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(Photo by David Andrews/Catholic San Francisco)
Pentecost confirmations at St. Mary’s Cathedral
The archbishop confers the sacrament of confirmation. He is shown here anointing a young woman. See page 10 for more photos.
Valerie Schmalz
Catholic San Francisco
Saying that “it is a very critical stage in a priest’s
journey,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has
instituted a new position focused on mentoring
priests for the first five years after ordination.
Archbishop Cordileone appointed longtime Im-
maculate Heart of Mary pastor and former Junipe-
ro Serra High School president Father Stephen H.
Howell as part-time director of Ongoing Forma-
tion for Newly Ordained Priests, effective July 1.
Father Howell was also appointed to a new post as
pastor of St. Philip the Apostle in Noe Valley.
“I just thought we needed to do more about
bringing them together, praying together, sharing
concerns, reflecting together,” Archbishop Cor-
dileone said in a conversation with Catholic San
Francisco. It is also a way to formalize his relation-
ship with the new priests, whom he spent a great
deal of time with during their formation in the
seminary.
The archdiocese already has a director of
ongoing priestly formation for all priests, Father
William McCain, and each new priest also picks a
mentor as recommended by the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops document on the formation of
priests. This position complements those existing
supports.
“Studies and experience show that how those
first few years are lived out will have a major
impact on a priest’s life,” Archbishop Cordileone
said.
Not only is the new priest adjusting to life in
the parish, with its demands, and its relation-
ships with parishioners, pastor and staff, but “on
Archbishop appoints Father Stephen Howell
to role mentoring newly ordained priests
see howell, page 2
Pope and Muslim
imam embrace
at Vatican
Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – After five years of tension
and top-level silence, Pope Francis and the grand
imam of one of the most important Sunni Muslim
universities in the world embraced at the Vatican
May 23.
“The meeting is the message,” the pope told Ah-
mad el-Tayeb, the grand imam of al-Azhar Univer-
sity, as the religious scholar approached him just
inside the door of the papal library.
El-Tayeb’s spring visit was the first meeting
between a pontiff and a grand imam since the Mus-
lim university in Cairo suspended talks in 2011.
Established in 1998, the formal dialogue between
al-Azhar and the Vatican started to fray in 2006,
after now-retired Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech
in Regensburg, Germany. Al-Azhar officials and
millions of Muslims around the world said the
speech linked Islam to violence.
Al-Azhar halted the talks altogether in 2011 after
the former pope had said Christians in the Middle
East were facing persecution. Al-Azhar claimed
that Pope Benedict had offended Islam and Mus-
lims once more by focusing only on the suffering
of Christians when many Muslims were suffering
as well.
In February, Bishop Miguel Ayuso Guixot, sec-
retary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious
Dialogue, delivered a letter to el-Tayeb from Cardi-
nal Jean-Louis Tauran, council president, inviting
him to the Vatican to meet the pope.
(CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)
Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand
imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar mosque and university, during a
private meeting at the Vatican May 23.
see embrace, page 22

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Memorial Day Masses at archdioc-
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11 a.m., Holy Cross Mausoleum at Holy Cross
Catholic Cemetery in Colma, celebrated by Father
Charles Puthota; 11 a.m. at Mt. Olivet Catholic
Cemetery in San Rafael celebrated by Father
Paul Perry; 11 a.m. Mass at Holy Cross Catholic
Cemetery in Menlo Park celebrated by Dominican
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Homeless Help Centers or will be given to children
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Ordination to the priesthood, June 4,
10 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral of Deacon
Andrew William Ginter by Archbishop Salvatore J.
Cordileone. All are invited. Reception follows. 1111
Gough Street, San Francisco.
29th Annual Catholic Charismatic
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tion Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa
Clara. Convention is a collaborative effort of
seven Northern California dioceses (Sacramento,
San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Stockton,
Monterey, and Oakland). English, Spanish and
Vietnamese tracks. www.NCRCSpirit.org
St. John’s Reunion, St. John School, San
Francisco marks 100th year with events being
planned over the months of October 2016 through
May 2017. Initially located on Marsily Street near
St. Mary’s Park, St. John’s first opened its doors
Jan. 8, 1917 then relocated to Chenery Street.
“The school is searching for all alumni and espe-
cially its oldest living alumni,” said Bill Elsbernd.
Alumni please contact Elsbernd (415) 587-8816;
Marianne Cameron (415) 584-7289; Joy Durighello
(415) 584-1828; email billandavelina@comcast.net.
Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule
May 27: California Catholic Conference executive
committee call.
June 4: Presbyteral ordination, Cathedral, 10 a.m.
June 6: Prayer and dialogue, St. Raymond
June 8: Catholic Charities Board meeting; chancery
staff meetings
June 9: Presbyteral Council and staff meetings
June 10-18: USCCB Spring Assembly, Orange County
(Photo courtesy Edward Messinger /Immaculate Heart of Mary)
Father Stephen Howell was joined by many of the seminarians and priests who have served with him through the years in a
special tribute to the pastor at the Immaculate Heart of Mary 27th Annual Dinner Dance and Auction April 9. Back row from left:
Deacon Andrew Ginter (to be ordained June 4); seminarians Ben Rosado, Kyle Faller, Michael Rocha, transitional Deacon Alvin
Yu ; former IHM parochial vicar Father Vito Perrone; present parochial vicar Father Jerome Murphy; IHM Deacon Steven Hackett;
Capuchin Franciscan Father James Stump. Front row from left: Seminarian Ian Quito; Deacon E.J. Resinto; Father Mark Doherty;
Father Thomas Martin; former parochial vicar Father Roberto Andre; IHM pastor Father Stephen Howell; former IHM pastor
Father James MacDonald; former parochial vicar Father Arsenio Cirera; former parochial vicar Father Mark Mazza.
a deeper level there is a transition into a priestly
identity. This is a whole another part of the jour-
ney. Our theology teaches that with priestly ordina-
tion, there is an ontological change, one’s being is
changed. But that carries with it a psychological
adjustment that has to go along with it,” Archbish-
op Cordileone said. The new priest is also now part
of the presbyterate, the body of local clergy.
Leaving the seminary is similar in some ways to
leaving home because the seminarian was with his
peers, and received a lot of support in a “unique
environment,” the archbishop noted.
“There’s a lot of … discernment that needs to go
on. I think they need much support and assistance
to guide them through these learning experiences,”
Archbishop Cordileone said.
In the fifth and latest edition of the U.S. Con-
ference of Catholic Bishops Program of Priestly
Formation, approved by the U.S. bishops in their
general meeting in 2005, the section on ongoing
formation of priests states: “The process and the
journey of the ongoing formation of priests is
both necessary and lifelong. Its purpose is not
only the spiritual growth of the priest himself but
also the continued effectiveness of his mission and
ministry.”
Father Howell was the archbishop’s choice for “a
lot of reasons,” he said. “He’s a longtime proven
experienced pastor, respected pastor, successful
pastor in the archdiocese. He has a very in depth
background in Catholic education. He has men-
tored a lot of priests and seminarians, and he has a
great rapport with them. He works really well with
them,” Archbishop Cordileone said.
The position was created for Father Howell,
rather than finding Father Howell for the posi-
tion, the archbishop said. Father Howell’s term
was finishing, after 16 years, at Immaculate Heart
of Mary.
“In addition to a pastoral assignment in the set-
ting of a parish, what more could he do to use his
gifts to assist the archdiocese? And so the thought
really came from reflecting upon that rather
than thinking of the job and then going out and
looking for someone to fulfill it,” said Archbishop
Cordileone.
Howell: Mentoring newly ordained priests
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of our food in the markets is absolutely loaded
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who shared a weekly produce box with her
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was fresh and it was on time,” the Church of the
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The co-op, which started operations in 2014,
hopes to add 100 new customers during June,
Jasso said. Deliveries can be made to drop off
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a cooperative that has 147 companies employing
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NanoFarms is an effort to apply the Catholic
social justice and economic principles of dis-
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St. Francis. Distributism places the family at
the center and includes the idea of co-ops where
workers own the means of production and share
in the profits within the framework of a capital-
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Immaculate Conception Academy is a bit ahead of
the curve when it comes to a spiritual
role model in this Year of Mercy: The
school was founded in 1888 by the
Dominican Sisters of Mission San
Jose so who to look to first more than
Order of Preachers, Dominicans
founder St. Dominic de Guzman?
“We use his charism of preaching
to encourage our girls to use their
actions and words to speak out and
spread the teachings of Jesus,” Kim
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The school’s foundress, Dominican sister, Mother
Pia, said, in establishing the ICA mission, “Let us
make as our model a fierce desire to serve the young,
the poor and the vulnerable.”
A core-value at ICA? “Always to be the face of
Jesus to those most in need,” Kim said.
Everyone at ICA has been busy in the Year of
Mercy, Kim said. The jubilee has been integrated
into all prayer services and school liturgies; students
and teachers participated in an activity to ponder
what Mercy means to each of them; morning school
prayer for the Easter season focused on the corporal
works of mercy, with a week dedicated to each work.
In addition, ICA has increased the number of vol-
unteer opportunities available for students and staff
and during the each of the Easter season’s 50 days
Easter eggs with inspirational messages and quotes
that students found about the school served as a con-
stant reminder of what is important in life.
Other good works, Kim said, found students col-
lecting for the San Francisco Food Bank, Toys for
Tots, Cash for Kids and Lava Mae, all with an empha-
sis on supporting works of mercy.
Pope Francis has been an influence too as students
have read articles about the pope’s declaration of the
Year of Mercy; researched “women of mercy” in the
Catholic Church; written letters to incarcerated men
and women; created brochures advertising the works
of mercy; and made Valentine’s Day and birthday
cards for Meals on Wheels.
Frontline ministers to the poor including Lorraine
Moriarty, executive director, St. Vincent de Paul So-
ciety of San Mateo County, came to talk to the girls
and described how their work enacts the corporal
works of mercy.
ICA religion teacher Eileen Boles spoke with Arch-
bishop Salvatore Cordileone about Mercy on a taped-
live soon-to-be aired Immaculate Heart Radio project.
Archbishop Cordileone asked for her recommenda-
tions and she shared the students’ ideas including cre-
ating safe spaces for the children of the Tenderloin; de-
claring a day of mercy for prisoners, calling attention
to their isolation and joining forces with other leaders
in the city to create a broader coalition of mercy
“Eileen was great as were all four callers,” said
Jan Potts, assistant director of communication and
who has a hand on the show. “Each had a question
about mercy that came from a different direction.”
See page 8 of this issue for broadcast times and go
to the archdiocesan website and Immaculate Heart
Radio website for more information.
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Wondering how or whether to vote on June 7?
The California bishops published an updated Fre-
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can be found here: www.cacatholic.org/sites/cacath-
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In the 29 page document published May 19 on the
California Catholic Conference website, the bishops
are guided by the U.S. bishops’ guide to political
action, “Forming Consciences for a Faithful Citizen-
ship,” updated in November 2015.
The California bishops state, “In the Catholic
tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue, and
participation in political life is a moral obligation. As
Catholics, we should be guided more by our moral
convictions than by our attachment to any politi-
cal party or interest group. In today’s environment,
Catholics may feel politically disenfranchised, sens-
ing that no party and few candidates fully share our
comprehensive commitment to human life and dig-
nity. This should not discourage us. On the contrary,
it makes our obligation to act all the more urgent.”
The California Catholic Conference provides
summaries of major social encyclicals and let-
ters, statements from the bishops of California,
information on specific legislation and details of
the important policy debates current in the Golden
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and more. The full body of the U.S. Conference of
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themselves to vote and otherwise participate in the
political process in this country.
June 7 is the California primary. Don’t forget to vote!
www.cacatholic.org/sites/cacatholic/files/fc_faq.pdf.
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Emile Maionchi grew up in North Beach and attended the Salesians
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the Club’s Board of Directors over 12 years ago. He supports the
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interviewing more than 400 couples to
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were MIA in their parishes.”
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during a brief trip to San Francisco
to present Witness to Love to the men
who are studying to be deacons and
their wives. She also spoke with Arch-
bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and
with Deacon Mike Ghiorso, who is
archdiocesan director of Permanent
Diaconate Ministry and Life.
The mentor couple should be
“Someone whose marriage you ad-
mire – ideally from your parish, but
not necessarily.”
The mentor couples are required to
be sacramentally married five years
in the Catholic Church and to be prac-
ticing Catholics and not relatives or
close friends of the engaged couple.
“We want them to bring us the
person they would go to if they have
problems,” Verret said.
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attend a retreat and classes, and go to
Mass together, Verret said. “We give
them things to do that plug them into
the community,” she said. The engaged
couple completes a workbook, virtues
applied to life skills. The Verrets wrote
a handbook for mentors, “Witness to
Love: How to Help the Next Genera-
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stresses being perfect is not possible or
necessary for a mentor couple.
“Most of the mentor couples have
never been exposed to the church’s
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on my own,” said Father Delcambre,
who said he often felt like a check
mark on the way to the wedding while
the upcoming marriage received
short shrift. Now he feels a connec-
tion to the couples and has seen a
spike in the number of new families
with children in the church pews.
Deacon Ghiorso said he can see
potential for interested parishes in the
archdiocese: “I believe it will help us
with community building.” Archbishop
Cordileone would be happy if some
of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
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parishes started the program, said archdiocesan di-
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several pastors have already expressed interest.
“I’m very excited about the potential of this
program, to strengthen new marriages and help
those newly married find more of a home in their
local parish. This is exactly what Pope Francis and
the last two synods on the family have called for;
we need to accompany couples, to ‘walk with them,’
particularly in their early years of marriage,”
Hopfner said. The Synod on the Family called for
marriage formation after the wedding.
“Every parish has many, many ‘established’ mar-
ried couples who have a wealth of experience and
support they can offer to newlyweds and engaged
couples,” Hopfner said.
Verret has coordinated and taught marriage
preparation courses for 11 years, including three in
Arlington, Virginia, and the remaining in Loui-
siana after she married her husband Ryan. Ryan
Verret spent six years in the seminary and wrote
his doctoral dissertation on the psychology of
conversion at Institute for Psychological Sciences
in Arlington. They have three children, ages 6 and
under, and a fourth on the way. Witness to Love is
informed by attachment theory developed by psy-
chologist Peter Martin.
Witness to Love is one of the marriage preparation
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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone confirmed 70 people from 28 parishes on Pentecost, May 15, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The
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WASHINGTON, D.C. –While both sides say they
are happy with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to
send back to the lower courts the Little Sisters of
the Poor case challenging the federal government’s
contraceptive mandate under the Affordable Care
Act – the final outcome is still up in the air.
On May 16, the Supreme Court sent Zubik v. Bur-
well back to the lower courts. The justices’ unani-
mous decision, explained in a nine-page unsigned
opinion, was based on the information that both
sides submitted a week after oral arguments were
heard in the case about how and if contraceptive
insurance coverage could be obtained by employees
through their insurance companies without directly
involving religious employers who object to this
coverage.
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ken-
tucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops, said he was encouraged by the court’s deci-
sion. “It maintains hope that we might resolve this
dispute finally and favorably sometime in the future,
and in the meantime, it prevents the administration
from issuing crippling fines against those who ob-
ject” to the health care law’s contraceptive mandate.
Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh, for whom
the consolidated group of cases is named, said in a
statement that the Pittsburgh diocese was grateful
the justices “recognize our willingness to reach a
resolution that allows us to abide by our faith and
the government to achieve its goals.”
Five appeals courts had ruled in favor of the con-
traceptive mandate and one had ruled against it. But
now, equipped with the new information both sides
submitted to the Supreme Court, the lower courts
have been ordered to review these cases once more.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg wrote separately to stress that the court
had not decided any of the legal questions in the
cases and cautioned the lower courts not to read
anything into the new opinion.
Marc DeGirolami of St. John’s University School
of Law said that “there will very likely be another
round of litigation” in Zubik v. Burwell, “unless the
parties can come to an agreement.”
And an agreement might not happen, Helen Al-
vare of George Mason University Law School said,
because the government’s lawyers “were not at all
cooperative” when asked to propose such a solution.
The lawsuits involve a government mandate under
the Affordable Care Act requiring employers to
provide cost-free coverage for contraceptives, steril-
izations, and abortion-inducing drugs to employees.
Religiously objecting nonprofits had been offered
an “accommodation” under which they could notify
the government of their objection. The government
would then direct their insurer or third party insur-
ance administrator to provide the coverage.
The Little Sisters of the Poor, as well as the
Archdiocese of Washington and a number of other
religious nonprofits, sued the government, saying
this arrangement still forced them to cooperate with
morally-objectionable practices because their notifi-
cation would facilitate the problematic coverage.
Lawyers for the Little Sisters said this was a vic-
tory for them, while the White House said it was
very pleased with the decision.
But ultimately, it is still uncertain what will
happen with the Little Sisters’ health plans, said
DeGirolami, because the sisters are self-insured.
Self-insured plans are not covered in the court’s
opinion, he said, “so it’s extremely unclear what will
happen to them.”
However, the court did suggest something sig-
nificant in the nuns’ favor – that their free exercise
of religion may have been substantially burdened,
Alvare said.
Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
the 1993 federal law at the heart of the case, “Gov-
ernment shall not substantially burden a person’s
exercise of religion” unless the government proves
both that it has a “compelling interest” for acting
and that it is using the “least restricting means” of
furthering that interest.
However, it seems the court “swallowed the [gov-
ernment’s] argument that contraception is preven-
tive health care,” she said.
Catholic News Service contributed.
(CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)
Women religious and others demonstrate against the Afford-
able Care Act’s contraceptive mandate March 23 near the
steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.

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but might answer questions
WASHINGTON – When Pope Francis accepted a
proposal at the Vatican May 12 to form a commission
to study the possibility of women serving as deacons
today, it generated plenty of buzz. The pope’s agree-
ment on the idea – raised by members of the Inter-
national Union of Superiors General, the leadership
group for superiors of women’s orders – was inter-
preted by some as a thumbs-up to women deacons and
eventually women priests, which the Vatican spokes-
man was quick to rebut the next day. Pope Francis
“did not say he intends to introduce a diaconal ordina-
tion for women,” and he certainly did not speak about
the ordination of women priests, said Jesuit Father
Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman. But even
a study of women deacons – suggested by women and
approved by the pope – carries pretty hefty weight,
some are saying. Even the context of the possibil-
ity of this commission is important, said Kathleen
Sprows Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center
for the Study of American Catholicism at the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame. “Women were asking the pope to
elaborate on what he’s said about women’s roles in the
church,” she told Catholic News Service May 13. The
discussion got so much attention, she said, because
“anytime there is a suggestion of some kind of open-
ing for women in the church it makes news. People
are desperate for it and others are frightened by it.”
Obama directive on transgender
access to facilities ‘deeply disturbing’
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s May
13 directive on transgender access to bathrooms “that
treats ‘a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex’
is deeply disturbing,” said the chairmen of two U.S.
Catholic bishops’ committees. “The guidance fails to
address a number of important concerns and con-
tradicts a basic understanding of human formation
so well expressed by Pope Francis: That ‘the young
need to be helped to accept their own body as it was
created,’” the two bishops said in a statement May
16. The statement was issued by Bishop Richard J.
Malone of Buffalo, New York, who is chairman of the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on
Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and Arch-
bishop George J. Lucas of Omaha, Nebraska, who
is chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Catholic
Education. The directive, or guidance, was issued by
the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Depart-
ment of Education. The departments said it applies
to all public schools and colleges and universities that
received federal funding. The federal Title IX statute
prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs
and activities, like sports. AP reported that the Obama
administration earlier had warned schools that deny-
ing transgender students access to the facilities and
activities of their choice was illegal under its interpre-
tation of federal sex discrimination laws.
Archdiocese of Chicago to offer paid parental leave
CHICAGO – The Archdiocese of Chicago will
begin offering 12 weeks of paid parental leave to its
staff beginning July 1.
The new policy is open to fathers and mothers
who just had children or adopted children. Staff
who are eligible for benefits – those who work at
least 26 hours a week – and who have worked at the
archdiocese at least one month qualify for parental
leave. Archdiocesan employees who have worked
less than one year will receive one week of paid
parental leave for every month they worked.
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Memorial Day as a precursor to summer and a time
to rev up the party.Then there are those of us who
like to spend this time with our families at picnics
or other activities. Some go on extended weekend
trips of wine tasting or spa relaxation. Many
observe the holiday by taking advantage of Memo-
rial Day sales and go shopping, or by attending
popular annual events such as festivals or concerts.
Still, some stay home as to avoid all the weekend
shenanigans.There are others, though, who prefer
to reflect on the purpose and meaning of Memorial
Day. Remembering those who gave their lives in
service of their country, while protecting the United
States of American and its citizens, and in many
cases protecting citizens of other countries, or while
serving in various other capacities.This is what we
all should make a point of thinking about as we’re
enjoying our long holiday weekend.
There are a good number of families who have
first hand experience with a loved one losing his or
her life as a member of the Armed Forces. For those
families Memorial Day is a little different.They may
spend that weekend at a Memorial Service for those
who’ve served, or they may prefer to quietly visit
their loved one at the cemetery. Some will go to
church and pray, and others will reflect privately in
a quite place.Then again there are others who will
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to mourn, honor or celebrate a lost loved one’s life.
It’s easy to associate Memorial Day with mem-
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memory, such as those serving in many parts of the
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the sacrifices made by those during more historical
conflicts are equally important to reflect on and
learn about. It’s because of those who fought hard
to keep our country together, and fought valiantly
to create this country as a whole, is why we live the
way we do, and why our country is looked upon
as a beacon of freedom. It is for these reasons that
we have floods of immigrants, legal and illegal,
wanting to take great risks to live here. Just the fact
that this is happening shows that our country has
qualities that are remarkable among the rest, and
exists due to those who’ve given up their lives to
create and preserve it.
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KOLKATA, India – The Missionaries of Char-
ity have halted adoptions in India after the Indian
government’s Union Ministry of Women and Child
Development issued new guidelines allowing
“single or unmarried parents, men or women, the
right” to apply for and adopt children. The nuns
concluded their pending adoptions, then on March
31 wrote to the ministry that they had closed their
adoption centers.
The Central Adoption Resource Authority central-
ized the adoption process through an online applica-
tion system, creating a database for prospective adop-
tive parents, which also makes it easier for single,
divorced, gay couples or couples from abroad to adopt
children in India in accordance with the new guide-
lines. But many nongovernmental organizations have
expressed concern that making it easier for adoption
opens up a Pandora’s box in India, where child labor,
human trafficking and pressure on unwed mothers to
give up their children are serious challenges.
In the statement sent to the ministry, the nuns
wrote: “If we were to continue the work set up by
Mother Teresa, complying with all the provisions
would have been difficult for us.”
Sister Joan of Arc told Catholic News Service: “We
trust that God will take care of all the children in
need of love from parents. We will continue to serve –
wholeheartedly and free of charge – unwed mothers,
children with malnutrition and differently abled chil-
dren in all homes/centers run by us, irrespective of
caste, creed and religion by God’s grace.”
Sister Ita explained: “We believe in God’s will, and
there are certain values that need to be upheld. The
idea to provide homes to children is to give them
security and love. And if governmental guidelines
in some way interfere with our principles, we have
little option but to stop the services.” She said they
could continue to ensure that children who are “mal-
nourished, weak, sick and destitute and in need of
compassion and love find (a) home here.”
Top Vatican official says ‘God is being eroded’ in U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. _ Cardinal Robert Sarah
urged Catholics to resist “ideological colonization”
at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
The prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship
was the keynote speaker at the annual event May 17.
“In the name of ‘tolerance,’ the Church’s teachings
on marriage, sexuality and the human person are
dismantled,” the native of Guinea, in west Africa,
said, citing the legalization of same-sex marriage, the
contraception mandate, and mandates that bathroom
access be based on self-proclaimed gender identity.
Cardinal Sarah called on Catholics to be prophetic,
faithful, and prayerful, saying “…in your nation, God
is being eroded, eclipsed, liquidated.”
“That is why I came to this prayer breakfast, to
encourage you: Be prophetic, be faithful, and above
all, pray,” Cardinal Sarah told the crowd.
Archbishop Martin says pope to visit
Ireland for 2018 meeting of families
DUBLIN – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin con-
firmed that Pope Francis, or his successor, will visit
Ireland in 2018 for the World Meeting of Families.
Archbishop Martin confirmed that when he dis-
cussed the issue of visiting Ireland with the pontiff,
Pope Francis said: “’I will come,’ and he said, ‘if I
don’t come, my successor will come.’”
As well as Dublin, the pope would probably visit
Northern Ireland to complete the 1979 historic
pilgrimage of St John Paul II, when rising tensions
in the North made a visit there impossible.

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Catholic san francisco | May 26, 2016 year of mercy pilgrimages P1
Year of Mercy Pilgrimages
A pilgrimage is usually defined
as a physical journey to a place of
special significance, therefore hav-
ing a deeper emotional meaning. We
certainly all have them in our lives:
a trip to the cemetery to visit the
grave of a loved one; a reunion and
visit to the high school from which
you graduated; a trip to your favorite
restaurant that you visit whenever
you are in a certain city. We make
these physical trips because they
allow us to tap into memories of
family, friends and good times, or to
honor significant places or periods
in our lives.
Yet most often we use the word
“pilgrimage” to refer to a sacred
or spiritual journey. Almost every
major religion has the practice of
pilgrimages to sacred places. In
Islam, the “hajj,” the pilgrimage
to Mecca, is one of the five pillars
of their faith and expected of each
follower at least once in their life.
In our Jewish roots, the Old Testa-
ment is full of prophets and holy
men and women making pilgrim-
ages to spots of special significance
such as a holy mountain or city. In
the New Testament, Jesus, his fam-
ily, and followers make numerous
trips to Jerusalem as pilgrimages to
the Temple.
Since the beginnings of Chris-
tianity, people have been making
pilgrimages to holy sites, initially
to those sites attributed directly
to the life, death and resurrection
of Christ. A famous pilgrim in the
fourth century, Egeria, detailed her
journey to the Holy Land to visit
numerous spots from Scripture, and
also recorded the earliest narration
we have of the celebration of Holy
Week in Jerusalem. A thousand
years later, Chaucer wrote one of
the most famous works of litera-
ture in the world, “The Canterbury
Tales” which described the journey
of 27 pilgrims going to and from the
shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canter-
bury. In modern times, Christians
still make thousands of pilgrimages
to places such as St Peter’s in the
Vatican, Rome, the Holy Land, San-
tiago de Campostella, Lourdes and
Guadalupe.
As St. John Paul II explained, “Pil-
grimages, a sign of the condition of
the disciples of Christ in this world,
have always held an important
place in the life of Christians. In the
course of history, Christians have al-
ways walked to celebrate their faith
in places that indicate a memory
of the Lord or in sites representing
important moments in the history
of the church. They have come to
shrines honoring the Mother of God
and to those that keep the example
of the saints alive. Their pilgrim-
age was a process of conversion, a
yearning for intimacy with God and
a trusting plea for their material
needs. For the Church, pilgrimages,
in all their multiple aspects, have
always been a gift of grace” (“The
Pilgrimage in the Great Jubilee from
the Pontifical Council for Migrants
and Itinerants,” April 25, 1998, 2).
In this Extraordinary Jubilee Year
of Mercy, Pope Francis has encour-
aged every person to make a pil-
grimage as part of their celebration
of the year.
“The practice of pilgrimage has
a special place in the Holy Year as
it represents the journey each of
us makes in this life. Life itself is
a pilgrimage, and the human be-
ing is a viator, a pilgrim travelling
along the road, making his way to
the desired destination.
Similarly, to reach the Holy
Door in Rome or in any other
place in the world, everyone, each
according to his or her ability, will
have to make a pilgrimage. This
will be a sign that mercy is also a
goal to reach and requires dedica-
tion and sacrifice. May pilgrimage
be an impetus to conversion: by
crossing the threshold of the Holy
Door, we will find the strength to
embrace God’s mercy and dedicate
ourselves to being merciful with
others as the Father has been with
us” (“Misericordiae Vultus” 14)
Whether you are fortunate
enough to make the journey this
year to Rome, or you will remain in
California, we encourage everyone
to make a pilgrimage to the three
public pilgrimage sites with Holy
Doors in the Archdiocese of San
Francisco.
Marin County:
Mission San Rafael Arcángel
San Francisco County:
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption
San Mateo County:
St. Patrick’s Seminary University
The key to any pilgrimage is to
make the journey itself an experi-
ence of prayer. Visit these places
which have been filled with the faith-
ful of the archdiocese for more than
a hundred years; ask God for his as-
sistance in making you a worthy pil-
grim; and pray that the Holy Spirit
will be with you, both on your visit
that day, and always, to make you a
more merciful and loving person to
all in this Jubilee of Mercy.
Pilgrimages: A Sacred Journey of Faith
Making the pilgrimage is a simple three-step process:
1
Prior to leaving to visit each pilgrimage site, recite the “Prayer
for Setting out on a Pilgrimage” (on back page of this pullout
section).
2
On arrival at the site, pray the “Prayer during the Jubilee of
Mercy.”
3
Once you return home or to where you started your journey,
recite the “Prayer on Return to the Place of Departure” to
thank God for a safe journey.
While at each site, ask for the pilgrimage seal and affix it to complete
your archdiocesan Year of Mercy emblem.
To celebrate this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis, we urge the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to visit all
three of the public pilgrimage sites this summer. From June-August, make it a goal to go to one, two or hopefully all three of the pilgrimage sites in the
three counties of the archdiocese. You can go as an individual, family, church youth group, class, etc. Make a day of it and carpool with some friends from
the parish and have lunch while visiting these beautiful sites.
The Archdiocesan Pilgrimage Encounter
Mission San Rafael Arcangel
Saint Patrick's Seminary
University
Mission San Rafael
Arcangel
1104 5th Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901
St. Patrick’s
Seminary
320 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Cathedral of St. Mary
of the Assumption
1111 Gough St.
San Francisco, CA 94109

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An eye-catching landmark rising
majestically on the San Francisco
skyline, the Cathedral of Saint
Mary of the Assumption combines
the rich traditions of the Catholic
faith with 20th century technology.
The cathedral is the mother
church of the archdiocese and is
the “bishop’s church.” As such, it
is the site of all the major archdioc-
esan liturgical celebrations, includ-
ing priestly ordination and the
chrism Mass. Above the bishops’
chair or “cathedra” hangs the coat
of arms of Archbishop Cordileone
and the archdiocese. Completed
in 1971, this is the third cathedral
for the Archdiocese of San Fran-
cisco and was built after a 1962 fire
destroyed the old cathedral. Cover-
ing two city blocks and crowned
by a cupola soaring over 19 stories
from the floor, the cathedral can ac-
commodate 2,400 worshippers – all
within 75 feet of the sanctuary.
In eight niches around the cathe-
dral, the life of Mary, Mother of
the Church, is depicted in beautiful
bronze statues by Italian master
craftsmen. The scenes depicted
include The Visitation, The Flight
Into Egypt, The Wedding Feast
at Cana, The Crucifixion, Pente-
cost, and Mary’s Assumption into
Heaven, as well as a beautiful Mexi-
can mosaic of Our Lady of Gau-
dalupe. The shrines portray Mary,
the Mother of God, as the model
disciple, each depicting a story from
the Gospels revealing Mary’s role
as handmaiden and servant. The
main entrance overpane depicts the
triumph of the risen Christ, whose
arms are extended to welcome all
pilgrims. Above the altar hangs
the baldacchino, representing the
channel of love and grace from God
to his people, and in return their
prayers rising to him.
Over the past 45 years St. Mary’s
has found its place as the heart of
Catholic life in the archdiocese,
as well as serving as a venue for
countless civic and cultural events.
The cathedral has welcomed cel-
ebrated figures – Pope John Paul
II, Mother Teresa, and Archbishop
Fulton Sheen among them – but it
also has offered spiritual refresh-
ment and charitable assistance to
thousands who have crossed its
threshold. St. Mary’s Cathedral
has hosted the wider community
at the funerals of those struck
down in the line of duty, including
Mayor George Moscone and many
police officers and firefighters;
and its priests have comforted a
handful of people at the funeral
of elderly widow or a young child.
Since the establishment of the San
Francisco Interfaith Council after
the 1989 earthquake the pastors of
St. Mary’s have involved the cathe-
dral in ecumenical and interfaith
outreach. Each year hundreds of
our school children are shown
around the cathedral by our won-
derful docents, and thousands of
our young people celebrate their
graduation from high school and
college there. It is truly the “living
room” of the Archdiocese of San
Francisco.
Cathedral of St. Mary
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Hours
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Masses
Monday-Friday: 7:30 a.m.: Chapel of Our Lady | 12:10 p.m: Main cathedral
Saturday: 8 a.m.: Main cathedral | 5:30 p.m. (vigil Mass): Organ and cantor
Sunday: 7:30 a.m.; 9 a.m., Gregorian chant; 11 a.m., cathedral choir; 1 p.m., Espanol
Reconciliation
Monday-Friday: 11:30 a.m.-noon | Saturday: 4-5 p.m.
Website: www.stmarycathedralsf.org
Group tours: Contact Doug Benbow, (415) 567-2020, ext. 207
Jubilee Year Seal: Cathedral visitors’ desk or parish office
Hours
Monday Friday: 6:30 a.m.-5 p.m. | Saturday and Sunday: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location
1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael
Masses
English
Daily: 6:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m. | Saturday: 8:30 a.m., 5 p.m.
Sunday: 7:30 a.m. (EN), 9:00 a.m. (EN), 10:30 a.m. (EN), noon (SP), 7 p.m. (SP)
Sunday in Mission: 9 a.m. (Vietnamese; 11 a.m. (Brazilian)
Reconciliation
Saturday: 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Sunday thru Friday: By appointment
Website: www.saintraphael.com
Group tours: Contact the parish office, (415) 454-8141
Jubilee Year Seal: Parish office or gift shop
Mission San Rafael Arcangel, the 20th
of the California missions, was estab-
lished as a helper, or “asistencia,” to
Mission Dolores in December 1817 when
over 200 Indians and four Franciscan
friars traveled across the bay to found a
hospital mission whose patron, Archan-
gel Rafael, is God’s healing messenger.
Asistencia San Rafael became an active
farm and ranch on the northern edge
of New Spain. The simple buildings, its
orchards, farmlands and herds of live-
stock were the work of Indian peoples
who were part of Mission San Rafael
over its 17-year history. Their work led
to the ranking of the “asistencia” as
mission in its own right by late 1822.
Mission San Rafael was the first
mission to be secularized in 1834. As a
mission the chapel became the parish
church for Mexican ranchers in the
area.
Marin County was one of the origi-
nal 27 counties when California was
admitted to the Union in 1850. For a
time, county activities took place in
the original mission buildings. By
1861, the mission buildings had fallen
into disrepair and were torn down.
A few years earlier, a small wooden
chapel had been built on the mis-
sion grounds. By 1869 the first parish
church was under construction to
accommodate a growing Catholic
population in San Rafael.
In 1909, the Native Sons of the
Golden West erected a mission bell
sign at the site. The mission “rep-
lica” was constructed in 1949 with a
grant from the Hearst Foundation.
The grounds of the old Mission are
in downtown San Rafael and act as a
beacon and landmark to all those in
the surrounding areas.
Mission San Rafael

Catholic san francisco | May 26, 2016 year of mercy pilgrimages P3
The following was adapted from an
article by Christina Gray in the Jan. 14,
2016, issue of Catholic San Francisco.
Last December, Pope Francis
swung open the “holy door” at St.
Peter’s Basilica in Rome signaling
the opening of the Extraordinary
Jubilee Year of Mercy and its invita-
tion to pilgrims everywhere to enter
into a “living experience of the
closeness of the Father.” During the
Year of Mercy, Pope Francis delegat-
ed to each bishop or archbishop of a
diocese or archdiocese the power to
designate local Holy Doors of Mercy
as pilgrimage sites.
On Dec. 13, Archbishop Salvatore
J. Cordileone and a crowd in the
hundreds walked through the doors
of St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Fran-
cisco, the first of four holy doors
designated by the archbishop for the
Jubilee Year of Mercy which opened
Dec. 8, 2015, the feast of the Immacu-
late Conception, and concludes Nov.
20, 2016, the feast of Christ the King.
St. Raphael Mission Church in San
Rafael, the chapel at St. Patrick’s
Seminary University in Menlo
Park and the chapel at San Quentin
State Prison were also chosen as
pilgrimage sites by the archbishop
who called the year “an extraordi-
nary moment of grace and spiritual
renewal” in his cathedral homily.
“Jesus Christ is the face of the
Father’s mercy. ... Christ came to
reopen the door for us, so that we
can regain access to paradise, come
in from the dark and the cold – the
dark and cold of sin and all of its
gloomy consequences and gain the
protection of God’s grace from all of
those harmful elements,” he said.
The archbishop opened the holy
door at the chapel at San Quentin on
Christmas Eve where he celebrated
Mass with about 200 inmates, prison
employees, and the prison’s Catholic
chaplain, Jesuit Father George Wil-
liams. On Jan. 10, Bishop William J.
Justice opened the holy door at St.
Raphael Mission Church in San Ra-
fael during a Mass there. Later that
same day, the president-rector of St.
Patrick Seminary, Sulpician Father
Gladstone H. Stevens, opened the
Holy Door of Mercy at the chapel at
a 5 p.m. Mass.
Holy Doors: A metaphor for Christ
Throughout the world holy doors
will be opened during this jubilee
year in cathedrals and other pil-
grimage sites chosen by local bish-
ops. Passing through the doors is a
ritual act symbolizing one’s desire
for reconciliation with God.
A video produced by Catholic
News Service available on the Arch-
diocese of San Francisco’s Jubilee
Year of Mercy web page describes
the holy door as “a metaphor for
Christ, because we go through
Christ into salvation. It’s a meta-
phor for transformation and step-
ping toward something new.”
Plenary indulgences and acts of mercy
As with every jubilee year in the
history of the church, the Jubilee
Year of Mercy presents the oppor-
tunity for the faithful to gain the
indulgence of God’s mercy.
Pope Francis has declared that in
every diocese throughout the world,
the faithful who pass through these
holy doors may receive a Holy Year
plenary indulgence, under the usual
conditions, which include freedom
from all attachment to sin, includ-
ing venial sin, sacramental confes-
sion, reception of Holy Communion
and prayer for the intentions of the
Holy Father.
In his jubilee letter, Pope Francis
encouraged the faithful to “redis-
cover the richness encompassed by
the spiritual and corporal works
of mercy” and said the church will
grant a plenary indulgence for
performing an act of mercy in addi-
tion to the usual conditions for an
indulgence.
Corporal works of mercy in-
clude actions that help support the
physical needs of a human being.
Spiritual works of mercy include
counseling the doubtful, supporting
the grieving and other actions that
nurture the human spirit.
“Each time that one of the faithful
personally performs one or more of
these actions, he or she shall surely
obtain the jubilee indulgence. Hence
the commitment to live by mercy so
as to obtain the grace of complete
and exhaustive forgiveness by the
power of the love of the Father who
excludes no one,” he said.
Archdiocese of San Francisco Year of
Mercy website: www.sfarch.org/mercy.
Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy
In his Jubilee Letter, Pope Francis
said: “The experience of mercy, in-
deed, becomes visible in the witness
of concrete signs as Jesus himself
taught us. Each time that one of
the faithful personally performs
one or more of these actions, he or
she shall surely obtain the Jubilee
Indulgence.”
Corporal Works of Mercy are
charitable actions that respond to the
basic needs of a human being:
Feed the hungry
Give drink to the thirsty
Shelter the homeless
Visit the sick
Visit the imprisoned
Bury the dead
Give alms to the poor
Spiritual Works of Mercy are
charitable actions that respond to the
spiritual needs of humanity:
Counseling the doubtful
Instructing the ignorant
Admonishing the sinner
Comforting the sorrowful
Forgiving injuries
Bearing wrongs patiently
Praying for the living and the dead
Hours
Monday- Friday: 8 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., 5 pm.
Saturday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.-noon
Location
320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park
Masses and reconciliation:
Not available
Website: www.stpsu.edu
Group tours: Call (650) 325-5621
Jubilee Year Seal: Seminary reception desk
Located on a historic, beauti-
fully landscaped 40-acre campus in
Menlo Park, 35 miles south of San
Francisco, St. Patrick’s Seminary
was founded on Sept. 20, 1898, by
the second archbishop of San Fran-
cisco, Archbishop Patrick W. Rior-
dan. In its first year, the seminary
received 31 high school students
and three college-level students.
The year 1903 marked the beginning
of construction on the East Wing
of the seminary or Senior College,
as well as the main chapel, whose
crypt was completed and dedicated
on Aug.4, 1904.
In 1906, following the earthquake
which shook the whole Bay Area,
the students and faculty slept in
tents on the grounds after the main
building was destroyed. Commit-
ted to the formation of priests, the
main building was rebuilt almost
immediately, but with one less story
– and safer access.
In over 100 years, St. Patrick’s
Seminary has prepared more than
2,000 priests in the Western and Pa-
cific Rim dioceses. The archbishop
of San Francisco, Most Rev. Sal-
vatore J. Cordileone, serves as the
current president and chancellor of
the seminary and university, with
Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens
as the current president/rector. The
current enrollment of the seminary
is over 100 men preparing for priest-
hood in more than 15 dioceses.
“St. Patrick’s Seminary Univer-
sity seeks to serve the Roman Catho-
lic Church in the ministerial context
of the Pacific Region of the United
States by forming priests whose
lives are configured to the sacrifice
of Jesus, rooted in his word and
sacrament, and dedicated to serve
the people of God with the pastoral
charity of Christ.” As this vision
shows, the seminary and university
continues to dedicate itself to the
forming of the clergy for the next
century.
St. Patrick’s Seminary University
Holy Doors of Mercy in the archdiocese

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