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ROME – As the world slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a risk it will be struck by an even worse virus – that of selfish indifference, Pope Francis said.

This dangerous virus is “spread by the thought that life is better if it is better for me and that everything will be fine if it is fine for me. It begins there and ends up selecting one person over another, discarding the poor and sacrificing those left behind on the altar of progress,” he said in his homily at a Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 19.

The current pandemic instead must compel people to prepare for a “collective future” that sees the whole human family as one and holds all of the earth’s gifts in common in order to be shared justly with those in need, he said.

“This is not some ideology: it is Christianity,” and it mirrors the way the early Christian community SEE POPE, PAGE 16

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Fisherman donates full catch to the poor

A volunteer waves after delivering freshly caught fish to a needy family in Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, April 7, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fish were caught by Giuseppe Temperani, who has been donating his entire catch to the poor since the crisis began.

Job and income loss shifts local food banks into overdrive CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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More than 170 families received food at a food bank in Pescadero run by the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County. Food banks across the archdiocese and across the nation reported a jump in demand as millions suffered pandemicrelated job losses.

Hunger or the fear of it is real and spreading quickly in the Bay Area as it is throughout the rest of the country.

Social service agency directors, parish ministry volunteers and food bank staff told Catholic San Francisco that displaced workers awaiting unemployment or stimulus checks, and many who don’t qualify for either, are lining up with the homeless and poor for food assistance.

“We’re doing twice as many meals,” said Marc Bruno, a leader of the Sts. Peter and Paul Parish conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

Some of those who line up for the hot meals outside the church and daily to-go food bags are homeless, but some are friends of housebound seniors, he said.

“What I’ve been hearing is that people are jeopardizing their status with landlords because the money they would use to pay rent they need for food,” said Deacon Gene Smith, who oversees a food pantry run by the St. Raphael Parish conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

The pantry, run out of the parish rectory Monday

through Friday by a small corps of under-60 volunteers, has seen a threefold increase in demand.

Pastor Father Andrew Spyrow has supported the ministry by asking parishioners to be extra generous with donations of food and money.

Families and individuals who can show they live in San Rafael line up six feet apart outside the front door to receive bags filled with groceries and Safeway gift cards.

“So many of our parishioners are immigrants who are out of work, so many of them rely on this effort now,” Deacon Smith said.

In rural Marin County, 150 cars snaked through the San Geronimo Valley Community Center’s popup food pantry April 9, with drivers popping their trunks for volunteers who placed a food bag inside after a brief, masked greeting.

Bags were also delivered to the doors of seniors who could not make it to the drive-by event.

Through a partnership with the San FranciscoMarin Food Bank, the center served more than 500 people that day according to a post on its website.

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NEED TO KNOW MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES: Many people are experiencing higher levels of depression and anxiety during the pandemic. Visit https://sfarchdiocese.org/mental-health to find articles, video and local resources that may help you or your loved ones.

STRESS MANAGEMENT: A “Stress Management Playbook” for the time of COVID-19 is available from the California surgeon general, at https:// bit.ly/2VjRPSZ. “Safe, stable, and nurturing relationships can protect our brains and bodies from the harmful effects of stress and adversity,” the guide states. More resources from the surgeon general may be found at https://bit.ly/2KgN0DG. HELP WITH GROCERIES: The Love Your Neighbor ministry recently launched in response to the COVID-19 crisis, and so far 14 parishes in the archdiocese have committed volunteers to deliver groceries to those who call the Love Your Neighbor hotline at (888) 237-7807.

Calls are answered in Spanish and in English from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Calls received after hours go to the program’s voicemail. Visit https://sfarch.org/ loveyourneighbor and https://sfarch. org/amaatuprojimo.

PRAYER GUIDE: The archdiocesan Communications Department has prepared a booklet of individual and group prayers for the time of the coronavirus. It may be found at https://bit.ly/3eA2II5.

ARCHBISHOP’S HOMILIES: A selection of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s homilies may be found at https://sfarch.org/homilies. The archbishop’s most recent homilies posted are “The Domestic Church as a Domestic Monastery” (Easter Sunday, April 12), and “The Transformative Power of Altruistic Love” (Second Sunday of Easter, April 19).

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St. Ignatius pastor Jesuit Father Greg Bonflglio has created a virtual congregation made up of photos of parishioners and others who have participated in livestreamed Masses during the pandemic. With the pictorial gathering now up to 1,700 faces, the church on the University of San Francisco campus is symbolically over capacity.

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When the word went out that churches were to be closed and services held online, Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio, pastor of St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco, invited those participating in Sunday Mass to send him a photo.

Now, five weeks later, the faithful are present virtually in the form of photos taped to the pews of the church on the University of San Francisco campus – 650 images representing 1,700 people from St. Ignatius Parish, from Jesuit-run St. Agnes Parish in San Francisco and from people around the country and in many other countries who have participated in livestreamed Masses during the closure of public gatherings.

“This church, including the balcony, is nearly full with these faces,” Father Bonfiglio said in an April 13 video interview with Catholic San Francisco, posted on Facebook.

“As I have participated in Mass I have noticed people joining from Australia, Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and in this country, Connecticut, New York, Arizona, Wisconsin, Texas, Oregon and Washington, plus

Word of Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio’s initiative spread on social media. the nine counties in the San Francisco Bay Area,” parishioner Annette Lomont said.

Father Bonfiglio said he got the idea

from a priest friend in Italy who had created a virtual congregation with portraits of the faithful taped to the pews of his church. He invited St. Ignatius parishioners to do the same.

They shared the invitation to people around the country and the world, and then St. Agnes joined in.

When we talk about the communion of saints, this is a just a reminder of that,” Father Bonfiglio said. “We’re a worldwide communion of the body of Christ, bound together by the Holy Spirit in ways that can’t be undermined.

“I’m struck by the intimacy of these pictures,” Father Bonfiglio said, a closeness he also sees in parishioners’ response to livestreamed Masses.

“People know they’re not alone when they come to Mass,” he said.

The photos and livestreaming are reminders that “that we as a people of God are gathered together despite social distancing,” he said.

Lomont said the parish staff “has made an extraordinary effort to keep parishioners spiritually connected while being physically apart.”

They have gathered spiritual resources at www.stignatiussf.org/overview/digital-spiritual-resources.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 23, 2020

SF shelter’s COVID outbreak prompts calls to move homeless to hotels NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

An outbreak of COVID-19 at San Francisco’s largest homeless shelter has put a spotlight on the danger of coronavirus spreading through the city’s unhoused population.

Multi-Service Center South on Fifth Street had 92 guests and 10 staffers test positive for COVID-19, according to city public health director Dr. Grant Colfax. About 170 people had been living at the 340-person capacity shelter before the city announced the outbreak on April 10. All remaining guests were moved out of the shelter and into hotels the following weekend.

“From the beginning of this pandemic, one of our biggest concerns has been spread in congregate living situations,” Mayor London Breed said in an April 10 tweet.

“We’ve seen this happen in countless other places throughout the country,” she said. “It is now happening at MSC South.”

In response to the outbreak, the Board of Supervisors passed an emergency ordinance April 14 that would require the city to provide 7,000 hotel rooms for homeless people, including those residing in city shelters. Those over 60, who have health complications or who are pregnant would receive priority for temporary housing assistance.

The measure also called for 500 hotel rooms to be set aside for people who need to self-quarantine but do not have a safe place to do so, and 750 for front-line workers in the crisis, including health care and social service workers.

If the city cannot enter into agreements to supply the total 8,250 rooms, the supervisors asked the mayor to use her authority to commandeer units.

The same measure also required group housing arrangements like shelters, also known as congregate

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An outbreak of COVID-19 at San Francisco’s Multi-Service Center South infected more than 100 people and shut the shelter’s operations down. The potential for rapid spread of COVID-19 in homeless populations has prompted political and religious leaders to urge that empty hotels be used to shelter unhoused people.

facilities, to abide by new guidelines. Staff and residents need to stay six feet apart as much as possible, and guests need to maintain the same distance while sleeping. The board also required city departments to issue plans on how to screen guests and employees for COVID-19.

As of press time, the measure had been sent to the mayor but her office had not yet acted on it.

More than 8,000 people in San Francisco are homeless, about a third of whom live in shelters, according to the 2019 point-in-time count, the most recent data available.

The housing requirements set by the supervisors sharply diverge from previous guidance coming from San Francisco’s administration, which had originally proposed renting a more modest 6,500 hotel rooms.

In an email shared with the press, Trent Rhorer, executive director of the city’s Human Services Agency, said the city’s priority for hotel rooms is the popula-

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tion of unhoused people who cannot self-quarantine but have been discharged from the hospital, in order to free up hospital beds. Rhorer said rooms would also go to “front-line responders” and vulnerable unhoused people who are able to care for themselves.

Rhorer said the city would not be sheltering every homeless person. According to the city’s Department of Public Health, he said, “there is no medical need to isolate this population in hotel rooms.” Doing that could reduce the amount of rooms available for vulnerable homeless adults and for the hospital system, he said.

In addition, Rhorer said that with the city facing a budget gap of more than $1 billion, “it would not be fiscally prudent to spend City General Fund on renting thousands of hotel rooms for a population that does not require an urgent COVID health quarantine or isolation intervention.”

On April 15, Rhorer said the city had acquired 2,151 hotel rooms for use during the pandemic. Nearly 1,300 units have been set aside for vulnerable adults, and 874 people have been placed in them. The rest of the rooms are reserved for front-line staff engaging with the public.

Faith leaders in the city have been critical of the city administration’s approach to caring for the homeless for weeks. A March 25 letter signed by about 50 religious leaders called on Mayor Breed to house all unhoused people in the city, arguing that homelessness “exacerbates a dangerous public health crisis where group living facilities put people at extreme risk.”

The letter continued that while the city had asked some congregations to open their doors to shelter homeless people, it was “irresponsible to create new living facilities” that did not mitigate the risk of transmission.

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FOOD BANKS: Demand surges as job losses hit millions FROM PAGE 1

business, currently has no income. Though he has never gone to a food bank before, he was cheered by the experience.

“I really loved seeing all the volunteers risking their health for me and others like me,” he said. “I drove up to a see a whole field of good Samaritans and that warmed my heart.”

The West Marin organization said it did not know the true number of people in the community who are unemployed or newly unemployed, but that its normal operation has seen a dramatic increase in the last week.

“We hope this food distribution is offering some buffer for community members against the sudden loss in income,” the organization said in an April 10 post.

Close to 10 million Americans reported losing their jobs in the second half of March, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. More than 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment, which along with federal economic stimulus checks, has yet to arrive in the pockets of many.

The sharp increases reflect state and national efforts to contain the virus, including a near-total shutdown of all but essential business. California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a state lockdown and shelter-in-place order March 19.

Not included in those numbers are workers whose wages or hours were cut as employers struggle to cut expenses during the shutdown.

Many Americans have little or no buffer against a sudden loss in income, according to the Federal Reserve. Even before the current economic and public health crisis, it found that four in 10 American adults did not have the savings or other resources to cover an unexpected $400 expense.

This goes without saying for undocumented workers. Gov. Newsom proposed April 15 a $125 million relief effort to aid state residents without legal

immigration status with small cash grants, but the application and distribution process is unknown at this point.

Mario Cubulé, a Guatemalan immigrant in San Mateo County, lost the few hours he had working at a local restaurant and has not been able to “corner” again for temporary work. The term refers to waiting on street corners for casual day work.

Every day at lunchtime he bikes the two miles from where he lives to the St. Anthony of Padua Dining Room at the Catholic church of the same name in Menlo Park. There he collects a bag of hot food and another of grocery staples he shares with his 12-yearold daughter.

Vegetable, fruit and vegetable trucks picked up by the Catholic Worker House in Redwood City carry food every Tuesday and Friday from the South San Francisco produce market to the dining room.

“I am saving a little money and that helps a lot,” said Cubulé, who paid his $900 April rent but does not know how he will pay for May. The lives of his wife and four other children living in Guatemala who depend on the money he sends them each month are also up in the air.

Cubulé remains faithful.

“What remains is to wait and trust God to remove this virus and then be able to continue on without the negative thought that if I go out something can happen to me,” he said.

Guillermo Reece is a furloughed flight attendant and parishioner at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish.

Right now, he’s grounded by his mission to help feed the people of the Bayview District in San Francisco.

The Bayview’s three Catholic Churches – St. Paul of the Shipwreck, All Hallows and Our Lady of Lourdes, sharing pastor Father Dan Carter – are part of the area’s San Francisco African American FaithBased Coalition.

Composed of 21 different churches, the coalition is dedicated to congregants’ “mental and physical health and food needs,” said Reece, who described

a collaborative, seven-day a week food distribution network in the Bayview.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the St. Paul of the Shipwreck parking lot becomes a drive-through food bank for the community, feeding about 60 families a day with food supplied by local restaurants and a school lunch program.

Other church locations distribute food on different days.

Reece, who with his wife organizes the food drives at the Shipwreck location, said the twice-weekly meal handouts represent the diversity of the Bayview, with blue-gloved African American, Latino and Filipino volunteers assembling and handing out the food bags.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo, which distributes food in San Mateo County, Redwood City, South San Francisco and Pescadero and offers rental assistance, is “stretched at every level” because of increased demand, said executive director Jim Lonergan.

“Nobody saw this coming,” Lonergan said. The organization “runs lean” to begin with, he said, but demand has “doubled, tripled or quadrupled even, and we still have the same staff or less.”

At the same time, the organization has fewer volunteers, as many Vincentians are over 60.

“We’ve held them back to protect them,” he said, leaving staff and a small group of less vulnerable volunteers to fill in.

Also, its primary annual fundraiser, Hands & Hearts Making a Difference, previously scheduled for April 23 is canceled until further notice. Online donations can be made at svdpsm.org.

Lonergan described one San Mateo family of five whom the organization was able to keep housed with rental assistance. The mother of three was receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer and her husband lost his restaurant job after it closed following state orders.

“People have been thrust into situations they’ve never been before,” he said.

Lorena Rojas contributed to this story.

HOMELESS: SF shelter’s COVID outbreak prompts calls to move to hotels FROM PAGE 3

Signers continued that with about 30,000 empty hotel rooms in the city, “It is madness to leave them empty while the epidemic rages – and in fact is being fueled by the lack of safe spaces.”

San Francisco’s nine United Methodist churches stepped up April 4 with a $100,000 donation to help nearly 20 residents at the Tenderloin’s Hospitality House move to a vacant hotel. The pastors partnered with Supervisor Matt Haney to arrange the move.

The funds will cover residency costs as well as food and support services. St. Agnes Parish and St. James Episcopal Church in San Francisco have also contributed to the fund.

The Rev. Staci Current, Bay District superintendent of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church, said the city’s UMC churches felt that with people’s lives on the line, “we weren’t willing to wait for a government process for these beloved people of God who were on the streets. We needed to act quickly.”

Christians everywhere feel the call to care for “the least of these,” Current said, and efforts to care for the unhoused so far “have been slow and shortsighted,” she said. “It’s time to get all of the folks into hotel rooms.”

“I think it’s an important moment for us to be the moral voice and moral compass for our society,” she said. “It’s our job at this moment to take up that

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The rapid spread of coronavirus through California’s vulnerable population could shock a hospital system that has been able to keep pace with the spread of COVID-19. Congregate facilities like shelters or nursing homes are particularly at risk for rapid outbreaks, as their residents are often older and have health complications.

At the beginning of April, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said cases of COVID-19 among homeless people had “heightened concern around the need to do more in our congregate facilities to isolate people ... and provide those basic essential services as we work through this crisis.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 23, 2020

Drive-by blessing brings Easter hope NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

On Holy Saturday, Father Mark Reburiano went out on a mission to make sure people knew that the church was still with them. Putting a tall wooden cross through the sunroof of his black Honda sedan, he drove through San Mateo’s neighborhoods to show Easter hope amid a season that seemed anything but hopeful.

“I wanted to give people the opportunity to see that Jesus is visiting them, the downtrodden and those who are in despair or are discouraged,” Father Reburiano, pastor of St. Gregory in San Mateo, said.

The idea came to the priest on Good Friday. As he prepared to celebrate the liturgy, he thought about the veneration of the cross, and how the pews that would normally be filled with people would that day be empty.

Because they could not make it this year, Father Reburiano decided he would bring the cross to them.

“It’s a good time for the church to go to the people and be the ones to visit, as they could not visit there in the church,” he said.

Wth St. Gregory’s associate pastor Father Oliver Ortese, he drove around San Mateo, blessing people with a relic of Christ’s cross. Parishioner Marvin Sanchez livestreamed their journey on Facebook, giving people a chance to participate and to know when to come out to watch the cross pass by.

After taking a 45-minute route through the city, the group returned to the parish.

Parishioners later reached out to ask their pastor to do a procession again on Easter Sunday. When the group set out again that Sunday, the cross was draped with a white stole to represent Christ’s victory over death.

“I wanted to give them hope, uplift their spirits. Isn’t that the message of Easter Sunday?” Father Reburiano said. That day, they drove the city’s streets for an hour-and-a-half, winding by parishioners’ homes and passing through the city center. As

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St. Gregory pastor Father Mark Reburiano and associate pastor Father Oliver Ortese drove through San Mateo blessing people with a relic of the true cross on April 11, Holy Saturday, and April 12, Easter Sunday. the cross drove by, people stopped, bowed their heads, or gave a thumbs up. Others knelt on the street, or came out to wave, or hold up placards saying “Thank you” or “May Christ save us.”

Kathy Lange and her neighbor went outside to see the procession as it went by their homes. The St. Gregory parishioner said seeing the procession was wonderful and made her feel like she was really part of the triduum celebration.

“When you’re in the house and you’re used to being in church on Good Friday and Holy Saturday and Easter, I felt really removed from it even though I could watch (Mass) live,” she said. “It was a lovely thing to do, I felt so much more a part of Holy Week and Easter festivities.”

Lange added that since her husband died in January, she was feeling especially alone during the stay-at-home orders. “For Father Mark to bless me as he went up the hill was exactly that, a blessing,” she said. “It came at a time when we really did need to be lifted up.” she said.

Remee Vargas, the parish’s religious education director, said Father Reburiano had helped people see that Jesus is present outside the church

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walls. Within the church, she explained, often “that’s how we think about God and church and religion.”

By doing this, he was able “to bring (God) to the people and make people feel like we’ve not forgotten them, that the church is here,” she said.

“And people were excited to see that.”

Father Reburiano said he continues to be deeply touched by the response to the procession. “People are thirsting for faith, and to express it now in this time. And unfortunately they can’t do more. We can’t even go to our place of worship,” he said. “So outside the church, with social distancing, they want to express the faith any way they can.”

ARCHBISHOP SUPPORTS POPE IN WORK OF POPULAR MOVEMENTS

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone joined with Pope Francis in the pope’s Easter letter in support of popular movements during the time of the coronavirus.

“I join my voice to that of Pope Francis in thanking our brothers and sisters of popular movements and organizations for being the face of the compassionate Christ to the face of the suffering Christ,” the archbishop said in an April 13 statement. “Even with governmentsponsored programs, in times of crisis it is always the poor who suffer the most, especially those living in the shadows of society. Thank you for being the ‘invisible army, fighting in the most dangerous trenches,’ bringing light, sustenance and hope to those who are most dear to our loving God.” In an Easter letter to members of popular movements and organizations, Pope Francis suggested that the coronavirus crisis may be an occasion to consider a universal basic wage.

“I know that you have been excluded from the benefits of globalization,” he wrote April 12, according to Catholic News Agency. “You do not enjoy the superficial pleasures that anesthetize so many consciences, yet you always suffer from the harm they produce. The ills that afflict everyone hit you twice as hard.”

He reflected that many poor people live from day to day, without legal guarantees.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 23, 2020

HOLY WEEK, EASTER SERVICES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 A

Vatican decree limited Holy Week services in countries struck by COVID-19 and under restrictions on the gathering and movement of people. Bishops and priests were urged to celebrate without the presence of the people, avoiding concelebration and omitting the sign of peace and with the faithful invited to participate by livestreaming and dedicating adequate time to prayer.

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Above, clergy leaders observing social distancing attended the chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on April 9, 2020, normally a rite attended by all the gathered priests of the archdiocese. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blessed and consecrated the sacred oils to be used by parishes for sacramental needs in the coming year.

Left, Father Francis Garbo celebrated Holy Thursday Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica April 9. Right, Archbishop Cordileone lit the Easter candle at the Easter Vigil at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Jesuit Father Ray Allender, left, and Precious Blood Father Matt Link celebrated Easter Sunday Mass April 12 at their respective churches in San Francisco, St. Agnes and Most Holy Redeemer.

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New Mexico bishop to allow public Masses with restrictions CAROL ZIMMERMAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – One month after Bishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces, New Mexico, announced there would no longer be public Masses in the diocese to curb the spread of the coronavirus, he reversed his decision saying public Masses could resume, with restrictions.

In an April 15 letter to diocesan priests, he said would allow public Masses that adhered to the governor’s restrictions through either outdoor services – with people in cars – or services inside churches with no more than five people present and practicing social distancing.

Both possibilities, he said, would comply with the governor’s restrictions on public gatherings.

He said the need to do this stemmed from a prevailing spiritual hunger, saying: “While we run a daily count of the physical deaths, we are overlooking those who are dead interiorly.”

“Depriving the faithful of the nourishment offered through the Eucharist was indeed a difficult decision, one that I deemed necessary until I had further clarity regarding our current state of affairs, but it cannot become the ‘status quo’ for the foreseeable future,” he wrote.

The bishop said he had determined a “safe way to proceed” with the acknowledgment that the state shutdown could likely last for some time.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced April 11 that houses of worship must now abide by a public health order banning mass gatherings to mitigate COVID-19 spread. Houses of worship were previously exempt from the public health emergency order banning mass gatherings, defined as five or more people in a single confined space, Grisham said.

Bishop Baldacchino, like some Catholics who have signed petitions seeking the reopening of churches, said in his letter that he did not agree with the state’s view that the Catholic Church is not an essential service that had to be open. This distinction has been given to grocery stores, banks, media outlets and restaurants with only carryout options.

“While it is true that we need to take every reasonable precaution to reduce the spread of coronavirus, it is equally true that we offer the greatest ‘essential service’ to our people,” he wrote, mentioning

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Bishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces, New Mexico, wears a mask and gloves while giving Communion to a passenger of a vehicle during the Easter Vigil in the parking lot of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Las Cruces April 11, 2020. the many challenges people are enduring amid the pandemic that he said priests can address.

“In the midst of financial uncertainty, fear for one’s health, pandemic-induced anxiety and confinement to their homes, people need a word of hope. We, as priests, are called to bring the Word of Life to people, we are called to minister the life-giving sacraments.

Televised Masses have been an attempt to bridge the gap during this time, but this is not enough,” he wrote.

He noted his own personal experience with the coronavirus, saying he had lost two close friends, who were priests. “I am fully conscious of the death and sadness these days seem to bring,” he said, adding that the pandemic also brings with it a chance to look at doing things a different way.

The current moment, he said, is “a time for renewal, a time for change, a time to break out of our schemas and our ‘usual way’ of ministering to the faithful. In the events of these days and weeks, the Lord is calling us out of our comfort zone, he is calling us to seek new ways to reach the people.”

He also stressed that in seeking new ways to follow its mission, the church also must keep people safe, stressing: “The two must be equally pursued.”

Bishop Baldacchino gave specific instructions for outdoor Masses, saying the faithful must keep socialdistancing guidelines in place and that ideally this could occur in a parish parking lot with parishioners remaining in cars, parked a car space away from each other. If parishes do not have big parking lots, they could celebrate liturgies in open spaces or cemeteries, he suggested.

The bishop said Communion could be distributed, if the priests went directly to those receiving the Eucharist to avoid lines, with large hosts broken into large pieces and with priests wearing face masks and with their hands sanitized or they’re wearing gloves. The Communion cup would need to be primarily covered with Saran Wrap.

For indoor Masses, with fewer than five people present, he said the pews, chairs or other often-contacted surfaces should be sanitized afterward. He did not specify how parishes would determine the five participants, but a petition urging the bishops to reopen churches suggests this could be done by some type of lottery.

As part of his new order, the bishop said priests can continue to offer the sacrament of reconciliation “while taking all the necessary precautions” and the sacrament of the anointing of the sick. He also said weddings or funerals could take place with these same guidelines.

The new policy was not an invitation for everyone to attend the outdoor or limited indoor Masses. In fact, he urged priests to “encourage those who are older and those more at risk to remain at home during this time. “Pastoral visits to these people, while maintaining all safety precautions, is an essential part of our mission,” he added.

The bishop concluded his message by telling diocesan priests that with these new directives they will “be present to the faithful while abiding by all safety regulations set forth by the government.”

Across the country, bishops began canceling public Masses in mid-March following guidelines to curb the spread of the coronavirus. They have encouraged Catholics to instead watch livestreamed services and to tap into online resources for prayer and spirituality.

In an April 16 statement, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Archbishop John C. Wester encouraged people of good will to “stay the course.”

“As the COVID-19 crisis impacts our world at an alarming rate, it is more imperative than ever we heed the advice of our global scientists, medical and public health experts,” Archbishop Wester said, adding that the archdiocese will continue to comply with state health orders. “The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is consistently seeking ways to best respond to the needs of the faithful and protect the sanctity of life.”

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On-and-off periods of social distancing will likely be needed into 2022 to ensure that hospitals have enough capacity for future COVID-19 patients in need of critical care, a new Harvard University study says.

Harvard reported the details in the following press release.

The modeling study from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health., published April 14, 2020, in the journal Science, predicted several scenarios for how the coronavirus might spread over the next five years, taking into account factors such as whether or not the virus will exhibit seasonality, whether people who are infected go on to develop short-term or long-term immunity, and whether people would get any cross-protective immunity from

having been infected with other types of coronaviruses that cause common colds.

Even if one 8- to 12-week period of social distancing is successful in “flattening the curve” – keeping the infection rate low enough so that hospitals aren’t overwhelmed – many people will remain susceptible to COVID-19, said Yonatan Grad, assistant professor of immunology and co-senior author of the study, in an April 15, 2020, WBUR interview.

In the absence of other interventions, there could be a resurgence of COVID-19 among this susceptible group, which would require further intermittent

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Newsom: ‘Give us a few weeks’ to plan life after quarantine CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Gov. Gavin Newsom said COVID-19 hospitalizations and new cases are on a positive trend in California but “a few weeks” more are needed before planning for a post-pandemic future can start – a future he described as anything but a return to normal.

Newsom said “we’re finally seeing some rays of hope” but “pulling the plug too early” would be a mistake.

“Give us a few weeks,” he said.

He said he might be in a position to discuss the easing of stay-at-home orders in two weeks if declines in hospitalizations and new cases continue.

In a media briefing April 14, Newsom said shelter-in-place measures must remain until there is a sustained decline in COVID-19 pressure on the health care system and concurrent progress in developing a large-scale organization to protect citizens’ health through testing, tracking, tracing, isolating and quarantine.

State data as of April 19 showed a continued but slowing daily rise in new cases in the low single digits. With Los Angeles remaining by far the epicenter of COVID-19 in the state, hospitalizations statewide had leveled off with some initial hints of easing.

Congregate living facilities continued to be a source of concern for California officials as they have been in other states and in other countries. Nursing homes represented a growing front in the fight against COVID-19, with the state’s 1,224 skilled nursing facilities accounting for more than 10 percent of all COVID-19 cases in California as of April 17, according to state data.

Nearly 1,300 staff and more than 1,700 residents had tested positive as of that date.

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“There are also numerous examples from those countries of care homes becoming unviable as not enough staff is available due to sickness and selfisolation measures,” the study said.

Newsom laid out a future California where more employees work from home, more students learn from home and gloves, masks and physical distancing are a part of social life in gatherings large and small, from restaurants to sports events. He said these measures will remain in place until there is a vaccine for COVID-19 or enough of the population is infected to develop “herd immunity.”

Experts say a safe, effective vaccine may be a year away, and some estimates place the number for herd immunity at 50% to 75% of the population.

A Harvard study published April 14 found that intermittent social distancing may be needed through 2022 to ensure that hospitals have enough capacity for future COVID-19 patients in need of critical care.

The World Health Organization is urging caution on relaxing COVID-19 restrictions.

“Following a period of social distancing, any attempt to transition to more flexible measures should be taken

with extreme caution,” the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, said in an April 14 article posted on the WHO website. “Such decisions should always be informed by disease transmission patterns, COVID-19 testing and contact tracing capacity, the availability of hospital beds, and other objective criteria.”

Newsom said he hopes schools can resume in the fall with staggered schedules and restrictions on gatherings, including sports, lunch and recess.

He said large-scale sports events are not likely to resume in the near future.

The prospect of mass gatherings is “negligible at best” until a vaccine or herd immunity, he said.

Newsom said that Californians will once again enjoy dining out, but servers may wear masks and gloves, menus may be disposable, tables will be spaced farther apart and customers’ temperature will be taken at the door.

On April 13, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington reached an agreement on a shared approach to reopen the states’ economies and control COVID-19 into the future.

The governors cautioned that the rate of spread of the virus must decline before large-scale reopening.

Newsom announced the agreement with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.

“COVID-19 has preyed upon our interconnectedness,” the governors said in a joint statement. “In the coming weeks, the West Coast will flip the script on COVID-19 – with our states acting in close coordination and collaboration to ensure the virus can never spread wildly in our communities.”

The shared approach for reopening the states’ economies identifies clear indicators for communities to restart public life and business.

While each state is building a statespecific plan, the states have jointly agreed to a set of principles.

“Our residents’ health comes first,” the governors said. “As home to one in six Americans and gateway to the rest of the world, the West Coast has an outsized stake in controlling and ultimately defeating COVID-19.”

The governors said health outcomes and science will guide their approach.

“Modifications to our states’ stay at home orders must be made based off our understanding of the total health impacts of COVID-19, including the direct impact of the disease on our communities; the health impact of measures introduced to control the spread in communities – particularly felt by those already experiencing social disadvantage prior to COVID-19; and our health care systems’ ability to ensure care for those who may become sick with COVID-19 and other conditions,” the governors said. “This effort will be guided by data. We need to see a decline in the rate of spread of the virus before large-scale reopening, and we will be working in coordination to identify the best metrics to guide this.”

The approach includes a focus on protecting vulnerable populations at risk for severe disease if infected.

“This includes a concerted effort to prevent and fight outbreaks in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities,” the governors said.

The governors said they are committed to ensuring an ability to care for those who may become sick with COVID-19 and other conditions. This will require adequate hospital surge capacity and supplies of personal protective equipment.

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Catholic psychologists counsel on suicide prevention PERRY WEST CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

DENVER, Colo. – As health experts predict an increase in suicidal tendencies amid the coronavirus, Catholic professionals have outlined how to seek help and to be aware of those inclined to self-harm.

Dr. Melinda Moore, a licensed psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Kentucky University, said there are many factors that contribute to suicide ideation but it is behavior that arises when people cannot manage distress, particularly anxious situations such as a pandemic.

“When you are in an extraordinary situation, such as the one we are in now with the COVID-19 pandemic, with quarantining, isolating from others you normally are with at school, work, et cetera, getting out of your routines, it can be extremely stressful,” she told CNA. “The anxiety created by the current situation can definitely spur on circumstances where people cannot cope effectively.”

An opinion piece in Scientific American suggested the pandemic has likely contributed to two suicides already – K. Balakrishna, a 50-year-old Indian father-of-three, and Emily Owen, a 19-year-old waitress in England.

After obsessing over the coronavirus videos, Balakrinshna convinced himself that he contracted the illness.

Afraid he would infect his family, he distanced himself from all his relatives, despite evidence that he did not have the illness, and hung himself at a local graveyard.

Owen also committed suicide, but not because she believed she contracted the disease. Instead, the young woman was afraid of the lockdown and the isolation that would follow, noting that she could not handle “her world closing in, plans being canceled and being stuck inside,” the Sun reported.

Moore said roommates and family members should pay close attention to their loved ones who are acting oddly, especially if they have a history of suicidal thoughts. She highlighted some of the biggest signs associated with suicidal tendencies which may or may not be communicated directly.

She pointed to evidence such as abusing substances, lacking sleep or sleeping too often, withdrawing from friends and family, giving away prized possessions, and acting recklessly. She said these are often coupled by emotional states of anxiety, hopelessness, purposelessness, and uncontrolled anger.

She urged people to pay particular attention to suicidal threats and pursuits of lethal means, like pills or firearms.

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Bishop prays over diocese from helicopter TOM DERMODY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PEORIA, Ill. – Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria took to the skies via a helicopter on Good Friday, April 10, to offer a blessing to the entire Diocese of Peoria as well as to pray for all affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

“I was happy to do something that may give some comfort to people, especially those folks who, on this Good Friday, are scared about their relatives in the hospital,” said Bishop Jenky moments after landing near the Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport.

“This kind of illness brings an enormous fear for our people and our country,” continued the bishop, who donned a mask before climbing into a medical transport helicopter at about 1 p.m. for a 12-minute flight to downtown Peoria and back. “And prayer, no matter who’s saying it, can move mountains. I really felt blessed to be praying with and for the diocese today, and for everyone else in Illinois, our country and the world.”

The aerial blessing was first proposed midweek

by Tomas Wojtowicz, a pilot for OSF Aviation – a branch of OSF HealthCare, a system based in Peoria that is owned and operated by the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. When OSF leaders approached the Diocese of Peoria with a suggestion that a priest take a flight to pray for protection against COVID-19, they received a quick response that Bishop Jenky would like to do it.

(CNS PHOTO/COURTESY MSGR. PHILIP HALFACRE, DIOCESE OF PEORIA)

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Illinois blesses the Diocese of Peoria from aboard a medical helicopter on Good Friday, April 10, during the coronavirus pandemic.

“OSF is one of our greatest Catholic institutions,” said Bishop Jenky of the system that includes 14 hospitals and employs more than 23,000.

“Anything the sisters ask me, I try to do.”

Bishop Jenky was joined in the OSF Life Flight helicopter by Msgr. Philip Halfacre, vicar general of the Peoria diocese, as well as the pilot and a flight nurse.

Though favorable weather factored into the decision to fly on Good Friday, Bishop Jenky said the day was appropriate.

“This is one of the holiest days of the year, at a time when we’re living something like we’ve never lived through,” he told The Catholic Post, Peoria’s diocesan newspaper.

During the flight to downtown Peoria and back, Bishop Jenky offered a prayer composed by the Vatican for a “Mass in Time of Pandemic.” The prayer reads, in part, as follows: “Almighty and eternal God, our refuge in every danger, to whom we turn in our distress; in faith we pray look with compassion on the afflicted, grant eternal rest to the dead, comfort to mourners, healing to the sick, peace to the dying, strength to health care workers, wisdom to our leaders and the courage to reach out to all in love, so that together we may give glory to your holy name.”

Once the helicopter reached downtown Peoria – above OSF HealthCare St. Francis Medical Center and nearby St. Mary’s Cathedral – the pilot turned to the north, east, south and west. The bishop then offered a blessing out the helicopter window in each direction.

“We blessed, at this holy time of the year, all the faithful and in a particular way those suffering from the pandemic and those who care for them,” said Msgr. Halfacre, who was taking his first helicopter ride. He and Bishop Jenky expressed gratitude to OSF HealthCare leadership for not only making the flight possible, but more especially for the care they are providing and the advice they are giving the Diocese of Peoria.

Shutdown of church services prompts varied responses CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – As the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the country, churches have been forced to follow states’ stay-in-place guidelines, which some see as an infringement of their religious freedom.

As long as places of worship aren’t singled out, but are closed just as restaurants and movie theaters are, states are within their legal rights to close them during the pandemic, said Michael Moreland, professor of law and religion at Villanova

University’s Charles Widger School of Law. Moreland, speaking during an April 11 teleconference sponsored by the Federalist Society, noted that questions will arise and will need to be addressed if these closures are expected to remain in place over an extended period.

Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University, said places of worship that say they should be allowed to stay open would “convert the free exercise clause into a suicide pact of sorts. The interpretation not only puts the faithful at risk of infection but also their communities.”

Writing in The Hill online newspaper, he added: “No constitutional rights are truly absolute. Rights such as free exercise of religion and free speech can be overcome with a sufficiently compelling purpose of state and the least restrictive means of achieving that purpose. There is nothing more compelling than battling a pandemic, and limiting gathering size is the only effective deterrent to the coronavirus spreading until a vaccine can be made available.”

But as the nation has struggled to curb the spread of the virus and governors have banned gatherings of more than 10 people, there also has been a varied response from state to state on just what this means for places of worship.

Some states have banned in-person worship services altogether while others have made exceptions for some religious gatherings under certain circumstances and with observation of the 6-foot social-distancing policies.

In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a stay-athome order April 7 that exempted essential needs including “attending religious services conducted in churches, synagogues and houses of worship.”

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The governor had filed suit after the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature overturned her ruling.

Places of worship are getting some mixed messages: Some states are allowing people to gather if they remain in their cars, others allow small group settings with social distancing in place, while most people are attending services on their computers with livestreamed programs. This confusion has come to the Justice Department’s attention, which has said it is reviewing local governments’ regulation of religious services and will take action to address local policies in upcoming days near midApril.

On April 14, the Justice Department sided with a Mississippi Baptist church that claimed the city of Greenville was preventing it from holding drive-in church services that complied with social-distancing guidelines.

“The facts alleged in the complaint strongly suggest that the city’s actions target religious conduct,” which violates the First Amendment, the department’s lawyers wrote.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said in an April 14 statement the Justice Department will work to uphold the constitutional right to freely practice religion as states and cities seek to contain the spread of the coronavirus by limiting worship services.

Across the country, Catholic bishops separately announced decisions starting in mid-March to stop public Masses in their dioceses to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

The New York archdiocese made the announcement of no public Masses March 14. Nearly a month later, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan was asked on CBS’s “Face the Nation” April 12 about when the archdiocese might consider reopening its doors and if it would maintain social distancing.

In response, he said: “God gave us common sense, and God told us we have to pay attention to the common good.” He said church officials would listen to experts, physicians, scientists and civic officials.

To those who want to drive until they find an open church where they can publicly worship, he said: “God is telling us use your brain. Use your prudence. Use your common sense. Don’t tempt the Lord.”

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Bishops give Easter blessing outside cathedral JOE RUFF CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ST. PAUL, Minn. – It was windy, wet and cold, but people piled into their cars April 12 and waited bumper-to-bumper in a line that stretched eight or nine blocks from I-94 to the street in front of the Cathedral of St. Paul to accept an Easter blessing from Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda and Auxiliary Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

The blessing was extended in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic that has suspended public Masses in the archdiocese since March 18. It occurred in the midst of an order from state health officials to keep a social distance of about 6 feet from one another, to work at home, avoid mixing in groups of more than 10 people, and closed some businesses such as movie theaters while not allowing certain activities such as dining in restaurants.

“Happy Easter,” the bishops called out to people in each passing vehicle, which by the end of two hours numbered in the hundreds, perhaps more than a

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Auxiliary Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens and Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda, both of St. Paul and Minneapolis, stand outside the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota, and bless people in their cars as they pass by on Easter, April 12, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic.

thousand. “May Almighty God bless you, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.”

“That goes double for those in the back,” Archbishop Hebda called out, smiling, to one car filled with family members.

They didn’t expect to cause a traffic jam, the bishops said. But their joy at seeing people was infectious. The archbishop lost his miter to the wind and picked it up from the sidewalk at least twice, and joked about it. They braved the cold and said hello to everyone.

The bishops issued the invitation to the blessing in St. Paul in a video on YouTube that included Bishop Cozzens saying, “We really want to wish you a blessed Easter triduum. And actually, this coming Easter Sunday, as we celebrate the Lord’s resurrection, we would love to see you, in person.”

The archbishop recounted how in his youth in Pittsburgh his family each Easter drove to receive the bishop’s blessing. “We’d love to have the opportunity as you drive by to offer you an Easter blessing,” the archbishop said in the video. “See you there.”

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Dr. Christina Lynch, a supervising psychologist for Denver’s St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, told CNA that families should seek clarification from those suspected of suicidal ideation – identifying how strongly they have control over their pain, if they have access to lethal means, what are their barriers against seeking help, and be aware of emotional reactions of peace and calm regarding their wish to die.

The coronavirus crisis further exasperates despondency and hopelessness, she said, emphasizing the importance of having someone to talk to, whether that is a priest, counselor, teacher, or friend. She said in some cases a person may need to call 911 for another individual.

“The greatest stressor for people in

difficult especially crisis situations is loss of hope and then despair. They may feel that they are alone, no one would understand their situation, and there is no solution in sight. In these times it is crucial to seek help and talk to a trusted friend,” she said.

Beverly Tauke, the board vice-chair for the Catholic Social Workers National Association, has been a therapist for Cornerstone Family Counseling since 1996. While the pandemic may aggravate suicide factors, she said, it is important to develop a self-care plan that incorporates mind, body, spirit, and relationships.

“COVID-19 circumstances can easily exacerbate such additional suiciderelevant factors as depression, anxiety and anger; alcoholism and substance abuse; loss of pleasure or interest in life and activities; social isolation; work and finance related problems; family stress; physical illness; and sleep disruption,” she told CNA. She said that as an initial step, a person should simplify and organize the process, like developing a 31-day chart

to prepare. As part of the process, she said, the person should focus on managing one’s mind by engaging in personal challenges and expressions of gratitude. She said this should be coupled with consistent physical activity, like walks or exercise routines.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Easter ACTS 2:14, 22-33 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed: “You who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you and listen to my words. You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him.

But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it. For David says of him: I saw the Lord ever before me, with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. Therefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted; my flesh, too, will dwell in hope, because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence. “My brothers, one can confidently say to you about the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day. But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption. God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses. Exalted at the right hand of God, he received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father and poured him forth, as you see and hear.”

PSALM 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 Lord, you will show us the path of life.

Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge; I say to the Lord, “My Lord are you.” O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot.

Lord, you will show us the path of life.

I bless the Lord who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me. I set the Lord ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.

Lord, you will show us the path of life.

Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence; because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.

Lord, you will show us the path of life.

You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever.

Lord, you will show us the path of life.

1 PETER 1:17-21 Beloved: If you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning, realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb. He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you, who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. LUKE 24:13-35 That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus’ disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.

And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” They stopped, looking downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem

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any of the Resurrection narratives take a similar approach – the Lord’s disciples flounder and feel despondent, unaware of the significance of his death and absence.

But then Christ appears in the middle of them whether it’s on the road to Emmaus, in the upper room, or on the Sea of Galilee, and this new encounter reveals how Jesus is the fulfillment of promises that God had been making to the chosen people for generations. Their sorrow is answered by an encounter with love. Renewed and reminded of the covenant promises that have come before, SISTER MARIA they leave with their CATHERINE hearts satisfied. Their TOON, OP encounter with the risen Christ leaves them burning with desire to spread the news.

This makes me think back to Genesis when God places Adam in Eden. Created in freedom, Adam engages with the Lord as God himself presents all the animals to Adam. As God witnesses Adam’s experience of each animal and its naming, he allows Adam to realize his aloneness in the world before he creates a helper fit for him. The point is this: God allows us time to encounter and discover our

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

The truth sets their hearts on fire and sets them free to believe all that Jesus has showed them.

new condition in new circumstances. He even allows us to suffer and to feel alone. Only after this point does he step in with the answer that satisfies the heart.

If we fast-forward through the Old Testament, various prophets each give key indicators to recognize the true Messiah that God promises after Adam and Eve sin. Prophecies in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Job all point toward a perfect Messiah who would preach to a blind and deaf people before suffering a humiliating death at their hands that atones for man’s transgressions. Jesus illustrates that his followers must go back to what God has already revealed in the Old Testament in order to discern the truth in the midst of their confusion and sadness. He reminds them that God has revealed beforehand what his people can expect.

Jesus’ explanation gives them the hope that they desire – not only a hope based on his miraculous appearance, but a clear succinct walk through past prophecies that reveal the continuity of Jesus with the covenant that God made with the Israelites. Cleopas and the other nameless disciple have a living encounter with the word of God that prepares their hearts to see Jesus in the Eucharist, in the breaking of the bread that evening near Emmaus. The truth sets their hearts on fire and sets them free to believe all that Jesus has showed them.

So, what is the Lord teaching us through this encounter? Go back to what has been revealed in Scripture and authentic prophecy.

Then take this to your encounter with Christ in the sacraments.

SISTER MARIA CATHERINE TOON, OP, is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. She has a master’s in theology from Ave Maria University and teaches high school English in Orange County.

who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?” And he replied to them, “What sort of things?” They said to him, “The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him. But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see.” And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the Scriptures. As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the Eleven and those with them who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, APRIL 27: Monday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 6:8-15. PS 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30. MT 4:4b.

JN 6:22-29.

TUESDAY, APRIL 28: Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chanel, priest and martyr; Optional Memorial of St. Louis Mary de Montfort, priest; Gianna Molla, mother. ACTS 7:51–8:1a. PS 31:3cd4, 6 and 7b and 8a, 17 and 21ab. JN 6:35ab. JN 6:30-35.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29: Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor. Acts 8:1b-8. PS 66:1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a. Jn 6:40. Jn 6:35-40.

THURSDAY, APRIL 30: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Pius V, pope; Optional Memorial Blessed Marie de l’Incarnacion, religious. ACTS 8:26-40. PS 66:8-9, 16-17, 20. JN 6:51. JN 6:44-51.

FRIDAY, MAY 1: Friday of the Third Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker. ACTS 9:1-20.

PS 117:1bc, 2. JN 6:56. JN 6:52-59.

SATURDAY, MAY 2: Memorial of St. Athanasius, bishop and doctor. ACTS 9:31-42. PS 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17.

JN 6:63c, 68c. JN 6:60-69.

SUNDAY, MAY 3: Fourth Sunday of Easter. ACTS 2:14a, 36-41. PS 23: 1-3a, 3b4, 5, 6. 1 PT 2:20b-25. JN 10:14.

JN 10:1-10.

MONDAY, MAY 4: Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter.

ACTS 11:1-18. PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4. JN 10:14. JN 10:1118.

TUESDAY, MAY 5: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter.

ACTS 11:19-26. PS 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7. JN 10:27. JN 10:22-30.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 12:24–13:5a. PS 67:2-3, 5, 6 and 8. JN 8:12. JN 12:44-50.

THURSDAY, MAY 7: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 13:13-25. PS 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27. RV 1:5ab. JN 13:16-20.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 23, 2020

LETTERS Caution on naming politicians in Mass prayers

The letter from the woman who asked why the president is not mentioned by name during Catholic Mass got me thinking.

The prayers of the faithful at Mass have a customary pattern of starting big, praying for those who lead us in religion and government, and then moving closer to home and becoming more specific.

The eucharistic prayer itself always mentions the pope by name and the local bishop by name but no one else. The Church of England mentions the queen by name because she is the governor general of that church, but the president has no such function in the Catholic Church.

So, it seems to me that we are always praying for the president and the other servants of the people who have been elected for a period of time and who come and go.

However, I imagine one reason these servants of the people are not mentioned by name is because each of them, depending on their behavior and language and voting record, could cause a visceral reaction in the faithful which would not be helpful at Mass.

These are just my thoughts but I hope they are helpful in some way.

Father Bill Brown Pastor, St. Hilary Church & School, Tiburon

Discriminatory language

Discrimination is such a sensitive subject. For some, turning away is our practiced response, but for those directly involved as victims it means turning the other cheek. Being a straight male Caucasian, I am usually not in one of the groups that gets targeted for opprobrium.

Our president has taken to calling the coronavirus the Chinese virus even after his advisers supposedly admonished him not to do so; I do not want to remain silent as this intentional verbal assault

by Trump is recklessly aimed at a target group, Asians in this case.

The only appropriate response to this insensitive broadside came from counsel Joseph Welch to the despised Sen. Joe McCarthy over 60 years ago in a dramatic Senate confrontation, and I quote, “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

If we are inclined to dismiss this as just another annoying Trump embarrassment, think again. For some, this is a stab in the heart and there is more at stake here than hurt feelings. Something is wrong if our sense of compassion is not being triggered, and we are not outraged.

Brian Gagan San Francisco

Biblical wisdom for now

“Unless your people see signs and wonders, you will not believe” (John 4:43-54).

“Lo, I am about to create new heavens and new earth” (Isaiah 65:17).

“Every man should turn from his evil way and from the violence he has in his hand. Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath, so that we may not perish” (Jonah 3:1-10).

These recent quotations taken from the Bible seem to me to be the most apropos for the present time. We as a society have made mammon our god.

Our value system has to change if we are to survive. Many of our elected leaders do not put the good of the nation ahead of their selfglorification. Their volatile rhetoric and behavior debases their high office; their lack of compassion is appalling. Our moral compass has been lost or misplaced.

God relented his thirst to destroy Nineveh in days of old because, led by the king, the people repented and atoned for their sins.

Let us pray that this will happen in our age. Lord, have mercy on us.

Zella Kotala San Francisco

Thanks for cathedral photo

Kudos to your photographer Dennis Callahan for his most recent photo showing the archbishop saying Mass at an empty cathedral (March 26, 2020, Page 1). His photo was still able to capture this spiritual place of worship. Thank you, Mr. Callahan, for sharing your God-given talent with us.

Tom Notaro San Mateo

A sacrilegious movie

It’s outrageous that a Catholic newspaper would list “The Last Temptation of Christ,” a movie that portrays Jesus as fantasizing about sex, getting down off the cross and marrying Mary Magdalene, as a top 10 movie for Holy Week. Who is your movie reviewer? Doesn’t he have any idea of sacrilege? The movie was banned by the Catholic Church, and the author of the book on which the movie was based was excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox Church.

Roseanne T. Sullivan San Jose

Grateful for Catholic writers, newspapers

I have been a reader of Catholic San Francisco for numerous years. I have enjoyed the subjects that are covered and the many excellent writers that promote the positive news and image of our universal church! I look forward to the philosophical and psychological writings of Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, but also I miss the thoughtful, sometimes controversial writings of George Weigel. I’m not always in agreement with him, but he is able to force us to think and give thought to various issues, all within the limits of the church. I hope he continues in his role.

Lastly, I have always been a promoter of all our churches to have large screens, projecting the Mass for total participation and seeking to have at the end of the holy Mass some information that was given by the pope, his writings, encyclicals, or happenings in the Catholic world, etc.!

Those not receiving a Catholic newspaper have no idea, or very little knowledge, of the positive works of our universal church. In our secular media, it’s almost always negative. I thank you for allowing me to express my ideas and keep up with your excellent paper Catholic San Francisco. God bless.

Alvaro Bettucchi South San Francisco

Angels among us

About 35 years ago we befriended a neighbor, Paulyne Cronin, and we socialized with her over the years. When she was 92 years old, she went to a retirement home in Petaluma. We would visit her about every month and take her out for lunch.

One time, the subject of her age came up and she said to us, “The reason I have lived so long is because I have angels looking after me.” I am sure I must have made a face because she said, “Scotty, I am not talking about the ones with wings but about the ones like you and Helen.” I never forgot those words and I think she said a mouthful.

Now we come to the present. About three weeks ago, my wife and I were sitting at the computer doing our best to order some groceries from Safeway. We tried for about an hour with no luck and our tempers were beginning to flare so we gave up. Minutes later my wife’s phone rang. It was a former student from Epiphany School calling from Georgia. Adrienne wanted to know how we were doing. Helen told her the problem with Safeway and she said that she wished that she was there to help. After they talked and hung up, about 10 minutes later her phone rang again. It was another student, Laura, who Adrienne had called from Georgia She told my wife that they were going shopping in 10 minutes and my wife told her what we needed. About two hours later our groceries arrived and my wife paid for them.

After we put the groceries away, the phone rang again. This time it was our daughter Moira. She wanted to know about the Safeway order and when we told our sad story, she said that she would order from now on. She lives In La Crescenta.

Paulyne was right. Paulyne died at 107 years old. Father Greene, another of her angels, sent

her on her way. After the funeral, one of the women who had cared for her in her final years handed us a package and told us that Paulyne wanted us to have this. It was two beautiful portraits of angels. Paulyne, our angel, is still taking care of us. Yes, this morning the groceries we needed arrived from Safeway.

John “Scotty” Thomas San Francisco

Priests and the front lines

I am very conflicted about the role of priests at this time. I have tried to understand what is happening regarding the spiritual care of the sick and dying and am very saddened at the sense of helplessness regarding priest presence in hospitals. I feel as though I shouldn’t even ask. A few days ago, I read of a Dominican friar who moved into the nursing home where he is chaplain in order to safeguard his community and to avoid abandoning his mission. There is a crying need to hear stories like this.

My intent is not to criticize or to judge but simply to ask: Have Catholic priests not always been on the frontline?

Do we not have army chaplains, priests accompanying revolutionaries/freedom fighters, and priests in mission territories?

Did the church not recently canonize Archbishop Oscar Romero for joining the frontline?

What is different about COVID-19? Is it a shortage of PPE? The frontline of the current battle is made up of young and not so young nurses, doctors, store clerks, janitorial staff, etc. who are daily living the anxiety of contaminating their families.

Shouldn’t PPE-clad priests be right there with them – both to serve them and to serve the sick?

Shouldn’t the church somehow attempt to stand in the gap between this life and the next, and help us make that crossing safely?

Maureen O’Riordan Lundy San Francisco

Physical and spiritual communion

E. L. Gelhaar’s April 5 letter presented a dubiously albeit pious position that “When a priest celebrates Mass there are always 10,000 angels on his right hand and 10,000 angels on his left hand,” implying that Mass without a congregation is not really so.

“For Christians, familiarity with the Lord is always communitarian,” Pope Francis said during the April 17 morning Mass in the chapel of his Santa Marta Residence. A friend who lives in Rome reported this to me and other friends after he was so informed by a priest in attendance on that day.

He said becoming closer to Christ is obviously something intimate and personal, but it is never outside the context of the entire Christian community.

The pope cautioned that “a familiarity without community, a familiarity without the bread, a familiarity without the church, without the people, without the sacraments” is risky.

The pope stated that the people who are connected with the presider via the media only get spiritual communion. This is not the church: This is the church of a difficult situation, that the Lord allows, but the ideal of the church is always with the people and with the sacraments. Always.

Again, in this concrete situation, he seems to be saying that Mass should always be celebrated with the people physically present. It appears that Francis is growing more and more uncomfortable with the online Masses that, he must know, some people actually like.

During this health crisis we must make do with the less-than-adequate, but pious bromides should not be used to instill a false sense of comfort with the situation.

Jim McCrea Piedmont

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in a recent issue of America Magazine, Czech spiritual write, Tomas Hali, suggests that for our ecclesial communities to become “field hospitals” they must assume three roles: A Diagnostic one – wherein they identify the signs of the times; a Preventive one – wherein they create an immune system in a world within which malignant viruses of fear, hatred, populism, and nationalism are tearing communities apart; and a Convalescent one – wherein they help the world overcome the traumas of the past through forgiveness.

How, concretely, might each of these be envisaged?

Our churches need to be diagnostic; they need to name the present moment in a prophetic way. But that calls for a courage that, right now, seems lacking, derailed by fear and ideology. Liberals and conservatives diagnose the present moment in radically different ways, not because the facts aren’t the same for both, but because each of them is seeing things through its own ideology. As well, at the end of the day, both camps seem too frightened to look at the hard issues square on, both afraid of what they might see.

To name just one issue that both seem afraid to look at with unblinking

ost of us are familiar with Pope Francis’ comment that today the church needs to be a field hospital. What’s implied here?

First, that right now the church is not a field hospital, or at least not much of one. Too many churches of all denominations see the world more as an opponent to FATHER RON be fought than ROLHEISER as a battlefield strewn with wounded persons to whom they are called to minister. The churches today, in the words of Pope Francis, have often reversed an image in the Book of Revelation where Jesus stands outside the door knocking, trying to come in, to a situation where Jesus is knocking on the door from inside the church, trying to get out.

So how might our churches, our ecclesial communities, become field hospitals?

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eyes: our rapidly emptying churches and the fact that so many of our own children are no longer going to church or identifying with a church. Conservatives simplistically blame secularism, without ever really being willing to openly debate the various critiques of the churches coming from almost every part of society. Liberals, for their part, tend to simplistically blame conservative rigidity without really being open to courageously look at some of places within secularity where faith in a transcendent God and an incarnate Christ run antithetical to some of the cultural ethos and ideologies within secularity. Both sides, as is evident from their excessive defensiveness, seem afraid to look at all the issues.

What must we do preventatively to turn our churches into field hospitals?

The image Halik proposes here is rich but is intelligible only within an understanding of the Body of Christ and an acceptance of the deep connection we have with each other inside the family of humanity. We are all one, one living organism, parts of a single body, so that, as with any living body, what any one part does, for disease or health, affects every other part. And the health of a body is contingent upon its immune system, upon those enzymes that roam throughout the body and kill off cancerous cells. Today our world is beset with cancerous cells of bitterness, hatred, lying, self-protecting fear and tribalism of every kind. Our world is mortally ill; suffering from a cancer that’s destroying community.

Hence our ecclesial communities must become places that generate the healthy enzymes that are needed to kill

off those cancer cells. We must create an immune system robust enough to do this. And for that to happen, we must first, ourselves, stop being part of the cancer of hatred, lying, fear, opposition, and tribalism. Too often, we ourselves are the cancerous cells. The single biggest religious challenge facing us as ecclesial communities today it that of creating an immune system that’s healthy and vigorous enough to help kill off the cancerous cells of hatred, fear, lying, and tribalism that float freely throughout the world.

Finally, our convalescent role: Our ecclesial communities need to help the world come to a deeper reconciliation vis-a-vis the traumas of the past. Happily, this is one of our strengths. Our churches are sanctuaries of forgiveness. In the words of Cardinal Francis George: “In society everything is permitted, but nothing is forgiven; in the church much is prohibited, but everything is forgiven.” But where we need to be more proactive as sanctuaries of forgiveness today is in relation to a number of salient “traumas of the past”. In brief, a deeper forgiveness, healing, and atonement still needs to take place apposite the world’s history with colonization, slavery, the status of women, the torture and disappearance of peoples, the mistreatment of refugees, the perennial support of unjust regimes, and the atonement owed to mother earth herself. Our churches must lead this effort.

Our ecclesial communities as field hospitals can be the Galilee of today.

OBLATE FATHER RON ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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Bishops, advocates decry migrants’ treatment during COVID-19 CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Guatemala’s bishops have criticized continued deportations during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the practice has “no sense of humanity” during a health crisis.

Meanwhile, some U.S. bishops joined an effort by national organizations and other groups in Latin America calling on global leaders to provide better protections for migrants and refugees during the coronavirus pandemic, while also voicing worries about the spread of the virus to other countries via deportations.

In a strongly worded statement, Guatemala’s bishops called on the United States and Mexico to stop deportations, which “strike us in the context of national precariousness in terms of health services and strategies to contain the pandemic.”

They also condemned a lack of solidarity and stigmatization at home toward tfhose being returned.

“How is it possible that all the United States is throwing out all of these citizens, who have worked honorably in favor of the U.S. economy, even though their status wasn’t considered ‘legal,’” the bishops said in the April 15 statement.

“Are they no longer useful to U.S. society, particularly if they have contracted coronavirus? If the governments of the United States and Mexico have always presented themselves as champions of the defense of human rights, why do they now demonstrate the opposite?” the statement continued.

“The example of both governments to the world is one of not having the most minimum sense of humanity.”

Deportations of migrants to Central America has continued during the COVID-19 crisis, even though the countries to which the migrants are being sent have otherwise closed their borders and imposed quarantines.

Guatemala closed its borders March 17. Some of the migrants being returned from the United States previously passed through the Scalabrinian shelter in Guatemala City, but the facility suspended service for returnees, saying it was unable to provide proper medical attention in case of a coronavirus outbreak.

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Health Minister Hugo Monroy said April 14 that half of the country’s approximately 200 COVID-19 cases came to the country with deportees – including 75% of people on a flight in late March. Monroy later retracted his comments.

The bishops’ conference, meanwhile, called on the country to better accommodate returning migrants, nothing that some communities had prohibited people returning from other countries due to health concerns.

The statement also recognized the hardship suffered by the poor in the Central American country, where sheltering in place often means potential hunger as well as a loss of income.

“It is of grave concern the situation of millions of Guatemalans, who live dayto-day in informal jobs and now don’t receive an income,” the bishops said.

One of the organizations that joined the statement by some U.S. bishops, released by the Washington-based Faith in Action and the Hope Border Institute of El Paso, Texas, raised an alarm about Mexican authorities busing migrants to shelters near the Guatemala border and encouraging migrants to cross south into the country.

“They’re not providing any medical care or taking precautions to protect against the spread of COVID-19. The situation is very chaotic and it’s expos-

ing migrants and our staff to a great risk of contracting the virus,” said Ramon Marquez Vega, who directs La 72, a migrant shelter in southern Mexico near the Guatemala border. He made the comments in the statement provided by Faith in Action and the Hope Border Institute.

The April 15 statement backed by El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz, along with Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, called for an immediate release “of as many migrants and asylum-seekers from detention as possible.”

The statement also called for a guarantee to assure migrants the right to seek asylum and for global leaders to “make immediate and large-scale investments in public health systems and food and income support for vulnerable families.”

Other groups that advocate for migrants, such as Catholic Relief Services, joined grassroots organizations from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador in adding their voices to the effort.

“In his Easter letter to popular movements around the world, Pope Francis lamented that the pandemic has laid bare the inequalities embedded within our political and social systems.

As always, those at the margins of

Above, Honduran immigrants deported on a flight from Mexico April 15, 2020, demand to be freed as they are bused to a shelter in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to be quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic. Left, Guatemalans deported from the U.S. board a bus outside La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City March 19, 2020.

our societies are feeling the harshest impact – none more so than migrants at this time,” said Bishop Seitz. “We will only be successful in this fight against COVID-19 to the degree that we act in solidarity with the most vulnerable.”

Other migrant advocates from Central America worried that measures by U.S. authorities are putting the international community in danger.

Brenda Peralta Arias, of Centinelas por la Dignificacion del Estado in Guatemala, said in a declaration provided by the coalition of groups that the continued crackdown on migrants and lack of coordinated response by the U.S. with Central American nations “is putting both migrants deported back to our country and our communities at risk.”

“Daily flights from the United States of asylum-seekers back to Guatemala without basic testing or treatment protocols are exacerbating contagion here and endangering the health and welfare of everyone. This is inhumane, unsafe and unacceptable,” she said in the statement.

Some of the countries have closed their airports and guarded their borders, afraid that their health care systems could collapse.

Trump administration officials said they would be sending officials from the Centers for Disease Control to Guatemala to verify the country’s claims.

Catholic leaders in Latin America pledge to protect the vulnerable LINDA BORDONI VATICAN NEWS

Society must face the current crisis with a common Christian perspective, leading with concern for the poor and vulnerable, Catholic leaders of Latin America say a new statement.

The newly released “Manifesto of Latin Americans with Political Responsibilities” spells out the need to protect the most fragile and vulnerable in society and to expand international cooperation.

The 170 signatories include three former heads of state, a former secretary of the Organization of American States, a former director of the International Monetary Fund and current and former MPs. The initiative is promoted by the Academy of Catholic Leaders, established in Chile and now present in various Latin American nations.

The academy’s board includes renowned theologians, the president of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious and the vice president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

The document states that it arises from “the pain for those who suffer and will suffer most from this pandemic”: the poor, those who are alone and abandoned, the most fragile and the most vulnerable, those who will be hit hardest by the effects of the COVID-19 crisis.

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Asylum-seekers are seen outside of tents at an encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, April 9, 2020.

“Just think of the dramatic impact it will have on a multitude of Latin American brothers and sisters who survive only thanks to undeclared work, on those who live on the streets, on the many abandoned elderly people,” the statement reads.

It is the poor, it continues, who have to leave their homes to earn their daily bread and who often are unable to observe the rules of isolation and quarantine.

Reality demands that the choices we make mirror

the choice made by Jesus Christ, the signatories say: “Therefore all actions and commitments to tackle the crisis must be made from the point of view of their impact on the most vulnerable.”

In concrete terms, the Manifesto continues, solidarity must be organized between different territorial areas and between different countries because the pandemic does not affect the entire national territory with equal force.

The document calls for the involvement of the media that must work for the common good, avoiding sensationalism and contributing to a climate that is “risk-conscious but serene and self-confident.”

It highlights the fact that churches must be involved, as psychological and spiritual accompaniment is fundamental, especially for “those experiencing traumatic or stressful situations.”

Noting that “It takes creativity to resist and then overcome the crisis,” the document calls on the political leaders of the different nations of Latin America to seek coordinated and concerted action, assuming the leadership and the responsibility to neglect no one.

“The churches must be bearers and, to their extent, executors of these measures,” the statement reads.

“Surely we are in a very serious situation on our planet,” the 170 signatories of the document conclude, “probably the greatest challenge that we, as a generation, will live in our history.”

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POPE: Build new world without inequality, injustice FROM PAGE 1

lived, the pope said at the Mass, celebrated privately at Rome’s Church of the Holy Spirit, which houses a shrine dedicated to Divine Mercy.

The Mass was celebrated on the 20th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s declaration that the Sunday after Easter would be celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday. The Divine Mercy movement was founded in the early 1900s by Polish St. Faustina Kowalska, who said Jesus told her he wanted a feast of Divine Mercy as a refuge and shelter for all souls.

In his homily, Pope Francis noted that St. Faustina said Jesus told her, “I am love and mercy itself; there is no human misery that could measure up to my mercy.”

The Lord always patiently and faithfully waits for people to recognize their failings and sins and to offer them to him “so that he can help us experience his mercy,” the pope said.

Even the disciples, and especially St. Thomas, experienced fear and doubt, failing to believe in the risen Lord right away, the pope said.

Jesus doesn’t scold them with a sermon because “he wants us to see him not as a taskmaster with whom we have to settle accounts, but as our father who always raises us up,” just like any father would when his child falls, the pope said.

“The hand that always puts us back on our feet is mercy: God knows that without mercy we will remain on the ground, that in order to keep walking, we need to be put back on our feet,” he said.

Right now, he said, the world is undergoing a “time of trial” and, like St. Thomas, “with our fears and our doubts, (we) have experienced our frailty.

We need the Lord, who sees beyond that frailty an

irrepressible beauty,” like a crystal that is delicate, but precious and transparent before God who lets his light of mercy “shine in us and through us in the world.”

The most beautiful message on the feast of Divine Mercy, the pope said, comes from St. Thomas, “the disciple who arrived late,” but for whom the Lord waited, not leaving him behind.

“Now while we are looking ahead to a slow and arduous recovery from the pandemic, there is a danger that we will forget those who are left behind. The risk is that we may then be struck by an even worse virus, that of selfish indifference,” he said.

The COVID-19 pandemic “reminds us that there are no differences or borders between those who suffer,” he said. “We are all frail, all equal, all precious.”

“May we be profoundly shaken by what is happening all around us: the time has come to eliminate inequalities, to heal the injustice that is undermining the health of the entire human family,” the pope urged.

“Let us welcome this time of trial as an opportunity to prepare for our collective future,” the pope said, because without a vision that embraces everyone, “there will be no future for anyone.”

“Let us show mercy to those who are most vulnerable for only in this way will we build a new world,” he said.

The prayers of the faithful at the Mass asked God for consolation, mercy and strength for the church, government leaders, priests, Christians, health-care workers, volunteers and the homeless during the global pandemic.

“May priests always administer the sacrament of reconciliation with a merciful heart and in this pe-

riod of enforced solitude, may they offer forgiveness and consolation through every means,” one petition prayed.

“May all the baptized not let themselves be intimidated by the inconveniences and sufferings from these weeks, but may they know how to give spiritual comfort and material support generously to all those who are in a precarious situation,” said another petition.

After Mass, before praying the “Regina Coeli,” the pope said Christians must respond to life’s storms with mercy and compassion toward everyone, especially those who suffer, are abandoned or in need.

“May Christian mercy also inspire the just sharing among nations and their institutions in order to face the current crisis in solidarity,” he said.

The pope ended his midday address by offering Easter greetings to Orthodox and Eastern Catholics celebrating according to the Julian calendar and thanking those Eastern-rite Catholics who were also celebrating the same day as a gesture of ecumenism and fraternity.

Because of restrictions in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the Divine Mercy Mass was celebrated without the presence of the public, with only a small choir and with only two concelebrants: Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, and Msgr. Jozef Bart, the church rector.

St. John Paul visited the church in 1995 and canonized St. Faustina in 2000, proclaiming the second Sunday of Easter as Mercy Sunday throughout the world. The Polish pope’s death in 2005 came on the eve of Mercy Sunday, and his beatification in 2011 and canonization in 2014 were celebrated on Mercy Sunday.

STUDY: Social distancing ‘likely’ through 2022 FROM PAGE 7

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SYDNEY – Cardinal George Pell, whose conviction on five counts of sexual abuse was overturned by Australia’s highest court, said in in his first television interview his knowledge that he was innocent and the prayers of thousands of people helped him during his 405 days in prison.

The cardinal spoke to Andrew Bolt of Sky News Australia, a conservative cable television station, April 11. The interview aired April 14, a week after the High Court of Australia unanimously said that in relation to all five charges, of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in 1996, “there is a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted.”

Noting the Christian teaching that suffering has value, Cardinal Pell said, “You can get meaning out of the most terrible suffering.”

“You’ve never said, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’”

Bolt asked.

“No, but I have said, ‘My God, my God, what are you up to?’” Cardinal Pell replied with a chuckle.

The interview was interspersed with commentary by Bolt, who criticized Australia’s national broadcaster, ABC; Victoria Police, “who charged Pell with a crime he could not possibly have committed”; and the Victoria Court of Appeal.

“This is an extraordinary case when neither the alleged criminal nor the alleged victim could have been at the alleged crime,” Bolt said.

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Cardinal George Pell is pictured in a screen grab during an interview that aired April 14 on Sky News Australia.

In December 2018, a jury found Cardinal Pell guilty on the five counts of abuse. The Victoria Court of Appeal upheld that verdict in a 2-1 decision, but the seven judges of the High Court overturned the ruling.

In the Sky News interview, Cardinal Pell said he had “no anger, no hostility toward my complainant.”

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“I might have a little bit more to say internationally,” he added. He said he would stay in Sydney to do some writing and reading, and “I might go to Rome for a while.”

In a commentary in Catholic Outlook, publication of the Diocese of Parramatta, Jesuit Father Frank Brennan, a lawyer and rector of Newman College at the University of Melbourne, expressed some of the same concerns as Bolt: that police did not investigate the claims properly.

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Cardinal Pell’s trial and appeal is estimated by lawyers to have cost millions of dollars, but he said the church did not pay for it. He said it was paid for by “a lot of very generous people,” some of whom were wealthy, and he dipped into his own retirement savings.

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Vecinos de la Bahía buscan más ayuda para comida y renta LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Desde que Mario Cubulé, un inmigrante guatemalteco de San Mateo, perdió las pocas horas de trabajo en un restaurante, no ha podido volver a “esquinear” para conseguir algún trabajo temporal. Tampoco ha recibido el salario para la comida de él y su hija de 12 años. “Por ahora lo que estoy haciendo es ir a la iglesia San Antonio, ya ve que ahí dan comida todos los días”, narró al San Francisco Católico.

Todos los días a la hora del almuerzo, Cubulé maneja su bicicleta unas dos millas desde donde vive hasta el comedor San Antonio de Padua en la iglesia que lleva el mismo nombre en Menlo Park. Ahí coge una bolsa de comida caliente y una bolsa extra con pan, frutas y vegetales para comer él y su hija. Este es el alimento principal de los dos para todo el día.

“Algunos días nos dan pasta, otros días carne, papas y ensalada preparados, y con el pan, las frutas y los vegetales nos llenamos”, comparte Mario Cubulé.

Comiendo en San Antonio de Padua, “estoy ahorrando un poco de dinero y eso ayuda bastante”, dice.

“Ahora el problema es la renta porque no sabemos cuándo vamos a volver a trabajar”.

Con los pocos ahorros que tenía Cubulé pagó en abril los $900 dólares por el espacio que renta en una casa, pero no sabe cómo va a pagar el alquiler de mayo, y de donde va a coger dinero para mandarle a su esposa y cuatro hijos que mantiene en Guatemala de donde emigró hace menos de un año. Él sabe que debido a la crisis por el COVID-19 hay un incentivo para la renta y buscó ayuda sobre este en la escuela a donde va su hija, “pero me dijeron que debo llenar una forma en internet y yo no sé nada de internet”, compartió.

También le informaron que para tener ayuda con la renta tienen que presentar comprobantes de los ingresos de los últimos trabajos.

“Algunos requisitos no los tengo, como comprobantes de ingresos porque yo lo que hacía era “esquinear” (pararse en una esquina de la calle a esperar ser contratado por unas horas para trabajos de construcción, jardinería o limpieza), y el trabajo en el restaurante tenía menos de un mes de haber comenzado”, dijo angustiado Mario Cubulé.

“Lo que queda es esperar y confiar en Dios que se quite este virus y luego poder seguir para adelante sin el

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Mujeres se ven con bolsas de provisiones frente a un cartel de la Sociedad de San Vicente de Paul de San Mateo. pensamiento negativo de que si salgo me puede pasar algo”, concluyó.

El comedor San Antonio de Padua en Menlo Park ha sido una fuente de ayuda y por muchos años ha estado sirviendo comida en sus instalaciones de la parroquia del mismo nombre. Su gerente de operaciones Maximiliano Torres asegura que siguen sirviendo comida caliente a los necesitados durante la pandemia, pero han hecho cambios en la forma de servir. Desde el 14 de marzo comenzaron a dar la comida solo para llevar, dijo.

“La gente puede estar confiada que mientras Dios nos tenga con salud pueden contar con una comida caliente de lunes a sábado para recogerla de 11 de la mañana a 1 de la tarde. Y este año también tendrán la cena especial de Pascua para llevar el 11 de abril”, dijo Torres con tono alegre. Él confía en los donantes del comedor San Antonio de Padua, para hacerle frente a una mayor demanda de comida si llegaran más personas debido al aumento del desempleo.

“Las personas que no tienen un trabajo donde presentarse y no pueden trabajar desde la casa, han tenido que retrasar el pago de la renta, eso no quiere decir que ese pago se les perdone, en algún momento lo tienen que pagar.

Estas personas ahorran un poco de dinero viniendo a comer al comedor para poder pagar la renta cuando llegue el momento”, explicó Torres.

Mientras tanto las organizaciones que ayudan a los necesitados con comida y alquiler de vivienda siguen luchando y creando nuevas formas

para dar asistencia a toda persona que llegue a sus puertas.

Los camiones de las verduras, frutas y hortalizas que recoge Catholic Worker House de Redwood City siguen llevando la comida todos los martes y viernes desde el mercado de productos agrarios de South San Francisco hasta el comedor San Antonio de Padua, donde los preparan y los sirven calientes a quienes lleguen por ellos.

Larry Purcell fundador y director ejecutivo de Catholic Worker House de Redwood City recoge unas cinco mil libras de comida por semana donada por este centro de acopio, y las distribuye entre el comedor San Antonio de Padua y Catholic Worker House en donde el entrega los productos sin preparar los viernes.

Desde que se dio la orden de quedarse en casa y la regla de distanciamiento social de seis pies entre personas, Catholic Worker House ha tenido una mayor demanda de comida por parte de las personas que han perdido el empleo dijo Purcell al San Francisco Católico.

“Más gente está viniendo los viernes por comida y en la semana más desamparados están llegando a la casa a pedir alimentos y agua”, dijo.

“Les entregamos dos paquetes de tamaño de bolsas de supermercado llenas. Se entrega comida solo para llevar y solo una persona a la vez puede entrar a recogerla al corredor de la casa, así mismo nosotros estamos con máscaras y guantes entregando los alimentos para evitar la transmisión del virus en este momento”.

Además Catholic Worker House tiene

otros programas, entre ellos la ayuda para pago de renta para el cual la organización cuenta con un fondo de 30 mil dólares en subsidios.

“Por primera vez en 40 años, yo he tenido que dar dinero en efectivo del fondo de subsidio para renta a la gente sin papeles (sin documentos legales).

Nunca antes había dado efectivo, pero tenemos que hacerlo por la crisis, para prevenir que estas familias se conviertan en desamparados”, dijo Purcell con tono de angustia.

“Ellos son jornaleros, o personas de la limpieza, si no están trabajando no tienen entradas con qué pagar la renta, si no pagan la renta se tienen que mudar a la casa de algún familiar o amigo en donde se hospedarían hasta diez personas en un apartamento de un dormitorio, lo cual es un riesgo mayor para la transmisión del coronavirus”, dijo.

Las personas más vulnerables buscan en Catholic Worker House ayuda para cualquier necesidad que tengan, como la que se presentó durante la primera semana de abril. “tuvimos que llamar a la ambulancia para que atendiera a dos personas que llegaron a nuestra puerta muy enfermos. Nosotros asumimos que estaban contagiados con el coronavirus”. Tenían fiebre, dolor muscular y otros síntomas asociados con la enfermedad, dijo Purcell.

La Sociedad de San Vicente de Paul, del condado de San Mateo, una organización Católica sin fines de lucro ha estado siempre dando la mano a los desamparados, encarcelados y personas en la fuerza laboral con necesidades materiales, y con la crisis de trabajo suscitada por la pandemia con mayor razón ha estado al frente ayudando con comida, alquiler de vivienda, abrigo y pago de luz y agua.

Debido a que el evento más importante que realiza la Sociedad de San Vicente de Paul en San Mateo una vez al año para reunir fondos Hands & Hearts Making a Difference programado para el 23 de abril fue postergado, la organización requiere donaciones por otras vías.

Las donaciones se pueden hacer en línea a la campaña Children of God Community Impact Fund para poder seguir respondiendo con las necesidades críticas.

Las donaciones se pueden hacer visitando https://us.commitchange.com/ ca/san-mateo/society-of-st-vincent-depaul-of-san-mateo-county/campaigns/ children-of-god-community-impact

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Zulma Téllez, asistente administrativa en la iglesia San Bonifacio en el Tenderloin y directora espiritual certificada por el Centro de la Misericordia en Burligame, está tomando el tema de la salud mental muy Zulma Téllez en serio. Sobre todo por los muchos casos de ansiedad que viven algunos de los miembros de su comunidad parroquial.

El estado de cuarentena de muchos de los parroquianos es dramático, algunas familias viven hasta seis en un estudio.

Personas que cuyas vidas en tiempos

normales son muy activas en la parroquia y en sus trabajos, ahora debido al aislamiento en sus pequeñas viviendas y al desempleo, están experimentando frustración, ganas de llorar y otros síntomas, compartió Téllez.

“Yo trato de darles ayuda espiritual.

Por eso creamos un grupo con la aplicación Zoom para apoyarnos a través de la oración. Si lo que necesitan es ayuda material, les consigo tarjetas para comida de la Sociedad de San Vicente de Paul y ellos me responden muy rápido cuando les pido ayuda para alguien, pero si la necesidad es relacionada a problemas de ansiedad o depresión les recomiendo que llamen a su doctor”, dijo.

Desde antes de la pandemia “llegan muchos jóvenes con problemas de intento de suicidio. Jóvenes de 16 a

25 años que me los traen para ayuda espiritual, yo los refiero con un terapeuta y les ayudo espiritualmente en lo que pueda, comentó Téllez.

La ansiedad también crece entre los hispanos de Half Moon Bay sobre todo por el desempleo, dijo Belinda Hernández Arriaga profesora Asociada de la Universidad de San Francisco y fundadora de la organización sin fines de lucro Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (ALAS).

ALAS presta servicios gratuitos de ayuda psicológica en su clínica en Half Moon Bay. En este momento que la oficina está cerrada por la orden de quedarse en casa, la organización ofrece un programa de videollamadas para continuar ayudando debido al aumento de personas con ansiedad y depresión, dijo Hernández Arriaga.

El programa da consejería individual

y gratuita a las personas que tienen síntomas de ansiedad, depresión y especialmente a quienes tienen pensamientos suicidas debido al encierro obligatorio o por haber perdido sus trabajos.

“A través de videollamadas “estamos escuchando mucho la preocupación de las personas por la pérdida del trabajo o porque los niños no están en sus rutinas diarias. Escuchamos a muchas personas preocupadas por sus seres queridos entre otras preocupaciones y todo esto está generando muchos estrés”, dijo Hernández Arriaga.

“Para el latino, el ser trabajador es parte de su idiosincrasia, es un orgullo trabajar duro para sostener a sus familias e impulsar la economía del país, por lo que la crisis de desempleo VER ANSIEDAD, PÁGINA 19

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que ha empujado la pandemia del COVID-19 está mostrando más casos de ansiedad y depresión en esta comunidad”, agregó ella.

Debido a su experiencia de 22 años en trabajo social clínico con la comunidad latina, y por la demanda de consejería en los últimos días, ha visto que la comunidad latina en Half Moon Bay está sufriendo de manera doble la crisis de salud mental, lo que conlleva problemas de salud física como hipertensión y trastornos en la alimentación entre otros, dijo Hernández Arriaga.

“Como lo he dicho muchas veces, la gente latina que atendemos en la zona de la costa desde Montara hasta Half Moon Bay ya estaba estresada con todo lo que ha estado pasando sobre la migración. Ahora con el coronavirus y la pérdida de los empleos, es como una bomba emocional”, dijo Hernández Arriaga lamentando que todo esto sucede a pesar que tan solo ha transcurrido un mes de la crisis.

Que no se aíslen

Para hacer frente al cambio drástico en el estilo de vida de todas las personas, “mi primer consejo es que no se aíslen porque la mente siente doble la preocupación”, dijo Hernández Arriaga aclarando que existe una diferencia entre estar en cuarentena y estar aislado.

Aunque las personas no puedan salir, pueden estar haciendo llamadas a organizaciones que tienen programas de asistencia.

“Hay mucha ayuda afuera por parte de las agencias”, dijo.

Para evitar el aislamiento Hernández Arriaga recomienda los grupos de apoyo, grupos de oración en línea o por teléfono, escuchar música, entretenerse en familia con juegos y distracción adentro de la casa.

Es muy importante hacer ejercicios de respiración para ayudar a que la sustancia química llamada endorfina pueda correr en la sangre.

La endorfina está en el cuerpo humano y ayuda a la gente a sentirse bien y manejar situaciones de dolor, pero esa sustancia hay que estimularla, y una forma es a través de los ejercicios

de respiración, aconsejó Hernández Arriaga.

Hernández Arriaga también hace una advertencia acerca de algunos signos en el comportamiento que las personas deben vigilar. “Si se pierde el interés de participar en conversaciones, si no se preocupan por lo que está pasando, no quieren salir del dormitorio o pierden el apetito. Aún más serio, si las personas hacen comentarios como que no quieren vivir, estos son síntomas de enfermedad mental y deben de buscar ayuda”, dijo.

Las clínicas de salud del condado de San Mateo están atendiendo a sus pacientes a distancia. Las personas pueden llamar a su doctor y él los refiere para consejería psicológica si lo necesitan. También la Clínica La Raza ofrece ayuda de salud mental por teléfono, dijo Hernández Arriaga.

La Iglesia Católica apoya los programas profesionales de salud mental.

En la carta pastoral de los obispos de California, de mayo del 2018, declararon que “la salud mental forma parte fundamental del bienestar. Por lo tanto, servir a las personas que sufren de alguna enfermedad mental es parte esencial de los cuidados pastorales de la Iglesia”.

Los obispos de California en su documento recuerdan que “Cristo nos llama a atender a las personas que sufren enfermedades mentales y a proveer esperanza y sanación” y también animan a los afectados y familiares a recibir el apoyo profesional y no aislarse, porque “las personas que padecen alguna enfermedad mental a menudo sufren en silencio, ocultas y sin ser reconocidas por los demás”, dice el documento.

La Arquidiócesis de San Francisco anunció el año pasado el lanzamiento de un programa de salud mental para las parroquias que quisieran incorporarlo, con una red de recursos que van desde la oración hasta conectar a las personas con profesionales locales.

“Este es un tema del que necesitamos hablar seriamente y ver cómo llegamos a las personas y familias que requieren apoyo …”, dijo Richard Collyer, gerente del proyecto de salud mental de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco en una entrevista con el San Francisco Católico en julio del 2019.

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La familia Álvarez Santizo prepara comida para el almuerzo del Domingo de Resurrección en su casa durante la cuarentena.

Daniela Álvarez Santizo, izquierda y su prima Yuly Santizo sostienen velas en el patio de su casa en San Rafael, el Sábado Santo durante un rito familiar de bendición de la luz.

Maryalexis Gutiérrez, izquierda, Vanessa y Mark Foreman y Yorleny Vargas posan frente un cirio iluminado la noche del Sábado Santo en su casa en Richmond.

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Los esposos Juan Álvarez y Rina Santizo y sus tres hijos celebraron la Vigilia Pascual en su casa en San Rafael. Durante este tiempo de cuarentena esta madre vio la oportunidad que tuvieron los jóvenes para valorar la importancia de la tradición de la fe católica, como se lo han expresado sus hijos.

La familia siguió la tradición del rito de la bendición de la luz en su propia casa en San Rafael.

Encendieron una fogata en el patio, en la cual iluminaron un cirio y compartieron la luz entre ellos.

Al día siguiente, Domingo de Resurrección celebraron la misa transmitida en directo y prepararon juntos un almuerzo para celebrar la Pascua.

Al referirse a la cuarentena por el coronavirus, Santizo dijo que “No se ha perdido el tiempo… en estos días de Pascua ha habido más unión y más conciencia en los jóvenes”. Y expresa una enorme gratitud por los momentos inolvidables que ha podido compartir con sus hijos en este tiempo y ver como los valores que habían sembrado en ellos están dando fruto, dijo.

Los muchachos han pasado la cuarentena asistiendo a clases en línea, pero también han tomado tiempo para ayudar a rezar el rosario que coordina Santizo cada noche por Facebook, al cual

se le unen hasta seiscientos seguidores algunos días.

Al igual que los jóvenes de la familia Álvarez Santizo, Maryalexis Gutiérrez, una estudiante del 2º año de la carrera de Desarrollo Temprano en la Infancia (Early Childhood Develompment) en la Universidad Estatal de Sonoma ha descubierto nuevos valores durante esta cuarentena como otras vías de relacionarse con Dios.

Gutiérrez quien además trabaja para la Diócesis de Santa Rosa en el departamento del Ministerio de Jóvenes y Jóvenes Adultos y participó muy activa en el proceso del V Encuentro en la Diócesis de Oakland, dice que “ha sido difícil estar tanto tiempo en casa porque me gusta mucho salir.

Siempre estoy afuera. Pero este cambio de pasar más tiempo adentro de la casa me ha ayudado a saber que eso también es bueno”.

“He mejorado mi relación espiritual de otras maneras, ahora que no estoy yendo a la iglesia a recibir la comunión, estoy orando más. Estoy escribiendo cartas a Dios. Antes le escribía de vez en cuando, ahora en cuarentena lo hago diario”, narró Gutiérrez.

“En las cartas le escribo a Dios como me siento, algunos días le hago preguntas, por la noche le cuento sobre lo que he vivido en el día con respecto a la pandemia. Definitivamente me ha ayudado mucho a expresarme en la comunicación con Dios, y me gustaría seguir haciéndolo cuando todo vuelva a lo normal”, dijo.

La noche del Sábado Santo, Maryalexis Gutiérrez celebró la Vigilia Pascual con sus papás Yorleny Vargas y Mark Foreman y su hermana Vanessa Vargas. Dijo “tuvimos una noche de oración juntos, nos pasamos la vela con la luz y leímos la Biblia. Se pudo mantener la fe en la familia”.

ACLARACIÓN El artículo titulado “Caída en la venta de flores deja sin empleo a familias enteras” de la edición del 9 de abril del 2020 contiene una omisión.

La parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar y la organización San Vicente de Paul han estado ofreciendo ayuda a los necesitados durante esta crisis de salud. Lamentamos el error.

NOTA DEL EDITOR Catholic San Francisco incluirá una selección de artículos en español del San Francisco Católico, el periódico en español de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco, durante el mandato de quedarse en casa que ha suspendido las misas públicas. El periódico normalmente se entrega en las iglesias con misas en español los fines de semana.

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VATICAN DONATES VENTILATORS TO SYRIA

VATICAN CITY – In the name of Pope Francis, the Congregation for Eastern Churches said it is sending 10 ventilators to Syria and three to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Jerusalem to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

The donations were among the first items announced by the congregation as it launched an emergency fund in response to the pandemic. The congregation’s announcement April 18 said the 10 ventilators sent to Syria would be shared by three hospitals run by Catholic orders of women religious: the Salesians in Damascus, the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition in Aleppo and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Damascus.

In addition to the ventilators for the Jerusalem hospital – also run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition – the congregation said it would purchase and supply diagnostic kits for people in Gaza and would make an “extraordinary contribution” to Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem, West Bank, which specializes in maternity and neonatal critical care.

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The statue of Christ the Redeemer is illuminated with a doctor’s suit and the word “thank you” in Rio de Janeiro April 12, 2020. The statue was lit in the attire of a doctor in tribute to health care workers who are fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The image was accompanied by the word “thank you,” projected in several languages.

BISHOPS IN MEXICO, ENGLAND: AGE SHOULD NOT BE ONLY GAUGE FOR COVID-19 HELP

Similarly, the bishops of England and Wales pleaded for fairness in the possible rationing of health care to coronavirus patients amid rising fears that protective and life-saving equipment is running out. In both cases, the bishops acknowledged that while tough decisions must be made in the current pandemic, age should not be the only criteria for deciding which patients receive treatment.

The Mexican bishops’ guidelines recognized that triage, “the orderly and just classification of patients, according to their chances of survival,” is necessary and occurs the world over. But the bishops warned, “It is foreseeable that in Mexico it will be necessary to carry out patient selection processes in order to assign different types of care. These processes must be carried out by simultaneously taking into account the urgency of the case, the needs that must be addressed and that the resources assigned are as beneficial as possible for the patient.”

TORONTO – With 19 deaths so far confirmed from the largest mass shooting in Canadian history, Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop Anthony Mancini offered condolences to the families of those killed, particularly the family of RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson.

“Her death in the line of duty indicates the highest sacrifice that one can make on behalf of the citizens she served,” Archbishop Mancini said in a letter issued April 20 after a 51-year-old man went on a shooting rampage in Nova Scotia. “Our prayers go out to all the members of her family, particularly her children, and to the fellow officers of her RCMP family, who mourn the loss of her life.”

Stevenson was the first victim of the weekend shooting spree identified by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She was a 23-year RCMP veteran, the mother of two and wife of teacher Dean Stevenson, who was killed by the gunman.

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican bishops’ conference has issued ethical guidelines as the COVID-19 crisis worsens in Mexico and medical staff are potentially forced to make life-and-death decisions on which patients receive treatment, and which ones are denied access to equipment like ventilators.

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has agreed with a recommendation by the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life to postpone by one year the next gather-

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The current situation, which many people are experiencing, of forced abstinence from the Eucharist “can become a time of growing in faith, of desire for the gift of sacramental Communion, of solidarity with those who for various reasons cannot benefit from it, of freedom from the sloppiness of habit,” he wrote.

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Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the dicastery, told Catholic News Service April 20 that now is the time his office would be signing contracts with hotels and airlines if the World Meeting of Families were still to be held in 2021, “but no one knows what will happen,” so it seemed prudent to push the meeting back a year.

The dicastery also would not hold two large gatherings during the same summer, so that was one reason World Youth Day was pushed back, he said. The other reason, Cardinal Farrell said, is that although people are talking about “returning to normal” and government leaders are making plans for phasing out lockdowns and reopening businesses, “we do not believe travel will be that extensive” anytime soon.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 23, 2020

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

Thomas H. Jaurigui Edwin Javius Robert Richard Jones Palepina Kafoa Theresa Abela Bouk Hyung Kang Robert John Badella Walter G. Keefe Teresa Maria Bardini Rosemary Kvaternick Christian Q. Bautista Richard E. Lamboy Rosalie Bellanti Nellie Lee Maria Consuelo Lopez Helen Juliana Leonelli Beltran David Michael Locks Mary J. Bouey Edward Lee Lopez Daniel Caballero, Sr. Leo Nello Lovi Angelita E. Chan Julia Eguinoa Machin Geraldine “Geri” Janice Marie Martin Chiechi Soledad Martinez Olga R. Cimino Bienvenido A. Conanan Laura E. Martinez Carl F. Mattman Maximo E. Cortez Richard Mendribil, Jr. Lakreisha T. Crawford Rolando Cayetano Rose M. Crivello Menis Sol Amaryllis Orellana Richard B. Morris Cruz Robert E. Murphy Rosalino C. Daga, Sr. Patricia S. Murphy Maria L. Dasig Marilyn J. Nelder Adeline Catherine De Albert F. Nuti Martini Colleen Riley Ostrofe Joseph John Debono Carmen Pena Josephine C. Doelger Felix S. Perez Marilyn Doohan Davor Pesusic, Sr. George P. Dyer Marjorie E. Petersen Mary Anne Endress Florence Nelson William Estamo Peterson Clement Manuel Adibeh Qutami Fernandes Lorenzo R. Ratto Carlos Orellana Gamez Leora Rist Beatrice Garcia Manuel Rito Romilda Garibaldi Mabel Audrey Robinson Leticia R. Garma Andrew J. Rodondi William B. George Jose Antonio Rodriguez Renee Marie Giordano Frances K. Rogers Laura C. Giovannoni Carmen T. Rosario Vivian Marie Gisin Eliseo Rosario, Jr. Leopoldo W. Gonzales Charles Joseph Guerrero Mary B. Ryan Elias R. Salazar IV Roberta Ann Salisbury Francisco Hipon Enrique Sanchez Sal Ignoffo Jeanne K. Scherba Redencion U. Jaochico

Juanita Schroder Christine Sigigie Joey William Solano Edward Sowaal Yvonne Spangle Trinidad R. Tabaldo Catalina Villa Tee Saokimi Tuipulotu Anne L. Vacks Joseph J. Valerga Elsa Vides David Vigil Marcella A. Whitney Donna Arlene Widrin John Zahar, Sr.

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Patricia C. Beghetti Hazel L. Parsons Knight W. “Mickey” Parsons Marguerite C. Remmell Herenia Estella Villa Dorothy Washington

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Juan Carlos Figueroa Arturo Garibay Irene Ivette Mota

ST. MARY MAGDALENE Mary M. Hofmann Stephen Dakin O’Leary

TOMALES Ada Catherine Maffucci

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma CA | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA | 650-712-1675 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA | 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas, CA | 415-479-9021

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.