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The poor, needy are your treasure, pope tells Sant’Egidio Community Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service
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National Catholic Sisters Week
Women religious serve a man at the Most Holy Redeemer parish hall in San Francisco on March 10 during a garden party in honor of National Catholic Sisters Week. Women and men religious from communities throughout the archdiocese greeted people in need with a free hot meal, clean socks and even pet treats. Story and more photos on Page 3.
VATICAN CITY – Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Community of Sant’Egidio’s founding, Pope Francis urged its members to continue to safeguard the poor, the elderly, the young and the excluded. “Today, more than ever, continue audaciously along this path. Continue to be close to the children of the peripheries through your Schools of Peace which I have visited, continue to be close to the elderly who are often discarded but who, for you, are friends. Continue to open humanitarian corridors for refugees of war and hunger. The poor are your treasure!” he said March 11 during an evening prayer service with members of the Rome-based Community of Sant’Egidio. The community, founded in Rome’s Trastevere see pope, page 28
Author looks into ‘divided hearts’ of Irish-Americans Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
“To this day I can go to a party and I can tell who is Irish in the room,” James Silas Rogers told Catholic San Francisco on March 9 over a pint and a view of the bay. The author of “Irish-American Autobiography: The Divided Hearts of Athletes, Priests, Pilgrims, and More,” (The Catholic University of America Press, 2016), had arrived to San Francisco a few days ahead James Silas of his March 11 talk at the city’s Rogers main library as part of the 15th Annual Irish-American Crossroads Festival and agreed to tell us about his book. San Francisco-based Irish-American Crossroads is an organization that promotes an understanding of the Irish experience in America. The annual Crossroads Festival is a cultural event running through April that brings Irish and Irish-American writers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and more to venues throughout the Bay Area.
includes the stories of American-born boxers, dancers, In his book, Rogers, the longtime director of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thom- priests, actors, writers and others of Irish descent. “It is my hope that the chapters that follow persuade as in St. Paul, Minnesota, and editor of its quarterly readers that the story of the Irish in America is in literary journal, “New Hibernia Review,” says that some way the story of an ‘ethnic fade’ that never quite Irish identity has survived beyond the historic era happened,” he writes in the book’s introduction. of Irish immigration even if Irish-Americans themRogers said that the “linking thread in all this” is selves often can’t quite put their fingers on it. that there are two parts of the self at war in Irish “What I say in this book is that I think that IrishAmerican life,” he said. American ethnicity has certainly moved out of the In the book’s first chapter, “Sporting Gentlemen,” quantifiable,” he said. “Ethnicity is handed on to us Rogers reflects on the memoirs of three Irish athletes in ways that are below our consciousness.” He said his Midwestern parents, a “Yankee” father of the late-19th century: rough-and-tumble bare-knuckle champion boxer John L. Sullivan, James “Gentlewith a vague and perhaps more-wishful Irish anman Jim” Corbett and baseball player Connie Mack. cestry than his second-generation Irish-American These Irish-American men were preoccupied with mother, loved pop culture Irish expression – green their “respectability” in different and often paradoxieggs and marching in the St. Patrick’s Day parade cal ways, said Rogers, perhaps a vestigial by-product and the like. “My parents believed there was something very dis- of Ireland’s history of British suppression, national poverty and the weight of anti-Catholic sentiment in tinctive about being Irish even if they couldn’t really America. say what that was,” he said. John L. Sullivan’s wish to have it both ways, to be Twenty-two years in the making, “Irish-American able to walk into a saloon, crash his fist down on the Autobiography” is a compilation of 10 themed essays A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. based on memoirs and other autobiographical material table and declare he could “lick” any opponent in If you received a flag your loved life one'sfrom military service and would like to donate it that follows thehave progression of honoring Irish-American to the to beto flown partof of the an “Avenue of Flags" on Day,page 5 roughly thecemetery beginning theasend 20th century. It Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans' see author,
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