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Parishioners of St. Ignatius, St. Agnes, Our Lady of the Pillar, St. John of God and Our Lady of Angels are among the archdiocesan faithful making the trip to the U.S.-Mexico border at their own expense to volunteer in overwhelmed refugee centers. “Something must be done to alleviate the situation there, otherwise we will be seeing more desperate fathers taking a chance in swimming across the Rio Grande after they have been refused entry to claim asylum,” said St. John of God parishioner Roberta McLaughlin. McLaughlin spent nearly a month this spring at Casa del Refugiados (House of Refugees), the newest and largest refugee center run by Annunciation House, a nonprofit in El Paso, Texas, a few miles from the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. The humanitarian crisis on the border came into tragic focus June 24 when Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande at Matamoros, Mexico. They attempted to swim across the river after they were unable to make an official request to U.S. authorities for asylum from El Salvador, the Mexican newspaper La Jornada reported. Pope Francis expressed “immense sadness” on seeing the image of the father and child. The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference and the chair of the bishops’ migration committee said “this unspeakable consequence of a failed immigration system, together with growing reports of inhumane conditions for children in the custody of the federal government at the border, shock the conscience and demand immediate action.” At least 283 migrants died while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico
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Terry Sprague, a parishioner of Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame, speaks with a young migrant woman at the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. The woman, traveling with a toddler, gave birth by Cesarean section to a premature child at the border. Left, volunteers from St. John of God Parish in San Francisco worked at the center helping refugees connect with their American sponsors.
Legislation that would require priests to break the seal of confession has been pulled indefinitely from consideration in the California Legislature, less than a day before the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee was scheduled to hold a hearing on it, according to the California Catholic Conference. “We just got word from the capitol – Senator Hill pulled his bill from the Assembly Public Safety Committee. This bill will not be heard tomorrow, July 9. No other information at this time,” said Linda Wanner, associate director for governmental relations with the conference. Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo, Senate Bill SB 360 would force priests to disclose information about child sexual abuse that they learn when hearing the confession of a co-worker or another priest. It passed the Senate May 23 by a 30-4 vote. The Assembly had been expected to vote on it in September. SB 360 has proved divisive since it was introduced in February, with priests and bishops stating they would go to jail before complying with the bill. The Archdiocese of San Francisco participated in a state-wide letter writing campaign rallying Catholics to write their representatives about the legislation. According to the archdiocesan Office of Human Life & Dignity, more than 18,000 letters were hand-delivered to state Assembly members’ local district offices June 28 during Religious Freedom Week. The archdiocese had also chartered buses to bring Catholics to Sacramento to attend the Assembly committee hearing on SB 360. It was unclear whether the legislation has been defeated or whether it could
“We received 350 to 420 migrants border last year, according to the per day while we were there,” said U.S. Border Patrol. McLaughlin, who was joined by McLaughlin and her husband Jim parishioners Ken Hoegger, Claudia were among five parishioners from Quijane and Karen Duderstadt. Two the Sanctuary Committee of St. more committee members left June 26 John of God Parish in San Franto volunteer at Casa Alitas, a Catholiccisco who traveled to Texas in May run safe house in Tucson, Arizona. and June, working around-the-clock for the families that passed throughA personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. If you have received a flag honoring loved PAGE one's13 military service and would like to donate it SEE SB 360, PAGE 17 Casa del Refugiados. SEEyour BORDER,
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NEED TO KNOW CHRISTIAN LIFE PROGRAM: The Couples for Christ San Francisco Cluster, a duly recognized church organization in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is inviting married couples, single individuals, widows and widowers to a faith renewal program that will help in deepening of relationship with Jesus Christ by way of the family. Saturday, July 27, 6:30-9 p.m., St. Thomas More Church, Scanlan Hall, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco. To register or for more information, Arnel and Elik Arce, (530) 713-4802, (650) 740-4129, cfcarnelarce@yahoo.com; or Demie and Elsie Gomez, (650) 580-3810, (650) 580-3870, elsiejucing@ yahoo.com. USF ART EXHIBIT: “Spectacles of Light in the Work of Athanasius Kircher, SJ” will be on exhibit July 14-28, 12-2 p.m., at the Manresa Gallery inside St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco. Father Kircher (1602-1680), a Jesuit scholar, inventor and author, searched for a universal truth that connected science and theology. WEEKEND RETREAT WITH BISHOP CHRISTIAN OP: Auxiliary Bishop Robert Christian, OP, will lead a retreat July 26-28 on the theme of, “Beating Back the Gates of Hell – How a Weak Church Strengthens Saint and Sinner Alike,” Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For more information and to register visit vallombrosa.org/calendar or call David Leech, (650) 325-5614.
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Retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang celebrated the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood July 6 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Bishop Wang spoke to Catholic San Francisco June 24 about the church in China and persecution of the faith.
Retired Bishop Wang says Vatican-China agreement a good deal for church
‘TOGETHER IN HOLINESS’: The St. John Paul II Foundation is hosting its annual “Together in Holiness” marriage conference Aug. 3, 9 a.m.4 p.m., at Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont. Bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, who NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH This one-day conference includes Mass, called it “an incredible betrayal.” CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO presentations, eucharistic adoration, confessions The agreement marks a step toward unifying the and on-site child care. All Catholic married and church in China since all future bishops will be Even at 85 years old, retired Auxiliary Bishop engaged couples throughout the Bay Area are recognized by the Vatican and Chinese government. Ignatius tries to visit China at least onceReligious a Church GoodsC.&Wang Candles Gifts & Books invited to attend. Scholarships for couples or After the agreement was signed, the Vatican also year and keep up on developments in the Catholic individuals are available. For more information announced Pope Francis had readmitted seven stateChurch there. and to register visit forlifeandfamily.org/events/ approved bishops who were previously ordained The Beijing-born former auxiliary bishop of San th19-sfca/ or email Susie Lopez at susie@ without permission to full ecclesial communion. Francisco told Catholic San Francisco that the forlifeandfamily.org. Given the circumstances of the Catholic Church church’s situation there has been “normal.” in China, which is divided between an underground “I really have a great faith in China, and the 5 locations in California church and a state-approved Chinese Patriotic persecution, well, we can understand that. ComCatholic Association, Bishop Wang said “the deal munism is atheism. It’s against any religion,” said Your Local Store: ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE with the Vatican is very good.” Bishop Wang, who celebrates his 60th priestly 369 Grand Ave., S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 “The agreement acknowledges you have the last ordination anniversary this year. Exitthe 101 Frwy @ Grand word, but we recommend,” he said. “There are On Sept. 22,Near 2018,SF theAirport Vatican- and People’s JULY 12-15: Vacation nearly 6,000 bishops in the world, how many would Republic of China signed a memorandum on the www.cotters.com cotters@cotters.com the pope know personally? It has to be local, as long appointment of bishops in China. The agreement JULY 16-17: Dedication of Christ Cathedral, as they do it conscientiously. I just hope it doesn’t has not been published, but reporting at the time Orange happen that they send bad ones on purpose for suggested that candidates to fill a bishopric would Rome to approve.” first be chosen through a democratic election by JULY 18-22: Vacation Even after the agreement signed nearly a year the local church and would then be examined by ago, Catholic bishops and priests belonging to the the government in Beijing. If he met government JULY 24: Chancery meetings underground church in China continue to be imapproval, a potential bishop’s name would be prisoned and campaigns to remove crosses and bullforwarded to the Holy See, which reserves the final JULY 25-28: Napa Institute doze churches persist. Bishop Wang said persecuword on appointing bishops. The diplomatic agreement caused some blowback JULY 28: Mass with London Oratory Boys Choir, within the church, in particular with the former cathedral 11 a.m. SEE BISHOP WANG, PAGE 5
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Clergy appointments announced The Archdiocese of San Francisco announced the following clergy appointments June 30:
Clergy meetings underway for clusters beginning July 2020
Noe Valley Cluster: St. Paul/St. James/St. Philip (Chair: Msgr. Michael Harriman); Central San Mateo Cluster: St. Timothy/St. Luke (Chair: Fr. Tony McGuire)
New pastors
Father Erick E. Arauz: Sacred Heart Parish, including its mission, St. Mary Magdalene, Bolinas; Father Jerome Cudden, OP, St. Raymond Parish; Father David A. Ghiorso, St. Matthias Parish, as well as pastor of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos; Father Cyril J. O’Sullivan, St. Isabella Parish; Father Ngoan V. Phan, St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas; including its mission, St. Mary, Nicasio; Father V. Mark P. Reburiano, St. Gregory Parish
Administrators
Father John Y. Chung, St. Philip the Apostle Parish; Father Arsenio G. Cirera, St. Patrick Parish, San Francisco, through Dec. 31, 2019, while Father Roberto Andrey is on sabbatical; Father William C. Nicholas, St. Vincent de Paul Parish, through Aug. 15, 2019; Father Thomas B. West, OFM, St. Boniface Parish
Second term as pastor
Father Kevin Kennedy, Our Lady of Fatima Parish; Father Alex L. Legaspi, Holy Angels Parish; Father Michael F. Quinn, St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, Sausalito
Continued as pastor
Father Daniel E. Carter, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish – assignment remains in place at St. Paul of the Shipwreck; Father Patrick T. Michaels, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Mill Valley, Father Jonathan Paala; St. Luke Parish; Father Charito E. Suan, St. Elizabeth Parish
Parochial vicars
Father Messias Albuquerque, St. Raphael Parish, part-time, and St. Thomas More Parish, part-time, with residence at St. Raphael Parish (see chaplains, below); Father Paul B. Arnoult, St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco; Father Fredereck “Paolo” Del Carmen, FFI, St. Peter Parish, San Francisco; Father Kyle J. Faller St. Pius Parish; Father Rufino J.O. Gepiga, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish; Father Ernesto M. Jandonero, St. Hilary Parish; Father Michael D. Liliedahl, St. Catherine Parish; Father Teodoro P. Magpayo; St. Bartholomew Parish; Father Samuel Musiimenta; St. Charles Parish, San Carlos; Father Oliver U. Ortese; St. Gregory Parish; Father Gustavo Ramirez, SDB, Sts. Peter & Paul Parish, effective Aug. 1, 2019; Father A. Roy E. Remo, St. Vincent de Paul Parish; Father Michael P. Rocha, Church of the Epiphany; Father Ephrem R. Tillya, St. Isabella Parish, part-time (see chaplains, below), effective Sept. 15, 2019; Father Tony S. Vallecillo, Our Lady of Loretto Parish, part-time, and St. Isabella Parish, part-time, with residence at Our Lady of Loretto Parish
Sabbatical
Father Arturo L. Albano, Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 2019, returning to St. Mary’s Cathedral; Father Roberto A. Andrey, through Dec. 31, 2019
Returning from sabbatical
Father Jerome P. Foley, returning to St. Peter Parish/Pacifica
Chancery assignments
Father Andrew P. Spyrow, Associate Vicar for Clergy, part-time; ministry as Pastor of St. Raphael Parish will continue; Father Cameron M. Faller, Priest-Secretary to the Archbishop, and Director of Vocations, with residence at Star of the Sea Parish, San Francisco; Deacon Fred Totah, Director, Diaconate Formation, effective June 1, 2019
Chaplains
Father Messias Albuquerque, Brazilian Ministry, part-time, with residence at St. Raphael Parish; Father Andrew W. Ginter; Marin Catholic High School, with residence at St. Patrick Parish, Larkspur; Father Malachy U. Theophilus, OSA, Kaiser and Sequoia hospitals, Redwood City, with residence at St. Charles Parish, effective Sept. 1, 2019; Father Ephrem R. Tillya, Kaiser and Novato Community hospitals, part-time, with residence at St. Isabella Parish, effective Sept. 15, 2019
Outside the archdiocese
Father Ghislain C. Bazikila, Deaf Ministry, Republic of Congo, through June 2021; Father Patrick J. Summerhays, Canon Law studies at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., residence at Theological College, effective May 26, 2019, residence at Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, effective Aug. 15, 2019, through May 30, 2020
Religious order assignments
Father John F. Beckley, SM, In Residence, Notre Dame des Victoires, June 28-Aug. 6, 2019; Father Ignatius DeGroot, OFM, assisting at St. Boniface Church, residence in the Diocese of Oakland; Father Richard Juzix, OFM, assisting at St. Boniface Church, residence in the Diocese of Oakland
Transitional deacon assignments
Deacon Benjamin Rosado, St. Robert Parish; Deacon Ian E. Quito, St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto
Retirements
Father Rafael A. De Avila, retiring to México; Father Nicasio G. Paloso, retiring to Salinas, in the Diocese of Monterey, California
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St. Peter STAR students: Reading, math scores skyrocket CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
St. Peter School in San Francisco’s Mission District ended the academic year on a very high note this year, with students of the 140-year-old K-8 school experiencing the highest growth in reading and mathematics scores since a new learning strategy was introduced four years ago. Reading skill scores have doubled since last year, according to a June news release from the school; math scores have risen 58 percent over the same period. School leadership credits the rapid escalation of reading and math skills to the implementation of new individualized and differentiated learning strategies required by the Department of Catholic Schools using special subscription-based reading and math software. “The results demonstrate the students’ hard work and the teachers’ willingness to learn new strategies and prioritize time for individual learning and small group instruction,” said Ria Fresnoza, director of academics. A “growth mindset” on the part of students and their teachers was also noted. Children with a growth mindset believe their abilities can improve over time, said principal Sandra Jimenez. By comparison, those with a fixed mindset think their abilities are a set trait that cannot change, no matter how hard they try. “At St. Peter’s we recognize how a growth mindset can help students and parents reframe how they approach academic, social, and emotional challenges,” she said. St. Peter’s Catholic School was founded by the Mercy Sisters and has been educating the children of the Mission district since 1878. The Sisters of Mercy recently confirmed St. Peter’s
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tion of the church tends to originate on a municipal or provincial level, reflecting local corruption, ambition and rivalry rather than national directives from the Communist leadership. Bishop Wang said persecution is also a constant burden for the church. “Compared to the history of the church, this time is not worse than any other time,” he said. “The church is there, the foundation is a big rock but the storms always come and blow. That’s normal. If you expect nothing, that’s not normal. “Look at here, we have persecution right here,” he continued. “Right now they want us to reveal confession’s secrecy. I’d rather go to jail. Isn’t this persecution?” In official Catholic churches under the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, parishes remain close to the pope. When Pope Francis elevated the memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a feast in 2016, Bishop Wang first heard of it at a church he visited in Beijing. “A big sign outside says ‘Patriotic Church,’ and they announced it. When I came back [to the U.S.], I asked a few priests and they hadn’t heard about it yet,” he said. Bishop Wang said Catholics praying for the church in China should ask “first of all for freedom of religion, at least according to the conditions given. Although it’s an atheist country, persecution of the church is local, the top doesn’t really say anything. So we just pray those places understand [the church is] not doing any harm.” The Vatican has told bishops and priests in China that they must follow their own consciences in deciding whether to register with the government, and it urged Catholics in the country not to judge them for the choices they make. Releasing the “pastoral guidelines of the Holy See concerning the civil registration of clergy in China” June 28, the Vatican acknowledged
that acceptance of the independence of the church in China comes despite “the commitment assumed by the Chinese authorities,” in an agreement with the Vatican in September, to respect Catholic doctrine. Deciding whether to register with the government, which is the only way to be able to minister openly, is a choice that is “far from simple,” the guidelines said. “All those involved – the Holy See, bishops, priests, religious men and women and the lay faithful – are called to discern the will of God with patience and humility on this part of the journey of the church in China, marked, as it is, by much hope but also by enduring difficulties.” At a congressional hearing June 27 on the worldwide persecution of Christians, religious freedom advocates warned of the plight of Christians in Asia and particularly in China, where the government is acting forcibly to bring religion under Communist Party control. “I have been in Congress since 1981, I have worked on human rights in China since 1981,” Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, told the commission’s hearing. Referring to China’s campaign to “sinicize” religion, Smith said it was proceeding with brutal efficiency. “Under ‘sinicization,’ all religions and believers must comport with and aggressively promote communist ideology – or else,” Smith said. On July 6, Bishop Wang presided at a special Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral to celebrate the Feast of the Chinese Martyrs, pray for the church in China, and mark his 60th ordination anniversary. Named an auxiliary bishop in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, Bishop Wang was the first Catholic bishop of Chinese ancestry and of Asian background to be appointed in the United States. Catholic News Service and Catholic News Agency contributed.
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Panel weighs ethical issues in wildfire prevention, suppression CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
In news images of the massive wildfires in Sonoma County in 2017 and Butte County in 2018, mansions and mobile homes were both seen in flames, showing that fire does not discriminate between haves and havenots. But the impact is far greater on economically vulnerable people than on those with the means to relocate or rebuild, said a Santa Clara University scientist and researcher who participated in a panel discussion on “wildfire ethics” during a campussponsored event May 22. For weeks after the 2018 Camp Fire leveled the town of Paradise, scores of fire victims pitched tents in the muddy field of a nearby Walmart in freezing temperatures, refugees of a disaster where in a matter of hours many lost not only homes and loved ones but also their sources of income. “Some communities and individuals will have more resources to deal with the consequences than others,” said Iris Stewart-Frey, department chair of SCU’s Department of Environmental Studies and Science. “This is where the ethical question comes in about who is bearing the burden.” Among the burdens discussed by the panelists, which included two firefighters, Stewart-Frey and two other SCU environmental scientists, are economic policies where private interests are put ahead of the public interest, an affordable housing crisis in California that has forced lower-income people into the more fire-prone hinterlands and the denial of climate change. The firefighters were asked about what was being done now to prevent 2019 from becoming another recordbreaking fire year. Sonoma County’s 2017 Tubbs Fire and the 2018 Camp Fire were the most destructive wildfires in California history. “The big thing right now is a push to increase the pace and scale of fuels reduction and land management tactics that will slow or stop the spread of
A firefighter battles a wildfire Oct. 14, 2017 near Santa Rosa. wildfires,” said Cal Fire’s Colin Noyes. In March, weeks after the release of a Cal Fire report on how to protect California’s 200 most wildfire-vulnerable communities where socioeconomic factors and age and mobility play a part, Gov. Gavin Newsom responded with an emergency order, fast-tracking the report’s 30 most urgent fire suppression projects. The report noted that “the proliferation of new homes in the wildland urban interface magnify the threat and place substantially more people and property at risk than in preceding decades.” In a June 21 progress report, Newsom said “climate change has created a new reality” in the state. “It’s not a question of ‘if’ wildfire will strike, but ‘when,’” he said. “Our recent, terrifying history bears that out. Fifteen of the 20 most destructive wildfires in the state’s history have occurred since 2000 and 10 of the most destructive fires have occurred since 2015. Wildfires don’t discriminate – they are a rural, suburban and urban danger. We all have an indi-
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vidual responsibility to step up and step in for our communities as we confront new and growing threats.” Stewart-Frey, a hydrologist focused on the impact of climate change on water resources and ecosystems, argued that suppression is a short-term solution rather than a long-term one and that the broad effects of climate change have changed the game. “I really hesitate to say this with the firefighters in the room,” she said, acknowledging the heroic efforts of firefighters in the past few years. “But from an ecological perspective, fire suppression is not desirable.” Fires have played a useful and necessary part in natural ecosystems for hundreds of thousands of years, she said, removing excess shrub and cultivating more open forests with fire-resistant species. “I don’t take offense by the way,” said Capt. Bill Murphy of the Santa Clara Fire Department. “We recognize that a hundred-plus years of fire suppression on our public lands have contributed to this problem, but hindsight is always 20/20.”
Stewart-Frey said fire suppression has changed forest structure. Species that are less well adapted to fire, especially pine trees, are now standing in more dense clusters with more underbrush providing highoctane fuel among drought-stricken trees and grasslands, she said. Stewart-Frey acknowledged that wildfire prevention is a “complex matter,” but that as a natural scientist, she “takes the longer view,” which also acknowledges climate change. She said that even though precipitation levels are at normal or even above normal this year, temperatures are again higher than normal. “We are basically just waiting for that first spark to happen somewhere, anywhere,” she said. “Yet we had a president come out here saying that wildfires have nothing to do with climate change,” said Stewart-Frey. “In the meantime many lives are being torched.” During a visit to the Tubbs Fire zone in Sonoma County in 2017, President Trump told the community that the wildfires could have been prevented if the state did a better job of “raking” its forests. California spent $947.4 million on fire suppression in 2018 and is expected to spend almost $700 million this year, according to the Cal Fire website. This figure is twice what was spent 10 years ago. “We are paying a lot for wildfires,” said Stewart-Frey. “My concern is that we will pay a lot more, both in dollars and in lives, before we will be willing to look at alternatives.” Stewart-Frey said that cost could ultimately be the motivation for a different approach to wildfire prevention. “If we are able to take the same amount of money and rethink our approach with more long-term thinking it would benefit all of us, and especially all the species and vulnerable people affected,” she said. Go to readyforwildfire.org, a consumer app from Cal Fire on defending your home and community from wildfire.
California bishops promote ‘ecological spirituality’ in new statement SYDNEY CLARK CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – The California Catholic Conference commemorated the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” by issuing a pastoral statement calling for heightened attention to ecological issues in the state that could affect future generations. The document from the conference, which includes all of California’s bishops, focused on the encyclical’s theme of integral ecology to demonstrate that the environmental protection of the state is ingrained in a spirituality that unites all of creation in praising God. The pastoral statement emphasizes two goals: “To animate and energize the implementation in California of what Laudato Si’ calls us to do and to offer a dynamic teaching and evangelization tool for our Catholic faith community and beyond, especially for young people.”
The bishops encouraged Californians to work in solidarity and consider approaches that faithfully and efficiently care for the state’s environment. They said the pope’s encyclical shows that ecological spirituality is not limited to simply cultivating the environment. “To live out integral ecology with joy and authenticity, we are called to recognize the interrelated character of our existence – its environmental, economic, social, and cultural dimensions – and to practice care for all that God has created,” said the document, titled “God Calls Us All to Care for Our Common Home.” The first part of the pastoral statement includes a reflection on the “beauty and bounty” of California, the decline in access to water, increased air pollution and how creation symbolizes a family that should be protected at all costs. California’s natural ecosystems and water systems are being affected because droughts are becoming more common and more intense, causing
rainfall to be inconsistent, the bishops said. The statement also recalled that in 2012 California became the first state to acknowledge that access to safe, clean and affordable water is a universal and basic right. The bishops expressed concern that, despite the measure, thousands of rural Californians are unable to access clean drinking water from their taps. A common thread among the prevalent environmental issues facing the state is that poor people are most affected, leading to social justice concerns, the document said, adding that elected officials and policymakers must develop policies that ease such burdens on the poor. The bishops’ document cites the Catholic social teaching principle of subsidiarity, which grants freedom to develop the capabilities present at every level of society, while also demanding a greater sense of responsibility for the common good from those who hold greater power.
The second portion of the pastoral statement prompts Californians to acknowledge their “ecological vocations” and to act upon them with faith and gratitude in order to achieve integral ecology. Such a vocation, the bishops said, involves many paths and includes not only a career choice, or a means of earning a living, but also a means of encountering an overall ecological conversion as individuals, families, and communities. Those who work and advocate for environmental justice embody and live out their ecological vocations to the fullest, they said. The pastoral statement concludes with a prayer, “Caring for California,” that expresses gratitude for the state’s beauty and asks for the grace to experience an ecological conversion while undertaking new efforts to shape a more inclusive society and protect Earth. The full statement may be accessed at https://bit.ly/2Xn0tTA.
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Parents urged to assert their rights in sex education NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Parents concerned about what their children are taught in sexual education classes in California’s public schools have resources at their disposal to assert their values. Raymond Burnell, director of education at the California Catholic Conference, said “it’s absolutely critical” for parents to become involved. “It really does start with parents exercising their rights and responsibilities under the law,” he said. Burnell spoke as part of a panel held June 15 at the St. Bruno parish hall to educate parents about sexual education in California and parental responses. Other members of the panel were Aileen Blachowski of Informed Parents of California, a parents’ group opposing comprehensive sexual education, who spoke about the graphic aspects of sexual education curricula; Ed Hopfner, director of marriage and family life for the archdiocese; and Missionary of Charity Sister Maria Concepcion. The event was sponsored by the archdiocesan Office of Human Life & Dignity. Burnell emphasized that the California Healthy Youth Act, which governs sexual education in California, recognizes “parents and guardians have the ultimate responsibility for imparting values regarding human sexuality to their children.” Parents have a legal right to review written and audiovisual
materials used for sexual education and to supervise their child’s sexual education curriculum, he said. If they object to what is being taught, parents can excuse their child from sexual education classes by opting out in writing. Burnell encouraged parents to learn what their children were being taught, opt out if they were concerned about the material and stand up against the school board if those rights were infringed on. “As a parent you are the most powerful person,” he said. “That’s your child.” Prior to the passage of the California Healthy Youth Act in 2015, comprehensive sexual health education was optional and HIV prevention classes were mandatory for students in grades seven-12. Under the new law, classes on HIV prevention and comprehensive sexual education must be taught once in middle school and once in high school. Districts may decide to offer age-appropriate sexual education to younger grades. Each school district chooses its sexual education curriculum, which among other requirements must be “appropriate for use with students of all races, genders, sexual orientations, and ethnic and cultural backgrounds; affirmatively recognize that people have different sexual orientations and be inclusive of same-sex relationships, and teach pupils about gender, gender expression, gender identity, and explore the harm of negative gender stereotypes.”
Instruction covers a wide variety of topics, including how HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases are passed on, the health risks of specific sexual activities and drugs, abstinence, the effectiveness of contraception, local clinics providing sexual health services, emergency contraception, abortion, sexual harassment and assault and sex trafficking. The California Healthy Youth Act aims to help students protect themselves from HIV, sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy; foster healthy attitudes around “adolescent growth and development, body image, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, marriage, and family;” provide unbiased and comprehensive education around sexual health; give
students the means to have healthy, safe relationships; and “promote understanding of sexuality as a normal part of human development.” Curricula adhering to California Healthy Youth Act standards have raised opposition in several school districts, including Palo Alto, Cupertino, Fremont and San Diego. Parents have raised objections over their graphic content and impropriety. Aileen Blachowski’s said sexual education has moved from a basic guide to changes in puberty to “an agenda-driven curriculum” that goes far beyond what is needed and normalizes a view of sexual activity “that is contrary to the Catholic teaching on sex.” SEE SEX ED, PAGE 14
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Cathedral Mass marks Knights’ transition to new regalia CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
More than 60 Knights of Columbus honor guards from throughout California gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral on June 29 for a Mass marking the passage of its fourth degree regalia of tuxedo, cape and feathered chapeau into the history books after nearly 80 years. “We wanted to celebrate for the last time the rich history of the traditional regalia,” John Dooley of San Pedro Calungsod Assembly of Mater Dolorosa Council 14818, told Catholic San Francisco. Our Lady of Guadalupe Assembly of Holy Angels Council 10948 and San Pedro Calungsgod Assembly sponsored the “Blessing of the Swords” Mass celebrated by Father Arturo Albano, a fourth degree Knight. The Knights’ international board of directors adopt-
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A June 29 Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral marked an era’s end for Knights of Columbus. ed a new uniform for the fourth degree, consisting of
a suit, tie and beret. July 1 was the official changeover date. The organization said their research showed the traditional regalia presented a barrier to membership, especially among younger men. The Knights of Columbus fourth degree is the patriotic degree and the order’s highest, with members known as Sir Knights. The Color Corps honor guard is the visual arm of the fourth degree and is a fixture at clergy installations, funerals and vigils, civic marches such as Walk for Life West Coast and a variety of other liturgical and religious events. Dooley said the ceremonial event marking the transition from the old to new uniform was initially for the Bay Area assemblies of the Knights of Columbus but gained statewide interest, with Knights from as far south as San Diego and as far north as Paradise attending.
Catholic San Francisco recognized for general excellence CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Catholic San Francisco was named one of the best Catholic newspapers in North America on June 21 at the Catholic Press Association’s 2019 conference in St. Petersburg, Fla. The paper, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, received a second place for general excel-
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Orthodox pastor: ‘Religious freedom is one of God’s gifts to us’ VALERIE SCHMALZ
An Armenian Orthodox priest joined Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone June 21 to begin the 2019 celebration of Religious Freedom Week, urging those gathered at evening prayer to say “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays,” wear the crucifix openly, and say grace before meals when eating in restaurants. Father Barouyr Shernezian, pastor of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church in San Francisco, told those gathered to pray vespers at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco that the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Turkish government took the lives of 1.5 million Armenians, “not because we were Armenians, but because we were Christians.” The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops designated June 22-29 Religious Freedom Week. The week begins with the feast day of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, includes the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and ends with the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. This year, the week also included the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) and the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Speaking on the vigil of the martyred English Catholic saints Thomas More and John Fisher, Father Shernezian said that today the Armenian faithful are the heirs of those martyred Armenians’ children because despite great efforts by Muslim Turks to re-educate them away from their Christian faith, the orphaned children retained their faith and language after “the first genocide of the 20th century” in 1915. “When I use the word freedom or think about it, it naturally touches my whole identity and
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Father Samuel Weber, OSB, instructor of languages and dogmatics at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, is pictured with Archbishop Cordileone and Father Barouyr Shernezian, pastor of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church, at a vespers service June 21 at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. The service began the archdiocese’s celebration of Religious Freedom Week June 22-29. being, because as an ethnic Armenian, I know and I have felt how much my people suffered for their freedom and especially for the freedom of our religion,” said the 27-year-old ethnic Arme-
nian and Lebanese immigrant. “That is why, delivering a homily about religious freedom comes SEE ORTHODOX PASTOR, PAGE 14
Boys choir tour to include cathedral, Mission Dolores The Schola Cantorum, a liturgical boys choir from the London Oratory School in London, England, will perform at a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral July 28 at 11 a.m. The boys, ages 7-18, will perform a concert the same night at Mission Dolores, 3321 16th St. in San Francisco at 5 p.m. The boys also record, sing concerts and tour abroad. San Francisco is the last of seven dates for the choir on its 2019 U.S. tour. The choir in June released its second album, Sacred Treasures of Spain. Charles Cole, the schola director, said, “We are delighted to release this new recording of beautiful Spanish motets. Sixteenth century Spain truly was a golden era during which a number of outstanding composers crafted their most beautiful work, adding to the treasury of great renaissance polyphony.” Founded in 1996, the choir gives Catholic boys the opportunity of a choral education within the state education system. In addition to its liturgical role, the Schola has recorded for numerous film
soundtracks, including the “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter.” For tickets to the Mission Dolores concert, visit cityboxoffice.com/LondonOratory. Tickets are $25 general admission, $15 student/senior.
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time DEUTERONOMY 30:10-14 Moses said to the people: “If only you would heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this book of the law, when you return to the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul.’ For this command that I enjoin on you today is not too mysterious and remote for you. It is not up in the sky, that you should say, ‘Who will go up in the sky to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?’ Nor is it across the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?’ No, it is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts; you have only to carry it out.” PSALM 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37 Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live. I pray to you, O LORD, for the time of your favor, O God! In your great kindness answer me with your constant help. Answer me, O LORD, for bounteous is your kindness: in your great mercy turn toward me. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live. I am afflicted and in pain; let your saving help, O God, protect me. I will praise the name of God in song, and I will glorify him with thanksgiving. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live. “See,
you lowly ones, and be glad; you who seek God, may your hearts revive! For the LORD hears the poor, and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.” Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live. For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. The descendants of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall inhabit it. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live. 2 COLOSSIANS 1:15-20 Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he himself might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile all things for him, making peace by the blood of his cross through him, whether those on earth or those in heaven. LUKE 10:25-37 There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said, “Teacher, what must I do to
inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” He replied to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.” But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead. A priest happened to be going down that road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. Likewise a Levite came to the place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn, and cared for him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction, ‘Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given you, I shall repay you on my way back.’ Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?” He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
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n the first reading, Moses comes to the end of his journey and speaks to the Israelites at length about their Covenant relationship and special bond with God. In the second reading, we hear of Christ’s involvement in creation and his work for the salvation of the world. At first glance, the Gospel might seem to just be about obeying the two great Commandments -- love of God and love of neighbor. Jesus, however, provides us with a more expansive understanding of “love” and teaches us how far we must go in loving others -- even giving up personal gain for the good of another who might be very different from myself ! In the story of the Good SaDEACON maritan, we see the practical FAIVA PO’OI side of the teaching of Jesus. The Good Samaritan saw. He felt pity. He took appropriate action to help remedy the situation. The first step in love is to look beyond ourselves -- to see -- to pay attention to other people in need, especially the poor, the forgotten, the neglected and the marginalized. It is when we allow others in need to enter our comfort space -- our
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lives -- that we first open up ourselves as faithful Christians. Unfortunately, too often we erect barriers to prevent people from knocking on our doors. Certain people are barred because of prejudice or discrimination. We may justify our barriers, even falling back on one of poet Robert Frost’s lines: “Good fences make good neighbors.” The next step in the account of the Samaritan was his emotional response: he was “moved with compassion” toward the injured traveler. Neither the priest nor the Levite made any move towards the injured man. Instead they chose to pass him by on the other side of the road. Compassion requires us to accept the pain of the other and also requires us to respond to it. By sharing tears in their sorrow or laughter in their joy, by empathizing with their pain or celebrating in their thankfulness, in giving to their emptiness or receiving from their fullness -- this is compassion! Being deeply attentive to others will enable us to be sensitive not only to what they say, but also to what they cannot say. Jesus did not just hear and answer the exact question posed to him by the lawyer. Instead, he chose to respond to something else, the need for an open heart! Jesus did not respond curtly but reached gently into the lawyer’s mind, and challenged him to a new way of thinking and responding to others. The third step of the good neighbor was to take practical action. One of life’s greatest excuses is
that we are waiting around for the ideal opportunity to act! The reality is that that the ideal opportunity will never come! The cartoonist Robert Short, father of the Charlie Brown family, once drew a cartoon with the caption: “I love humanity. It’s people I can’t stand.” At a time of trouble and challenge, an excuse may give us comfort, but it makes overcoming the difficulty virtually impossible. The best thing to do is to shoulder the responsibility for our own lives, including the difficulties, and say, “With God’s help and his grace, we shall rise above it.” We do not know what happened to the lawyer in the Gospel. We hope that he found the courage to face the truth about himself and deal with it. Jesus Christ gave him that opportunity. Now Jesus is giving it to us. For us, too, it will not be easy to let go of our excuses. But if we are able to do this, Jesus will replace our excuses with something far better -- a life changed by his grace. We have already experienced the unceasing mercy of God more than we can ever repay. The gift of salvation, freely offered to us by Jesus, is something humanity neither anticipated nor requested. It was a free gift. We praise him and glorify him for the gift of salvation that came through the Holy Eucharist, the divine food for our journey.
Ordinary Time. EX 11:10—12:14. PS 116:12-13, 15 and 16bc, 17-18. JN 10:27. MT 12:1-8.
religious. EX 14:21—15:1. EX 15:8-9, 10 and 12, 17. JN 14:23. MT 12:46-50.
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LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JULY 15: Memorial of St. Bonaventure, bishop and doctor. EX 1:8-14, 22. PS 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8. MT 5:10. MT 10:34—11:1. TUESDAY, JULY 16: Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. EX 2:1-15A. PS 69:3, 14, 30-31, 3334. PS 95:8. MT 11:20-24.
SATURDAY, JULY 20: Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Apollinaris, bishop and martyr. EX 12:37-42. PS 136:1 and 23-24, 10-12, 13-15. 2 COR 5:19. MT 12:14-21.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17: Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. EX 3:1-6, 9-12. PS 103:1b-2, 3-4, 6-7. SEE MT 11:25. MT 11:25-27.
SUNDAY, JULY 21: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. GN 18:1-10a. PS 15:2-3, 3-4, 5. COL 1:24-28. CF. LK 8:15. LK 10:38-42.
THURSDAY, JULY 18: Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis. EX 3:13-20. PS 105:1 and 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27. MT 11:28. MT 11:28-30.
MONDAY, JULY 22: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene. SGS 3:1-4B or 2 COR 5:14-17. PS 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9. JN 20:1-2, 11-18.
FRIDAY, JULY 19: Friday of the Fifteenth Week in
TUESDAY, JULY 23: Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bridget,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24: Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhloof, priest. EX 16:1-5, 9-15. PS 78:18-19, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28. MT 13:1-9. THURSDAY, JULY 25: Feast of St. James, apostle. 2 COR 4:7-15. PS 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. SEE JN 15:16. MT 20:20-28. FRIDAY, JULY 26: Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary. EX 20:1-17. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. SEE LK 8:15. MT 13:18-23. SATURDAY, JULY 27: Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. EX 24:3-8. PS 50:1b-2, 5-6, 14-15. JAS 1:21bc. MT 13:24-30.
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The loss of heaven and the fear of hell
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rowing up as a Roman Catholic, like the rest of my generation, I was taught a prayer called, The Act of Contrition. Every Catholic back then had to memorize it and say it during or after going to confession. The prayer started this way: Oh, my God, I am truly sorry for having offended thee and I detest all of my sins because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell. … To dread the loss of heaven and fear the pains of hell can seem like one and the same thing. They’re not. There’s a huge moral distance between FATHER RON dreading the loss of heaven ROLHEISER and fearing the pains of hell. The prayer wisely separates them. Fear of hell is based upon a fear of punishment, dreading the loss of heaven is based upon a fear of not being a good, loving person. There’s a huge difference between living in fear of punishment and living in fear of not being a good a person. We’re more mature, humanly and as Christians, when we’re more worried about not being loving enough than when we’re fearful that we will be punished for doing something wrong. Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, I breathed in the spirituality and catechesis of the Roman Catholicism of the time. In the Catholic ethos then (and this was essentially the same for Protestants and Evangelicals) the eschatological emphasis was a lot more about the fear of going to hell than it was
about being a loving person. As a Catholic kid, along with my peers, I worried a lot about not committing a mortal sin, that is, doing something out of selfishness or weakness that, if unconfessed before I died, would send me to hell for all eternity. My fear was that I might go to hell rather than that I might not be a very loving person who would miss out on love and community. And so I worried about not being bad rather than about being good. I worried that I would do something that was mortally sinful, that would send me to hell; but I didn’t worry as much about having a heart big enough to love as God loves. I didn’t worry as much about forgiving others, about letting go of hurts, about loving those who are different from me, about being judgmental, or about being so tribal, racist, sexist, nationalistic, or narrow in my religious views that I would be uncomfortable sitting down with certain others at the God’s banquet table. The heavenly table is open to all who are willing to sit down with all. That’s a line from a John Shea poem and it spells out succinctly, I believe, a nonnegotiable condition for going to heaven, namely, the willingness and capacity to love everyone and to sit down with everyone. It’s non-negotiable for this reason: How can we be at the heavenly table with everyone if for some reason of pride, wound, temperament, bitterness, bigotry, politics, nationalism, color, race, religion, or history, we aren’t open to sit down with everyone? Jesus teaches this too, just in a different way. After giving us the Lord’s Prayer which ends with the words, “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us”, he adds this: “If you forgive others when they sin against you, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you.” Why can’t God forgive us if we don’t forgive others? Has God arbitrarily singled out this one condition as his pet criterion for going to heaven? No. We cannot sit at the heavenly banquet table if we are still selective as to whom we can sit down with. If, in the next life, like here in this life, we are selective as to whom we love and embrace, then heaven would be the same as earth, with factions, bitterness, grudges, hurt, and every kind of racism, sexism, nationalism, and religious fundamentalism keeping us all in our separate silos. We can only sit at the heavenly banquet when our hearts are wide enough to embrace everyone else at the table. Heaven demands a heart open to universal embrace. And so, as I get older, approach the end of my life, and accept that I will soon face my Maker, I worry less and less about going to hell and worry more and more about the bitterness, anger, ingratitude, and non-forgiveness that still remains in me. I worry less about committing a mortal sin and more about whether I’m gracious, respectful, and forgiving towards others. I worry more about the loss of heaven than the pains of hell, that is, I worry that I could end up like the older brother of the prodigal son, standing outside the Father’s house, excluded by anger rather than by sin. Still, I’m grateful for the Act of Contrition of my youth. Fear of hell isn’t a bad place from which to start. OBLATE FATHER RON ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
LETTERS Confession law would be unenforceable
SB 360, written by state Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo, seeks to impose a duty upon Catholic priests to violate the seal of the confessional when he obtains “knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect t... during a penitential communication ... between a clergy member and another person that is employed at the same site or facility as the clergy member ... [or] ... between a clergy member and another clergy member.” Under Penal Code Sec. 11166 (c) “Any mandated reporter who fails to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect as required by this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months confinement in a county jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by both that imprisonment and fine. If a mandated reporter intentionally conceals his or her failure to report an incident known by the mandated reporter to be abuse or severe neglect under this section, the failure to report is a continuing offense until an agency specified in Section 11165.9 discovers the offense.” It is the essence of any law that it be enforceable. How would such a law be enforced? How would the police or the district attorney know that the priest had obtained “knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect” in confession? Not from the suspected criminal, certainly, since then they wouldn’t need the priest’s testimony at all! Would the police begin willy-nilly interrogating priests (any or all priests) whether they heard the confession of the suspected criminal? Could they just ask any priest, demanding to know whether they heard the suspect’s confession and when the priest refused to answer, put him in jail under this law? The answer, unfortunately is probably “yes,” unless a court invalidated the law as an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. Since this law does violate the First Amendment, clearly and utterly, it will never come into force or effect, so the question arises why it was written anyway? I think the answer is that the author and the benighted time-servers who voted for it have an animus against the Catholic Church which stinks to high heaven. It will be costly in lawyer’s fees to appeal this law to the U.S. States Supreme Court but it will have to be done. When the law is finally declared to be what it clearly is – unconstitutional – I would hope that the state is required to pay the cost but I doubt it. Jerry Hill is termed out in 2020, so we won’t even get a chance to vote against him next time! Jack Murray Redwood City
Facebook forum commendable
I have been following Catholic San Francisco on Facebook and Twitter for a while. It seems to me that recent posts on Facebook have been more about current “issues” than about news and happenings in the archdiocese. I look at this as a positive move. These issues sometimes spark comments from people with differing opinions. I commend CSF for taking this bold step. In some cases it must require more time and attention from staff after you have posted an item so that discussions don’t get out of hand. I hope we can all continue to have civil and fruitful discussion about Catholic matters on Facebook. Perhaps we can learn from each other or at least understand where a differing opinion is coming from. Mary Bordi Half Moon Bay
Children of God
Thank you, Tom Hehir, for bringing attention to the suffering and struggles of LGBTQ youth (June 20 letters), and for the call to open our arms wide and lovingly to all of these children of God. Laurie Joyce San Anselmo
Pro-life must come first
Re: letters, June 20 While I agree all seven themes of social teaching Mr. Albert listed are very important for Catholics to consider, pro-life must come first; no other rights can be safeguarded unless that is protected from conception to natural death. Further, war and execution are not always morally wrong. Lastly, conservatives being painted as heartless and opposing social justice is typical PC garbage. We object to the state forcing faith-based people to knuckle under to the dominant cultural and political “norms” of the day. As one example, Mr. Hehir’s listing of depressing statistics is used to advocate “tolerance” for same-sex attracted and transgender youth. I’d say we already are tolerant, unless we try to tactfully point out the truth of God’s creating us male and female for His purpos-
es, not ours. That is true love for the other person, not helping them go further into the darkness. “Pride month” specifically glorifies the individual’s sexuality and lifestyle as if every and any variant is accepted, or should be. We are aiding and abetting Satan’s work to destroy human souls when we say, “it’s your choice, and any choice is OK.” Sorry, it is not. JR Hermann San Mateo
‘Laudato’ merits more coverage
Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato si’” struck me as one of the most contemporary Christian concerns: a focus on mankind’s assault on God’s nature and a call to temper it. To paraphrase the pope, “God always forgives, but nature, when mistreated, never forgives.” Granted, the encyclical was announced in 2015 but it has even greater relevance today. Oddly, I never see a reference to it in our Catholic San Francisco. These are concerns, I feel, that are of greater interest and relevancy to churchgoers of any age than much of what appears in the local church’s press. Climate change is affecting us all, and a series of articles highlighting the spirit of the encyclical would be more than welcome. This is an issue of great urgency and one that Catholics, especially our youth, should be proud to champion. It would also, I believe, energize those who may be discouraged by the apparent timidity displayed within the archdiocese on such a critical call to action by the pope. Readers may check out “Laudato si’” on the internet. But I hope its importance receives the recognition it deserves and becomes an ongoing topic in future articles in the archdiocese’s paper. Joseph P. Pecora San Francisco Editor’s note: We agree this is a crucial issue and the paper makes a conscious effort to cover it. We’ve had 10 or 12 articles in the last year on local, national or world environmental issues, including two on Page 6 of this issue. Some articles appear only on our website and Facebook news feed. Over the years we have found it notable that reader interest in the topic seems consistently low. Still, we think its news and will keep covering it.
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hildren require extensive support and protection to meet their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. They are uniquely dependent on their parents because they are particularly vulnerable. Often they are unable to speak on their own behalf or effectively defend themselves from various forms of exploitation. Considerations like these provide the basis for acknowledging the reality of “children’s rights.” Providing an appropriate family environment, with the presence of both a mother and a father, has long been recognized as one of the paramount examples of fulfilling children’s rights. A proper family environment offers essential FATHER TADEUSZ safeguards for a child, and PACHOLCZYK helps assure the “full and harmonious development of his or her personality” – to borrow a phrase from the 1990 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Such “full and harmonious development,” however, is becoming more difficult to secure for many children in part due to a growing societal acceptance of powerful new assisted reproductive technologies that can isolate children and deprive them of critical parental and family supports during their childhood. Children brought into existence using anonymous donor sperm and artificial insemination, to consider one example, often struggle with a sense of violation as they end up spending years or even decades
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BORDER: Local volunteers rush to provide humanitarian aid FROM PAGE 1
McLaughlin said her group spent hours each day on telephones or computers helping migrants obtain bus or airplane tickets to take them to their U.S. sponsors. The men also took turns driving a 15-seat van they rented themselves to get families to the airport or bus station and helped them navigate the bewildering schedule and security process. Volunteers did whatever was needed in the moment, she said, from making repairs to the overburdened facility, shopping for food supplies, organizing and distributing donated clothing and shoes, filling baby bottles and rocking crying babies while their weary mothers slept. “If we were exhausted, what must the migrants be experiencing?” asked McLaughlin, who recalled seeing a large group of migrants in an outdoor arena with only tarps covering their heads. “They yelled after us, ‘We have been here 35 days, please help,” she said. Earlier this year, McLaughlin and other St. John of God parishioners had attended a meeting held at St. Ignatius Parish organized by Annette Lomont, a member of the Solidarity Committee for the Jesuit parish. Lomont had just returned from a volunteer trek to a border refugee center run by the Sisters of Loretto in El Paso and went to work to mobilize other local Catholics to volunteer. Lomont told Catholic San Francisco that some migrants wept at the kindness shown to them by strangers and by the small comforts they were offered. “Some of them just sobbed, especially the young mothers,” said Lomont, who recalled leading a young woman with a six-month-old baby to a shower, something she had never seen before. She put her hand under the stream of clean water and murmured, “Oh, delicious,” in Spanish. Lomont contacted Annunciation House and discovered the organization’s founder, Ruben Garcia, was overwhelmed, on some days receiving up to a thousand people at one of the organization’s Costco warehouse-sized shelters. Lomont’s neighbor and friend Judy Reuter, a parishioner at nearby St. Agnes, helped coordinate the volunteer effort. Appeals in the Sunday bulletins of both Jesuit parishes generated dozens of inquiries and soon an informational meeting was organized at St. Ignatius. “This is not a holiday,” Lomont reminded the group of about 35 that included young adults, retirees and senior citizens. “You are going to work long and hard.” A good number of volunteers could speak Spanish, said Lomont, a necessity for being able to “listen to the migrants’ stories.” Ten-person parish delegations are scheduled into November, said Lomont, the first leaving July 13. Volunteers pay their own travel, housing and food costs, though Annunciation House offers the same housing and food to volunteers as they do migrants. Our Lady of Angels parishioner Terry Sprague and Our Lady of the Pillar parishioner Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga returned July 2 to the Bay Area
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Our Lady of Angels parishioner Terry Sprague and another volunteer haul a wagon of food and supplies across the border to a makeshift refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, where Sergio Jr., a Cuban boy played amid tents and tarps while his family waited to present their case for legal asylum. after volunteering for two weeks in the border city of McAllen, Texas, with Bay Area Border Relief. McAllen gained national attention last year when border patrol agents locked up hundreds of migrants presenting themselves for asylum and separated parents from their children. Sprague and Hernandez-Arriaga were there when a 26-foot truck filled with clothing, toiletries, toys and supplies donated by people from throughout the Bay Area arrived to Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley’s Humanitarian Respite Center in the Diocese of Brownsville. The center was founded by Sister Norma Pimentel. “You do find a lot of Catholic representation here,” Sprague told Catholic San Francisco in a phone call from the border. “But you find all faiths working together.” “I can’t even tell you what I have seen without bursting into tears,” she said. “What you see in the news, it’s that bad and worse.” She said she came for people like the barefoot toddler she saw as she arrived at the center, filthy and hungry with matted hair and a world-weary expression. Volunteers begin to restore dignity to the migrants by feeding them, offering them a shower, a place to rest, clean clothing and shoes. When someone’s dignity is restored, the light returns, Sprague said.
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SEX ED: Parents urged to assert rights under new state teaching framework FROM PAGE 7
The California Health Education framework, which is a guidance document developed to help administrators and educators choose a curriculum that adheres to California law, encourages educators to challenge the binary view of gender. One chapter states: “Fifth-grade students will have an opportunity to learn that gender is not strictly defined by physical anatomy or sex assigned at birth. Rather, students understand that gender refers to attitudes, feelings, characteristics, and behaviors that a given culture associates with being male or female.” A lesson from “Teen Talk,” a middle school sexual education curriculum, has educators discuss different sexual acts and the risk of pregnancy or infection associated with each. “Be Real, Be Ready,” the sexual education curriculum of San Francisco Unified School District, uses Planned Parenthood videos in its instruction and notes that sexual pleasure “is often not discussed
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Raymond Burnell, director of education at the California Catholic Conference, spoke June 15 at St. Bruno Parish about parental rights and California sex education. Burnell urged parents to opt out of sexual education that conflicts with their values. by health educators or health care providers. While some adults may feel uncomfortable discussing the
details of sexual pleasure and function, it is an important topic.” In order to push back against what
is being taught, Blachowski said, “we need hundreds of parents like us. Participate in state events, get involved in your school board, and pray and fast. If you have the Eucharist you can do this.” Parents who attended the meeting said they were surprised by what they learned. Mike Verceles, a parent from Hayward, said that health education was important but objected to how topics like sexual orientation were covered. “They’re trying to indoctrinate our kids to go do what you want to do, have multiple partners, if you want to be a boy, go be a boy. They’re growing up way too fast, and they’re not able to be themselves,” he said. Elizabeth Garcia, a Walnut Creek resident, said she was concerned students were “learning something that isn’t true to reality, that their integrity as a person is being withheld and there’s an agenda that’s being pushed. “They’re messing with the whole paradigm of being human. It’s already been decided by the state and we didn’t have a voice in it,” she said.
ORTHODOX PASTOR: ‘Religious freedom is one of God’s gifts’ FROM PAGE 9
from wounds and a different kind of experience.” Father Shernezian counseled kindness and respect, advising that each person live religious freedom within themselves and be open about who they are as people of Christian faith. God gave us free will and therefore in creating us also bestowed religious freedom, Father Shernezian said. “I remember Mother Theresa’s beautiful words: ‘Do not wait for
leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.’ We cannot expect from the world or from the world leaders to respect religious freedom, when we are not able to respect others’ faith, belief or their differences,” Father Shernezian said. “We cannot expect changes from the society, when the religious practices and belief are limited within the sanctuary, only in prayers and worship, but not in action and behavior, especially in
multicultural and multi-religious communities.” Father Shernezian noted, “Our Lord Jesus Christ, took His love, His Words and His teachings, to all the communities of Israel, to Sadducees, to Pharisees, to Samaritans, to Zealots and even to Gentiles. His salvation was for all flesh (Luke 6:3). Jesus did not teach us loving only those who share our faith and belief, He taught us to love everyone. Religious freedom means to be freed from our humanly sights and see the image and likeness of our neighbors and behave accordingly.”
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PEORIA, Ill. – With “overwhelming joy,” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced July 6 that Pope Francis had approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. “Now that the miracle has been confirmed by Pope Francis, the Diocese of Peoria can formally begin planning for the beatification of Archbishop Sheen, which Archbishop will take place in Peoria,” accordFulton J. Sheen ing to a news release issued by the Diocese of Peoria early Saturday morning. The pope authorized the Congregation for Saints’ Causes to promulgate the decree at an audience on July 5. In addition to affirming the miracle for Archbishop Sheen, Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of one woman and six men, and enrolled Blessed Bartholomew of the Martyrs in the catalog of saints, which is equivalent to canonization. The miracle concerns the healing of James Fulton Engstrom of Washington, Illinois, who was considered stillborn when he was delivered during a planned home birth Sept. 16, 2010. His parents, Bonnie and Travis Engstrom, immediately invoked the prayers of Archbishop Sheen and would encourage others to seek his intercession after the baby was taken to OSF HealthCare St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria for emergency treatment. Just as doctors were preparing to declare that he was dead, James Fulton’s tiny heart started to beat at a normal rate for a healthy newborn. He had been without a pulse for 61 minutes.
WASHINGTON STATE BISHOPS CALL FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM
SEATTLE – Washington’s bishops have issued a call for “comprehensive immigration reform that honors the dignity of those seeking a better life in the United States, while also addressing the legitimate need for safe and secure borders.” In a June 28 statement, the bishops called the current stalemate on immigration reform a “disappointing reality (that) continues to complicate efforts of law enforcement, sow discord in our communities and harm vulnerable people.” As Catholics, the bishops said, “we are called to practice Christian charity and to protect and defend the dignity of every human person, espe-
cially the poor and most vulnerable based on the moral natural law.” They also encouraged local Catholics to join in “ongoing efforts to create a just and safe immigration system.” They pointed out that “for many years there has been a growing national consensus that the U.S. immigration system is severely flawed and in need of a comprehensive overhaul” and that the “continued stalemate on enacting comprehensive immigration reform has created a void filled by stopgap initiatives and a patchwork of state laws.” The U.S. government’s response to the current situation – with mass deportation efforts and plans to reinforce the borders – “are neither effective nor sustainable means of addressing this international humanitarian crisis,” they added.
OPIOID CRISIS REACHES INTO ALL CORNERS OF WEST VIRGINIA
WHEELING, W.Va. – West Virginia leads the nation in drug overdose death rates. With an average of 57.8 deaths per 100,000 residents, the state’s drug fatality rate was nearly three times higher than the national average of 21.7 deaths. The numbers were released in mid-June through a study conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, covering the year 2017. The crisis has been devastating for the state, and Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, said the Catholic Church in West Virginia is committed to helping those suffering. “Through the work of Catholic Charities, the Catholic Church in West Virginia has made a commitment to helping those who have been impacted by drug addiction, most especially the children and other family members of those suffering from drug addiction,” the archbishop said. “Many parishes also have programs and efforts in place to address this crisis,” he added. “My office has been in discussions with the state Department of Health and Human Resources and with our ecumenical partners through the council of churches to determine how the diocese can further help in the statewide effort to address the root causes and impact of drug addiction throughout West Virginia.” The crisis has reached all corners of the state, leaving very few untouched. “It’s just sad,” said
Sara Lindsay, chief program officer for Catholic Charities West Virginia. “It’s hard to know any person who has not had experience with the opioid crisis.” Based in Wheeling, Lindsay recently traveled four hours south to Huntington in Cabell County to attend a regional health summit which touched upon the state’s opioid crisis. “It’s horrible in Huntington,” she told The Catholic Spirit, the diocesan newspaper. “In Cabell County, there are 178 overdose deaths per 100,000 people. ... Is that not staggering?”
JUDGE BLOCKS BAN ON OHIO’S ABORTIONS AFTER FETAL HEARTBEAT DETECTED
CINCINNATI – A federal judge July 3 granted a preliminary injunction blocking an Ohio ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. Judge Michael Barrett of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said the court concluded that the law, signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in April, “places an ‘undue burden’ on a woman’s right to choose a pre-viability abortion, and ... plaintiffs are certain to succeed on the merits of their claim.” The American Civil Liberties of Ohio and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the ban on behalf of Preterm-Cleveland and other Ohio abortion providers. It was to have taken effect July 11 but is now on hold while the lawsuit makes its way through the courts. A fetal heartbeat can be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, a time frame in which many women are unaware they are pregnant. The Ohio House April 10 voted 56-40 in favor of the bill. Agreeing with the House’s changes in the legislation, the Senate adopted it a short time later, 18-13, sending it to DeWine for his signature. Both votes occurred mostly along party lines with Republicans lined up in favor of it and Democrats opposed. Under the law, doctors and others who perform an abortion after a heartbeat has been detected or who fail to do an abdominal or transvaginal ultrasound before an abortion face being charged with a fifth-degree felony punishable by six to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
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POPE NAMES WOMEN AS FULL MEMBERS OF CONGREGATION FOR RELIGIOUS
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis named six superiors of women’s religious orders, a consecrated laywoman and the superior of the De La Salle Christian Brothers to be full members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Previously, the members had all been men: cardinals, a few bishops and several priests who were superiors of large religious orders of men. The women named members by the pope were announced by the Vatican July 8: Sisters Kathleen Appler, the U.S.-born superior of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; Yvonne Reungoat, superior of the Salesian Sisters; Francoise Massy, superior of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary; Luigia Coccia, superior of the Comboni Sisters; Simona Brambilla, superior of the Consolata Missionary Sisters; Rita Calvo Sanz, superior of the Company of Mary Our Lady; and Olga Krizova, general president of the Volunteers of Don Bosco, a group of consecrated laypeople. Brother Robert I. Schieler, the U.S.-born superior of the De La Salle Christian Brothers, also was named a full member of the congregation along with the priests who are superiors general of the Jesuits, the Discalced Carmelites, the Augustinians, the Scalabrinians, the Capuchins and the abbot president of the Subiaco Cassinese Benedictine Congregation. The new members announced by the Vatican also included five bishops and four cardinals: Cardinals Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar for Rome; Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life; Luis Ladaria Ferrer, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; and Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid, Spain.
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Pope Francis welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Vatican July 4, and the two discussed the ongoing wars in Eastern Ukraine and in Syria, the Vatican said. Russia plays a major role in both conflicts. At the end of the 55-minute private meeting, Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican press office, issued a statement describing the discussions as “cordial.”
The least ones, “who have been thrown away, marginalized, oppressed, discriminated against, abused, exploited, abandoned, poor and suffering” cry out to God, “asking to be freed from the evils that afflict them,” the pope said in his homily July 8 during a Mass commemorating the sixth anniversary of his visit to the southern Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. “They are persons; these are not mere social or migrant issues. This is not just about migrants, in the twofold sense that migrants are, first of all, POPE: MIGRANTS ARE PEOPLE, NOT JUST A SOCIAL ISSUE human persons and that they are the symbol of all those rejected by today’s globalized society,” VATICAN CITY – Christians are called to follow the spirit of the beatitudes by comforting the poor he said. According to the Vatican, an estimated 250 miand the oppressed, especially migrants and refugrants, refugees and rescue volunteers attended gees who are rejected, exploited and left to die, The Most Requested Funeral Directorsthe in the of Francisco Most inMass, the Archdiocese Archdiocese of San San Francisco which was celebrated at the Altar of the PopeThe Francis said.Requested Funeral Directors
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican City State tribunal has ordered the opening of two tombs in a small Vatican cemetery at the request of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in 1983. Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican City resident and the daughter of a Vatican employee, disappeared in Rome June 22, 1983, when she was 15. In March, the family’s lawyer revealed the family had been sent a letter with a photo of an angel above a tomb in the Vatican’s Teutonic Cemetery, a medieval cemetery now reserved mainly for German-speaking priests and members of religious orders. The letter said, “Look where the angel is pointing,” according to Laura Sgro, the lawyer. She filed a formal petition with the Vatican to investigate the matter and possibly open the tombs below the sculpture of the angel. Italian news reports in March quoted Sgro as saying there was evidence that at least one of the tombs below the angel statue had been opened at some point, the statue is not the same age as the marble on top of the tombs and someone continues to leave flowers there. Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican Press Office, said July 2 that the Vatican promoter of justice, Gian Piero Milano, and his assistant, Alessandro Diddi, ordered the opening of two tombs. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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Dominican Sister Patricia (Catherine Demetria) Rielly died on June 20, 2019 at St. Martin’s Residence at Mission San Jose. She was 96 years old and 75 years professed as a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose. A native San Franciscan, Sister Patricia attended St. James Elementary School and Immaculate Conception Academy. For 45 years she served as a secondary instrucSister Patricia tor, specializing in the teaching of Rielly Latin and journalism. In Northern California she taught at Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco and St. Elizabeth High School, Oakland. In Southern California she taught at San Gabriel Mission High School, San Gabriel; St. Michael’s High School and Sacred Heart High School, Los Angeles; and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, La Canada Flintridge. For over 15 years she assisted in the congregation’s development office and was responsible for the community newsletter. Sister Rielly’s funeral Mass was held June 25 at the Dominican Motherhouse, followed by burial at God’s Acre, the Dominican Sisters’ cemetery.
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Sister Deborah Marie (Betty) Butcher, OP, died on June 21, 2019, in Glendale. She was 79 years old and professed for 59 years as a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose. Sister Deborah Marie was born on Oct. 30, 1939, to Dan E. and Bette Butcher in Monterey Park. In 1959 she entered the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose whom she met while attending Flintridge Sister Deborah Sacred Heart Academy, La CanaMarie Butcher da. She taught elementary grades at St. William School, Los Altos; Sacred Heart Elementary School and St. Francis X. Cabrini School, Los Angeles; and St. Joseph School, Mission San Jose. She served as secretary of the Dominican Sisters Education Department, sacristan at the Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, Fremont, and provided technology support, graphic design service and photography to Congregational and school site ministries for many years. The funeral Mass for Sister Deborah Marie was scheduled July 10 at 11:15 a.m. at the Dominican Sisters Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Circle,
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be reintroduced at a later date. Sen. Hill’s office had not responded at press time to inquiries about SB 360’s future. In a June 29 letter, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone thanked priests of the archdiocese for supporting the letter-writing campaign. “As American citizens and Catholics, you spoke up for religious freedom, not just for Catholics, but for all people of faith who are protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,” the archbishop wrote in his letter. The seal of confession is sacrosanct and an “unbreakable guarantee” for penitents, the state’s bishops say. “SB 360 would take away from priests and from everyone who works with priests in parishes and Church agencies across the state the full right to
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST SB 360: Retired auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice files his letter of opposition to SB 360 after the 8:45 a.m. Spanish Mass June 23 at St. Matthew Church, San Mateo. Archbishop Cordileone promoted a letter-writing campaign at the June 22-23 Masses throughout the archdiocese, urging the flock to oppose the proposed California law that would violate the seal of confession.
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FATHER DAN CARTER CELEBRATES 40 YEARS A PRIEST: Father Daniel Carter, Pastor of St. Paul of the Shipwreck and Our Lady of Lourdes/All Hallows Chapel, celebrated his 40th Anniversary of Ordination June 29 with a Mass and dinner. He was ordained in 1979 by then Bishop Francis A. Quinn in Redding. With standing room only at St. Paul of the Shipwreck, friends, family, and parishioners from his current and former parishes joined in the blessing over him given by Paulist Father Bart Landry. His close friend Father Ken Westray was homilist.
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PENTECOST CONFIRMATIONS: Archbishop Cordileone blesses a confirmand during confirmation services Pentecost Sunday, June 9, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The archbishop confirmed 45 confirmands from 21 parishes.
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POST-ABORTION HEALING MINISTRY TRAINING AT MATER DOLOROSA: Training for the Project Rachel post-abortion ministry drew almost two dozen women and men to Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco June 22. Participants learned about the preliminary tools they will use to help those suffering reproductive loss. The day included spiritual guidance and Mass celebrated by Contemplatives of Saint Joseph founder Father Vito Perrone. For more info about Project Rachel Ministry
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ARCHBISHOP ATTENDS GIANTS GAME WITH UNACCOMPANIED MINORS: On June 23, the San
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SUNDAY, JULY 7 MOSAIC TV ON ‘EVANGELIZATION, FILM AND FICTION’: Dr. Margaret Turek, professor of dogmatics at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, discusses the common ground between filmmakers and fiction writers as evangelizers. KPIX television Channel 5, CBS Bay Area at 5:30 a.m. Past episodes of Mosaic are archived and viewable online at sfarch.org/ mosaic-tv.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 NORTHWEST BOYCHOIR: Featuring works by M. Haydn, Mendelssohn, Shubert and more at Star of the Sea Church at 4420 Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Free will offering to benefit the Star of the Sea Medical Services, Nairobi, Kenya. Reception after the performance. More information at starparish.com or (415) 751-0450.
THURSDAY, JULY 11 PRIESTHOOD DISCERNMENT MEETING: Hosted by the Office of Vocations for young men wishing to explore a vocation to the priesthood. Program runs from 5:45-8:30 p.m. Includes eucharistic adoration followed by dinner and discussion. Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. For more information and to RSVP contact Father Cameron Faller at faller.cameron@sfarch.org.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 YOUNG ADULTS HOLY HOUR OF EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: All are welcome to join St. Teresa of Avila’s Parish’s Young Adult Catholics
for a Holy Hour of eucharistic adoration, 7:30 p.m. at 1490 19th Street (at Connecticut), San Francisco. Contact Lucas Cram, yacs@stteresasf.org or Stephani Sheehan, parish secretary, at (415) 285-5272.
FRIDAY, JULY 19 MONTHLY GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: These free sessions at. St. Mary’s Cathedral provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Facilitated by Deacon Christoph Sandoval in the Msgr. Bowe room (west side of parking lot). For more information contact Sister Elaine at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.
SATURDAY, JULY 20 RETROUVAILLE ANNUAL FAMILY PICNIC: Potluck family picnic at 110 Garner Court, Novato, noon-3. Hot dogs and sausages will be provided. Options will include chicken, vegetarian and gluten-free. Please bring a side dish to share. There’s a pool, so swimmers should bring swimsuits and towels. RSVP by July 11. sfretro.bui@ gmail.com.
SUNDAY, JULY 21 CATHOLIC WOMEN’S ANNUAL TEA: The San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women is holding their annual afternoon tea at the Flanagan Center at Holy Name of Jesus Church in San Francisco, 1555 39th Ave., 1:30-3:30 p.m. $20. Reservations deadline is July 15. For more information contact Cathy Mibach at dcmibach@aol.com or (415) 753-0234.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 22-24 THEOLOGY OF THE BODY FOR TEENS: Theology of the Body Retreat for Teens hosted by the Missionaries of Charity and Echoes of Worth, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Chapel, 3255 Folsom St., San Francisco. Young people can benefit from this opportunity to experience St. John Paul II’s integrated vision of the human person and his teachings on the human body’s specific meaning, which makes visible an invisible reality. Free, with lunch included. Space is limited and RSVP required. Contact Jacob Castillo at JacoCastillo@ gmail.com, or Sister Gianna at (415) 550-2465 to register.
TUESDAY-THURSDAY, JULY 23-25 GREGORIAN CHANT SUMMER CAMP: Campers 6-16 years of age will learn the basics of the timeless sung prayer of the church during a three-day summer camp at St. Patrick’s Seminary, 320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. Sponsored by the Mater Ecclaesiae Academy, the chant camp is fun and spiritually fruitful. Instructor is Mary Ann Wilson-Carr of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship. For more information call (408) 748-1887 or visit materecclesiaeacademy.org.
FRIDAY, JULY 26-SUNDAY, JULY 28 WEEKEND RETREAT WITH BISHOP CHRISTIAN OP: Auxiliary Bishop Robert Christian, OP, will lead a retreat on the theme of “Beating Back the Gates of Hell – How a Weak Church Strengthens Saint and Sinner Alike,” Vallombrosa Retreat Center,
SCHOLA CANTORUM OF THE LONDON ORATORY SCHOOL: The choir of about 40 boys will tour the Western U.S. this summer, with two performances in San Francisco: the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with Archbishop Cordileone as celebrant, and a 5 p.m. concert at Mission Dolores Basilica. The Schola gives Catholic boys the opportunity of a choral education within the state educational system from ages 7 to 18. Visit www.londonoratoryschola. com/tours.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7 26TH ANNUAL FUN DAY BOWLING: A day of bowling, lunch and dancing hosted by the Bay Area Knights of Columbus Foundation and the Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center at the Classic Bowling Center in Daly City, 900 King Drive. Starts at 9:30 a.m. Free for children and adults with developmental disabilities. To RSVP or for more information contact Cindy Blackstone, (415) 213-8507.
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