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A cross-country bus tour by Catholic sisters in support of immigration reform encountered only one protest against the cause in 53 stops in 40 cities and 15 states, Social Service Sister Simone Campbell said Monday as the tour headed toward its close in San Francisco. “We’ve been shocked,” said Sister Simone, executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby Network. “I actually thought we’d have protesters. The only place we encountered that was in Phoenix.” The bus campaign, called “Network Nuns on the Bus: A Drive for Faith, Family and Citizenship,” was designed to build support for comprehensive immigration legislation now before the U.S. Senate. The tour began in New Jersey May 29, and along the way the sisters were met by Trenton, N.J., Bishop David M. O’Connell, Birmingham, Ala., retired Bishop David E. Foley and New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice spoke at closing ceremonies June 18 on Marina Green in San Francisco, with the Golden Gate Bridge and Angel Island, a former entry point for immigrants from Asia, in the background and delegations of Presentation and Mercy sisters from the archdiocese holding banners. He said it is important that immigrants from all backgrounds and all generations tell their stories in order to remind ourselves that “we are truly a nation of immigrants.” “We need to share our stories so the next wave that comes here knows we all share the same desires – freedom, justice and hope,” Bishop Justice said. Sister Simone said she learned in traveling through 15 states that “immigration is an issue everywhere.” The response from a variety of groups who feel that a piecemeal approach to reform is inadequate left

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that the water goes back and forth against the barrier wall,” she said. “It doesn’t keep the waters apart, and it shouldn’t keep the people apart.” That evening the sisters visited a South Central Los Angeles mercado that serves as a training place for immigrants to learn how to start their own stores. “All immigrants – learning how and contributing,” Sister Therese said. She was struck by the contrast between the scene on the border and the scene in the city. “You had these two extremes – a place of desolation and discouragement, and a place of great hope,” she said. “The other thing that is clear

VATICAN CITY – A meeting with Pope Francis designed as reflection on the last Synod of Bishops turned into a group reflection on strengthening the synod itself and the way the world’s bishops assist the pope. Meeting June 13 with members of the ordinary council of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis said there needs to be greater reflection on “the church, the mother church, with all its nuances, including that of synodality.” Pope Francis said each of the eight cardinals he named in April to advise him on the reform of the Roman Curia mentioned the need to “find a path for coordination between synodality and the bishop of Rome.” The work of the world Synod of Bishops, which has gathered bishops at the Vatican every three or four years to discuss a theme and make recommendations to the pope, “has to take a new path that expresses its uniqueness when united with the Petrine ministry,” he said. “This is a big challenge.” Australian Cardinal George Pell of Sydney spoke about the possibility of expanding the role of the synod council to be a more regular advisory body for the pope, one that would meet with the pope for several hours two or three times a year to discuss a specific topic. Cardinal Pell and two other council members – Cardinals Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, and Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasha, Congo – also are part of the eight-member group Pope Francis named in April to advise him about reforming the Roman Curia. The pope told the synod council that the advisory group would be expanded by one “because our Eastern brothers were a bit angry that

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Supporters listen to speakers on Marina Green in San Francisco June 18 at closing ceremonies for “Network Nuns on the Bus: A Drive for Faith, Family and Citizenship.” The 15-state tour in support of immigration reform made its final stop at the edge of San Francisco Bay, against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge and Angel Island. her more confident that Congress will pass reform this year. She said the reality of families divided by deportation was one concern highlighted on the tour. She met a 19-year-old Central American woman in Phoenix who is raising her 11-year-old siblings because their parents were deported. The 19-year-old needs her parents, too, she said. “People don’t understand the mixed status,” she said. “You can’t have one family with all these different statuses.” Mercy Sister Therese Randolph, who lives in Daly City, joined the tour in San Diego. She visited the border at Tijuana where a security fence runs down into the ocean. “The thing that struck me most is

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ARCHBISHOP TO RECEIVE PALLIUM: Pope Francis will bestow the pallium upon San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone June 29, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Dating to the fifth century, the liturgical vestment made of white wool represents an archbishop’s sharing pastoral care with the pope over the faithful of his archdiocese. It is a “symbol of the bishop as the good shepherd and, at the same time, of the lamb crucified for the salvation of the human race,” Gerard Skinner wrote in “The Pallium: A Brief Guide to Its Significance (Family Publications, 2007). Archbishop Cordileone will be joined by other metropolitan archbishops appointed during the past year, including Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin. Metropolitan archbishops are those who are appointed to preside over an ecclesiastical province that includes other dioceses called suffragan dioceses.

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The adage suggesting that youth is wasted on the young sure doesn’t apply to Jacob Rogers and Joseph Kaiser. Just 16, the two soon-to-be high school juniors have truly put grace – theirs and others’ – to work. Jacob, a student at Bellarmine Preparatory School in San Jose, and Joseph, who attends Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, have been friends since grade school at St. Nicholas School in Los Altos where they and their families are longtime parishioners. The idea of a service project together prompted them to consider several ideas that boiled down to “Vests and Veils,” a program that supplies first Communion clothes free of charge for communicants whose families cannot afford to purchase them “Joseph remembered his aunt’s story of making her first Communion in 1951 and then her confirmation the next year,” the young men told Catholic San Francisco in an email they both composed. “She said the nuns did it that way so the kids could use the same clothes before they outgrew them. That got us thinking about how expensive first Communion clothes can be and how quickly they’re outgrown. We realized ‘Vests and Veils’ could bring together families who struggle to afford Communion clothes with families who are trying to find a good home for Communion clothes they’ll never use again.” “Vests and Veils” is becoming widely known thanks to “word of mouth,” the founders said but media expansion continues. “We are currently working on a website for ‘Vests and Veils.’ We’ll also be setting up a Facebook page to reach out to Catholic high school students beyond Serra and Bellarmine.” Joseph and Jacob “bring the store to the people.” “We set up our ‘Vests and Veils’ store just like a regular store. All the clothes are hung on store-quality racks, organized by size and color. We bring in full-length mirrors and we set up dressing rooms for the kids to try on clothes.” While the organizational benefit certainly helps streamline service, it also lifts hearts, Joseph and Jacob said.

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Jacob Rogers and Joseph Kaiser have merged recycled grace and recycled first Communion clothes with “Vests and Veils.” “For some children, this was their first suit or formal dress.There was one little boy who tried on his new suit three times he was so excited! The incredible generosity of the people who donate and the tremendous appreciation of those who receive have been awesome.” “At our first distribution at St. Leo’s in San Jose, we were able to provide clothing for about 50 children, so we know the need is there. We didn’t realize that some families have multiple children making their first Communion at the same time.One family we met had four kids celebrating first Communion – imagine the expense.” The enthusiasm and support for ‘Vests and Veils’ have been overwhelming. “People understand how expensive Communion clothes are. Many still have outfits in their closets from five or 10 years ago. ‘Vests and Veils’ is really just about bringing families together – one Catholic family helping another Catholic family.” Donated clothes should be new or gently used and if not new drycleaned. “All the clothes we distribute are clean, crisp, and in good condition: Think Macy’s. Ideally, we’d like to have a three- to-one ratio of supply to demand so every child has a choice of two or three different styles of cloth-

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ing. The leftover inventory rolls over to the next year’s distribution.” The young men admit that ‘Vests and Veils’ has been the work of many hands. “We have received great help from so many people, especially our parents, but even more especially our moms who help keep us organized.” Jacob and Joseph hope to stay with “Vests and Veils” even after high school graduation in 2015 but know that Jacob’s proposed bioengineering curriculum and future-surgeon Joseph’s medical studies will keep them very busy. Boys’ suits, ties, shirts, pants, jackets and shoes, and girls’ dresses, veils and shoes in sizes appropriate for children in second through eighth grades are needed.Monetary donations in the form of cash or checks made payable to St. Nicholas Church also welcome. For more information about “Vests and Veils” or to arrange a pick-up of clothes, contact Jacob at (650) 947-9972 or jrogers2103@gmail.com or Joseph at (650) 322-9969 or kaiser2015joseph@ gmail.com. Catholic San Francisco is interested in stories about grace that keeps on giving. If there is a ministry, special work or person you’d like to nominate for a story, please email Tom Burke, burket@sfarchdiocese.org with your name, contact and some information about your nominee.

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Dominicans at St. Raymond Parish to stress ‘preaching to the unchurched’ VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Dominicans are coming to St. Raymond Parish in Menlo Park. And they are bringing an emphasis on Blessed John Paul II’s new evangelization to the parish and school. “For us, what is central about being parish priests is that we try to guide the parish in the direction of becoming a center of the new evangelization,” said Dominican Father Christopher Fadok, who was appointed pastor effective July 1 by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. “We cannot be satisfied with preaching only to those who come to Mass. Each one should be the basis for preaching to the unchurched.” The Archdiocese of San Francisco signed an agreement with the Western Province of the Order of Preachers to administer St. Raymond. Six friars will form a community there. They are: Father Fadok and parochial vicar Dominican Father Ambrose Sigman, ordained May 31; Dominican Father Eugene Sousa, Corpus Christi Monastery chaplain, part-time. In residence will be Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, who is ending his tenure as pastor of St. Dominic and will join Stanford Catholic community director Dominican Father Nathan Castle; Dominican Father Patrick O’Neil, director of Vallombrosa Center. Father Fadok said he is working with St. Raymond’s pastoral council and the liturgy committee to create a liturgy plan which will be the focus for the first year or two. He expects to offer the Liturgy of the Hours in the church so parishioners can pray the prayers with the Dominicans, to offer confession before Mass, and to schedule eucharistic adoration. Adoration and confessions might be offered during the times when parents are dropping off and picking up kids from school, he said, suggesting that might be one way to make the faith more accessible to busy Catholics. A quarterly Mass for anointing of the sick is another idea that the parish council and Father Fadok are tossing around, he said. “I think what we want to do is to make sure the liturgy is celebrated with a great sense of prayer, a great sense of reverence and also with a strong focus on hospitality,” Father Fadok said. “One practical thing it will mean is adding a lot more greeters, making sure there are folks at the door to put on a smile.” The Dominicans meeting in 1995 in Spain voted for legislation that mandates the focus on new evangelization, Father Fadok said. “We are still discovering how to do that. I don’t want to at all suggest we have some perfect model. It is a process of discovery.”

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by his bishop and for whose assistance with the transition Father Fadok expressed “great personal gratitude.” St. Raymond will become the second archdiocesan parish to be run by the Order of Preachers. Unlike the case of St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco, where the church and grounds are owned by the order, St. Raymond’s will remain the property of the archdiocese, said Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, who noted the outreach to the Dominicans was begun by Archbishop George Niederauer and continued by Archbishop Cordileone. Father Fadok, 45, is a former software engineer who grew up in Arizona. He was ordained in 2010 at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco and for the past three years served as parochial vicar at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Seattle.

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are parishioners. “Sister Anne Marie has been a mentor in my music. I am really appreciative of the support she has given me.” Isabella calls auditioning for the choir “one of my best decisions” and “singing religious music with kids my age is really uplifting.” Isabella looks to singing as a possible career choice and has even formed a coed a cappella group at Sacred Heart called Heartbeat Harmonies. She is a veteran of the choir camp and has traveled with the Peninsula Girls Chorus, a group she has sung with since third grade, to Europe. “Music has always been a big part of my life and I hope it continues to be that way,” Isabella said.

Happy birthday to Deacon George Salinger of St. Matthias Parish in Redwood City who was 84 years old June 2. I saw George on the day and when I said “You sure don’t look it,” he said, “I sure don’t feel it either.” Deacon George The best of his Salinger four score and four years has been “my ministry to the incarcerated and my 37 years of recovery from booze and drugs.” George celebrates his 14th anniversary as a deacon June 26 and says his ordination “is a day I will never forget.” His advice for us folks bringing up the rear on age and those who’ve passed him on the calendar: “Keep it simple and remember that God is your best friend.” WORKING THE SCALES: Isabella Custino is at summer camp chopping wood but not in the literal sense as might be thought. Chopping wood is an expression given me a long time ago by an excellent pianist and accompanist named Isabella Custino Algie Davis: It means working hard at making music. Isabella is doing just that with this year’s National Catholic Youth Choir made up of 35 high school students from 17 states. The songs minus campfire are sung at St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minn. and then at concerts in several sacred venues including churches in Iowa and Illinois. Camp includes rehearsals, repertoirebased classes in religion and daily worship and prayer. “I started singing when I could talk,” Isabella told me in an email. Her voice category is alto and she came to know about the choir camp through Sister Anne Marie McKenna, music director at St. Catherine of Siena Church where she, her sister, Alyssa, and parents Kellie and Aaron

HAIL MARY: Monica Koch, who turned 90 earlier this year, has made 67,000 rosaries since 1990 for people in prison and for the foreign and domestic missions. St. Mark Parish has announced the saintly lady’s retirement from the special ministry. “Monica was recently honored at the parish Ladies Guild annual Mary devotion,” said St. Mark’s Janet Leyte-Vidal. “In that time, she has also trained others to make them as well.” Monica’s beads went “anywhere there has been a need and for anyone who has asked,” Janet said.

BERNADETTE’S SPRING: Claudette and Jim Main of Our Lady of Angels Parish were in Lourdes April 30-May 8 with the Order of Malta trip to the famed shrine’s holy and “mighty cold” waters Claudette told me. “We found it an unbelievably exhilarating and spiritually uplifting pilgrimage,” the couple said. Claudette and Jim celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary Nov. 19.

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BLESSINGS: St. Isabella Parish literally walked the talk June 2, feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. Parishioners and other worshippers at the 11:30 Mass all took part in a eucharistic procession on the grounds of the church visiting three altars “in front of the school where we prayed for all students and teachers, one facing Maria B. Freitas Senior Housing where we prayed for all of our elderly and their caregivers, and all who are in the health care field” and a final altar “in front of the rectory where we prayed for all the clergy and those in religious life,” Linda Myers director of music and liturgy at the San Rafael parish told me. Benediction finished the devotion. Retired Father Frank Felice was celebrant, assisted by Deacon Rich Younkin and Deacon Jim Myers, Linda’s husband.

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ICA class of 2013 first to graduate under work-study model CHRISTINA M. GRAY

Eighty-two percent of ICA’s class of 2013 will enter fouryear colleges this fall while the remaining 18 percent are enrolled in junior-colleges with the goal of transferring to fouryear institutions.

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It has been four years since allgirls Immaculate Conception Academy in the Mission District of San Francisco became one of 25 high schools in the nation to join the Cristo Rey Network, an educational system aimed at making a Catholic, college-prep education available to urban youngsters from economically disadvantaged homes. That means that this year, the 52 young women in the class of 2013 are ICA’s first four-year graduates under the innovative Cristo Rey educational model founded by Jesuit Father John Foley in 1996. Its corporate work-study program, in addition to a rigorous academic program, sees virtually 100 percent of its graduates off to college after graduation – twice the national average for students at the same socioeconomic level in public schools. Eighty-two percent of ICA’s class of 2013 will enter four-year colleges this fall while the remaining 18 percent are enrolled in juniorcolleges with the goal of transferring to four-year institutions. “May you become “the risky generation,” said Father Foley in his homily for a baccalaureate Mass June 6 at St. James Church, recounting the against-all-odds development of the Cristo Rey model. “What we have learned from the Cristo Rey story is that unless we learn to be creative, to take a risk, we tie the Holy Spirit’s hands,” he said, adding that the Spirit does not arise “if we are only about business as

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Immaculate Conception Academy graduates receive Communion from Jesuit Father John Foley, founder of the Cristo Rey Network of college prep education for urban students from economically disadvantaged homes. Father Foley was commencement speaker for the class of 2013, urging the students to be creative and take risks lest “we tie the Holy Spirit’s hands.” usual. What are you going to do with the degree you are receiving today?” The Cristo Rey Network, with 7,500 students nationwide, gets its name and legacy from Cristo Rey High School in Chicago’s working-class, predominantly Hispanic Pilsen neighborhood. It was here in the early 1990s that Father Foley and his Jesuit colleagues successfully turned to the local Chicago business community as an ally in extending a quality education to the working poor. The corporate partnership is at the heart of the Cristo Rey model today. Each student works five full days each month of the school year in an entry-level job for a corporate sponsor. In return the fee for their work is returned to the school to help

underwrite costs; at full enrollment, schools can recover up to 90 percent of the cost of educating each student, dramatically reducing tuition cost to low-income families. “From a desire to pay the bills for a private, Catholic school, we came upon a totally new educational model,” Father Foley said. “What we discovered is that every year in every school, what students most like is the job. All our students hold an adult’s job with adult responsibilities. Now they have a reason to go to school. An entire future opens up to them.” ICA 2013 graduate Cecilia Rivera would agree. Cecilia, who worked for San Francisco’s Society for the Protection of Animals during her senior year, says her experience helped her

follow her dream to become a veterinarian. “I know I can do this because of the mentors in my personal life as well at work and at school.” Cecilia hopes to attend UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. “We call our corporate sponsors ‘co-educators,’” said Tim Szarnicki, director of ICA’s corporate work program. “They are rewarded by showing students what life is really like after you leave school and by creating the work force of a new generation.” Szarnicki added that some students come from a background that has not given them any exposure or knowledge to certain types of industries and work. “Work helps students understand the relevance of their education,” he said. For more information about the Cristo Rey Network, visit www.cristoreynetwork. org. To learn about becoming a corporate work-study sponsor, contact Sister Lilly Fitzpatrick at slilly@icacademy.org and (415) 568-2795 or Tim Szarnicki at tszarnicki@icacademy.org and (415) 568-2799.

THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE has appointed the Reverend Harold Snider, O.F.M. Cap. as Rector of The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, effective July 1, 2013. Fr. Harold comes to his new ministry from the Parish of Old Mission Santa Inez in Solvang, California where he also served as Catholic Chaplain for the Federal Prison System in Lompoc. Previously Fr. Harold has served as Pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame, and as Vocation Director, Postulant Director and Director of Seminarians in Berkeley California for the Capuchin Order and is currently a Definitor (Councilor to the Provincial) of the Capuchins. Father Harold obtained a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Military Science.from Providence College. He served as an officer in Army Military Intelligence. As a Parishioner at our Lady of Angels he was introduced to the Capuchins, spent 2 years in discernment with their Vocation Office, was accepted into their Novitiate program in August 1981, professed Final Vows in 1987, was ordained a Deacon in 1988, and ordained to the Priesthood in 1989, fulfilling a dream he first experienced when he was 6 years of age.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 21, 2013

State policy changes would ‘lead to many more abortions’ VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Planned Parenthood is sponsoring two pieces of California legislation that would allow all of its California clinics to offer first-trimester abortions performed by non-physicians – and make it cheaper to designate its clinics as primary health clinics, which are viewed as the front line of patient care under the Affordable Care Act. “This undoubtedly will lead to many more abortions in California,” said Carol Hogan, spokeswoman for the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the California bishops. “The change could mean millions of dollars in additional revenue for Planned Parenthood affiliates in California.” “Their existing abortion clinics will be reclassified as primary care facilities. They can build new facilities, call them primary care clinics, and access federal Affordable Care Act funds,” said the California bishops’ spokeswoman. Young women and families seeking primary care at the Planned Parenthood clinics “will be offered access to firsttrimester medical and aspiration abortions,” she said. One bill, AB154, would allow nurse midwives, nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform first-trimester aspiration abortions, the procedure commonly used in the first three months of pregnancy. That is when 90 percent of abortions occur, said Hogan. It would also redefine that procedure as non-surgery, she said. A second bill, AB980, would require state building code to include clinics offering first-trimester aspiration and medication abortion within a proposed state building code exemption for small neighborhood primary care clinics which perform services that are done in examination rooms only, according to state officials and chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. The proposed exemption is part of a triennial update of state building code to match national building standards. “This will enable the eight California Planned Parenthood affiliates, which currently serve 1 million patients in 100 health centers, as well as other providers, to build new facilities to accommodate patients entering the health care system as a result

MARIN COUNTY HELPS FUNDS CLINIC BUILDING

The Marin County Board of Supervisors allocated $250,000 to help pay for more than $3 million in capital costs for a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Rafael that was slated to open June 19. The clinic will offer surgical, or aspiration, abortions. Marin County Supervisor Susan Adams, who sponsored the legislation to fund the clinic, told Catholic San Francisco in an email: “Our board has a long history of partnering with our other nonprofit health care providers (Marin Community Clinics, Coastal health, Marin City health and wellness, etc.) that provide clinical services to our low-income residents. No ongoing funds are being allocated to Planned Parenthood for any delivery of medical services.” The clinic was closed for two years after the financial collapse of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate but is being reopened by Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific. The 2 H St. clinic will offer abortion, artificial contraception, STD and HIV testing, according to the website of Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific. Marin County resident Don Farber spoke out against the county’s allocation of funds to Planned Parenthood, saying the clinic opening “challenges public decency.”

of the Affordable Care Act,” wrote Beth Parker, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California in comments supporting the legislation dated April 5. Both bills are now before the state Senate. The Assembly passed AB154 by a vote of 50-25 on May 28. The Assembly approved AB980 by a vote of 47-21 on May 24. Hogan said “girls as young as 12, who under California law can already obtain a state-funded abortion without parental knowledge or consent, would be placed in even more danger” if the bills become law. Major portions of the Affordable Care Act take

effect in 2014 and 2.6 million Californians will be eligible for coverage, according to Covered California, the state health insurance exchange. The Affordable Care Act provides $11 billion over five years for the operation, expansion and construction of health centers nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A number of Planned Parenthood clinics already serve as primary care clinics with diabetes and blood pressure screening, mammograms, and prenatal care as well as HIV and STD testing, contraception, and abortion. With the proposed change in the state building code, Planned Parenthood clinics would be able to both offer surgical abortion and serve as primary care clinics under the Affordable Care Act – without incurring additional construction costs, according to Parker. Parker wrote that “… abortion has become a very routine, outpatient and low-risk procedure.” Doctors’ offices are not required to meet these standards and requiring them of abortion clinics is unconstitutional under California’s constitutional guarantees of access to abortion, she wrote. The proposed building code requirements for these primary care neighborhood outpatient facilities would allow them to use the provisions of the California Mechanical Code and the California Plumbing Code applicable to typical commercial buildings – rather than the standards for those buildings in which medical procedures are performed, said David Byrnes, information officer for the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. The change proposed by Planned Parenthood under AB980 “will create parity between primary care clinics that provide early abortion services and those that do not,” Planned Parenthood’s Parker wrote. “Abortion is not a minor procedure for a woman, as possible complications include both uterine perforation and hemorrhage. If AB154 passes, abortions will be provided by non-physicians; and if AB 980 passes, in a clinic not approved for surgery,” said Hogan. AB980 was introduced by pediatrician and Assemblyman Richard Pan, D-Sacramento. AB154 was introduced by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego.

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Report: ‘Witch hunt’ tactics harm church anti-poverty arm MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops’ domestic anti-poverty arm, should “resist efforts” that isolate Catholic-funded organizations from effective coalitions that are improving the lives of low-income citizens, according to a new report examining threats to CCHD’s funding. The report also assailed what were called, in the words of the head of one CCHD-funded group that had its grant pulled, the “witch hunt” tactics by CCHD’s opponents. The report was published June 11 by Faith in Public Life, which bills itself as “a strategy center for the faith community advancing faith in the public square as a powerful force for justice, compassion and the common good.” “Lay Catholics concerned about protecting the church’s social justice witness in public life should redouble their commitment to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development through donations, letters of support to bishops and volunteering,” said one recommendation in the report. The report is titled “Be Not Afraid?: Guilt by Association, Catholic McCarthyism and Growing Threats to the U.S. Bishops’ Anti-Poverty Mission.” It accuses such groups as the American Life League and the Reform CCHD Now Coalition of “creating a culture of fear around community organizing,” based on interviews with community development experts, nonprofit directors and national philanthropic leaders. The 10,000-word report was endorsed by, among others, two former presidents of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, six retired U.S. bishops, a former USCCB associate general secretary, two former CCHD directors and seven former CCHD employees. Eighteen organizations, 17 Catholic and one interfaith, also endorsed the report. Retired Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn, N.Y., endorsed the report before he died June 7, and the report is dedicated to his memory.

Concern with partners and church teaching

“Be Not Afraid?” offered several case studies of groups that had their CCHD funding pulled after the grant had already been awarded, often for having a coalition partner that adopted a political position contrary to Catholic teaching but is not germane to the funded organization’s work. The Minneapolis-based Land Stewardship Project, founded in 1982, trains new farmers, challenges large-scale factory farms that have poor records on labor rights, and advocates for more sustainable local agriculture. It has received CCHD grants since the late 1980s, and $190,000 since 2007. But after getting a $48,000 grant last year, it was told to resign its membership in two organizations that did not endorse the Minnesota bishops’ efforts for an amendment to the state

‘It seems like the most zealous guardians of Catholic identity are so busy playing purity police that they miss the larger essence.’ JOHN GEHRING

Author of the Faith in Public Life report constitution to ban same-sex marriage or its grant would be yanked. According to the report, the American Life League had compiled a dossier noting the connections between the nonprofits, posted it online and sent it to Minnesota bishops and to CCHD officials in Washington. Project director Mark Shultz, according to the report, “believes the American Life League’s ‘witch hunt’ tactics created an atmosphere of fear and paranoia that cast doubt about (its) fidelity to Catholic teaching despite its long history of working with CCHD.” The grant was pulled after the Land Stewardship Project refused to resign its membership. After word spread of the revocation, other donations more than made up for the forfeited grant money.

Grant pulled because of coalition link

Companeros, an immigrant rights organization in the Diocese of Pueblo, Colo., had its CCHD grant – more than half of the organization’s revenue – pulled after it was found to be part of a coalition that included One Colorado, a homosexual rights group. Like the Land Stewardship Project, it received donations that more than equaled the lost CCHD funding. But Companeros director Nicole Mosher told Faith in Public Life that she worries about the organization’s future without the “anchor” of CCHD funding. CCHD’s current director, Ralph McCloud, told Catholic News Service that the 2010 CCHD “review and renewal” process meant to address shortcomings some saw in its grant funding was “an opportunity for CCHD to look entirely at some of the mechanisms and some of the safeguards to see whether there needs to be any tweaking and changing. I think it was time after 40 years.” The collection started in 1970, raising $8 million. The 2011 collection, the latest for which figures are available, raised $9.8 million. The sticking point for CCHD critics appears to be with some of the coalition partners of orga-

nizations that get funding from the agency. But “most of the folks, if not all of the funded groups, understand where the Catholic Church comes in,” McCloud told CNS. “They respect that. They’ve made in some ways conscious efforts to be in compliance and they make sure they would never accidentally cross the line. I think it’s given us an opportunity to share that teaching and those beliefs in a bolder way.” Some bishops have opted out of the nationwide CCHD collection, preferring instead to conduct their own drives. “Each diocese is different,” McCloud said. “There are no two that are alike. ... But we’re open to conversation with anyone” about having them rejoin CCHD.

Defending church against attacks

Michael Hichborn, director of the American Life League’s Defend the Faith project, described the project as “assisting bishops across the country defend the Catholic Church from attacks both from without as well as from within.” He said the report seems “to have a thing on CCHD guidelines on coalitions. We simply applied those guidelines. So if they have a complaint about the guidelines, I don’t know why they’re pointing a finger at us about that.” Hichborn also dismissed as “totally inaccurate” the “witch hunt” characterization in “Be Not Afraid?” “First of all, we’re not looking for witches, we’re not looking for bad organizations just because” the group wants to, he said. “We’re looking for organizations that receive money that are working directly against the Catholic Church.” “Unfortunately, there are some folks who really don’t understand it,” McCloud told CNS, referring to the agency’s mission. “There are others who have yet to experience it in a way, and appreciate the way the CCHD has over the years and over the decades worked with groups in low-income communities, to hear firsthand what some of the needs are.” “It seems like the most zealous guardians of Catholic identity are so busy playing purity police that they miss the larger essence,” said John Gehring, who wrote the Faith in Public Life report. Those groups, he added, should focus on “the spirit of the law more than about the letter of the law.”

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Theologian urges church to give Holy Spirit more ‘breathing room’ GLEN ARGAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MIAMI – Although the Second Vatican Council called on the Catholic Church to mirror the life of the Trinity, the church is still far from being converted to that vision, a leading Australian theologian said June 8. “The major issue is that the Holy Spirit is given very little institutional breathing room,” Father Ormond Rush said in a plenary address to the annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America in Miami. Father Rush said the 1983 Code of Canon Law does not mention the Holy Spirit and provides no structures for discerning the Spirit, a process that was critical in New Testament times. “Ecclesial conversion cannot take place if the very divine agent of conversion is not given opportunities to convert the church,” said Father Rush, an associate professor of theology at St. Paul’s Theological College at Australian Catholic University in Banyo. He is the author of “Still Interpreting Vatican II.” The topic of his address was “Ecclesial conversion after Vatican II: Renewing ‘the face of the church’ to reflect ‘the genuine face of God.’”

The council, he said, sought to change the face that the church presents to the world. “Vatican II wants to stop the scowl and give a smile; and even shed a tear.” The church is called to “mirror the genuine face of the God whom she proclaims,” said Father Rush, a priest of the Diocese of Townsville, Australia. Yet one “fundamental concern” in implementing the agenda of Vatican II, he said, is “that the face of the church is not always resplendent with the light of Christ.” Sinfulness in the church is a barrier to reform, and it includes clergy sexual abuse of children, “ecclesial corruption and inner power struggles,” and what Pope Francis has called careerism, he said. It also includes “sins of patriarchy, clericalism, sexism, racism, collusion with economic, political, and social exclusion and oppression,” he said. That sinfulness is not just a matter of the sins of individuals, he said. Instead, he explained, its sins can become embedded in the church’s institutional culture and structures. Another barrier to change, he said, is the failure to take account of the council’s “new perspective on how God works in history.” Over the four years that Vatican II met, the

council fathers came to see that God is revealed in the present as well as in the past, he added. “As the Holy Spirit leads the church in history through conversion to the fullness of truth, God is challenging the church to discern the new things that God is doing in Christ through the Spirit – by scrutinizing the signs of the times in the light of the Gospel.” Father Rush cited the late Cardinal Avery Dulles’ view that Vatican II represented “creative transformation.” The church, Dulles said, can innovate in ways “that do not simply grow out of its own previous tradition.” New questions arise that the church has never previously faced or even envisaged, “because it was inconceivable to have even thought of them, due to the worldviews of the time,” Father Rush said. “Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the church must respond to God working in history.” While there has been a great emphasis on the church as a hierarchical communion, he said, the council also spoke of two other types of communion. One was “the communion of local churches ‘in which and out of which’ the one church of Christ exists,” he said. The other is “the communion of the faithful throughout the world-church, all the individual baptized believers.” Those three types of communion need to be balanced, he said. Doing so would lead to “a culture of dialogue” in which the integrity of local churches and their lived faith is respected, and there would also be respect for the Holy Spirit “speaking to church of churches” through the sense of the faithful, he added.

Bishops from 9 nations reaffirm commitment to migrants CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES – Critically needed comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. and throughout the Western Hemisphere should be tied to new laws that promote a sustainable economic development in the region, according to bishops of nine nations who met June 3-6 in Los Angeles. In a statement, they reaffirmed their commitment to “vulnerable persons who migrate seeking protection from violence or for a better life for themselves and their families.” And they called upon “all members of the Catholic community and people of good will in our nations to stand in solidarity with persons on the move and to work for their just and humane treatment.” The participants at this year’s Bishops’ Regional Consultation on Migration noted their concern with increased trafficking of youth and women, U.S. migration of youth forced by increasing gang activity and drug trafficking in their native countries, and a scarcity of resources to support the reunification of families and their socioeconomic reintegration. “Persons on the move should be welcomed with hospitality, service and justice,” the bishops said in their statement. “This view is consistent with the Gospels of our Lord Jesus Christ, who calls upon all to ‘welcome the stranger,’ ‘for what you do to the least of my brethren, you do unto me.’”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 21, 2013

EDMUND PELLEGRINO DIES AT 92; PHYSICIAN SAID ‘MEDICINE IS A MORAL ENTERPRISE’

WASHINGTON – Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, who founded and directed Georgetown University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Ethics and was a former president of The Catholic University of America, died June 13. He was 92. Considered one of the most prominent founders of the field of bioethics and an early pioneer in teaching humanities in medical schools, he was the author of more than 600 published articles in medical science, philosophy and ethics and author or coauthor of 23 books. Ethics were at the core of Pellegrino’s work as physician, educator, philosopher and scientist. He was a leading voice of opposition to assisted suicide, euthanasia, artificial reproduction, abortion, certain forms of genetic manipulation and other threats he saw to human life. “Medicine is a moral enterprise,” he once told Georgetown Magazine. “And if you take away the ethical and the moral dimensions, you end up with a technique. The reason it’s a profession is that it’s dedicated to something other than its own self-interests.”

US DROPS FIGHT ON PLAN B AGE LIMITS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Catholic officials expressed disappointment with the June 10 announcement that the federal government will comply with a judge’s ruling to allow girls of any age to buy the morning-after pill without a prescription. The decision reversed recent course of action by the federal government. On May 1, the Justice Department announced that it would appeal a ruling by a federal judge in early April that said the Food and Drug Administration must make emergency contraceptives available to all ages by May 6. In a June 10 letter to U.S. District Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn, N.Y., department officials said they will submit a plan for compliance with his ruling and will drop their appeal. The letter also said the FDA has advised the drug’s manufacturer to submit an application to make Plan B One-Step available over the counter without restrictions. News reports June 11 said the Justice Department also told the judge it will not make available over the counter the two-pill Plan B product, which it described as being significantly different from the one-pill version. Two-pill generic versions of Plan B would remain behind store counters and require a prescription and ID for those under the age of 17. Plan B, known generically as levonorgestrel, uses large doses of birth-control pills to prevent conception up to 72 hours after unprotected sex.

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Warning on perils of infant malnutrition Mariah Ryan, 2, checks out tomato plants growing outside the Baltimore Catholic Charities Head Start program in Edgewood, Md., June 13. While severe malnourishment is rare in the U.S., more than 16 million children live in households that are unable to access enough nutritious food for a healthy life, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Malnutrition slows children’s mental growth, making them 20 percent less able to read and handicapping them so that as adults they earn on average 20 percent less than their counterparts who had a healthy diet as children. The 1,000 Days campaign, a coalition of groups dedicated to promoting good nutrition from the minute a woman becomes aware of her pregnancy to her child’s second birthday, recently gathered in the nation’s capital to discuss effective strategies and to lobby policymakers.

RETIRED CRS HEAD NAMED US AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama June 14 nominated Ken Hackett, retired president of Catholic Relief Services, to be U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Hackett retired in December 2011 after 18 years as president of CRS, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency. As U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, he succeeds Miguel Diaz, who left the post in late 2012.

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NEW YORK – The International Criminal Court declined a request from victims of clergy sexual abuse to investigate Vatican officials and their responsibility for the abuse of children by Catholic priests around the world. In a two-page letter May 31, the court told the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented the victims, that the offenses alleged in the survivor’s petition “do not appear to fall within the jurisdiction of the court.” The request from victims of clergy sexual abuse was filed in September 2011 and targeted Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials, saying that they “tolerate and enable the systematic widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes throughout the world.” Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, told reporters that the outcome was expected. “I never doubted this would be the response (of the ICC), given the total groundlessness of the accusation,” he was reported as saying. Advocates for abuse victims pledged to continue gathering evidence in anticipation of filing another request with the court based at The Hague. “We’re neither deterred nor discouraged by this news,” Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which sought the investigation, said in a June 13 statement. “We are confident that the ICC will see sufficient evidence that high ranking Catholic officials are still knowingly enabling predators to harm and endanger children across the world, while concealing these heinous crimes even more effectively.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 21, 2013

Congo losing a generation to war, says bishops’ conference president CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Congo is losing a generation to war over diamonds and other minerals in the country’s eastern regions, said the president of the nation’s bishops’ conference. “We are losing a generation. That’s true,” Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola of Tshumbe, Congo, told Catholic News Service June 4. “A lot of children have not gone to school because of that. It’s terrible.” However, while peace is being sought for eastern Congo, Bishop Djomo said he prefers a nontraditional approach. “We don’t think that negotiating directly with the rebels right now is something which is useful,” he said. “We are asking to negotiate also with the neighboring countries. Some of them are back-

ing the rebels. It’s very important. The rebels are instrumented (supplied) by some countries.” The bishop did not name those countries, but Rwanda and Uganda have denied international charges that they supported the rebels in eastern Congo. In the past, Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe have backed the government. Bishop Djomo was in WashingBishop Lola ton as part of a tour of Western nations, during which he hoped to generate support for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, which began in 1996. He told Catholic News Service the effects of the war are readily visible. “We have 2 million displaced people. Two million people fled the villages without any possibility to cultivate (land). And the international community is not able to feed all of them. People in camps don’t have (enough) food,” he said. “At the same time, the education system doesn’t

work,” Bishop Djomo added. “Imagine the children in this area. They are not able to go to school. That’s terrible for us. For the last 15 years, women are raped and they are not able to be in security.” Issues of human rights and poverty are connected to the war. “The Catholic Church is questioning the government so that human rights will be respected, and we spoke to the government ... asking to making to make things more transparent,” Bishop Djomo said. “We have even met with the (Congolese) president over that. So we know that without respecting human rights, it’s very difficult to end the war, the instability.” He added: “We need our military to be more respectful of human rights and the justice against the corruption. That is a very, very important issue for the church and we are working hard.” Poverty, according to Bishop Djomo, is “a huge challenge. Fighting the armed groups, it’s absolutely necessary to work for development – to support development in that area, because poverty is dangerous. And it’s engendering the violence.”

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Jesuit magazine can bridge Gospel-culture rift, pope says CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said his fellow Jesuits can help heal the rift between the Gospel and today’s cultures. “This ministry is typical of the mission of the Society of Jesus,” he said, urging the editors and staff of a Jesuit journal to continue offering the world “your reflections and your in-depth analyses” of cultural and social trends and transformations, including hot button topics.

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The pope met June 14 with the editors and staff of La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit-run magazine founded by Pope Pius IX in 1850. The Romebased biweekly journal continues to be reviewed by the Vatican Secretariat of State before publication. Pope Pius entrusted the magazine to the Jesuits whose charism, Pope Francis said, includes looking for God in all things. “One treasure of the Jesuits is spiritual discernment, that seeks Pope Francis to recognize the presence of God’s spirit in human and cultural experiences,” said the Jesuit pope. But he also told the staff that “fidelity to the church demands still being firm against the hypocrisies (that are) fruit of a closed, sick heart.” The mission of La Civilta Cattolica, he said, is to be a voice in the wider cultural debates of the day and “to propose, in a way that is serious and accessible, a vision that’s based on the Christian faith.” “The split between the Gospel and culture is without a doubt the drama of our time,” he said, citing Pope Paul VI’s 1975 apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Nuntiandi.”

“You are called to make your contribution to heal this rift, which even passes through each of your hearts and those of your readers,” he said. In a world marked by so many changes and “shaken by questions of great importance” for the faith, a courageous commitment is urgently needed to transmit “a faith that is persuasive and mature, capable of giving meaning to life and offering convincing answers to those seeking God.” The magazine’s main task is to build bridges, not walls, and engage in dialogue with all people, even those who are not Christian but share the same values, as well as those who are antagonistic to or persecute the church, he said. Dialogue calls for letting down one’s guard, opening up to others, believing others have something good to contribute and giving room to others’ opinions and points of view, “obviously without falling into relativism.” The pope told the magazine’s staff to always keep an open heart and mind and “avoid the spiritual illness of being self-referential.” By keeping their gaze on Christ, they will keep their work “prophetic and dynamic,” he told them, and they will “always remain young and daring in the reading of world events.”

POPE: SHOW INTENSE HUMILITY, NOT ‘LITTLE ANGEL FACE’

He said when St. Paul spoke to the people, he always referred to his past mistakes and sinful nature, and never insinuated that “’Now I am a saint. No. Even now a sliver of Satan in my flesh” remains. St. Paul “is a sinner who welcomes Jesus Christ, speaks with Jesus Christ.” The key to sharing Christ with others is humility, which all priests should reflect, Pope Francis said. “If we only boast about our resume and accomplishments and nothing else, we will end up being mistaken. We cannot proclaim Jesus Christ the savior because in the end we don’t feel it” if people don’t really experience salvation, he said. People have to demonstrate “real humility” and repentance for specific, concrete sins, and not be “sinners with that humility that looks more like a little angel face. No, intense humility,” he said. “We have a treasure – Jesus Christ the savior, the cross of Jesus Christ, that we are proud of,” he said. “But we hold it in an earthen vessel. “Jesus Christ didn’t save us with an idea, with an intellectual program, no. He saved us with his flesh, with the concreteness of the flesh.”

VATICAN CITY – When boasting of having Jesus Christ as one’s savior, people shouldn’t pretend they aren’t guilty of sin, Pope Francis said. The sincere and humble admission of one’s weaknesses, of having “a sliver of Satan in my flesh,” shows that the power of salvation comes from God, not oneself, the pope said at Mass June 14 in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The pope concelebrated Mass with Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy; those in attendance at the Mass included members of the clergy office. The pope highlighted the day’s reading from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians in which the apostle said, “We hold this treasure in earthen vessels that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.” In fact, the only way to truly receive the gift of salvation is in “an earthen vessel,” that is, in recognizing one’s own sinful nature with real humility, he said. “The dialogue of salvation” happens between Christ and people exactly “as we are,” he said.

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Catholic high schools of archdiocese graduate more than 2,000 students More than 2,000 students graduated from Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2013. More than 25,000 students attended archdiocesan Catholic schools during school year 2012-13: 17,291 elementary school and 7,838 high school students. Students pictured are among those honored at recent commencement rites.

Immaculate Conception Academy

ICA Jacqueline Gonzalez

RIORDAN Oliver Wijayapala

RIORDAN Arcelio Reybol

RIORDAN Brandon Chen

Immaculate Conception Academy graduated 52 students June 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. Diplomas were handed out by school president Dominican Sister Diane Aruda and principal, Lisa Graham. Guest speakers were Dominican Sister Gloria Marie Jones, congregational prioress, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose and Jesuit Father John Foley, founder of the Cristo Rey schools network.

Archbishop Riordan High School

RIORDAN Anthony Trigueiro

STUART HALL Devin Harvey

CONVENT Stephanie Gee

SI Jacqueline Martinez

Archbishop Riordan High School president Joseph Conti and principal Kevin Asbra presented diplomas to 117 students May 25 in Riordan’s Lindland Theatre.

Stuart Hall High School

Stuart Hall High School graduated 30 students June 8 at Stuart Hall High School. Reynolds Marquette, dean of studies, Joseph Niehaus, board chairman, and Ann Marie Krejcarek, president, handed out diplomas. Guest speakers included Michael Campos, theology faculty. Tony Farrell is head of school. SI Margaret Meagher

SI Megan Lau

SI Christopher Jadallah

SI Berkeley Vogelheim

Convent of the Sacred Heart High School

Convent of the Sacred Heart High School graduated 40 students June 7 at the Flood Mansion. Joseph Niehaus, board chairman, handed out diplomas. Guest speakers included 1979 alumna Francine Anthony. Mary Forsyth is head of school.

St. Ignatius College Preparatory

MERCY SF Kelly Simms

MERCY SF Brittney Tabel

MERCY SF Jade Ritterbusch

SHCP Sophia Bowman

St. Ignatius College Preparatory held its commencement exercises June 1 at St. Ignatius Church for 344 members of the class of 2013. President John Knight and principal Patrick Ruff spoke, as did valedictorian Margaret Meagher, who was honored along with Jacqueline Martinez, the recipient of the school’s highest honor, the Ignatian Award.

Mercy High School San Francisco

NOTRE DAME Katherine Killmond

NOTRE DAME Abigail Muscarella

MERCY BURLINGAME Amanda Odasz

MERCY BURLINGAME Juliette Hackett

Mercy High School, San Francisco graduated 125 Students June 1 at Holy Name of Jesus Church, San Francisco. Dorothy McCrea, principal, handed out diplomas.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory graduated 314 students on May 25 at Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco. President John F. Scudder Jr. and principal Gary Cannon handed out diplomas. Guest speakers included salutatorian Daniel McElroy.

SACRED HEART Shannon Toole

MARIN CATHOLIC Kathryn M. Khalvati

SACRED HEART Tyler VauDell

MARIN CATHOLIC Victoria P. Pereira

PRIORY Avery Minor

SAN DOMENICO Sasha Nagler

PRIORY Courtney Cheung

SERRA Edwin Garcia

Notre Dame High School

Rita Gleason, principal presented diplomas to 123 graduates June 5 at St. Pius Church in Redwood City.

Mercy High School Burlingame

Mercy High School Burlingame graduated 114 seniors June 2 at St. Ignatius Church on the University of San Francisco campus. Principal Lisa Tortorich handed out diplomas. Mercy Sister M. Katherine Doyle the school’s interim president, and incoming president Karen Hanrihan also assisted in the rites.

Sacred Heart Preparatory

Sacred Heart Preparatory graduated 149 students May 24, 2013, at the school’s 115th commencement ceremony on the Sacred Heart Schools campus in Atherton. Richard A. Dioli, director of schools, Eric Lamb, board of trustees chairman; principal James Everitt and school faculty including Brian Bell, Ken Thompson and Karen Filice presented diplomas.

Woodside Priory

Woodside Priory graduated 69 seniors June 1 at the school’s 53rd commencement on the Portola Valley campus. Emre Sonmez was the student speaker. Pulitzer Prize winning political animator Mark Fiore, a 1987 Priory alumnus, was the commencement speaker.

Marin Catholic High School

Marin Catholic High School presented diplomas to 172 graduates June 6 at the Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium at the Civic Center. Presenting diplomas were Tim Navone, president; and Chris Valdez, principal.

San Domenico School

San Domenico School graduated 37 young women on June 8 at San Domenico School. Tracey Kelp, academic dean, handed out the diplomas along with Cecily Stock, head of school. Alyce Brownridge, high school division head, served as master of ceremonies. John Bowermaster, dean of faculty provided the commencement address. Olivia Ayanruoh, student body president, and Niki Fukada, senior class president, provided student addresses.

Junipero Serra High School

Junipero Serra High School graduated 217 students June 1 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. Principal Barry Thornton handed out diplomas.

FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT Our Catholic school graduates have accomplished much and received a great deal of recognition. I delight in their success! In conjunction with parents, grandparents, family members, friends, and schoolmates, I want to extend to each graduate my sincerest congratulations on a job well done! May this next chapter in your academic career be filled with God’s many blessings. Congratulations class of 2013! Maureen Huntington Superintendent of Catholic Schools Archdiocese of San Francisco

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San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice spoke about the need for immigrants from all backgrounds and generations to share their stories “so the next wave that comes here knows we all share the same desires – freedom, justice and hope.”

Presentation Sisters Denise Bourdet, right, and Maire Sullivan, center, hold a banner supporting justice for immigrants. At left is Mercy Sister Sheila Devereux, one of a dozen Mercy sisters who attended closing ceremonies in San Francisco June 18 for a nuns’ cross-country tour for immigration reform.

NUNS: 15-state tour for immigration reform closes in San Francisco FROM PAGE 1

from riding the bus is how much fear there is in our country,” Sister Therese said. “We hear a lot about the fear of immigrants taking over and using all the resources. The truth is, immigrants contribute to our economy.

“But the other thing is there is a great fear among immigrants that they won’t be able to provide for their families because people will be deported,” she said. Another theme on the trip was the prospect that immigration reform will improve the economy, with 3 million immigrants ready to own their own homes, Sister Therese

said. “They want to be citizens and they know it would cost money and they’d have to get in line, but at least there would be a line for it,” she said. Presentation Sister Maire Sullivan heads The Lantern, a ministry for immigrants in the Mission District of San Francisco. The ministry is a learning center that provides

English, computer and citizenship classes. Reform “is very important,” Sister Maire said. “Most of our students are undocumented and have been waiting for some kind of change in the law that would make life easier. It would be extremely important. I’m very proud of the fact that sisters would take the lead on this.”

COLLEGIALITY: Family, laity among ideas for Rome-bishops dialogue AT A GLANCE

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they weren’t represented. So, one’s missing, but he still hasn’t been chosen.” In the text prepared for the June 13 meeting – a text the pope said would be handed to the council members – Pope Francis had described the synods as “one of the fruits of the Second Vatican Council” and a structure “at the service of the mission and communion of the church, as an expression of collegiality.” “Open to the grace of the Holy Spirit, the soul of the church, we trust that the Synod of Bishops will undergo further developments to further promote dialogue and collaboration among the bishops and between the bishops and the bishop of Rome,” he had written. While the pope did not read his prepared text, audio from the meeting June 13 was broadcast in the Vatican press office. Council members were invited to tell the pope their initial ideas for the next world Synod of Bishops. Their suggestions included: the meaning of the church, the church’s encounter with the world, collegiality and “synodality” – basically the relationship between the college of bishops and the pope – ecology, the family, interreligious dialogue and formation of the laity. After listening to several cardinals’ suggestions, the pope joked, “The cake is only half cooked, huh?” The council members were to continue meeting and to vote on three possible themes to suggest to the pope. He told them, “I’d take a fourth, too.”

EACH OF THE EIGHT CARDINALS Pope Francis named in April to advise him on the reform of the Roman Curia mentioned the need to “find a path for coordination between synodality and the bishop of Rome,” the pope said. THE WORK OF THE WORLD SYNOD OF BISHOPS, which has gathered bishops at the Vatican every three or four years to discuss a theme and make recommendations to the pope, “has to take a new path that expresses its uniqueness when united with the Petrine ministry,” he said. AUSTRALIAN CARDINAL GEORGE PELL of Sydney spoke about the possibility of expanding the role of the synod council to be a more regular advisory body for the pope, meeting two or three times a year to discuss a specific topic.

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Pope Francis greets the crowd as he arrives to lead his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 12. A June 13 meeting with Pope Francis designed as reflection on the last Synod of Bishops turned into a group reflection on strengthening the synod itself and the way the world’s bishops assist the pope. Pope Francis said, “The family is a serious problem. ... Today many people, even Catholics, don’t get married but live together. Marriage is seen as provisional. It’s a serious problem.” The pope said that in October, he and his cardinal-advisers would discuss who they would entrust with “a study on pastoral work with families. The synod? A special synod? With the presidents of bishops’ conferences?

This is a problem that we’ll look at in October.” Another important theme, he said, is ecology, not in the strict sense of environmentalism, but regarding the relationship between what Catholics have called “human ecology and creation,” an ecology that begins with the human person – the sacredness of human life, human dignity and the obligation of human beings to protect each other and the environment.

COUNCIL MEMBERS’ SUGGESTIONS for the next world synod including the meaning of the church, the church’s encounter with the world, collegiality and “synodality” – basically the relationship between the college of bishops and the pope – ecology, the family, interreligious dialogue and formation of the laity. THE POPE SAID THAT IN OCTOBER, he and his cardinal-advisers would discuss who they would entrust with “a study on pastoral work with families.” He said another important theme is ecology, not strictly environmentalism but an ecology that begins with the human person – the sacredness of human life, human dignity and the obligation of human beings to protect each other and the environment.

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‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me’

hirty-five-years-ago when Annunciation House – a sanctuary and home of hospitality that has served over 100,000 refugees, homeless poor and undocumented workers – was started in El Paso, Texas, founding director Ruben Garcia and a few friends wanted to place themselves among the poor, to see where the TONY MAGLIANO poor would lead them. He said, “They took us to the undocumented – the most vulnerable.” Garcia explained to me that since the undocumented have no legal status in the United States, they are forced to take undesirable, poorly paid jobs, which offer no benefits. Unlike poor U.S. citizens, undocumented workers and their families cannot receive food stamps, Medicaid or housing assistance. They are at the lowest rung of American life. So why do they come? They come because most often they and their families are extremely poor, and they cannot find jobs in their native countries that pay a living wage. And that the U.S. has many more low-skilled jobs than there are Americans who are willing to take them. But why don’t they enter legally? Because there are too few low-skilled visas available.

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Maria del Alba Rodriguez and her sister, Rosa Maria Villalba, shout slogans as people rally for comprehensive immigration reform April 10 near the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Kevin Appleby, director of migration policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told me only 5,000 permanent resident visas and approximately 106,000 temporary worker visas are issued per year for foreign low-skilled workers. Yet, he said that before the current recession 500,000 workers every year came to the U.S. and found jobs. Therefore, millions of foreign workers must secretly and dangerously – moving through deserts and facing drug

gangs – cross the border to fill vacant American jobs in order to support their very poor families. Appleby said, “The current system is a mess.” But there is hope that this mess can soon be cleaned up – at least somewhat. The “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013,” which was placed on the Senate’s legislative calendar May 28, would allow approximately 11 million undocumented migrants to come out of

I would like to add my father’s name and baseball history to your list of past ball players interred at Holy Cross Cemetery. His name was Walter Lister Sr. (1903-2001) and he was a legend in his own time. My dad was a pitcher for many championship (Class AAAA semi-pro) teams for almost 50 years, during the early ‘20s to the early ‘60s. He even played with the DiMaggio brothers before they went pro ball. He pitched his last game for the San Francisco Baseball Old Timers Association when he was close to 65 years old – and he still had the fastball working for him. He played for the SF Seals, Oakland Oaks and numerous Northern California semi-pro teams – Owl Drugs, Yellow Checker Cab, Bay Meadows, San Mateo Blues, to name a few. One game in particular that always stood out in my memory was played at Seal Stadium when I was 7 years old. He pitched 21 innings – no relief pitchers in those days (yes, the team won). Longest game I had ever been to! He also pitched many, many doubleheaders. He was truly was an “Iron Man,” as he was aptly nicknamed. He is interred with my mother, Valentina, in the St. Mark/St. Matthew outdoor crypts at Holy Cross. There is a wonderful website called goodoldsandlotdays.com that contains a plethora of baseball history in Northern California. Barbara Lister Demattei South San Francisco

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the shadows of second-class existence by providing provisional legal status and protection from deportation and worker exploitation. And it would open a path toward permanent residency and citizenship – after waiting 10 and 13 long years respectively. The U.S. bishops support this bill, said Appleby. But they need our help to get it passed into law. Blessed John XXIII, in his encyclical “Pacem in Terris” (“Peace on Earth”) wrote, “Every human being has the right to freedom of movement and of residence within the confines of his own country; and, when there are just reasons for it, the right to emigrate to other countries and take up residence there.” Garcia asked that I raise the following questions on behalf of the undocumented: “Should undocumented immigrants have to live in an underground world? Is it right to use closed borders for the purpose of exploiting cheap labor? Why is it so acceptable to have undocumented workers perform the jobs few Americans are willing to do – pick our fruits and vegetables, wash dishes and work in meat slaughterhouses?” Lord Jesus, heal our nation’s indifference, and inspire us to welcome these strangers as valuable members of your one human family, so that on the day of judgment we may gladly hear you say, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

LETTERS Missal translation focuses on prayer I write concerning the Catholic News Service article on the Godfrey Diekmann survey of priests, (“Survey finds majority of priests dislike missal translation,” May 31). First, as a priest whose opinion was not sought, I dislike being represented in a survey. Second, I have heard much on the topic of the new translation from parishioners to priests to nonCatholics. Most who dislike the translation do so for one of two reasons: 1) they do not understand the reasons for the translation or 2) the new translation interrupts their memorized patterns of prayer. The thing that I like most about the translation is that it has given us (priests and people) an opportunity to think about what we are praying. It has occasioned many an enlightening discussion about the meaning of words and what they have to say to us about what we believe. Change is always difficult, even though it is constant. I have been praying the former translation longer than I have been a priest (more than 30 years now). As I sometimes struggle with the flow of a phrase, it causes me to rethink what I am saying. Sometimes the comfort of the familiar makes it easier to be distant, challenging us to connect to the people in our praying of the Mass. I do not question their statistics, but the conclusions might need some deeper reflection as Father Daniel Merz suggests. Father Patrick T. Michaels Pastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Mill Valley

‘Iron Man’ dad once pitched 21 innings I truly enjoyed reading the ‘field of dreams’ article by Jean Bartlett (May 24), and hope you can use the following information.

Love is absent without the truth Father Coleman’s article was very disappointing. The word gay is a political word; it has no basis in truth. When the NBA player Jason Collins said he is coming out as gay, he is saying that he intends to live a life of homosexual sex or is already living a life of homosexual sex and hadn’t made it public. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered, contrary to natural law and under no circumstances can be approved. Sacred Scripture in the Old and New Testaments demonstrates that homosexual sex is unacceptable. We are supposed to love the sinner and hate the sin. Love is absent without the truth. We are to follow our Lord Jesus Christ and not embrace any type of sin. Theodore Kirk San Francisco

Clarifying church teaching In the article “Coming out as gay,” there is a quote in part: “ … automatic approval of the traditional meaning

of marriage by support of same-sex marriage.” Is the writer of this article telling me it is OK to break God’s law? Maxine Denholm San Francisco Editor’s note: The full statement in Father Coleman’s commentary reads, “These reactions demonstrate the moral and pastoral necessity to distinguish support and respect for gay and lesbian persons and an automatic approval of an agenda that avows the overturn of the traditional meaning of marriage by support of same-sex marriage.” The phrasing “distinguished from” would have made the writer’s meaning clearer. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that homosexual acts are “contrary to the natural law” and “close the sexual act to the gift of life” (2357); that homosexual men and women “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity” (2358); and that “homosexual persons are called to chastity” (2359). The church believes that the word “marriage” is not simply a label but reflects the deep reality of the lifelong union that is only possible between a man and a woman.

Architectural dismay Who gives approval for the design of new cathedrals? Most of them look like barns – church designs are just as bad. Wonder why Catholics go to other churches? New Catholic churches look like every other large gathering hall. Gerald Beaugez San Francisco

Commentary ‘Spirit-filled’ I am writing to applaud Father Gerald Coleman’s enlightening and sensitive column “Coming out as gay” (May 31). As the parent of a marvelous gay woman, I was thrilled to read the lovely and most sensitive insight on homosexuality from a Catholic perspective with

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Father Andrew Greeley, 1928-2013

first met Father Andrew Greeley on a cold January day in Chicago in 1988. We were brought together by a mutual friend, Msgr. Bill Quinn, who had been a mentor to Greeley many years before and who had begun to play the same role in my life. Andy walked into the restaurant wearing a beautiful parka with a great hood and carrying loads of his books, which he offered to me and Bill as gifts. I was 28 at the time, and I will confess to being a little star-struck. For the next couple of hours we talked FATHER ROBERT and talked about all sorts BARRON of things: the church, of course, but also literature, poetry, sociology, theology, Chicago sports, and politics. As Father Greeley talked, his eyes darted back and forth and a little grin always threatened to spread across his face. Being with him was intoxicating. About a week after this initial meeting, Greeley’s secretary called and invited me to join Andy and Father David Tracy, one of the leading Catholic theologians in the world then and now, for lunch at the Quadrangle Club at the University of Chicago. Needless to say, I dropped whatever else I had on my schedule. That summer, and every summer afterward for many years, Andy had me and Bill Quinn to his home in Grand Beach, Mich., for a wonderful two days of swimming, barbecuing and endless conversation. One of my enduring memories from those many visits is of Andy sitting in his reading chair surrounded by mountains of books, articles and magazines. He read everything and was a man of scintillating intelligence and tremendous range. He was also deeply encouraging to those he believed had promise, and I will remain eternally grateful for his support when I first started my writing career.

A conservative of the ‘golden age’

I realize that there are some who might wonder at this friendship, given that I tack a bit further to the right on some issues than Andy did. But I think that the characterization of Greeley as a standard issue Catholic liberal is really more of a caricature. Yes, he thought that “Humanae Vitae” was a mistake, and yes, he thought that women should be allowed access to the

Andy held a sacramental view of the world – the distinctively Catholic sense that God ‘lurked’ in all of matter, in all of nature and Father Greeley in the whole of the human drama. priesthood, but I think that if you examine the whole of his thought, you’d see that Andy could perhaps best be described as a conservative Catholic of the golden age of American Catholicism. Andy was a priest, and proud of it. He never appeared publicly without his Roman collar, and he was a passionate advocate of priestly celibacy. He supported Catholic schools, both in his writing and through his extremely generous donations, and he wanted them to carry on the best of the Catholic intellectual and artistic traditions. He loved Dante, Thomas Aquinas, John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Michelangelo, Mozart, Evelyn Waugh, G.K. Chesterton and perhaps especially James Joyce. And what he admired in those figures was what David Tracy called “the analogical imagination” or what might be termed a sacramental view of the world. In Andy’s language, this was the distinctively Catholic sense that God “lurked” in all of matter, in all of nature and in the whole of the human drama. This attitude, which was itself grounded in the Incarnation, informed all of Greeley’s writings, from his sociology to his popular theology, to his novels and Blackie Ryan detective stories.

Opposed liberation theology and feminism

In one of the first articles I ever published, I used the phrase “beige Catholicism” to criticize the culture of the post-conciliar church in which I came of age. I meant a Catholicism void of color, narrativity, distinctiveness and edge. Andy loved that phrase and helped to popularize it. He did not want a Catholicism that was a vague echo of the secular culture, and this helps to explain his opposition both to liberation theology (which he thought was more beholden to Marxism than Catholic social teaching) and to radical feminism (which he thought set up a gender war between men and

women). He could certainly be a critic of the hierarchy, but he also deeply admired Albert Cardinal Meyer, Pope John XXIII, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, and perhaps most of all, Francis Cardinal George, with whom he often attended the opera. Once I was privileged to be with Andy at the cardinal’s table for dinner, just before the two of them left for the opera. As was his custom, Cardinal George commenced the recitation of the angelus (“The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary …”), and Andy, with eyes closed and hands folded in prayer, joined in. Another quality that he preserved from the golden age was a deep devotion to Mary, who appears as a figure in many of his books and novels.

Early identification of abuse problem

One of Andrew Greeley’s signal accomplishments – and this goes beyond any liberal/conservative split –was his early identification of the problem of clerical sex abuse. Back in the early 1980s, long before the problem became well known, Andy started blowing the whistle on priests who were abusing children and on the bishops who were ignoring the abuse. I vividly recall the criticism that Andy received for this– “there goes Greeley badmouthing the church again” – but he was dead right and way ahead of the curve, and the whole church owes him a debt of gratitude. We did not agree on everything. Perhaps our greatest disagreement had to do with what I took to be Andy’s completely uncritical embrace of the Democratic Party. I used to kid him that if the Democrats ran Attila the Hun for mayor of Chicago, Andy would have voted for him. Those of us who came of age after Roe v. Wade had a considerably more skeptical attitude toward the party of the left. I also felt that Andy didn’t take with adequate seriousness some of the very real negative consequences of the sexual revolution, many of which were accurately prophesied in the much-maligned “Humanae Vitae.” But the points of divergence were far less important than the points of contact between us. Andy was a good man, a devoted priest and a loyal friend. I will miss him. Many times, he spoke of heaven as the “many-colored land.” I pray that he might be, even now, a denizen of that place. FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire, and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

What the pope’s leaked comments really tell us about the church FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – A report that Pope Francis privately acknowledged the existence of a “gay lobby” inside the Vatican offers a sensational example of his unvarnished speaking style and a reminder of the challenge that style poses for the papacy in the age of digital communications and vanishing privacy. On the other hand, an acknowledgment that the Catholic Church’s central administration is troubled by factionalism and personal failings must be less than startling to anyone who has been following the news lately. But the context of the headline-grabbing comment is a series of remarks most illuminating for what they reveal: not about divisions within the church, but about Pope Francis’ vision of its harmony and unity. Pope Francis’ words to the leaders of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Men and Women Religious, or CLAR, as originally reported on a website in Chile, have not been denied by anyone who was there. A statement from CLAR – issued after the Chilean report – described the leaked account of the June 6 Vatican meeting as a “summary based on the memories of the participants” and a reliable record of the pope’s “general meaning,” though not a verbatim transcript. Speaking to his fellow Latin American reli-

gious, the first Jesuit pope touched on some of the major points of tension that have marked relations between religious orders and the hierarchy in recent decades. He did so in a manner at once conciliatory and firm, both encouraging and sober in its assessment of the church’s problems. He urged the religious to “put all your commitment into dialogue with the bishops,” even though “there are some (bishops) who have another idea of communion” from that held by many religious. The pope also counseled his visitors to take a constructive attitude toward criticism and discipline from the Vatican. “Maybe you will get a letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine (of the Faith) saying that you said this or that,” the pope reportedly said. “But don’t worry. Explain what you have to explain, but keep going.” While affirming the reality of error and the hierarchy’s responsibility to correct it, his emphasis was on forgiveness. “You are going to make mistakes, you are going to put your foot in it. That happens!” he said. “I prefer a church that makes mistakes because it is doing something to one that sickens because it stays shut in.” Yet, Pope Francis did not hesitate to classify certain trends in the contemporary church as manifestations of ancient heresies. As an example of Gnosticism, he cited the case of an

unnamed superior general of a congregation of women religious who encouraged members to “take a spiritual bath in the cosmos” in lieu of morning prayer. Complaints about such innovations by religious orders are by now a familiar refrain from bishops, but the pope added what some might find a surprising link between doctrinal fidelity and the church’s commitment to social justice. Expressions of “pantheism” such as the sister’s worry him, the pope is quoted as saying, “because they skip the Incarnation! And the son of God was made our flesh, the word was made flesh, and in Latin America we have flesh to spare! What happens with the poor, the pains, that is our flesh ... .” The pope also drew a link between the church’s social and moral teaching by relating economic injustice and legalized abortion in an analysis that defies any division between “social justice” and “pro-life” categories of Catholicism. “Abortion is bad, but that is clear,” he reportedly told the religious. “But behind the approval of this law, what interests are behind it ... .” In an apparent reference to international organizations and private foundations that promote population control in underdeveloped countries, he added, “they are at times the conditions placed by the great groups to support with money, you know that?” ROCCA is Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.’ LUKE 9:18-24 ZECHARIAH 12:10-11; 13:1 Thus says the Lord: I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and petition; and they shall look on him whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only son, and they shall grieve over him as one grieves over a firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem shall be as great as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo. On that day there shall be open to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a fountain to purify from sin and uncleanness. PSALM 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctu-

ary to see your power and your glory, For your kindness is a greater good than life; my lips shall glorify you. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus will I bless you while I live; lifting up my hands, I will call upon your name. As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied, and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. You are my help, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy. My soul clings fast to you; your right hand upholds me. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. GALATIANS 3:26-29 Brothers and sisters: Through faith you are all children of God in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person,

there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendant, heirs according to the promise. LUKE 9:18-24 Once when Jesus was praying in solitude, and the disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, ‘One of the ancient prophets has arisen.’” Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said in reply, “The Christ of God.” He rebuked them and directed them not to tell this to anyone. He said, “The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.” Then he said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.”

The voice of Jesus rings irresistibly

ushing back home, a wealthy farmer said to his wife, “Rebecca, there’s a terrible story in town – the Messiah is here!” His wife asked, “What’s so terrible about that? I think it’s great. What are you so upset about?” The man could hardly hide his anguish: “After all these years of sweat and toil we have finally found prosperity. We have a thousand head of cattle, our barns are full of grain, and our trees are laden with fruit. Now we have to give it all away and follow the Messiah.” “Calm down,” the woman said soothingly. “The Lord our God is good. He knows how much we Jews have always had to suffer. We had FATHER CHARLES a Pharaoh, a Haman, a HitPUTHOTA ler – always somebody. But our dear God found a way to deal with them all, didn’t he? Just have faith, my dear husband. He will find a way to deal with the Messiah too!” With good intentions, we can find rationalizations for not choosing to be Jesus’ disciples.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

At times, we try to domesticate God to suit our purposes. Fashioning our own idols, we can find excuses for not adhering to Christ. We can even go to the extent of attempting to enlist God’s help in not following the Messiah. And yet the voice of Jesus rings irresistibly: “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Jesus invites us to a life of paradox in discipleship: “Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.” Being Christian means being engaged in discipleship. Perhaps we should use the word disciple as a verb. So shall we disciple? Jesus is the way, and so we are on the way, all the way, not in the way. The word of God today highlights three steps in the process of discipleship. The first part is Jesus’ revelation of himself. Peter receives it as “the Christ of God.” Recall God’s revelation to Moses in the burning bush and later to many prophets. It spurred them on to freeing people from bondage and calling them to right relationships. Jesus reveals himself to us too in various ways and keeps wooing us into being his disciples. The next step in discipleship is a requirement: that we be ready for suffering and rejection. Suf-

fering may come from outside as the prophets faced. Suffering could also come from within ourselves because we have to let go of things we cling to. In losing, we will truly gain. The promise of a suffering Messiah in Zechariah fulfilled in Jesus underscores that suffering is part of discipleship. Not even the Messiah is free from it. The third step of discipleship is recreating the world as God’s family as celebrated in Galatians. Being clothed with Christ in Baptism, we die to self and rise to a new life, a life that impels us to break down ethnic, religious, and social divisions. Paul’s reference to the promise made to Abraham makes us wonder about the Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Islam and Christianity – locked in conflict. Being disciples of Jesus will lead us to make a world known for peace and justice for all God’s people. We strive for – and struggle in – our discipleship of Jesus. It is not easy. But with Jesus revealing himself in the midst of our lives, through our journey of purgation, we can create a new heaven and a new earth. Discipleship is the key to our identity as Christians. Dietrich Bonhoeffer puts it aptly: “Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor at St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JUNE 24: Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist: vigil Mass. Jer 1:4-10. PS 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15ab and 17. 1 Pt 1:8-12. Lk 1:5-17. TUESDAY, JUNE 25: Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 13:2, 5-18. PS 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5. Mt 7:6, 12-14. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26: Saturday of the Twelth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 15:1-12, 17-18. PS 105:12, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9. Mt 7:15-20. THURSDAY, JUNE 27: Thursday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor. Gn 16:1-12, 15-16 or GN 16:6b-12, 15-16. PS 106:1b-2, 3-4a, 4b-5. Mt 7:21-29. FRIDAY, JUNE 28: Memorial of St. Irenaeus, bishop and

martyr. Gn 17:1, 9-10, 15-22. PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. Mt 8:1-4. SATURDAY, JUNE 29: Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles: vigil Mass. Acts 3:1-10. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. Gal 1:11-20. Jn 21:15-19. SUNDAY, JUNE 30: Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. 1 Kgs 19:16b, 19-21. PS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11. Gal 5:1, 13-18. Lk 9:51-62. MONDAY, JULY 1: Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Blessed Junipero Serra, priest. Gn 18:16-33. PS 103:1b-2, 3-4, 8-9, 10-11. Mt 8:18-22. TUESDAY, JULY 2: Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 19:15-29. PS 26:2-3, 9-10, 1112. Mt 8:23-27.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3: Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle. Eph 2:19-22. PS 117:1bc, 2. Jn 20:2429. THURSDAY, JULY 4: Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 22:1b-19. PS 115:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9. Mt 9:1-8. FRIDAY, JULY 5: Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Zaccaria, priest; St. Elizabeth of Portugal. Gn 23:14, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67. PS 106:1b-2, 3-4a, 4b-5. Mt 9:9-13. SATURDAY, JULY 6: Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr. Gn 27:1-5, 15-29. PS 135:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. Mt 9:14-17.

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Why would Father Greeley, prodigious novelist-evangelizer A public priest disliked by God allow A liberals as too pious and by conservatives as irreverent. a tornado?

I am a lifelong Catholic, and I find myself having a crisis of faith. The age-old question, “Why does God allow bad things to happen to innocent people?” becomes harder and harder to answer in the wake of so many natural disasters. An atheist said to me recently, “If your God is all-powerful and all-loving, as you say he is, he could have stopped the Oklahoma FATHER tornado with a KENNETH DOYLE mere thought. Why didn’t he?” How do I answer that? (Columbus, Ohio) The easiest answer to the atheist happens also to be the most honest one: We don’t know. To pretend that we have, while on this side of heaven, a clear and comprehensive “theology of tornadoes” is foolish. Moral evil, even, is easier to understand than natural disasters: St. Augustine, among others, argues that God allows our evil actions because to prevent them would undermine our freedom, and the benefit of free will outweighs all of its ill effects. But disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, are more difficult to explain. Clearly we believe that God could control them if he wanted – in Chapter 4 of Mark’s Gospel, after Jesus had calmed the waves, the apostles ask, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?” Catholic teaching would suggest that disharmony in nature is one of the consequences of original sin; this is the approach taken in No. 400 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which lists as one of the results of Adam’s fall that “harmony with creation is broken; visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.” As Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami once explained, natural disasters “can suggest that our planet itself is ‘in rebellion’ against the original order of a loving Creator God.” I prefer to think, though, that a full explanation eludes us. My natural reason tells me that God exists: The rising of the sun each morning convinces me that a master planner is in charge. That conviction is ratified by my faith in the risen Jesus, whose core message was about a Father in heaven who loves me and wants my happiness. On that solid basis, I’m content to deal for now with some ambiguity, like Job. Job, remember, was beset by all manner of ill fortune. The German Jesuit theologian Father Karl Rahner was right: The incomprehensibility of suffering is part of the incomprehensibility of God himself. If I could understand, at this point in my journey, everything about God, he really wouldn’t be God at all.

QUESTION CORNER

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s a young seminarian in the late 1960s, I was very taken by the writings of Andrew Greeley, a priest in Chicago, who was churning out books on popular spirituality. I found his approach wonderfully refreshing because, at least to my mind, he dealt with our perennial religious struggles in a way FATHER RON that was both ROLHEISER more realistic and more hope-filled than most of the religious literature to which I had been exposed to until then. He was the spiritual bread I needed, and when I went on a retreat to prepare for final vows, I had a couple of his books in hand. He helped me make that decision. He died May 29 at the age of 85, having been in bad health since suffering a fall in 2008. Perhaps the word prodigious best describes his output, both in terms of writing and preaching. He wrote more than 120 books, many of an academic nature, and countless articles and op-ed pieces for both secular and religious publications. Within all of that, he was perhaps best known for his novels, which enjoyed a circulation that most writers can only envy. Because of this prodigious output and popularity, there was often a cynicism about him in both academic and religious circles that gave voice to itself in these words: “Andrew Greeley has never had an unpublished thought!” I move in both those circles and can assure the world that envy is not alien to either circle. Greeley was disliked, perhaps for more than anything else, because, unlike so many of us who criticized him for his prodigious output, he actually did things.

But there were other reasons as well why Greeley had his critics, some to do with his ethos and others with his personality. A lot of conservatives disliked him because they considered him irreverent and overly liberal. The irony is that a lot of liberals disliked him because they considered him too pious and overly conservative. And then there was his personality. He didn’t suffer fools, or critics, easily. To criticize Greeley was to pick a fight. Nobody got to take potshots from him from the safety of a hidden bush. He flushed you out and challenged for an open fight. That’s not the route to stay on easy terms with everyone. Since I was perennially one of his supporters, I was never subjected to his sword. When his novels were popularly criticized as being “lightweight and trashy” and “harmful to the faith of Catholics,” I jumped to his defense with these words: “Nobody has ever left the church because of an Andrew Greeley novel, but many people have stayed in the church because of Andrew Greeley’s novels.” Greeley found this phrase in a column of mine and wrote to me, asking permission to use it on the jacket of his future novels, which he frequently did. In defense of his novels: The most common complaint was they were “trashy and full of sex.” The opposite would be truer to fact. As literary works, his novels suffered more because they were too pious and often thinly disguised Catholic apologia. Any true reading of his novels reveals a man who was deeply pious, much in love with his church, and not-so-subtly defending his church. Moreover he always treated sex as sacrament. Not that his critics

would admit this, but his ethos on sexuality was very close to that of John Paul II and his theology of the body. Moreover, the strength of his novels was in the storytelling. Nobody, including Greeley himself, ever confused his prose with that of Toni Morrison or John Steinbeck; but he could spin off a great tale – and most of his novels did. I can’t claim him as a friend because, although we corresponded occasionally, we only met once. About a year before his fateful accident, when he was still teaching winter semesters in Arizona, I was in Tucson giving some lectures and he took me out to dinner at his favorite Mexican restaurant. We talked about theology and literature, but mostly he shared with me his admiration for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the religious family of which I am a member, and his admiration for his ordinary in Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, who belongs to that same family. He talked too about his love for Chicago’s sports teams, especially its basketball team, the Chicago Bulls. I invited him to visit our school, but he begged off, sharing that at his age he wanted as much as possible to avoid air travel. I left the restaurant grateful to have had the chance to meet a remarkable man, and one to whom I owed a huge debt of gratitude. The anthropologist Mircea Eliade, once commented “no community should botch its deaths.” Fair warning. A major Catholic figure has died and we, friends and critics alike, need to recognize what he brought us. Like other Christian apologists before him, Tolkien, Lewis and Chesterton, he too tried to give a reason for the hope that’s within us; and, in that, he succeeded, wonderfully so. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Decentralization without communication will never work

s we happily bid goodbye to a command-and-control, top-down way of doing things in many organizations, including in some instances church organizations, we have to come up with a culture of communication to make sure things work well in the future. It is not enough for FATHER WILLIAM the person J. BYRON, SJ at the top to say, “We’re not top-down anymore; from now on, I’m a servant leader. I occupy the center of the circle, not the top of a hill. There’s been a shift here from me to we. We’re decentralized.” That alone won’t do it. The top person and all unit leaders have to be in touch with those they presumably lead. They have to be seen and heard. Leaders have to communicate. But how? Notepads with a heading such as “Avoid Verbal Orders: Get It Down in Writing” have been a familiar part of office furniture for ages. In this new

age of social media, the “getting it down in writing” cannot bypass the print-on-paper route. The emerging leadership class is made up of men and women who are not noted for their communication skills. Attention must be paid to putting words on paper at a time when the paperless office is proposed as an ideal and the 140-character tweet is for many a preferred mode of communication. The “chairman’s letter” to all support staff; the academic “dean’s letter” to all faculty; the “Letter to Our Shareholders”; the “Letter to Our Customers” at any time, and the “Open Letter to All Concerned” in moments of crisis – all are words-onpaper ways of exercising leadership. So is advertising copy that is neither hyperbolic nor coercive, just informative. The more decentralized we become, the more important effective communication is to the achievement of our goals. Words – within and outside the organization – are the stuff of communication. Leaders have to speak and write them in order to lead. I once knew a CEO who reserved to himself the final interview of candidates for high-level positions in his organization. At the end of the interview, he would thank the

candidate for making himself or herself available and ask that person, before leaving, to write a summary of the main points discussed and agreed upon during the interview. The exercise was to be done on the spot (typewriter, yellow pad, computer or whatever was needed was there at hand, although there was no dictionary or editorial help); the result was left with the receptionist before departure. The written product went immediately to the CEO, who looked it over and, if it was not a crisp and clear specimen of good writing, tossed it in the wastebasket along with the promotion prospects of the poor communicator. We’re going to be seeing more of this as organizations continue to decentralize and the critical importance of connecting with words, with inside and outside constituencies, becomes even more obvious. And to repeat a point I made at the beginning – this is happening not just in secular organizations. It is happening in church organizations as well and it is a welcome development. JESUIT FATHER BYRON is professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email wbyron@ sju.edu.

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OBITUARIES

Father William Ahlbach – 51 years a priest Father William Ahlbach died June 14 at St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, where he had served since 1982. Father Ahlbach retired in 2012. He was 76 and had celebrated his 51st year as a priest June 9. A funeral Mass was celebrated June 20 at St. Matthew. Born in San Francisco, Father Ahlbach was a graduate of St. Cecilia School. In addition to his service at St. Matthew, he served as parochial vicar at parishes including Holy Name of Jesus, San Francisco; St. Dunstan, Millbrae; and St. Charles, San Carlos. Father David Pettingill and Father Ahlbach were seminary classmates. “Bill always kept an eye out for the poor,” Father Pettingill said.

“He worked hard, was a very good person and very dependable. Bill Ahlbach was a good guy who often put himself out for people in need.” Father Ed Murray, also a classmate and now deceased, owned a sailboat with Father Ahlbach and the two Father Ahlbach invited Father Pettingill aboard. “They let me be the crew and take care of the menial tasks,” Father Pettingill said with a laugh. “I was assigned to paint the part of the boat that was in the water.” Father Ahlbach was also remem-

SISTER VERONIQUE HENNEGAN, BVM

Sister Veronique Hennegan , a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary for 74 years, died May 31 at Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa, where a funeral Mass was celebrated with burial in the sisters’ Mount Carmel cemetery. She Sister Veronique was 92 years of age. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Sister Veronique taught fifth grade at Most Holy Redeemer School, San Francisco. She also taught in Dubuque and Fort Dodge, Iowa; Maywood, Chicago and Mundelein, Ill.; and Hempstead and West Hempstead, N.Y. Memorials to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa, 52003.

bered by Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of religious education and youth ministry for the archdiocese. “Father Ahlbach’s death means we have lost a great and faithful catechist,” she said. “I could always call on him to help children and families in faith formation. He would often talk about the program and how much children needed to know God loved them. He was always ready to help.” Father Ahlbach is survived by his brothers Donald, Gerald and John; and his sisters Mary Ahlbach and Margaret Price. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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FORTNIGHT: Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco celebrates the second Fortnight for Freedom June 21-July 4, a prayer cycle started by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2012 for the preservation of religious freedom. Email Diana@mdssf.org for details and to have the schedule emailed to you.

CHECK-UPS: Blood pressure screening, noon-1 p.m., Sister Mary Philippa Health Clinic, 2235 Hayes St. Free. (415) 750-5959.

SATURDAY, JUNE 22 STATIONS OF CROSS: Bishop William J. Justice dedicates the outdoor Stations of the Cross, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 60 Wellington Bishop William Ave., Daly Justice City, 6:15 p.m. followed by Mass and light refreshments in the patio.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 MEMORIAL MASS: Mass commemorating death of Opus Dei founder St. Josemaria Escriva, 7:30 p.m., St. Maryâ€™s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, Father Luke San Francisco. Mata Father Luke Mata, vicar of Opus Dei for California, principal celebrant. St. Josemaria was canonized by Blessed John Paul II Oct. 6, 2002.

THURSDAY, JUNE 27 VATICAN II TALKS: â€œEcumenism and Interfaithâ€? with Father P. Gerard Oâ€™Rourke at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood Father P. Gerard City, 7 p.m. Oâ€™Rourke (650) 3611411, ext. 121. laura@pius.org.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25 SEPARATED, DIVORCED: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7 p.m. 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, JUNE 28 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical texts, St. Maryâ€™s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m. reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com. (415) 584 8794. PRO-LIFE: Volunteers to witness to the message of life outside of Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. An opportunity to pray, offer help and provide information verbally or with pamphlets according to the situation. Jessica, at (650) 572-1468. www. sanmateoprolife.com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 FIESTA: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City, Fiesta Mass 4 p.m. followed by a procession around the block. Attend the novena Mass every day at 6:30 p.m. starting on June 20. Dominican Father Stephen Maria Lopez is homilist.

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TUESDAY, JULY 2 GRIEF SUPPORT: Free grief support session, St. Maryâ€™s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, west side of the parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 SEPARATED, DIVORCED: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish Oâ€™Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. 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. MEDICARE QUESTIONS: Health insurance counseling and advocacy program, assistance with Medicare and health insurance problems, 1-3 p.m. Please schedule an appointment in advance: St. Maryâ€™s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., (415) 750-5800. HEART DISEASE QUESTIONS: Explore ways to improve and maintain health and coping skills in order to lead a positive and productive life,

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SATURDAY, JULY 6 BLOOD DRIVE: Interfaith effort with the American Red Cross at St. Maryâ€™s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Schedule appointment at www.redcrossblood.org, sponsor code: InterfaithCommunity or call (800) RED CROSS. Picture identification is required to donate. MASS: First Saturday at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m. Father Gabriel Flores, parochial vicar, Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060.

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FRIDAY, JULY 12 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m. reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com. (415) 584 8794.

SATURDAY, JULY 20 HANDICABAPLES MASS: Father Kirk Ullery, chaplain, is principal celebrant of Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Lunch follows. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years. Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865.

THURSDAY, JULY 25 VATICAN II TALKS: “Vatican II: Moving Forward,” with Redemptorist Father Edward Grimes at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City, 7 p.m. (650) 361-1411, ext. 121. laura@pius.org.

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JESUIT PERSPECTIVE: Jesuit Father Tom Reese with “Why and How was Francis Elected Pope?” at University of San Francisco’s Xavier Hall, Fromm Hall, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195; Jesuit Father faloon@usfca. Tom Reese edu. Parking is available in all USF lots.

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A rosary was said by Mrs. Costa on May 4th at 6:00 p.m. at their at their Chapel Oak Avenue. Hors d’ oeuvres and sweets were served and a special music event by Dinis Cruz and Manuel Jacinto. Officers and Directors, Queens and Side Maids were confirmed. On May 5, 2013 the parade left at 8:45 a.m. marched from Oak Avenue to All Souls Church on Miller (distance of 1.5 miles). Mass was said by Father Agnel Jose Heredia. The parade returned to Oak Avenue where “Sopas and Carne” were served. At 2 p.m. Mar Barvo (Folkloric Group) performed the tradional dance in costume of Portugal. There was an auction and lots of dancing. Officers for the event were: Manuel Placido (President), Michael Placido (Vice President), Joseph Dos Santos (Sargent at Arms), Maura C. Silva-Bouc (Secretary), and Michael Valadao (Treasurer). Directors were: Eduardo Araujo, Nancy Barrosa, Armindo Diniz, Rosa Diniz, Shelly Placido, Mark Raposo, Jose Rocha, Diolinda Valentone, Manuel Viana Sr., Maria Viana and Manuel Viana Jr. The officers and members of Santo Cristo Society wishes to thank the City officials, clubs, organizations, and people who turned out for making the 100th an outstanding success.

“125 Years of History, Ministry & Service” A book celebrating the story of Holy Cross Cemetery

Books now available $20.00 Books may be purchased at the cemetery oﬃce or by mail. If you wish to purchase by mail, please add $3.00 and send request to: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 940l4

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 21, 2013

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

Cynthia “Cindy” Durham Madeline Elissalde Virginia “Ginny” M Farnham Marie Rosalie Fernandez Fernando Gimenez Alvarez Amelia R. Fields Fernando Garcia Alvarez Kathleen “Kitty” Fitzgerald Maria Lourdes Rotaeche Daniel Forslund Alvarez Guillermo F. Francisco Mauricio “Wuicho” Avalos Thomas E. Godinez Jennie M. Azzopardi Louise Nieto Gomez Josefa D. Bantigue Ernesto J. Gonzales Richard C. Barni Pilar Goyhenetche John R. Barton Virginia Lopez Guerzon Everett L. Belcher Jose Guzman Carol J. Bertolucci Joyce A. Hassett Lee Biocini Virginia Munoz Hernandez Vivienne “Vivi” Blanquie Thomas L. Hickman Giuseppa (Josephine) Borg Rev. Richard G. Kalkman Mildred C. Buda Angeline C. Kaufman Ethel M. Burden Jane C. Keane Herminia Flores Campos Lai Hing Mary Lee Jose Oscar Gutierrez Campos Marcus Domingo Lee Geraldine Carver Mario Legac Louis M. Caserza Lisa Marie Lopez Carmen R. Castillo Richard V. Luis, Jr. Jose Luis Cepero Joseph W. Lynch Gladys Chandler Julia A. Mallender Mother Mary Joseph Chavez, Marian C. McInnis (Hay) O.C.D. Norene D. Meehan Sue Te Jung Chu Christopher Miller Mary H. Cole James M. Miraglia Pacifico D. Comia Irene E. Molinari Frances Mary Abdilla Coutches Tranquilino Montanez Alvaro Cruz Kevin R. Moore Mary P. D’Souza Mariaelena Moreno Jeronimo Da Silva Arthur Murphy Ray R. Dal Poggetto Bibiana O. Navarro Dorothea Deitchman Mary M. Nunez Wilma C. Denser Maria Chy-Ha Nyaung Alberto Diaz Carl Martin Olsen, Sr.

Roberto C. Palmares Soon Li Park Shirley C. Pierce Thomas A. Putman Epitacia “Elly” S. Quevedo Veronica Ramos Rose Virginia Reid Maureen C. Rice Edward Michael Riordan Edith I. Rist Salvador Roque Cecil Santaferraro Manolito M. Santiago Frances M. Schmadeke Gloria Sciabica Barbara O. Scott Patricia A. Selitsch Wayne Russell Shackelford, Jr. Robert T. Skellenger Norma Ventura Solorzano Michael D. Sundar Sandra Sweeney Totua Totua, Jr. Paul R. Urch Milagros R. Valencerina Gene E. Vayssie Christine Annette Wales Shou Chen Wong Francisco Zabala Frances Josephine Zernicke Martin James Zernicke Margaret Loretta Zernicke James Maritin Zernicke

Jose Felix Mayen Dolores Robles Meier Susan M. Porter Jose Luis Quinones Jane Tasso Lisa Andrea Zarate

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Frances M. Brucia Barbara Michelotti Isabel Nunes Bernice M. Raffo Paul Roger Rice Charlie Young

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Donald Miller (April)

TOMALES CATHOLIC CEMETERY Nora Schoenstein

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Saturnina Espinoza Margaret H. Gilles

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, July 6, 2013 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Msgr. Gabriel Flores, Celebrant

CEMETERY WALKING TOUR Featuring stories from our book “125 Years of History, Ministry & Service”

Saturday, July 20, 2013 Meet at 11am at Main Gate Special Guest Author Jean Bartlet

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.