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Church must ‘speak and live in truth’ to combat racism, bishop says Patricia L. Guilfoyle Catholic News Service

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Catholic Church must confront the sin of racism, listen to people who have been oppressed, and seek reconciliation in part by promoting people of color into leadership roles, said Bishop George Murry of Youngstown, Ohio.

As chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, he gave a talk Jan. 27 at St. Peter Catholic Church in Charlotte about racism Bishop George in the church’s history and how the V. Murry committee is addressing the issue.

The dialogue came in the wake of a fatal police shooting that sparked violent protests in the city in 2016, leaving one Consolation parishioner dead.

Bishop Murry, a Jesuit whose background is in education, summarized Catholic teaching on racism and inequality, noting that the church’s teaching on the fundamental dignity of all people has not always been reflected in its actions – especially in see racism, page 23

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Religious jubilarians celebrated

Pictured in front of the Guadalupe Shrine at St. Mary’s Cathedral are 2018 jublilarians present at the Consecrated Life Mass Feb. 4.

Back row, left to right: Sister Annette Sheaffer, OP; Sister Estela Martinez Padilla, MFP; Sister Marianne Viani, SNJM, Sister Marilyn Miller, SNJM; San Francisco Bishop Emeritus William J. Justice; Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Sister Mary Paschal Ezenwobi, lsp; Sister Sheral Marshall, OSF; Sister Joyce Turnbull, RSM; Sister Marie Lindemann, SSS. Front row, left to right: Sister Marjorie Garcia, OP; Sister Laetitia Bordes, SH, Sister Judy Carle, RSM; Sister Kateri Nealon, lsp; Sister Giovanna Campanella, PBVM; Sister Antoinette Martinez, PBVM; Sister Gloria Montanez, OP. See more on Page 12.

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Kent Iglehart’s road to Catholicism evokes images from the parable of the prodigal son.

One of two sons of a devout Methodist Sunday school teacher, Iglehart left the religious fold during college only to yearn to return home years later when his spiritual coffers ran dry.

He will receive a festive welcome at the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 18.

The annual ceremony, traditionally held on the First Sunday of Lent, marks a mandatory step toward full communion with the Catholic community.

In a ritual rife with pomp dating to the early church of the third to sixth centuries, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, having ascertained their spiritual wherewithal and willingness, will invite

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Kent Iglehart, who is preparing for entry into the Catholic Church, is pictured with his wife Jacqueline, who inspired his conversion, and her children from a previous marriage, Marco, 14, and Rachel, 13, who serve as altar servers at St. Patrick Church in Larkspur.

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the unbaptized “catechumens” to sign the Book of the Elect and declare the “candidates,” those already baptized in a Christian church, ready for full initiation, said Laura Bertone, director of the diocesan Office of Worship for the past six years.

Among hundreds sharing Iglehart’s journey, Renae Herrmann McKinlay, baptized a Lutheran at age one, and Tina Wok, a former non-practicing Hindu, will declare their commitment to becoming and living as full-fledged Catholics.

Catechumen Wok will finalize her entry into the church when she receives the three sacraments of initiation – baptism, Eucharist and confirmation – at her parish of St. Hilary in Tiburon at the Easter Vigil.

On the same night, candidates Iglehart and Herrmann McKinlay will be fully integrated when they make their first Communion and are

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Need to know Talk on tech and religion: Join Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory Foundation and an astronomer and meteoriticist, Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. for a dinner talk at Fromm Hall on the University of San Francisco campus, 650 Parker Ave., directly behind St. Ignatius Church.

The event follows 5 p.m. Mass. The talk is titled “God’s Mechanics: The Religious Life of Techies.” To register, purchase dinner tickets and for more info, visit https:// tinyurl.com/GodsMechanics or contact fgargiulo@usfca.edu, (415) 564-2600.

UC Catholic Conference: The University Catholic Conference of California is a student-run conference to unify young adults through fellowship and faith development. The conference invites guests for a weekend of talks, small group discussions and a trip to the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. UCCC2018 will be hosted at UC Berkeley on Presidents’ Day Weekend, Feb. 16-19. Visit UCCC2018.com RESPECT LIFE MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant and homilist of a Respect Life Mass, Feb. 25, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Awards to winners of the annual Respect Life Essay Contest will be presented with the archbishop’s assistance in the cathedral’s Patron’s Hall. Contact Vicki Evans, (415) 614-5533; vevans1438@att. net; sfarchdiocese.org/essay-contest.

Archbishop cordileone’s schedule Feb. 5-13: Bishops’ Lenten Retreat, Jesuit Retreat Center Feb. 14: Ash Wednesday Mass, 12:10; chancery meetings Feb. 15: Presbyteral Council and chancery meetings Feb. 16: Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep board meeting Feb. 18: Mass First Sunday of Lent, cathedral 11 a.m.; Rite of Election, cathedral 4 p.m.

Feb. 21: Chancery and seminary board meetings Feb. 22: Bishops vocation meeting, seminary

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blesses the Fatima statue during the consecration rite in the cathedral during the Oct. 7, 2017 rosary rally and consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

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St. Brendan: Prayer focus drives adult participation

Dr. Lourdes Scheerer lights a candle in front of the statue of St. Joseph at St. Brendan Church during the Year of Prayer, with pastor Father Roger Gustafson looking on.

More than 100 parishioners are enrolled in 12 small groups designated for diverse audiences: women, high school youth, moms, parents with teens, married couples, Marian devotees, Spanish speakers, nature lovers, individuals interested in sharing faith with younger children, studying the Bible, learning the basics of Christianity, meeting Christ in prayer, delving into St. Ignatian spirituality and getting tips on ‘random acts of Catholics.’

and in responding to the call of the Spirit in our parish community.”

An average 50 to 70 parishioners attend the monthly talks, which are recorded and posted on the church website.

Some have followed the suggestion of noted author and artist David Clayton to create or enhance special prayer spots at home or work. Father Gustafson encouraged them to send photos, which he displayed in the church vestibule and published in an electronic newsletter.

Upcoming lectures will highlight icons and orthodox spirituality, the Gospels and the saints, music as prayer and, during the six weeks of Lent, the Mass.

The activities flow from the theme of “Pray Together, Stay Together,” which follows the previ-

ous year’s message of “One Body” carried out in beefed-up Sunday hospitality, greeters, a welcome station in the vestibule, a weekly online newsletter, a new website and a host of large-scale events, including the first annual St. Brendan festival last May, said parish manager Lisa Rosenlund.

“The five-year pastoral plan that we developed with the advisory board is based on the five purposes of what a church is supposed to do,” Father Gustafson said. “People come to church to connect with others, deepen their prayer life and relationship with God, heal from life’s wounds in a safe space, grow in faith and reach out to others.”

With the Year of Prayer already showing such productive results, he added, “I am excited about what the new year holds for our parish.”

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St. Brendan parishioners are getting an earful on how, when, where and why to talk to God. Monthly lectures, videos, weekly bulletin articles, online conversations and more than a dozen smallgroup discussions at the San Francisco parish explore ways and means of communing with the almighty as part of the “Year of Prayer.”

The educational, entertaining, engaging events kicked off last September as part of a long-term plan for spiritual growth and development conceived by Father Roger Gustafson, the congregation’s pastor.

“His enthusiasm is contagious, his faith is deep and devoted to parishioners,” said Tom Johnson, an author, analyst and motivational speaker who joined the parish in 2016. “This Year of Prayer … is having profound effects on the entire church because the attendees use it in their lives immediately.”

As a few examples, a Christmas card created at a meeting on gratitude graces his desk and that of many business leaders he knows as a daily reminder of God’s greatness and goodness, prayer spaces extolled by a guest speaker are popping up in homes and offices for divine dialogue, and the definition of prayer is cracking through traditional confines.

In addition to attending Mass, the highest form of prayer, and reciting well-known verses, parishioners are exploring other modes of conversing with God: walks in the woods, thank you notes for blessings, requests for reprieves, casual chats over coffee.

“Part of the magic (is getting) everyone involved in interactive activities and discussions,” Johnson said. “In my opinion, as a professional trainer, the very best way for adult education is total involvement of participants.”

An overflow crowd turned out for a Mother’s Day for Mary celebration Oct. 13 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Blessed Virgin’s appearance in Fatima.

“One attendee even told me that if she didn’t believe in Jesus before the concert, she ‘sure did now!’” Father Gustafson recalled.

More than 100 parishioners are enrolled in 12 small groups designated for diverse audiences: women, high school youth, moms, parents with teens, married couples, Marian devotees, Spanish speakers, nature lovers, individuals interested in sharing faith with younger children, studying the Bible, learning the basics of Christianity, meeting Christ in prayer, delving into St. Ignatian spirituality and getting tips on “random acts of Catholics.”

Four new groups will be added in February and another nine by the end of 2019, said their organizer, Sister Angela Furia.

“The deep sharing and the enthusiasm of the participants have touched me incredibly,” she said.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has appointed Valerie Schmalz as head of the Department of Human Life and Dignity of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Most recently, the fourth-generation San Franciscan has served as assistant editor of Catholic San Francisco newspaper.

“I became a journalist because I love the fray, and because it is a way to work for justice,” Valerie Valerie Schmalz told me via email. “This job is a new direction but for me builds on that desire.”

Education and experience have prepared Valerie well for her new post. She holds an undergraduate degree in government from the University of San Francisco and a graduate degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has served as a secular journalist including work in print and television news in Alaska, Delaware and Maryland.

She and her husband, Pat, are parents of four sons ages 18-26.

Supporting Archbishop Cordileone “in his public policy and social justice priorities” will be Valerie’s first front in the new job, she said.

“We are fortunate in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to have a leader who is truly faithful and courageous as a man and as an archbishop, and I hope to help in whatever way I can to support his priorities,” Valerie said.

“Social justice begins with the dignity of the human person, the protection of life from conception to natural death and is preserved in society by creating an atmosphere where the family based on the marriage of one man and one woman can flourish,” Valerie said. “From those principles flow all our social justice priorities as a Catholic Church including immigration reform and accompaniment of immigrants, religious liberty, care for creation, opposition to all forms of social and economic injustice, and the full spectrum of pro-life issues.”

Valerie is opening the department’s arms to all who want to have a voice or hand in its work.

“My first steps are to listen to the people who are on the ground, working for life and justice, in the archdiocese and the human life and dignity department, and to reach out to our partners in community action organizations, Catholic Charities, St. Vincent de Paul Society, and perhaps most importantly, our pastors,” Valerie said.

“Pray for us, pray for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, pray for the archbishop. Let us know what you are doing and what your social justice pri-

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Young participants hold signs during the 14th annual Walk for Life West Coast on Jan. 27 in San Francisco. The event, which included a rally in front of City Hall and a march through downtown streets, was one of many held across the country to mark the Jan. 22 anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion.

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Smiling and singing “Amazing Grace” and the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” hundreds of high school and college students led tens of thousands of pro-life supporters along San Francisco’s Market Street in the 14th Annual Walk for Life West Coast.

The event, which begins each year with a rally in Civic Center, is followed by the walk from City Hall to the wharf behind a street-wide banner that proclaims “Abortion Hurts Women.” This year the Walk for Life was held on Jan. 27, one week after more than 50,000 pink-clad participants in the Women’s March converged on the city’s Dr. John Bruchalski downtown streets.

Eva Muntean, Walk coFounder, Tepeyac Family Center chair, wore a pink shirt, for the Walk for Life, saying she was “taking back pink,” which pro-abortion supporters have made their signature color.

“We are here to take back the narrative that abortion is a right,” Muntean told the crowd from the stage in front of City Hall.

For many the day began with a packed Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, where San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone began his homily by noting that the U.S. Congress this month has been debating House Resolution 4712, the BornAlive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill which would prohibit a health care practitioner from letting die an aborted baby born alive.

‘We want our neighbors to consider the womb a sanctuary.’

“Amazingly, but I suppose not surprisingly, there are people who actually oppose giving the same protections to these infants that all other children enjoy who are outside of the womb,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

At the Walk, co-chair Dolores Meehan urged

participants to contact their state legislators to oppose California Senate Bill 320 that would require every state college and university student health center to stock RU486, legislation which is on a see walk for life west coast, page 17

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Contemplatives of St. Joseph add women religious as order grows Valerie Schmalz

A new order of women religious is forming in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, a branch of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph, which was originally founded as a monastery for men in 2010.

Three women have joined, with two entering as candidates Aug. 15, 2017, the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, and a third entered as an aspirant in January.

“I think there are a lot of contemplatives out there,” said Contemplatives founder Father Vito Perrone. In the years after the Contemplatives were established, 15 women inquired seriously about joining. “I had to say no because we didn’t have a women’s branch,” he said regretfully. At least five of those left the area and are now religious outside the archdiocese, he said.

“St. Joseph is our model. He is silent, attentive, present, contemplative. He keeps his eyes on Jesus and Mary, as we do,” the Contemplatives founder said, noting St. Joseph is the patron of the universal church. “He is steady, loving, is manly and has a huge influence. That is our model of the contemplative life.”

Joseph raised Jesus in Nazareth, “a quiet little town, yet he was at the heart of the salvation of the world,” Father Perrone said.

Both the men and women’s sides of the Contemplatives are suddenly burgeoning after years of quiet, Father Perrone said, and he added “on another vein, we are trying to upgrade our liturgies, ‘elevating the sacred,’” with chant in the ordinary and extraordinary form and divine liturgy. The first Friday healing Masses at Mater Dolorosa Church draw many as well.

“We are in a wonderful phase of the COSJ. Men and women are coming to discern. It means things are happening,” he said. The first two years, Father Perrone was the only one in the monastery. In 2012, he was joined by Byzantine rite Father Joseph Homick from Mount Tabor but it was not until 2015 that others joined.

grounds of Mater Dolorosa Church is nearly full. There are two rooms available and the monastery is constructing three more rooms.

The three sisters are under and will remain under the guidance of Father Perrone, but until the convent building is ready they live in their own homes, he said. Other women are also expressing serious interest in the Contemplatives, Father Perrone said.

“We feel the contemplative life is a very powerful witness within the life of the church,” Father Perrone said. The Contemplatives are an archdiocesan community, under the authority of the archbishop of San Francisco, Father Vito Perrone with a ministry focused here.

Founder, Contemplatives of “Basically, you have to die St. Joseph to yourself in order to understand the riches of life with Christ,” Father Perrone said. “Religious life, especially with the COSJ, is not for the faint of heart.”

The COSJ priests and brothers, and now the religious women, commit to eight hours of community and individual prayer each day, including waking at night to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, in addition to an active life of ministry within the archdiocese.

“The contemplative life is the journey into the spiritual life. It is a special calling, a unique call and as Cardinal Robert Sarah points out (in his book “The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise,” Ignatius Press, 2017), it is a necessary calling within the heart of the church,” Father Perrone said.

“We need men and women who focus primarily on God and then show forth the fruits of this contemplation,” he said. “Often times the fruits remain hidden from everyone, even from the person who is the contemplative.”

‘St. Joseph is our model.

He is silent, attentive, present, contemplative.

He keeps his eyes on Jesus and Mary, as we do.’

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In a Jan. 6 welcoming ceremony, Father Vito Perrone prays with an aspirant discerning for a new order of women religious forming in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, a branch of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph. COSJ was originally founded as a monastery for men in 2010. An aspirant joins the community as part of the period of discernment before taking any vows.

With three priests including Father Perrone, another likely to join, and two brothers and one candidate, the former convent building on the

St. Hilary parishioners share beliefs over beer Lidia Wasowicz

St. Hilary parishioner Janice Russell sees the scenic, secular setting at Sam’s Anchor Cafe as a magnet for ‘folks who might be a bit tentative about attending faith events and would hesitate to go to a private home or church where they might have fears of being ‘trapped’ by boring religious people.’

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Answering Pope Francis’ call to take the Gospel to the people, Father Andrew Ginter, parochial vicar of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon, brings Catholic teaching to a neighborhood hangout where debating beliefs comes as easily as downing a beer.

“Our parish is a social parish, and when we discuss theology outside of church, it can allow for more free discussion (without) the pressure to ask the ‘right’ questions,” said Father Ginter, who launched the format at the start of Lent 2017. “I like the informal nature of it.”

Janice Russell, a parishioner since 2010, sees the scenic, secular setting at Sam’s Anchor Cafe on the Tiburon waterfront as a magnet for “folks who might be a bit tentative about attending faith events and would hesitate to go to a private home or church where they might have fears of being ‘trapped’ by boring religious people.”

Originally intended for college students, the program dubbed “Theology on Tap” appears to work well for any age group.

“I’ve heard many positive comments from people who have attended, and the funny thing is that the Archdiocese of San Francisco had, at one point, advertised it as being only for young adults in their 20s and 30s,” said Father William Brown, the pastor of St. Hilary. “For us, the majority of people who enjoy these gatherings are older.”

Russell, 66, wishes more of the younger set would attend.

“I’d be very interested to hear their questions, and I’m sure they would bring their usual boisterous energy,” she said. “That said … I noticed married couples enjoying a night out – they ordered dinner – and some people I know who are widowed and single who came felt very comfortable with the mixed group setting.”

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From left, Father Andrew Ginter, parochial vicar at St. Hilary Parish; Steve Sears, St. Hilary parishioner and owner of Sam’s Anchor Cafe; Sister Rose of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, the evening’s guest speaker; and parishioner Janice Russell raise a toast to the success of “Theology on Tap,” initiated at St. Hilary last year by Father Ginter.

The social evenings, held every other month, begin with a prayer, include questions and answers and center around a speaker expounding topics that have included the meaning of the cross, the spiritual guidelines of St. Ignatius, Mary as a model of prayer, an explanation of the Mass and the intersection of faith and science.

The subject matter may relate to a liturgical season, an inquiry posed by a parishioner or an expert deemed “fruitful and interesting” to the congregation, Father Ginter said.

For future features he is considering Sacred Scripture, the Letters of St. Paul, bioethics and a panel of priests and sisters to address any issues the audience may raise.

Russell suggested he add “a talk on the intellec-

tual and artistic giants of Catholic Christianity to give us a sense of the tremendous Catholic cultural heritage we can tap into.”

Susan and Tim Geraghty, parishioners since 1999 who have skipped only one meeting, recommended Ignatian spirituality and Pope Francis along with tips for daily challenges faced by practicing Catholics.

“We’ve heard about bishops and priests doing this around the country for a couple of years, but to learn that our own parochial vicar wanted to offer it for the people of St. Hilary was a real shot in the arm,” Father Brown said.

Father Ginter said he acted in response to the Holy Father’s admonition that priests “smell like the sheep” and serve “the church of the poor.”

Although St. Hilary is an atypically affluent parish, poverty connotes a shortage not only of material possessions but also of the spiritual treasures of God’s love and mercy, he said.

“We are all poor in this sense because we need to know more about our loving God,” Father Ginter said. “The more we learn about him, the more we are able to be like him, and then we can help those in need, the poor.”

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A parish story: A timely Gospel call, lay-clergy teamwork and ‘an act of solidarity’ Rick DelVecchio Catholic San Francisco

With the exception of the eucharistic celebration, reading the signs of the times to answer the Gospel commandment in Matthew 25 may be the most vital work a Catholic community can take on. But human fears and divisions are what they are, all of us carry the treasure in earthen vessels, and 2,000 years of experience have not made it any easier to go the margins in radical hospitality.

But one parish in San Francisco, St. Ignatius on the University of San Francisco campus, has been undertaking the risky pilgrimage in a new way, with surprising impact on the solidarity of the parish internally as well as on its capacity for Spirit-filled outreach.

St. Ignatius pastor Jesuit Father Gregory Bonfiglio and lay representatives Annette Lomont and Mike Neary sat down with Catholic San Francisco to share their story with the full archdiocesan community. Father Bonfiglio, Lomont and Neary are co-equals with Lorrain Bader, Jim DeGraw, Amy Stewart, Chris Unruh and Devi Zinzavada on the recently formed parish Solidarity Committee.

The team members are enthusiastic not only about the results of their project but also about the underlying process of discernment that made the new degree of outreach possible.

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St. Ignatius pastor Jesuit Father Gregory Bonfiglio, Annette Lomont and Mike Neary, members of the parish Solidarity Committee, are pictured Jan. 23 at the parish offices in San Francisco. in the ecclesiological spirit of Vatican II, of clericallaity collaboration at a common working table with all community members invited to have an equal voice.

St. Ignatius is an 1,800-member community with a decades-long history of generous outreach to the poor. The parish’s Shelter Meal Program serves 12,000 meals a year, and St. Ignatius hosts monthly Sunday brown-bag lunches.

But Father Bonfiglio, who made lay leadership his primary focus since becoming pastor, and many others in the parish had long “felt an urge to take action beyond direct service and work on advocacy for real change that could benefit people,” Neary said.

Father Bonfiglio recalled that although St. Ignatius served thousands of people in need, it “didn’t have anything on advocacy.”

That concern set in motion a process to rethink St. Ignatius’ role as a mission church. Beginning in 2016, parishioners would gather at a common table to challenge one another with the question, “What is God asking us to do as a faith community?”

The question posed obvious risks. What if parishioners couldn’t reach consensus or divided along political lines on an issue such as immigration?

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With Lomont taking the lead at the pastor’s request and Jesuit Father John Coleman providing staff support, St. Ignatius turned to its sister Jesuit parish in Portland for a path forward. The Portland parish had conducted a year of discernment, long enough to ensure that no one’s agenda dominated.

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A parish story: A Gospel call, teamwork and ‘an act of solidarity’ Also in February, Father Bonfiglio wrote a pastoral letter in response to the feelings many had about the president’s executive order on immigration. By the end of March, in a step that led to the formation of the parish Solidarity Network, Father Bonfiglio made the decision “to have people gather on a Sunday afternoon at 3 to prayerfully dispose ourselves to what God is disposing this faith community to do in these new circumstances. The issue of sanctuary was forced.”

The pastor asked community members to spend time personally and in small groups with the pros and cons of two statements: One that SI will declare itself a sanctuary parish, period, the other that SI will not do so.

Father Bonfiglio, who borrowed the model from Ignatian priestly community discernment, likened the process to “walking down the street from two different directions.”

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“People from the pews were invited to attend at all points in the process and in the end the decision was a vote,” Father Bonfiglio said. “There was movement, and the movement moved toward human trafficking out of the five.”

In all, 75 to 125 parishioners participated, and a working meeting following the vote drew 30.

“That’s gone forward slowly,” Father Bonfiglio said. “And then a year ago we have a new president and this whole issue of immigration is hot, so St. Agnes came out of the gate immediately and by Friday they had declared themselves a sanctuary parish.”

St. Agnes is a smaller Jesuit parish in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

The St. Ignatius community felt challenged to respond.

“The church just couldn’t remain silent, so what was going to be our role so we take the Gospel seriously?” Father Bonfiglio said. “When the circumstances change we need to re-evaluate.”

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The election was one of many issues that forced the parish to take a deep and prayerful look at its response to the fastchanging signs of the times. Neary said the issues included “increased negative rhetoric toward undocumented immigrants following the inauguration” and Pope Francis’ and other church leaders’ various statements on migration. The crisis also gave the parish a chance to take stock of its collective capacity to meet the stranger, including its longCatholic SF Ad 2017-18 ENGLISH.pdf standing Las Vecinas ministry sup-

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The group was nervous about sanctuary “because of the baggage that term carries,” Father Bonfiglio said.

“What people were really eager for was the notion of solidarity – that was the bottom line.”

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They were torn.

Comments from those in favor of the sanctuary idea included: “Gives parishioners an opportunity to act, to serve.”

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Michael Pullis leaned on a cane, his jacket heavily splattered with raindrops. But the deluge outside did not appear to dampen his mood or that of the guests who came to Spark Arts Gallery in San Francisco Jan. 24 to see an exhibit of artwork produced by people living successfully with human immunodeficiency virus.

“I’m at a loss for words,” said Pullis, 52, clearly enjoying his celebrity-for-a-night status. “I’ve only seen this kind of thing on TV.” Pullis, diagnosed with HIV in 1982, is a 20-year resident of Peter Claver Community, a residential care facility in the city’s Fillmore District for chronically homeless individuals living with disabling HIV or AIDS run by Catholic Charities.

He was one of eight residents whose paintings, collages, sculptures and drawings were featured in the “Patchwork” exhibit and art sale which ran through January.

“As Thomas Merton once said, art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time,” said Claver activities director Stanley Stone at the gallery reception hosted by Catholic Charities for visitors, neighbors and donors. “We have created a container for the residents to do just that.”

Few of the residents had much in the way of artistic experience before they began his weekly art session, he said. But while talent isn’t the entire point of the program which he started just last year, Stone has watched untapped creativity and confidence bloom.

“I’ve watched as they bring all of their fears and traumas into the art room and they leave feeling less burdened and more positive,” he said. “I’ve witnessed how these resident artists, all living with HIV or AIDS, have grown both artistically and personally.”

As residents work individually and together on their projects, the space becomes “a safe place for conversation,” said Stone, where in a natural and unforced way they can express their feelings with each other about what they are going through. “There is all this support.”

Chief executive officer Jilma Meneses called Catholic Charities one of the “first responders” to the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. “When nobody else wanted to take these brothers and sisters, Catholic Charities did it.

We welcomed them and embraced them.”

The San Francisco Department of Public Health approached Catholic Charities at the height of the worldwide AIDS epidemic during the 1980s, seeking help in providing housing and support for persons living with HIV or full-blown AIDS who were homeless or marginally housed.

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Michael Pullis, 52, who has lived with HIV for 36 years and at Peter Claver Community for 20, is pictured in front of his artwork.

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Francisco clients who are very low income, who have disabling HIV or AIDS and almost always, cooccurring major psychiatric and substance abuse disorders.

To minimize the utilization of hospital emergency rooms, crisis services and other publicly funded health systems, the staff, which includes program director Tonja Sagun, is able to address most care support on-site and improve personal and community outcomes.

“The goal is to assist each resident in maintaining his or her optimal level of independence and quality of life living with a debilitating illness,” Sagun said.

“Today patients with HIV can live full long lives with proper medication and support services and Catholic Charities is a major component in the continuum of that care,” she said.

According to a 2017 year-end impact report by Catholic Charities, 100 percent of Claver clients have maintained their housing stability, 86 percent have maintained or improved their physical health and 87 percent of clients have mental health that is considered “stable” or “thriving.”

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Sixty-nine-year-old Diane Hudson was born in England but came to San Francisco in 1970 “to be a flower child.” She was diagnosed HIV-positive in the 1990s, the result, she said, of drug use. Like many Peter Claver residents, she shares her life with a pet, hers a bunny named Smiley.

“I went to art school at 16 but I still feel I have more to do,” she said.

Another resident, who identified himself as Tom and who was not present at the exhibit, offered a personal statement in much the same spirit. Three of his pieces were purchased that night.

“I hope to find what my hidden potential is,” he wrote. “The work I am showing now reflects a time when I am being good to myself instead of doing something negative. Art makes me feel good.”

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Conversion: Catholic faith beckons banker, mother, teacher’s aide religious heritage. His mother had ensured he never missed church as a child. His aunt, a Methodist from Nebraska, used to pay him $10 to read the Bible. His pious fraternal and maternal grandparents played a pivotal role in his faith formation.

After moving West from New York, Iglehart found himself attending daily Mass at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral during lunch breaks from his banking job in the Financial District.

The rigors, rituals and priestly vocations of Catholicism appealed to him.

“I got back to praying intensely, and it really made me feel very centered and balanced,” Iglehart said.

Six months after their meeting and five months before their January 2017 wedding, Iglehart and his wife Jacqueline were “swept up in the beautiful experience” of participating in the parish activities and community outreach at St. Patrick.

“Very soon we decided to go fully in and sought the RCIA program to deepen our faith as a family,” said Iglehart.

His wife became his sponsor. Her two teenage children from a previous marriage were baptized, made their first Communion and will be confirmed at St. Patrick.

“It’s been an amazing story of romance and religion,” Iglehart said, “an incredible journey that’s brought me home.”

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A desire to strengthen family spiritual ties propelled all three toward their life-altering decision.

“My husband and children are Catholic, and I wanted to be of one faith with them and to help guide my children (by) fully joining a community of love and faith that works to help others,” said Wok, the mother of three.

Herrmann McKinlay entered the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program in December 2016 to gain a deeper appreciation for the faith espoused by her husband, two sons and myriad in-laws.

“My older child was attending St. Patrick School, and I had just accepted the position as first-grade aide at the school,” she recalled. “I wanted to learn and understand all that my husband knew and believed in, as well as starting the journey that my sons (baptized at St. Patrick) were starting to take.”

Iglehart entered the same RCIA class in October 2016, in response to his future wife’s inspiration and God’s invitation.

“After straying from my religious roots and falling into the trap of material wealth on Wall Street for 15 years, I started to feel a calling to conversion in 2014,” said Iglehart,

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Left, women religious representing 25, 40, 50, 60 and 70 years of consecrated life renew their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience during the Consecrated Life Mass Feb. 4. Right, Franciscan Sister Sheral Marshall, who entered religious life in 1965, delivered a reflection centered on the Second Vatican Council for sisters at a jubilee reception after the Mass.

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On a spring like Feb. 4, the Archdiocese of San Francisco celebrated the jubilee years of 35 women and men religious at the annual Consecrated Life Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The special Mass held each year on the Sunday closest to the feast of the Presentation of the Lord on Feb. 2 recognized sisters and priests from more than a dozen communities marking 25, 40, 50, 60 and 70 years of religious life.

In his welcome, main celebrant Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone humorously corrected himself after noting “25 years of priesthood” for concelebrant Bishop Emeritus William J. Justice, a youthful-looking 75.

“Excuse me, it looks like 25, believe it or not it’s actually 50 years for him,” he said. “I still want to know his secret.”

Later in his homily, the archbishop compared the solitude and silent prayer Jesus sought after a day of healing and preaching in the day’s Gospel reading, Mark 1:29-39 to those in religious life. His followers quickly find him and tell him “everyone is looking for you.”

“We seek time alone with him, but we seem to keep getting interrupted,” he said. “But this too is part of God’s call.”

(Photo by Debra Greenblat/Catholic San Francisco)

The luncheon for jubilarians after the Consecrated Life Mass was an unexpected reunion for Social Service Sister Marie Lindemann, 59, and Presentation Sister Giovanna Campanella, 77. Sister Giovanna was Sister Marie’s first grade teacher at San Francisco’s Epiphany School in the mid-1960s.

He called this necessarily prayerful “flight from the world” part of the “progressive misunderstanding of Jesus” by even those closest to him.

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He described the consecrated as making an intentional “flight from superficiality” in order to enter more deeply into what it means to be human, created in the image of God. It is not a fleeing from others in the sense of cutting themselves off from others, he said, in fact, it’s quite the contrary.

“For the consecrated person, communion with the Lord is precisely so that they will be able to see and encounter each person as another image of God, especially encountering a person who is suffering or in any kind of need,” he said.

In his closing remarks, Archbishop Cordileone said that consecrated persons – especially women religious – have been central to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, opening hospitals, schools, orphanages and schools for disadvantaged youth. They continue that same work today, he said, but are also on the front line responding to the needs and demands of the time, such as stopping human trafficking.

“It is as humbling as it is joyful for us to give thanks to those in our archdiocese who live out the extraordinary call to the consecrated life, who in a singular way find ways to present Christ to a hurting and sometimes hostile world,” he said.

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Oregon Catholics pledge to be missionary disciples

SALEM, Oregon – Scores of western Oregon Catholics came forward, dropping signed cards at the foot of a cross. They promised to live as missionary disciples who will go to neighborhoods, streets and marketplaces to share their personal encounter with Jesus. The ritual was a key moment in the Archdiocese of Portland’s Jan. 27 encuentro, a gathering of about 170 Hispanic parish delegates.

Diocesan-level encuentros and regional encuentros are taking place around the country through June as part of a process of reflection and action leading up to the U.S. Catholic Church’s Fifth National Encuentro, or “V Encuentro,” to be held Sept. 20-23 in Grapevine, Texas. In addition to creating zeal for disciples, the nation’s bishops are using the encuentro to get to know the struggles of Hispanic Catholics. During an encuentro Mass at St. Joseph Parish in Salem, Oregon’s capital city, Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample acknowledged the special problems immigrants face now, plus the normal trials of marriage, parenthood and employment.

Supporters say vilification of immigrant children must stop

WASHINGTON – Hours before President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address Jan. 30, immigrant supporters said they were concerned with his administration’s “systematic targeting of vulnerable populations.”

In particular, they were bothered by the portrayal of migrant children, youth and families as gang members and criminals. The president and Congress are haggling over a plan about how to fix some of the country’s most urgent immigration woes in which immigrants, legal and otherwise, have been caught in the middle of verbal fire.

The most urgent includes finding a solution for some 800,000 young adults brought into the country illegally as minors by their parents and who now face a March 5 deadline for the end of an Obamaera protection that granted them some legal relief to remain in the country. In September, Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and charged Congress with passing a bill to save the program.

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Ash Wednesday also is one of two days, along with Good Friday, that are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholic adults – meaning no eating meat and eating only one full meal and two smaller meals. In other words, not a day for consuming candy hearts, chocolate cakes or fancy steak dinners.

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‘Migrants welcome’ Valentine’s message The Ignatian Solidarity Network, a coalition of Jesuit schools and universities, is encouraging those in the network and beyond to celebrate Valentine’s Day Feb. 14 by sending cards to lawmakers asking them and others to “Love your neighbor” and to send “migrants welcome” Valentine’s Day messages Feb. 11-18. “On Valentine’s Day, show your love to your neighbor. Every neighbor.

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“At the top is an in-person visit from constituents,” said Tom Dwyer, national chair of the Voice of the Poor Committee for St. Vincent de Paul, followed by contact from a constituent’s representative.

Tom Mulloy, St. Vincent de Paul’s national director of poverty programs, spoke of the link between charity and justice. “Meeting a person in their home, where they feel their safest, that’s the charity. The justice is taking what we’ve learned.”

Jack Murphy, the Vincentians’ “systemic change leader,” referred to the rule of the society in helping to shape its advocacy work. “Striving to change attitudes, foster new attitudes of respect and empathy for the weak,” he said. “Not by hitting a button and writing to your congressperson That’s been our chief form of advocacy for the last 10 years. ...

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The conversation was sponsored by the British Embassy to the Holy See. With his responsibility for the Eastern Catholic Churches throughout the world and for all Catholics in the Middle East, Cardinal Sandri said he has seen beautiful examples not only of peaceful coexistence, but of real community-building and cooperation between members of different religions.

VATICAN CITY – Multiple news reports indicate the Vatican has made substantial progress in reaching an agreement with China’s communist government on the naming of bishops for several dioceses.

The news agency Reuters and The Wall Street Journal both reported Feb. 1 that the deal would involve two bishops recognized by the Holy See stepping aside to make way for two bishops chosen by the government-controlled Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association; the new bishops would have to recognize the authority of the pope and ask forgiveness for having accepted ordination without papal approval. Both articles relied on unnamed sources at the Vatican.

Greg Burke, director of the Vatican press office, would not comment when contacted by Catholic News Service Feb. 2. However, the reports coincide with claims made by Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, retired archbishop of Hong Kong, who announced in late January that he had met personally with Pope Francis to express his opposition to the plan and to deliver into the pope’s hands a letter from one of the bishops involved.

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During his comments to the pro-government National Constituent Assembly Jan. 15, Maduro also ordered the attorney general to investigate the bishops for hate crimes. “One of those two called us a ‘plague,’” Maduro said. “It will be seen whether this constitutes a real hate crime that aims to create fighting between Venezuelans.”

Maduro referred to comments made by the Bishop Victor Basabe of San Felipe and Archbishop Antonio Lopez Castillo of Barquisimeto. On Jan. 14, during the annual procession of the Divine Shepherdess, which attracts millions in the western city of Barquisimeto, both bishops spoke out against corruption, which they said has contributed to the country’s spiraling economic crisis. According to local outlet noticiasbarquisimeto.com, Bishop Basabe told the crowd that Venezuelans who have left the country “will never be foreigners” and that when they return they will all “have the task of reconstructing our country so that the plague that today devastates us becomes part of the past.”

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VATICAN CITY – With so many direct attacks on human life, from abortion to war, Pope Francis said he is worried that so few people are involved in pro-life activities.

Reciting the Angelus prayer at the Vatican Feb. 4, Pope Francis marked Italy’s Pro-Life Sunday and also called for a day of prayer and fasting for peace Feb. 23, with special prayers for Congo and South Sudan.

Some 20,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus. Many of them carried the pro-life movement’s green balloons with the message, “Yes to life.”

Thanking all the “different church realities that promote and support life in many ways,” Pope Francis said he was surprised there were not more people involved.

“This worries me,” the pope said. “There aren’t many who fight on behalf of life in a world where, every day, more weapons are made; where, every day, more laws against life are passed; where, every day, this throwaway culture expands, throwing away what isn’t useful, what is bothersome” to too many people.

Pope Francis asked for prayers that more people would become aware of the need to defend human life “in this moment of destruction and of throwing away humanity.”

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A parish story: A Gospel call, teamwork and ‘an act of solidarity’ FROM PAGE 9

“Acting against injustice.”

“Doing nothing collaborates with injustice.”

“As a broad citywide parish, this would show us to be inclusive of our community.”

“Supports families and individuals and keeps people from danger.”

Among the concerns of those opposed: “Might upset some parishioners who would see this as too political.”

“Potential of creating a divisive issue in our parish.”

“Some parishioners may not agree with using parish fund[s] to help undocumented immigrants.”

“The possibility of becoming the focus of retaliation/ill feeling/payback.”

“A sanctuary statement only has meaning if you have a program behind it.”

Father Bonfiglio sent the notes to all participants with an invitation to read and pray over them.

“Then the next instruction was really specific,” he said. “I didn’t want to know what they thought; I wanted to know what the feelings were that emerged when they prayed about the notes. Then, why? Then, simply send those back to me. And then eight of the 25 responded. And the pendulum was so clear.”

The question was put in such a way that it was inescapable to have to answer: If this were the last decision of your life, what would you do?

Sanctuary as solidarity

The decision went in favor of sanctuary, leading to a follow-up gathering “to discuss the clear movement of people’s prayer” over the March meeting notes, Father Bonfiglio said.

“It was clear what direction we were going to move, but how was the question,” he said. “I think it was our work with Faith in Action and Lorena Melgarejo that we continued to get more data to shape our direction.”

Soon after, Faith in Action contacted St. Ignatius and St. Agnes about a family at the border that needed accompaniment.

“That fell through, but then we were contacted again about a family that was on the streets and in a shelter and needed support,” Father Bonfiglio recalled. “That came about. This was a part of our ‘Oh, look. We’re already doing sanctuary. We might as well make it public, since it, too, is an act of accompaniment.’”

Father Bonfiglio and lay team members Lomont and Neary described the leavening effect of the discernment process on the large and complex parish during turbulent times.

“A lot of us came to the meeting as an outlet for our political frustrations and at the end of the process it turned into something Gospel- and spiritually oriented. It was an apolitical environment,” Neary said.

The process left the parish “with a solid foundation,” Neary said. “I don’t know if any of us could have predicted where we are now. It’s been an organic, evolving process.”

The group met first Mondays from after Easter 2017 to December and it took that long for the word sanctuary to seep into the community’s lexicon. It was a hard word to define, Neary said. With the lay volunteers taking the lead, the parish developed a three-part sanctuary identity: Accompaniment, advocacy and offering some way of shelter.

Last October, Father Bonfiglio and St. Agnes pastor Jesuit Father Ray Allender put out a joint statement opening with Leviticus 19:34: “You shall

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treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.” The pastors detailed their communities’ commitments as sanctuary parishes, including accompaniment, advocacy, prayer and helping migrants find refuge.

In November, SI issued a statement joining St. Agnes to “publicly acknowledge what is already true: That both St. Ignatius and St. Agnes parishes are sanctuaries for migrants, refugees, and other peaceful people who may be subject to exclusion or removal from the United States.”

For SI, the Gospel breakthrough of the sanctuary decision came down to one word: solidarity. “It was an act of solidarity, for parishes like ours to make a statement for people struggling with immigration.

That was it in the end,” Father Bonfiglio said.

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‘Humanae Vitae’: Still controversial, still church teaching after 50 years

The articles on this page are the first in a series on the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae.” Ed Hopfner, director of the archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life, reviews the encyclical, and Dr. Mary Davenport writes on the topic of our modern medical understanding of fertility. The series will also consider a variety of perspectives, beginning with modern science, but also including cultural and sociological aspects, dynamics of the couple’s relationship, concerns about fertility, infertility and childbearing, as well as the theology which underlies the document.

Articles will be posted on catholic-sf.org as well on a special archdiocesan web page at sfarch.org/HV. Links to the original text of the encyclical also may be found on the page. The series logo is used with permission of the California Association of Natural Family Planning, which created the graphic for an upcoming conference.

The conference website is https://celebratehv50.com.

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‘HV 50’ series: Monthly schedule February “The science of fertility,” Dr. Mary Davenport March “One couple’s path into the Catholic Church,” Carlos de la Torre and Mariana Lopez “The great good of NFP for marriage,” Deacon Bill Turrentine

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n July 1968, not long after the Summer of Love in San Francisco, Blessed Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical “Humanae Vitae” (“On Human Life”), sometimes known as the “birth control encyclical.”

It was greeted within less than 24 hours by an unprecedented statement of rejection on the front page of The New York Times, headed “Catholic experts in strong dissent” and signed by nearly 100 Catholic theologians.

In the 50 years since the encyclical was issued it has remained one of the most controversial documents Ed Hopfner in Catholic Church history.

Even Pope Benedict XVI thought that the encyclical could have been improved, since he said it failed to explain the “why” of the church’s teaching though Pope St. John Paul II later did so in his Theology of the Body. On the other hand, Pope Francis has repeatedly insisted that “we need to return to the message of ‘Humanae Vitae,’” most recently in his own apostolic exhortation in a follow up to two synods on the family “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”).

In his earlier groundbreaking encyclical on the environment, “Laudato si’,” Pope Francis reminds us that authentic human development “presumes full respect for the human person, must also be concerned for the world around us and ‘take into account the nature of each being.’” Care for the environment means care for each other, and our respecting our own human nature, the pontiff writes in the 2015 encyclical.

In particular, the Holy Father writes in “Laudato si’,” we must acknowledge “the relationship between human life and the moral law, inscribed in our na-

April “Family planning in the 21st century,” Dr. Elisa Yao (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano)

Pope Francis blesses a pregnant woman after delivering his Christmas wishes to Vatican employees and their families during a special audience Dec. 21 in Paul VI hall at the Vatican. ture and necessary for the creation of a more dignified environment.” We must recognize that “man has a nature that he must respect and that he cannot manipulate at will” and that “our body itself establishes us in a direct relationship with the environment.”

Thus, the acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home.

In “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis reminds us that “in a particular way, the encyclical “Humanae Vitae” brought out the intrinsic bond between conjugal love and the generation of life.” Marriage is ordered not only to the unity of the couple, but to a love that goes outward, most often in the bearing and raising of children. While marriage and childrearing are often challenging, Pope Francis encourages “the use of methods based on the ‘laws of nature’” since these methods “respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them and favor the education of an ‘authentic freedom.’”

As a loving father does, he insists that “greater emphasis needs to be placed on the fact that children are a wonderful gift from God and a joy for parents and the church.”

What makes Blessed Pope Paul VI’s short document of barely a dozen typewritten pages so hotly contested? It makes several predictions - have the last 50 years supported or contradicted Pope Paul’s forecast? Is Pope Francis correct, that “the teach-

“Integral human ecology,” Dr. Lynn Keenan Additional articles are scheduled monthly from May through July. ing of the encyclical “Humanae Vitae”… ought to be taken up anew, in order to counter a mentality that is often hostile to life…” Is “Humanae Vitae” still relevant in a culture of hookups and Tinder?

Blessed Paul VI begins the encyclical with the words, “The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. It has always been a source of great joy to them, even though it sometimes entails many difficulties and hardships.”

For this 50th anniversary, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has asked us to look at both the encyclical and its teaching on love, sexuality, marriage, fertility and procreation, and the “serious role” married couples play in God’s plan.

This series will consider a variety of perspectives, beginning with modern science, but also including cultural and sociological aspects, dynamics of the couple’s relationship, concerns about fertility, infertility and childbearing, as well as the theology which underlies the document. I also encourage you to read the document itself – most estimates are that barely one Catholic in 100 has actually read it, yet it is short, profound, and well worth the time invested.

Ed Hopfner is director of the Office of Marriage and Family Life for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The science of fertility Dr. Mary Davenport

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FP (natural family planning) relies on a woman’s own observations of her signs of fertility. By learning her unique biological markers, she can be empowered to both achieve and avoid pregnancy, as well as attaining a higher level of health throughout her entire reproductive life.

Modern NFP has come a long way from the old rhythm method of the 1930s. The calendar rhythm method calculated a woman’s fertile and infertile periods according to cycle length. However, the rhythm method has failure rates of 20 percent per year in preventing pregnancy because of variations in a woman’s cycle. In contrast, modern NFP relies on a woman’s own observation of her biomarkers such as cervical mucus and temperature. In 1968 Pope Paul VI in “Humanae Vitae” called upon “men of science” to develop a “secure regulation of births founded on the observance of natural rhythms.” In recent decades there has been a flourishing of the science of natural fertility by scientific organizations. Sometimes the names FAM or FABM (Fertility Awareness Methods or Fertility Awareness Based Methods)

are used more or less interchangeably with NFP; NFP usually implies abstinence at the fertile time to prevent pregnancy.

For NFP/FAM to be effective, it is important to identify the fertile and infertile times in the cycle. The time of fertility begins with the rise in estrogen production from the ovary that occurs after the end of the menses. The cervix (mouth of the womb) opens somewhat, and cervical mucus become identifiable, more copious and eventually stretchy. The pituitary hormone LH rises and triggers the release of the egg from the ovary. Most NFP methods use a variation of these criteria to determine a “peak” day of the highest fertility. Following release of the egg, the ovary starts to secrete progesterone, which thickens the cervical mucus and raises the body temperature. If pregnancy does not occur, the hormones decline, temperature falls, and menses follow with the start of a new cycle.

The different methods vary by the signs that are followed and charted to determine the beginning and end of the fertile phase. Methods typically take into account the one-day survival of the egg see davenport, page 22

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New spouses exchange rings as Pope Francis, celebrates the marriage rite for 20 couples during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in 2014.

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fast track to passage. “We don’t want our centers of learning to become centers of killing,” Meehan said.

The Walk was founded on the Feminists for Life of America slogan and principle that “Women Deserve Better than Abortion,” and one of the speakers in particular brought that point home.

“In this sanctuary city also known for bridge-building, we are all stating loudly that we want our neighbors to consider the womb a sanctuary for the unborn members of our human families,” said Dr. John Bruchalski, founder of Tepeyac Family Center in Fairfax, Virginia, an obstetrics-gynecology practice named for the hill where Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to a poor Indian, St. Juan Diego, in 1531. The faith-based practice provides “excellent medicine” to women without regard to financial situation, belief or background.

Abortion does not just hurt women, and kill babies, “abortion also hurts the providers who provide that service,” Bruchalski told the rally gathered at Civic Center in San Francisco.

Bruchalski performed many abortions as a resident before realizing its harm, saying abortion darkened and hardened his heart before he was reconverted to his Catholic faith.

“I want all the young people here … as a doctor who knows that abortion hurts women – we need you. We need you to enter and return medicine back to the prolife movement. That’s a practical way you can make a difference,” Bruchalski said.

Other speakers at the Walk included Terri Beatley of the Hosea Initiative dedicated to continuing the prolife work of the deceased “father of the abortion movement” Dr. Bernard Nathanson; Joseph Scheidler, founder of Pro-Life Action League who received the Gianna Molla Award; and the traditional closing speaker for the Walk, Rev. Clenard Childress, who spoke at the first Walk and almost every one since.

Founded in 2005 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, the Walk for Life West Coast’s mission is to change the perceptions of a society that thinks abortion is an answer.

(Jose Luis Aguirre/Walk for Life West Coast)

The Walk for Life West Coast begins each year with a rally in Civic Center in San Francisco. Participants during the 14th annual Walk on Jan. 27 included a woman and children, above, holding signs in Civic Center in the spirit of the day. The rally was followed by a march down Market Street behind a streetwide banner proclaiming “Abortion Hurts Women.”

Speakers exhort Oakland at pro-life rally Michele Jurich The Catholic Voice

“We need public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public,” Father Frank Pavone told the noonday gathering in the plaza in front of Oakland City Hall on Jan. 26.

The 11th annual StandUp4Life rally, sponsored

by Rev. Walter Hoye’s Issues4Life Foundation, was buoyed on many fronts: a president of the United States who has pledged to advance a prolife agenda; recent polls, including a Marist Poll that found Americans of all political persuasions favor substantial abortion limits; and locally, the closure of the Family Planning Specialists Medical Group in Oakland.

Rev. Hoye had been arrested on the sidewalk in front of the abortion provider in 2008. He faced a two-year jail term for violating the Oakland “bubble” ordinance, but was sentenced to 30 days in jail. On appeal, the charges were dismissed.

While Rev. Hoye’s Oakland rally, on the Friday before the Walk for Life West Coast, draws

a smaller crowd than its San Francisco counterpart, a trio of nationally recognized pro-life leaders delivered messages of hope.

“This is not the city for those who want the unborn to be killed, who think abortion is some kind of right” said Father Pavone, head of the national Priests for Life ministry. “It is the American people who live in these cities. As polling continues to tell us, the American people are pro-life.”

Pro-life is natural, Father Pavone said. “You don’t have to learn how to be pro-life,” he said.

“You’ve got to learn, study, practice how to be pro-choice.”

But he cautioned against demonizing those who work in the abortion clinics. “They are not the enemy,” he said. “They are captives of the enemy.”

A similar theme was echoed by Sean Carney, CEO of 40 Days for Life. During the twice-yearly vigils outside abortion clinics, Carney said, they appeal not only to people entering the clinics, but those working there.

He described “a huge disconnect” between

those who run the abortion industry from New York City and Washington, D.C., and those who do the grim work in the clinics nationwide.

“We are there to represent the joy and mercy of Christ to those who are working in the living hell that is an abortion clinic,” he said.

Rev. Clenard Childress, the New Jersey Baptist pastor and founder of blackgenocide.org, told those gathered that “your time has come.”

“In this time, don’t slow down,” he said. “Recognize that there are children yet to be born that are depending on your faithfulness.”

Noting that he was speaking in Oakland, the home of the Black Panthers, Childress said, “the will to address injustice is the same.”

With an escort from Oakland Police Department officers on bicycles, the rally marched peacefully through several blocks of downtown before returning to the plaza in front of Oakland City Hall. A beautiful voice rose above the rest, singing “We shall overcome.”

Michele Jurich is associate editor of The Catholic Voice, official newspaper of the Diocese of Oakland.

18 opinion letters Revision for a relevant church

Re “The bitter pill of ‘false liberation,’” Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Jan. 11: Father Pacholczyk says contraception enables women to see conception as “a malady needing to be remedied” and a “defect.” That’s hypocritical: Conception usually takes a man, too, and managing conception certainly supports parents who love, bear and provide for their children. Whether through the church-condoned rhythm method or other means, it’s all willful planning for marital relations without the intent to conceive.

Priesthood as we know it includes an inherent lack of perspective regarding responsible parenthood. The Vatican now advocates the consideration of married priests for isolated Amazonian Catholic communities – a situation maybe necessary for the survival of a relevant church, and recalling the days of married priests in church from the apostles through the 12th century.

Revision for a relevant church that survives a changing society is not new; it’s a constant. Beyond the Amazon, we should look at both married priests and women priests (another historical fact of the church). From this more natural reflection of the community these priests would serve might flow a more empathetic, universal and “catholic” generation of clergy.

Peter Albert San Francisco

Praying for civility

We are all aware that society around us recently seems to be growing more uncivil, contentious, anxious and tolerant of disrespect every day. We read of horrifying incidents of gun violence, even in schools. We read or hear of mean-spirited rudeness in social media, alarming displays of bigotry and racism, mounting accusations of sexual misconduct. I pray about this as I am sure other Catholics do. A simple and even pleasant way that we Catholics can peacefully resist this growing climate of incivility – or, as journalists often say, “push back” – is simply to make a point in everyday life of being kind, polite, respectful, helpful and generous in public. Smiling at strangers and saying good morning, when it feels safe. Waving other cars to go first or cut in, when safe, and doing it with a smile.

Looking at clerks or restaurant servers in the eye with genuine warmth as we say thank you or place an order. Tipping generously. And if we hear racist or other hostile comments about God’s children, we can bravely offer a loving alternative, such as “if immigrants are illegal, they are first and foremost our neighbors, our brothers and sisters in Christ.” Or “God made each of us, we are equally loved by our creator, no matter what we look like.” If we all make conscious Christian behavior a priority, in our individual ways, together we can change our national temperament for the better.

Susan Brown San Carlos

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Overcoming the divisions that divide us

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e live in a world of deep divisions. Everywhere we see polarization, people bitterly divided from each other by ideology, politics, economic theory, moral beliefs, and theology.

We tend to use over-simplistic categories within which to understand these divisions: the left and the right FATHER ron opposing each rolheiser other, liberals and conservatives at odds, pro-life vying with pro-choice.

Virtually every social and moral issue is a war-zone: the status of women, climate change, gender roles, sexuality, marriage and family as institutions, the role of government, how the LGBTQ community is to be understood, among other issues. And our churches aren’t exempt; too often we cannot agree on anything. Civility has disappeared from public discourse even within our churches where there is now as much division and hostility within each denomination as there is between them. More and more, we cannot discuss openly any sensitive matter, even within our own families. Instead we discuss politics, religion, and values only within our own ideological circles; and there, rather than challenging each other, we mostly end up feeding each other in our biases and indignations thus becoming even more intolerant, bitter, and judgmental.

Scripture calls this enmity, hatred, and indeed that’s its proper name. We are becoming hate-filled people who both fuel and justify our hatred on religious and moral grounds. We need only to watch the news on any night to see this. How’s this to be overcome?

At the more macro level in politics and religion, it’s hard to see how these bitter divides will ever be bridged, especially when so much of our public discourse is feeding and widening the division.

What’s needed is nothing short of religious conversion, a religious change of heart, and that’s contingent on the individual. The collective heart will change only when individual hearts first do. We help save the sanity of the world by first safeguarding our own sanity, but that’s no easy task.

It’s not as simple as everyone simply agreeing to think nicer thoughts. Nor, it seems, will we find much common ground in our public dialogues. The dialogue that’s needed isn’t easily come by; certainly we haven’t come by it yet.

Many groups are trying for it, but without much success. Generally what happens is that the even mostwell intended dialogue quickly degenerates into an attempt to by each side to score its own ideological points rather than in genuinely trying to understand each other.

Where does that leave us?

The real answer, I believe, lies in an understanding of how the cross and death of Jesus brings about reconciliation. The author of the Letter to the Ephesians tells us that Jesus broke down the barrier of hostility that existed between communities by creating one person where formerly there had been two – and he did it this “by reconciling both [sides] in one body through his cross, which put that enmity to death.” (Ephesians 2, 16) How does the cross of Christ put enmity to death? Not through some kind of magic. Jesus didn’t break down the divisions between us by mystically paying off some debt for our sins through his suffering, as if God needed to be appeased by blood to forgive us and open the gates of heaven. That image is simply the metaphor behind our icons and language about being washed clean

of sin and saved by the blood of Christ. What happened in the cross and death of Jesus is something that asks for our imitation not simply our admiration. What happened in the cross and death of Jesus is an example for us to imitate. What are we to imitate?

What Jesus did in his passion and death was to transform bitterness and division rather than to retransmit them and give them back in kind. In the love which he showed in his passion and death Jesus did this: He took in hatred, held it inside himself, transformed it, and gave back love. He took in bitterness, held it, transformed it, and gave back graciousness.

He took in curses, held them, transformed them, and gave back blessing. He took in paranoia, held it, transformed it, and gave back big-heartedness. He took in murder, held it, transformed it, and gave back forgiveness. And he took in enmity, bitter division, held it, transformed it, and through that revealed to us the deep secret for forming community, namely, we need to take away the hatred that divides us by absorbing and holding it within ourselves and thereby transforming it. Like a water purifier which holds within itself the toxins and the poisons and gives back only pure water, we must hold within ourselves the toxins that poison community land give back only graciousness and openness to everyone. That’s the only key to overcome division.

We live in bitterly divisive times, paralyzed in terms of meeting amicably on virtually every sensitive issue of politics, economics, morality, and religion. That stalemate will remain until one by one, we each transform rather than enflame and retransmit the hatred that divides us.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

The Catholic church doesn’t do ‘paradigm shifts’

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ver since Thomas Kuhn popularized it with his 1962 book, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” the notion of a “paradigm shift” has led to fascinating arguments about whether this or that break with previous scientific understanding counted as one. But that a “paradigm george weigel shift” – like the “shift” from Sir Isaac Newton’s cosmology to Albert Einstein’s, or the shift from the miasma theory of disease to the germ theory of disease – is a rupture in continuity is not in much dispute. A “paradigm shift” signals a dramatic, sudden, and unexpected break in human understanding – and thus something of a new beginning.

So are there “paradigm shifts” in the church?

We seem to have biblical evidence for one in the first chapter of the Letter to the Galatians, where St.

Paul describes, very telegraphically, how he came to grasp an astonishing truth: that the salvation promised to the People of Israel in the covenants with Abraham and Moses had been extended to the Gentiles.

Some might find another “paradigm shift” in the first chapter of John’s gospel, in which Jesus of Nazareth is identified as the “Word” who “was in the beginning with God.” These are matters of divine revelation, however, and as the church has long believed and taught, revelation ended with the death of the last apostle. So the evolution of the church’s understanding of the Gospel over the centuries is not a matter of “paradigm shifts,” or ruptures, or radical breaks and new beginnings; it’s a question of what theologians call the development of doctrine. And as Blessed John Henry Newman taught us, authentic doctrinal development is organic and in continuity with “the faith once … delivered to the saints” (Jude 1.3). The Catholic church doesn’t do rupture: That was tried 500 years ago, with catastrophic results for Christian unity and the cause of Christ.

So it was unfortunate that Car-

dinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of the Holy See, recently described “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, as a “paradigm shift.”

Perhaps Cardinal Parolin meant “paradigm shift” in some other sense than Thomas Kuhn’s (although Kuhn’s notion of paradigmshift-as-rupture is the common understanding of the term). Perhaps the cardinal was suggesting that “Amoris Laetitia” asked all the people of the church to treat those who have not been married in the church but who wish to be part of the Catholic community with greater sensitivity and charity (a worthy proposal, although compassion is the norm in the situations with which I’m most familiar). But whatever he may have intended, the cardinal cannot have meant that “Amoris Laetitia” is a “paradigm shift” in the sense of a radical break with previous Catholic understandings. For the Catholic church doesn’t do “paradigm shifts” in that sense of the term, and the Pope himself has insisted that “Amoris Laetitia” does see weigel, page 22

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On conscience

ow are we to make sense of the confused and conflicted contemporary discourse on morality, on questions of right and wrong, freedom and conscience?

On one hand, we hear the oft-repeated refrain that personal freedom is the highest value and that, therefore, the individual conscience, which is the guardian of personal freedom, is the highest and sole authority over questions of right and wrong. The individual Father Mark conscience, we are told, Doherty is both inviolable and infallible. Any effort to frame conscience within a broader context whose points of reference are objective truth and goodness is perceived as a threat to individual freedom that must be defended against. Each person has his own truth; each person decides for himself what is good or bad. We ought therefore to be tolerant of disparate viewpoints regarding the essence of human life and we should seek to promote foundational diversity in our communities and institutions.

On the other hand, our public conversation is saturated with heated discourses in which individuals and groups take determined moral stands on topics as varied as the environment, race, gender relations, immigration and the gap between rich and poor. The moral positions that are staked out in these discourses presume standards of right and wrong whose authority precedes and contextualizes the authority of individual conscience.

What emerges from a cursory study of our contemporary discourse is that we human beings are in fact deeply moral beings who more often than not take strong positions on the rightness or wrongness of things. Moreover, our commitment to promoting diversity is not nearly as far-reaching as we often presume.

For example, how many of us would, in the spirit of promoting diversity, want our schools to hire publicly avowed neo-Nazis or members of some other group that holds manifestly morally repugnant views?

That we are deeply moral beings suggests that we do not actually live as if individual freedom were the highest and sole value.

That we often do stake out moral positions implies that we understand, or at least intuit, that there is a difference between liberty and license where license, stripped from any reference to objective truth and goodness, devolves into reckless and destructive self-expression while liberty, set as it is within the protective frame of the True and the Good, is an ennobling value rooted in the inviolable dignity of

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the human person who, as an intelligent and willing being made in the image and likeness of God, is called to exercise his freedom in a spirit of responsibility for his own and others’ well-being.

If there is some objective pre-set measure of what is right and wrong, i.e., what leads humanity to life and what leads us to death, then it follows that someone had to establish the measure. This someone is God, who brought us into existence so that we might come to know the joy of living.

How does conscience fit into God’s plan to lead us into life? If conscience is not the seat of self-justification, what use is there for conscience? Conscience is an internal organ of sorts with which we listen to the voice of God sharing with us the truth of who we are meant to be. It is not the voice of God itself. Conscience is not an oracle. Rather, conscience brings us back to an awareness of the fundamental contours of a genuine human life, back to an awareness of foundational principles of good and evil which have been obscured by sin. As it helps us to hear the voice of God, conscience also helps us to use this remembered knowledge in making decisions about the right way to proceed in concrete circumstances. It helps us to judge what the right course of action is in the multitude of particular situations we encounter each day.

If conscience is like an organ, it follows that it needs to be trained so that it can grow to maturity. Conscience is not a mechanical tool ready to use straight out of the box. Like speech, it is a power that needs help to develop.

Like speech, if it does not get proper training it will atrophy. This training comes from the outside, from sources that are themselves already mature in the art of hearing the voice of God. A key player in this formation is the church, which has been specially entrusted by God with the task of teaching humanity what true human life looks like.

Conscience is, therefore, not infallible. It is inviolable because the human person cannot be coerced to accept the truth, but it is not infallible. The less mature it is, the less well it remembers the foundational principles of good and evil, and thus it is more susceptible to making errors in judgment about how best to act in concrete situations.

The responsibility that goes hand in hand with genuine freedom also must accompany conscience. God would show us the way to life, but we must assume the great responsibility of diligently forming the internal organ by which we are granted to hear his voice and chart a path forward to life for ourselves and others.

Father Mark Doherty, who serves at St. Peter and St. Anthony parishes in San Francisco, is studying moral theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

An evening with William Lane Craig

en years ago, when I was a visiting scholar at the North American College in Rome, I fell into a spirited conversation with one of the seminarians about the state of evangelization in America. We both were bemoaning the fact that the “new” atheists – Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and others – were regularly attacking religion, and I commented that no Christian spokesman had managed to engage the enemies of the faith well on the public BISHOP Robert scene. To this, my seminarian friend responded, Barron “Yeah, but have you seen William Lane Craig?” I admitted I hadn’t. He told me that Craig, an evangelical Protestant, was by far the most

effective spokesman for the Christian point of view and that he had taken on the atheists with great intelligence, wit, and panache. That night, I looked up Dr. Craig on YouTube and watched, with fascination, his debates with the superstars of the atheist movement. From that evening on I was a fan.

This is why, when I was invited by the good people at the Claremont Center for Reason, Religion, and Public Affairs to participate in an all-day dialogue with William Lane Craig, I jumped at the opportunity. The event took place last Saturday and involved an exchange of philosophical papers in the afternoon and a two-hour public conversation in the evening.

The topic I chose for the philosophical discussion was the technical question of God’s simplicity, or the identity of essence and existence in God, a teaching of Thomas Aquinas that I strongly support and that Dr. Craig see barron, page 22

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Keeping Christ at the heart of care

began the new year with 8,000 college students at the Student Leadership Summit of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. It was an inspiring event that enabled us Little Sisters to engage with hundreds of enthusiastic young people on fire for their Catholic faith.

As exciting as the whole event was, the most moving moment for me was completely unexpected. During eucharistic adoration, Jesus Christ present in the monstrance started moving through the crowd, carried by a team of bishops and priests. An entourage of altar Sister servers led the procession with constance candles and incense. veit, lsp What caught my eye was one of the white-robed altar servers walking backward, swinging a thurible from which billowed sweetly scented smoke, his attention firmly fixed on Christ in the Eucharist.

The only thing that kept him from stumbling into the crowd of young people was a second altar server who kept his hand firmly planted on the first man’s shoulder to direct his every move.

It was a highly choreographed and striking scene – this entourage of clergy and altar servers walking together in perfect unity, leading one another, supporting each other’s efforts to carry Christ! I was profoundly struck by this “holy teamwork,” which must have required significant practice and singleminded focus.

This eucharistic procession was a fitting metaphor for the ideals of solidarity and union of hearts and minds in continuing our Lord’s mission on earth.

Imagine the wonderful things we could do for Jesus if each Catholic apostolate, religious community or lay movement were this well ordered and united around a common purpose! In his encyclical on love, Pope Benedict XVI said, “As a community, the church must practice love. Love thus needs to be organized if it is to be an ordered service to the community.”

As we head into Lent this month, we first celebrate the World Day of the Sick on Feb. 11. Just as the procession I witnessed at SLS18 kept Our eucharistic Lord at the center as it moved through the crowd of young people – a veritable field hospital of souls – Catholic health care is called to place the human person at the center of all its activities, projects and goals.

In his message for this year’s World Day of the Sick Pope Francis wrote, “Wise organization and charity demand that the sick person be respected in his or her dignity, and constantly kept at the center of the therapeutic process.”

Our Holy Father continued, “Jesus bestowed upon the church his healing power … The church’s mission is a response to Jesus’ gift, for she knows that she must bring to the sick the Lord’s own gaze, full of tenderness and compassion. Health care ministry will always be a necessary and fundamental task, to be carried out with renewed enthusiasm by all, from parish communities to the largest health care institutions.”

Pope Francis recognized the invaluable contribution of families, “The care given within families is an extraordinary witness of love for the human person; it needs to be fittingly acknowledged and supported by suitable policies.”

He also speaks of health care as a shared ministry: “Doctors and nurses, priests, consecrated men and women, volunteers, families and all those who care for the sick, take part in this ecclesial mission. It is a shared responsibility that enriches the value of the daily service given by each.”

As we observe the World Day of the Sick and then begin our Lenten practices of prayer, penance and almsgiving, let’s resolve to keep Jesus Christ and the human person at the center of our spiritual efforts and works of mercy.

And let’s endeavor to give the world a striking witness of the unity of Christ’s disciples. May the world be able to say of us, “The believers are of one heart and mind … sharing everything they have” (cf. Acts 4:32). May our united efforts to serve the poor, the sick and the most vulnerable among us lead others to believe in the power of God’s love at work in the world!

Sister Constance Veit is director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

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Atheism’s deliberate inadvertence

ecently, I came across an amusing cartoon depicting two snowmen; one was rebuking the other. The caption read, “Don’t be absurd! Of course, no one made us! We evolved from random snowflakes.”

Poking fun at Darwin’s theory of evolutions is considered irreverent in some circles, but I take delight in it. His theory gave so much comfort to atheists in their effort to deny God’s existence. I gladly admit that the theory evolution is a scientific fact, but this in no way proves that God does not exist.

FATHER JOHN Albert Einstein and I CATOIR do not understand how a serious person can deny the necessity of the existence of a supreme intelligence behind the cosmos. But that’s just us. We believe there are many ways of knowing: rational deduction is one and intuition is another. Albert thrived on intuition.

Atheists are quick to dismiss these tried and true

methods, saying that the burden of proof is on the believer to prove scientifically that God exists. No problem! I am pleased to tell you that there is new scientific evidence that is helping us to understand some very important theological truths. Permit me to share a quote from a mathematical physicist named Frank Tipler, from Tulane University. His book is entitled “The Physics of Immortality.”

Doctor Tipler writes: “When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of JudeoChristian theology are in fact, true. And that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.”

Wow! The usual claim of science that the existence of God cannot be scientifically proven has now been discredited by many professional physicists. Check out Google, and you’ll find 40 quotes that were made by former atheists who are now believers. They talk about the folly of denying God’s existence. Those who deny this essential truth in the name of science are performing an act of deliberate inadvertence.

This new understanding has affected my attitude toward atheists in general. I now find their hubris a bit sad. How can a serious person conclude that a random scattering of atoms accidently fell together to form our complex universe? One cannot even imagine the possibility of it.

Common sense is at play here. Walt Whitman, in his poem “Leaves of Grass,” wrote, “A single mouse is miracle enough to convert a thousand infidels.”

No one should defy right reason. Especially not, since we now see that the higher levels of physics are compelling many to admit that God must exist.

Of course, you knew that, but those who denied this fundamental truth for years can no longer claim to be intellectually superior; quite the opposite.

I intend no personal disrespect toward atheists in general. My effort is to discredit the atheistic movement. There are many atheists who are good human beings, and who have shown real charity to those in need; perhaps more than you might suspect.

I just want to help them find their way home, and to discover the joys of living a life of faith.

May the Lord be your strength and your joy.

Father John Catoir is a canon lawyer and a priest of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey

An ordinary missionary of everyday life Tony Rossi

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rthur Mirell’s love for Jesus originated with free hot dogs, a carnival, and a friendly priest.

As recalled by his longtime friend, Sister Ave Clark, OP, during an interview with me for The Christophers’ radio show, Arthur was a young Jewish boy in Brooklyn, New York, when he was walking by a church one day. The parish priest came out and invited Arthur and some other children to come enjoy a carnival the church was having. The other kids quickly accepted the invitation, but Arthur just stood there and responded, “I’m not Catholic.” The priest said, “That doesn’t matter. There’s hot dogs and fun.”

That simple welcoming attitude made an impression on Arthur, prompting him to further explore the Catholic faith. Though he always maintained a love for his Jewish heritage, he eventually converted to Catholicism. “He loved to go sit in church quietly,” said Sister Ave. “He said he would just look up at the cross and feel Jesus comforting him on his journey with his own cross.”

That cross was the mental illness schizophrenia.

Arthur read about the disease, said Sister Ave, “and he realized that this would be a lifelong journey. He took his medication. At times, it would help. Other

times, it would make him feel weary.” Schizophrenia manifested itself in Arthur mostly through fragmented thoughts. Sister Ave noted, “He would be chatting with you, and all of a sudden he would go into his own reality or start talking about things not related to the conversation.” When he did this with Sister Ave, she would gently redirect him back to his original point. Arthur would then tell her, “Thank you for getting me back on track so politely.”

Sometimes people made fun of Arthur because of this tendency, but he would never get angry. Sister Ave said, “Sometimes someone has hurt us, and we want to ignore the person. Arthur forgave them ...

He said, ‘If I hold onto the hurt, I become it.’ That struck me as [the] radical kindness that we are asked to be.”

Later in life, instances of people insulting Arthur didn’t happen frequently, especially when he joined Brooklyn’s St. Jude parish. Sister Ave said, “I think people sensed Arthur’s goodness. They understood that he had differences mentally, but they always welcomed him.”

Sister Ave first got to know Arthur over 15 years ago when he attended an evening of prayer she was holding at a Brooklyn church. They started talking by phone every day until his death last year. It was Arthur’s passing that prompted Sister Ave to

write a moving and profound book about her friend, called “Arthur, Thank You For Being Jesus’ Love.”

His example, she believes, could be a benefit to us all on many levels: “He wasn’t Pollyanna about life.

He understood that there were hardships. Sometimes he would be disappointed or hurt, but he didn’t let that control his life … He chose to have a good attitude.”

Arthur spread Jesus’ love not only through words, but actions. Sister Ave once told him that he was a missionary. He responded that he’d never been to a foreign country. But she explained, “You’re an ordinary missionary of everyday life.” She continued, “He’d wave at the garbage man, the mailman.

Everybody knew him. I said, ‘Arthur, some day you will be like St. Therese. You’re going to live your heaven doing good on earth.’ I believe he is.”

You can contact Sister Ave about the book by emailing pearlbud7@aol.com.

Tony Rossi is director of communications, The Christophers.

For free copies of the Christopher News Note “Where There is Hatred, Let Me Sow Love,” write: The Christophers, 5 Hanover Square, New York, NY 10004; or e-mail: mail@christophers.org.

Waltzing on ice: On crisis and community

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hen it came time to interview prospective sailors for his expedition across Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton had clear-cut criteria.

He had to pick the right men for his journey to the bottom of the world, a news-making attempt to be the first to cross the continent via the coldest place on Earth: the South Pole.

It was 1914, the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and the famed British explorer had received hundreds of applications.

In interviews, recalled one applicant, Shackleton “asked Christina me if my teeth were good, if I suffered from varicose veins, Capecchi if I had a good temper and if I could sing.”

This final question surprised the young man, and Shackleton clarified: “Oh, I don’t mean any [opera singer Enrico] Caruso stuff, but I suppose you can shout a bit with the boys?”

Singing and what it screened for in shorthand – the ability to fraternize and maintain high spirits – would prove even more vital than the long underwear, Burberry coats and finnesko boots they would pack. It would be just as imperative as

the food they meticulously prepared, including a “composition cake” the explorer formulated with a chemist, a precursor to today’s energy bars.

Shackleton knew this.

He had just turned 40, and the advent of middle age made him antsy. It was etched on his face: a prominent lower lip and restless blue eyes framed by black hair. He was poring over maps, seeking a bold adventure to make him young again.

Endurance set sail for Antarctica on Dec. 5, 1914, and the 28 men aboard soon encountered unusually heavy ice, travelling more than 1,000 miles from the remote island of South Georgia, the gateway to the Antarctic Circle. Then one ominous January day, the wooden ship became trapped in pack ice. It groaned under the pressure of millions of tons of ice.

Eventually the ship sunk, stranding the men on the ice and beginning the long wait, what one sailor described as a “white interminable prison.”

Shackleton was vigilant in his effort to keep up morale, veiling his private worry. He visited every tent after dinner to recite poetry or play cards. He led sing-alongs and waltzed on ice. He greenlighted an “Antarctic Derby,” with dog races and cigarette wagers. He ordered everyone to cut one another’s hair, stepping up for the first shearing and causing fits of laughter as amateur barbers vied to produce the most hideous cut. As the months dragged on, he

made a point to celebrate holidays with extra food and hot drinks.

Finally the men boarded their life boats and made their way to the nearest island, the uninhabited Elephant Island. They arrived on April 15, 1916 – 16 months since they’d last touched land.

Still, a smaller band had to press on in search of civilization, beginning an improbable 800-mile journey back to South Georgia Island in a 22-foot open boat. They endured the roughest waters, somehow surviving a hurricane that sunk a 500-ton steamer in the vicinity.

Shackleton returned every shipmate back to England – frostbitten, weary but alive.

For all our modern-day creature comforts, each of us will experience our own sense of abandonment, our own long Lent – be it a family crisis, a medical crisis, a financial crisis or a spiritual one.

But like Jesus in the desert, we will not be alone: “He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him” (Mark 1:13).

We will emerge stronger and wiser, able to appreciate life’s little pleasures anew.

The opportunity in crisis is to lead like Shackleton, to knit people together on the coldest days, to waltz on ice. That’s how you all make it home together.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.

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Sunday readings

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time LEVITICUS 13:1-2, 44-46 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants. If the man is leprous and unclean, the priest shall declare him unclean by reason of the sore on his head. “The one who bears the sore of leprosy shall keep his garments rent and his head bare, and shall muffle his beard; he shall cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ As long as the sore is on him he shall declare himself unclean, since he is in fact unclean.

He shall dwell apart, making his abode outside the camp.”

PSALM 32:1-2, 5, 11 I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose

sin is covered. Blessed the man to whom the Lord imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt I covered not. I said, “I confess my faults to the Lord,” and you took away the guilt of my sin.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you just; exult, all you upright of heart.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

1 CORINTHIANS 10:31—11:1 Brothers and sisters, Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. Avoid giving offense, whether to the Jews or Greeks or the church of God, just as I try to please

everyone in every way, not seeking my own benefit but that of the many, that they may be saved. Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

MARK 1:40-45 A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.”

Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.”

The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once. He said to him, “See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.” The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere.

Christ conquered death for all time

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s the de-Christianization of the West continues apace we increasingly lose sight of the ways Christianity continues to exercise a deep influence on culture. Christianity has been around for so long that we struggle to grasp that people’s vision of life before the spread of the Gospel was so deeply different.

One case in point is our approach to tragedy. At the heart of the Gospel is the conviction that the Lord has swallowed up tragedy in his embrace of fallen creation on the Cross. Jesus’ outstretched hands took into their grip all the suffering, brokenness and death of our fallen world and fundamentally transformed it into a new creation in which no hint of suffering or death Father Mark is present.

Doherty This is why St. Paul could exclaim: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Corinthians 15:55). Death and suffering continue to be realities in the present world, but all of creation, ourselves included, are groaning for the full realization of the redemption initiated

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by Christ (Romans 8:22-23). St. Paul goes so far as to declare that “the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (Romans 8:18). As Christians who hope in the new creation (St. Paul stresses that hope is not hope if the reality is already fully seen – Romans 8:24) we believe that the sufferings and tragedies we endure in this life can be and are actively transformed by the Lord into the beginnings of a newer and greater life. And so, in the midst of our grief we patiently await the fullness of redemption to be revealed in the life to come (Romans 8:25).

Can you for a moment imagine what your, what our, approach to tragedy would be if our culture were completely purged of this fundamental Christian conviction? That is what people’s view of life was before the advent of the Gospel. Life was fundamentally tragic. Tragedy struck indiscriminately, and it never conveyed any hint of hope that somehow the suffering would be transformed into the beginning of a new, greater life. The best people could do was suppose that fate ran the world in such a way that some people had it better than others simply because Fate would have it so. But even if you were in some measure fortunate in life, this did nothing to mitigate the brutal reality of death. Fate might shine on you, but only for a short time.

Now imagine for a moment what life must have been like for lepers who had no recourse to the heal-

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, February 12: Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Jas 1:1-11. Ps 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76. Jn 14:6. Mk 8:11-13.

Tuesday, February 13: Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Jas 1:12-18. Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19. Jn 14:23. Mk 8:1421.

Wednesday, February 14: Ash Wednesday. Jl 2:12-18. Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17. 2 Cor 5:20—6:2. See Ps 95:8. Mt 6:1-6, 16-18.

Thursday, February 15: Thursday after Ash Wednesday. St. Claude de la Colombiere, priest. Dt 30:15-20. Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. MT 4:17. Lk 9:22-25.

Friday, February 16: Friday after Ash Wednesday. Is 58:1-9a. Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 1819. See Am 5:14. Mt 9:14-15.

Saturday, February 17: Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Optional Memorial of Seven Founders of the Order of Servites. Is 58:9b-14.

Ps 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. Ez 33:11. Lk 5:27-32.

Sunday, February 18: First Sunday of Lent.

Gn 9:8-15. Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. 1 Pt 3:18-22.

Mt 4:4b. Mk 1:12-15.

Monday, February 19: Monday of the First Week of Lent. Lv 19:1-2, 11-18. Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15. 2 Cor 6:2b. Mt 25:31-46.

Tuesday, February 20: Tuesday of the First Week of Lent. Bls. Francisco & Jacinta Marto. Is 55:10-11. Ps 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19. Mt 4:4b.

Mt 6:7-15.

Wednesday, February 21: Wednesday of the First Week in Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian, bishop and doctor. Jon 3:1-10. PS 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19. Jl 2:12-13. Lk 11:29-32.

Thursday, February 22: Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, apostle. 1 Pt 5:1-4. Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6. Mt 16:18. Mt 16:13-19.

Friday, February 23: Friday of the First Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, bishop and martyr. Ez 18:21-28. Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8. Ez 18:31. Mt 5:20-26.

Saturday, February 24: Friday of the First Week of Lent. Ez 18:21-28. Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8. Ez 18:31. Mt 5:20-26.

ing that Jesus could grant them and who had never heard the Gospel message that the sufferings of the present, while very real, are not the last word; that the Lord truly knows their suffering; that he is present with them always; and that he is actively embracing their suffering and transforming it into a new life that will be fully inaugurated in the world to come.

Now imagine what your life would be like if you had not heard the Gospel message, if you had not received the gift of faith extended to you by the Lord through the work of a family member, friend or acquaintance. How could the hardships and tragedies of life not crush you and grind you down to bits without the hope that accompanies your faith?

Finally, imagine what will become of our society if every last vestige of the Gospel is lost from our collective memory and lived experience? Imagine how dark the world would become once again. Does not such a vision stir up within you the conviction – as must have been the case with the leper in today’s Gospel reading – that no time can be wasted: The message must be broadcast to one and all that Jesus, in nailing tragedy to the Cross, has done away with it for good and granted life to all who would believe in him (John 1:12).

Father Mark Doherty, who serves at St. Peter and St. Anthony parishes in San Francisco, is studying moral theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

pope francis Jesus was always available to those in need

Priests and bishops need to model themselves after Jesus, who never posted inconvenient office hours or shied away from people and their problems, the pope said.

“Jesus throws himself into the midst of the people,” showing them tenderness, and offering immediate healing – the very same things a church minister should do, the pope said in his homily Jan. 30 at morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

Reflecting on the day’s Gospel reading from St. Mark (5:21-43), the pope looked at how Jesus interacted with the large crowds that gathered around him and with those reaching.

“Jesus doesn’t open an office for spiritual guidance with a sign: ‘The prophet receives (the public) Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Admission costs this much or if you like, you can make a donation.’

No. Jesus doesn’t do this,” he said.

Jesus didn’t operate like a doctor either, scheduling office visits, the pope said. He goes to the people and dives in, bolstered by a deep desire to be close and tender.

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Davenport: Natural family planning and the science of fertility FROM PAGE 16

after it is released, and sperm survival of up to five days in ideal conditions. The Billings, FertilityCare (Creighton) and Family of the Americas methods rely on observations of cervical mucus to determine the onset of fertility, and determination of the “peak” day to determine ovulation.

The symptothermal method taught by Couple to Couple League can include several signs, but relies heavily on temperature rise. The Marquette Method relies on direct measurement of urinary hormones by dipsticks placed in a hand held computer (ClearBlue Fertility Monitor). The FEMM method is mainly a mucus method but users can incorporate other cycle characteristics.

Of equal importance to avoiding pregnancy is the value of NFP to facilitate achieving pregnancy. Up to 20 percent of couples have problems with infertility, so the cycle observations in NFP can be very helpful. Research has shown that cervical mucus and urinary measurement of the LH hormone are the most useful signs for detecting the timing of ovulation. NFP can be used in conjunction with medical and surgical therapies to heal disorders causing infertility. The most research on NFP and infertility has been done at the Pope Paul VI Institute in Omaha by Dr. Thomas Hilgers, correlating the FertilityCare NFP system with diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.

Training programs in both hormonal and surgical therapies in NaProTechnology (Natural Procreative Technology) have educated hundreds of health care providers in effective therapies.

Mention must also be made of the many smartphone apps developed to prevent pregnancy and enhance fertility. They vary widely in quality, and some are inaccurate and misleading. The

Weigel: The Catholic Church doesn’t do ‘paradigm shifts’ FROM PAGE 18

not propose a rupture with the church’s settled doctrines on the indissolubility of marriage and worthiness to receive Holy Communion.

Where something similar to a Kuhn-type “paradigm shift” is underway, however, is in the reception of “Amoris Laetitia” in various local churches – and this is ominous. The pastoral implementation of “Amoris Laetitia” mandated in Malta, Germany, and San Diego is quite different than what has been mandated in Poland, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Portsmouth, England and Edmonton, Alberta. Because of that, the Catholic church is beginning to resemble the Anglican Communion (itself the product of a traumatic “paradigm shift” that cost John Fisher and Thomas More their heads). For in the Anglican Communion, what is believed and celebrated and practiced in England is quite different from what is believed, celebrated, and practiced in Nigeria or Uganda.

This fragmentation is not Catholic. Catholicism means one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and unity is one of the four distinctive marks of the church.

That unity means that the church embodies the principle of non-contradiction, such that a grave sin on the Polish side of the Oder River can’t be a source of grace on the German side of the border.

Something is broken in Catholicism today and it isn’t going to be healed by appeals to paradigm shifts. In the first Christian centuries, bishops frankly confronted and, when necessary, fraternally corrected each other. That practice is as essential today as it was in the days of Cyprian and Augustine – not to mention Peter and Paul.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington. D.C.

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vehemently denies. We and the 25 or so other scholars around the table spent a good hour and a half digging into the weeds of this controversy. Dr. Craig chose to speak on a topic that he has been researching a great deal in recent years, namely, penal substitution, the idea that on the cross Jesus received the punishment for sin that we deserved and hence satisfied divine justice and freed us from our guilt. I agreed that this idea can be found both in the Bible and the theological tradition but that it should be combined with a number of other models of explanation, most notably the so-called ChristusVictor theory proposed by many of the church Fathers. In regard to both issues, fault lines did indeed open up between the Catholics and the Protestants around the table, but I believe that a fair amount of common ground was also found, especially around the issue of penal substitution.

The evening session, which played out in front of an audience of about 1,200 in person and around 25,000 watching through livestream, was a structured conversation between Dr. Craig and me. We covered a slew of topics, but for the purposes of this article I would like to draw attention only to a few.

First, we both expressed, rather passionately, our opposition to dumbed-down versions of Christianity. One reason that so many young people are leaving Christianity is that religious teachers and leaders have presented such anemic, superficial and intellectually uncompelling versions of the faith. Therefore the needful thing, we both affirmed, is a revival of classical Christian apologetics, that is to say, an intelligent defense of the faith against its rational critics.

We also spent a good deal of time talking about religion in relation to science, for the supposed conflict between these two disciplines is often given as the number one reason that people leave religion behind. Both Dr. Craig and I insisted that authentic faith ought never to be construed as below reason but only as beyond and inclusive of reason. In fact, Craig observed that science,

rightly understood, can often provide premises for apologetic arguments, and I pointed out that a religious assumption, namely the intelligibility of the universe, is the condition for the possibility of science. We came together in our emphatic rejection of “scientism,” which is the reduction of all knowledge to the scientific form of knowledge, a position that is widely held among young people but that rests upon a fundamental inconsistency.

For one could never determine, on scientific grounds, the principle that only scientific knowledge counts as authentic.

One of my favorite moments in the conversation was when we were invited to ask one another questions. Dr. Craig asked me why I think it is advisable to use beauty in the evangelical enterprise. I gave my answer, the details of which I won’t bore you with now, but I noticed that he was unconvinced, even puzzled. I do think that this represented a moment when the Catholic-Protestant division emerged clearly. Luther and his followers rather consciously stepped away from the beautiful, seeing it as a possibly idolatrous distraction, and opted for a more austerely word-centered approach to the Gospel. I then asked Dr. Craig, a bit playfully, to name what he liked most and least about Catholicism. In regard to the latter, he mentioned a number of classical 16th century concerns about certain Catholic doctrines, and in regard to the former, he said that he greatly admired the rich and long intellectual tradition of Catholicism, stretching back from modern times, through the medieval doctors, to the Fathers of the church.

The evening ended much too quickly – at least as far as I was concerned. We had staked out a good deal of common ground in our shared struggle against a secularist ideology that is rigidly set against religion. But what I found most uplifting about the session was that a Protestant and a Catholic – both committed to their respective traditions – could come together in fellowship, good cheer, and mutual support. That in itself filled me with hope.

Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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Auxiliary members pictured here and those unable to attend were each remembered at a luncheon Jan. 25 at the Olympic Club, Lakeside with a Murano glass cross with commemorative ribbon inscribed “St. Mary’s Auxiliary, 1925-2017.”

St. Mary’s auxiliary honored The Auxiliary of St. Mary’s Medical Center was honored for its 92 years of faithful service and fundraising at a luncheon at the Olympic Club, Lakeside, Jan. 25. The auxiliary disbanded Dec. 31 because of a decline in membership.

“Since its inception in 1925, the group has raised millions of dollars toward support of the medical center,” said Pamela Lindemoen, former hospital president, in a letter explaining the auxiliary’s end.

“The members have unselfishly given many hours of volunteer service in a common spirit of helpfulness and concern for humankind.”

The group’s generosity was in place up until the final day: “I presented a

check to John Allen (hospital president) in the amount of $60,151.92 as the auxiliary’s final donation,” said auxiliary president, Arlene Fife. “This money will fund the remodeling of the emergency department waiting room to enable the medical and security staff good vision to make the room secure, comfortable and safe for all physically and emotionally distressed patients and their families.”

There were 80 members left in the auxiliary at the time of the luncheon.

Fife said. “It was bittersweet day. A joy to celebrate all the achievements of the auxiliary but sad that the auxiliary will be no more.” A plaque in the hospital lobby proclaiming the auxiliary’s good work will hang into the future.

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Bishop Murry, who is one of the nation’s black Catholic bishops, criticized the church’s lethargic response to racism in America even after the U.S. bishops issued a 1979 pastoral letter on racism, “Brothers and Sisters to Us.” “When considering the history of racism in the Catholic Church, one cannot help but wonder why, in the United States, there was so little social consciousness among Catholics regarding racism,” he said. “Why does it appear the church in America is incapable of taking decisive action and incapable of enunciating clear-cut principles regarding racism that have led to a change of attitude?”

“Racism is a sin that divides the human family and violates the fundamental human dignity of those called to be children of the same Father,” Bishop Murry said, and the church must become “a consistent voice” to eradicate it.

“Today the Catholic Church in America must recognize that Christ wishes to break down the walls created by the evils of racism, whether that evil is displayed publicly for all to see or buried deep in the recesses of our hearts,” Bishop Murry said. “If not, we are destined for history to continue to repeat itself, and once again

the church will be perceived as a silent observer in the face of racism.”

Besides listening and learning, Bishop Murry said, the church must “break her silence.”

The U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, formed last August, aims to address the problem of racism in the Catholic Church and the wider community, “and the urgent need for the nation to come together to find solutions,” he said.

He said the committee is working to bring together people of various races, faiths, cultures and backgrounds – and then listening to them. A national summit of religious leaders and others will be convened this year to discuss the sin of racism and find ways to build bridges, he announced.

The Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism also is organizing a series of “listening sessions” across the country, Bishop Murry said. Intended to be a “national conversation on race,” these sessions will take place in parishes, schools, seminaries, Catholic Charities organizations, Catholic health associations and social service agencies – “in every Catholic organization throughout the country,” he said.

The committee will issue a study guide designed “to encourage people to come together and to overcome their hesitations and their fears, and to talk frankly with each other,” Bishop Murry said.

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Born in Illinois, Sister Lorraine held a doctorate in chemistry from Sister Lorraine Catholic University of America Alice Lawrence, in Washington, D.C. earning the RSCJ degree in 1950. Sister Lorraine served at her congregation’s San Francisco College for Women from 1956 until its closing more than 20 years later. Subsequently she served the congregation in administrative roles in San Francisco and later in Menlo Park.

“Lorraine’s 100th birthday on Dec. 27 was observed with a wonderful celebration at Oakwood,” the sisters said in a statement. “After the first of the year, she started to decline. Lorraine requested that her door remain open so that she could be connect-

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CLERICUS CLASSIC: Priests, seminarians and a few hands from the Pastoral Center took to the gym of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco for full-court basketball Jan. 5. The stands were filled with about 200 faithful and raised some $1,500 for use in vocations. Archdiocesan vocations director, Father Patrick Summerhays, standing center with basketball, organized the evening. Senior dribbler was Father Larry Goode, kneeling, third from right, pastor, St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto and a priest for 53 years.

Jesuit Father George Schultze, president/rector, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, middle row, far right, also suited up. Captains of the teams were Father Mark Reburiano, middle row, third from right, pastor, St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael guiding the light shirts, and Father Alvin Yu, middle row, second from left, parochial vicar, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, guiding the dark shirts. The score was apparently not recorded. “Everybody was a winner,” Father Summerhays said. “When we celebrate U B and promote the priesthood, there are noP losers.”

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Cathedral docents celebrate 30th: Docents of St. Mary’s Cathedral celebrated the 30th anniversary of the program at a tea on Jan. 7. The docent program was begun in 1987 by Bishop P. J. McGrath,

now Bishop of San Jose, when he was cathedral rector.

Front row from left: Frances Noles, Marilyn Griffing, Anna Fitch, Alice Baldocchi, Joan Knutson, Nora Jones. Back: Docent program director Doug Benbow, Nora Kelly, Lenore Heffernan, Kerry Daly. Benbow said the trained docents “share with the rest of the world the significance and impact of this grand spiritual structure in the city of San Francisco.” They provide tours year-round to visitors including a program for fifth and sixth graders. In an average school year, docents tour 800 students through the cathedral highlighting the art and other artifacts. Following the tours the students are given a free lunch.

HOLY ANGELS KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: More than 200 people including 50 priests and deacons joined Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Jan. 26 for the Holy Angels Council Knights of Columbus Clergy Night and Religious Dinner in Colma. The event is held annually on the night before the Walk for Life West Coast. Vincentian Father Martin Njoalu, parochial vicar, St. Mark Parish, Belmont, and Deacon Christoph Sandoval, St. Mary’s Cathedral, were honored as priest and deacon of the year. Pictured from left are Father Art Albano, pastor, St. Mary’s Cathedral and California KOC chaplain; James Scroggin, KOC, supreme director; Father Martin; Archbishop Cordileone; Deacon Christoph; and Romy Quevedo, California state deputy.

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Mater Dolorosa Parish, South San Francisco: The parish brought the Feast of the Epiphany to life at all Masses the weekend of Jan. 6-7.

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SATURDAY, FEB. 10 SI SPEAKERS: Friends of St. Ignatius series, St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, 6 p.m., Fromm Hall, dinner and speaker, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno. fgargiulo@usfca. edu; http://stignatiussf.org/event/jesuit-connections; (415) 564-2600.

SVDP FREE THROW: St. Rita Parish, SVDP conference Free-Throw Championships, Drake High School gym, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., John Keane, (415) 990-7315.

WORLD DAY OF SICK MASS: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Feb. 10, 11 a.m., Cardinal William Levada, former Archbishop of San Francisco and retired head of Vatican’s doctrine of the faith office, principal celebrant. Mass commemorates World Day of Sick and anointing of the sick and their caregivers will take place. All are invited. Event is sponsored by the Order of Malta, which will arrange rides for people who need them. The Order of Malta says: “Bring a friend who is sick and experience a special time of prayer and sharing, of offering one’s suffering for the good of the church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ.” Knight Kenneth Ryan, (415) 613-0395, kenmryan@aol.com.

SAIC CRAB BASH: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception school crab bash dinner and auction, 5-9:00 p.m., school auditorium. Tickets are $50 in advance, $60 at the door, Constance Dalton at (415) 642-6130; dalton_constance@ yahoo.com.

tional artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

TUESDAY, FEB. 13 LENT WITH PAPAL NINJA: Come see how the Papal Ninja from American Ninja Warrior kicks off Lent! St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur, 6-8 p.m. RSVP (415) 924-0600, admission free, freewill donations welcome.

SUNDAY, FEB. 18 HARP CONCERT: Anna Maria Mendieta, world renowned harpist, 2-4 p.m., $25 reception following, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Chapel, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont, RSVP by Feb. 8, http:// bit.ly/2018Anna_Harp; (510) 933-6360.

TUESDAY, FEB. 20 NOONTIME MUSIC: Free classical concert 12:30 p.m., Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, www.noontimeconcerts.org, (415) 7773211. Freewill donations accepted.

SATURDAY, FEB. 24 2-DAY ATTIC SALE: St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito, Feb. 24 8-5 p.m., Feb. 25 8-noon. Donations accepted Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9-noon.(415) 3321765; office@starofthesea.us.

Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant and homilist of a Respect Life Mass, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Awards to winners of the annual Respect Life Essay Contest will be presented with the archbishop’s assistance in the cathedral’s Patron’s Hall. Vicki Evans (415) 614-5533; vevans1438@att.net; sfarchdiocese. org/essay-contest.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

TUESDAY, FEB. 27 NOONTIME MUSIC: Free classical concert 12:30 p.m., Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, www.noontimeconcerts.org, (415) 7773211. Freewill donations accepted.

PEACE MASS: St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco, 8:30 a.m., Father Marvin-Paul R. Felipe, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com. Following are the scheduled First Saturday Masses of Reparation to Obtain Peace in the World and to Give Special Honor to Our Lady of Fatima.

SUNDAY, MARCH 4 SUNDAY, FEB. 25 RESPECT LIFE MASS: Archbishop

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and interna-

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SATURDAY, MARCH 10 MEN’S CONFERENCE: Details soon on a Bay Area Catholic Men’s Conference.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate the day’s Mass. Featured speaker is Doug Barry, founder of Catholic ministry RADIX and former co-host of EWTN’s “Life on the Rock.” Ed Hopfner, Hopfnere@sfarch.org, (415) 614-5680.

SUNDAY, MARCH 11 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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SUNDAY, FEB. 11 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and interna-

tional artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

CRS RICE BOWL: This longstanding Catholic Relief Services Lenten program takes place in dioceses around the country March 14-April 1. Contact Carolina Parrales, Archdiocese of San Francisco CRS Rice Bowl coordinator, at parralesc@sfarch.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 18 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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

Carolina “Mamalol” Aguinaldo Max R. Akiyama Albert F. Alves Ada Amoroso Elizabeth “Betty” Marie Angevine Sylvia P. Arcega Carmen Luz Arcelona Mary Irene Armanino Nemesia B. Arriola Gloria Ashbrook Oscar R. Atienza Edward Robert Bagnani Italo Baioni Carmelita E. Baluyot Maria Dolores Belcher Carol Binsfeld Jack F. Bonanno Alice A. Boyer Erma Brogan Calvin Raymond Brooks Agnes Cadinha Charles V. Calleja Cresencia Arriola Calonia Robert L. Camacho Mark A. Camacho Gloria R. Canlas Claire M. Canning Patrick Anthony Cassano Meliton C. Castillo Joel Valdez Castillo Ernest E. Chavez Ina Lee Chavez Dorothy L. Chavez Lonnie W. Chui Lauren Jean Colanbianchi Charles Conefrey Uriel H. Cordero Carolyn Cugia Patricia M. Daansen Frank R. De Losa Betty M. DeFea Paul DeMartini Lloyd J. Demartini, Sr Olga N. DeSouza Marjory Di Trapani Jennie Frances Dragges Marie Rose Elu Rodolfo Ramos Ezequiel, Sr. Saverina Fenech Fern T. Feyling Mary F. Fleming Delores M. Flynn John A. Flynn Antoine A. Franke, Jr. Maricela Fuentes

Dora Gallardo Ada E. Garcia Leone H. Gavin Alejandro B. Gavino Madlen Ghattas Jose Albert Gil III Helen M. Giovannini Iluminado Gonzales Dorothy Gordon Miguel Gorritti Fred B. Hampton Margaret W. Harris Robert J. Harrison James H. Haug Alma J. Helin Jean Henderson Jose Icasiano Arsenia Icasiano Ernestina Anselma Joya Julius James “Jim” Kaufman Jr. Michael Edward Kidson Nemesia M. Lacsina Ismael Lara, Jr. Halamako Lavaki Leonardo M. Lazo James J. Leonard, Jr. Nicacia H. Lerma Erma Lomori George Lunardi Virginia V. Manalac Wayne D. Mantia Dorothea E. McDaniels Maria Ines Obando Medina Nelson E. Melendez ida Meredith Kathleen M. Meyer Raymond Michael Muscat Matthew Michael Nevin Fe M. Odena Francisco Javier Orozco Cora M. Palacio Romeo A. Palacio Elizabeth “Beth” Paloma Baby Payne Mary Alice Peri Joseph Ernest Peri Rev. Msgr. Bruno Peschiera Charles Earl Phillips Kathleen M. Pomicpic Tina R. Porras Maria T. Quintanilla Amelia Ricardo Jose “Babaloo” Rivera Virginia Robles Lola G. Rossi Juana G. Rubi Roberto Antonio Rubio Phillip Russell Tom Lee Russell Jr.

Ignatius Jimmi Salem Daniel Sanchez Antonio R. Sanchez-Corea Steve M. Santamaria Victorino Nudo Sayo Jenni Scerri Lauretta Sellers Drucita A. Sheppard Rattan K. Singh Rev. Francis H. Springer, S.M. Paul Sue Gloria A. Thorsen Sharon Rose Torrano Roy G. Uccelli Sylvia Marie Urbancic Mary C. Von Holt Daizy P. Warda Martin E. Wassmer Colleen A. Weaver Catherine Win Marcelino D. Yambao, Jr. Masaji Maria Yano Masashige Yano Daniel Angel Yepez Donald Fung Yuen Yip

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Archdiocese of San Francisco

ARCHDIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL 2018

one Spirit

“By

we are all

baptized into

one body”

1 Corinthians 12:13

Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Development (415) 614-5580 development@sfarch.org SFArch.org/AAA

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Archdiocesan Annual Appeal 2018

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Archdiocesan Annual Appeal 2018 Goal $6,820,000

“For almost a quarter of a millennium, the Church in San Francisco has been a beacon of hope, spreading the light of Christ to all in our community. I ask you to be generous with your prayers and with your material support for the mission of the Church here in our Archdiocese.”

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

Universal Church & Communications 27% $1,800,000

WHAT YOUR GIFTS SUPPORT Clergy Support 31% $2,220,000

Your gift to the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal allows us to provide ministries, programs and services that benefit all parishes and people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Annual Appeal is an opportunity for all in the Archdiocese to come together as one community to support one another and all whom we serve.

Parish Ministry & Schools 20% $1,370,000

Social Ministry 22% $1,430,000

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Chancery Budget for 2018 Sources of Income $15,200,000

AAA 2018 45% $6,820,000

Other Sources 55% $8,380,000

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Clergy Support

Clergy Support takes care of those who take care of us, contributing to the retirement fund for our retired priests, seminarian education, and more. It provides an ongoing source of support to priests, deacons and seminarians, to assist them in their ministry to the people of the Archdiocese.

94 Deacons 62 Retired Priests 113 Active Priests Continuing Education 16 Seminarians in Formation

Social Ministry

Through Social Ministry, the Archdiocese brings the Good News to the world. The offices supported include: Hospital Chaplains, the Tribunal, Youth & Young Adult Ministries, Public Policy, Justice & Peace, Respect Life, Prison Ministry, Ethnic Ministry, Chinese Ministry, Ministry for the Spanish Speaking, Filipino Ministry, Ecumenical and Interreligious Programs.

Hospital & Prison Chaplains Youth & Young Adult Ministries Respect Life Justice & Peace Ecumenical and Interreligious Programs Ministry Support in 22 Languages

Parish Ministry & Schools

Under the heading of Parish Ministry & Schools the Archdiocese provides additional funding for parishes and schools. The offices and funds supported include: Department of Pastoral Ministry, Office of Faith Formation, Office of Worship, Marriage and Family Life, Teacher Incentive Grants, and Alliance for Mission District Schools.

24,291 Catholic School Students 2,287 Teachers & Staff 62 Teacher Grants Premarital and Marriage Support Office of Faith Formation Office of Worship

Universal Church & Communications

The Universal Church supports the larger work of the California Conference of Bishops, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Holy See. The Office of Communications provides internal communications to pastors, clergy, religious and laity and external communications such as media relations, public information and special projects.

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Watch Archbishop Cordileone’s 2018 Annual Appeal video message: SFArch.org/AAA February 8, 2018 Dear Friends in Christ: Your support of the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal changes lives, as evidenced in the following examples: • Salma Baig is a teacher at an elementary school in the Archdiocese. Your support of the Annual Appeal has funded the Maker’s Space Initiative, giving Salma and many other instructors the tools they need to bring science and technology to life for their young students. It provides state-of-the-art

education in programming, electronics, and robotics and transforms learning from distant theory to first-hand, personal, and direct experience. As one 4th grader exclaimed after he built a robot (that moves) out of a plastic cup, batteries, a motor, and electrical wire, “…this is way better than school!”

• During his 52 years as a Priest in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Fr. Anthony McGuire has served nine parishes. After retiring at the end of 2015, Fr. McGuire is now in residence at St. Patrick Parish in San Francisco, where he celebrates Mass and assists with other priestly duties. Your support of the Annual Appeal helps pay for many of Fr. McGuire’s living and healthcare expenses, ensuring that he is cared for in the same manner as he has served countless others.

• Lisa (not her actual name) was married at 19 and not mature enough to fully understand the true meaning of the sacrament of marriage. One year later, she realized that the decision to marry had been made prematurely and divorced soon after. Your support of the Annual Appeal has changed Lisa’s life by helping her through the challenge of a marriage annulment so that now, years later, she could fulfill her dream and be married in a Catholic church.

These are just three of the thousands of people who directly benefit from the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal.

The theme for this year’s Annual Appeal is “One Body, One Christ.” In addition to changing lives, the AAA provides a unique opportunity for each of us to collaborate with our fellow Catholics as “One Body” in the eighty-seven parishes of the Archdiocese. Together, we are able to offer significant support to such varied and critical needs as parish ministries and schools, clergy, young adults, social ministries, ecumenical efforts, and the greater Church.

As Catholics, we are united in knowing that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ and that we are empowered to use our unique gifts and talents to serve others. We do so through our support of the Annual Appeal, and the vivid demonstrations of support and faith that I witness are a great source of inspiration to me and my ministry.

On behalf of Salma Baig, her fellow teachers and their students, Fr. McGuire, Lisa, and everyone who benefits from your support of the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal, I thank you for your past generosity to the AAA and encourage your participation in this year’s vital effort.

With my gratitude for your continued support of our Archdiocese, and with my prayerful best wishes, I am,

Sincerely yours in our Lord,

Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone

Archbishop of San Francisco

Ways to Give Only you can decide what gift amount is right for you in light of your circumstances and in light of the blessings God has given you. For your convenience you may make your contribution over time. Please see the table to the right for budgeting purposes.

• Online (by credit card or checking account): SFArch.org/AAA. Online (by credit card or checking account): SFArch.org/AAA. Please note that you can take full advantage of the benefits offered by your credit card, such as bonus points and airline miles.

• Using the enclosed brochure (by credit card, check, or cash): Please make checks payable to “Archdiocesan Annual Appeal 2018.” You may send your completed donation brochure directly to the Archdiocese (the address is pre-printed on the form).

• Stocks, Bonds or Mutual Funds: Donations of stock offer a way to make a charitable gift without having to utilize cash funds. In addition, a stock donor may be able to benefit from capital gains tax savings.

For more information on how to donate stocks, bonds or mutual funds, please contact the Office of Development: (415) 614-5580, development@sfarch.org.

• Matching Gifts: Many employers have matching gift programs which provide employees with the opportunity to enhance their charitable contributions. Please contact your company’s Human Resource professional to find out whether your company has a matching gift program.

Suggested Gift Plans Total Gifts

1st Payment

10 Monthly Payments

$5,000

$500

$450

$2,000

$200

$180

$1,000

$100

$90

$800

$80

$72

$500

$50

$45

$300

$30

$27

$200

$20

$18

$150

$15

$13.50

$100

$10

$9

For more information, please contact your parish or the Office of Development at (415) 614-5580 or email: development@sfarch.org A self-addressed AAA donation brochure is enclosed for your convenience.