Forever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

You are the splendor of their strength, and by your favor our horn is exalted. For to the Lord belongs our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our king.

Forever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

ROMANS 6:3-4, 8-11 Brothers and sisters: Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life. If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. We know that Christ, raised from the

dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God. Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.

MATTHEW 10:37-42 Jesus said to his apostles: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because the little one is a disciple – amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”

Losing one’s life to find it

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lisha’s travels allow him to take advantage of a married couple’s hospitality in this passage.

God rewards those who generously provide for God’s kingdom. After being on the receiving end of others’ generosity, the Lord has shown me both how humbling it is to receive gifts from benefactors, but also that he blesses souls richly who respond with foresight and provide for the church. The wife’s conversion and salvation could very well depend on these small acts of generosity that she gives to the prophet. Although Elisha’s poverty and detachment prevent him from giving SISTER MARIA material gifts, his response CATHERINE to the wife’s generosity is TOON, OP lavish: She will receive a child, her heart’s desire.

Likewise, God’s generosity to us in his grace is lavish. Through the church,

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we receive the sacraments that save us, hear the word of God preached, and have a spiritual family with which to exercise hospitality to the world.

Like Elisha, Paul indicates that the Christians who are doing God’s will have died to themselves in imitation of Christ. This means carrying our own cross daily, while trusting that God is extravagant with his grace. While it’s easy to get caught up in the sacrifices that carrying one’s cross demands, the goal is deeper interior freedom to love others and to be loved by God. Carrying the cross means laboring with Christ in us to part with jealousy, insecurity, fearfulness, pride, ambition and any other dysfunctions in ourselves, or our families. Our daily cross means turning to Jesus and Our Lady when we feel jealous of someone else, asking them to give us the grace to value the other person while also recognizing our own gifts; if feeling insecure or fearful, ask Jesus and Our Lady to help you to see the root cause. In these ways, Jesus enters in and opens the floodgates with his healing grace.

We become more free, the more Christ reigns in us.

The Apostle Paul encourages us not to cling

to our possessions or ideas, but instead seek constant, daily conversion to “put on the new man” as he says in several places throughout his letters. This is not to disparage those who have many possessions, or enjoy material blessings, but rather an opportunity to examine one’s attachment to Christ. Does he come first? In everything? Above everything else?

Ask the Holy Spirit to show you where you are attached in your life. Is it your children? Your reputation? Your idea of what society should be like? Ask him to open your heart and mind to his way, because Jesus is “the way, the truth, and the life.”

Ironically, Christ is the king of an “upside down” kingdom. In order to find real life in the kingdom, we must allow ourselves to grow smaller and lose what we think life is about. St. Catherine of Siena advises someone in her letters to “leave it all to him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the cross, and you will find yourself entirely.” This is losing your life for his sake so that you (and others) can find it.

SISTER MARIA CATHERINE TOON is a professed Dominican Sister of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, 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 16:13-19.

TUESDAY, JUNE 30: Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome. AM 3:1-8; 4:11-12. PS 5:4b-6a, 6b-7, 8. PS 130:5. MT 8:23-27.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1: Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Junipero Serra, priest. AM 5:14-15, 21-24.

PS 50:7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 16bc-17. JAS 1:18. MT 8:28-34.

THURSDAY, JULY 2: Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. AM 7:10-17. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. 2 COR 5:19. MT 9:1-8.

FRIDAY, JULY 3: Feast of St. Thomas, apostle. EPH 2:19-22. PS 117:1bc, 2. JN 20:29. JN 20:24-29.

SATURDAY, JULY 4: Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. AM 9:11-15. PS 85:9ab and 10, 1112, 13-14. JN 10:27. MT 9:14-17 SUNDAY, JULY 5: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. ZEC 9:9-10. PS 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14.

ROM 8:9, 11-13. CF. MT 11:25. MT 11:25-30.

MONDAY, JULY 6: Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr. HOS 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22. PS 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. 2 TM 1:10. MT 9:18-26.

TUESDAY, JULY 7: Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. HOS 8:4-7, 11-13. PS 115:3-4, 5-6, 7ab-8, 9-10. JN 10:14. MT 9:32-38.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8: Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. HOS 10:1-3, 7-8, 12. PS 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. MK 1:15. MT 10:1-7.

THURSDAY, JULY 9: Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, Chinese martyrs. HOS 11:1-4, 8e-9. PS 80:2ac and 3b, 15-16.

MK 1:15. MT 10:7-15.

FRIDAY, JULY 10: Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. HOS 14:2-10. PS 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14 and 17. JN 16:13a; 14:26d. MT 10:16-23.

SATURDAY, JULY 11: Memorial of St. Benedict, abbot. IS 6:1-8. PS 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5. 1 PT 4:14. MT 10:24-33.

SUNDAY, JULY 12: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary

Time. IS 55:10-11. PS 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14. ROM 8:18-23. MT 13:1-23 or 13:1-9.

MONDAY, JULY 13: Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Henry. IS 1:10-17. PS 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. MT 5:10. MT 10:34-11:1.

TUESDAY, JULY 14: Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, virgin. IS 7:1-9. PS 48:2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8. PS 95:8. MT 11:20-24.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15: Memorial of St. Bonaventure, bishop and doctor. IS 10:5-7, 13b-16. PS 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15. MT 11:25. MT 11:25-27.

THURSDAY, JULY 16: Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. IS 26:7-9, 12, 16-19. PS 102:1314ab and 15, 16-18, 19-21. MT 11:28. MT 11:28-30.

FRIDAY, JULY 17: Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. IS 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8. IS 38:10, 11, 12abcd, 16. JN 10:27. MT 12:1-8.

SATURDAY, JULY 18: Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis. MI 2:1-5. PS 10:1-2, 3-4, 7-8, 14. 2 COR 5:1. MT 12:14-21.

OPINION 11

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 25, 2020

What is dignity?

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he movie “Million Dollar Baby” tells the story of a young woman who becomes a professional boxer. Young, strong, and physically very attractive she captures your heart as, against all odds, she eventually rises to the top in her sport.

But then the story turns tragic; she is unfairly hit by an opponent and ends up paralyzed, her body broken and with it her health and attractiveness. And her condition is permanent, there is no cure. She chooses to end her life through euthanasia.

I had gone to this movie FATHER RON with a young couple, both ROLHEISER solidly committed to their church and their faith. Yet both of them were in strong sympathy with how this young woman chose to die. Perhaps it was more their emotions than themselves speaking when they justified her manner of death: “But she was so young and beautiful! It wouldn’t have been right for her to spend the rest of her life in that terrible state!” In their young eyes, her debilitated state stripped her of her essential dignity.

What is dignity? When and how is it lost?

Dignity is a promiscuous term, constantly shedding different partners. It is also a sneaky term. Sometimes it no longer means what it used to mean and nowhere is this truer than when the term is applied today to “death with dignity.”

What defines death with dignity?

Shortly after Brittany Maynard died by euthanasia in a case that caught wide public attention, Jessica Keating wrote an article in America magazine assessing that death from various points of view. At one point she takes up the question of dignity and writes: “The use of the term dignity to describe this death is deeply problematic, since it masks the reality of fear and equates dignity

For us, dignity and beauty are inextricably tied to physical health, physical attractiveness, and lack of humiliating diminishments within our physical body. Within that perspective there is, seemingly, no dignity to Jesus’ death. exclusively with radical autonomy, choice, and cognitive capability. The result is a not-so-subtle implication that the person who chooses diminishment and suffering dies a less dignified death” (America, March 16, 2015).

In much of our talk about death with dignity today there is in fact the not-so-subtle implication that the person who chooses diminishment and suffering over euthanasia dies a less dignified death. That is hard to deny, given the dominant ethos of a culture wherein physical diminishment and suffering are seen as a very assault on our dignity. This has not always been the case; indeed in former times sometimes the opposite was true, an aged, physically diminished body was seen as something dignified and beautiful. Why is our view of dignity different today?

They are different because of how we conceive of dignity and beauty. For us, these have to do mainly with physical health, physical vitality, and the physical attractiveness of the human body. For us, aesthetics is a house with one room – physical attractiveness. Everything else assaults our dignity. That makes it difficult for us to see any process that diminishes and humbles the human body by robbing it of its vitality and physical attractiveness as being a dignified one. And yet that is normally how the death process works. If you have ever journeyed with someone dying from a terminal disease and been at their bedside when he or she died, you know that physically this is not

pretty. Disease can do horrible things to the body.

But does this destroy dignity? Does it make one less beautiful?

Well, that depends on one’s spirituality and on what one considers as dignified and beautiful. Consider Jesus’ death. By today’s concept of dignity, his was not a very dignified death. We have always sanitized the crucifixion to shield ourselves from its raw “indignity,” but crucifixion was humiliating. When the Romans chose crucifixion as a method of capital punishment they had more in mind than just ending someone’s life. Besides wanting to make a person suffer optimally they also wanted to totally and publicly humiliate him by humiliating his body. Hence the person was stripped naked, with his genitals exposed, and when he went into spasms in the moments before death, his bowels would loosen. What can be more humiliating?

What can be less beautiful?

Yet, who would say that Jesus did not die with dignity? The opposite. We are still contemplating the beauty of his death and the dignity displayed in it. But that is within a different aesthetics, one that our culture no longer understands. For us, dignity and beauty are inextricably tied to physical health, physical attractiveness, and lack of humiliating diminishments within our physical body. Within that perspective there is, seemingly, no dignity to Jesus’ death.

I am the first to admit that the issue of death with dignity is an extremely complex one that raises legal, medical, psychological, familial, societal, ethical and spiritual questions for which there are no simple answers. But inside all of these questions there still lies an aesthetic one: What, ultimately, makes for beauty? How, ultimately, do we see dignity? Does a person with a still attractive, undiminished, physical body who voluntarily chooses to die before that beauty is despoiled by disease die more dignified than did Jesus?

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

LETTERS A most dangerous president

In his encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis makes clear the interrelationship of care for the earth and care for the poor and disenfranchised: “Human beings too are creatures of this world, enjoying a right to life and happiness, and endowed with unique dignity.

So, we cannot fail to consider the effects on people’s lives of environmental deterioration, current models of development, and the throwaway culture” (“Laudato Si’” 43).

I am a Catholic who has a problem with a president who places no regard for safeguards that protect our land, our precious natural resources and our planet. Data, not propaganda, should be what each of us draw upon to make informed decisions about our leaders. Fortunately, my church has demonstrated character and strength to lend a voice to the voiceless, the unfortunate souls and creatures that already are facing the very real effects of climate change. God is in charge and has challenged us all to be stewards of his grand creation.

Stephen M. Miller San Francisco

No going back

I read an inspiring article, which I credit at the end.

Will the racism crisis be addressed on an archdiocesan and on a parish level, or will we resume Mass and include our concern in the petitions?

There are many questions about how we live our faith in this moment, which we need to address together. The situation cries out for leadership. The hope demonstrated in the protest marches needs to be met with immediate response.

I am 60-plus years old and ashamed to say that it took this present crisis for me to come to any real or practical understanding of my position in society vis-a-vis the oppression of people of color and in particular of black Americans. How could this happen?

I have been somewhat aware, shocked by isolated events presented in the news, vaguely contrite when confronted by pastoral letters, etc., and have never taken responsibility for coming to grips with the nature of the privilege in which I have thrived and prospered. I am a little late, retired now with a very limited sphere of influence. However, from this point, for me, there is no going back.

I wish I felt this way about church leadership.

Matthew 5:20-26 … go first and be reconciled with your brother … (today’s Gospel, June 11) prompts me to ask: Can we reopen our churches on a new page, a transparent one – 100% color conscious?

This letter was prompted by an article. “When will the US bishops address the evil of systemic racism head-on?” by Daniel Horan, OFM (National Catholic Reporter, June 10, 2020).

Maureen O’Riordan Lundy San Francisco

Praying for strength to forgive

As a Roman Catholic, I am called to practice forgiveness. This is a central tenet of my faith.

But I find it hard to forgive the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States who released a statement on June 16 regarding the Supreme Court’s decision confirming that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects lesbian, gay and transgender people from discrimination.

Archbishop Gomez, the president of the U.S. conference of bishops, characterized the Supreme Court’s decision as “an injustice that will have implications in many areas of life.”

This is an utterly perverse and mean-spirited statement. The Supreme Court’s decision should be heralded as a beacon of justice. It will help

protect the rights LGBT people, who historically have been subject to outrageous maltreatment in all areas of life, including employment, housing and benefits.

I have to pray for the strength to forgive Archbishop Gomez and his fellow bishops for their bigotry against people like myself, a married gay Catholic. Lord help me find the way.

Frank Lindh San Rafael

Church is more than a building

Our church is not just a building. We are the “living stones” of our church, not the building.

The Liturgy of the Eucharist can be celebrated in an outdoor tent or courtyard or school ground with people six feet or more apart. It is not necessary to receive Jesus inside a building.

The value of human life is very, very important – look to what Jesus, the son of God, did for us. We are all very important and will always be important. We are a society that is still learning and we do need to make sacrifice for others over our own selfish wants. Holy Eucharist has been received from many, many outdoor facilities, and with much safety and care.

Mary Beaudry South San Francisco

God’s children

Thank you to Houston chief of police Art Acevedo, head of the police department in the most diverse city in our country, for reminding us in an interview June 10 that “we are all God’s children.”

Michael Traynor Burlingame

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USF SPEAKER: Racial reconciliation futile without accountability Jones, 89, is a faculty member at the Jesuit-run university and director of the Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice. He teaches a course called “From Slavery to Obama.”

“The problem we are experiencing today is precisely because we have been unable or unwilling to face the facts that are required for reconciliation,” he said.

Jones said the “simple facts” are that America was founded on the institution of slavery and the “pernicious ideological legacy of white supremacy.”

White supremacy has “passed on through the institutional veins from generation to generation” despite the “magnificent words” of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, he said.

More than 500 people registered for the event, which continued a conversation that started at a campus-wide vigil for Floyd shortly after his killing in an encounter with police in Minneapolis May 25.

“In my life, I have seen great horrors and great achievements,” said Jones, who served as King’s

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lawyer, strategic adviser and speechwriter from 1960 until King’s assassination on April 4, 1968. “In the nine decades I have lived, I have never seen a crisis as urgent and grave as the crisis facing our nation today.”

He called King “America’s pre-eminent apostle of love, nonviolence and commitment to the pursuit of personal excellence and social justice.”

Despite calls from some activists to defund police, Jones said he is not a proponent. However, he said Dr. Clarence police budgets should be reviewed Jones to see if they are “rational” given the other needs in African American communities.

“There is nothing in my work and legacy working with Dr. King that would suggest we don’t want police,” Jones said.

“Let’s get sensible and real,” he continued. “The African American community, we need the police. I’m not against the police. I want the police to be in our communities. I just don’t want them kneeling on our neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and killing us.”

He said police officers should live in and have a

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“They come into the African American community and don’t see themselves as an occupying army,” he said. “But they act like they are.”

Jones challenged individuals and institutions – even Jesuit-run institutions like USF – to acknowledge unchecked, insidious racism.

“We cannot forget that our commitment to living a ‘faith that does justice’ is rooted in narratives of liberation of the oppressed,” wrote USF President Jesuit Father Paul J. Fitzgerald in a June 10 open letter addressed to “Black-identified students, faculty, staff, alumni and their allies.”

The school acknowledged its own failure at times to “support or actively respond” to members of the school community who have called out racist policies and practices or who engaged in anti-racist activism.

It promised “new ways of living, learning and working together as a community.”

“We recognize that our Black colleagues, Black students, and Black alumni may have lived with high levels of uncertainty and anxiety at the hands of our silence, our complicity, and our exclusion,” he said.

“We have heard this, yet our responses need to be different.”

On June 12, the members of the Loyola House Jesuit community on the USF campus issued a statement condemning systemic racism and pledging “self-examination, transformative listening, communal discernment, and the funding of scholarships.”

“The racism that caused [Floyd’s] death is systemic, as it is for the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Dominique Clayton, and Ahmaud Arbery,” the community said. “Sadly, the list goes on and on. Racism was present from the founding of the first European colonies in North America.

“As Jesuits, we are not absolved from this original sin and acknowledge our own sinful history. … We stand in solidarity with those fighting for an end to racism and white supremacy.”

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What is important is the frankness, the courage of our witness, of our witness of faith: ‘recognizing Jesus before others’ and continuing to do good,” he said.

While addressing the faithful, the pope also remembered the celebration of Father’s Day in many countries around the world and assured all fathers of his “closeness and prayer.”

“We all know that being a father is not an easy task,” the pope said. “Therefore, let us pray for them.

I also remember in a special way our fathers who continue to protect us from heaven.”

In his main address, the pope reflected on the Sunday Gospel reading from St. Matthew, in which Jesus tells his disciples to “not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.”

Among the tangible situations Christians may face, he said, was the “hostility of those who would like to stifle the word of God by sugarcoating it, by watering it down or by silencing those who proclaim it.”

The physical threat of violence and persecution against Jesus’ disciples, the pope continued, is another prophecy made by Jesus that “is fulfilled in every age.”

“It is a painful reality, but it attests to the faithfulness of the witnesses,” he said. “How many Christians are persecuted even today throughout the world! They suffer for the Gospel with love, they are the martyrs of

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MEXICO CITY – Father Andres Esteban Lopez recently brought hundreds of “detentes” – small emblems of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – to a Mexico City hospital, where he enters the intensive care units to pray the rosary and visit patients with COVID-19.

He planned to distribute the images of the Sacred Heart to the medical staff and said: “They went like hotcakes.

Everyone wanted a ‘detente’” – roughly “stopper” in Spanish and the word for such images – “and we quickly ran out.”

Father Lopez, a priest with the Cruzados de Cristo Rey, a Mexican congregation, told those receiving the images, “It’s not an amulet so that you don’t get sick – as if this is going to prevent contagion – it’s a sign that we have the love of Christ by our side.”

The response to Father Lopez’s distribution of “detentes” among Mexico’s front-line health workers, some of whom have publicly protested poor work conditions and a lack of personal protective equipment, shows the deep devotion in the country to the Sacred Heart, along with its prominent place in the country’s popular piety as a form of protection.

With the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the country – Mexico recorded 1,044 deaths June 21, most of any nation that day – priests report Mexicans are returning to the devotion of the Sacred Heart. Even the president made references to it.

On the June 19 feast of the Sacred Heart, the Archdiocese of Mexico issued a prayer, which it posted on its social media sites with the words, “Through this prayer, we ask the Sacred Heart of Jesus to protect our beloved Mexico and our families in these moments of enormous difficulty (and) we appeal to his enormous mercy.”

Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City tweeted that day, “From childhood, I’ve had a special devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.”

“This is a very deeply rooted devotion in Mexico,” said Ilan Semo, historian at the Jesuit-run Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. He added the Sacred Heart was perhaps the most popular

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devotion in Mexico and is often associated with the social and charitable side of the church, after the devotion to Mexico’s patroness, Our Lady of Guadalupe.

“You don’t see it in the churches, it’s part of the popular piety: You see the heart, you don’t necessarily see Jesus,” said Father Robert Coogan, an American priest in the northern city of Saltillo.

“The church asks that a true devotion to the Sacred Heart be an image of Jesus resurrected and glorified, showing the burning love of his heart and that it not be the heart as a talisman, which is quite popular in Mexico.”

Somewhat controversially, the devotion to the Sacred Heart was pulled into politics as the pandemic arrived in Mexico. At his March 18 news conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pulled out a pair of “detentes.”

He said the images of the Sacred Heart, which he called, “My bodyguards,” were given to him by well-wishers.

“Stop, enemy, the heart of Jesus is with me,” he said, reading the short prayer on the image.

Bernardo Barranco, an author and church observer, described the president’s reference as “part of his magic thinking,” but also a way of “identifying” with the population through popular piety.

Lopez Obrador, who identifies as Christian, “committed a grave error,” Father Andres Larios, a priest in Michoacan state, said of the references to popular piety. “He’s playing with many people’s devotion, he’s mocking it. I see it more as a mockery by Lopez Obrador rather than a sign that he’s saying it with faith.”

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Pope adds ‘Comfort of Migrants,’ other Marian titles to litany CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Among the many titles under which Catholics invoke Mary, Pope Francis has asked them to add “Mother of Mercy,” “Mother of Hope” and “Comfort of Migrants.”

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, sent a letter to the presidents of bishops’ conferences around the world asking that the titles be inserted into the “Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” more commonly known as the “Litany of Loreto.”

The litany, which begins by invoking God’s mercy, then turns to Mary, asking for her prayers.

The Litany of Loreto traces its origins back to the 16th century and already had close to 50 titles for Mary with verses like “Holy Mother of God, pray for us” and “Queen of All Saints, pray for us.”

Cardinal Sarah’s letter, released June 20 by the

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Vatican, said, “The church, which walks along the pathways of history as a pilgrim toward the heavenly Jerusalem and enjoys inseparable communion with Christ her spouse and savior,” entrusts itself to the intercession of Mary, “who believed in the word of the Lord.”

“We know from the Gospel that the disciples of Jesus had, in fact, learned from the very beginning to praise her as ‘blessed amongst women’ and to count on her maternal intercession,” he said.

The titles for referring to and seeking assistance from Mary are “innumerable,” the cardinal said, but the pope wanted formally to recognize more of them.

“Mother of Mercy,” he said, should follow “Mother of the Church” in the litany, then comes “Mother of Divine Grace” and the insertion of “Mother of Hope.”

Further down, after invoking Mary as “Health of the Sick” and as “Refuge of Sinners,” he said, Catholics should add “Comfort of Migrants.”

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SAO PAULO – In a region of Sao Paulo city where violent deaths are common and fatalities due to COVID-19 do not shock the population, Brazil’s Catholic Church has launched a campaign to try to convince those not providing essential services to maintain social distancing and remain at home.

The campaign, “Quero te ver de novo” (I Want to See You Again) in Brasilandia, one of Sao Paulo city’s poorest regions, seeks to disseminate the importance of social distancing in protecting the population from being contaminated with the coronavirus.

Church officials, however, admit that the task is not an easy one.

“In this region social distancing is complicated, almost impossible.

The houses are small and there are many family members living in each of them. Significant social distancing has not been practiced here,” said Sao Paulo Auxiliary Bishop Devair Araujo da Fonseca, who is in charge of the Brasilandia episcopal region of the archdiocese.

The church’s campaign also tries to dispel the popular notion that “one more or one less death won’t make a difference.”

“This is a population that has lived many years with extreme violence, high unemployment and lack of basic infrastructure. We needed a campaign that would say to them: Hold on, take care of yourself and others, because we want to see you alive and well (when the pandemic is over),” Jorge Vicente Barros Ferreira, one of the coordinators of the communications department at the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo, told Catholic News Service.

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Activists in protective gear dig “graves” on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro June 11, 2020.

The graves were dug to symbolize those who died from COVID-19. with more than 260,000 inhabitants.

The area, largely made up of slums and low-income tenements, has 36 parishes and 237 Catholic communities.

Since the first cases of COVID-19, the region has continually registered the highest numbers of cases and deaths caused by the virus in Sao Paulo city, the epicenter of the pandemic in Brazil.

According to official data, until June 5 the borough had registered 247 deaths and thousands of confirmed cases.

One of those deaths was the uncle of 69-year-old Rosa Maria da Costa Oliveira, a parishioner at St. Luiz Gonzaga in Brasilandia.

“The hospitals here were overflowing with patients. They didn’t have a bed for him here, so they moved him across the city, where he eventually died,” said the 69-year-old grandmother.

The death of the family member made Oliveira even angrier at those who disregard the rules of wearing masks and social distancing. From her apartment on the ninth floor, Oliveira said she sees mothers with young

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“I have gotten into heated arguments with friends over the order to stay home,” said the retiree, chuckling. She said she had left her apartment once in 86 days – to get her annual flu shot.

So, when the church began its campaign in May, Oliveira said she was one of the first to support it.

“I changed the cover photo on my Facebook page to the campaign’s motto on the very first day,” she said, adding that most of her fellow parishioners followed suit.

“I think it (campaign) captures what we all desire: to return to the face-toface celebrations ... The campaign asks us not to put ourselves at risk or to put anyone else at risk,” she said.

In addition to the social distancing awareness campaign, the church has also been busy in distributing hygiene and protection supplies as well as clothes to people in need. According to

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“I was very surprised with the actions by some parishes and parishioners. Every tragedy is an opportunity to bring to the surface the best in people,” said Bishop Fonseca, who has been working in the region for the past five years.

In St. Rose of Lima Parish, the bishop said, women parishioners started to make face masks.

“What was supposed to be a small project turned out to be a big mission for these women. They have produced approximately 30,000 masks,” he said.

“Our parishioners have not lost faith, they have found a reason to nourish hope. Faith does not make us lethargic,” said Bishop Fonseca.

He said although celebrations have been restricted to virtual events, the church is not closed.

“The doors of the parishes may be shut, but their work has not stopped.

Church continues to take action,” he said.

He added that the campaign to keep people home will also help lead them back to church when the pandemic is finally over.

“The motto ‘We Want to See You Again’ means we want you to stay home now so you can be alive in the future, and it also means that when restriction measures start to ease, we want to see you in live celebrations and Masses,” he said, explaining there is concern that when churches finally open, parishioners will be too afraid to go back to attending Mass.

Oliveira, however, believes this fear is unfounded.

“When this is all over, I think our parishes will emerge better and stronger. We will give more value to face-toface Masses, we will be more convinced of our faith,” she said.

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OBITUARIES SISTER JEANENNE WEIS, SNJM

Sister Jeanenne Weis (Sister Paula Jean) died May 13, 2020 in Saratoga.

She was 89 yearsold and a professed Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary for 65 years.

Sister began her teaching career at Sister Jeanenne St. Monica School in Weis, SNJM San Francisco later joining the faculty at Marin Catholic High School. In retirement she tutored Holy Names University students in English and mathematics.

“Sister Jeanenne found her passion when she began her ministry in parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, ministry that spanned some 30 years at St. Pius, St. Andrew, St. Paul and Holy Angels,” the sisters said in a statement.

“Deep friendships, a twinkle in her eye, laughter and humor, the requisite morning coffee and driving a gold Pontiac were some of the hallmarks of Sister Jeanenne. She lived her life always true to herself.”

A memorial Mass will be celebrated when COVID-19 restrictions are lessened. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Names, P.0. Box 907, Los Gatos 95031.

FATHER KIRK ULLERY

Father Kirk Ullery, retired pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes and All Hallows parishes in San Francisco died June 20, 2020 at Marin General Hospital at the age of 86. He had previously been in care at Nazareth House in San Rafael.

Ordained for the Franciscans on December 18, 1965 in Santa Barbara, Father Ullery applied to the Archdiocese of San Francisco and was

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Father Kirk Ullery is pictured at an 80th birthday Mass in his honor on Jan. 18, 2014, at St. Vincent de Paul Church in San Francisco. accepted by Archbishop John R. Quinn for ministry in June 1979. He was incardinated into the archdiocese on October 30, 1984.

Father Ullery retired on July 1, 2005 and lived independently for several years in the Mission. From December 2009 until May 15, 2010, he came out of retirement to serve as administrator of St. Boniface Parish. He remained closely connected to the parish, before and after volunteering his time for 10 years with the Gubbio Project which in collaboration with St. Boniface Church provides hospitality and outreach to men and women seeking refuge from San Francisco streets during daytime hours. For many years, he also celebrated

Mass and volunteered his time at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco. At Father Ken Westray’s invitation, Father Ullery took up residence at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in 2016 later moving to Nazareth House.

Survivors include Father Ullery’s siblings John Ullery, James Ullery and Harriet Buckman.

A funeral Mass was celebrated and livestreamed from St. Vincent de Paul Church, San Francisco on June 23.

Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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Jesuit Father Daniel R. Kendall died May 26, 2020 at his order’s Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos. Father Kendall was 81 years old and would have celebrated his 63rd anniversary of entering the Society of Jesus on Sept. 7.

Father Daniel R. Father Kendall Kendall, SJ held a doctorate in sacred theology and co-authored 10 books on the subject the latest of which is on deck to be released by Paulist Press, “Jesuits, Theology and the American Catholic Church.”

Father Kendall taught theology at the Jesuits’ Gonzaga University in the late 70s and was then missioned to the University of San Francisco where he served for 41 years including several terms as chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies.

“Dan was highly regarded by his students and colleagues at USF,” the Jesuits said in a statement. “He was the epitome of friendship, encouragement, and fun. He kept contact with his Jesuit classmates through regular get-togethers, and would often visit friends in Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, Australia, Milwaukee, and Phoenix.”

Survivors include Father Kendall’s sister, Sister Anne Kendall, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

A funeral Mass was livestreamed from San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Church on June 5 with interment at Santa Clara Mission Cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to the California Province of the Society of Jesus, 300 College Ave., Los Gatos 95030.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 25, 2020

San Rafael: Aniversario sacerdotal de un alumno de dos mártires de la Iglesia Católica Usted me dice que también trabajó con monseñor Romero.

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-Con monseñor Romero trabajamos el último año de seminaristas. Nosotros le ayudábamos en un programa de radio, ahí lo conocí.

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Para el padre Santos Rodríguez, vicario de la iglesia San Rafael en San Rafael, su plan para celebrar los 50 años de sacerdocio fue festejar con una misa de acción de gracias y así lo hizo.

La comunidad había planeado llenar el templo y ofrecer una gran recepción para honrar al sacerdote que ha servido en esta parroquia por casi una década, pero la cuarentena por el COVID-19 obligó a cambiar los planes.

El domingo 17 de mayo, el padre Santos Rodríguez celebró con una misa concelebrada por el párroco de San Rafael, el padre Andrew Spyrow. En la ceremonia no hubo feligreses presentes debido a la cuarentena, pero siguieron la transmisión de la misa de 10 a.m. en vivo desde sus casas.

Después de la misa llegaron a visitarlo amigos de las diferentes parroquias de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco donde el padre Rodríguez ha servido en los últimos 20 años. Él se asomó por el balcón de su residencia y los miró abajo en la entrada del templo saludándolo con las manos. Entonces bajó a darles las gracias.

El mismo domingo, después de la misa del mediodía en español el padre Rodríguez recibió otro homenaje.

Un grupo de fieles, con los rostros cubiertos, guardando la distancia reglamentaria lo esperaron con música y decoraciones festivas frente a la iglesia, mientras gran cantidad de autos circulando en las calles alrededor del templo tocaban las bocinas y los pasajeros lo saludaban con la mano desde la ventana.

Para este hombre de Dios que fue llamado a la vocación sacerdotal a los trece años de edad, llegar al 50 aniversario de sacerdocio ha sido un largo caminar al lado de muchas personas que lo han ayudado en su vida pastoral, a quienes les agradece.

Entre las personas que han dejado huella en la vida del padre Santos Rodríguez, resalta el mártir Rutilio Grande, en proceso de beatificación por el Vaticano. Grande fue su profesor de Teología durante cuatro años. También reconoce el legado que le dejó la experiencia de trabajo pastoral con san Óscar Arnulfo Romero, entonces obispo auxiliar de San Salvador.

El padre Rodríguez fue ordenado el 17 de mayo de 1970 en la catedral de la Diócesis de San Vicente en El Salvador, a la edad de 29 años. Es miembro de una familia de 13 hermanos de los cuales conoció a nueve de ellos, cuatro fallecieron antes que él naciera.

En una entrevista telefónica con el San Francisco Católico, el padre Santos compartió paso a paso como fue el llamado de Dios a la vocación que lo enamoró desde niño, la vida en el Seminario Central San José de la Montaña, en El Salvador, y

¿Ya era arzobispo de San Salvador?

-Era obispo auxiliar de San Salvador. Lo pusieron como presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal de El Salvador y el residía en el Seminario San José de la Montaña.

¿En algún momento, cuando estuvo en el seminario menor o en el seminario mayor pensó que esta vocación no era para usted?

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Una foto del padre Santos Rodríguez se ve en un cartel que se exhibió afuera de la iglesia San Rafael para la celebración de su 50 aniversario de sacerdocio. la importancia del apoyo de su familia para seguir la vocación.

¿Cómo fue el llamado al sacerdocio?

-Bueno yo no puedo decir que lo sentí así directamente. No. Pero, Dios utiliza los medios.

¿Fue al seminario menor?

-Si el seminario menor, que era diocesano pero dirigido por los salesianos. Ahí pasé siete años de formación, yo llegue al 5.º grado.

¿Qué tan lejos estaba el seminario menor de la casa de sus papás?

-Estaba a seis kilómetros.

¿Podía vivir en la casa de sus papás?

-No. Era interno. Antes los seminarios eran así.

Después de siete años en el seminario menor vino la investidura de la sotana y luego pasé al seminario mayor, Seminario Central San José de la Montaña.

Al tercer año teníamos lo que llaman aquí el año pastoral. Nos mandaron al seminario menor a dar clases de ciencias, latín, griego y también italiano.

Después del año pastoral, en 1965 empecé a recibir clases de Teología. Ahí tuve la oportunidad de que mi maestro y prefecto de disciplina y de estudio fuera el padre Rutilio Grande (un mártir de la Iglesia Católica en proceso de beatificación). El padre Grande tenía una visión pastoral muy amplia.

Durante el último año de seminaristas, el padre Grande escogió a un grupo para que viviéramos en una casa que pertenecía al seminario, sin supervisión para que aprendiéramos a conducirnos para cuando estuviéramos en las parroquias. Yo fui uno de los cinco escogidos, entre ellos también estaba el actual cardenal salvadoreño Gregorio Rosa Chávez. Íbamos al seminario pero vivíamos independientes. Los cinco que fuimos a esa experiencia nos hicimos sacerdotes.

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Hay preocupación por parte de los obispos porque muchos sacerdotes están mayores y se están jubilando y hay pocas vocaciones sacerdotales.

-Hay menos vocaciones en el sentido de que no hay motivación. La vocación se motiva en los hogares, depende de los valores religiosos en los hogares.

¿Qué cree que debe hacer la Iglesia para atraer más vocaciones?

-En primer lugar hacer oración desde las iglesias y promover la oración en los hogares… desde los hogares la oración se promueve poco, luego es importante la motivación y el contacto directo a través de las visitas a las familias y sobre todo el testimonio del sacerdote.

Volviendo a la celebración de sus 50 años de sacerdocio, usted quizá nunca se imaginó que la celebración iba a ser como fue, durante una pandemia.

-La gente decía desde hace como dos años que iban a tirar la casa por la ventana y todo eso, pero yo no voy por esa línea, lo importante es reconocer el don, el regalo que Dios le ha dado a uno y darle gracias a Dios a través de la santa misa.

En este recogimiento, debido a la pandemia he estado pensando en todos los momentos en que Dios ha estado conmigo, y le he dado gracias por haberme dado la vida, por haberme hecho nacer en un matrimonio cristiano, donde me inculcaron los valores de amor al Papa y a la Iglesia. Gracias por todos los sacrificios de misa que he celebrado, bautizos, confesiones, quinceañeras, visitas a los enfermos, todo esto me ha servido como un retiro espiritual para celebrar los 50 años de sacerdocio.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 25, 2020

Nuestra Señora del Pilar reabrió misas públicas con estrictas medidas de higiene y disciplina LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Traer silla, máscara y desinfectante, fue un requisito para asistir de nuevo a las misas con público presente en la Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Pilar en Half Moon Bay. El fin de semana del 6 y 7 de junio la parroquia celebró misas con gran participación de fieles, después de casi tres meses de hacerlo sólo para transmisiones en vivo.

Los parroquianos siguieron con disciplina y obediencia las nuevas reglas por COVID-19 para la congregación de grupos.

Para la misa en español del domingo 7 de junio a mediodía, había voluntarios en la entrada del estacionamiento, supervisando que los fieles llegaran con sus máscaras en los rostros y les rociaban desinfectante en las manos antes de entrar al área donde se congregaron.

El padre José Corral, párroco de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, aseguró que se hicieron los ajustes de higiene tal como lo pidió la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco.

Como parte de los arreglos para evitar la transmisión del coronavirus, Nuestra Señora del Pilar celebró las misas públicas en una tienda en la parte de atrás de la iglesia, aumentó de nueve a once misas los fines de semana para reducir la cantidad de fieles por misa, limitó el tiempo de la celebración a un promedio de 30 minutos, entre otros ajustes.

Para ajustar la duración de la misa dominical a 30 minutos se cantaron menos himnos de lo que se hacía antes de la pandemia en una misa dominical, no hubo la procesión con el pan y el vino, la homilía fue corta y los parroquianos depositaron las donaciones en unas bolsas grandes colocadas frente al altar.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of May HOLY CROSS, COLMA Juanita B. Apolinar Consuelo Avila Joesefil Dayoan Banaria Jess C. Barnett Patricia Baumgartner Theresita G. Bautista Susana Marie Radic Bautista Maria I. Bell Carl W. Borgnis Olga A. Bucini Luisa Campo Sally Kay Cappas Matilda L. Carnesecca Mariano G. Cerbatos Romelia Chavez Peregrina Pura Cobo Jane Rita Cunningham Fortunato D’Ascoli Martha P. Daniels Lina De Guzman Helen Dimaggio Miriam M. Diputado Marie J. Doherty Mary T. Domenichini Marian Gladys Dorado John “Jack” Doran Juliet Esola Helen McQuiller Espeland Reno Fiapoto Lois M. Fiedler Gloria S. Galang Norma Mary Galea Elvira Gallegos Darin Joseph Gerhardt Elsie C. Gonzalez Dorothy A. Graf Lloyd Robert Dy Gregorio Joseph Delfino Harp William H. Harrison

Eleanor V. Harvey Brian P. Hughes Doris C. Iusi Eriel Janoras-Turla Peter Jennings Donald Kreps Eileen Anne Kreps Josephine Alice Lavezzoli Mary Leblanc Love Geraldeen M. Lonergan Danny C. Lonergan Carla M. Lucett Frank Luporini Baby Maleski Richard Malins Florian M. Manteuffel Michael V. Marion Jose Pilar Marquez Virginia Caroline Martinez Geraldine O’Connor McConnell Maria Olga Rivadeneyra Mendoza Jorge Menendez Jack Michael Ernest W. Mulroy Jr. Juanita Pacheco Rosario Maria Paez Helen Elizabeth Parkinson Louise G. Petrusich Elsie A. Pollastrini Ada Protti Clarita M. Rada Juan Carlos Ramirez Florence Grace Ribero Maryann L. Rogers Donald Francis Rojas Edward W. Rubin Lupe Sanchez Peggy Semien Jose Hugo Serrano Macario A. Silva

John Bradley Siri Jan Spillane Gregory Tydd Eunice Vernazza Norma Vescovi-Mifsud Stone Villacarlos Villamor Teresita Lauz Villareal Helen Elizabeth Warren Clarence Lester Weems Joann Howard Wood James Franklin Wood Irene Therese Xavier

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Ester Bugna Pierre Cousinot Jean Marie Hazelwood Tevita T. Helu Kathleen Doyle Mackay Eladio Gellegos Santos John “Jack” Sullivan Kaloliane Vehikite

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Zenaida Mendoza Evans Loretta M. George Janet Doyle Hawk Richard E. Merwin John Giovanni Pardini William Edward Silvia, Jr. Beverly Jane Stone

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Senobia Perez Sanchez

While we will not be having a First Saturday Mass in July, we encourage you to remember in prayer all our beloved dead at rest in our Catholic Cemeteries.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma CA | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1975 Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA | 650-712-1675 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery 926 Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA | 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas, CA | 415-479-9021

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.