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Turning crime survivors into advocates
From her front door, Paulette Brown of San Francisco can see the spot where her 17-year-old son was gunned down nine years ago in broad daylight. She was among 50 people, many of them family members of homicide victims, who participated in a crime survivors assistance and support retreat July 15-17 organized by the archdiocesan restorative justice ministry. See story on Page 5.
WASHINGTON – The Catholic faith tradition “offers a unique perspective on crime and punishment, one grounded in mercy and healing, not punishment for its own sake,” two bishops said in a statement renewing the U.S. Catholic Church’s push to end the death penalty. “No matter how heinous the crime, if society can protect itself without ending a human life, it should do so. Today, we have this capability,” wrote Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston and Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami. The two prelates are the chairmen, respectively, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities and the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. The message, dated July 16, commemorated the 10th anniversary of the bishops’ Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty and their message SEE DEATH, PAGE 18
‘See the Lord’: Chinese American Catholic young adults help needy people see VALERIE SCHMALZ
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Kelly Kao is no longer making a top salary as a Silicon Valley optometrist and researcher for Google Glass. Instead Kao and her friends, motivated by their Catholic faith, are using their talents to help poor people see in Taiwan, the Philippines and even California’s San Joaquin Valley. In the past three years the Catholic nonprofit See the Lord has brought eyeglasses, and vision health care to thousands of poor people in rural areas of Taiwan, the Philippines and Sanger, California. “I walked away knowing that God had a different path for me, knowing I was called to do missionary work at that point in my life,” said Kao, now 30. Kao decided the day her mother died in February 2011 after a nine-year battle with cancer that she had to “love big” with her life. “There were a lot of people trying to talk me out of it.” When she quit all her jobs at age 28 in 2012, Kao was in fulltime private practice, teaching at UC
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Special needs children are in desperate need of care because helping them is so time-consuming that it is not profitable for doctors, Dr. Kelly Kao said. Kao and Judy Chang engage a young patient at Qishan Child Early Intervention and Development Center in Kaohsiung City in Taiwan.
Berkeley School of Optometry, and doing research for Google. See the Lord is staffed almost entirely by volunteers, young professionals who became friends through their faith and involvement in the San Jose Chinese Catholic Mission in Santa Clara. Kao, the only one who works fulltime for the organization, receives a small stipend as chief executive officer. “Every single person who needs prescription glasses we provide them with brand new lenses and frames. Prescription glasses, sun glasses, reading glasses – free of charge,” said Kao. Mission trip volunteers help pay for the eyeglasses handed out during their trip, said Henry Shu, chief financial
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NEED TO KNOW PAPAL BOOK ON FAMILY AVAILABLE: “Parish and Family,” a compendium of Pope Francis’ homilies, lectures and reports on family when he served as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is now available. The collection is being heralded as an “invaluable resource” for Catholics in anticipation of the pope’s leadership of the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September. “This volume gives insight into the mind and heart of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, while helping us all appreciate his teaching ministry expressed so beautifully over so many years,” said Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl in promotional materials for the book. Ordering information can be found at http://ReligionStore. Sadlier.com. (PHOTO COURTESY DENNIS CALLAHAN)
Most Holy Redeemer parishioners welcome Precious Blood Father Matthew Link as their new pastor at his installation July 5.
CHURCH ARCHITECTURE: An overview of church art and architecture of St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, will be offered Aug. 22, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Visitors will be treated to a docent led tour of magnificent treasures in wood, stone, and stained glass throughout the interior and exterior of the church. Plenty of parking is available as is handicap access. Contact Elizabeth Skelton at (415) 517-5572 or ourlabs@mac.com.
Precious Blood Fathers answer call to shepherd Castro parish CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Every weekend for the first few months of 2014, Precious Blood Father Matthew Link removed his collar after Mass at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon where he was serving as parochial vicar and slipped across the Golden Gate Bridge and into a back pew at Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco for evening Mass. What began as curiosity about the tightknit parish located in the heart of the Castro District turned into a profound calling to serve it, Father Link told Catholic San Francisco a week before his July 5 installation as pastor. “I experienced warmth and welcome, a vibrant and beautiful liturgy and a faithful and loving community at prayer,” he said. “This wonderful little parish won my heart.” Worshipping incognito with a parish that draws a diverse group of parishio-
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San Francisco Presentation Sisters celebrate jubilees Sister Darlene Terry, PBVM (Sister Mary Maureen)
Sisters of the Presentation celebrated jubilees marking significant milestones as women religious at a community celebration July 12 at Presentation Retreat Center in Los Gatos.
Sister Darlene celebrates 50 years from her entrance into the congregation on Sept. 1, 1965. She holds graduate degrees in education and psychology. Sister Darlene has taught at schools throughout California and in New Mexico and has also served as a youth minister. Sister Darlene is a marriage and family therapist. She currently serves as the sisters’ congregational secretary.
Sister Ellen Cafferty, PBVM (Sister Mary Mildred)
Sister Ellen celebrates 60 years from her entrance into the congregation on July 3, 1955. Sister Ellen is a graduate of the University of San Francisco. Schools where she has taught include St. Anne’s, San Francisco. Sister Ellen served 21 years in Mexico where she ministered to the Tzeltal people and again for 24 years in Guatemala. In 2014, Sister Ellen testified at the 13th Conference of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in the United Nations.
Sister Pamela Chiesa, PBVM
Sister Bernice Gotelli, PBVM (Sister Mary Benedict)
Sister Bernice celebrates 60 years from her entrance into the congregation on July 3, 1955. Sister Bernice holds a graduate degree in religious education and certification from the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. Sister Bernice has been the sole chaplain at University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland for the last 26 years. She works with critically ill and dying children as well as following through with their families. She is a member of the hospital’s Medical Ethics and Palliative Care committees.
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Pictured are jubilarian Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Back from left, Sister Ellen Cafferty, PBVM, 60 years; Sister Maria Griego, PBVM, 50 years; Sister Darlene Terry, PBVM, 50 years; Sister Pamela Chiesa, PBVM, 40 years; front from left, Sister Bernice Gotelli, PBVM, 60 years; Sister Kathleen Sickly, PBVM, 40 years; Sister Gloria Loya, PBVM, 50 years. from her entrance into the congregation on Sept. 1, 1965. She is a graduate of San Jose State University and has taught at schools in Southern California and New Mexico for 45 years. Sister Maria is now religion coordinator at St. John Vianney School in San Jose.
Sister Gloria Loya, PBVM
Sister Gloria celebrates 50 years
from her entrance into the congregation on Sept. 1, 1965. She holds a graduate degree in counseling and guidance, a licentiate in sacred theology and a doctorate in ministry. Sister Gloria is a former adjunct professor in theology and Hispanic ministry at the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley and currently vicar for religious and liaison for human trafficking for the Diocese of Monterey.
Sister Pamela celebrates 40 years from her entrance into the congregation on Sept.1, 1975. Sister Pam holds graduate degrees in business administration and theology. She taught at Presentation High School, San Francisco and is a former Presentation Sisters president. Sister Pam is currently, a senior consultant at Brenner, McDonagh and Tortolani, a financial consultant firm to religious institutes and their sponsored ministries.
Sister Kathleen Sickly, PBVM
Sister Kathleen celebrates 40 years from her entrance into the congregation on Sept. 1, 1975. She holds a degree in education and teaching credential from San Francisco State University and certification from the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. She has taught at St. Agnes School, San Francisco and served as a staff chaplain at St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco, for 14 years. She is also a former director of formation for the Presentation Sisters.
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Worlds meet at Woodside Priory TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Woodside Priory School had open arms for recent visitors Abdia and Alice, students from Daraja Academy in Kenya. The Priory began its relationship with Daraja, which means bridge in Swahili, in 2007 and Alice and Abdia since then students and faculty have raised money for the school and led faculty and staff summer volunteer trips to Daraja Academy. This is the first stateside trip for students from Daraja. Abdia, who graduates this year and Alice, a sophomore “seem like any other high school students,” said Sean Mclain Brown, Priory communications director. “They like music, ice cream, and dancing, but they are also from Kenya where electricity is unreliable, access to clean water is rare, political turmoil is rampant, and girls access to a quality education is severely limited.” Both Abdia and Alice enjoyed the visit. “Everyone has been so friendly and helpful, we’ve made new friends that we hope to carry with us the rest of our lives,” said Abdia with Alice nodding in agreement according to Sean. Abdia and Alice were panelists on a Cultural Forum Series at the Priory discussing stereotypes, cultural differences, and how people can open their hearts and minds to break down destructive barriers, Sean said. ANNIVERSARY: Peg and Ed Gleason, married at St Brigid Church, San Francisco in 1955, will celebrate 60 years married with Mass and a renewal of vows at St. Boniface Church, Aug. 16. Their six children and 10 grandchildren will Peg and Ed Gleason celebrate with them. Peg and Ed are old friends among us long-on-thejob chancery grunts serving as director of family life ministry for the archdiocese 1984-93. They began their marriage ministry 59 years ago with the Christian Family Movement, and went on to Marriage Encounter, Engaged Encounter and Retrouvaille. They are still active in lay ministry with the St. Vincent De Paul Society and the Gubbio Project.
DRAWING RAVES: The Christmas concept of Sabrina Dilig will be part of the art heralding Christmas at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., during Advent. Sabrina’s with other winning artwork was singled out by the Pontifical Mission Societies from among 3,000 entries from grade schoolers around the nation. Artwork for the contest depicts some element of the Christmas story. Sarbrina is a recent graduate of Our Lady of Mercy School, Daly City. Her parents are Anna and Julian Dilig. Pictured are Sabrina with Propagation of the Faith and Missionary Childhood Association director Genevieve Elizondo and staff member Michael Gotuaco. AMEN: On their way May 3 to receive their first holy Communion at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Belmont, are Delaney Wolfe and Justin Jameson, granddaughter and great grandson of IHM lector and extraordinary minister of holy Communion Janet Harders. “I was so thrilled and blessed to have both my granddaughter and my great grandson receive first holy Communion together!” Janet told me in a note to this column. Justin is a second grader at IHM School, and Delaney attends second grade IHM religious education.
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ANNIVERSARY: Emilia and Albi Salvi, longtime parishioners of St. Teresa Parish, itself a longtime crown of Potrero Hill, celebrate 68 years married Aug. 3. The couple took their vows Aug. 3, 1947 at Immaculate Conception Church on Folsom. Thanks to their daughter Linda and son-in-law Ron Gaddini for the good news. ALL HATS OFF: Evelyn Eaton, long known for her pioneer respect life service in the Archdiocese of San Francisco was remembered at a funeral Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, July 18. Bishop Ignatius Wang, a one-time student of Evelyn’s during her years teaching at the Hong Kong seminary from which
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Bills hit pause as lawmakers recess VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The California Catholic Conference worked with allies to achieve two victories in the California Legislature this summer and stopped at least temporarily a bill to legalize physician assisted suicide and a resolution to remove the statue of Blessed Junipero Serra from the U.S. Capitol. State lawmakers left July 17 for summer recess and will return Aug. 17 and must wrap up business by Sept. 11. The California Catholic Conference is the public policy arm of the California bishops. Bills to legalize physician assisted suicide, SB 128, and a resolution to move soon to be canonized Blessed Junipero Serra’s statue out of the U.S. Capitol died in committee for lack of sufficient support although there is an outside chance they can be brought to the floor via parliamentary maneuvers, the California Catholic Conference noted in its legislative update. Two other bills that are being watched by the conference are likely to see action by lawmakers when they return. The conference is supporting reform of CalWORKS eligibility to allow mothers who give birth while receiving CalWORKS financial assistance to receive additional funds if another baby is born. SB 23, sponsored by Sen. Holly J. Mitchell, D-Los SEE LEGISLATURE, PAGE 18
Archdiocese training aims to turn crime survivors into advocates CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Three years after organizing community prayer vigils on the streets of San Francisco where in 2014, 46 people lost their lives to violent crime, the archdiocese’s restorative justice ministry has created a program to prepare volunteers to support the families of crime victims. Watching families struggle to manage their grief and anger and a bewildering criminal justice system after a loved one’s murder – often with little or no formal community support – inspired director Julio Escobar and his staff to coordinate a three-day crime survivors sssistance support training on July 15-17 at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. “Adding to a family’s trauma after a murder are intrusions into the normal grief process that others facing a loss don’t typically face,” Escobar said, such as the need to engage with police, lawyers, investigations, or provide testimony and evidence. Other sudden and overwhelming burdens can be financial ones, like legal and funeral costs. This, and a focus on the offender, can often create for the grieving family a sense of isolation, injustice and further pain and confusion. “In many cases, faith in God and justice may fade away,” said Escobar, who integrated established restorative ministry practices in creating the three-day program, the first of its kind offered by a Catholic diocese in California. More than 40 crime survivors, victims’ advocates, grief and jail ministry volunteers and faith leaders from around the Bay Area attended. Restorative justice focuses on re-
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About 50 people, many of them family members of homicide victims, participated in a threeday crime survivors assistance and support retreat and training on July 15-17 in Belmont organized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s restorative justice ministry. pairing the harm done to people and relationships and empowering those affected by crime. Escobar said he and his staff, along with five co-sponsors, including the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Californians for Safety and Justice, IIRP International Institute for Restorative Practices and the Sister Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community organized the training as an act of “mercy and solidarity” with crime survivors. They hope training will help prevent
crime survivors from becoming offenders themselves – a not-uncommon path for survivors – and provide a network of volunteer advocates who can help families navigate the emotional, legal, financial and spiritual aftermath of a homicide. Participants spent the first two days of the program exploring trauma – the general response and their own experiences – and learning how to apply SEE SURVIVORS, PAGE 18
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Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet: Called to ‘divide the city’ and care for the dear neighbor SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH OF CARONDELET
Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.
NAME OF CONGREGATION: Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
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After the devastating San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, the Richmond District was rapidly developing. Father Philip O’Ryan, pastor of Star of the Sea Parish, saw a great need. He invited the WAKE UP THE WORLD ! Sisters of St. Joseph of 2015 Year of Consecrated Life Carondelet to staff his new school which opened in January 1909 with 137 students in grades one-seven. By the next year he opened a high school which was coeducational until 1927. (A 1914 Star graduate was the beloved actress Gracie Allen.) Star of the Sea Parish and schools became a rich source of religious vocations. As of 1972, 102 Star graduates had entered and persevered as Sisters of St. Joseph. In addition at least 32 graduates entered other religious communities and many became priests. In
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The original vision of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in France, both before and after the French Revolution, holds true today.
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Archbishop’s statement to congressional committees on immigration issues
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone gave this statement to the U.S. Senate and House Judiciary Committees holding hearings on July 21 and July 23 on immigration issues.
The recent senseless killing of Kathryn Steinle was a tragedy beyond description not only for her loved ones, but for all San Franciscans and, indeed, all Americans. I offer my deepest condolences to Kathryn’s family and friends, and invite everyone in our community to join me in offering prayers for them at this difficult time, and to pray as well for Francisco Sanchez, who has been charged with her death. This horrible tragedy has ignited a national conversation about our nation’s immigration enforcement policies. While it is important that we learn from this incident and work to prevent it from happening again, it is also important that we recognize that the vast majority of immigrants – both those with and without papers – are not a violent threat to society and so should not be subject to guilt by association. In fact, statistics show that immigrant communities are by and large safe and that a cooperative relationship between law enforcement and those communities enhances public safety and reduces crime.
In this regard, I ask our local, state, and federal elected officials to work together in a bipartisan manner to ensure that all persons – U.S citizens and newcomers alike – are protected from individuals who pose a threat to national security or public safety. However, they should avoid the implementation of policies that punish all immigrants for the transgressions of a small minority. I also ask that our elected officials and others refrain from using this tragedy for political expediency or political gain. This is a disservice to Kathryn’s memory and to any effort to find a just solution that prevents a reoccurrence of this type of event. I applaud the commitment to public safety of the City of San Francisco and other local jurisdictions and support their right to exercise reasonable and appropriate discretion in the handling of immigrant detainees, consistent with their need to maintain public safety. At the same time, greater cooperation is needed between local and federal authorities in identifying those who represent a violent threat to our communities. A just and humanitarian policy should not be abandoned because of flaws in the system. Rather, proper authorities should make prudent adjustments in the application of the law in order
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The House Judiciary Committee’s Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee was set to hold a hearing July 23 titled “Sanctuary Cities: A Threat to Public Safety.” “The hearing will examine dangerous policies adopted by some state and local governments that refuse to honor the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration laws,” the committee said on its website. “… Recently, Kate Steinle was murdered by a criminal alien who had been released by San Francisco officials, despite having been deported five times and being convicted of multiple felonies.” The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing, titled “Oversight of the Administration’s Misdirected Immigration Enforcement Policies: Examining the Impact on Public Safety and Honoring the Victims,” was held July 21. Testimony by Kathryn Steinle’s father, Jim Steinle of Pleasanton, can be accessed at www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/0721-15%20Steinle%20Testimony.pdf. CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
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Planned Parenthood video called ‘horrifying’ ABBEY JAROMA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – A video of a Planned Parenthood physician describing her procedures for keeping fetal organs intact during an abortion is “horrifying and heartbreaking,” said U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Missouri. Wagner made the comments at a news conference held July 15 on Capitol Hill by several House members a day after the video was released. The video is the first of several that nonprofit, nonpartisan The Center for Medical Progress said it would release. A second was released July 21. House Speaker John Boehner, ROhio, announced later July 15 that Congress would investigate Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices. “When an organization monetizes an unborn child – and with the cavalier attitude portrayed in this horrific video – we must all act,” he said, adding that “I have asked our relevant committees to look into this matter.” “I am also calling on President (Barack) Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to denounce, and stop, these gruesome practices,” said Boehner. A second video was posted July 21 with a second Planned Parenthood official discussing prices of body parts from aborted babies and offering to ask the abortionist to alter the abortion procedure to procure “less crunchy” body parts from the aborted babies. The video, shot Feb. 6 by undercover reporters posting as a representatives of a tissue procurement company, shows Dr. Mary Gatter, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Medical Directors’ Council. Acknowledging that Planned Parenthood has to sign a statement attesting that the abortion method was not
altered to obtain tissue, Gatter calls that a “specious little argument.” Wagner made her statements in reaction to the first video. In the first video, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Medical Services, discussed ways the abortion procedure can be altered to preserve body parts requested for use in research. Nucatola is shown casually describing to actors posing as buyers from a human biologics company how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted, unborn children. The video was shot at a business lunch in the Los Angeles area July 25, 2014. “This organization, and others, have been accused of atrocities before, but this is the first time it has been captured in their own words, in such a cold and callous way (as) she was shoving salad in her mouth,” said Wagner. She was joined at the news conference by other pro-life members of Congress, including U.S. Reps. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey; Sean Duffy, R-Wisconsin; and Martha Roby, R-Alabama. Smith is the co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus. Duffy called the video “shockingly inhumane” and “frankly disgusting.” “I am a dad of seven kids. I have been there for all the births of my children and I think of all of the people who have had a child, and who hear their baby for the first time, it is absolutely priceless. Now we know Planned Parenthood has put a price on those little babies,” he told reporters. “This is unacceptable in 2015 American society,” he continued. “We need to stand together. This is not a Republican or a Democrat issue, this is an American issue.” Smith stated that 15 years ago he wrote the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, “the landmark law
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24 weeks pregnant, according to The Center for Medical Progress. In the video, she says: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.” At the Capitol Hill news conference, Roby became emotional and began to cry, saying the situation warrants a criminal investigation. “I do not care how much weight Planned Parenthood throws around this town, no one is above the law. We are not going to look the other way while babies are being brutally killed and organs harvested,” she stated. Nucatola is heard in the video saying concerns have been expressed at Planned Parenthood’s national office regarding liability for the sale of fetal parts. “At the national office, we have a Litigation and Law Department which just really doesn’t want us to be the middle people for this issue right now,” she says. “But I will tell you that behind closed doors these conversations are happening with the affiliates.” At least three federal laws make it illegal to buy and sell human fetal tissue or organs in the U.S. Money can change hands only to reimburse for expenses. Editor’s note: “Commercial Markets Created by Abortion: Profiting from the Fetal Distribution Chain,” an article by Vicki Evans, Respect Life director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, can be found on the National Catholic Bioethics Center website at http://ncbcenter.org/document.doc?id=784. CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CONTRIBUTED
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WASHINGTON – In an era where Catholics are pretty much an afterthought on television, the sight of any cleric on the small screen almost immediately evokes thoughts of “the next Bishop BishopSheen” – the 1950s designate prime-time inspiraRobert Barron tional program host Archbishop Fulton Sheen. But in pretty much all past cases, those clerics weren’t bishops themselves. But now Father Robert E. Barron, a media savvy priest, has been named an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and will be moving to the heart of the television industry. Bishop-designate Barron, appointed July 21, may be best known to TV viewers for having hosted “Catholicism,” a 10-part DVD series. Four parts of the series aired on 90 PBS affiliates in fall 2011. The series earned him a Christopher Award and the Clarion Award the following year from the Catholic Academy of Communications Arts Professionals. It was discovered by Catholic News Service earlier this year that “Catholicism” is available on the black market in Cuba, purchased for download onto a thumb drive so that Cuban Catholics can watch it – not because the series is illegal but because it’s not readily available in a store. In a 2013 interview, Bishopdesignate Barron said his dream
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was to assemble another sweeping documentary on Catholicism. With Hollywood in his new backyard, that dream could become reality. He once estimated it would cost $4 million to produce the documentary, tentatively titled “Pivotal Players.” The new series is still in the pipeline. He also appeared on EWTN in 2007 on “Untold Blessings: Three Paths to Holiness,” providing concrete, practical advice on how to become a saint. Bishop-designate Barron’s reason for using video? “If you want to reach people who are under 40, you have to use media. Things like YouTube had just come into being and we jumped into that with two feet,” he said in 2013. “If you want to find the unchurched Catholics and the secularists, you aren’t going to find them by staying in church and inviting them to programs. You have to use this new means. We have to invade that space.” The 55-year-old bishop-designate has taught systematic theology, but outside seminary education, his stock in trade has been evangelization. The Chicago-born cleric is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and he has traveled across the United States to speak at conferences, conventions and symposiums on spreading the Christian message. In 2010 he launched a Sunday morning TV show, “Word on Fire,” on the WGN America cable channel. “It is a blessing for me to work with you to introduce people to Jesus Christ and invite them to share all the gifts he wants his people to enjoy,” Bishop-designate Barron said in a July 21 statement released by Word on Fire.
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LATINO FAMILIES A RISING PRESENCE IN US CHURCH, STUDY FINDS
WASHINGTON – More than half of young Catholic families participating in a recent survey identified themselves as Latino or Hispanic, a finding the president of Holy Cross Family Ministries said will require new ways of ministering in the U.S. Catholic Church. Overall, 54 percent of young couples in the 25- to 45-year-old age range said they were Latino or Hispanic. That compares with the overall adult Latino/Hispanic Catholic population of 32 percent. “People may speak English, but culturally they’re Latino. That’s a big piece of information. We’ll have to adjust the kinds of programs. It means we have to be more assertive in looking at the ways we can be of service to these families,” Holy Cross Father Willy Raymond said of the findings in the study his organization commissioned. While Holy Cross Family Ministries is looking at ways to better meet the needs of Latino families, Father Raymond said the findings of the study will be of interest to the entire American Catholic Church as it attempts to minister to all families. The study, “The Catholic Family: 21st-Century Challenges in the United States,” examined the demographics, faith practices and media usage of 1,014 young families. It was conducted in fall 2014 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
Pornography called ‘public health crisis of the digital age’ ABBEY JAROMA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church’s strong stance against pornography is based on church teaching that the human body should be respected and every person has a God-given dignity. But the fight against pornography is not unique to religious organizations. “This is not a moral issue. We now have science to back this up,” said Dawn Hawkins, vice president and executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. The center, an organization founded in 1962 whose mission is “to expose the seamless connection between all forms of exploitation,” held a symposium at the U.S. Capitol exposing pornography as a public health crisis, and how porn fuels sex trafficking, child exploitation and sexual violence. The room overflowed with Capitol Hill congressional staffers, reporters and the general public for an afternoon of speeches. “There is an overwhelming support for us to address this issue,” Hawkins said in her opening re-
marks that kick-started the day’s events. “The fact that this room is overflowing is a wake-up call for Congress.” The speakers – Ernie Allen, Dr. Sharon Cooper, Melissa Farley, Gail Dines, Dr. Donald J. Hilton, Mary Anne Layden, Ed Smart and Cordelia Anderson – all discussed research conducted on the negative impacts porn has upon society and how “pornography is one of the root causes of sexual exploitation,” said Hawkins. Thirty-six percent of content on the Internet is pornographic, said Dines, a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston. She said online porn brings in total revenue of $3,000 per second. On average, one out of every four Internet searches is about porn. “Pornography is the public health crisis of the digital age,” she said. Anderson, founder of Sensibilities Prevention Services, a Minnesota-based training and consultation business, expressed similar beliefs and explained why she and Dines believe there is a public health crisis. In the past 20 years, she said, there has been a transition from
soft porn and Playboy magazines, to graphic, violent Internet porn, and the age group of those viewing porn has expanded to include younger and younger children. “When content changes, as content has, and the reach changes as it has, we have the largest, unregulated social experiment ever,” Anderson stated. Hilton, a neurosurgeon from the University of Texas, said “pornography is associated with shrinkage in the brain’s key reward areas.” The more pronounced pornography usage, the more shrinkage occurs in that area of the brain that occurs, he said. Cooper, who is CEO of Development and Forensic Pediatrics, believes that there are a lot of ways that porn can be harmful to children. She connected the viewing of porn to potential pedophilia. “We see children harmed when adults use child porn as a plan of action for abuse against children,” she said. Farley, executive director of Prostitution Research and Education, thinks that “the sex industry also harms the rest of us,” adding that “sexual entrepreneurs count on our tolerance.”
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Lessons from South America: How to greet and understand Pope Francis CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – People make special preparations for welcoming a special guest, and watching what worked and did not work in Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay may help people preparing for Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in September. Some of the plans, however, will require common-sense adjustments, especially because the U.S. Secret Service is likely to frown on certain behavior, like tossing things to the pope – a phenomenon that occurs much more often with Pope Francis than with any previous pope. At the Vatican, the items tend to be soccer jerseys and scarves; in Ecuador, it was flower petals – lots of them. Watching the pope July 5-12 in South America it is clear: – Pope Francis loves a crowd. He walks into events with little expression on his face, then lights up when he starts greeting, blessing, kissing and hugging people. Persons with disabilities, the sick and squirming babies come first. – The pope does not mind being embraced, but he does not like people running at him. As a nun in Our Lady of Peace Cathedral in La Paz rushed toward Pope Francis July 8, the pope backed up and used both hands to gesture her to calm down and step back. In the end, she did get a blessing from him, though. – At Mass, Pope Francis tends to be less animated. His focus and the focus he wants from the congregation is on Jesus present in the Eucharist. At large public Masses on papal trips, he sticks to the text of his prepared homilies, although he may look up and repeat phrases for emphasis. – A meeting with priests, religious
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Pope Francis greets an elderly woman as he meets with people of Banado Norte, a poor neighborhood in Asuncion, Paraguay, July 12. The pope loves a crowd and does not mind being embraced but does not like people running at him. He is less animated at Mass, where he focuses on the Eucharist. and seminarians is a fixture on papal trips within Italy and abroad; in Cuba and the United States, the meetings with take place during vespers services, Sept. 20 in Havana and Sept. 24 in New York. At vespers, like at Mass, Pope Francis tends to follow his prepared text. However, when the gathering takes place outside the context of formal liturgical prayer, he never follows the prepared text, even if he may hit the main points of the prepared text as he did in Bolivia July 9. – Pope Francis has said he needs a 40-minute rest after lunch and his official schedule always includes at least an hour of down time. However, like his “free” afternoons at the Vatican,
the pope often fills the breaks with private meetings with friends, acquaintances or Jesuits. In fact, his trips abroad have always included private get-togethers with his Jesuit confreres, although in South America one of the meetings – in Guayaquil, Ecuador – was a luncheon formally included in the itinerary. But he also spent unscheduled time with Jesuits at Quito’s Catholic university the next day. In Paraguay, he made an unscheduled visit to 30 of his confreres in Asuncion and then went next door to their Cristo Rey School to meet with more than 300 students from Jesuit schools. – In South America, Pope Francis specifically asked that his meetings
with the bishops be private, informal conversations – similar to the way he handles the regular “ad limina” visits of bishops to the Vatican to report on the state of their dioceses. For the “ad limina” visits, he hands them the text of a rather general look at their country and Catholic community, then begins a discussion. But when he makes a formal speech to a group of bishops, his words can seem critical. But, in fact, the tone tends to be one of addressing his “fellow bishops” and his words are more of a collective examination of conscience than a scolding. – Pope Francis’ speeches in general – whether to presidents, civic and business leaders, young people or even, for example, the prisoners in Bolivia – acknowledge what is going well and being done right, then seeks to build on that. It’s a combination of a pat on the back and a nudge forward. While Bolivia’s Palmasola prison is notorious for its difficult conditions and while the pope pleaded for judicial reform in the country, he also told the prisoners: “The way you live together depends to some extent on yourselves. Suffering and deprivation can make us selfish of heart and lead to confrontation.” – Since the days of the globetrotting St. John Paul II, the nunciature stakeout has been a staple of papal trips. In fact, anywhere a pope sleeps, people will gather – shouting and singing – in the hopes that the pope will make a special appearance. St. John Paul, retired Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis have all obliged on occasion. Although in Quito, Ecuador, it seems that Pope Francis was inspired at least partially by the complaints of neighbors about the noise. The three nights Pope Francis stayed there, he came out to say good night. Increasingly his tone was that of a dad who had already told his children five times to go to bed.
Philippine archbishop: Protecting environment benefits poorest nations SIMONE ORENDAIN
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR: ‘LAUDATO SI’’ WAS NEEDED WAKE-UP CALL
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MANILA, Philippines – The president of the Philippine bishops’ conference called climate change a matter of social justice and said that caring for Earth should not just be a goal to benefit this generation but also future generations. Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan cited “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the climate change, as a call for “Catholics and Christians to be passionate about the environment.” In a statement sent to Catholic News Service and later posted on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines website, Archbishop Villegas said the pope also was anticipating the U.N. climate talks set for Nov. 30-Dec. 11 in Paris in promulgating the encyclical. He said “all persons of good will” must “attend to the needs of the impoverished and struggling nations” by being concerned about the issues to be raised at the U.N. summit. Doing this “is our way of attending to the needs of the least of our brothers and sisters; it is how, today, we must wash each others’ feet,” he said. World leaders are expected to discuss ways to curb global warming in an attempt to develop a legally binding consensus on fighting the effects of climate change at the meeting. Rising Earth temperatures have been blamed for some of the most destructive storms of recent years. Many scientists, including meteorologists, have said climate change caused powerful Typhoon Haiyan, which blasted through some of the poorest parts of the central Philippines in late 2013. The storm has given rise to a sense of urgency among the bishops to step up efforts to address climate
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Children paddle in water in Navotas City, Philippines, May 10.
change. The issue commanded prominent attention during the bishops’ biannual plenary session July 6-13. “It is a Christian obligation to be concerned with ecology and with climate change as a direct consequence of the moral concept of stewardship and a concomitant of Christian charity,” Archbishop Villegas said. The statement added that the bishops would be planning symposia and other activities that would highlight some of the issues to be discussed in Paris summit “as desired by Pope Francis.” It said also that the bishops would encourage a closer look at practices that have been scientifically proven to harm the environment and address concerns in local Philippine communities over mining, incineration and landfills.
ROME – Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on the environment was “appropriate and absolutely essential” for waking people up to the dangers of climate change, said California Gov. Jerry Brown. “The world is going its merry way, with a few notable exceptions, and climate change is building up in very soon-to-be irreversible ways that will very dramatically increase human suffering,” the 77-year-old governor told Catholic News Service in Rome. Brown was in Rome to speak at meetings organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on climate change, human trafficking and the U.N.’s sustainable development goals.” “If we keep on the path we are on now, millions and hundreds of millions will suffer and die,” he said. “So there is an intergenerational responsibility to those who are not born yet.” In a speech July 21 at workshop on modern slavery and climate change, Brown said that there is “fierce opposition and blind inertia” to moving away from dependence on petroleum and coal. And, he said, “that opposition is well financed -- hundreds of millions of dollars are going into propaganda, to falsifying the scientific record, bamboozling people of every country.” CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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LETTERS Pope’s call a teachable moment for Catholic schools
It says something that one of Pope Francis’ first major documents should include scientific as well as theological references, and that it focuses on our planet and our responsibility, as Catholics, to care and share it. The pope continues to discuss the environment during his travels. “God gives us not only life, he gives us the Earth, he gives us all of creation,” the pope told an estimated 5,000 educators and students gathered for an outdoor meeting at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. In an earlier letter, I suggested that we are missing a major opportunity in our schools by not discussing the California drought in our classrooms. The drought is a very teachable moment, from scientific, educational, and theological points of view. It can be used in science class, in English, math, computers, history and can even be the subject of engaging field trips. It makes our Catholicism relevant to our students. Let’s encourage our archdiocesan school educators to work the drought into our school curriculum. Let’s show our children the impact they have every day on God’s creation. Sandra Firpo South San Francisco
Secularization of human rights
When we lose sight of the origin of human rights, we can easily have a false interpretation of those rights. Freedom of speech can become the license to say whatever we wish whenever we wish, giving no thought to prudence. The mockery of religious leaders is a prime example. The right to life can become the license to take the life of an unborn infant as is the case in abortion, or to take one’s own life as in euthanasia. Most recently we’ve seen the judicial system apply the right to marry to a same-sex union and consequently overstepping its authority in redefining the nature of a marriage. If we fail to see that human rights have their origin in the rights of God and his eternal law, we can easily have tyranny both in the social order and in government. A state that dictates the size of a family is a state that has usurped the rights of both God and man. A social order that puts the welfare of a party or institution over the good of the individual is a social order that can easily usurp the rights of both God and man. Communism is a prime example. Neither can human rights be determined by the vote of the majority. Rights become arbitrary when we put them up to a popular vote without having any regard to principles. Can you imagine the futility of trying to uphold the right to private property if we did not have the moral imperative, “Thou shalt not steal.”
Human rights are meaningless without a stable moral law, and both human rights and moral law have their foundation in the eternal law of God. Robert Guglielmi San Francisco
Poor choice of words
I find the wording of the headline above the front-page article regarding SB 126 (July 10) to be a poor choice. Perhaps it was written tongue-in-cheek or it used common language for legislative actions, but some additional consideration was in order before headlining that the bill “... appears dead ... .” It was outside the language CSF should use and invites comments such as: Did it die a natural death? Or was its demise hastened by the actions of others? It can detract from the seriousness of the issue. Thank you for your consideration. Joe Murphy South San Francisco
Protecting innocents in our ‘sanctuary city’
The “sanctuary city” policies are helpful to the extent they do not discourage San Franciscans, whatever their immigration status, from reporting crimes, but recently they have been misused to shield a serial offender, with terrible results. San Francisco law currently permits cooperation with federal immigration authorities only with regard to people in custody who have had a violent felony conviction within the past seven years. The man charged with killing Kate Steinle did not meet that limited criterion. Some of Kate’s Rincon Hill neighbors have agreed the law should be amended to require San Francisco officials to cooperate with requests for notification by immigration officials of a person’s release from jail, when that person has any felony conviction on their record. They are circulating a petition to that effect. This is a common-sense measure, but local officials and their enablers in the media have labeled calls for any changes to the current policy as “anti-immigrant.” This is a false charge made by those who, for their own political purposes, want no changes in the law at all, even at the risk of public safety. No one I know wants to demonize immigrants. But the man who shot Kate is not an “immigrant.” To call him an immigrant insults millions of immigrants, legal and illegal, documented and undocumented, who came here to live, work and raise their families. He is not a single mother who wants to report an abusive boyfriend. He is a revolving-door deportee who kept coming back, committed crimes, and who has now killed someone. If the sheriff can’t distinguish between him and decent, hardworking, genuine immigrants, why bother to have
a sheriff at all? Isn’t he allowed to have any discretion? I urge civil and religious authorities, including Archbishop Cordileone, to work together to change the law to protect the innocent, not the guilty. Kate Steinle was one of those innocents. Let’s make San Francisco a “sanctuary city” for people like her. Roger Ritter San Francisco Editor’s note: See Page 8 for Archbishop Cordileone’s statement to U.S. House and Senate judiciary committee hearings July 21 and 23 on immigration enforcement and sanctuary policies.
Gay Catholics key to Castro parish’s growth
As a former parishioner of Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro District I read with interest the article the July 17 issue titled “Precious Blood Fathers answer call to shepherd Castro parish.” The story was familiar to me but I admit to blinking twice when I read what I am sure what Father Link meant as a positive statement: “… the parish does not have even a ministry defined or directed specifically to the gay or LGBT community.” The parish was re-established, grew and thrived since Father Tony McGuire and Sister Cleta Herold came in 1982 and wisely, in their efforts to revive a largely moribund shadow of a parish, recognized that AIDS and HIV were devastating the gay community. Their outreach gradually attracted new members, almost all of whom were gay men and lesbians. The reason for this growth and prosperity over the past 30-plus years was not only the ministry of the parish, but also the ministry of the lesbians and gay men to that parish. Their hard work, commitment, efforts and financial generosity resulted in a major rebuilding of the church building in the 1990s and maintaining the parish as a beacon of creative liturgy, innovative building design and a superior music program. To be proud of not having a defined or directed ministry to the LGBT communities is to have forgotten that it is only because of these communities that the parish even exists today. The Castro District is an iconic gay neighborhood, recognized worldwide as such. This church, particularly this archdiocese, has a less-than-stellar reputation as being welcoming to the LGBT communities. The makeup of the groups who will be attracted to the parish and how they will minister to it remains to be seen. The makeup of The Castro and the spirituality of the young (including gays, lesbians and transgender people) are very different from the 1980s. To forget or negate the past is a sad commentary on the present. Jim McCrea Piedmont
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Healing the Earth and our ‘internal deserts’ Here is a reflection from Father Larry Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto, first published in the parish’s Sunday bulletin July 5.
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ope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’” (“Praise to You, my Lord,” from St. Francis’ canticle) will be read and talked about and debated by almost everyone who reads it. He couldn’t have picked a topic more relevant to the modern scene and more controversial than the environment. It is what modern America frets about most. Some FATHER commentators LARRY GOODE who don’t believe in global warming threw mud at the pope for taking sides with the liberals. But others who believe in global warning will find it equally hard to accept the Holy Father’s view that our environmental woes are not caused by overpopulation but overconsumption. The pope says: “To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some is one way of refusing to face the issues … . We know that approximately a third of all food produced is discarded and ‘whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the tale of the poor.’” The “global warmers” will hear a lot about respect for the poor. He talks about the poor as “disposable” people and decries the “globalization of indifference.” They will also hear about respect for life. In paragraph 120 he says “concern for the protection of nature is incompatible with the justification of abortion.” If they keep reading they are in for a strong dose of St. Francis, who “shows us just how inseparable the bond is between concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society and interior peace” (paragraph 10). The pope doesn’t even try to give a church solution to our environmental woes but he spells out what we as church bring to the table. In paragraph 216 the pope talks about “the rich heritage of Christian spirituality, the fruit of 20 centuries of personal and communal experience” which the church brings “to the renewal of humanity” … and which will “motivate us to a more passionate concern for the protection of our world.” I may be mistaken but the Holy Father seems to be calling us not just to be better stewards of God’s creation but he’s calling us to be holy “The external deserts in the world are growing because the internal deserts have become so vast … .The ecology crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion” (paragraph 217). A profound message for those who read it to the end. Some Catholics may be put off by our Holy Father’s emphasis on the “poor.” I suggest they read Austen Ivereigh’s book “The Great Reformer.” I think these people will like what this pope is saying and even more what he is doing to make us the church of the poor.
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Facing Earth’s peril with earnestness and gravity
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very outstanding thinker’s ideas can be traced to the influence of great thinkers. In his recent encyclical letter on the environment, “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis mirrors much of the thinking of renowned theologian Father Romano Guardini, whom the pope studied in Germany. FATHER EUGENE During the HEMRICK 1950s, Father Guardini was deeply concerned for the world’s future. In his book, “Power and Responsibility,” he wrote, “To the end of time there will be no human existence that does not live with peril. Awareness of this is lively, and not without the usual unworthy companions of fear, superficiality, the eat-drinkand-be-merry-now attitude we meet everywhere.” A society that is shallow and only concerned with the here-and-now makes Pope Francis anxious. Father Guardini and Pope Francis raise the question, What is our worldview? Are we to be served by the world or are we to serve it? Are we to live with little concern about the future or are we to be deeply concerned about its well-being? Father Guardini worried, “One of the most universal and most disturbing symptoms of the shift in the human condition that we have (is) the matter-of-factness of the new man. ... It demonstrates further his unwillingness ... to display emotions of any kind, indeed, even to harbor them. “But it also evinces a growing inability to see, a progressive cooling of the heart, an indifference to the people and things of existence. A common substitute for genuine feeling is sensation, that superficial ersatzemotion excitement, which, though momentarily strong, is neither fruitful nor lasting.” The pope’s encyclical on our environment is an emotional human cry to treasure earth’s gifts, be deeply concerned about its future and to earnestly face the truth of the matter. In his book, “The End of the Modern World,” Father Guardini called for a “new order” and the virtues of earnestness and gravity. He wrote, “Earnestness is the will to know what is really at stake; it must brush aside empty rhetoric extolling progress or the conquest of nature; it must face heroically the duties forced upon man by his new situation.” “This gravity,” he said, “must be purer and stronger ... because it must restrain the chaos rising out of the very works of man.” Pope Francis’ encyclical pulls no punches, thus causing uneasiness among those who are content with the “old order,” getting through the day and avoiding the uncomfortable and being matter of fact, hoping troubles will disappear on their own. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
Changing my body to ‘match’ my ‘identity?’
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he famous Olympian Bruce Jenner made headlines recently when he told ABC News, “For all intents and purposes, I’m a woman … That female side is part of me. That’s who I am.” He has been receiving hormonal treatments to acquire feminine traits, and is not yet sure whether he will undergo surgery to “complete” the process. His dramatic case raises important ethical and medical concerns about FATHER TADEUSZ properly underPACHOLCZYK standing our identity and respecting the given order of our bodies. Suppose a man were to declare that his real identity, in his innermost self, was that of a pirate, and that he had always been aware of it from his earliest childhood. If he were to decide, in order to more fully conform to that inner identity, to have his hand surgically removed so that he could have a hook installed in its place, this would surely indicate a serious mental condition on his part, and counseling, along with other psychiatric interventions, would be appropriate, rather than encouraging medical mutilation. Or we might consider the strange case of Chloe-Jennings White, a 58-year-old woman from Salt Lake City, Utah, who, although perfectly healthy, has a deepseated desire to become paralyzed, even to the point of being willing to pay a surgeon to sever her spine to make her a paraplegic. As a young girl, whenever she saw somebody with leg braces, she asked why she couldn’t have her own
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set. Ever since, she has dreamed of being paralyzed from the waist down and says that she sometimes goes skiing in the hopes that an accident will render her paraplegic: “I ski extremely fast, and aim for the most dangerous runs.” She likewise fantasizes about having a car accident to make her paralyzed. In the meantime, she lives her life as if she were a paraplegic, putting braces around her legs, and riding around in a wheelchair. She suffers from what has been termed “Body Integrity Identity Disorder,” or BIID, a rare disorder in which individuals lack a proper sense of bodily identity and reject their own limbs. Some experts believe it is caused by a neurological disorder in which the brain’s mapping system fails to recognize particular parts of the body. If a surgeon were to sever her spine, even with her consent, broad condemnation would quickly follow from inside and outside the medical profession, given that her limbs are healthy, and she is really battling a mental disorder. Various commentators have reacted strongly to her story, noting the irony of so many people who have become crippled due to tragic accidents and yearn for even the most basic forms of mobility, even as White seeks to mutilate her body and do violence to her own functional integrity. It doesn’t take much reflection to appreciate how the powers of medicine are meant for healing our bodies, not for harming and maiming them. Yet this kind of clear thinking seems to get easily sidelined when people discuss medical interventions for individuals who are convinced that they are actually members of the opposite sex. Dr. Paul McHugh, who served as psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital for more than two decades, was one of the first to raise concerns about transgender approaches that rely on hormones and surgeries. He noted that even though follow-up studies of sex-change patients may have indicated satisfaction with the
outcome on the part of the patients, the numerous psychological problems they experienced prior to their surgeries, problems with emotions, relationships, work, and self-identity remained unchanged. McHugh concluded that “to provide a surgical alteration to the body of these unfortunate people was to collaborate with a mental disorder rather than to treat it.” Indeed, although some people may clamor to have their spine severed, to have a healthy limb removed, or to have sex-change operations, the recognition of the seriousness of the underlying psychiatric issues should only strengthen our resolve to protect the human dignity and authentic personal identity of these patients by declining their requests for any form of medical mutilation. Nonetheless, misguided notions about personal identity continue to gain a foothold in our society. The opening line of the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing gay “marriage,” to cite but one example, declares that liberty means “specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.” This kind of confused language about allowing people to “define their identity” ignores the crucially important truth that numerous aspects of our identity, especially those related to our bodily and sexual identity, are predetermined, objective goods that we are called to recognize and respect in the choices we make. Respecting objective goods stands at the heart of the project of moral reasoning. Whether considering the integrity of our arms and legs or the integrity of our sexual constitution, proposals for chemical or surgical mutilation of these faculties will understandably raise concerns among reasonable and caring people. FATHER PACHOLCZYK is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org
Flannery O’Connor and Catholic realism
rom this vale of tears, one can never be sure about the boundaries of acceptable behavior at the Throne of Grace. Is laughter at earthly foibles permitted? Encouraged? I like to think so. Which inclines me to believe that, this past June 3, Miss Mary Flannery O’Connor of Milledgeville, Georgia, was having herself a good cackle. GEORGE WEIGEL That was the day the U.S. Postal Service released a Flannery O’Connor stamp – a grand idea, unhappily executed by doing a Vogue makeover on Miss O’Connor. The iconic peacock feathers are there, but that doesn’t quite compensate for a portrait of the author that looks less like her than what someone fancied she ought to look like. And that, of course, would be another reason for Flannery O’Connor to laugh at her stamp. For if any modern American writer was better attuned to the foolishness of the modern cult of synthetic beauty, I don’t know who he or she might be. In her fiction, Flannery O’Connor was one of the supreme contemporary exponents of Catholic realism. Like the less-remembered Paul Horgan, she believed that storytelling ought to help
modern men and women see “things as they are,” cutting through the fog of a culture that tells us that everything can be just the way we’d like it to be. And here Miss O’Connor’s fiction was deeply influenced by her profound Catholic faith: She knew that an ice-you-owncupcake world was a world that had forgotten its need for redemption, and an ice-your-own-cupcake religion was incapable of calling that kind of world to recognize the reality of sin and the need for conversion. Flannery O’Connor’s novels and short stories are not everyone’s literary cup of tea; I once received an impassioned email from a Polish priest who had read “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” – and had found the story appalling. How could I promote such things? I tried to explain that Flannery O’Connor was very hard to translate. But the real problem, I suspect, was that my correspondent couldn’t quite grasp how Miss O’Connor’s genius lay in describing the work of grace (and the wickedness that grace seeks to repair) through what seems, at first blush, repellant, even horrifying. Asked why there were so many grotesques in her fiction, Flannery O’Connor, who could be tart, responded that, in the South, “we like to think we can still recognize them.” Thus the southern sensibility she shared with writers like Walker Percy and Shelby Foote worked in tandem with her sacramentally-based Catholic realism: the South, the part of America that
knew defeat and had in a certain cultural sense been formed by defeat, was instinctively realistic rather than pie-inthe-sky romantic. Mix the Catholic part of Flannery O’Connor with her Georgia roots and life, and the result was a high octane literary cocktail – too bracingly realistic for some tastes, but widely recognized by serious readers and critics as something unique and brilliant in American literature. It’s not the Postal Service’s job to honor great Catholic apologists, but that, too, was part of the Flannery O’Connor package. Her apologetics, best displayed in her letters (gathered in “The Habit of Being”) are of more value now than ever, given the unrealities of 21st-century Western culture. For the roots of those myriad unrealities can be found in what the late Father Ernest Fortin called “debonair nihilism:” a blithe disregard for the givenness of things, an insouciance that leads people to live solely by the pleasure principle. Flannery O’Connor saw this coming in the mid-1950s, writing to a friend, “If you live today, you breathe in nihilism... it’s the gas you breathe.” The way to push back, she understood, was through the Catholic Church. Why? Because the church teaches us that everything is of consequence, for the Son of God became incarnate, suffered, and died to redeem everything. WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
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‘I was in prison and you came to me’
or all the world to see, Pope Francis and President Obama recently gave personal witness to Christ’s words in Matthew 25:30, “I was in prison and you came to me.” While it was an historic first prison visit for an American president, it was a relatively familiar act of pastoral outreach for a MELANIE MOREY pope. In the early part of the 20th century Pope Pius XI frequently visited the prisons in and around Rome and in 1958 Pope John XXIII made a much-heralded Christmas visit to Regina Coeli Prison, speaking with inmates about his own cousin’s incarceration for poaching and visiting with prisoners who were serving life sentences. Since that now famous Christmas visit all modern popes have made it a point to visit the imprisoned. Pope Francis’ and President Obama’s visits were certainly intended to draw attention to the serious problems that beset the criminal justice systems in both the richest and one of the poorest countries in the Americas. But they went far beyond that. These corporal acts of mercy highlighted in very touching ways the human dignity of prisoners. Because of past deeds society has relegated these individuals literally to the periphery of society where they disappear from view and cease to be of personal concern for most of us most of the time. Both the pope and the president ventured into that periphery in the same
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recent book by Robyn Cadwallander, “The Anchoress,” tells the story of young woman, Sarah, who chooses to shut herself off from the world and lives as an Anchoress (like Julian of Norwich). It’s not an easy life and she soon finds herself struggling with her choice. Her confessor is a young, inexpeFATHER RON rienced, monk ROLHEISER named Father Ranaulf. Their relationship isn’t easy. Ranaulf is a shy man, of few words, and so Sarah is often frustrated with him, wanting him to say more, to be more empathic, and simply to be more present to her. They often argue, or, at least, Sarah tries to coax more words and sympathy out of Ranaulf. But whenever she does this he cuts short the visit and leaves. One day, after a particularly frustrating meeting that leaves Ranaulf tongue-tied and Sarah in hot anger, Ranaulf is just about to close the shutter-window between them and leave, his normal response to tension, when something inside him stops him from leaving. He knows that he
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Inmates and family members cheer as Pope Francis passes their area during his visit to the Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, July 10. week and did so in their own unique ways that included different primary audiences and different types of language, as well. Pope Francis, using the language of faith – of sin and forgiveness – spoke to prisoners about the hope that is Christ and how to live lives even in prison that are inspired by hope. President Obama, on the other hand, used the language of civil society - of mistakes and second chances – speaking to those outside prison walls about how what happens there both reflects and affects society as a whole. But both leaders went beyond speechifying, each making a personal connection with people whose lives could not have seemed more different than their own.
Pope Francis made his connection in public remarks directed to a large group of prisoners at the Palmasola Rehabilitation Center in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He introduced himself to them in the same way he introduced himself to the world right after his election as pope, as a sinner. Pope Francis said to the Bolivian inmates, “You may be asking yourselves: ‘Who is this man standing before us?’ The man standing before you is a man who has experienced forgiveness. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.” Francis did not distance himself from the men and women he encountered. Rather he cast himself as one of them but one transformed by God’s forgiveness. And saying he had little to give he offered the one thing he had and
that he loved most – “Jesus Christ, the mercy of God the Father.” President Obama met with only a few inmates at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution near Oklahoma City and his remarks were addressed not to the prisoners but to the press and through them to the citizens of the United States. When asked what struck him most about his visit, the president referenced the stories the prisoners had told him about their youth and their childhoods and the mistakes they made. While recognizing that these men had made stupid mistakes as young people he insisted that it was not normal that so many such Americans end up in the criminal justice system. “What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things. What is normal is young people making mistakes … That’s what strikes me – there but for the grace of God.” President Obama harkened back to his own youth and his own stupid mistakes, recognizing that much of the divide between those he visited and himself was the result of pure grace – good and constructive support and good fortune. In the midst of his visit President Obama did not see these prisoners as less than human or disconnected from himself. Instead he saw himself in them, knowing their plight could just as easily have been his own. In this one week in July a president and a pope visited prisons in two different countries in the Americas. In doing so they bore witness to seeing dignity in those who have been cast out – to seeing in them the face of Christ – and they responded with compassion and love. MOREY is director of the Office of Catholic Identity Assessment and Formation for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
The healing place of silence must offer Sarah something, but he has no words. And so, having nothing to say but feeling obliged to not leave, he simply sits there in silence. Paradoxically his mute helplessness achieves something that his words don’t, a breakthrough. Sarah, for the first time, feels his concern and sympathy and he, for his part, finally feels present to her. Here’s how Cadwallander describes the scene: “He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. There was no more he could say, but he would not leave her alone with such bitterness. And so he remained on his stool, feeling the emptiness of the room around him, the failure of his learning, the words he had stacked up in his mind, page upon page, shelf upon shelf. He could not speak, but he could stay; he would do that. He began to silently pray, but did not know how to go on, what to ask for. He gave up, his breath slowed. “The silence began as a small and frightened thing, perched on the ledge of his window, but as Ranaulf sat in stillness, it grew, very slowly, and filled up the parlor, wrapped itself around his neck and warmed his back, curled under his knees and around his feet, floated along the walls, tucked into the corners, nestled in the crevices of stone. … The silence slipped through the gaps under the curtain and into the cell beyond. A velvet thing, it seemed. It
swelled and settled, gathering every space into itself. He did not stir; he lost all sense of time. All he knew was the woman but an arm’s length away in the dark, breathing. That was enough. “When the candle in the parlor guttered, he stirred, looked into the darkness. ‘God be with you, Sarah.’ ‘And with you, Father.’ Her voice was lighter, more familiar.” There’s a language beyond words. Silence creates the space for it. Sometimes when we feel powerless to speak words that are meaningful, when we have to back off into unknowing and helplessness, but remain in the situation, silence creates the space that’s needed for a deeper happening to occur. But often, initially, that silence is uneasy. It begins “as a small frightened thing” and only slowly grows into the kind of warmth that dissolves tension. There are many times when we have no helpful words to speak. We’ve all had the experience of standing by the bedside of someone who is dying, of being at a funeral or wake, of sitting across from someone who is dealing with a broken heart, or of reaching a stalemate in trying to talk through a tension in a relationship, and finding ourselves tongue-tied, with no words to offer, finally reduced to silence, knowing that anything we say might aggravate the pain. In that helplessness, muted
by circumstance, we learn something: We don’t need to say anything; we only need to be there. Our silent, helpless presence is what’s needed. And I must admit that this is not something I’ve learned easily, have a natural aptitude for, or in fact do most times when I should. No matter the situation, I invariably feel the need to try to say something useful, something helpful that will resolve the tension. But I’m learning, both to let helplessness speak and how powerfully it can speak. I remember once, as a young priest, full of seminary learning and anxious to share that learning, sitting across from someone whose heart had just been broken, searching through answers and insights in my head, coming up empty, and finally confessing, by way of apology, my helplessness to the person across from me. Her response surprised me and taught me something I didn’t know before. She said simply: “Your helplessness is the most precious gift you could share with me right now. Thanks for that.” Nobody expects you to have a magic wand to cure their troubles. Sometimes silence does become a velvet thing that swells and settles, gathering every space into itself. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
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SUNDAY READINGS
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PSALM145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18 The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord, and let your faithful ones bless you. Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due season; you open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs.
The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. EPHESIANS 4:1-6 Brothers and sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. JOHN 6:1-15 Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd
was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people recline.” Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about 5,000 in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.” So they collected them, and filled 12 wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.” Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.
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rticle 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the U.N. General Assembly, states, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.” Decades have passed. The reality is a far cry from this basic vision. Though we have made fantastic strides in science and technology, millions are still hungry and deprived of basic necessities. FATHER CHARLES Of the 7.3 billion world popuPUTHOTA lation, nearly a billion are hungry and malnourished. Oliver Twist’s “Please, sir, I want some more” might well be their desperate plea. The world produces enough food for everyone, but the hungry are left helpless because of the dynamics of national
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and international institutions. The word of God this Sunday addresses this distressing situation. Prophet Elisha who is gifted 20 barley loaves spontaneously says, “Give it to the people to eat.” When the servant says the food will not be enough for a hundred people, the prophet insists that the food be served. He invokes the Lord who has said to him that there will be food left over after people have eaten. Elisha’s concern to feed the hungry as Moses had done in the desert and God’s lavish grace despite the skepticism of the servant parallel the elements in the Gospel. There are thousands of hungry people and the disciples are skeptical, but Jesus the prophet par excellence, on his own authority, feeds them with only five barley loaves and two fish, with food left over. Jesus ensures that the basic right to food is fulfilled. Rights of people are to be matched by responsibilities based on love and compassion. Jesus demonstrates time and again that people’s rights for food, health, dignity, hope, freedom, peace, respect, truth, etc., are at the heart of his ministry. He is the most ardent advocate of human rights. He came into the world so that we may have abundant life. He acts always out of the conviction that people cannot merely exist but are to enjoy the fullness of life, having been nourished in body, mind, heart, and soul. To the hungry, Gandhi said, God comes in the form of bread. Along with our spiritual gifts, our energy,
time, and talents, we need to ensure that our small amounts of food and material resources (our five loaves and two fish) are to be pooled together to feed the hungry and alleviate suffering. Our individual generosity along with others’ will multiply to become miracles for the needy. Our weekly donations to parish and those we give to the archdiocese are also essential to keep God’s work flourishing at all levels of the church. Jesus’ instruction to “gather the fragments over, so that nothing will be wasted” is a timely reminder in our “throwaway culture.” Not wasting food and other material goods is vital not only to protect the environment but also to feed the poor and provide for the needy. Through simple living and generous sharing, through compassion and love, we can multiply the blessings for the world. In John’s Gospel, with no account of the institution of the Eucharist at the last supper, the multiplication becomes the eucharistic story as Jesus “took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them … .” At every Eucharist, we are nourished so we can share bread with others. What is more, like Jesus we are to become “bread” to others. This is God’s abundant life of which human rights are but a miniscule fraction.
priest. LV 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37. PS 81:3-4, 5-6, 10-11ab. 1 PT 1:25. MT 13:54-58.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5: Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major. NM 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35. PS 106:6-7ab, 13-14, 21-22, 23. LK 7:16. MT 15: 21-28.
FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JULY 27: Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. EX 32:15-24, 30-34. PS 106:19-20, 21-22, 23. JAS 1:18. MT 13:31-35. TUESDAY, JULY 28: Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. EX 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28. PS 103:6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13. MT 13:36-43. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29: Memorial of St. Martha, virgin. EX 34:29-35. PS 99:5, 6, 7, 9. JN 8:12. JN 11:19-27 or LK 10:38-42. THURSDAY, JULY 30: Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor. EX 40:16-21, 34-38. PS 84:3, 4, 5-6a and 8a, 11. SEE ACTS 16:14b. MT 13:47-53. FRIDAY, JULY 31: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1: Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop and doctor. LV 25:1, 8-17. PS 67:2-3, 5, 7-8. MT 5:10. MT 14:1-12. SUNDAY, AUGUST 2: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. EX 16:2-4, 12-15. PS 78:3-4, 23-24, 25, 54. EPH 4:17, 20-24. MT 4:4b. JN 6:24-35.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6: Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. DN 7:9-10, 13-14. PS 97:1-2, 5-6, 9. 2 PT 1:16-19. MT 17:5c. MK 9:2-10.
MONDAY, AUGUST 3: Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. NM 11:4b-15. PS 81:12-13, 14-15, 16-17. MT 4:4. MT 14:13-21.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7: Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Sixtus II, pope and martyr and companions, martyrs and Optional Memorial of St. Cajetan, priest. Dt 4:32-40. PS 77:12-13, 14-15, 16 and 21. Mt 5:10. Mt 16:24-28.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4: Memorial of St. John Vianney, priest. NM 12:1-13. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 6cd-7, 12-13. JN 1:49b. MT 14:22-36 or MT 15:1-2, 10-14.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8: Memorial of St. Dominic, priest. Dt 6:4-13. PS 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 47 and 51. See 2 Tm 1:10. Mt 17:14-20.
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‘SEE THE LORD’: Chinese American Catholic young adults help needy see FROM PAGE 1
officer. Local Taiwanese lens makers give discounted rates for glasses and lenses, Kao said. “I think it is the work of the Holy Spirit. What can bring young people to do this kind of thing if it is not the Holy Spirit?” said Father Carlos Olivera, pastor of San Jose Chinese Catholic Mission. Since 2012 when incorporation of the nonprofit was completed, See the Lord has organized 12 mission trips with three more on the calendar for 2015. All but three of the mission trips have been to Taiwan where people in the rural mountain areas have little access to vision care. This year a U.S. trip is planned to New Orleans. The Bay Area Chinese Catholic community supports the See the Lord mission, said Kao, who grew up in San Mateo and attended St. Luke Parish in Foster City. The Mid-Peninsula Chinese Catholic Community at St. Matthew in San Mateo, where Kao’s father is in the choir, is very supportive, as are St. Clare Parish in Santa Clara, and St. Joseph in Fremont, she said. Most of those served in Taiwan are poor children, elderly, and disabled people who find it difficult or impossible to travel the three or four hours to a town to get their eyes examined and frequently could not afford glasses if they were prescribed, Kao said. While Taiwan has national health care, that does not include vision care and
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U.S. and Taiwanese volunteers pose after a long day of clinic in Taoyuan Village, situated in the rural mountains of Kaohsiung. From left: Joanna Hong, Benelyn Cendana, Crystal Jian, Joan Le, Jill Lin, Albert Lee, Judy Chang. optometrists are reluctant to travel to remote areas, she said. “I was surprised by how nearsighted the children were; yet they did not even own a pair of glasses. I wondered how these children could function in daily life when they could barely see the largest shapes on the eye chart,” said volunteer Elaine Oetomo, who was part of the Taiwan March 2013 team, in a testimonial on the See the Lord website.
“People work out in the sun all day and have major sun damage or a tree branch has hit their eye and they have lost their vision,” said Jean Young, See the Lord spokeswoman. See the Lord mission trips attract young adults, mostly Chinese Americans with some family connection to Asia, said Young. Many are not Catholic, she said. “We have students who are interested in optometry who go on these
trips. We have people who just have a heart for the mission,” said Young. The mission trip team is usually 10 people. Each person must raise the $2,500 -$3,000 for the cost of their trip, which lasts about 10 days, said Young. “They are not always Catholic, that’s fine with us. We do Mass and we do prayers together. We don’t make it a criteria that you have to be Catholic.” “They can use their talents. It lets young students and young professionals actually serve,” Kao said. About 1 percent of Taiwan is Catholic, Young said. Kao’s deeply religious and loving Catholic mother is a big part of this story, because it was some comments her mother made a few months before her death from cancer that started Kao thinking. “Her mother was like a saint, never complaining even though she was suffering,” said Young. “She said to Kelly–in Chinese of course—my one regret in life is I don’t feel like I loved big. I wished I loved on a grander scale.” The night her mother died, Kao said she had a vision of her mother asking her to use her talents on that grander scale. The next day Kao procured the website rights for See the Lord, although she said it took more than a year to get the nonprofit up and running. “They are great people with a dedication to the mission of the church, of Jesus,” said Father Olivera. “They are good, good Catholics.”
MHR: Precious Blood Fathers answer call to shepherd Castro parish FROM PAGE 2
other Catholic churches in the city, represented a wonderful opportunity for the Precious Blood order, the neighborhood and the archdiocese. He requested permission from his provincial to be considered for the vacancy, then coaxed 70-year-old Precious Blood Father Jack McClure out of semi-retirement in Kansas City with the idea of joining him. The priests won over Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone too. He appointed the Precious Blood fathers to the parish last July when they became the first non-archdiocesan priests to lead the parish in its 115-year history. The older and more experienced Father McClure served as pastor for the first year, with Father Link as parochial vicar. But the priests insist they act as a team and don’t have any big plans or agendas. “We didn’t come here to change anybody,” said Father McClure who sat with Father Link near the parish’s memorial fountain where the founders of 30-year-old AIDS Support Group ministry are honored, including ninth pastor Father Anthony McGuire. Behind them on a stone wall are the words of Corinthians 1: 13:13: “But now faith, hope, and love remain – of these three, the greatest of these is love.” “God is here,” said Father McClure. “We didn’t bring anything special other than being instruments of God and calling people to Christ.” The AIDS Support Group was initiated by the parish in 1985 at the height of the AIDS epidemic when it was burying two or three persons a week. It was the first Catholic community in the city to respond to the crisis, offering care and assistance to persons with HIV and those who care for them. Signs heralding “God’s inclusive love proclaimed here” have been a beacon to LGBT Catholics and visitors who represent more than half of the parish community. But “inclusiveness” is also what brought Kate Deaton, 29, and Akaash Gupta, 31, both of San Francisco, to the parish. “This is the kind of faith community I want to be a part of,” said Deaton, 29, a family therapist and member of the Young Adults Group. Relative newcomers to San Francisco from Long Beach, she and
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Longtime parishioner Mary Coomey enjoys a laugh with Precious Blood Father Matthew Link, installed as pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Parish July 5.
her fiance Akaash Gupta, a lawyer, began attending Most Holy Redeemer’s popular Sunday evening Mass about a year ago. Father Link is preparing the couple for Catholic marriage next March. “I’m Catholic, and Akaash is not, but he has always been supportive of my faith and comes to church with me,” she said. She said she felt instantly welcomed by the parish community. “But more importantly to me, Akaash feels welcome and accepted, even though he isn’t Catholic.” Fathers Link and McClure said the parish’s media reputation as the nation’s largest “gay parish” is short-sighted. “We don’t see ourselves in just that way,” said Father Link. Members of the parish community don’t identify or organize themselves based on their sexual orientation and the parish does not have even a ministry defined or directed specifically to the LGBT community. “We are a very Catholic parish, with the universal ‘c,’” he said. Differences here don’t necessarily mean
division, he said. He called it a “moderate parish” where traditional and progressive, young and old, gay and straight Catholics find peace and comfort sitting next to each other in Mass and working together in service and outreach. Bill Ryan, 87, has been taking up the collection faithfully each Sunday at the 8 a.m. Mass for more than 30 years. He lives nearby with his wife, Wilma. “It’s a wonderful place,” he said. “There are so many people who go out of their way to do things for each other and people in the neighborhood.” A long-running Wednesday night sit-down supper for homeless men and women in the parish’s Ellard Hall continues to flourish thanks to a ready roster of parish volunteers. The Castro Senior Center leases the same hall weekly to feed neighborhood seniors and the AIDS Support Group endures 30 years later. The parish has so many ministries and programs including a centering prayer program, a reconnection ministry for “disconnected Catholics,” a children’s ministry and a social justice ministry that it recently brought Mercy Sister Erma Dillard on staff from St. Boniface as the director of ministries. Jim Stockholm, a longtime parishioner and “minister of communications and public relations,” said the texture of the neighborhood is changing for the same reason the entire city’s is: the lack of affordable housing. “We recognize that many people just can’t afford to live here anymore,” said Stockholm, who is helping lead a sophisticated social media campaign that has been effective in attracting younger visitors or parishioners, like Deaton and Gupta. The parish Facebook page promotes the parish’s many ministries and programs, including a Sunday evening “praise and worship” Mass featuring a popular new music ministry that has replaced the traditional performance choir. Only two years ago the parish population of 900 registered parishioners was 70 percent male and 30 percent female, said Stockholm, and today the mix is closer to 60-40. “We are even experiencing, and wonderfully so, a lot of children,” he said. The church installed a “crying room” in 2012.
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DEATH: ‘Culture of life’ demands death penalty’s end, USCCB chairmen say FROM PAGE 1
“A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death,” which accompanied the campaign. The U.S. bishops, who have long advocated against capital punishment, began the ongoing campaign in 2005. It asks people to pray for victims of crime and their families and to reach out to support them. It also calls for educating people about church teaching on the death penalty and criminal justice; working for legislation to end capital punishment; and changing the debate in favor of defending life. In November 2005, the bishops approved the statement on the death penalty calling on society to “reject the tragic illusion that we can demonstrate respect for life by taking life.” It built on the 1980 statement by the bishops that called for the abolition of capital punishment.
“We urged a prudential examination of the use of the death penalty, with the aim of helping to build ‘a culture of life in which our nation will no longer try to teach that killing is wrong by killing those who kill. This cycle of violence diminishes all of us,’” Cardinal O’Malley and Archbishop Wenski said in their joint statement. The two prelates cited “significant gains” made on the issue over the past decade. Several states, including New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland and most recently Nebraska, have ended the use of the death penalty, and other states have enacted a moratorium. Death sentences are at their lowest level since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. In Kansas this past February, a measure to abolish the death penalty there ultimately failed, but the state Catholic conference praised senators for their “impassioned and thoughtful” debate on the issue.
SURVIVORS: Training promotes advocacy FROM PAGE 5
short and long-term restorative responses to those impacted by it. A panel of speakers representing four Bay Area counties spoke about the criminal justice process, victim and witness assistance centers, victim services compensation and advocacy. Paulette Brown of San Francisco can see the spot where her 17-year-old son Aubrey was gunned down nine years ago in broad daylight. “I look out my door every day and see where they did it,” she told Catholic San Francisco, a photo of her child pinned to her dress. “But I can’t just sit here and keep thinking about what happened, I need to be active and help other families. This is what I will be doing for the rest of my life.” Roberta Fitzpatrick sought spiritual guidance from the San Jose diocese to help her support her niece, whose trauma over the murder of her 14-year-old daughter has been made worse by a prolonged and what she calls “dysfunctional” court process. She found nothing available and jumped at the chance for the training.
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“Being with other survivors and with those who care and are trying to be present and responsive to survivors, is very strengthening for me,” she said. Some participants who already work with crime survivors said the training brought a new dimension to their work. John Strom, director of restorative justice ministries for the Diocese of Santa Rosa and an ordained deacon, said that despite his 35-year history as a probation officer, he often felt “woefully unprepared” to effectively encounter persons impacted by trauma. “I am grateful for the insights this program offers which will be applicable to my ministry to them,” he said. Margaret Petros, executive director of Mothers against Murder and a crime victim advocate at the Santa Clara Victim Assistance Center said she is happy to see the Catholic Church collaborating with the community to meet the needs of crime survivors, something few parishes are prepared to do. Many have jail ministries but crime survivor ministries are virtually unheard of. “It’s crucial that the faith community be aware and trained to help those who are suffering from the horrific pain of losing a loved one through an act of violence,” she said.
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Even with such progress, “there is still a great deal of work to be done, and we must recommit ourselves to end this practice in our country,” said Cardinal O’Malley and Archbishop Wenski. They also noted Pope Francis’ call to end use of the death penalty and said that in light of the upcoming Year of Mercy that he declared, which is to begin Dec. 8, “(we) renew our efforts in calling for the end of the use of the death penalty.” “Pope Francis, like his predecessors, provides a clear and prophetic voice for life and mercy in calling for all people of good will to work to end the use of the death penalty,” added Archbishop Wenski. “In anticipation of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in September, we join our voices with his and continue our call for a culture of life,” he said. “As a people of life, we say it is time for the U.S. to abandon use of the death penalty.”
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Angeles, would repeal the Maximum Family Grant rule. SB 23 was passed by the state Senate June 1, 27-6. The Assembly Human Services Committee approved SB 23 and it is now in the Appropriations Committee. On the negative side, Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, is sponsoring the Reproductive FACT Act, AB 775, that would require pregnancy centers that hold a pro-life viewpoint to post signage that every woman has a right to have a child or obtain an abortion. The Assembly passed the bill 46-25 on May 27. The bill will be before the full Senate for a vote when the legislature reconvenes. The California Catholic Conference said it will send out an alert when this bill will come up in the Senate. Other legislative priorities of the conference this legislative session: AB 43, sponsored by Assemblyman Mark Stone, D-Santa Cruz, would establish a refundable earned income tax credit. SB 38, sponsored by Sen. Carol Liu, D-La Canada, would establish a state earned income tax credit for low-wage workers. AB 337, Education Expenses of Teachers sponsored by Assemblyman Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, would allow new K-12 teachers, in their first three years of consecutive service at public and private schools, to claim individual tax credits for out-of-pocket expenses incurred for the purchase of instructional materials and classroom supplies issues. AB 1371 Education Expenses of Parents, sponsored by Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, would allow low-tomiddle income parents an individual tax deduction for K-12 education-related expenses incurred on behalf of their school children.
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YOUNG MEN’S INSTITUTE: Mike Demech was honored as YMI Man of the Year at the group’s annual convention June 17 in Reno. The YMI Council of the Year Award went to St. John Bosco Council #613 from St. Cecilia Parish. “We enjoyed a spectacular night wining these two most prestigious awards,” said #613 president Mike Amato. Pictured from left at the ceremonies are Dick Pisciotta, Cosmo Amato, Mike Dimech, Mike Amato, Michale Infusino, Joe Soracco.
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ST. ANTHONY’S PADUA DINING ROOM, MENLO PARK: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone joined volunteers on the midday meal service line July 18 at the dining room at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, spending time afterward talking to some of the operation’s 500 daily guests. The archbishop expressed an interest in volunteering at the dining room to better understand its 42-year mission of feeding the hungry. (COURTESY PHOTO)
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broke into the Church of St. Francis and stole a ciborium with consecrated hosts. Three days later, a parishioner noticed an illumination coming from within a collection box at St. Mary’s church. The box was opened to nd the OBITUARIES stolen hosts covered in dirt and cobwebs. The decision was made that rather than consume them they should 15, ROME (Papal Audience) decompose naturally. That process should have taken a Papal Audience couple of weeks. Even today, the hosts have remained our Holy Father fresh and sweet-smelling. Various testing has authentiFather Francis Filice died July 17 o the words of cated this miracle. The remainder of the day is freeHouse to at Nazareth invites you ncis and receive explore independently. You may want to stop atRafael. one of in San He ms from all over was 92medieval years old the most charming town squares in all of Italy, the pilgrimages and a priest for 36 udience, we visitto join in the following Piazza del Campo (known by locals as “il Campo”). The years. ary Major and fan shaped Piazza is home to the barebackedFather horseFilice race, ject to conrwas a graduate known as the Palio, and many other important events.of San Francisco’s St. asilica we view This evening you have the opportunity to taste local cuiAnne School and, rom Bethlehem. Pope Francis sine at the Siena restaurant of your choosingnow, as dinner is Sacred Heart Father Francis John’s Lateran Cathedral PrepaFilice [B] on your own. Overnight in Siena. ratory and later church of the Pope. This church was earned a doctorate in biology from antine when he ended the Christian Day 6: Saturday 4/18, SIENA /UC FLORENCE Berkeley; studies that put him see the Altar that holds the relics of Holy be celebraton theMass way towill an almost 30-year teaching career at the University ide the Basilica is the Baptistery and ed this morning at the Basil- of San Francisco. ee la Sancta Scalia (Holy Stairs), ica of St Dominic (subject A widower, having lost his wife, withpalace in Jerusalem ed from Pilate’s toBarbara coninrmation), where 1976, Father Filice went on tothe studies at St. Patrick’s r climbed before His cruci xion. At we have opportunity of Fr.14th-century Christopher Coleman Seminary in Menlo Park and was nctorum, the reliquary viewing the incorrupt head ordained a priest May 19, 1979, by e VII. Those who wish to pray each ofArchbishop St Catherine. John R.After Quinn.Mass, subsequently served coach as a pay do so. The option to take the side weHeboard our motor rochial vicar at parishes including Duomo of Florence ailable. and make the journey to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Daly Florence. Upon San ourRafael arrival, City; St. Raphael’s, and nds or enjoy a private sampling of we enjoy an orientation tour of the city. We visit the Acaat the trattoria (local diner) or resdemia+ $659 to seeper theperson* original “David”, before stopping at the as dinner is on your own. OverPiazzafrom della Signoria. Today the Piazza is a popular area San Francisco for people to stroll and gather VISIT: Rome (Papal audience), $3,679 + $659 per person* and in the past it served as a place of public meeting and even execution. There are many ROME / SUBIACO / TIVOLI ROME Catania, Etna,/ Taormina, after July 24, 2015 statues found in the vicinity - some are originals and Conterno some Salesian Father Austin trip to east to Subiaco to visit the died July 11. He * Estimated airline taxes and final surcharges Syracuse, Florence, Assisi. are copies, like David (the original is housed in the Academy etto. The Abbey was built over 99 years old, of Fine Arts). We stop at a local restaurantwas and enjoy a dict inhabited when he lived as herfault and have not cancelled in violation of the terms and cona religious for ditions of this contract for transportation or travel services, all group dinner before we check in at our hotel. Overnight 77 years and a paid to Pentecost Tours, Inc. for services not received by d the sums calling to organize monastic you will be promptly refunded by Pentecost Tours, Inc. to you priest for 67 years. in Florence. [B,D] unless you otherwise advise Pentecost Tours, Inc. in writing. nasteryAIR of San Benedetto is still acHe would have TRANSPORTATION: Round trip San Francisco/Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv/San Francisco on economy class jet via United visit the second monastery built marked his 100th or any other IATA member. 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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 24, 2015 Day 8: Monday 4/20, FLOREN Today we take ny’s town of P its spectacular Leaning Towe tower began i St. Anne of the Sunset, San Fransoil. Before th cisco. completed, the Beginning in 1996, Father Filice began service as chaplain but to Sanconstructio Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual until the towe Adoration as well as the Veterin 1350. Over ans Administration Hospital in San Francisco and with men and had de tower women inmates of the San Franof gravity) as it cisco and San Mateo County jails. perpendicular. Father Filice was a founder of the pro-life group United for Life. which it leaned Leaning FatherThe Filice moved to Nazareth prised many vis Tower of Pisa House in 2011 and was known to closed be a regular confessor there and atby engin nearby Isabella Parish. a St. plan to save the tower from to Survivors include Father Filice’s was corrected by 45 centimete sister Gloria Pizzinelli; a daughter leans buthusband has been corrected en Marian and her Deacon Davidgroups, Previtali;are and now his grandson welcomed bac Father Joseph Previtali, a parochiture. We will visit the famous ico al vicar at Our Lady of the Pillar toHalf theMoon Cathedral. Then, we s Parish, Bay. A funeral Mass was celebrated exploring Pisa and the Piazza July 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. plenty to see, including The Mon Remembrances may be made to the graveyard)and the Baptistery (la Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter
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Paul Parish. Sts. Peter and Paul was also his home for almost the entirety of the last 35 years. He retired in 2000 at age 85. Even in retirement Father Conterno could be found at weekday Mass and school Masses as well as the parish Mass in Italian each Sunday. He continued as a fan of the Warriors, Giants, A’s and 49ers and serving as chaplain to the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club. A funeral Mass was celebrated July 20 at Sts. Peter and Paul with interment in the Salesian Cemetery in Richmond. Remembrances may be made to Sts. Peter and Paul Tower of Strength Capital Campaign, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco, 94133.
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SATURDAY, JULY 25 SERRA TALKS: “Junipero Serra-Saint and Sinner,” 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education and Spirituality with Ohlone Mission Indians Andrew Galvan and Vincent Medina Jr., Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse Auditorium, 43326 Mission Blvd. (entrance oon Mission Tierra Place, Fremont; $25 donation payable at the door; lunch included; RSVP by July 13, rosemarie@ msjdominicans.org, http://bit.ly/MSJSerra.
THURSDAY, JULY 30 RUMMAGE SALE: St. Anthony of Padua, Novato Rummage sale, July 31-August 2, with a special early bird sale July 30, one of the largest events of its kind in the Bay Area with bargains on thousands of donated items, for family, home, yard and more, Friday 10a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m-5, Sunday 10-3; Thursday presale 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., with $10 per person admission charge for this day only. Come to church hall and plaza, 1000 Cambridge St., near South Novato Boulevard, (415) 883-2177, most remaining items sold at half-price on Sunday.
SATURDAY, AUG. 1 RUMMAGE SALE: San Mateo Pro Life event at St. Matthew Church auditorium, El Camino Real and Ninth Avenue, San Mateo. Doors open at 9 a.m.; Janet (650) 931-5467. PEACE MASS: Good Shepherd Church, 9 a.m., 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, Father Luello Palacpac,
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BASKET EXHIBIT: “Interwoven,” through Nov. 1, Thacher Gallery in Gleeson Library, Geschke Center, Golden Gate Avenue and Parker Avenue, San Francisco on USF campus featuring native California basketry made during the Mission era to the early 20th century telling a remarkable story of Native American culture including the world-renowned weavers of the Chumash and Pomo people. Exhibit is free and open to the public; www.usfca.edu/library/thacher; Glori Simmons (415) 422-5178; thachergallery@usfca.edu.
PROJECT RACHEL MASS: Outdoor bi-lingual Mass remembering children who died before, during or shortly after birth whatever the cause, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Archbishop Road, Colma, Salvatore 11 a.m. by the Cordileone Rachel Mourning shrine. Signs at the cemetery will direct you to the site. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist. Sponsored by Project Rachel Ministry and the cemeteries; (415) 614-5570, (415) 717-6428.
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SUNDAY, AUG. 2 FAMILY SYNOD: “The Synod on the Family: Sex, Marriage and More,” Jesuit Father Tom Reese, 10:4511:45 a.m.; Xavier Auditorium, Fromm Hall behind St. Ignatius
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MONDAY, AUG. 3 LECTURE: “Pope Francis and the Environment: Protecting Mother Earth and All Her Children” with Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, noon, Santa Clara University, Benson Center, Benson Parlors, Benson B and C. Admission is free. Monica Long, (408) 554-7893, mdelong@scu.edu, www. scu.edu/ethics, www.scu.edu/ethicscenter/events/calendar.cfm.
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REUNION: Holy Name School, all class reunion, 10 a.m. open school, 11:30 a.m. Mass, followed by reunion festivities. Please pass the information on to siblings and classmates; register as a HN alumni, http://holynamesf.org/ holy-name-school-alumni/; join the Facebook page, Holy Name School San Francisco. HANDICAPABLES MASS: The 50 years of this good work continues to be celebrated throughout 2015 with noon Mass followed by lunch, in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Call Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865; www. Handicapables.com. REUNION: Class of 1965 Reunion for Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Redwood City, noon, in school’s large hall; Joan deCesare (408) 734-8175. .
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19 PASTA LUNCH: Immaculate Conception Church, Folsom at Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, noon, with meal of all you can eat pasta, meatballs, $10; beverages available for purchase, a tradition of the local church for more than 50 years. DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Fran-
cisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.
FRIDAY, AUG. 21 NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING: “Male and Female He Created Them,” a two-day event about NFP with opening keynote address by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who will also celebrate the closing Mass. Banquet speaker is Fiorella Nash of the UK; early registration full-event pass is $164 if ordered by July 20; www.canfp.org; info@ canfp.org; (877) 33-CANFP.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 11 DISCERNMENT WEEKEND: Retreat Friday 4 p.m.-Sunday noon for Single Catholic Women, age 18-40 at the Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd. entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont. Sister Mary Yun, mary@msjdominicans.org; (213) 760-3085; RSVP and register online at www.msjdominicans.org or www.bit.ly/ discernRLife.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 GRACENTER DAY: “A Taste of Autumn” luncheon and silent auction benefiting Good Shepherd Sisters’ Gracenter, 11 a.m., Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco, www.gsgracenter.org; (415) 337-1938.
MUSIC WORKSHOPS: Sessions in Gregorian chant, 7-9 p.m., ending with leading song for the traditional Latin Mass at Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Classes are free, advance registration required at www.starparish. com/chantworkshop.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 4 REUNION: St. Cecilia School, class of 1970, Dominic’s Oyster Point, South San Francisco, Dave Lopez, dgl94127@yahoo.com; (415) 994-1834; Facebook, see “events” “SC Class of 1970- 45 year reunion.”
SATURDAY, SEPT. 26 CENTENNIAL: St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish. 100th anniversary gala, 6 p.m., South San Francisco Conference Center: Event marks the anniversary as well as serving as platform to raise funds, reunite parish and school alumni, and thank and honor friends and benefactors through the years. (415) 587-1382, shipwreckalumni@gmail. com, www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org.
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HOLY CROSS COLMA Miguel Angel Aguilar Rodante D. Alfonso Abdon R. Allarde Juanita M. Alvarez Nelida Amigo Alberto Anduray Perrie Edward Arens, Jr. Isabel Rosario Austria Carmen Azzopardi Rosita C. Banias Susan M. Baraty Rita M. Beaulieu Roy H. Belli Irvin F. Beltrame Amarilys Bertolazzi Shirley M. Bogdan Ernesto P. Brooks James Joseph Bruno Rosario J. Bucini Juana Ricardina Canales Teodolfo Juan Canales Alfonso “49er Al” Carrasco William Carrillo Baby Cassidy Ana Rina Castillo Sonia G. Catuar Joan Catherine Cavero Fr. Benedict Chang Maria Yolanda Chavez Isabel Chavez Florence Maria Chevalier Emilio Colombo Aleida S. Colomer Theresa A. Cook Karen A. Cunningham Nora Cushen Isabel M. Damo
Guadalupe Villalobos De Cruz Carlota Garcia de Gonzalez Justine del Canizo Diva M. Dianda Apolonio R. Dimapilis Dr. James Leo English Peter M. Finnegan Leo D. Fisher Luis Angel Flores Robert E. Fontan Michael Forrestal Lenora M. Freeland Carlos Henry Garcia Richard E. Gazzano Thelma L. Gerosa Guadalupe Gomez Carol L. Gregori Jeanette Domergue Grialou Fuad Jalilie Janet K. Juergens Gloria Margarita Kennedy Eileen T. Keogh Verna M. Krile Olaus C. Kyrie Robert Alan Lapachet Dionisio Villano Laurito, Jr. Jean Victoria Leishman Betty A. Leonard Irene Mary Lieberman Louis J. Lovisco Eleanor J. Luppino Patrick P. Lyons Vicente L. Macalisang Martin Marquez Expedito Martinez Doris M. McCarthy Dolores “Babe” Mccrum Carlos Antonio Melendez John “Jack” Mitchell Kathleen Teresa Murphy Deacon Michael Edmond Murphy
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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375
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