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FEBRUARY 13, 2015
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Archbishop’s
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Students’
holiness
VALERIE SCHMALZ
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The residents kissed the pope’s
hand and clicked photos of him with
their cellphones. As they pressed
against him, he said, “Let’s pray to
our Father in heaven. How many of
you speak Spanish?”
“All of us,” they responded, so
with the pope they recited the Lord’s
Prayer in Spanish.
Amid banner newspaper headlines,
and a stream of television stories about
Catholic sexual morality clauses in
the Archdiocese of San Francisco high
school handbooks, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presented his vision
of Catholic education Feb. 6.
“In the end, our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness
in their lives, that is, to become saints,”
Archbishop Cordileone said in his talk
to an annual convocation of Catholic
high school teachers, articulating that
the mission of a Catholic school is to
evangelize and to sanctify. He also
stressed what he called the foundational virtues of humility and chastity,
saying the virtue of humility “grounds
us in reality” and combats a prevalent
sense of entitlement.
“A humble person approaches God
in prayer and asks: ‘Lord, what do
you want me to do?’” Archbishop
Cordileone said in his address to more
SEE POPE, PAGE 21
SEE ARCHBISHOP, PAGE 12
(CNS PHOTO/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO VIA EPA)
Latin American immigrants in Rome greet Pope Francis Feb. 8. The pope made an unannounced stop at the immigrants’ settlement.
Pope makes surprise visit to immigrant settlement
CINDY WOODEN
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ROME – When Pope Francis
walked through the gate surrounding
a group of shacks and very humble
homes, it took a while for people
to notice. In fact, when a couple of
people looked out their doors, the
pope’s chief security guard motioned
them to come over.
“Papa Francisco!” someone shouted in Spanish, and then dozens of
people came running Feb. 8. The pope
made an unannounced stop at the
settlement on his way to the nearby
St. Michael the Archangel parish.
The settlement on the northeastern
edge of Rome was once a Gypsy or
Roma camp, but now is mainly inhabited by Latin American immigrants,
who have found no other place to live.
Grandma, 75, reflects on 500-mile walking pilgrimage
Mary O’Hara Wyman was a middleaged wife and working mother in San
Francisco when she was struck with
a sudden yearning to walk El Camino
de Santiago de Compostela, the pilgrimage route through northwestern
Spain that leads to the reliquary of St.
James the Apostle.
She fed her longing privately until
one day 20 years later when she came
across a quote from St. Francis of
Assisi: “The journey is essential to the
dream.”
“Reading those words pried open my
heart,” she wrote in the first chapter
of “Grandma’s on the Camino,” a
358-page book she wrote detailing her
48-day, 500-mile journey.
The book is inspired by the postcards she wrote at the end of each
arduous day to her only grandchild,
Elena, between April 24 and June 10,
2010. The postcards, together with
Wyman’s own journal, helped form
each of the book’s 48 chapters.
Wyman talked with Catholic San
Francisco on Jan. 30, in the San
Francisco home she shares with her
husband of 43 years, Larry, and son
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due to share her story with the St.
John of God parish community.
Since “Grandma’s” was published in
2012, Wyman has been invited to speak
at dozens of churches, schools, Catholic women’s groups, retreat centers,
pilgrim associations, senior centers
and monasteries across the U.S.
As she showed us her “credencial,”
a passport-like document stamped
with each stop along her route, and
her “compostela,” or certificate of
completion, her joy was evident.
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National . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . .22
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Marin laity suggest
ways to energize Mass
CHRISTINA GRAY
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Historic St. Mary Magdelene Church
Bolinas church
to host Ash
Wednesday retreat
Dominican Father Bruno Gibson
will hold a Lenten
retreat Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m., St.
Mary Magdalene
Church in Bolinas.
The retreat will
consist of two presentations, each followed by a period of
Father Gibson
silent prayer, meditation, examination of conscience
and the sacrament of reconciliation.
The ﬁrst presentation is titled
“Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust, If
the Camels don’t get you, the mosquitos must” (Robert Lloyd, 1918).
The second lecture: “Created to be
Fire: I came to cast ﬁre on the Earth,
and how I wish it were blazing already” (Luke 12:49).
Ashes will be available during the
morning Mass at 9 a.m. or at the end
of the retreat.
The morning retreat will culminate with a Lenten soup at noon.
Please RSVP by calling (415) 2721866, or email brunogibsonop@
gmail.com.
Participants may join for any part
of the celebration and are asked to
respect the silence between presentations.
CORRECTION
“APPLYING OUR CATHOLIC FAITH
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR, FATHER
JOHN JIMENEZ: St. Charles Borromeo Parish, San Francisco, pastor
Father Jimenez was misidentified as
parochial vicar.
LIVING TRUSTS WILLS
Laypersons from seven of Marin
County’s 17 parishes told pastors at a
deanery meeting Feb. 5 that continuous education on the “nuts and bolts”
of the Mass, more face time with
priests and even humor could help
bring the faithful to Mass and to the
eucharistic table.
“Our people don’t understand the
Mass as well as they should or as well
as we think they do,” said Mike Morison, pastoral associate of Our Lady of
Mount Carmel in Mill Valley.
Unexplained changes in worship
since Vatican II have created “no end
of confusion for Catholics over the
past 45 years,” he said.
Recognizing this, his parish created
a four-week series called “The Mass
Broken Open” to help parishioners
understand what’s happening, why
it’s happening and what it means.
The goal is for parishioners to enter
more deeply into the celebration of
the Mass.
“It’s a catechetical way of opening
up the Mass so that people understand and appreciate what is happening on the altar,” he said.
Inviting the laity to speak at the
ﬁrst deanery meeting of the year was
the ﬁnal step in a frank discussion of
the Eucharist prompted last year by
Father Cyril O’Sullivan, pastor of St.
Cecilia in Lagunitas.
Over the course of two meetings
last year, parish leaders described the
disconnect between parishioners and
their understanding and acceptance
of the Mass and the real presence of
Christ in the Eucharist. They cited a
lack of Catholic faith formation and a
“tarnished, aloof church” as possible
reasons.
The laity conﬁrmed those reasons
and offered several new ones.
In a survey of St. Patrick parishioners presented by liturgical coordinator Cathy Plocki, respondents
anonymously suggested the best
place to regularly educate both adults
and children is at Mass.
“I respectfully suggest that all
priests spend more time teaching us
parishioners what the Eucharistic
sacrament really means, and most
important, what actually is taking
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host and we receive it. This could be
delivered and reinforced with just a
few words at each Mass.
“Many of us who have had the
luxury of a Catholic education which
incorporated teaching about the parts
of the Mass have forgotten those lessons.
“... The emphasis on Bible readings
at Mass is understandable, but that
leaves a serious gap in the religious
education of the parish.”
Anne-Marie Lee, who attends daily
Mass at the Mother of God Carmelite
monastery in San Rafael described
going to a Catholic retreat center in
India and being riveted by lay preachers teaching the most foundational
Christian concepts, including the Ten
Commandments.
“Who talks about those anymore?”
she asked. “It was like the nuts and
bolts of our faith.” She watched awestruck as people “in the thousands”
lined up to go to confession.
One parishioner asked pastors to be
the front-line agents of change.
Karen Carol Mori-Prange of St.
Cecilia Parish in Lagunitas expressed
“heartbreak” that the Eucharist
seems misunderstood or casually
regarded.
“The consecration of the bread
and wine is what sets us apart from
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other religions,” she said. “It breaks
my heart when I go to a wedding or
funeral and see people running up
to Communion like it was a social
event.”
“If the priests could impress people
how special it is, it might help,” she
said. “It’s such a wonderful thing we
have, I don’t think even half of Catholics even appreciate it.”
She said the adoration of the
Blessed Sacrament is also not talked
about enough.
Others suggested that priests could
help emphasize the reverence of what
happens on the altar and encourage
a longer period of meditation after
Communion.
Craig Carlson, of St. Mary Parish
in Nicasio, on the other hand, said the
Mass in general and the Eucharist in
particular do not always have to be so
“heavy.”
“We don’t go to Mass for comedy,
but faith is full of jovial and joyful
moments that can be shared,” he said.
He also noted that if possible, pastors should spend more time faceto-face with people because parish
bulletins and newspaper articles do
not work to move people inside the
doors of a church.
“The only reason I came to Mass is
because a priest came to see me,” he
said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Vietnamese ministry moves to
St. Thomas the Apostle Parish
RICK DELVECCHIO
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The archdiocesan ministry for Vietnamese Catholics has moved from Holy Name of
Jesus Parish in the Sunset District
of San Francisco to St. Thomas the
Apostle Parish in the Richmond
District, nearer to the center of the
population it serves.
Ministry director Father Te
Van Nguyen said the Vietnamese
Catholic population, mostly made
Father Te Van
up of immigrants who arrived as
Nguyen
refugees during the Vietnam War
and as “boat people” who ﬂed from
the war’s end in 1975 to 1995, also has congregations at St. Boniface Parish under the direction
of parochial vicar Franciscan Father John Luat
Nguyen and at Church of the Visitacion with pastor Father Thuan V. Hoang as shepherd.
The ministry’s services include preparation for
marriage and other sacraments, religious education and the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.
Father Te, who formerly resided at St. Brendan
Church and still serves as a part-time chaplain
at Laguna Honda Hospital, said he has 200 in his
ministry at his parish, including elderly and young
children.
St. Thomas the Apostle pastor Father John
Sakowski described the parish’s Vietnamese
congregants as “extremely vibrant” in worship
and service – “very willing to pitch in and help the
parish.”
Lately they have been ﬁnishing the church’s
hardwood steps, repairing the stained-glass windows “and have taken a responsible ownership of
the church for the beneﬁt of all,” he said
“They’re poor people, work hard, and whatever
money they get, they contribute to the church,” he
said. “They realize their one hope in life is to do
God’s will, contribute to the church (and) serve God
and others to achieve their eternal reward.”
Father Sakowski said Father Te has brought in
two Vietnamese sisters from their residence to
teach religious education in their native language.
The Vietnamese New Year, like the Chinese New
Year, will be celebrated the day after Ash Wednesday.
The feast of Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions,
known as the Vietnamese martyrs, is celebrated
Nov. 24. Pope John Paul II canonized 117 Vietnamese martyrs June 19, 1988.
The Vatican considers the torture endured by the
martyrs among the worst in the history of Christianity.
St. Matthew Nguyen Van Phuong was born in
Vietnam in 1801. After his parents died, he was
raised by the local priest in Quang-Binh, in the central part of the Southeast Asian nation. Matthew
married and became a devoted layman. One of his
tasks was ﬁnding homes where a priest could say
Mass out of sight from government officials. In a
country already marked by two centuries of bloody
persecution of Catholics, this took pluck. Before
Mass one day during Advent, 1860, rumors emerged
that authorities were coming for Matthew. He and
the priest went into hiding for ﬁve months, but
guards hunted them down. Captors etched a cross
on the ground and demanded that the priest and
layman tread on it as a sign of renouncing Christ.
Where many gave in, they refused. They were
beheaded on the spot, joining tens of thousands of
martyred Vietnamese Christians.
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Rita and William Figari of St. Brendan Parish prayerfully
marked their 70th wedding anniversary at the 2014
anniversary Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral.
ARCHBISHOP TO CELEBRATE MASS
FOR MARRIED COUPLES FEB. 21
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will pray
with married couples of the archdiocese Feb.
21 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The
Mass is especially for couples marking anniversaries of ﬁve-year periods (5, 10, 15 and
upward).
The Mass, seeking to become a tradition,
welcomed dozens of couples last year, also in
February, with Archbishop Cordileone again
as principal celebrant and homilist.
“We come together with the spirit of gratitude to thank you and honor you for your witness to the sacrament that is so foundational
to human ﬂourishing and to that of society as
a whole,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his
homily at last year’s Mass.
Registration is required. Register at www.sfanniversary.net or call (415) 614-5680 by Feb. 12. A
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
St. Matt’s students
put calls on hold
TOM BURKE
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
I’m a guy who grew up when there were still party
lines and the only phone we had was simply “the
phone” as opposed to my cell and
the many other pieces of communications equipment we have today.
That said, I now consider myself
to be fully enlisted in the modern
age and break into a sweat when I
think I might be without my trusty
ﬂip-phone: OK I’m not that enlisted.
In November, 67 seventh and
eighth graders at St. Matthew
Maggie Bright
School volunteered to go without
electronic devices of their choice
for one and two weeks respectively.
The “Technology-Free Challenge” gave students the chance “to
experience the world ‘looking up’
with eyes wide open and not cast
down at cellphone screen or computer game,” said Nancy Arnett, St.
Matt’s principal, via email.
Nick Escobar
No devices, Nancy said, let students be in the moment and enjoy
friendships on a deeper level without interference; learn how to face
head-on and survive the fear of
missing out; do something productive, enriching, they might not have
had time to do before.
“An integral part of St. Matthew’s character program has to
do with teaching children the value
Kristina Stevens
of connecting and relating to one
another, assisting in the strengthening of one’s relationship with Jesus, with one’s family and with one’s
friends and mentors,” Nancy told me. I spoke on email with seventh grader, Maggie
Bright, and eighth graders Nick Escobar and Kristina Stevens about the challenge. Maggie gave up her
phone and Kindle; Nick his phone and computer;
Kristina her phone, TV, iPad, and computer “except
for homework.” The challenge has led them all to use their devices
less.
“I no longer use my phone when I am in a public
place especially when I am with my parents,” Maggie
said.
“These days I like climbing trees in my yard and
going on long bike rides,” Nick said about his new
tech-free time.
“My goal during the challenge was to spend more
time outside walking dogs and playing with my
younger siblings. I ended up walking my dogs every
day,” Kristina said. “I loved those walks.”
Challenge impact on the three? “Months after the
challenge, my phone still does not come out when I
am with my friends,” Maggie said. “My phone is not
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St. Thomas the Apostle School, San Francisco. Congratulations to Christopher Carlucci and Chloe Kilroy of San Domenico School, Abby
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Nick proposed a mini-challenge at a family dinner.
“We talked to each other a lot at that dinner. It was a
great night.”
“Not being able to waste time on my technology, I
found myself downstairs a lot more,” Kristina said.
“It was nice being with my family more.” “What is strikingly similar among most of the students is a shift toward having more quality interactions with their family members,” Nancy said about
results of the challenge. “Yes, that’s right: These
middle school students are encouraging their family
members to put aside their mobile devices and game
consoles so that they can participate in more family
oriented activities.”
PAX: St. James School recently presented Peacemaker Awards
“for exemplary qualities in kindness, compassion and leadership,”
Dominican Sister Mary Susanna Vasquez, principal, said “All three
have definitely answered the call to be instruments of peace.” Pictured from left are Kaithlyn Munoz, grade 2; Alejandra Villanueva,
grade 4; Yadira Chavez, grade 7.
my number one prize possession anymore; my family is,” Nick said. “Now, since several of my friends
did the challenge, we are used to being together without our phones. We talk and laugh so much more
now,” Kristina said.
“My phone is now just an object; it is not my safety
crutch or my life, it is just a device,” Maggie said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Father Arturo Albano named
cathedral pastor and rector
TOM BURKE
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
announced the
appointment of Father Arturo L. Albano as pastor and
rector of Cathedral
of St. Mary of the
Assumption in San
Francisco Feb. 4.
Father Albano has
served as pastor of
Father Albano
Mission Dolores Basilica since 2007. His appointment
at the cathedral is effective July 1.
Father Albano was ordained June
20, 1974, in the Philippines coming to the United States in 1979. He
has served as a parochial vicar at
parishes including St. Cecilia, San
Francisco; St. Luke, Foster City;
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Daly
City; Holy Angels, Colma and Mater Dolorosa, South San Francisco.
In addition to Mission Dolores, he
has served as pastor of St. Timothy,
San Mateo.
“I was already looking forward
to retiring after four more years
at Mission Dolores, but God has
called me to a new turning point in
my ministerial life,” Father Albano
told Catholic San Francisco. “As
the old saying goes: ‘Man proposes
but God disposes.’”
There have been five priests in
Father Albano’s family and he is
one of the three still in active ministry. “My parents, now deceased,
were actively involved in my hometown parish,” he said. “I believe
all these factors contributed to my
responding to God’s call when I
entered the seminary at a young
age of 11. Of course, at that age, no
one can be so sure whether one will
be a priest or not. But as the years
rolled on, it became a continual
‘yes’ to God.”
“Every priestly ministry that I
have fulfilled is a different spiritual
experience whether it is celebrating the Eucharist or confessions or
visiting the sick or praying with my
fellow priests. But I should say that
I have been deeply moved when a
penitent comes to confession with
a troubled look and leaves with a
smile in the face reassured that
God still loves that person.”
Father Albano said his appointment to the cathedral was a surprise. “I am still in a shock mode
but I know that the Holy Spirit will
guide me through. I know that it
is a big responsibility. I am just a
steward. I will do what I can and
God will do the rest.”
“I will devote the first six months
simply to get to know the people; to
listen to them; to hope and to pray
with them; to familiarize myself
with their vision; to walk with
them and to reassure them that
God will always be there for us,” he
said.
Father Raymund Reyes, vicar for
clergy said: “Father Art is one of
the Filipino-American priests in the
archdiocese who brings so much
pastoral experience from his work
in the missions and many parishes.
Wherever he went, he carried with
him his loving and welcoming heart.
The people he served respect him
for his multilingual skills and many
other talents. I believe he’ll do well in
taking up the role as the new pastor
and rector of our beloved St. Mary’s
Cathedral.”
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Mercy Sisters’ works of mercy transformed San Francisco
Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious
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of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of
Consecrated Life.
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SISTERS OF MERCY
If San Francisco needed anything during the fading years of California’s gold frenzy, it was not more
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volunteers were chosen. After 8,000 miles and three
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natives’ arms, they arrived in San Francisco on Dec,
8, 1854. One sister wrote of what met them: “You innocent Irish Sisters ... if you only knew ....”
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the aged, visitations to the county jail and San Quentin
and to the poor of the waterfront and, years later, a
tent hospital for soldiers returning from the Spanish-
(PHOTOS COURTESY SISTERS OF MERCY)
Left, St. Peters Academy, circa 1906. Right, Mercy Sister Marian Rose Power is pictured with students at the current St. Peter School.
American War. Mother Russell became known as
Mother of the City.
Throughout the 20th century the sisters continued
the pattern of discerning the signs of the times – starting San Francisco’s ﬁrst free clinic in 1922, parish
schools, nursing schools, girls’ high schools, parish
and retreat work and a mission in Peru. Spiritual ministries found a permanent home when Mercy Center
opened in 1981 in Burlingame for retreats and educational programs. Here, training of spiritual directors
became a worldwide phenomenon by the creation of
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Archbishop celebrates Shipwreck centennial Mass
CHRISTINA GRAY
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
joined more than 300 parishioners
and guests on Feb. 8 for a daylong
celebration of the 100th anniversary
of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish that included a gospel Mass and
reception.
The parish in the Bayview-Hunters
Point district of San Francisco has
served a diverse community including African-Americans, Latinos, Filipinos and Nigerians since 1915 when
it was founded by Maltese Catholics.
The archbishop served as principal celebrant of the two-hour Mass
said and sung in English, Spanish,
Tagalog and Igbo, the tribal language
of Nigeria.
The pastor, Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, said the
Mass was one of a yearlong series
of events the parish community has
planned to mark the history of the
church.
“So far for us, the year is turning
out to be one of community-building
and evangelization as we reach out to
former parishioners and alumni,” he
told Catholic San Francisco.
The Conventual Franciscans of
California, who have run the parish since 1998, will leave the parish
on July 1. St. Paul of the Shipwreck
will be run by either the archdiocese
or another order, Father Gawlowski
said.
“A primary focus of the parish will
continue to be promoting our black
Catholic spirituality as a gift to the
greater church,” he said.
(PHOTOS COURTESY ST. PAUL OF THE SHIPWRECK PARISH)
St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco marked its centennial Feb. 8 with Mass
celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordlieone. Lower left, Deacon Larry Chatmon presents
the archbishop with a multicultural gift basket from the parish. Top left, young ladies from the
Spanish community lead the entrance procession. Center, Mattie Scott, left, and Sandra Valentine meet during the reception following Mass.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Religious believers must speak in
the public square, archbishop says
MARIE MISCHEL
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
PROVO, Utah – People of faith have both the right
and a duty to ﬁght for their convictions, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told students at
Brigham Young University.
His Jan. 23 presentation, “Magna Carta at 800:
Why It Still Matters, Here and Now” was part of
the university’s “Lectures on Faith, Family, and
Society” series.
Lessons from the document, crafted in England
800 years ago, while St. Francis of Assisi was
founding the Franciscan order in Italy, are pertinent to communities of faith in the United States
today, he said.
“The terrain of our lives in the 21st century is
very different from the world in 1215. But the power
of religious faith to limit the power of a sovereign
– whether elected to the White House or a king by
divine right – might be very familiar to the men
who gathered at Runnymede” with King John of
England to draft the Magna Carta, the archbishop
said.
The Magna Carta, a list of 63 royal commitments and concessions, included
a demand for recognition of the
rights of the Catholic Church, the
archbishop said, adding that this
has implications in the modern
United States because institutions
like the family, churches and fraternal organizations are meant to
constrain the state.
Archbishop
“So protecting these mediating
Chaput
institutions is vital to our freedoms,” he said at the Mormon university. “The state rarely fears individuals. Alone,
individuals have little power. They can be isolated
or ignored. But organized communities – including
communities of faith – are a different matter. They
can resist. They can’t be ignored. And that’s why
they pose a problem for social engineers and an
expanding state.”
He called upon the audience to work for good
laws that reﬂect their beliefs.
“Democracies depend for their survival on people
of conviction ﬁghting for what they believe in the
public square – legally and peacefully, but zealously and without apologies. That includes all of
us,” he said.
“Critics often accuse religious believers of pursuing a ‘culture war’ on issues like abortion, sexuality, marriage and the family, and religious liberty,”
he continued. “And in a sense, they’re right. We are
working hard for what we believe. But of course, so
are the people on the other side of all these issues and no one seems to call them ‘culture warriors.’ In
any case, neither they nor we should feel bad about
ﬁghting for our convictions. Democracy thrives
on the struggle of competing ideas. We steal from
ourselves and from our fellow citizens if we try to
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Church leaders dismayed with Canadian ruling on assisted suicide
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
OTTAWA, Ontario – Canadian church leaders and
advocates for the disabled reacted with dismay when
the Supreme Court of Canada struck down laws
against physician-assisted suicide.
In a unanimous decision Feb. 6, the court ruled that
doctors may help adults with severe and incurable
conditions to die, overturning a 1993 ban against assisted suicide.
Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher of Gatineau,
Quebec, president of the Canadian Conference of
Catholic Bishops, noted that “Catholics are called by
their faith to assist all those in need, particularly the
poor, the suffering and the dying.”
“Helping someone commit suicide, however, is
neither an act of justice or mercy, nor is it part of
palliative care. The decision of the Supreme Court of
Canada today does not change Catholic teaching,” he
said.
Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver, British
Columbia, said he was “deeply troubled by the court’s
decision to overturn the law,” and he urged Catholics
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Accountability is key concern for pope’s child protection commission
CINDY WOODEN
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Bishops who do not comply
with the child protection norms adopted by their
bishops’ conferences and approved by the Vatican
must face real consequences, said Cardinal Sean
P. O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical
Commission for the Protection of Minors.
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recommendations for Pope Francis.
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far too many cover-ups, there have been
far too many clergy protected, moved
from place to place – this has got to be
consigned to history very quickly.’
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body” on the pontifical commission, he said. The
recommendations will be presented to Pope Francis.
Cardinal O’Malley publicly thanked Pope Francis for a letter, released Feb. 5, insisting that the
protection of children – and not the avoidance of
scandal or bad publicity – must be the priority for
the way all bishops deal with accusations of sex
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The pope’s letter also encouraged bishops to meet
with and listen to survivors, which is something Cardinal O’Malley said “many bishops have not yet done.”
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Saunders, also a survivor, said, “Bishop accountability is most definitely something that is a concern and
central to some of the work that is going to be carried
out by the commission.”
“It is not disputed that there have been far too
many cover-ups, there have been far too many clergy
protected, moved from place to place – this has got to
be consigned to history very quickly,” he said.
Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a psychologist and
member of the commission, said, “as far as we
know,” the number of bishops who have not followed
their conference’s child-protection norms is not
large, “but it is certainly a huge problem in terms
of publicity and in terms of the authenticity of the
church. If you have bishops who do not comply with
the church’s own norms, we have a problem.”
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a bishops’ conference, they are accountable only to the
pope and there is no procedure for investigating the
way a bishop complies with the norms and nothing
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his diocese and “can do whatever he wants” with
regard to national guidelines, Father Zollner said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Women are not guests, but full
participants in church life, pope says
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Saying he knows
the history of the subjugation of women continues to have a negative impact
on how women are treated, Pope
Francis called for greater roles for
women in the church and for greater
assistance and workplace ﬂexibility to
ensure they can make the best choices
for themselves and their families.
Pope Francis told the Pontiﬁcal
Council for Culture Feb. 7 that its
study of women’s cultures was a topic
“close to my heart,” and that he fully
recognizes the need “to study new
criteria and methods to ensure women
feel they are not guests, but full participants in the various spheres of the life
of society and the church.”
“This challenge can no longer be
postponed,” he said.
The preparatory document for the
meeting said that in the West, more
and more women between the ages
of 20 and 50 are leaving the church.
Many have “reached places of prestige
within society and the workplace, but
have no corresponding decisional role
nor responsibility” within the church
community.
Pope Francis told the council –
whose members are all cardinals,
bishops, priests and laymen – “I am
convinced of the urgency of offering space to women in the life of the
church and to welcoming them, taking
into account speciﬁc and changing
cultural and social sensitivities.”
“A more widespread and incisive
female presence in the community
is hoped for so that we can see many
women involved in pastoral responsibilities, in the accompaniment of
persons, families and groups, as well
as in theological reﬂection,” he said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
ARCHBISHOP: Catholic schools exist to help students ‘become saints’
FROM PAGE 1
than 350 teachers gathered at Sacred
Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San
Francisco. “This is the question every
young person must ask themselves in
order to discern their vocation, and it
is incumbent to our Catholic schools to
assist them in doing so and in ﬁnding
the answer.” Chastity is “the constant
disposition to love the person as they
should be loved which applies equally
to married couples as those who are
not married,” he said, noting that love
is selﬂess.
Response to cultural change
Archbishop Cordileone explained
why he has added “hot button” Catholic teaching from the Catechism of the
Catholic Church to the faculty handbooks of the four archdiocesan high
schools for the 2015-16 school year.
Those include Catholic teaching on artiﬁcial contraception, homosexuality,
same-sex marriage, artiﬁcial reproduction and abortion.
“The times we live in pose very
drastic challenges to us for teaching all
of the virtues properly,” he said. “The
temptation we all feel is to soft-pedal
these issues – better not to go there, or
at least don’t insist upon it, less we be
judged adversely by others and not ‘ﬁt
in.’ But this is a time more than ever
that our Catholic schools have to step
up to the plate, and be true to what
they are called to be – for the good of
our young people in this life and in the
next.”
The statement of faith in the high
school handbooks is speciﬁcally by the
high school as an institution and no
individual will be asked to sign a statement of agreement, Archbishop Cordileone stressed. The four archdiocesan
high schools, owned and operated
by the archdiocese, are Sacred Heart
Cathedral, Archbishop Riordan High
School, Junipero Serra High School
and Marin Catholic High School. The
handbook is separate from the teachers’ contract and clariﬁes that Catholic
school teachers, in their professional
and public lives, must not contradict
Catholic teaching, Archbishop Cordileone said.
Fear of impact on youth who identify as gay
During the 45-minute question-andanswer period that followed his talk,
Archbishop Cordileone also answered
questions about the impact on gay students of including teachings from the
(PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Archbishop Cordileone addresses high school teachers at the teachers’ annual convocation Feb. 6 at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.
catechism in the faculty handbooks as
well as recurring fears of teachers that
they will be ﬁred for disagreeing with
Catholic teaching.
“You are the ones who bring the fullness of church teaching to our youth,”
the archbishop said, noting the importance of compassion. “Certainly we do
not want our gay youth to be harmed.
We are against bullying.”
He said the handbook is for teachers,
not a teaching document. He also read
the portion of the handbook which
states opposition to unjust discrimination and the clause which states, “We
accept homosexual persons do not
choose their condition and they must
be accepted,” and are “called to fulﬁll
God’s will in their lives.”
Asked about what would constitute a
ﬁring offense, Archbishop Cordileone
noted that his letter to the teachers
clearly said there was no desire to
dismiss any teacher. “I do not want to
prejudge any situation. Every situation
has to be considered in its own proper
context. As I said in the letter, mistakes
happen and when mistakes happen
they can be corrected.” However, he
said, some examples that are “pretty
extreme” would include serving as an
escort at an abortion clinic, handing out
contraceptives to students or being a
member of a white supremacist group.
Following the question-and-answer
period, the archbishop stayed for
another 45 minutes to meet informally
with teachers during the lunch period
that concluded the day.
Pope Francis’ theology of accompaniment’
Archbishop Cordileone began his
talk with the theme of Pope Francis’
“theology of accompaniment” and its
application to Catholic school teachers.
“The students in our Catholic
schools are at the beginning of their
journey of life, and it is your privilege,
as their teachers, to accompany them
at this critical stage of their life’s journey, a stage that for many of them will
determine the trajectory of their entire
life,” Archbishop Cordileone told the
teachers, quoting Pope Francis’ ﬁrst
encyclical, “Lumen ﬁdei” (“The Light
of Faith”), reading a longer portion
of the encyclical and concluding with
these words of Pope Francis: “Those
who believe, see; they see with a light
that illumines their entire journey,
for it comes from the risen Christ, the
morning star which never sets.”
Archbishop Cordileone said, “This
teaching from so early on in Pope Francis’ Petrine ministry clearly reﬂects the
emphasis he places on the theology of
accompaniment; it also, I believe, gives
a helpful deﬁnition to what our Catholic schools are called to do: journey
with our young people out of the darkness into the light of the risen Christ.”
He thanked the teachers, saying “I
am grateful to you for all you do to
illuminate, order, and sanctify the lives
of teenagers entrusted to your care.”
Pro and con reaction
The archbishop’s day with the teachers began with 9:30 a.m. Mass at St.
Mary’s Cathedral.
After Mass, teachers walked the
block from the cathedral to the meeting hall, past a line of Sacred Heart Cathedral students and parents standing
on the cathedral plaza and steps and
along the street. The demonstrators
held signs opposing the archbishop,
many with the “#teach acceptance”
hashtag or “Support our teachers,” in
a demonstration organized by Sacred
Heart Cathedral Facebook and Twitter
posts circulated to students and parents at other high schools.
“We have decided to come together
to peacefully gather and hold a vigil
on behalf of our teachers,” Sacred
Heart Cathedral senior Gino Gresh
said. “We don’t want to stand down to
any injustice or discrimination. All we
want to do to is spread respect, love
and positivity.”
Catholic school students did not have
class Feb. 6 but few if any students
from the other high schools were at the
demonstration.
Abi Basch, one of the promoters of
the protest and a social studies teacher
at Sacred Heart Cathedral, sat at a
table near the front during Archbishop
Cordileone’s talk. Afterward, she commented, “With the impending Supreme
Court case about same sex marriage
happening in April, I thought his statement that teachers who were same-sex
couples who were married was very
interesting and something that parents
and students should take note of.”
Marin Catholic High School theology
teacher Greg Joseph said the student
and parent protests troubled him –
because he felt the protesting students
and parents did not understand the
fullness of Catholic teaching on the human person. “There is this distortion
of what the truth is,” Joseph said.
“As a teacher I am still free to love
my students and there is no limitation
on that. To me, I’m walking, I’m seeing
all these people protesting. I feel bad
because they don’t really understand
what we are doing,” said Joseph, who
noted he just completed a unit on the
human person in his class for seniors.
“It is about loving people with the
truth. Catholicism is truth and love.”
Union hopes to change proposed ‘ministerial exception’ clause
VALERIE SCHMALZ
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
At the heart of contract negotiations
between the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Catholic archdiocesan
teachers union is a clause proposed by
the archdiocese that would deﬁne teachers as ministers.
Negotiations with the Catholic high
school teachers union for a new contract to begin Aug. 1 continue, with the
latest session Feb. 9. During his exchange with teachers Feb. 6, Archbishop
Cordileone speciﬁcally praised the
union negotiating team. Likewise, union
president Lisa Dole told Catholic San
Francisco Feb. 9, “The union leadership
remains hopeful that the differences can
be worked out with the archbishop.”
Archdiocesan Federation of Teachers Local 2240, American Federation
of Teachers, AFL-CIO, is concerned
about a contract clause proposed by the
archdiocese which deﬁnes teachers as
ministers because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision Hosanna-Tabor
Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said Paul Hance,
a Junipero Serra High School social
studies teacher who is a member of the
negotiating team. That unanimous high
court decision recognized a “ministerial
exception” to employment discrimination laws, saying that churches and
other religious groups must be free to
choose and dismiss without government
making judgments about what constitutes particular doctrines of a faith.
“We are teachers, not ministers,” he
said. “We are uniformly afraid that if we
are deﬁned as ministers” the union will
lose some of its negotiated bargaining
rights.
In his exchange with the teachers on
Feb. 6, the archbishop said those rights
would not be abrogated by the new
language but also said he was open
to different wording. The contract
would remain in force, including the
grievance procedure and the Supreme
Court decision does not grant a right
to engage in unfair labor practices
to religious institutions, said Jesuit
Father John Piderit, vicar for administration/moderator of the curia for the
archdiocese.
“The current contract language is
very strong,” said Father Piderit, referring to the existing contract which began in 2011. “It requires that teachers
support Catholic doctrine and act in
accordance with Catholic teachings.”
Unfair labor practices, such as ﬁring
someone, for example an older person, for an action such as serving on a
Planned Parenthood board and not ﬁring another younger employee for the
same action, would still be an unfair
labor practice, Father Piderit said.
“I agree that Catholic schools are not
simply private schools, and that we are
held to a different standard, speciﬁcally the tenets of the church,” said
Jim Conolly, a member of the negotiating team from Sacred Heart Cathedral
Preparatory.
“I agree that the archbishop is the
leader of the Catholic Church” in the
archdiocese, he said. “I disagree with
the inclusion of the term ‘minister’ in
our collective bargaining agreement.”
The 10 Catholic high schools in the
archdiocese owned by religious communities are not part of the ongoing
contract negotiations, which only
affect the four high schools owned and
operated by the archdiocese.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
LETTERS
Soul-searching time
remarkably, papal infallibility. Hardly a live issue
here, but it reaffirms that authority is not to be
questioned.
So, let’s approach this as an effort by the ordinary to teach and mold his flock. I think we have
to be grateful to the archbishop for giving us so
clear, indeed stark, an example of one model of
the church. Let’s call it the militaristic model
– there is command at the top, orders are relayed and those below are meant to follow them
unquestioningly. Failure to comply has serious
consequences. There are many who are comfortable with this model. In an uncertain world, they
want a rock to cling to. And we read that some
senior clerics prefer a “purer, even if smaller”
church.
Yet there is another model of church, with
authoritative proponents. The Holy Spirit hovered
over the conclave until it gave us Francis, whose
ﬁrst exhortation was entitled “The Joy of the
Gospel.” What a concept – joy! Francis has not
rescinded any teachings, but his emphasis is that
people see holy mother the church as aware of the
pain in the “ﬁeld hospital” and lovingly embracing those who are suffering. And as you hold one
struggling, in pain, toward God, there is a risk
that you may realize that not everything is blackand-white. And you probably won’t have time to
see that everybody is toeing the line.
John W. Weiser
Kentfield
The writer is a member of St. Anselm Parish, Ross.
Re “Archdiocese: Catholic schools exist to ‘afﬁrm and proclaim’ Gospel of Jesus,” Feb. 6:
Is personal morality of no concern at all? Are
social-justice issues now entirely the call? Do both
matter? The ﬁrst is being rapidly deconstructed
all around us. Time for some deep soul-searching
in the church, I think.
Jay Strickwerda
San Francisco
Reaction proves archbishop’s point
Has it occurred to anyone else that the brouhaha over Archbishop Cordileone’s adding morality
clauses to the high schools’ teacher contracts and
handbooks is proof that the clauses are, indeed,
needed?
If the schools were teaching Catholic morality already, they wouldn’t have to be told to. The
fact that students are parading against policies
demanding opposition to abortion, contraception,
artiﬁcial insemination and so-called same-sex
marriage implies that their catechesis has not
included familiarity with the catechism at very
least.
If Catholic schools are teaching English, Spanish, mathematics, science and whatever, but not
the Catholic religion, who needs Catholic schools?
E.L. Gelhaar
Millbrae
Discussion better than suppression
As an alumnus of Marin Catholic and father
of children in Catholic school, I read Archbishop
Cordileone’s proposed handbook changes and
related articles with interest. The archbishop
blames divergence from adherence to Catholic
teaching on “tremendous pressure” from secular culture. He then uses this as justiﬁcation for
restricting the behavior and expression of school
staff, arguing for the need to assert Catholic
teachings in the face of these secular forces.
While there certainly are secular messages
inconsistent with church teaching, I suggest the
church also look within itself for reasons that
people diverge. The areas where I diverge from
Catholic teaching arise when church guidance appears at odds with Christ’s commandment to love
one another, is injurious to the rights of others,
or is inconsistent with what we have learned over
two millennia about science and human nature.
Such conﬂicts naturally lead to questioning and
discussion among people of conscience, and the
church will be better served by acknowledging
this than trying to restrain it.
The rejecting attitude toward those not in concordance with Catholic doctrine that pervades the
archbishop’s message creates the image of an institution bent on condemning others rather than
embracing them as beloved by God. For teachers
whose beliefs are not consistent with Catholic
dogma, the communication feels similar to the
infamous “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of the
military. The church will tolerate a teacher who is
not a perfect Catholic, just don’t let anyone catch
you saying or doing anything that shows it.
John R. McQuaid
San Francisco
The writer is a member of St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco.
Setting a higher standard
The San Francisco Chronicle is at it, again,
criticizing the archdiocese and telling it how to
run its business. What’s wrong with the Catholic Church establishing the qualiﬁcations for its
teachers? Every employer is entitled to do so. The
church is in the business of teaching its moral
doctrine. It makes perfect sense that teachers
be held to a higher standard than the rest of the
ﬂock. Young people are constantly monitoring
adults to determine if what they preach is consistent with how they behave.
Steve Kasch
Larkspur
Welcome return to orthodoxy
As a parent of a Catholic high school senior, I
was pleased to read about the additional language
for the teacher handbook. It’s really just common sense. If you’re a teacher, you should, at a
minimum, not overtly contradict church teaching. If you’re a student, or a parent of a student,
who seriously objects to the new statement in the
handbook, you probably shouldn’t be attending a
Torture is never justified
(PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Archbishop Cordileone and a participant at the Feb. 6 convocation for high school teachers speak after the archbishop
gave a talk and answered questions at the event at Sacred
Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco.
Catholic high school in the ﬁrst place. Archdiocesan schools are not merely private schools with
a theology requirement and some trappings of
Catholic culture.
I’m glad to see a return to orthodoxy, after the
abysmal failure of the great liberal experiment of
Vatican II. Long overdue. The archbishop has my
complete support on this one.
Kathy Callahan
San Rafael
A clear model of church – but not the only one
Thank you for printing the full text of the archbishop’s letter to the teachers and the full text
of the changes to the faculty handbook. Having
the authentic source material gives us all a solid
grasp on what is being promulgated.
The archbishop has picked his battle cleverly.
He has real leverage on the teachers. And speaking with parents of high school students at a
Catholic high school here conﬁrms that there
is a real problem of youngsters not behaving as
chastely as the church and their parents would
like. The letter and the charge are addressed to
the high schools and the teachers, but at the end,
one assumes that the individuals to be formed are
the high school students.
However, reading and reﬂecting on the materials leads me to believe that this is really an occasion for the archbishop to publicly draw another
line in the sand.
It is in fact a litany of what the archbishop calls
“hot button” issues that tell you more about his
general priorities than about how to get high
school kids to behave more chastely.
Will we really get youngsters to be chaste by
expounding rules on women priests, on Communion for remarried Catholics and on in vitro
fertilization?
I doubt that even the archbishop believes that.
This is rather about church discipline. And if
you doubted that, note that the charge begins by
reminding its readers about the magisterium and
In response to Mike DeNunzio’s letter (“Principle
of proportionality,” Jan. 23) criticizing the United
Nations position that no circumstances may justify
torture, I suggest followers of Jesus Christ give
great weight to Jesus words to treat others as we
would have them treat us. I have never met anyone
who wanted to be subjected to waterboarding.
Our role model is Jesus, not Torquemada.
Carolyn M. Daniel
San Francisco
Exclusionary edicts
I am the father of three girls. I “religiously” go
to church every Sunday. The church faces numerous challenges, including dwindling attendance
and the priest abuse scandals. So why would
Father Illo choose to add to those challenges?
Why would he slam the door in the faces of young
girls? Why would he build another sign for the
altar stating in big bold letters: “Women not welcome here.”
Father Illo conceded that girls were not only
more capable, but they use their God-given ability to do a better job as altar servers. Boys, on
the other hand, were generally less capable and
often lost interest. If boys lose interest so easily I
can only surmise that their “calling” is more of a
“whisper.”
Father Illo goes on to conclude, therefore, that
the best way to get more boys involved would be
to relegate the girls to a lesser stratum of the
church. So, rather than encourage those best
suited to the role, he says exclude them. Rather
than capitalizing where there is both interest
and ability, he chose to focus on those that lack
both interest and ability. I would posit that it is
precisely these types of exclusionary edicts that
dampen many boys’ sense of justice. It also must
diminish conﬁdence in their church knowing that
the church is the source of this injustice.
I try to teach my daughters they are equal to all
people (girls and boys), but the church continues
to undermine my efforts by preventing women
from participating fully in all areas of the church.
Society acknowledges that men and women
should be treated equally. I suspect that Father
Illo would support that statement as it relates to
society.
So what makes the church different?
Kevin Lozaw
San Anselmo
The writer is a parishioner of St. Anselm Parish, Ross.
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The priest’s role in the Mass is an act of fatherhood
’ve been asked to respond to letters regarding Star
of the Sea’s altar server program. I am grateful
to Rick DelVecchio and his staff at Catholic San
Francisco for providing a ﬁne newspaper in which
we can discuss questions with
faith in God and respect for
each other.
Forty-nine parishes in the
city offer girls the opportunity
to serve the Mass, and I think
there is room for one parish
with a boys-only program.
Without making any judgment on other practices, we
simply want to provide our
boys a more direct participaFATHER
tion in the priestly dimension
JOSEPH ILLO
of the Mass. The priest’s role
in the Mass is an act of fatherhood – providing “bread” and
sacriﬁcing his life for his children. In his beautiful
description of Christian family life, St. Paul describes the man’s role in Ephesians 5:25: “Husbands,
love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and
handed himself over for her.”
God wants a father to love wife and children in a
manner speciﬁc to his masculinity – “as Christ [the
groom] loved the church (the bride).” Once boys
begin to realize the sacriﬁcial dimension of the Mass,
the desire to become men – to defend their loved ones
with their lives – awakens within them. Of course, a
father, including a priest who shepherds his parish,
loves his daughters as well as his sons. Certainly I
cherish the girls as much as the boys and the girls
at Star of the Sea are being offered opportunities to
serve God in ways they ﬁnd exciting and satisfying.
Twenty-one years ago, the Catholic Church
began allowing girls to serve the Mass. In the letter
granting that permission (from the Congregation
for Divine Worship, dated March 15, 1994), we ﬁnd
these words: “The Holy See wishes to recall that it
will always be very appropriate to follow the noble
tradition of having boys serve at the altar. As is well
known, this has led to a reassuring development of
priestly vocations. Thus the obligation to support
such groups of altar boys will always continue.” Why
does the church favor altar boys rather than altar
girls? Is she sexist, or simply stupidly archaic, or
motivated by base paternalism?
I think the church prefers altar boys because the
Mass is an action of the High Priest, who represents
God as Father. In one sense, we, the church, are all
feminine before this great mystery, which means we
receive only to give back. While women can serve the
Mass, the fatherly dimension of this sacriﬁce is more
clearly represented by men. No doubt many girls can
help the priest at Mass better than many boys, but
“helping the priest” is not the deeper purpose for altar boys. They enter into the priestly sacriﬁce of the
Mass within the presbyterium, that liturgical area
around the altar set aside for the priestly action.
Many will disagree with me, and they have that
right. The universal church, and our local archbishop, support pastors who choose both ways. It’s a big
church, and she provides different approaches to worship. Many in my parish are grateful for this policy,
and many are open to rethinking the question.
I offer some thoughts along with my thanks to
those who wrote letters last week. Deacon Michael
Murphy writes that “without exception” everyone
he talked to was outraged. I will just note that of the
306 emails I received, 67 were negative and 239 were
positive. He describes my “vocations argument” as
“ludicrous in the extreme,” and Deacon Dana Perrigan states that no facts support the altar boy-vocation connection. But the Congregation for Divine
Worship makes that very argument in the document
quoted above, and “altar boy only” parishes gener-
ally have abundant priestly vocations. My last parish
currently has three men in the seminary, while the
Diocese of Lincoln, which has never had altar girls,
has more vocations per capita than any other American diocese.
Susanne Reed wonders if females at Star of the Sea
will be denied all roles in the parish. Of course, we
are not denying the speciﬁcally feminine genius but
simply affirming that some roles are better served by
one sex or the other. Jennie Jue states that no church
doctrine “says there can be no girl servers,” but I
would refer her to the 1994 document cited above,
which states that no bishop is obligated to begin permitting altar girls. Richard Morasci ﬁnds it odd that
girls, who often do a “better job,” should be denied
the right to serve. But my point is not who can help
the priest better, but who better represents fatherhood at the altar. Denis Nolan claims that Mary was
a priest, but the church has never understood her
role as merely that – quite the opposite in the document cited above. Julia Dowd rightly laments the
church’s harmful discrimination against women, but
I contend that a boys-only program helps both boys
and girls, just as scouting programs and single-sex
education beneﬁts everyone. And ﬁnally Christin
Marie-Angela Creighton points out that our ultimate
end is to become a saint, and that does not depend
on being an altar boy or girl, but rather in trusting
Christ and his church.
We live in a time of sexual confusion, especially
here in San Francisco. I hope giving girls and boys
distinct roles at Star will strengthen their God-given
vocations to holiness as young men and young
women. May Holy Mary, whom God called to a
higher vocation than any priest, help us to rejoice in
her Son’s will for each of us.
As Catholic Christians, we should welcome the
involvement of men, women, boys and girls in the
liturgy and in our church. Although being an altar
server may encourage a young man to pursue a
priestly vocation, this choice should not be affected
by whether girls are altar serving. There are many
other ways to be involved in the church other than
as a priest. We should encourage anyone who
wants to be an active part of the church community
to have that opportunity.
During these times of declining Mass attendance,
particularly among younger people, we should be
looking for ways to encourage people to be active
members of the church community. We must focus
on strategies that are inclusive, rather than those
that discourage participation in our church by any
group.
Judith Walsh-Cassidy
San Rafael
The writer is a member of St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael.
servers in a church that discriminates against their
sisters.
Like the Pharisees of Jesus’ time, many clergy
cling to past traditions to jealously guard their
power and control. I pray that the Holy Spirit can
open the doors being shut in the faces of Catholic
girls, and that clergy who stand between girls and
God’s call to them to serve, please step aside.
Laurie Joyce
San Anselmo
The writer is a member of St. Anselm Parish, Ross.
FATHER ILLO is administrator of Star of the Sea Parish, San
Francisco.
LETTERS
More boys in the priesthood
Re “Star of the Sea pastor trains only altar boys
as servers,” Jan. 30:
Kudos to Father Illo for having the guts to do
what he thinks will get more boys into the priesthood.
I tend to agree, but not wholeheartedly, with Father Illo. The introduction of female altar servers is
the result of Vatican II, which opened the window
of the church to modernity. Unfortunately it also
let in the ultra-liberal thinkers who decry male
dominance, a non-married priesthood, etc., which
of course led to the schism of Archbishop Lefebvre and the spread of liberation theology in South
America. So, although Vatican II was certainly an
inspired event, it allowed theological discourse
which in turn created the traditional and progressive camps. I feel this is natural and a phenomenon
to be expected in a group that comprises over a
billion-and-a-half people.
Father Illo does have a valid argument because
altar serving does provide one not only with an
aura of sanctity but also plays an important part
in our liturgical celebrations. This may spiritually
and sometimes hubristically inﬂuence the person
to consider the priesthood, which of course we are
very much in need of.
Lenny Barretto
Daly City
Call to holiness for everyone
I am writing to express my disappointment about
Father Joseph Illo’s decision not to allow girls to
altar serve at Star of the Sea Parish.
I am an active participating Catholic, a lector
and a extraordinary minister of holy Communion.
I am the mother of four children, two boys and
two girls. My two sons and my older daughter are
altar servers. They appreciate the opportunity to
be involved and feel that they have a fuller experience of the Mass when they are altar serving. My
youngest daughter is not old enough to altar serve,
however, when I am the commentator at Mass, she
reads some of the prayers of the faithful and the
announcements. She, too, appreciates the opportunity to be involved and will begin to altar serve
next year.
The Second Vatican Council emphasized the
“call to holiness for everyone including the laity.”
Decades of redemption
About Father Illo’s policy eliminating girls from
altar service and his rationale for doing so, I would
like to point out to him and his ilk that the decrease
in priestly vocations can be directly attributed to
the global clergy sex scandal and the collusion of
the ecclesiastical hierarchy which perpetuated the
horror. A young man of faith and integrity might
balk at dedicating his life to an earthly institution
so corrupted by mendacity and self-interest that it
will take decades to redeem itself. Father Illo might
want to re-read “Evangelii Gaudium” as a refresher
course on the real task of the church in promulgating the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our primary
focus as Roman Catholics should be on economic
inequality, a challenge Pope Francis urges us to
embrace.
Antoinette Doyle
San Rafael
Deeply pained
As the mother of three daughters, I was deeply
pained to hear of the decision to ban girls from being altar servers at Star of the Sea Church in San
Francisco. It is difficult enough to raise children
in the Catholic Church today and this latest move
throws yet another obstacle in front of parents.
Perhaps many boys won’t even want to be altar
Boys need Catholic values without confusion
I read with interest the letters in the Feb. 6
Catholic San Francisco as well as the archbishop’s
“Affirm and Proclaim.” As the father of three boys
completing Catholic educations, I know teenage
boys need Catholic values and guidance without
confusion more than ever.
While the press pays attention to the elite battles in
the boardroom for female equality, it is boys across
society who are suffering. Boys are more likely than
girls to drop out of high school and are now far less
likely to start or complete college. As recently as 1992
boys and girls were on par, but now 33 percent more
girls will get a college degree than boys. Teen boys
and young men abuse alcohol in greater numbers
and use marijuana more. It gets worse for jail and
suicide. Young males kill themselves at a rate ﬁve
times greater than young females, and the rate of incarceration for males is an astounding 11 to 15 times
greater than females depending on age. Need I go on?
In many ways, the traditional male ways of growing up – being an altar server, getting a paper route
and then a part-time job, establishing a sports team
with friends – have been abandoned for a system
that clearly is not working out great for a lot of
boys. So I keep this in mind when I hear of a parish
plan to return to all-male servers and think, if that
brings boys and young men closer to the church,
that may be good. Likewise, the idea that boys learn
in school not some sort of muted Catholic values
statement, but one that is reinforced as “we are
Catholic and this is our faith” is a very good thing
for developing the fathers of tomorrow, and I thank
the archbishop for that.
Jeffrey Weidell
San Carlos
The writer is a member of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
The excitement around the Chinese New Year
T
he celebration of each Chinese
New Year was always very special for me as I grew up in China.
My family, like many other families
in our small
town, was
poor, but we
were rich also
in that we had
many children,
six of us in our
family.
At New
Year’s, dad
and mom
always made
FATHER
sure that we
PETER ZHAI
had special
food to eat and
new clothes
to wear. On New Year’s Eve, mom
always washed us clean before we
went to bed. Before we got into bed,
she placed the new clothes to be
worn the following day folded at the
side of our beds. With a smile on my
face and my hands lying on my new
clothes, I longed for the New Year
as I fell asleep.
New Year’s morning was the only
morning when mom did not have to
wake me up. Up early, I eagerly put
on my new clothes and new shoes.
Then I went running through the
streets to bring New Year’s greetings to each house in our village.
When I returned home, I basked in
the compliments of my grandparents, uncles and aunts saying how
handsome I was and how beautiful
my clothes were. For me, New Year’s
was sheer joy and excitement.
As we children grew older, my
parents added more emphasis on
how to prepare ourselves spiritually for New Year celebrations. On
New Year’s Eve, we gathered as a
family in our prayer room to pray. It
was a time of reﬂection on the past
T
Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers
The Chinese Catholic community in San Francisco will gather to celebrate the New Year Mass
of 2015 at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.
year. We asked God’s forgiveness
for our offenses; we expressed our
gratitude to God for his blessings
to our family. It was also a time to
pray to God for blessings and graces
for the coming year. In the prayer
of repentance, I felt cleansed. In the
prayer of thanksgiving, my heart
was touched by God’s enduring love;
in the prayer for the New Year, I was
motivated with renewed hope. In
such a joyful and prayerful moment,
I learned to put on a different new
set of clothes, as St. Paul states:
“For all of you who were baptized
into Christ have clothed yourselves
with Christ” (Galatians 3:27).
he phrase “Lenten journey” has become
ubiquitous in contemporary Catholicism,
but for once, AmChurchSpeak makes an
important point: Lent is a journey – a journey to
Calvary with the Lord and
an opportunity to reflect on
how well we’ve each picked
up the cross daily (as instructed in Luke 9: 23) and
followed him.
The day-by-day quality of
the 40 days hit home during
the best Lent I ever spent:
Lent 2011, when I made
the Lenten station church
pilgrimage in Rome with
GEORGE WEIGEL
the Pontifical North American College. Every morning, I’d be up at 5:15 a.m. and off in the dawn’s
early light to participate in Mass at the “station”
appointed for that Lenten day – a tradition dating back to the mid-first millennium, when the
Bishop of Rome led a daily procession through
the city and celebrated Mass at a particular “station” church honoring the city’s martyrs.
But as splendid as that experience of Rome
was, those daily walks – which often take the
pilgrim to great churches far from the beaten
tourist track – weren’t the heart of the Lenten
journey for me. The deeper experience came
later, when I returned to the North American
College and wrote a commentary on each day’s
liturgical texts: the readings from Mass and
those in the breviary’s Office of Readings. Three
and a half decades of scribbling have taught me
that I best get inside a text and plumb its meaning when I write about it. That’s true of novels;
Each year as I matured I could
feel the spiritual excitement more
fully in my heart. Each of us is a
new creation in Jesus Christ and
there are always reasons for us to
be enthusiastic about our faith and
to celebrate our life in Christ.
The first day of lunar New Year
falls this year on Feb. 19. The Chinese Catholic community in San
Francisco will gather to celebrate
New Year Mass of 2015 at 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 21 at the Cathedral of St. Mary
of the Assumption. Following Mass,
there will be a New Year’s banquet
in Patrons Hall, located on the lower level of the cathedral. Accord-
ing to the Chinese zodiac, this is
the year of “Yang,” which refers to
goats, rams or sheep. Since we are
the sheep belonging to Christ the
Good Shepherd, calling this year
the year of the sheep is appropriate.
Our eternal shepherd is Christ; the
shepherd for the whole church is
Pope Francis; and we are delighted
with our local shepherd, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone who will
celebrate the Mass in the cathedral
with retired Bishop Ignatius Wang
and other bishops and priests.
Respecting elders and being grateful to ancestors are deeply rooted in
Chinese culture. Through the Mass
we will show our respect and venerate in a special way our beloved who
have gone before us. Immediately
after the Mass, we will celebrate the
rite for the veneration of ancestors
in which we pray for them, respect
them, recall their goodness to us,
and seek their intercession for us
before God. Our church has recognized the meaning and value of this
special prayer associated with Chinese New Year. This new rite has
been adapted as a form of prayer in
accordance with our belief in the
communion of saints.
Every Catholic celebration is centered in Christ. Through our New
Year celebration this year, we hope
to renew among Chinese Catholics
in San Francisco the determination
to bring the Gospel to all and to
spread the good news to Chinese in
the city who have not had a chance
to know Jesus. This renewal constitutes the new clothes which the
Chinese community puts on, and
my joy is just as intense as when I
was 7 or 8 years old.
DIVINE WORD Father Peter Zhai is director
of Chinese ministry in the Archdiocese
of San Francisco.
Lent, day by day
PRAY FAST GIVE
(CNS GRAPHIC/NANCY WIECHEC)
The three traditional pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting and
almsgiving. In the Latin-rite church, Lent begins with Ash
Wednesday, Feb. 18 this year.
it’s true of history and biography; and it’s most
certainly true of those readings from the Bible
and the fathers of the church that fill each day of
Lent with riches that are best mined slowly.
The unfolding of those riches is another dayby-day thing and becomes most intense during
the latter part of Lent, when the first selection
in the Office of Readings is from the Letter to the
Hebrews and the second Mass reading is from
the Gospel of John.
For two weeks, the Letter to the Hebrews draws
on images from the Old Testament to introduce
us to that “great high priest who has passed
through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God:” a
mediator between God and humanity who “has
been tempted as we are” and with whom we can
“with confidence draw near to the throne of
grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace
to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4: 14-16). Here,
the biblical author writes, we find that “great
cloud of witnesses” in whose company we are
enabled to “run with perseverance the race that
is set before us” (Hebrews 12: 1) Here is “Mt.
Zion … the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem” to which we are brought through the
mediation of Jesus, and where we join “innumerable angels in festive gathering” (Heb 12: 22).
Complementing this extraordinary vision of
our Christian destiny are the Lenten daily Mass
readings from the Gospel of John, in which
Jesus is sovereign even on earth. Throughout his
Passion – indeed, in setting in motion the dynamics that lead to the Passion – it is Jesus who is
in charge of events, Jesus who drives the drama
forward, Jesus who tells Pilate who is really in
charge of history. To walk this journey day by
day is to experience the fullness of what it means
to meet the Lamb of God who, by taking the
sins of the world on himself in obedience to the
Father’s will, empowers each of his brethren to
pick up their daily cross and follow him without
fear.
With the help of art historian Elizabeth Lev
and my photographer-son, Stephen, I’ve tried to
share what I learned and wrote during that “best
Lent” of my life in “Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches” (Basic Books). “Roman Pilgrimage” is meant to be read a day at a time (the eBook edition is especially conducive to reflection,
as its all-color photo format makes a visually
stunning complement to the text and “puts” the
reader in Rome). Whatever the format, though,
may “Roman Pilgrimage” be a fitting companion
on many Lenten journeys.
WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
SUNDAY READINGS
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, ‘If you wish, you can make me clean.’ Moved with
pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, ‘I do will it. Be made clean.’
MARK 1:40-45
LEVITICUS 13:1-2, 44-46
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “If someone
has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which
appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be
brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests
among his descendants. If the man is leprous and
unclean, the priest shall declare him unclean by
reason of the sore on his head. “The one who bears
the sore of leprosy shall keep his garments rent
and his head bare, and shall muffle his beard; he
shall cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ As long as the
sore is on him he shall declare himself unclean,
since he is in fact unclean. He shall dwell apart,
making his abode outside the camp.”
PSALM 32:1-2, 5, 11
I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and
you fill me with the joy of salvation.
Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose
sin is covered. Blessed the man to whom the Lord
imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no
guile.
I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and
you fill me with the joy of salvation.
Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt
I covered not. I said, “I confess my faults to the
Lord,” and you took away the guilt of my sin.
I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and
you fill me with the joy of salvation.
Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you just; exult, all
you upright of heart.
I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and
you fill me with the joy of salvation.
1 CORINTHIANS10:31-11:1
Brothers and sisters, whether you eat or drink,
or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of
God. Avoid giving offense, whether to the Jews or
Greeks or the church of God, just as I try to please
everyone in every way, not seeking my own beneﬁt
but that of the many, that they may be saved. Be
imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
MARK 1:40-45
A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down
begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make
me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his
hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will
it. Be made clean.” The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. Then, warning
him sternly, he dismissed him at once. He said
to him, “See that you tell no one anything, but
go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your
cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be
proof for them.” The man went away and began
to publicize the whole matter. He spread the
report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus
to enter a town openly. He remained outside in
deserted places, and people kept coming to him
from everywhere.
The gift of touch
W
e are fascinated with our skin. We’ll do anything to enhance its appearance. We use makeup to cover its imperfections. We obsess over its
wrinkles, scars, or blemishes. The human skin is the
surface of our contact with the
world. Did you know that human skin has more than three
miles of blood vessels coiled up
within it? And more remarkable than that, the skin of each
of us also contains over thirtysix miles of nerves and nerve
endings. Those nerves carry
signals for pain, heat, cold,
pressure, and touch.
Imagine what it would be
like if your nerve endings did
not work? What if your entire nerve system shut down?
You would feel no heat, no
cold, no pain, no pressure,
DEACON
no touch. You would feel
FAIVA PO’OI
nothing at all. Imagine how
terrible that would be!
Such was the plight of the
leper in the days of Jesus. Leprosy was an illness that
infected the nervous system, effectively shutting it
SCRIPTURE
REFLECTION
down. As a result, the person afflicted with leprosy
was unable to feel the pain of a stumped toe or a cut
ﬁnger. In time, the leper’s deformed features made
him look grotesque. In addition to this physical suffering, the lepers of Jesus’ time also experienced great
emotional and spiritual suffering. Fearing the spread
of the disease, “healthy” people would not associate
with lepers. They believed that lepers had been cursed
by God and treated them as outcasts. No one felt more
cut-off from society, and from God, than lepers.
As the leper in our Gospel story approached
Jesus, these were likely the thoughts with which
he was grappling. He believed himself to be one
cursed by God. This is what the religious leaders
had taught him! And yet the leper said to Jesus: “If
you will, you can make me clean.” It was not the
Lord’s ability to heal him that he questioned but
rather Jesus’ willingness to show him mercy and
love. The leper believed that God could heal him.
He just was not so sure that he would. The story
tells us that Jesus looked on the man with compassion, and subsequently stretched out his hand,
touched and healed him.
Throughout the Gospel of Mark, we will see Jesus
extending his hands and embracing those who come
to him. In time, people approached him just to touch
his garments or to be touched by him. Even healthy
children were brought to Jesus for his embrace. It is as
though Jesus wanted to portray God as one who loves
to touch his creation. Isn’t this the way Michelangelo
painted God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel – as a
God reaching out to give life by the gift of touch?
A year ago, a photo came on the internet of Pope
Francis embracing and kissing a 52 year old man
who was afflicted with very disﬁguring tumors all
over his body, including his head. Pope Francis
shows great compassion as he prays over this man.
His actions call to mind another Francis–St. Francis of Assisi – who about 800 years ago encountered
a leper on the road. St. Francis’ compassion was
stronger than his dread of leprosy. He kissed the
man. Afterward, the man was gone. It was then that
Francis realized that he had embraced Christ.
Who is the leper in our society, our community,
and our family? Do we regard the poor, the homeless, and the marginalized as lepers? Do we avoid
making contact with them?
May the Holy Eucharist enable us to recognize
the lepers in our families, our communities and our
society and to accept them as brothers and sisters.
And may the Holy Eucharist enable us to be for each
of them, the extended, the healing hands of Jesus.
DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS
POPE FRANCIS
Be neighborhood apostles, pope urges laity
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Cities can be chaotic and cold,
but people need God in a metropolis as much as
they need him anywhere, Pope Francis said.
Lay Catholics especially are called “to go out
without fear,” offering a human touch and God’s
love to people they work with or live near, the
pope said Feb. 7 during a meeting with members
of the Pontiﬁcal Council for the Laity.
With a smile and the example of a joyful Christian life, he said, laypeople “can break the wall of
anonymity or indifference that often reigns in a
city.”
While big cities can offer “magniﬁcent spaces of
freedom” and accomplishment, he said, they also
can hide “terrible spaces of dehumanization and
unhappiness.”
“It seems that every city, even the most prosper-
ous and well organized, has the ability to generate
a dark ‘anti-city.’ It seems that along with citizens,
there are non-citizens,” the pope said. “They are
individuals no one looks at, no one pays attention
to or takes an interest in.”
“In the face of these sad scenes, we must always
remember that God has not abandoned the city,”
he said.
Anywhere there are human beings, he said, God
is present and at work.
One of the most beautiful and surprising things
about sharing the Gospel with others, he said, is
that one discovers that “there are many hearts
the Holy Spirit has already prepared to accept
their witness, closeness and attention.”
Lay Catholics need the help of the church in
preparing for their mission as civic evangelizers,
he said, and must be helped to see that they must
live the Gospel in their own lives.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16: Monday of the Sixth
Week in Ordinary Time. GN 4:1-15, 25. PS 50:1 and 8,
16bc-17, 20-21. JN 14:6. MK 8:11-13.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17: Tuesday of the Sixth Week
in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Seven Founders
of the Order of Servites. GN 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10. PS 29:1a
and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10. JN 14:23. MK 8:14-21.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18: Ash Wednesday. JL
2:12-18. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17. 2 COR
5:20-6:2. See PS 95:8. MT 6:1-6, 16-18.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19: Thursday after Ash
Wednesday. DT 30:15-20. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. MT
4:17. LK 9:22-25.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20: Friday after Ash Wednesday.
Bls. Francisco and Jacinta Marto (Portugal). IS 58:1-9a.
PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19. SEE AMOS 5:14. MT 9:14-15.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21: Saturday after Ash
Wednesday. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian,
bishop and doctor. IS 58:9b-14. PS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6.
EZ 33:11. LK 5:27-32.
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St. Mary’s School science fair winners to compete for new prize
CHRISTINA GRAY
Ryan Cheung’s exhibit
presented a case for his theory
that San Francisco fog can be
turned into a water source.
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A science fair at Old St. Mary’s
Cathedral in Chinatown on Jan. 23-25
showcased the result of its school’s new
science, technology, engineering and
mathematics program and produced
seven middle school winners who will
compete again this month at the Randall Museum’s annual science fair.
The nationwide program known
as STEM emphasizes critical, creative and independent thinking and
utilizes technology to help prepare
students to compete in an increasingly global economy. It was launched
at St. Mary’s School in 2013, making it
the ﬁrst school in the archdiocese to
adopt the educational model.
At the St. Mary’s science fair, judges
from some of the city’s most prestigious scientiﬁc institutions including
the Academy of Sciences, the Exploratorium, Golden Gate Recreational
Area, the National Park Service and
the California Department of Consumer Affairs evaluated more than
45 student projects based on critical
thinking, research, design and testing.
Ryan Cheung’s exhibit presented a
The winners of the St. Mary’s School STEM Project Fair on Jan. 23-25 will compete in the
Randall Museum’s San Francisco Middle School Science Fair later this month: Left to right,
Calvin Ng, Ace Savage, Oscar Luo, Ryan Quock, Jacqueline Yu, Michaela Wong, Lucia Huang.
Not pictured is Kyle Pruden.
case for his theory that San Francisco
fog can be turned into a water source.
Project team Kyle Pruden and Oscar
Luo shared their “oxidation station”
for preventing metals from rusting,
while Ryan Quock tried to convince
judges that robots can climb stairs.
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Younger grades also competed in the
fair, with kindergarteners presenting
projects that created and captured gingerbread men, ﬁrst and second graders
exploring the principles of buoyancy,
and ﬁfth graders explaining the relationship between music and stress relief.
“Judges and students became collaborators on the exhibits during the
competition,” said STEM director
Beverly Dobrus.
Winners from that fair will go on
to compete in the San Francisco Bay
Area Science Fair.
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Our daydreams
A
good part of our lives are
taken up with daydreams,
though few of us admit that
and even fewer of us would own
up to the
contents
of those
fantasies.
We’re
ashamed
to admit
how
much we
escape
into
fantasy
FATHER RON
and we’re
ROLHEISER
even
more
ashamed
to reveal the content of those
fantasies. But, whether we admit it or not, we’re all pathological daydreamers; except this
isn’t necessarily a pathology.
Our hearts and minds, chronically frustrated by the limits
of our lives, naturally seek
solace in daydreaming. It’s an
almost irresistible temptation.
Indeed the more sensitive you
are, perhaps the stronger will
be the propensity to escape into
daydreams. Sensitivity triggers
restlessness and restlessness
doesn’t easily ﬁnd quiet inside
ordinary life. Hence, the escape
into daydreams.
And what about the contents
of those daydreams?
We tend to have two kinds of
daydreams: The ﬁrst kind are
triggered more by the immediate hurts and temptations
within our lives; for example,
a lingering hurt or anger has
you fantasizing about revenge
and you play out various
scenes of retaliation over and
over again in your mind. Or an
emotional or sexual obsession
has you fantasying about various kinds of consummation.
The other kind of daydream
we escape into is not so much
triggered by the hurts and obsessions of the present moment
but takes its root in something
deeper, something classically
expressed by St. Augustine in
the opening lines of his Confessions (a hermeneutical key for
his life and our own): You have
made us for yourself Lord and
our hearts are restless until
they rest in you. Simply put,
we are overcharged for our
lives, given inﬁnite spirits and
inﬁnite appetites and put into
this world wherein everything
is ﬁnite. That’s a formula for
chronic dissatisfaction. What’s
our escape? Daydreams.
However these second kind
of daydreams are somewhat
different from the ﬁrst. They
aren’t so much focused on the
immediate angers and temptations in our lives but rather are
the habitual imaginary lives
that we have interiorly fashioned for ourselves, fantasy
lives that we play over and
over again in our minds the
way we might play and replay
a favorite movie. But there’s
something interesting and important to note here. In these
daydreams we are never petty
or small, rather we are always
noble and grand, the hero or
the heroine, generous, bighearted, immune from faults,
drawing perfect respect, and
making perfect love. In these
daydreams we, in fact, intuit
the vision of Isaiah where he
foresees a perfect world, the
lamb the lion lying down
together, the sick being healed,
the hungry being fed, all restlessness being brought to calm,
and God, himself, drying away
every tear. Isaiah too fantasied
about perfect consummation.
His fantasy was a prophecy. In
our earthy fantasies we might
not prophesize but we do intuit
the kingdom of God.
With that being said, we still
need to ask ourselves: How
good or bad is it to escape into
daydreams?
At one level, daydreams are
not just harmless but can be a
positive form of relaxation and
a way to steady us inside the
frustrations of our lives. Sitting back in an easy chair and
sinking into a daydream can be
little different than sitting back
and turning on your favorite
piece of music. It can be an
escape that takes the edge off
of the frustrations within your
life.
But there’s a potential
downside to this: Since in our
daydreams we are always the
hero or the heroine and the
center of attention and admiration, our daydreams can easily
stoke our natural narcissism.
Since we are the center of
everything in our daydreams
we can easily become overfrustrated with a world within
which we are not much the
center of anything. And there’s
more: Etty Hillesum, reﬂecting on her own experience,
suggests another negative
consequence from habitually
escaping into daydreams. She
affirms that because we make
ourselves the center of the
universe inside our daydreams
we often end up not being able
to give anything or anybody
the simple gaze of admiration.
Rather, in her strong words, in
our daydreams we take in what
we should be admiring and,
instead, masturbate with it.
For this reason, among others,
daydreams help block us from
mindfulness, from being in the
present moment. When we are
all wrapped-up in fantasy it’s
hard to see what’s in front of
us.
So where should we go with
all of this? Given both the good
and bad within our daydreams
and given our near-incurable
propensity to escape into
fantasy, we need to be patient
with ourselves. Henri Nouwen
suggests that the struggle to
turn our fantasies into prayer
is one of the great congenital
struggles within our spiritual
lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin shares in his journals that
when he was young he struggled a lot with fantasy but,
as he grew older, he was able
more and more to stand in the
present moment without the
need to escape into daydreams.
That’s the task we need to set
before ourselves.
OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president
of the Oblate School of Theology,
San Antonio, Texas.
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April 13-23, 2015
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Mary O’Hara Wyman shows her certificate for completing the El Camino Santiago.
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“This was a rewarding experience,” she said, but no piece of cake.
El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known as The Way of
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“I wanted to experience the
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“No doubt there is a connection to
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Wyman was raised on a farm in Illinois where her devout parents led
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She went to a convent school and a
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A longtime contemplative prayer
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“Daily meditation never failed to
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Her postcards became a comforting
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Wyman said that as she merged
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POPE: Holy Father makes surprise visit to immigrant settlement
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He gave them a formal blessing, and then told
them he had to be going since he had promised to
spend the afternoon at the parish.
At the parish, the pope delivered 100 sleeping
bags for the homeless assisted by the parish and
the Sant’Egidio Community. He met with a group
of children and with the parents of babies baptized
in the past year. He also heard the confessions of a
few parishioners, the Vatican said.
In his homily during the evening Mass, Pope
Francis told parishioners that Jesus’ public ministry was all about preaching and healing.
The pope said people should ask themselves, “Do
I let Jesus preach to me or do I know everything?
Do I listen to Jesus or do I prefer to listen to almost
anything else, maybe people’s gossip or stories?”
Jesus speaks to people through the Scriptures, he
said. Although carrying a Bible or a small book of
the Gospels is not something Catholics are known
for, it is something they should do.
“We must make this a habit,” he said. “Listen to
the word of Jesus, listen to the words of Jesus in the
Gospel. Read a passage, think about what it says.”
People also must be willing to let Jesus heal
them, he said. “We all have wounds, all of us: spiritual wounds, sins, hard feelings, jealousies,” people
that we have decided never to speak to again. “This
needs to be healed!”
“It is sad when in a family brothers or sisters no
longer speak to each other over something silly,” he
said. “The devil takes something silly and makes a
world out of it.”
But Jesus can defeat the devil and bring healing,
restoring harmony, the pope said. “Let yourselves
be healed by Jesus.”
Earlier in the day, Pope Francis recited the Angelus with thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s
Square. He told them, too, that Jesus’ public life
was mainly about preaching and healing.
“It’s true,” he said, “Jesus saves, Jesus cures,
Jesus heals.”
The healing ministry of Jesus continues in the
church, through the sacraments and through the
loving care Christians give to the sick, he said. “To
care for a sick person, to welcome him or her, serve
him or her, is to serve Christ.”
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Pope Francis also marked the Feb. 8 commemoration of the International Day of Prayer and
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women and children who are enslaved, exploited
and abused as instruments of work or pleasure and
are frequently tortured and mutilated.”
The pope called on governments around the world
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shameful plague, a plague unworthy of a civil society.”
September 5-16
Turkey: Following the Footsteps of
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Book of Revelation (with Mass at the home
of the Blessed Mother in Ephesus)
October 6-20
Fr. Mario, a Franciscan who holds a PhD in New Testament, has
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FRIDAY, FEB. 13
SATURDAY, FEB. 21
DIVORCE SUPPORT: Healing the
Wounds, a divorced and separated
Catholics support group, second
Friday of the month, Tarantino Hall,
St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon, 6:30-8
p.m., professional childcare available, $10 per child. Karen Beale, (415)
250-2597; Amy Nelis, (916) 212-6120;
Father Roger Gustafson, (415) 4351122.
HANDICAPABLES MASS: The first 50
years of this good work continues to
be celebrated throughout 2015 with
monthly Mass and lunch at noon in
lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Gough Street at Geary Boulevard,
San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their
caregivers are invited. Volunteers
are always welcome to assist in this
cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin,
(415) 239-4865.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18
DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes
place first and third Wednesdays,
7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’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,
[email protected].
ART EXHIBIT: “Reformations: Dürer
and the New Age of Print” through
Feb. 22 noon to 6 p.m. daily, Thacher
Gallery in Gleeson Library – Geschke Center, Golden Gate Avenue
and Parker Avenue on USF campus;
(415) 422-5178; www.usfca.edu/
library/thacher; admission free. This
is a collaborative, student-curated
exhibition on the earliest moments
of print and printed book culture in
Europe concentrating on the impact
of new print technologies and their
uses in and around Nuremberg, Germany, in the late-15th and early-16th
centuries.
YOUNG ADULT PRAYER: Young Adult
Lenten Day of Prayer: Conversion – a
Lifelong Journey, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
For women and men ages 18-40, at
the Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont. Registration fee: $20 for lunch,
refreshments and materials. Facilitators: Sister Ingrid Clemmensen and
Young Adult Retreat Team. Day will
include prayer, reflection, sharing,
listening to God in Scripture. Register on-line at www.msjdominicans.
org or www.bit.ly/YAretreat.org. (510)
933-6335.
ASTRONOMER TALK: Jesuit Brother
Guy Consolmagno, 3 p.m., Community
School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Sponsored
by the Thomas Merton Center of Palo
Alto. No fee to attend. Limited parking
is available at the site and its vicinity.
Visit www.arts4all.org. Kay Williams,
(650) 270-4188, [email protected].
WEDDING MASS: Married couples
celebrating anniversaries marking
five-year periods (5, 10 and upward)
are invited to a commemorative
anniversary Mass with Archbishop
Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal
celebrant and homilist, 10 a.m., St.
Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.
Register at www.sfanniversary.net or
(415) 614-5680 by Feb. 12. Registration is required. A $20 donation from
each couple is asked.
SUNDAY, FEB. 22
ORGAN CONCERT: Father Paul
Perry plays compositions of Mozart,
Grieg, Elgar and others, St. Sebastian
Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, 12:30
p.m. Admission is free.
FORGIVENESS SUNDAY: Our Lady
of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic
Church, 23rd Avenue at Geary next
to St. Monica Church, San Francisco,
begins Great Lent in the Byzantine
Rite with Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m., an
Agape meal at noon to which everyone
is welcome and vespers at 2:30 p.m.
(415) 752-2052;. OLFatimaSF@gmail.
com; www.byzantinecatholic.org.
FAITH FORMATION: “Sunday Morning Conversations with the Jesuits
and Their Lay Partners,” St. Ignatius Church, Fromm Hall, Parker and
Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco,
10:50-11:45 a.m. Free and open to the
public. Free parking in all USF lots.
Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195; faloon@
usfca.edu; Jesuit Father John Coleman, [email protected]. Feb. 22:
“The European social market economy
in light of the experience of Catholic
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DON BOSCO: Don Bosco Study Group
meets 7 p.m., Parish Center, Sts. Peter
and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across
from Washington Square Park, San
Francisco. We will continue to hear an
historical narrative of the saint’s life
with time for small group discussions.
The group has met quarterly for the
past several years in celebration of the
great saint’s birth bicentenary. All are
welcome. Frank Lavin, (415) 310-8551;
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LENTEN TALKS: St. Stephen Parish, Donworth Hall, 401 Eucalyptus
Drive next to Stonestown YMCA, soup
supper and talk, Feb. 24, March 3, 10
with Taize prayer service March 17,
6:30 p.m., Franciscan Brother Michael
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support group session, Feb. 23-April
20, 7 p.m., St. Pius Parish Center, 1100
Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25
MARRIAGE SERIES: Marriage Challenge, inspirational talks for couples
talks through March 27 at sites
throughout archdiocese, 7-9 p.m.,
freewill offering, www.marriageonfire.
info; Ed Hopfner, [email protected].
GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief
support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard, San
Francisco, third Wednesday of each
month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe
Room, on west side of parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide
information on grief process, and tips
on coping with loss of a loved one.
Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads the
group. Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 5672020, ext. 218.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25
PRIORY TALKS: “God, Grace
of the World,”
with Benedictine
Brother Ivan Nicoletto. In a world
in which humanity
can create and
destroy life, what
grace may God
have for our lives
and our commuBrother Ivan
nities? 7-9 p.m.,
Nicoletto
Woodside Priory
School, 302 Portola Road, Portola
Valley, Founders Hall, admission is
free, refreshments provided, Carrie
Rehak, [email protected], (650)
851-8221. www.prioryca.org/life/
campus-spiritual-life/insight-speakers-series/.
FRIDAY, FEB. 27
THURSDAY, FEB. 26
EVENING PRAYER: Sisters of Mercy
invite women to four Fridays of evening prayer and conversations about
vocation, 7:30 p.m., Mercy Center,
2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame,
Mercy Chapel: Feb. 27, Serving with
Jesus; March 27, Remaining with
Jesus; April 24,Walking Joyfully in
the Spirit. RSVP to Mercy Sister Jean
Evans, (650) 373-4508; Jevans@
mercywmw.org.
SATURDAY, FEB. 28
CRAB BASH: Crab bash benefiting
St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, 299 Precita Ave., San
Francisco, 6-9 p.m., $50 by Jan. 30,
$55 by Feb. 13, $60 at door includes
dinner, one glass wine or beer and
raffle ticket; on-site parking. Evening
includes cracked crab dinner, music,
dancing, raffle, silent and live auctions.
Constance Dalton, [email protected],
(415) 642-6130.
ICA LUNCH: Celebrating Women
in Business, a
lunch and program hosted by
Immaculate Conception Academy,
San Francisco,
Julia Morgan Ballroom, Merchants
Exchange Building, 465 California
Luanne Tierney
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FRIDAY, MARCH 6
FIRST FRIDAY: Contemplatives of St.
Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa
Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service
and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil
from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.
TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer
co, 11:30 a.m., $75. Carol Squires
Brandi and Luanne Tierney are the
day’s honorees. Brandi is a native
San Franciscan, holds a graduate degree in filmmaking from
San Francisco State University
and has worked for Lucas Films.
Tierney is a branding expert. She
has been featured in the Wall
Street Journal for her leadership
strategies. Celine Curran, (415)
824-2052, ext. 32; ccurran@
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FESTIVAL MASS: Archbishop
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Cordileone is
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Northern California Choral Festival
Mass, 5:30 p.m.,
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liturgy. Visit www.pcchoirs.org.
HOLOCAUST PLAY: “Etty,” an internationally acclaimed play of a young
woman’s struggle to sustain humanity in the face of the brutality of the
Holocaust, 3 p.m., Mercy High School,
San Francisco, with overview from
Holocaust survivor Jacob Boas. Reception follows in theatre lobby. Free
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prayer has been sung on first Fridays
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
‘JOY OF GOSPEL’: Pray, read and
discuss Pope Francis’ teaching during
presentations on Pope Francis’ new
document, 7 p.m., March 11, Apr.
15, May 6; Dominican Sisters of MSJ
Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd.
entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont. Dominican Sisters Ingrid Clemmensen and Marcia Krause facilitate;
www.msjdominicans.org.
OLPH ANNIVERSARY: Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Parish, 60 Wellington
Ave. Daly City, celebrates its 90th year
with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant of Mass at 9
a.m. followed by parish procession and
reception. (650) 755-9786; [email protected].
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2015
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred
In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of January
HOLY CROSS,
COLMA
Dorothy M. Adams
Barbara Agricola
Primo J. Astesano
Frances Barulich
Shirley Ann Bechelli
Daniel J. Beckman
Ralph P. Belluomini
Lawrence A. Blake
Helen Bofinger
Edward G. Bouc
Betty A. Braun Savnik
Josephine E. Brosnan
Marie Ida Broussard
Margaret Flanagan Butler
Rev. Leonard J. Calegari
Danila Pena Canonizado
Raymond M. Capella
George E. Cawley
Sara Cortes
Hugo Davila
Sr. Maria De La Imaculada, O.C.D
Margaret A. Doherty
William Dennis Dumont
Dorothy Ann Esparza
Feliciana Francisco
Grace Marie Frontin
James J. Galvin
Lorraine C. Garban
Mercedes G. Garcia
Raymond A. Garibaldi
Joseph A. Gavidia
Marlene L. Gazzano
Angelo J. Giannarini
Manuela Gómez
Mercedes Centeno Gonzalez
Conception E. Griffiths
Agaton C. Gualberto, Jr.
Edward Alfonso Guerrero, Sr.
Florencio V. Halili
Richard Hannon
Robert J. Harrington
Nanette “Nancy” Hart
Carol L. Hary
Epetacia Hathaway
Frances Mae Haug
Michael J. Holland, Sr.
Donald W. Holsten
Virginia M. Hooke
George Cordero Ison, Sr.
Helen M. (Farry) Jankowski
Jack W. Jear
Lucy Karic
Julia Kavanagh
Margaret Mary Kellogg
Rosemarie A. Kemp
Lavirn Kenne
George J. Knight
Peggy Ann Lambert
Lucia Ledon
Jeannette Lestrade
Paul F. Malcewicz
Segundina Reyes Mallari
John Mancini
Rev. Richard Mandoli, OCD
Vivienne Marie Matias
Geri Bracken Matkovich
Lee Ann McCurdy
Edith K. McEntee
Maureen Susan McFadden
Garry Hale McGrew
Margaret M. McMackin
Marjorie R. McSweeney
Ricardo U. Menendez, Jr.
Guillermo Cadena Mercado
Carrie W. Miguel
Joan Valerie Mitchell
Linda T. Mizzi
Gerald R. Moller
Robert Morales
Hermosito M. Moreno
Dorothy M. Myers
Henry L. Naupoto
Nazzal H. Nazzal
Joseph Bernard Nebeling
Dan Nguyen
Rosalina P. Ofalsa
Genoveva T. Ordonia
Asuncion Palacios
Elisa Partida
Matthew Robert Paulo
Marie F. Pellizzon
Thomas Allen Percell
Raymond M. Phillips
Patricia Pinnick
Chung Powers
Lena Ragni
Jesus Diaz Raya
Joseph John Re
Roxana Marina Reyes Bellone
Ann Marie Ritter
Helen Mendez Rodrigues
George V. Rodriguez
Marie Rossi Romano
Juanita L. Sagun
Mary Jane Saidy
Felipe T. Santos
Lita Sarmiento
Elena Schaub
Silvio L. “Sil” Scocca
Daniel J. Shannon
Louis C.F. Silvas
Harry Joseph Simon
Bernard (Barney) Smetzer
Joseph Anthony Smith
Teofilo L. Soriano
Souhaila B. Soudah
Donald C. Stibich
Narcisa F. Sunga
Michael J. Susko, Jr.
Loretta Sweeney
Albert Tabarez
Mary Arrighi Thompson
Norma Torrano
Marion D. Tosetti
Naim Salim Turk
Vivian Tyrell
Robert J. Valdez
Jose Alberto Vega Cuadra
Anthony Zolezzi
Elizabeth L. Zut
MT. OLIVET,
SAN RAFAEL
Estelle Carstarphen
Frances A. Condon
Lenore Cotta
Ana Marie (Nina) Sabo
Jose M. Vaca
HOLY CROSS,
MENLO PARK
Ramon Buenrostro
Rogaciano Carrillo
Barbara J. Gingher
Judy Werby Jones
Andre Lebeau
Rose Tirey
Kapeliele Saia Vili
OUR LADY
OF THE PILLAR
Alfredo Chavez
TOMALES
Dorothy Paganetti
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA
FIRST SATURDAY MASS – SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2015
All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am
Rev. Tony P. LaTorre, Celebrant – Pastor St. Philip the Apostle Church
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA
650-323-6375
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA
650-756-2060
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery
270 Los Ranchos Road, San Rafael, CA
415-479-9020
Tomales Catholic Cemetery
1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA
415-479-9021
St. Anthony Cemetery
Stage Road, Pescadero, CA
650-712-1675
Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery
Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA
650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.
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FEBRUARY 13, 2015
$1.00 | VOL. 17 NO. 5
February 13, 2015
Dear Friends in Christ:
It is once again time to ask you to participate in our Archdiocesan Annual
Appeal. This year our theme is, “As I have done for you, you should also do.”
These were Christ’s words at the Last Supper, exhorting his disciples to aspire to be
servants, not masters, of their fellow human beings.
One of the great blessings of my ministry in San Francisco is the opportunity
to visit the parishes, to celebrate the Eucharist with our priests, and to enjoy
conversations with parishioners after Mass. Happily, my visits are usually occasions
for some celebration, and it is a joy to visit with you, to hear your stories, and to see
your dedication in faith and love.
I am so deeply grateful for all that you do to bring life to others, in your
families, in your local communities, in your local parishes. As the Archdiocese
embarks on this Annual Appeal, I urge you to be as generous as you can be in support
of our ministries.
With my gratitude for your continued support of our Archdiocese, and with my
prayerful best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours in our Lord,
Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone
Archbishop of San Francisco
S P ECIAL SU PPLE ME N T
Archbishop’s Annual
Appeal 2015
Febr uar y 13,2015 Issue Insi de
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Catholic San Francisco
February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015
Catholic San Francisco
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“...as I have done for you, you should also do.”- John 13:15
CHANCERY BUDGET FOR 2015
SOURCES OF INCOME
$13,700,000
WHAT YOUR AAA GIFTS SUPPORT
NOTE: The amounts shown represent the anticipated contribution of Archbishop’s Annual Appeal funds to the ministries listed during the coming fiscal year.
Archdiocesan Direct Ministries $1,600,000
Ethnic Ministries celebrates the rich diversity of cultures, languages and races through programs and gatherings that promote intercultural education, dialogue, communication
$8,000,000
58%
AAA 2015 PROJECT SUPPORT
$5,700,000
UNIVERSAL
CHURCH
19%
$1,100,000
CLERGY
SUPPORT
21%
$1,200,000
and understanding. Ethnic Ministries provides support for 22 different ethnic communities
including African-American, Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Spanish-speaking and others.
Ethnic Ministries also sponsors multicultural celebrations and collaborates with other
archdiocesan offices to develop multicultural program components in order to integrate
different communities into the church of the archdiocese.
AAA 2015
42%
$5,700,000
Student volunteers from Riordan High School with Archbishop Cordileone at the Rosary Rally held at the UN Plaza, SF
Parish/School Ministry $1,800,000
The Department of Catholic Schools prepares students for a Christian life by providing policies
and programs for religious and general education in preschool, elementary and secondary schools. The
department supports 22 preschools, 60 elementary and middle schools, 14 high schools, and more than
2,100 full-time and part-time teachers, administrators, counselors, librarians, and support personnel.
PARISH &
SCHOOL
MINISTRIES
32%
$1,800,000
ARCHDIOCESAN
DIRECT
MINISTRIES
28%
$1,600,000
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The Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is the method used to help fund these
expenditures for ministries and services. The Archbishop’s Stewardship
Council, which includes 11 pastors of the archdiocese - one from each of
the 11 deaneries, oversees the process and recommends individual parish
assessments for the Annual Appeal. The pastors of the archdiocese
have agreed that 16.85 percent of the aggregate ordinary income of the
parishes will be provided to fund ministries and programs that support
the work of all the parishes. The assessment process takes a wide range
of factors into consideration, and assessments for individual parishes
may be above or below the aggregate average. The process also includes
the approval of the Archbishop and an opportunity for appeal.
The Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns embodies the teachings found
within the parable of the Good Samaritan by seeing injustice as a personal call to action,
and making a commitment to address the needs of the suffering person. The office provides
education and advocacy on behalf of the unborn, the poor, the elderly, the imprisoned, the
homeless, the disabled and the marginalized in our society. Its programs include Respect
Life, Restorative Justice, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Advocacy Training
and Parish Organizing. The office also collaborates with the California Catholic Conference
and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to provide representation to local
and national government officials and civic leaders on legislative issues that are of great
importance to all Catholics due to their moral implications.
The Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry serves parishes in connecting adults in their
twenties and thirties, (married, single, divorced, with or without children), to Jesus and to parish
communities throughout the Archdiocese. The office seeks to help increase a welcoming spirit that
seeks out young adults and affirms their gifts and needs. This office also serves as the liaison between
the Archdiocese and the Campus Ministry programs of local colleges and universities.
The Office of the Metropolitan Tribunal and Canonical Affairs serves as a resource
to the archbishop and the Catholic community in order to maintain and uphold the universal
“Simbang Gabi” is a Catholic Filipino tradition celebrated in the Archdiocese
and particular laws of the church. The Tribunal assists individuals seeking to reconcile
with the church by evaluating the status of individual marriages, as the church understands that bond. It also seeks to protect the rights of the faithful, including the right to a good
reputation, while mindful of the obligations inherent with being a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Office of Ecumenical and Intereligious Affairs represents the Archbishop and the Archdiocese
in our relationships with approximately 70 other spiritual communities within the Christian church
(Episcopal, Evangelicals and others) and outside Christianity (Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and
others). The influence and work of the office extend beyond the boundaries of the Archdiocese – regional
in California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii; national in Washington D.C.; and international in Rome.
The Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry nurtures the lifelong faith formation
of people by animating leadership training to ensure a holistic approach to their ministry. The office
provides Catechist and Youth Ministry formation, enrichment and guidance, catechist certifications,
Sacramental preparation classes and Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) classes. The office
also provides adult faith and youth leadership formation and classes in sacraments and catechesis for
persons with special needs.
The Ministry to the Spanish Speaking works with the Archbishop and the Vicar for Spanish Speaking
to be effective instruments of evangelization for the Spanish-speaking community. The office supports small
Christian communities, ecclesial movements and the Archdiocesan Spanish Speaking Pastoral Council to affirm
and empower the laity in their baptismal vocation of service. The office provides adult faith formation programs
to develop leadership and enrich spiritual life and seeks to empower Spanish-speaking youth and young adults
to serve others by supporting the Archdiocesan Spanish Speaking Young Adult Pastoral Team. The office also
cultivates teamwork and support among other ministry offices such as Worship, Family Life, Respect Life/
Restorative Justice, Vicar for Spanish Speaking and others, in order to support parish pastoral needs.
The Office of Worship provides liturgical resources for worthy celebration of the Roman Rite. The
office prepares special liturgies for major celebrations; gives presentations on liturgical spirituality,
theology and ministries; trains extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion and lectors, provides
catechesis on the Roman Rites and assists parishes to place qualified liturgical personnel. With
the Archdiocesan Worship Commission, the office also consults on church art and architecture, the
formation and work of liturgy committees, and related liturgical activities.
The Office for Consecrated Life. The Director of the Office for Consecrated Life serves as a liaison
between the Archbishop and the Religious of the Archdiocese. The office director represents the Archbishop
at congregation functions, visits religious houses, is available to individual Religious and local communities
and provides guidance to new religious communities. The office is assisted by the members of the Council
of Religious who help arrange for annual gatherings with the Archbishop and Auxiliary Bishops.
The Office of Marriage and Family Life supports Catholic families through
marriage preparation retreats and training of marriage preparation leaders,
instruction in Natural Family Planning and by offering programs for enrichment
of married couples. The office oversees the FOCCUS program, a marriage
compatibility inventory administered as part of the marriage preparation
process. The office also liaises with Marriage Encounter, Retrouvaille, ecclesisal
movements such as Couples for Christ and Movimiento Familiar Cristiano
Catolico and other Catholic family oriented support programs, including grief
ministry and infertility support groups. Finally, the office supports marriage
through education and through events such as the Wedding Anniversary Mass and
the Archdiocesan Day for Marriage and Families.
Students from St. Charles Borromeo-San Francisco attend a Spanish Mass celebrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral
Wedding Anniversary Mass
Clergy $1,200,000
The Office of the Vicar for the Clergy assists and supports priests, deacons, and seminarians in their ministry
to the people of the Archdiocese. The Vicar for Clergy oversees
the work of the Priest Personnel Board, the Retirement Board, the
Ongoing Formation of Priests Board and works with the Director
of Vocations, the Director of Ongoing Formation of Priests, the
Director of Diaconate Formation, the Director of Permanent
Diaconate, the Vicar for Spanish speaking, and the Vicar for the
Filipino Community. The Annual Appeal assists in this work by
funding for clergy formation and ongoing studies, clergy retreats
and days of recollection, clergy sabbaticals, and supplemental
retirement needs.
The Office of Vocations fosters and supports a Vocations Culture
in the parishes, Catholic schools and religious education programs
of the Archdiocese. Responding to Jesus’ mandate: “The harvest
is rich, but the laborers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his field”, (MT. 9:37), the office places
special emphasis on prayer resources and discernment materials that help candidates discover their individual calling in life.
In addition to the promotion of vocations to the diocesan priesthood and religious life, the office collaborates with the various
seminaries and houses of formation that educate the priestly candidates of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Retired priest Rev. Kirk Ullery is welcomed at the annual St. John
Vianney luncheon where all retired priests who served in the
Archdiocese of San Francisco are honored.
The Office of Permanent Diaconate supports the ministry and lives of the deacons and their wives who serve the
Archdiocese. The office addresses concerns that relate to ministry assignments, the ongoing education of deacons, and the
spiritual, financial and health concerns of the deacons and their families. The office supports 19 parishes in San Francisco with
28 deacons, 25 parishes in San Mateo with 45 deacons and 8 parishes in Marin with 13 deacons. The office also arranges annual
retreats and social events, and assists to screen and admit candidates for the five-year deacon formation program.
The ordination of Rev. Roger Gustafson held at
St. Mary’s Cathedral in June 2014.
Universal Church $1,100,000
Universal Church - In addition to the ministries and services provided by the Archdiocese, the Archbishop’s Annual
Appeal also contributes to the larger work of the California Conference of Bishops, the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, and the Vatican.
The Department of Communications & Outreach
manages internal communications to pastors, clergy,
religious and laity, and external communications such
as media relations, public relations, public information
and special projects handling. The office publishes
Catholic San Francisco, San Francisco Catolico, the
official Archdiocesan Directory and produces television
and radio programs including “Mosaic” on KPIXChannel 5, and “The Archbishop’s Hour” on Immaculate
Heart Radio/1260 AM. The office also manages the
archdiocese’s external and internal websites and controls
the content of digital media accounts on Facebook,
Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and YouTube.
Archbishop Cordileone and Pope Francis
“Mosaic” on KPIX-Channel
KPIX Channel 5 features Archbishop Cordileone
Wa y s To G i v e
Pledge Your Gift - Only you can decide what gift is right for you in light of your circumstance and in light of
the blessings God has given you. The ideal way to give is to select a gift that you can manage on a monthly
basis rather than a one-time gift. Pledging a monthly gift enables you to give more generously in balance with
other important economic responsibilities. Thank you for your consideration!
OnLine Giving - the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal offers the convenience of making your gift and pledge
payments online by credit card or direct debit from your bank account. To make an online gift, please go to
Suggested Gift Plans
Total Gift
1st Payment 10 Monthly
Payments
$5000
$500
$450
$2000
$200
$180
$1000
$100
$90
$800
$80
$72
$500
$50
$45
$300
$30
$27
Donate Stocks, Bonds or Mutual Funds - Donations of stock offer a way to make a charitable gift without
having to utilize cash funds. In addition, a stock donor may be able to benefit from capital gains tax savings.
Please contact your parish office for more information on how to donate stocks, bonds or mutual funds.
$200
$20
$18
$150
$15
$13.50
Matching Gifts - Many employers have matching gifts programs which provide employees with the opportunity
to enhance their charitable contributions. Please contact your company’s Human Resource professional to
determine if your company participates in the Matching Gift Program.
$100
$10
$9
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One Time Gift : If you would like to make a one-time donation to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, please
contact the Office of Development or your local parish to receive an AAA donation brochure and return the
donation form completed with all required information to your local parish.
X Check - Please make checks payable to “Archbishop’s Annual Appeal 2015.”
X Credit Card - You can take full advantage of the benefits offered by your credit card such as bonus points
and airlines miles.
To watch Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s 2015 Annual Appeal message, go to www.sfarchdiocese.org
For more information, please contact your parish or the Office of Development at (415) 614-5580 or email at [email protected].
A self addressed AAA donation brochure is enclosed for your convenience.
Photos courtesy of Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco