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Thirteen months after his ordination as the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s 18th auxiliary, Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, died in his sleep on July 11 at his residence at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. Bishop Christian, named the seminary’s rector-president in January, was 70 years old.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone issued a statement the same day expressing sadness at Bishop Christian’s unexpected death and gratitude for his gifts as a spiritual leader.

“The archdiocese was greatly blessed to have his wisdom and leadership even if for so brief a time as auxiliary bishop and even briefer time as rector of the seminary,” he said.

The Western Dominican Province said Bishop Christian had tirelessly served the church for more than 50 years. “We are deeply saddened to hear of his death and entrust his soul to the loving arms of our Heavenly Father,” the province said.

Robert Francis Christian was born Dec. 2, 1948, in San Francisco. The eldest of seven, he attended St. Brendan School and St. Vincent de Paul School and graduated from St. Ignatius High School in San Francisco.

After earning a bachelor’s degree at Santa Clara University, he entered the Dominican novitiate of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in Oakland, drawn by the order’s shared prayer and community life.

In a May 24, 2018, special section produced by Catholic San Francisco ahead of Bishop Christian’s ordination, his brother John Christian said his brother felt drawn to religious life as early as grammar school.

“From the start, my brother has always been in love with God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,” John Christian said.

Bishop Christian was ordained a priest in 1976 and taught at Dominican College in San Rafael before going to study theology at the Angelicum in Rome.

After earning his doctoral degree, Bishop Christian ministered at Newman Centers in Seattle and Riverside before returning to the Angelicum as a professor. Over the next 30 years, he was a professor and vice dean of the Angelicum’s theology faculty and served as prior of the university’s Dominican community.

Bishop Christian served as socius for the Western Dominican Province from 1997-1999. He returned to live in Oakland in 2015 and was the master of students at St. Albert’s Priory when

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WASHINGTON – News that officials in the Trump administration are considering “zeroing out” the number of refugees accepted by the United States brought an immediate outcry from the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee and leaders of Catholic and other faith-based agencies that resettle refugees.

They all implored the government to reject such a move.

“This recent report, if true, is disturbing and against the principles we have as a nation and a people, and has the potential to end the refugee resettlement program entirely. The world is in the midst of the greatest humanitarian displacement crisis in almost a century,” said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas. “I strongly oppose any further reductions of the refugee resettlement program.

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Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, rector-president of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, died July 11, just over a year after his ordination in 2018.

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Pope Francis appointed him auxiliary bishop of San Francisco on March 28, 2018. He was ordained the following June.

The Dominican style of decision-making was important to Bishop Christian, who in the same CSF section called the Dominicans the “most democratic order in the church.”

“We know that if a decision isn’t the right one, we can change it in a few years,” he said, adding that while basic Dominican values aren’t “up for grabs,” the way policies are implemented can change.

“This gives us all in the order a sense of ownership, where decisions are imposed by the common will and not from above,” he said.

Bishop Christian said he would bring Dominican

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NEED TO KNOW CATHOLIC SCHOOL NEWS: Tara Rolle joined the archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools July 15 as associate superintendent for governance. Rolle comes from the Diocese of San Jose, where she served as associate superintendent of instruction and executive director of the Drexel School System. Rolle, who brings extensive experience in Catholic school leadership and blended-learning initiatives, also served as principal of St. Raymond Catholic School in Menlo Park.

BENEDICT XVI INSTITUTE: Conductor Richard Sparks is the new principal conductor of the Benedict Sixteen, the institute’s 16-voice professional choir. An accomplished conductor and chorale director, Sparks has experience with both traditional Gregorian chant and Anglican chant. Under Sparks’ musical leadership, the Bay Area 2019 season for the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship will include an All Soul’s Day Requiem Mass for the Homeless Dead at St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Nicholas Day prayer service at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park. For more specific information on B16 musical events visit benedictinstitute.org.

BOYS CHOIR PERFORMANCES JULY 28: A Brit(COURTESY PHOTO) ish boys choir, the Schola Cantorum of the London The Lourdes grotto at Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park as it appeared prior to renovation. The center is raising funds to Oratory School in London, England, will sing at a Mass build a new grotto and shrine for Our Lady of Lourdes on its property. celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral July 28 at 11 a.m. Later that day, the choir will also perform a concert at Mission Dolores, 3321 16th St. in San Francisco at 5 p.m. The choir in June released their second album, “Sacred Treasures of Spain.” Charles Cole, the Schola’s 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 Dave Fencl, operations director for VallomNICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH the treasury of great renaissance polyphony.” For tickets brosa, said the plaza would be named in honor of CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO to the Mission Dolores concert, visit cityboxoffice.com/ its late chaplain, Father Kevin Gaffey, who had LondonOratory. Tickets are $25 general admission, $15 Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, been “instrumental” in the vocation of a number student/senior. of priests.

Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park has embarked The center is selling brick pavers that can be a project to renovate its Lourdes grotto and build Church Goods & Candles Religiouson Gifts & Books IMMIGRATION RESOURCES FOR PARISHES: etched and placed in the plaza to partly cover around it a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

Catholic Charities CEO Jilma Meneses sent a letter to costs, Fencl said.

A retreat center visitor in 2018 had noticed the pastors of parishes in San Francisco, San Mateo and “It’s a way to build brick-by-brick, but also to grotto, built in the 1950s after the archdiocese Marin counties on July 10 to prepare parish communities honor people, people you love or who are now acquired the property, in urgent need of repair and for an expected increase in Immigration and Customs with God,” he said. offered to donate funds and assistance in building Enforcement raids on the undocumented community.

Fencl said he looks forward to the addition a new one.

His advocacy spurred the center into 5 locations in California Many parishes support immigrants, she noted. “Immiof the meditative shrine to the Vallombrosa starting the renovation of the grotto and then regrants have fundamental constitutional rights regardless grounds. envisioning the area surrounding it.

Your Local Store: of their status and are guaranteed due process and equal “The concept is to be able to do the corporal Vallombrosa plans to add new lighting and land369 Grand Ave., S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 protection under the law,” Meneses said. works, do the Stations of the Cross, and go do the scaping to the grotto and build a fountain for St. Near SF Airport - Exit 101 Frwy @ Grand Bernadette Soubirous, to whom Mary appeared at spiritual works of mercy and then end up at the Lourdes. The area in front of the statue, on a corner grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Anything to slow cotters@cotters.comof the property next to Church of the Nativity, will ARCHBISHOP www.cotters.com CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE people down and help them reflect and contemplate – that’s all part of what we’ve been trying to be paved and turned into a plaza for outdoor Mass. accomplish here,” he said.

“We’re trying to make a welcoming space,” said JULY 25-28: Napa Institute The anonymous donor told Catholic San FranDavid Leech, Vallombrosa’s marketing director. cisco “My fondest and most cherished hope is that The center will also build a meditative spiritual JULY 28: Mass, London boys choir, cathedral, 11 a.m. with the restoration of the grotto, the Blessed works of mercy path leading to the shrine, which Mother will be honored as she should be and has will complement the corporal works of mercy JULY 31-AUG. 1: Chancery meetings been, and so increase her intercession for the garden on the southern side of the property. retreat center and all who dwell in it.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 25, 2019

Speaker exposes myths and harm of pornography NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Catholic speaker, podcaster and author Matt Fradd took aim at the myths about pornography at the Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park July 10 and discussed the devastating effects pornography consumption has on people’s lives.

“This idea has seeped in (to our culture) that pornography is this outlet we have to have,” said Fradd, author of “The Porn Myth,” a non-religious look at pornography’s harmful effects.

In fact, Fradd continued, the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes clear that “either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.”

Pornography’s reach in the United States is well acknowledged but its prevalence is unclear.

Evangelical polling firm Barna Group found in 2016 that one in three Americans seek out pornography at least once a month. Gallup polling found that in 2019, 37 percent of respondents said porn is “morally acceptable.”

Fradd said that arguing for pornography’s importance to sexual well-being creates “a false dilemma that either I’m indulging in pornography or sexually repressed.

“There’s a third option,” he said, the church’s teaching on chastity as “the right use of the sexual faculties.”

Another myth discussed by Fradd was that only religious people oppose pornography because of a dislike of sex.

“This is exactly the wrong way around,” he said. The Catholic Church condemns pornography because it is a misuse of the goodness of sexuality and sexual desires and degrades people, he said.

Fradd continued that academic and cultural discussions on the negative effects of pornography have become increasingly common. Multiple studies, he said, have shown a correlation between porn use and sexual dissatisfaction. Fradd also pointed to celebrities who have spoken about the effect of pornography on their lives, like Chris Rock, who in a recent Netflix special discussed his porn addiction and what it did to his life and marriage.

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Catholic author Matt Fradd spoke July 10 at Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park on myths about pornography. He said parents should have age-appropriate talks about pornography with their children by the time they have access to their own screens.

“Many of these people aren’t religious but they’re seeing porn is getting in the way of their most cherished relationships,” he said.

Fradd also addressed the claim that pornography is not addictive. He said substance addiction is only one model of addiction, noting, “We can see that behaviors can be just as seriously addicting as substances.”

The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard reference for mental health issues in the United States, does not list pornography addiction in its current edition. It does, however, recognize “non-substance related disorders,” like gambling disorder and internet gaming disorder.

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Overall, however, they found “a number of recent studies support this entity as an addiction with important clinical manifestations such as sexual dysfunction and psychosexual dissatisfaction.” Studies they reviewed noted similarities between compulsive pornography consumption and behavioral addictions like gambling, while brain scans have shown “clear differences in brain activity between patients who have compulsive sexual behavior and controls, which mirror those of drug addicts.”

During a question-and-answer session after his talk, Fradd said he believes parents should have age-appropriate talks about pornography with their children by the time they have access to their own screens.

“Giving your child a laptop and saying they’ll never view porn is naive,” he said. “It’s so important to talk to children about sexual things.”

The goal, he said, is not to shelter children.

Instead, “we want to give our children an internal filter for an unfiltered world. Your children would benefit greatly if they got ongoing conversations with you – about bodies, internet use.”

Fradd encouraged parents to be understanding and give their children confidence they can raise uncomfortable subjects like pornography.

“There are things that are worse than awkward conversations,” he said. “It’s not going to be easy, but we can do it imperfectly or not do it at all, and it’s better to fumble along with love or grace.”

Fradd came to the Bay Area at the invitation of some Google employees who had permission to host his talk on their campus. Fradd was disinvited by Google the day of his talk. An email to Fradd from a Google representative explains the talk was canceled after co-workers “raised their concern on some past public comments you’ve made, with the belief that they violate our internal community guidelines as they make them feel unwelcomed and disrespected.”

The email linked to a Twitter exchange from a year ago in which Fradd stated homosexual acts are disordered. The talk was hosted at a different location.

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Lifelong church organist the musical heart of two parishes CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Margaret Anne McGowan was in seventh grade when she began playing the church organ at St. Paul, her family’s parish in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. The weekend before she died on June 20 at age 87 she was still at the organ bench of the church where she was baptized in 1932, married in 1953 and finally mourned on June 25.

Two days before she died of pancreatic cancer, Margaret, the longtime music director for Holy Angels Parish in Colma, was still busy from her hospital bed lining up songs and singers for the weeks to come, her daughter Mary McLinden told Catholic San Francisco.

“She was a staunch believer that, ‘He (or she) who sings, prays twice,’” said McLinden, one of Margaret and Clark Kerns’ nine children, all of whom attended St. Paul School and other Catholic schools in San Francisco.

Margaret received six of the seven sacraments at St. Paul; she attended its primary, grammar and high schools and played the organ for the 5 p.m. Mass on Sundays. But Margaret was the musical heart of two parishes - St. Paul, where she was raised, and Holy Angels, where she raised her own family.

She played the organ at Mass at both parishes the weekend before she died.

At Holy Angels where Margaret was music director for nearly 60 years, taught catechism classes there for nearly as long. Her service to catechetical ministry was recognized by the archdiocese in 2018.

Many other parishes and schools were blessed with Margaret’s time and talents, too.

She worked as the youth minister at St. Peter Church in Pacifica for about 10 years, according to McLinden, taught English and music at St. Paul High School in the 1970s and 1980s, and English at Immaculate Conception Academy after that.

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The weekend before she died on June 20 at age 87, Margaret Anne McGowan was still at the organ bench at St. Paul in San Francisco, the church where she was baptized in 1932, married in 1953 and finally mourned June 25. Right, Margaret receives an award from retired Bishop William J. Justice for her long service as a catechist. and held season tickets for 35 years. But they never managed to interfere with her dedication to music.

“Father Mario Farana, pastor of St. Paul, said during her funeral Mass that my mother would always leave in the fourth quarter to make sure

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sensibilities to his role as auxiliary bishop.

“We have had four Dominican popes over the years, and the first archbishop of San Francisco, Joseph Alemany, was a Dominican,” he said.

“Prayer and study is a part of our lives, though subordinate to preaching the good news.”

Bishop Christian and Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone shared a mutual concern about the failure to hand on the faith to younger generations and the growing numbers of “nones” – those who identify with no religion.

“They won’t be passing on the faith they don’t have to children they might have,” Bishop Christian said. “We are approaching a cliff and looking at a landscape where we may no longer have a large faith community.”

Bishop Christian said the solutions include preaching, better family formation and evangelical outreach.

“The transmission of faith is key, especially belief in Christ’s life, death and resurrection,” he said. “If that isn’t passed on, then everything else becomes irrelevant.”

Bishop Christian was also involved in high-profile ecumenical dialogue, with appointments to the Angli-

can –Roman Catholic International Commission in 2011 and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in 2012.

He wrote that “ecumenical dialogue requires patience, candor, charity and a willingness to see one’s own position through the eyes of others, along with a willingness to hazard opinions provisionally in the hope of being able to express the truth in a common language.”

Bishop Christian was appointed to lead St. Patrick’s Seminary & University on Jan. 14, 2019.

St. Patrick’s director of marketing and communications, Steve Terlizzi, told Catholic San Francisco that

in his six months as rector, Bishop Christian was an energetic administrator, executing a comprehensive survey of the morale of seminarians, making a number of important administrative and faculty hires and overseeing campus improvements.

“His passing is a great loss for our community,” said Terlizzi, who noted that Bishop Christian was good-natured and approachable, with a keen ability to understand complex issues and make good decisions about how to move forward.

“He touched our lives in so many ways as a priest, bishop, teacher, administrator and spiritual guide,” he said.

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Top left, Dominican Bishop Robert F. Christian preaches during Mass for the annual rosary rally in October 2018. Middle left, newly ordained Father Michael Rocha receives his diploma from Bishop Christian, who was named rector of St. Patrick Seminary & University in January 2019, during graduation ceremonies at St. Patrick’s on May 9, 2019. Bottom left, Bishop Christian chats with Daughters of Carmel at a reception following his episcopal ordination Mass on June 5, 2018.

Bottom right, Bishop Christian greets a young girl at the reception.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 25, 2019

Catholic schools welcome 10 new principals The archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools announced the appointment of 10 new school principals for the 2019-20 academic year.

MARC NAVA, PRINCIPAL (INTERIM) ST. PIUS SCHOOL, REDWOOD CITY

Nava is an alumnus of two San Francisco Catholic schools, St. Peter School in the Mission District and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

He was a Catholic school teacher and administrator in the Diocese of Brownsville in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas before joining the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Department of Catholic Schools two years ago as vice principal at Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires in San Francisco. Nava has an undergraduate degree in history from Saint Mary’s College of California and two master’s degrees from the University of Notre Dame through the Alliance for Catholic Education Teaching Fellows Program and the Remick Leadership Program.

JOHANNA MCCORMACK, PRINCIPAL IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY SCHOOL, BELMONT

Johanna joined the Archdiocese of San Francisco two years ago as a fifth grade teacher at St. Isabella School in Marin County. She is an accomplished teacher and administrator with more than 20 years of experience in both private and public Bay Area schools.

Originally from the East Coast, Johanna moved to California after graduating from Boston College and holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from Chapman University.

She completed her credential program in 1996 and three years later co-founded a project-based charter school in Lake Tahoe. She eventually returned to the Bay Area as director of a San Francisco middle school.

BRIAN JOOST, PRINCIPAL SCHOOL OF THE EPIPHANY, SAN FRANCISCO

Brian Joost has worked at School of the Epiphany for the past 17 years, teaching kindergarten, second grade and fifth grade and serving as the vice principal. Recently he received a master’s in organization and leadership and the California administrative credential from the University of San Francisco. A product of Catholic school education, Joost said he is looking forward to continuing the mission of the Sisters of the Presentation who founded the school.

CHRIS USKERT, PRINCIPAL ST. CECILIA SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

Uskert grew up in San Francisco and attended St. Cecilia and later St. Ignatius College Preparatory. He is excited to be returning to his alma mater as principal. He spent 12 years as an elementary school teacher, first at Fox Elementary School in Belmont, where he taught fourth and fifth grades for 10 years, and later at West Portal Elementary. Most recently, he was a thirdgrade teacher at San Pedro School in San Rafael. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of San Diego in elementary education and in June earned his master’s degree in educational administration from San Francisco State University.

Marc Nava (Interim)

Johanna McCormack

Brian Joost

Chris Uskert

Sr. Alma Amancio

Patrick Sullivan

Michael Miller

Lara de Guzman

Leo Alvarez

Michael Prada (Interim)

SISTER ALMA AMANCIO, OP, PRINCIPAL HOLY ANGELS SCHOOL, COLMA

Dominican Sister Alma brings nearly 30 years of experience as an administrator to her new role as Holy Angels School principal. She served as superintendent, president and principal of Dominican schools back in her native Philippines and has been with her congregation for 43 years. Sister Alma began her teaching career in 1987 after earning an undergraduate degree in secondary education from the University of San Agustin in the Philippines. She served several congregational schools as assistant principal before pursuing a master’s degree in educational management at De La Salle University in

Manila and later earned a doctorate in educational management. She returned to the classroom in 2018 at St. Elizabeth School in Aiea, Hawaii, before returning to the mainland to serve as principal of Holy Angels School.

PATRICK SULLIVAN, PRINCIPAL ST. ROBERT CHURCH, SAN BRUNO

Patrick Sullivan is a Marine Corps veteran who graduated with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles, and later earned a doctorate in law at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall.

He also served as a Judge Advocate General officer for the U.S. Army.

When Sullivan’s wife Karen became SEE PRINCIPALS, PAGE 8

Become Part of the Shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes In 2018, a benefactor attending one of our retreats offered to reconstruct the humble Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, originally built in the early 50’s. The Vision grew, and now we hope to add gardens and a plaza – named for the beloved, late Fr. Kevin Gaffey – a priest in residence at Vallombrosa who had a great devotion to Our Lady. There will be a Fountain of St. Bernadette, and a “Path of Spiritual Works”, and two formal gates and numerous benches. All these will surround the Shrine and create a quiet and sacred space for prayer, reflection and devotion. There will also be an outdoor altar for Mass at the Shrine in Gaffey Plaza…

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PRINCIPALS: Catholic schools welcome 10 new principals FROM PAGE 16

pregnant with their first son, Sullivan decided to “return to his roots” and become a Catholic school teacher. He earned a master’s of education while a teacher and vice principal at Good Shepherd School in Pacifica and went on to serve as vice principal at St. Raymond School.

MICHAEL MILLER, PRINCIPAL HOLY NAME SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

Born and raised in San Francisco, Miller was educated in local Catholic schools including kindergarten at Star of the Sea School in San Francisco, St. Ignatius College Preparatory and the University of San Francisco. He holds a master’s degree in education and taught junior high at St. Catherine of Siena School for 18 years. He looks forward to continuing his mission at Holy Name School, as he has throughout his educational career, leading students through their elementary odyssey with the mantra: “I am responsible for making sure that my fellow teachers and I nurture in them sacramental faithfulness, promote academic excellence, empow-

er dedicated leadership, and model professionalism and stewardship.”

LARA DE GUZMAN, PRINCIPAL OUR LADY OF THE VISITACION SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

Lara de Guzman was born in the Philippines and moved to Daly City as a teenager. De Guzman is a former teacher at St. Timothy School in San Mateo and Mission Dolores Academy in San Francisco.

She has also served in several administrative roles at the University of San Francisco and with the Franciscan Friars. She earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s in teaching and is completing doctoral studies in Catholic educational leadership at USF.

LEO ALVAREZ, PRINCIPAL, GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL, PACIFICA

Alvarez comes to his new role as principal of Good Shepherd School with 30 years of teaching experience, all after having attended Catholic schools himself through high school. His first teaching job was at a Catholic school and after nine years there he became a school administrator. He and his wife raised

their family in the Sacramento area where he served as a public elementary school principal in one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. He said he considered it a “calling” to educate and help the children there break the cycle of poverty and violence. Alvarez and his wife moved to Montara in San Mateo County after their adult children left home and he soon decided to return to his roots in Catholic education.

MICHAEL PRADA, (PRINCIPAL INTERIM) ST. GREGORY SCHOOL, SAN MATEO

For the last 20 years Michael Prada has committed himself to improving the educational trajectory of students in urban and traditionally underserved schools as a classroom teacher, principal, district leader and professional coach. As an educational leader, he spent more than a decade leading school improvement initiatives for urban schools in Oakland and San Francisco.

He propelled schools under his supervision to significantly exceed local and state academic benchmarks, organizational fundraising and financial goals, teacher retention rates, and family and student satisfaction ratings. Michael holds a doctorate in education leadership from the University of California, Berkeley.

ARCHBISHOP: Sedition charges against prelates, VP ‘beyond belief’ FROM PAGE 1

against the family of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and administration officials. It also said they were looking to “agitate the general population into staging mass protests with the possibility of bringing down the president.”

“I am very saddened by this news and am greatly disturbed by this development,” said Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. “That they are accused of sedition and other criminal complaints is for me beyond belief.”

The archbishop said he knows the church leaders and “they are bishops whose sincerity, decency, respectfulness and love for our country and our people are beyond doubt.”

“Some of us may feel ill at ease with the way they made known their opinions. But again, I

say this: I cannot bring myself to believe that these bishops were involved in seditious activities,” he said.

He said he prayed that those involved in the case would be guided by “fairness and truth.”

The four bishops were Bishop Honesto Ongtioco of Cubao, Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan, retired Bishop Teodoro Bacani of Novaliches, and Archbishop Socrates Villegas of LingayenDagupan.

The priests were Divine Word Father Flaviano Villanueva, Jesuit Father Albert Alejo and Father Robert Reyes.

Father Reyes said the charges were “a desperate move to suppress dissent.”

“It’s a pathetic attempt to distract people from the serious issue of the shift to totalitarianism,” he said, adding that it could be “a wake-up call for the undecided and the indifferent.”

Others said the charges were designed to silence Duterte’s critics.

“The move is obviously meant to scare the hell out of these churchmen and eventually silence them,” said Father Jerome Secillano, chairman of the public affairs office of the bishops’ conference.

He said what the bishops and priests did was call on the government to be more circumspect and prudent in their actions, ucanews reported.

“They are neither fighting the government nor

(CNS PHOTO/SIMONE ORENDAIN)

Archbishop Socrates Villegas, pictured in a July 7, 2014, photo, is one of four Philippine bishops charged with sedition.

Duterte. What they are against are the repressive policies that put so much burden on the poor and on those who oppose them,” said Father Secillano.

The Couples for Christ Foundation for Life, an influential lay organization, assured the church leaders of their support.

“Speaking the truth and fighting for the basic human rights of every Filipino is not sedition,” said the group. “It is being faithful to the teachings of Christ and the church.”

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‘Rejoice always,’ Bishop Wang says on 60th anniversary of priesthood NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Celebrating his 60th anniversary of priesthood and the feast of the Chinese Martyrs in a July 6 Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang encouraged Catholics to be courageous and joyful in their lives.

“Rejoice always (like St. Paul), always be happy, don’t hesitate to be joyous because our happiness will lead others to Christ,” he said.

Bishop Wang said his own life had been transformed as a child by encountering the joy of French-Canadian missionaries who would visit his home in Beijing.

“They were always smiling and playing with me and I decided one day I wanted to be happy like that,” he said.

Twin themes of joy and persecution wove together in the celebration. Bishop Wang encouraged his listeners to not be afraid of persecution, since it has always led to the growth of the church.

He noted that “During the early church, most saints were martyrs, and the church continued to grow and spread throughout the world.” While today persecution can be subtle or clear, he emphasized the importance of praying for persecutors as well.

In addition to celebrating Bishop Wang’s ordination anniversary, the Mass was dedicated to honoring the Chinese martyrs and praying for the church in China. Cardinal William J. Levada, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and retired Bishop of Santa Rosa Daniel F. Walsh attended. The Feast of the Chinese Martyrs, instituted Oct. 1, 2000, by Pope St. John Paul II, commemorates 120 men and women who were killed for their faith from 1648 to 1930.

Father Peter Zhai, director of Chinese ministry for the archdiocese, spoke at the end of Mass about the importance of the Chinese martyrs for the church.

“A lot of us grew up in a very dark, persecuted church,” he said. When he was growing up, Father

(PHOTOS BY DEBRA GREENBLAT/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Bishop Ignatius C. Wang celebrated 60 years of priesthood July 6 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Mass also celebrated the Chinese Martyrs and dedicated special prayers for the church in China.

Zhai said, priests and religious were imprisoned and the churches were closed.

“But no matter what, we had this strong faith supported by Jesus Christ,” he said.

Father Zhai said his mother had taught his family in secret about their faith and prepared them for martyrdom, telling them “when you believe in Jesus, people may harm or persecute you, but no matter what, never give up your faith.”

Faith and family were inextricable for many, Father Zhai said.

“So many of our ancestors, our parents and grandparents cherished the faith. That’s why we gather today to celebrate the Chinese martyrs. When we feel their joy and dedication and how much they loved God, the blood should circulate fast in each of us so we can bring Jesus to others,” he said.

“Always remember the blood of martyrs is inside each of us,” Father Zhai said. “We have our parents ‘and grandparents blood’ they have kept the faith strong so that the church can continue to grow and the Gospel continue to spread.”

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SUNDAY READINGS

Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time 1 GENESIS 18:20-32 In those days, the LORD said: “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave, that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.”

While Abraham’s visitors walked on farther toward Sodom, the LORD remained standing before Abraham. Then Abraham drew nearer and said: “Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty? Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city; would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it?

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to make the innocent die with the guilty so that the innocent and the guilty would be treated alike! Should not the judge of all the world act with justice?” The LORD replied, “If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” Abraham spoke up again: “See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord, though I am but dust and ashes! What if there are five less than fifty innocent people? Will you destroy the whole city because of those five?” He answered, “I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there.” But Abraham persisted, saying “What if only forty are found there?” He replied, “I will forbear doing it for the sake of the forty.” Then Abraham said, “Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on. What if only thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will forbear doing it if I can find but thirty there.” Still Abraham went on, “Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord, what if there are no more than twenty?” The LORD answered, “I will not destroy it, for the sake of the twenty.” But he still persisted: “Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time. What

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ather Carroll O’Sullivan, SJ, a dearly loved chaplain for the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame, once said, “We pray to become someone, not to get something.” This is the message of Luke’s shorter version of “The Our Father.”

In today’s Gospel, one of the disciples sees Jesus praying and asks him “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” In Genesis, Abraham pleaded with God to spare the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah - that the good character of a minority be enough to spare annihilation of an evil majority. In Luke the disciple also acts as a representative for others. “Teach us,” not just, “Teach me.” The first quality of a person of prayer is self-understanding as a mediator. Praying makes us SISTER ELOISE a bridge-person, a go-between.

ROSENBLATT, RSM What was the urgency?

Perhaps this disciple had once been a follower of John the Baptist, admired his powerful call to repentance, and was moved by his radical lifestyle of rejecting wealth and power. But John had been arrested, imprisoned by Herod (Luke 3:19) and then beheaded (Luke 9:9). Who will be the community’s spiritual teacher now? The disciple recognizes

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

if there are at least ten there?” He replied, “For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it.”

PSALM 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8 Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.

I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple and give thanks to your name.

Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.

Because of your kindness and your truth; for you have made great above all things your name and your promise. When I called you answered me; you built up strength within me.

Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.

The LORD is exalted, yet the lowly he sees, and the proud he knows from afar. Though I walk amid distress, you preserve me; against the anger of my enemies you raise your hand.

Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.

Your right hand saves me. The LORD will complete what he has done for me; your kindness, O LORD, endures forever; forsake not the work of your hands.

Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.

2 COLOSSIANS 2:12-14 Brothers and sisters: You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And even when you were dead

in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.

LUKE 11:1-13 Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”

He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test.” And he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,’ and he says in reply from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’ I tell you, if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence. And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish? Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Teach us to pray the soul-needs of others. Even if we learned to pray early in life, there is a fresh need, today. So the disciple asks, “Teach us to pray.” The disciple is ready to keep learning.

Jesus begins simply, “Father,” as one person to another. Matthew’s “Our Father” begins the words we pray in public gatherings (Matthew 6:9-13). This version addresses God communally, looking upward, in words sung majestically by a 300-person choir: “Our Father who art in heaven.” For Luke, the one who prays calls upon God as someone so close, God could be a parent sitting across the table. So the third quality for the person praying in the spirit of Luke’s Gospel is confidence in God’s nearness, in familial relationship.

Luke omits, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Isn’t doing God’s will important? “Our Father in heaven, ” whose will governs the universe, could be imagined a powerful king, not related to us by blood, distant, unapproachable, demanding, focused on the affairs of the realm, and unaffected by puny human needs. God’s will is “done” to us, and we are helpless. Luke’s emphasis redacts this view, inviting emphasis on our familial relation with God. A fourth quality Luke stresses is that a person of prayer has a sense of identity with God, providing for the needs of others who are hungry and exhausted from their own long journeys. Luke’s parable is much longer than the prayer itself. A householder begs an abundantly supplied neighbor for extra bread to feed a guest who is hungry. It’s an emergency. This is a

neighbor whom the householder knows well enough to bang on his door in the middle of the night. There is warm humor in imagining God as a sleeping neighbor, who will inevitably respond out of friendship, or if the pounding is noisy and persistent enough.

A fifth quality is that a person who prays authentically is living in the present moment. “Give us this day our daily bread”-- in both Luke and Matthew. The person shaped by this prayer entrusts her needs to God. She has utter confidence because she believes her God is Abundance and Readiness and Giving - and has a fully stocked supply of bread ready to dispense at any hour of the day or night, right now.

A sixth quality is an optimistic view of oneself and God. Disappointment, opposition, reversals, heavy burdens or injustices that I suffer in daily life do not get projected onto God. Juliana of Norwich counseled those who felt God did not answer when they knocked: Let rise in your heart a more perfect prayer; await a better time, or a more perfect gift.

A seventh quality in a person shaped by true prayer is the most amazing of all. You yourselves give a fish, an egg when your child asks. When you feel tender love for your teen in meltdown, sympathy for your special needs child, compassion for your Alzheimerafflicted spouse, anxiety for your aging parent - you are like God. When you pray, you discover your God is like you.

MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a Ph.D. theologian and family law attorney in private practice. She lives in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JULY 29: Memorial of St. Martha, virgin.

EX 32:15-24, 30-34. PS 106:19-20, 21-22, 23. JN 8:12. JN 11:19-27 OR LK 10:38-42.

TUESDAY, JULY 30: Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor. EX 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28. PS 103:6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13. MT 13:36-43.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, priest. EX 34:29-35. PS 99:5, 6, 7, 9. JN 15:15b. MT 13:44-46.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1: Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop & doctor. EX 40:16-21, 34-38.

PS 84:3, 4, 5-6a and 8a, 11. SEE ACTS 16:14b. MT 13:47-53.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2: Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop. Optional Memorial of Saint Peter Julian Eymard, priest. LV 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b37. PS 81:3-4, 5-6, 10-11ab. 1 PT 1:25. MT 13:54-58.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3: Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. LV 25:1, 8-17. PS 67:2-3, 5, 7-8. MT 5:10. MT 14:1-12.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. ECC 1:2; 2:21-23. PS 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17. COL 3:1-5, 9-11. MT 5:3. LK 12:13-21.

MONDAY, AUGUST 5: Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major. NM 11:4b-15. PS 81:12-13, 14-15, 16-17. MT 4:4. MT 14:13-21.

OPINION 11

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 25, 2019

God’s finger in our lives

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he problem in the world and in the churches, Jim Wallis suggests, is that, perennialy, conservatives get it wrong and liberals (over-reacting to conservatives) then don’t get it at all. Nowhere is this truer, I believe, than in how we discern the finger of God in the events of our lives.

Jesus tells us to discern the finger of God in our lives by reading the signs of the times. What’s meant by that? The idea isn’t so much that we look to every kind of social, political and religious analysis to try to FATHER RON understand what’s going on ROLHEISER in the world, but rather that we look at every event in our lives, personal or global, and ask ourselves: What’s God saying to me this event?

What’s God saying to us in this event?

An older generation understood this as trying to attune itself to the workings of “divine providence.” That practice goes back to biblical times.

When we read the Bible, we see that for God’s

people nothing happened that was understood as being purely secular or religiously neutral. Rather in every event, be it ever so accidental and secular, they saw the finger of God. For example, they believed that if they lost a war, it wasn’t because the other side had superior soldiers, but rather that God had somehow engineered this to teach them a lesson. Or if they were hit by drought it was because God had actively stopped the heavens from raining, again to teach them a lesson.

Now it’s easy to misunderstand this because, frequently, in writing this up, the sacred authors give the impression that God actively caused the event. That’s their wording, though not their intent or meaning. The Bible does not intend to teach us that God causes wars or stops the heavens from raining; it accepts that they’re the result of natural contingency. The lesson is only that God speaks through them.

And it’s here where conservatives tend to get it wrong and liberals tend to miss the point. A recent example of this is the reaction of certain religious circles, conservative and liberal, to the outbreak of AIDS. When AIDS first broke out, a number of strong conservative religious voices spoke out saying that AIDS was God’s punishment on us for our

sexual promiscuity, particularly for homosexuality. Liberal religious voices, for their part, were so turned off by this that their response was: God has nothing to do with this!

Both need a lesson on the workings of divine providence. Religious conservatives are wrong in their interpretation: God does not cause AIDS to punish us for sexual promiscuity. Conversely, religious liberals are also wrong in saying that this has nothing to do with God. God doesn’t cause AIDS (or any other disease) but God speaks through AIDS and every other disease. Our religious task is to discern the message. What’s God saying to us through this?

James Mackey teaches that divine providence is a conspiracy of accidents through which God speaks. Frederick Buechner teases this out a little further by saying: “This does not mean that God makes events happen to us which move us in certain directions like chessmen. Instead, events happen under their own steam as random as rain, which means that God is present in them not as their cause but as the one who even in the hardest and most hair-raising of them offers us the posSEE ROLHEISER, PAGE 12

Icons on ammo boxes

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hroughout the 20th century – the greatest period of martyrdom in history – persecuted Christians used the dross of this world to make religious artifacts.

Rosaries were constructed from bits and pieces of thisand-that. Crucifixes and Mass vessels were forged from scrap metal. Bibles and missals were handwritten on scraps of paper from memory. The Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan wore his pectoral cross suspended from a chain he made from the barbed wire of the Vietnamese communist GEORGE WEIGEL concentration camp in which he was confined for years.

Many such relics are displayed at the shrine of the New Martyrs in the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Rome’s Tiber Island – a place where the usual bustle and buzz of Roman churches is replaced by a hushed reverence, as if even the least well-catechized visitors realize that they’re in the supernatural presence of great witnesses.

This deeply Catholic instinct for transforming what is dead or death-dealing into something life-affirming and life-giving continues today in Ukraine, through a remarkable project known as “The Icons on Ammo Boxes.” I discovered it in Philadelphia in early June, while speaking at the celebrations marking the enthronement of my old friend Borys Gudziak as Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic archeparchy of Philadelphia. During my remarks, I spoke of Eastern

Catholicism’s “gift of iconography” to the universal Church. Whatever impact my words may have had, however, it was likely less than the thoughts and emotions stirred in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception by an extraordinary display around the cathedral’s perimeter: icons written (painted) on the wooden lids of ammunition boxes by a husbandand-wife team of two young Ukrainian artists, Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko.

Icons written on wood using various types of paint are nothing new, of course; many of the greatest icons in the history of Christian art were written that way. Oleksandr Klymenko’s brilliant idea was to use a different kind of wood: not a polished and treated panel, but the rough-hewn tops or bottoms of the boxes in which bullets, grenades, and artillery shells were once stored. The icons he and Sofia Atlantova wrote, and which were displayed in Philadelphia, included wood from ammo boxes dating back to Soviet times. But they also included newer wood panels recycled from the battlefront of eastern Ukraine, where a Russian-led and Russian-financed war has been underway since 2014, taking over 10,000 lives, ruining the local economy, and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

The icons turn trash, redolent of death, into lifeaffirming art in several ways. First, by their very existence: For they transform materials that stored munitions intended to kill and maim into celebrations of faith and life. Icons are not “representative” art in the Western sense; an icon does not say, “This is what Christ looked like” the way Rembrandt’s famous selfportrait says, “This is what I, Rembrandt, looked like.”

Rather, icons are one of those permeable borders or

membranes between this world and the supernatural world; icons are intended to “make present” that which they depict. Icons are thus an invitation to leave the death-dealing world and enter the world of resurrected life, the world of divine life – and to do so through the medium of an ammunition box drives the point home in an especially powerful way.

Second, through the sale of Sofia Atlantova’s and Oleksandr Klymenko’s work, the “Icons on Ammo Boxes” project supports the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, which brings medical professionals into the war zone of eastern Ukraine to treat wounded soldiers and civilians. Since its inception, the mobile hospital has served some 50,000 patients, saving or repairing many lives broken by Russian aggression.

Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, who teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has described the “Icons on Ammo Boxes” project as a kind of transfiguration: “The icons… demonstrate how violence and pain can be transfigured to peace and relief, and actually contribute to this transformation through the work of doctors.” That image strikes me as exactly right.

As the transfigured glory of Jesus on Mt. Tabor opens up a vision of human transformation in the Kingdom of God, where “death shall be no more …”

(Revelation 21:4), so these icons suggest the transformation of the lethal into the life-giving, even as they support healing here and now.

GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington, D.C.’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.

LETTERS Bishop Christian’s legacy

I was shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden death of Bishop Robert Christian, OP. I have known Bishop Robert since we entered the Western Dominican Province together as novices in September 1970.

Although our paths went in different directions, I learned to admire and appreciate Bishop Robert for his dedication, his knowledge and abilities, and his willingness to pitch in. I especially saw that when he would return to San Francisco during the summers after teaching for a full year in Rome, live at St. Dominic’s during the summer(s) and take on a full load as an associate pastor to help us out.

I rejoiced when I was sent the news by the Western Dominicans of his being elevated by Pope Francis to being the new auxiliary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and prayed for him (and the archdiocese) on the day of his installation.

He touched many in his life, including me.

Robert A. Marzullo Shoreline, Washington

More than one model of able parenting

Here I present a strong objection to the halftruths in the opinions expressed by Father Tad Pacholczyk, “Securing authentic children’s rights” (July 11). At least three reasons for Father Tad giving half of the truths.

First, his statement “presence of both mother and father has long been recognized as one of the paramount examples of fulfilling children’s rights” is true but is not the only essential and successful model.

Second, Father Tad implies that” vulnerability of children” is bound to damage them for life if his model is not followed. It is true that children are vulnerable. It is also true that children are highly adaptable to their circumstances.

Third, Father Tad states that both male and female adult influence are essential to child rearing. On this I provide personal experience that far outweighs Father Tad, who should stick to simply stating the church official position without constructing reasons in their support.

My two brothers and I lost both parents during our escape from Hungary at the beginning of World War II. We landed at the doorstep of an uncle, whose wife was a shrew. He enrolled us in a boarding school run by the Irish Christian Brothers, and had us spend most summers at a YMCA summer boys camp. The results I can completely verify deal with three successful careers that cover families, business, social work and science, with strong ties to church activity and community at large. I also observe a multitude of other boys also raised by the Irish Christian Brothers, who did a superb job not just of education, but also of providing role model in all aspects of our lives.

There are numerous circumstances where the male/female model just is not practical. Community enters, not as surrogates for father and mother, but as required by numerous references in Scripture to care for orphans. Scripture never instructs on who should care!

Alex M. Saunders, MD San Carlos

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 25, 2019

Immigration a moral issue

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an Francisco is the birthplace of anti-immigration law. In the 1800s, the Chinese were the first targets described as subhuman, unclean, criminal invaders out to steal American jobs. A wave of anti-immigration propaganda followed. The San Francisco Call newspaper cartooned the Irish as backward apes.

Italians, Germans, Japanese and Latinos had their turns as well. Whatever the group, those who have experienced immigrant discrimination are shamed, dehumanized, and never fully recover.

The current immigration crisis along the southern FATHER GERALD border of the United States D. COLEMAN, PSS is ruled by a “zero-tolerance policy” regarding illegal immigration. All unauthorized immigrants who cross the U.S. border are prosecuted as criminals, resulting in the separation of parents and children. Parents are placed in detention centers under the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, and their children are housed in juvenile facilities. These children under 18 years of age, as well as those who cross without adults (considered “unaccompanied,”) become the responsibility of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. Parents and children are consequently subjected to two different legal systems. This separation is considered by some as a “tough deterrent” against immigrating illegally. Many have called this separation the “functional equivalent to kidnapping.”

If migrant children have no family, friend or foster care to sponsor them, shortly before midnight on their 18th birthday an officer will come to the youth center, take the “child” in handcuffs, and transfer him or her to an adult detention facility. The Clerics of St. Viator are dedicated to helping these children but admit that after 18 year of age “they’re pretty much treated as if they are criminals.”

In June 2019, the inspector general for the Depart-

ment of Homeland Security released a startling report about the El Paso Del Norte processing center: 76 people in a cell designed for 12; 155 people in a cell designed for 35; 41 in a cell designed for 8. Similar conditions are reported to exist in other facilities. The report indicates that this “dangerous overcrowding” leads to dehumanization, the spread of illness and disease, and rising tensions among detainees. Ursula Detention Center in Texas is nicknamed the “dog kennel” due to the chain link cages used to detail migrants.

The average temperature at the McAllen Border Patrol station in Texas is 99 degrees. A border patrol officer visiting there in mid-July with vice president Pence said that “the stench was horrendous.” In most of these detention facilities, lights are on all night long, and children are sleeping on concrete with an aluminum foil blanket. Many of the guards carry guns and wear face masks to protect them from unsanitary conditions.

These centers can rightly be classified as concentration camps involving mass detention of civilians without trial. It is perhaps not accidental that nearly 41,000 immigrant children now held in custody will be moved to Fort Sill Army Base in Oklahoma which was once used as a Japanese internment camp in the 1940s. A growing number of sick and disabled veterans in desperate need of housing express anger and resentment since they are not permitted to live on bases. It is “insulting,” they insist, to “host undocumented migrants there.”

The situation at the border station in Clint, Texas, has been described by lawyers who visited the site as “a chaotic scene of filth:” children as young as 7 and 8 “wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, toddlers without diapers relieving themselves in their pants, and teenage mothers wearing clothes stained with breast milk … There is a stench and the overwhelming majority of children have not bathed since they crossed the border.” The children receive the same meals every day – instant oats for breakfast, instant noodles for lunch, a frozen burrito for dinner, along with a few cookies and juice packets.

Henry A. Moak Jr., chief accountability officer for Customs and Border Protection denies the harsh

environment: “In general, minors receive regular meals and snacks, have access to drinking water, have functioning toilets, and rooms with adequate temperature control, along with access to emergency medical assistance if needed.”

Reckless adult migrants are often responsible for putting children in peril in the first place. But nothing absolves the United States of a basic responsibility to keep vulnerable people, children above all, in the most humane conditions possible when their detention is required. The harsh reality of border enforcement tends to breed callousness and prejudice.

Opposing these camps should be a pro-life priority.

The Second Vatican Council taught that there are “varieties of crime” that are “criminal” and “poison civilization.” One example is “subhuman living conditions” (“The Church in the Modern World,” no. 27) Pope St. John Paul II named this crime always evil. (“Veritatis splendor,” no. 80) Why would anyone choose to flee their country knowing of the horrible conditions ahead? Major reasons include traumas from political unrest, and everpresent gang presence and violence. One source cites the torment brought about by gangs, for example, join the gang or be killed. Teenagers are often forced to join the government military which in dictatorships enforce harsh rules. Many Central Americans are fleeing abject poverty and the constant threat of roaming gangs.

We need a system equipped to appropriately care for refugees and asylum seekers, and with all appropriate speed, to process their claims. Care, not punishment, is what they deserve. We need decent food, medical care, safe shelters, playgrounds, language services and legal counsel.

Only a callous person could dismiss the misery at the border. Only a desensitized nation could continue to permit separation of children from their parents – and detaining all of them in atrocious conditions – as a morally acceptable form of deterrence.

SULPICIAN FATHER GERALD D. COLEMAN is adjunct professor, Graduate Department of Pastoral Ministries, Santa Clara University.

ROLHEISER: God’s finger in our lives FROM PAGE 11

sibility of that new life and healing which I believe is what salvation is.”

God is always speaking to us in every event in our lives. For a Christian, there’s no such a thing as a purely secular experience. The event may be the result of purely secular and contingent forces but it contains a religious message for us, always. Our task is to read that message.

And one further note: Mostly, it seems that we hear

God’s voice only in experiences that are deeply painful for us rather than in events that bring us joy and pleasure. But we shouldn’t misread this. It’s not that God speaks only through pain and is silent when things go right. Rather, in the words of C.S. Lewis, pain is God’s microphone to a deaf world. God is always speaking, mostly we aren’t listening. It’s only when our hearts start breaking that we begin to attune ourselves to the voice of God. Divine providence is a conspiracy of accidents through which God speaks and we must be careful to get both parts of the equation right. God doesn’t cause

AIDS, global warming, the refugee situation in the world, a cancer diagnosis, world hunger, hurricanes, tornadoes, or any other such thing in order to teach us a lesson; but something in all of these invites us to try to discern what God is saying through them. Likewise, God doesn’t cause your favorite sports team to win a championship; that too is the result of a conspiracy of accidents. But God speaks through all of these things – even your favorite team’s championship win!

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REFUGEES: Agencies ‘appalled’ by reports US could end admissions director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services. “Of the millions of refugees around the world, only about 1% will be resettled, that number will decrease and leave more people vulnerable if these actions come to fruition.”

“I would implore the decisionmakers to reconsider these devastating cuts,” Canny said July 19 in remarks to Catholic News Service.

“Our military relies on the work of interpreters while in the field and those interpreters are putting their lives and their families lives on the line. To not open our arms to them when they have done so for us, would NgoCagainst T I who V we E are L as Y a nation.”

U N I In a statement late July 18, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, said: “It is horrifying to think that, by the stroke of a pen, the president can make a decision that will destroy a legacy of welcome that has been centuries in the making.”

Refugee Council USA, a coalition of organizations committed to refugee resettlement and protection which includes MRS and LIRS, said July 18 it was “appalled” by the proposal to “zero out” the refugee number.

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and other persecution has been a cornerstone of what has made this country great and a place of welcome,” said the bishop, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration.

“Eliminating the refugee resettlement program leaves refugees in harm’s way and keeps their families separated across continents,” he added in a statement released late July 19.

Politico, a Washington-based news outlet, first reported on the possible stoppage on refugee admisD I S T I sions the evening of July 18. Based on information from three people it said were familiar with the plan, it said the proposal was discussed a week ago at a meeting of security officials on refugee admissions.

D I the S T I N C T I V E L Y U N I Q U E Since Congress passed Refugee Act in 1980, the U.S. had admitted on average 95,000 refugees annually. In recent years, the U.S. has accepted between 50,000 (CNS PHOTO/GIORGOS MOUTAFIS, REUTERS) to 75,000 refugees per year. The Refugees from Afghanistan are seen at a makeshift camp in Samos, Greece, June 25, 2019. number was capped at 45,000 after “The last couple of years have Jen Smyers, director of policy and Donald Trump became president in advocacy for Church World Service. been historically low in terms of 2017 and was scaled back to 30,000 refugee resettlement here in the She told reporters during a phone refugees for fiscal year 2019.

U.S.,” said Bill Canny, executive briefing midday July 19 that the Before admission to the U.S., each U.S. secretary of state “makes the refugee undergoes an extensive infinal decision.” terviewing, screening and security D I S T I N C T I V E L Y In its story, Politico said the State clearance process.

Department “declined to discuss “Every refugee resettled in the the possible cap.”

United States goes through an Other refugee advocates on the extensive vetting process that often briefing with reporters included takes 18 months to two years to Michael Breen, a former Army ofcomplete,” Bishop Vasquez noted ficer, who is president and CEO of in his statement. “(The process) Human Rights First. He called it a incorporates live interviews and “misguided and terrible” proposal. several extensive checks by multiD I S T I N C T I V E L Y Anne Richard, a former assisple departments within the governD I S T I N C T I V E L Y tant secretary of state for populament. Many of these refugees have tion, refugees and migration in familial ties here and quickly begin the Obama administration, who is working to rebuild their lives and now at Georgetown University, told enrich their communities.” reporters that “it’s pretty clear the A U.S. State Department report Trump administration is trying to said that in fiscal year 2019, the top drive the U.S. refugee program into 10 countries of origin for refuthe ground.” gees admitted into the U.S. to be “Zeroing it out” will end publicresettled were: Congo, Myanmar, private partnerships that work with Ukraine, Eritrea, Afghanistan, refugees and get them started on Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Burundi and a new life in this country and all Colombia. related services, she said. People Setting caps on the number of will lose their jobs in this field, the refugees to be accepted from five institutional memory as to how global regions is done at the bethese resettlement programs work ginning of each fiscal year by the “will disappear” and the U.S. “will president, in consultation with Congress. The deadline for this con- be turning its back on this great need,” Richard added. sultation is Sept. 30, according to

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tion (from Islamic State) was the monasteries and churches,” he added. “I want to tell you why: It was not just their house or their work that they left for three or four years because of ISIS. It was their holy places, their identity.”

WASHINGTON – The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a painting by the artist that will draw crowds but also pay solemn tribute to the larger-than-life Italian Renaissance painter, architect and inventor.

“Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness” – an unfinished painting on wood on loan from the Vatican Museums – will be on special exhibit July 15-Oct. 6. According to the museum, the painting is displayed in a gallery by itself, starkly illuminated within an otherwise darkened space to heighten the picture’s contemplative dimension, which Leonardo intended. The solemn, chapel-like setting will be an evocative nod to the funerals of great Italian artists, which typically featured one of the artist’s works as part of the funerary display.

The work depicts St. Jerome during the later part of his life which he spent as a hermit in the desert. Unlike other artists’ renditions of St. Jerome, in his study or writing at a desk, this image of the biblical scholar and church father is of an old, gaunt, nearly toothless man, draped in cloths and kneeling in a cave, holding a rock in one hand while beside the silhouette of a lion, his companion in the desert, according to legend.

St. Jerome, who lived from 347 to 420, is known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin and his commentaries on the Gospels.

POPE ISSUES SANCTIONS AGAINST FORMER WEST VIRGINIA BISHOP

WASHINGTON – The Diocese of WheelingCharleston announced July 19 sanctions from the Vatican – including taking away the faculties of celebrating Mass – against a former West Virginia bishop who stepped down last year under a cloud of allegations of sexual and financial misconduct.

In a posting on its website, https://dwc.org, the diocese said that retired Bishop Michael J. Bransfield can no longer reside in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, nor participate “anywhere in any public celebration of the liturgy” and has an obligation to make amends for “some of the harm he caused.”

The brief statement said the disciplinary measures were made based on the findings of an investigation but did not release details.

RESTORING CHURCHES SEEN AS KEY TO CHRISTIANS’ RETURN TO MIDDLE EAST

WASHINGTON – Speakers at a July 18 conference in Washington argued that restoring churches in violence-plagued sections of the Middle East will help foster the return of Christians who fled the strife, as well as introduce greater stability to the region.

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Leonardo da Vinci’s “Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness” is seen in this photo from the Vatican City State.

Archimandrite Alexi Chehadeh, a member of the ecumenical relations department of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Despite that price tag, “it might be more difficult to rebuild the human,” Archimandrite Chehadeh suggested, noting that “50% of the Christian community has left Syria in the past eight years.”

He said of his Christian counterparts in the region, “We have to cooperate with each other, not only in Syria but in the entire Middle East. We have to cooperate with each other, not compete against each other,” adding, “It is easy to love one another, but to practice – that is the problem.”

Archimandrite Chehadeh and others spoke at a forum, “Christian Holy Sites & Holy Spaces in the Middle East,” co-sponsored by the International Community of the Holy Sepulcher and the Hudson Institute’s Working Group on Christians & Religious Pluralism in the Middle East, and was held in conjunction with the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom.

Father Salar Kajo, a priest of the Chaldean Diocese of Alqosh, Iraq, in the Ninevah Plains, said some reconstruction work has begun with U.S. government help. He pointed to the synagogue of the Old Testament prophet Nahum. “This place suffered many things during the regime of Saddam Hussein,” he added. “This was neglected and many parts of this building are destroyed and closed.”

“The first place people visited after the libera-

HOUSTON – Upcoming space travel plans need to include living on the moon, similar to scientific habitats in the Arctic and Antarctica, said Gene Kranz, NASA’s former flight director.

“I believe we need a habitat on the moon just like we have scientists living at the North and South Poles,” Kranz said, a parishioner at Shrine of the True Cross Catholic Church in Dickinson, Texas. “The challenge of a long-term facility and learning to use the resources of the moon is needed for scientific and economic objectives, not political reasons. It needs to be a world project.”

Still in the Houston-area, at age 85, Kranz remains a very busy man. During his 34 years with NASA, he directed the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission of Apollo 11. Now Kranz has been at the forefront of celebrating the 50th anniversary of man’s touchdown on the moon July 20, 1969.

Asked whether he ever wished that he’d flown into space himself, the aerospace engineer and retired fighter pilot said, “In the very early days of the Mercury program, astronauts would be limited to doing one or two missions. I’ve been involved, in various capacities, with 100” missions, up through the Shuttle missions.

With each Apollo spacecraft’s successful splashdown, Kranz could breathe a sigh of relief and offer a prayer of thanksgiving.

PRO-LIFERS SAY WEN’S FIRING SHOWS ABORTION IS PLANNED PARENTHOOD PRIORITY

WASHINGTON -- Following the news Dr. Leana Wen was fired by Planned Parenthood as its president, several pro-life leaders remarked that the organization was upset the physician had emphasized the need to expand Planned Parenthood services beyond abortion.

“Leana Wen entered Planned Parenthood to great fanfare. As a physician, it was anticipated that she would evolve the organization, long seen as a partisan platform, into a health care institution,” said Catherine Glenn Foster, president and CEO of Americans United for Life.

“And when Dr. Wen tried to do precisely that, she was fired. She refused to allow abortion to dominate Planned Parenthood’s agenda, all the way from the very top down to every talking point,” she added in a July 18 statement. “Dr. Wen’s termination is emphatic proof that Planned Parenthood has been, is and will be nothing more than a political machine.”

Various news reports said Wen wanted to provide additional services such as mental health and substance abuse resources, but, according to Americans United for Life, “anonymous Planned Parenthood employees referred to these treatments as ‘mission creep.’”

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PROTECT CIVILIANS, SEEK PEACE, POPE URGES SYRIAN PRESIDENT

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to put an end to his country’s eight-year-long conflict and seek reconciliation for the good of the nation and its vulnerable people.

“The Holy Father asks the president to do everything possible to put an end to this humanitarian catastrophe, in order to protect the defenseless population, especially those who are most vulnerable, in respect for international humanitarian law,” said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.

The Vatican press office said July 22 that Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, and Cardinal Mario Zenari, apostolic nuncio to Syria, met that morning with Assad in Damascus.

During the meeting, Cardinal Turkson gave the president the pope’s letter, which expresses “Pope Francis’ deep concern for the humanitarian situation in Syria,” particularly for civilians in the province of Idlib, said a written statement from the new director of the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni.

The United Nations said conditions in Syria were “alarming” for millions of civilians.

Nearly 12 million people were in need of humanitarian aid and 5 million more were in serious need, Najat Rochdi, senior humanitarian adviser to the U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, said July 21.

The increased crisis was due to intensified fighting between the government and rebels in Idlib, where the 3 million people who live there have essentially become trapped in a battle zone.

PHILIPPINE BISHOPS CALL FOR ‘ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION’

MANILA, Philippines – Catholic bishops in the Philippines criticized “the continuing destruction of our common home” and called for “ecological conversion” amid “climate emergency.”

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Children eat a meal prepared of yellow split peas and injera at their home in Ethiopia’s Tigray region Feb. 7, 2019. The church in Ethiopia is leading peace and reconciliation efforts and also working to help the millions of people who have fled their homes after an upsurge in communal violence. At least 2.4 million Ethiopians have been displaced by violence between rival ethnic groups, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The Horn of Africa nation has more than 80 different ethnic groups. pastoral letter on the environment, released July 16. The report said the first half of the letter offers a reflection on the state of the environment, and the second half recommends concrete ecological actions.

“Given the high rate of poverty in the Philippines, the need to manage the environment is paramount. Poverty and environmental degradation mutually reinforce each other,” Cbcpnews.net reported the letter as saying.

The letter outlines the issues facing the country, among them the irresponsible mining, the building of dams, and the growing dependence on fossil fuel-based energy, such as coal. Several studies have shown that the Philippines is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, Cbcpnews.net said.

The letter was released after the bishops’ recent plenary assembly in Manila

as a way of helping put into action Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.

AMAZON SYNOD: UNDERSTANDING THAT ‘WE ARE SIMPLE STEWARDS’

VATICAN CITY – By convening a special synod on the Amazon at the Vatican in October, Pope Francis will be giving greater exposure to the church’s deep concern for the people and the ecosystem on which they depend.

Like other synods with Pope Francis, the assembly is about listening and understanding the actual reality on the ground in order to find new paths for evangelization, meet people’s pastoral needs, be a voice for the voiceless and promote greater respect and protection for all life, according to its working document released last month.

But this working document triggered

fears in a few that it was somehow a call to changing church doctrine and to heresy – an accusation made recently by German Cardinals Walter Brandmuller, retired president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, and Gerhard Muller, who served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 to 2017.

The document “lacks theological reflection” and creates “great confusion” if it puts as the focus, not Jesus, but “human ideas to save the world,” Cardinal Muller said July 11 in an interview with La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, an Italian Catholic online news site. He also critiqued the document in a more detailed 3,000-word essay published online July 16.

While the Jesuit journal, La Civilta Cattolica, published an article about the synod by Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, July 18, it was not a direct rebuttal of the German cardinal’s doctrinal or theological concerns.

Emphasizing the importance of dialogue, Cardinal Barreto wrote the church believes that, “apart from any attitudes of suspicion,” examining the “richness” in the Amazon region – including its unique cultures, practices and spiritualities – would help provide “a better understanding of a reality crying out” for attention.

Jesuit Father Adelson Araujo dos Santos, a theologian from the Amazon region in Brazil, told Catholic News Service that being open to what indigenous cultures and spiritualities can teach about caring for “our common home” has “nothing to do with a return to paganism, nor does it deny the centrality of Christ and of humanity in the history of salvation.”

“On the contrary, it helps us grow in our understanding that we are simple stewards of the gifts and resources that are not ours, but are works of God,” he said in an email response to questions July 19.

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Burlingame Mercy sisters celebrate jubilees Twenty Sisters of Mercy will celebrate their jubilees Aug. 4, 2019, in the Mercy Chapel in Burlingame. Now members of the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community, they will celebrate lives of active and varied ministries.

Sister Edith Hurley will celebrate 80 years as a Mercy Sister. Sister Sheila Devereux entered 75 years ago. Sisters Barbara Cavanaugh and Rosaleen O’Sullivan professed their vows 70 years ago.

Sisters Pauline Borghello, Ritamary Burnham, Lucy Calvillo, Judy Cannon, Ellen FitzGerald, Maureen Hally, Marcia Kinces, Judy Morasci, Lillian Murphy, Joan Marie O’Donnell, Yvette Perrault, Ann Rooney, Janet Rozzano, and Clare Marie Schroer celebrate 60 years.

Sisters Carolyn Krohn and Anne Murphy entered 50 years ago.

Many have been teachers, principals and nurses in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and beyond, and have served in leadership roles in the Mercy community.

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volunteer at St. Mary’s Medical Center foundation in San Francisco, Sister Sheila retired. She currently resides at Marian Oaks Life Care Center in Burlingame.

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versity in Washington, D. C. From 1947 to 1952 she taught music as part of her assignment at St. Peter’s in Omaha, Holy Cross School in Kansas City, St. Peter’s in Greeley, Colorado, and Holy Trinity School in Kansas City. From 1952 to 1960 she taught music and other subjects at St. Peter’s in Kansas City. Sister Sheila moved to St. James in Kansas City where she taught music from 1960 to 1962. She returned to St. Peter’s in Greeley from 1962 to 1978.

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Iowa, and entered the Sisters of Mercy in Council She became associate director of Mercy Volunteer Bluffs, Iowa. She attended Mercy Prep High School Corps in San Francisco, California from 1993 to in Council Bluffs, and after entrance to the Mercy 2008 and continued as a Mercy Volunteer Corps Community, she obtained degrees in music from The Most Funeral Directors in of San TheCollege MostinRequested Requested Funeral in the the Archdiocese Archdiocese ofseveral San Francisco Francisco coordinator until 2011. After years as a St. Mary Milwaukee and CatholicDirectors UniSISTER MARY EDITH HURLEY was born in San Francisco and will be celebrating her 80th Jubilee in August 2019. The first daughter in her Irish American family to be born here, she attended St. Peter’s School and Holy Names College. She taught in elementary schools in San Francisco and spent several years with the Sisters of Mercy in Australia. She taught computer science at Holy Name of Jesus School from 1990 to 2000. She is retired at Marian Oaks Life Care Center in Burlingame.

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SISTER BARBARA CAVANAUGH was in the first group of Burlingame Sisters to go to Peru in 1964 and ministered in Puno as a missionary, nurse and promoter of women until 1995. On her return, she was trained in Healing Touch and practiced through St. Peter’s Parish and the detention ministry in San Francisco City and County women’s jail and prison (2003-05). She was a practitioner and trained others in Lexington, Kentucky in Healing Touch (2005-09). She retired to Marian Oaks Life Care Center in 2009.

SISTER ROSALEEN O’SULLIVAN was born in Vallejo and attended St. Peter’s School and then Presentation High School in San Francisco. After entering the Sisters of Mercy, she taught in elementary and high schools in the San Francisco archdiocese. After a year studying at the Institute for Spiritual Leadership in Chicago, she began to give workshops on the Enneagram and provided spiritual direction at Mercy Center. Her current ministry is the ministry of prayer.

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SISTER PAULINE BORGHELLO, a native of San Francisco, attended St. Peter’s Elementary School and St. Peter Academy. She began a long-term commitment to education when she taught at St. Gabriel’s in San Francisco (1963-66, 1967-72). She was principal at St. Gabriel’s School (1981-2015). In 1992, she was named Principal of the Year for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and in 2005, she was named Co-Distinguished Principal of the Year for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

SISTER RITAMARY BURNHAM was born in Los Angeles and attended Bishop Conaty High School.

After graduating in interdisciplinary studies from Russell College, she pursued a master’s degree in education from San Diego State and then a degree in religious studies from Mount St Mary’s College in Los Angeles. Sister Ritamary began teaching elementary school in 1963. The following 46 years of ministry found her serving as school administrator, school religion coordinator, parish adult educator, director of RENEW, a parish-wide process to develop small faith communities, and parish bereavement minister. She ministered in pastoral services and bereavement at St. Justin the Martyr in Anaheim from 1994 to 2009, when she retired.

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SISTER JUDY CANNON was born in San Francisco and attended St. Emydius and Mercy High School San Francisco. On the faculties of Mercy High School Burlingame and San Francisco from 1965 to 1981, Sister Judy also has had many roles in Mercy Community leadership. She was twice a general councilor of the Burlingame Regional Community and director of mission for the Sisters of Mercy in Connecticut. She had broader roles as director of social justice with Catholic Healthcare West and then LCWR Associate director of social mission. From 2004 to 2008 she served as administrator of the Sisters of Mercy Institute Integration Team. When the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community formed in 2008, she was a member of the first Community Leadership Team until 2013. Currently Sister Judy is an organizational life coach and a spirituality mentor.

SISTER ELLEN FITZGERALD, after a childhood move from the East Coast, graduated from St. Emydius and Mercy High (Pioneer Class ‘56) in San Francisco. Entering the Sisters of Mercy, she taught at St. Bartholomew, Holy Name, and Gerard High in Phoenix, Arizona. Having earned her MA degree at Lone Mountain, she studied at Univ. of Notre Dame for a Ph.D. She then taught writing and literature at Notre Dame, Russell College, Notre Dame de Namur University, and USF, also teaching at Mercy Burlingame and Mercy SF and founding the Advanced Placement program in both high schools.

When resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees began with arrivals through San Francisco International Airport in 1979, Sister volunteered there, eventually serving during the 1980s in large UNHCR refugee camps in the Philippines and Thailand where she taught ESL, teacher training, and cultural orientation.

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SISTER MARCIA KINCES was born in San Francisco, attended Mercy High School San Francisco and Russell College in Burlingame. She received her degree in nursing from the University of San Francisco. She was a nurse at Mercy Hospital, San Diego, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, and St. John’s Hospital in Oxnard, California, She then began her tenure as a staff nurse at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, 1980, serving in the cardiology unit.

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SISTER MAUREEN HALLY was born in San Francisco, and attended Mercy High School San Francisco. She taught at elementary schools in the San Francisco archdiocese and was principal at St. Charles in San Diego. She became a computer coordinator and teacher at Holy Name, St. Peter, St. Anthony, and Our Lady of Angels (1983-87). She was administrative assistant and activities director at Dorothy Day Community in San Francisco and then case manager and job developer at Turning Point Transition House in San Mateo (1989-93).

Sister Maureen was Institute Area Justice Coordinator of the Western States (1993-99). She worked Empowering Women through Capacitar (2001-02), at Mercy High School San Francisco in the Resource Center with eco-spirituality retreats (2002-06). She was an instructional assistant at Coyote Point Junior Museum (2005-12), and became a private tutor, and justice support for the West Midwest Community (2010-12).

SISTER JUDY MORASCI was born in San Francisco and attended St. Peter’s School and Academy.

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SISTER LILLIAN MURPHY was born in San Francisco and attended St. Peter’s School. She began her ministry in the Burlingame Community as the bookkeeper for the College of Our Lady of Mercy, and eventually became president and CEO of Mercy Housing Denver in 1987. Under her leadership, Mercy Housing expanded from a small, regional housing development organization with 250 units and 20 staff to a nationwide system that housed more than 151,000 people in 43 states. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by University of San Francisco School of Nursing in 1998. She retired from Mercy Housing in 2014. In 2015 she became a housing consultant and board member of Catholic Health SEE JUBILEES, PAGE 18

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SISTER YVETTE PERRAULT was born at home of French Canadian parents in Los Angeles and attended Bishop Conaty High School. She taught at St. Bruno in Whittier, Our Lady of Angels, Holy Name, St. John’s Military Academy, St. Pius and Our Lady of Guadalupe. She started a new ministry as Pastoral Associate at St. Athanasius in Mountain View and at St. Charles in Imperial Beach. Sister Yvette moved to an Appalachian ministry, even becoming an EMT for Rescue Squad 945 in Pocahontas, Virginia. In 1992, she became a Social Gerontologist with Life Services, Inc. in Glendale, CA until 2006, and then served from 2007-18 as Senior Citizen Ministry Coordinator at St. Charles Borromeo Church in North Hollywood. Currently she is a volunteer at Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank.

SISTER ANN ROONEY was born in Livermore, California, and attended Mercy High School Burlingame. Trained as a licensed vocational nurse, Sister Ann ministered at St. Mary’s Hospital San Francisco, St. Joseph’s Hospital Phoenix, and Mercy Hospital San Diego.

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SISTER JANET ROZZANO was born in San Francisco and attended St. Gabriel School and Mercy High School San Francisco. She taught at St. Stephen, Mercy High School San Francisco, and Marian High School in Imperial Beach. After serving as principal of Mercy High School Burlingame (197580), Sister Janet changed the focus of her ministry, becoming chaplain at Mercy Retirement and Care Center. She was elected to the leadership team of the Burlingame Regional Community in 1981 and served until 1989. She then

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 25, 2019

JESUIT RETREAT CENTER-ST. IGATIUS DAY OF RECOLLECTION: Celebrate St. Ignatius Day with Jesuit Father Andrew Rodriguez at the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. $40. For more information visit jrclosaltos@org or call (650) 917-4000.

COUPLES FOR CHRIST: 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. 6:30-9:00 p.m. in Scanlan Hall at St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco.

To register or for more information contact Arnel and Elik Arce at (530) 713-4802, (650) 740-4129 or cfcarnelarce@yahoo.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 28 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 ages 7 to 18 the opportunity of a choral education within the state educational system.

Visit www.londonoratoryschola.com/ tours.

FREE SUMMER CATHEDRAL CONCERT: The public is invited to a free summer Sunday concert series featuring new musicians each week at

St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St. in San Francisco. July 28 will celebrate composer Charles-Marie Widor’s 175th birthday. Symphony No. 8 with Angela Kraft Cross on organ. Performances begin at 4 p.m. Goodwill offering is accepted at the door. Free parking. Visit the cathedral website for more specific information on each week’s artists. smcsf.org.

FRIDAY, AUG. 2 FEAST OF OUR LADY OF ANGELS: Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Angels of the Porziuncola and join in the Franciscan tradition of receiving the “Assisi Pardon” at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco. 12:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Mass times in the historic church with three periods for confession: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., 3-4 p.m. and 6-7 p.m. In the Porziuncola Nuova Chapel, recitation of the rosary at 4 p.m., vespers at 4:30 p.m. and Mass at 5 p.m. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Porziuncola from 6-7 p.m. followed

by Benediction. For more information visit shrinesf.org or call (415) 986-4557.

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, Daly City.

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.

SATURDAY, AUG. 10 ‘WHAT IS STEWARDSHIP?’ WORKSHOP: Speaker Traci Welliver will explain “everyday stewardship in everyday language for everyday people” in this free workshop at Holy Name of Jesus Church Flanagan Center, 1555 39th Ave. in San Francisco. Geared to “ordinary Catholics,” the workshop runs from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. includes breakfast and lunch. Secure a spot with an RSVP to the Holy Name Stewardship Council at (415) 664-6780.

FEAST VIGIL OF ST. PADRE PIO: The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi will bless and dedicate a new statue of Pio of Pietrelcina in the historic church. Visit shrinesf.org for more details or call (415) 986-4557.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, AUG. 23-25

SATURDAY, OCT. 5

GUIDED AUTOBIOGRAPHY RETREAT AT MERCY CENTER: Mercy Center Burlingame at 2300 Adeline Drive in Burlingame will host a three-day retreat on writing autobiography led by Liz Dossa and Mercy Sister Bernadette Hart. For more information and to register visit mercy-center.org or call (650) 340-7474.

YOUNG ADULT HARVEST BALL: A semi-formal young adult dance sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Santa Rosa from 7-10 p.m. at St. Hilary parish hall, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon.

All young adults ages 20-39, whether single, engaged, or married are welcome to attend. DJ Captain Falco will play a variety of pop, salsa, swing, and country music songs. Wine, cheese, desserts, coffee and dance lessons included. $20 in advance or $30 at the door. For more information contact Amanda George, coordinator of the Young Adult Ministry at georgea@sfarch.org, (415) 624-5595.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 6-8 JESUIT RETREAT CENTER12-STEP REC0VERY RETREAT FOR WOMEN: A non-silent retreat for women led by Jesuit Father Tom Weston at the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. For more information visit jrclosaltos@org or call (650) 917-4000.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 13-15 JESUIT RETREAT CENTER-PRAYING WITH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE: An opportunity to pray with the major themes of Luke which offer a blueprint for living our faith at the Jesuit Retreat

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 25, 2019

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of June HOLY CROSS, COLMA Antoinette L. Agosti Jose G. Arredondo Edwin Austin Cecille De Aquino Beltran Othon Benavente Fernando Bendana James Won Ling Bong Robert Bricker Krista M. Budesa Manuel Carrillo Robert Carter Claire Casabonne Fernand Casabonne Joseph C. Casey Carlos G. Cerdas Sr. Dorothy Cerri Gloria E. Ciarlo James Francis Coyne Jill Cunningham Gerald C. Davalos Juan T. Diniega Loretta M. Dirienzo Alma Marie Dito Daniel Joseph Dobleman Mary Ida Dudley Marie J. Duggan Filomena G. Farrugia Gerald Allan Flynn Sr. Dolores Freitas, SHF Alice Garcia Arnel D. Garcia Anthony J. Geraldi Joanne Marie Hansen Anton Jovick, Jr. Linda M. Junge Mary E. Keane Lorraine Maionchi Kelley Jeremiah E. Keohane Margaret Anne McGowan Kerns Dieu Le Baby Lin Paul Lotti

John Salvadore Luppino William Richard Lyons Joseph M. Mackenzie Adelaida M. Malihan Oscar T. Mallari Sr. Loretta Marie Marbach, SHF Linda R. Marquez Raquel Martinez John Philip McGee Daniel F. McHugh Martin M. Medina Gerry Ignacio Mendoza John A. Miers Walter T. Mills, III Elaine Jamil Mogannam Florence E. Murray Jim Muscat Hugh J. O’Connor Nita Lee Olomua Francesca L. Orais Francisco Ordista Nieves Concepcion Pascual Katherine Mary Perez Patricia C. Pierce Ralph E. Podesta Helen Marie Prado-Chavarin Esperanza Roberts Loreta Rodrigo Robert T. Roemer Judy Grace Roque Salvador Roque Jr. Maria Rosa William Desmond Saffings William Thomas Schmitz Michael Pasquale Scolieri Rosario Scripilliti Anne Scripilliti Donna Evelyn Shields Doris J. Sichlinger Margo Jean Spinden Mary Spiteri Jacob Victor Streeter Richard Lee Talvola Francisco Tang Frances C. Tidd

Randa Totah Donald Turner, Sr. Teresa A. Uribe Mary C. Valdez Juan E. Valenzuela Florentina M. Vallejos Arturo S. Vargas Felix Villamor, Jr. Josephine J. Zarate

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Roselle Blanchard Ann E. Carey Sharon Ann Clark, M.D., F.A.C.S. Edward Jorge De La Cruz Glendy Magali Gonzalez Robert O. Koch Igor V. Mackay Tereso J. Mendoza Janet L. Regalado Chris Scott

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Aurora Martinez Theresa Fede Farina Pasquale Caputo Denise N. Carrade Edward Winston Surles, Jr. James B. Sweeney Helen (Scettrini) Valsecchi

ST. MARY MAGDALENE William Andrew Buckingham

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Rosemarie Moran

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS Saturday August 3, 2019 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Michael F. Quinn, Celebrant St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish

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

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