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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has named Father Daniel B. Donohoo as president-rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University and Father Anthony Stoeppel as vice rector. Both appointments are for five-year terms effective Aug. 15, 2019.

These appointments became necessary upon the untimely death of Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, in July. Bishop Christian was president-rector of the seminary from Jan. 14, 2019, until his death July 11.

The archbishop said Father Donohoo has served the seminary with dedication for more than six years, most recently as vice rector and dean of men. “He has a keen understanding of the challenges of diocesan priesthood and the spiritual and human formation required for a SEE ST. PATRICK’S, PAGE 8 (PHOTO BY DEBRA GREENBLAT/OFFICE OF HUMAN LIFE & DIGNITY)

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone called for Christians to be the “moral conscience” of society during an Aug. 11 Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Mass marked the end of a novena against an upcoming pro-abortion bill that is being taken up by California lawmakers.

Archbishop: Christians called to be moral conscience of society NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone called for Christians to be the “moral conscience” of society during a Mass marking the end of a novena against an upcoming abortion bill.

From Aug. 3-11, Californian dioceses and archdioceses prayed a novena for the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe to defeat Senate Bill 24, which would require state college and university health centers to stock medication abortion pills.

In his homily for the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, the archbishop spoke about the culture of death’s expression in society and how Christians can respond to it.

He began by citing a recent New York Times editorial that called for embracing the basic values that have historically glued American society

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together. “The idea is that by focusing on the common good we can retrieve a sense of public decency,” he said.

“We’re here in church, certainly this is something we all here would agree with,” Archbishop Cordileone continued. “However, let’s think about that, let’s think about it deeply. Is it really possible to retrieve a sense of common decency when we consider what is going on in our country?”

Society not only tolerates abortion, he said, but celebrates its existence, heralding it as “as progress and a sign of an enlightened society.” The devastating effect of abortion on women who lacked the love, care and support to make a choice for life, the social indifference to their plight, he said, is masked.

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LOS ANGELES - The Archbishop of Los Angeles wrote this week that the white nationalism that motivated a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, is a sign that the U.S. has lost touch with the Christian ideals of the nation’s founding. He called Christians to give witness to the common humanity of all people.

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‘Warrior for life’

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Retired USF professor Raymond Dennehy reflects on a half-century on the pro-life front lines LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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AUG. 30: IRB meeting “With his absolute belief in and crystal-clear vision of faith and AUG.31: Installation of pastor at St. doctrine, he witnessed, he preached, Gregory Parish, San Mateo, 3 p.m. he taught, he went anywhere anytime to debate anyone on any of the life isSEPT. 4: Chancery meetings sues, influencing many young people to carry on the fight.”

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Raymond Dennehy shows some of his extensive writings promoting life. The retired philosophy professor has spent a half-century fighting for life through teaching, writing and debate.

sues, and from the University of California, Berkeley, which offered him a stage for 50 consecutive semesters to debate abortion.

And he no longer holds the rapt attention of students at USF, where he spent 41 of the 49 years he taught philosophy.

“I was a big hero with previous generations but on a collision course with modern-minded millennials who drove me into the dumper,” said Dennehy, who retired five years ago when “it just wasn’t fun or productive anymore.”

“A lot of them grew up with no adult male in the house and felt threatened by males, especially guys like me whose knuckles dragged on the floor when I walked.”

He exonerates the students, who without spiritual guides are left to secular sources for information and inspiration.

“The people have to hear the truth from the pulpit, and they’re not,” he insisted. “So Madison Avenue and the media, which promote a hedonistic, meaningless, purposeless life, are teaching kids what to believe and how to live. The kids don’t stand a chance.”

Priests and bishops should step up and speak out, but many fear backlash from touching on tender topics, he said, citing as an example a parishioner who walked out of Mass

in protest of a sermon decrying abortion.

“If you speak about anything substantive, you’re going to get reactions,” he said.

He’s been getting them since raising a lonely voice in defense of “Humanae Vitae,” a 1968 papal encyclical reaffirming traditional moral teaching on the sanctity of life that included a rejection of artificial birth control, a controversial stance causing dissent even within the Catholic community.

With the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, the former Navy radarman and competitive weightlifter took up a new call to arms.

“He moved from standing up for the church position on contraception, especially among Jesuits and other liberal theologians, to defending the life of the unborn,” recalled Michael Torre, 68, who started teaching philosophy and met Dennehy at USF in 1984.

“With his fine sense of humor and clear, clean, cool thinking, Ray is the kind of intellectual fighter who fearlessly enters the arena of contemporary culture to defend truths, no matter how unpopular, and change lives.”

Dennehy doubts he will ever fully know the extent of his impact. But over the years he has received some clues, said the philosopher with a bachelor’s degree from USF, a master’s from UC Berkeley and a doctorate from the University of Toronto.

One of those came in a letter from a former student who enclosed an ultrasound picture of a fetus in the seventh month of pregnancy and emotional thanks for “changing (her and her new husband’s) views to make room for this blessing!”

Dennehy may not have changed most minds at UC Berkeley, but he did leave them with a valuable lesson, said famed physician and activist Malcolm Potts, 84, who for 12 years provided the counterpoint in the two-hour, biannual abortion debates before 400 undergraduates in a public health class.

“He was always very professional and respectful, which is unusual in this kind of highly charged situation,” recalled Potts, emeritus Bixby SEE RAYMOND DENNEHY, PAGE 6

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 22, 2019

Partnership provides more counselors for low-income students CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Five Catholic K-8 schools in San Francisco without the resources to hire counseling staff will have greater access to on-site mental health services in the 2019-20 school year.

Thanks to a partnership between local educators concerned about childhood mental health, DeMarillac Academy, School of the Epiphany, Mission Dolores Academy, St. James School and St. Peter School will be able to use public funds to fully or partially offset the cost of mental health services for students.

“Motivation and healthy children is half the battle in education,” said Jonathan Schild, associate superintendent in charge of student services for archdiocesan Catholic schools. “It’s important that our students’ minds not be hijacked by stress and anxiety.”

Schild was instrumental in forging a partnership between the Department of Catholic Schools, the San Francisco Unified School District and the University of San Francisco’s Center for Child and Family Development that will benefit more than 700 students in the five Catholic schools a nd one non-Catholic school in the 2019-20 academic year.

USF graduate and post-graduate student interns working toward professional counseling degrees and licensure will provide counseling at each school site, paid for with Title I funds.

The USF center has long served Catholic schools that have been able to pay for school-based counselors/ trainees, Schild said. This is the first year in which federal funds will be used to offset the cost to schools that would otherwise not be able to pay for a counselor.

“It’s not dollars into the school but it can pay for services, counseling being one of them,” Schild said.

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Principal Sandra Jimenez said there is a “great need” for counseling services at St. Peter School in San Francisco, where over 60 percent of the student body comes from low-income families.

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Peter School in San Francisco’s Mission District, told Catholic San Francisco Aug. 13 that in the absence of a staff counselor, teachers and administrators “do their best” to help students and their families with social, emotional and behavioral issues.

“We have a high need for a counselor, but we don’t really have one,” she said.

A large percentage of the Mission District school’s students come from low-income families. Jimenez estimated that 60 percent or more of St. Peter students would meet the criteria for Title I, which provides federal financial aid for schools with a high level of students from low-income families.

Jimenez said the school had a USF student counselor on campus last year one day a week, but the demand was greater than what one person could manage. Now she will be able to hire a second counselor.

Jimenez said the impact of social media is the biggest source of anxiety and depression for students. The threat of raids and deportations in a school community with a large immigrant population has also spiked collective anxiety.

“There are fears a parent will be taken away,” she said.

Living in a poor or low-income household has been linked to poor health and increased risk for mental health problems in both children and adults that can persist across the lifespan, according to a January 2017 article in the journal Pediatrics.

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She referenced a U.S. Centers for Disease Control study that showed that adverse childhood experiences can influence the health and lifespan of adults.

“To be in a state of chronic anxiety, fear or anger, it’s poisonous,” Nemia said.

The CDC found that incidence of depression and anxiety has increased in children, with 7.1 percent of children aged 3-17 diagnosed with anxiety and 3.2 percent with depression.

“Early diagnosis and appropriate services for children can make a difference in the lives of children with mental disorders,” the CDC said.

Schild said that school counselors tell him that student anxiety issues have sharply spiked in recent years.

There’s a multitude of reasons for it, he said, including academic pressures, social media influence, cyber-bullying and violence.

“We need to counter that and provide kids with good trained professionals who can help them navigate through it because some of these stressors are adult level stressors,” he said. “They just don’t have the coping skills at this age.”

USF President Jesuit Father Paul J. Fitzgerald applauded the new partnership, saying USF, the archdiocese and San Francisco Unified School District have a long history of working together, “with a special regard for the least served and the most vulnerable.”

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Incoming Mercy Burlingame principal on education’s ‘new realities’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

When Natalie Cirigliano Brosnan graduated as valedictorian of Mercy High School Burlingame in 2002, school shootings, student anxiety and depression were an anomaly. Social media, with its well-documented influence on both, did not yet exist.

“Times have definitely changed for educators,” Cirigliano Brosnan told Catholic San Francisco Aug. 10 following her appointment as the first lay alumna to serve as head of the 88-year-old all-girls school, her alma mater. “You have all these new outside pressures from society.”

Most recently principal of Holy Name School in San Francisco, Cirigliano Brosnan was appointed to succeed Karen Hanrahan, who retired in June after six years at Mercy Burlingame.

“Anxiety and depression are such major issues for this generation,” Cirigliano Brosnan said, so much so that the school has formed a team consisting of academic, counseling and campus ministry department members to proactively “combat the anxieties and social pressures our students are facing.”

She said gun violence and the nation’s unrelenting occurrence of mass shootings has also completely changed the ways schools must prepare themselves for “new realities.”

“It’s not just the earthquake and fire drills anymore,” she said. “It’s the reunification drills, the active shooter drills.”

Cirigliano Brosnan said that school leaders on retreat recently agreed that enhanced safety protocols was the immediate priority for staff, students and parents as they enter the new school year.

“We’ll be educated on what we need to do together to keep everybody calm and safe,” she said.

Cirigliano Brosnan’s appointment as head of school followed an extensive search by the school’s board of directors. But her deep Catholic roots in Burlingame seemed to make her heir apparent.

A lifelong parishioner at St. Catherine of Siena in Burlingame,

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St. James alumni Steve Mendoza, left, who graduated St. James School in 1993, is pictured with fellow Class of 1993 alumna Jennifer Caputo and their St. James second graders.

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Mercy High School Burlingame alumna Natalie Cirigliano Brosnan, right, was installed as her alma mater’s head of school on June 14 in a ceremony led by Mercy Sister Regina Ward of the Mercy Education System of the Americas.

Current school families, alumnae and friends of Mercy attended the oncampus ceremony which honored Cirigliano Brosnan while paying tribute to her predecessor Karen Hanrahan, Mercy Burlingame’s longtime head of school.

Cirigliano Brosnan attended St. Catherine of Siena School before enrolling at Mercy Burlingame where she graduated with honors as a student athlete. After earning masters and doctoral degrees in Catholic Education Leadership from the University of San Francisco, she returned to serve both of her former schools; as a teacher at St. Catherine of Siena and as Mercy Burlingame’s Dean of Student Life.

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“Natalie is effectively coming home,” said Bob Grassilli, chair of the Mercy High School Burlingame board of directors, in naming her head of school.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 22, 2019

Local pro-life leader wins national award NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Ron Konopaski, 86, a longtime leader of 40 Days for Life prayer campaigns outside Planned Parenthood clinics in San Francisco, was awarded 40 Days for Life’s Leader of the Year award Aug. 2 at its summer leadership training symposium in Houston, Texas.

Konopaski, a San Francisco resident and Star of the Sea parishioner who has led 40 Days for Life campaigns for about 11 years, told Catholic San Francisco it was “a shock” to receive the award.

“I wasn’t expecting that for sure,” he said.

Kristin Nill, a spokeswoman for 40 Days for Life, said Konopaski was “well deserving” of the award.

“Earlier this year Ron was harassed, kicked and told to stay down by a man trying to steal his banner while he peacefully stood outside an abortion clinic,” she said. “Ron could’ve listened and stopped his efforts to save lives but instead he did the opposite. He refused to let the attack deter him and continued to show up just days later. Because of Ron’s

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Ron Konopaski received 40 Days for Life’s Leader of the Year award Aug. 2 in Houston, Texas.

resilience, two babies were saved from abortion.”

Konopaski received a personalized 40 Days for Life jacket with his award, along with a T-shirt reading “I won’t stay down” – a message referring to the incident March 14 outside a Planned Parenthood clinic on Valencia Street in San Francisco.

The attacker was seen on video repeatedly kicking Konopaski, who was 85 at the time, and demanding, “stay on the ground, old man.”

Konopaski said the T-shirt’s message of resistance has “sort of become my motto now.”

Pro-life activism came later in life for Konopaski. “In fact, in the early days I was pretty ignorant,” he said. When the Supreme Court decided in Roe v.

Wade in 1973 the U.S. Constitution protected abortion, he didn’t think much about it. Over the years, that changed, especially under the influence of a friend, Brian Kavanaugh, who introduced him to pro-life activism.

He said he initially connected to 40 Days for Life because a friend had spoken about their success in Texas.

Having retired from his dental practice, Konopaski helped organize the first campaign in the city in 2009, at a former Planned Parenthood location on Eddy Street. He committed to always be present for the vigils so that no one would pray alone in front of the clinic.

Konopaski was honored by the award but took a modest view of his own contributions.

“I didn’t feel like I’d done anything out of the ordinary,” he said. “We’d

been doing this for years, and have had some great successes. This year we had news that three babies were saved, so it’s certainly well worth it.”

He added that the award reflected the shared work of all those who attended the prayer campaigns with him and that they were “co-owners” of the award. Without their constant support and presence, he said, he would not have anyone to lead. “Followers really define a leader, and I wouldn’t be there without them,” he said.

Konopaski said that over the 11 years he has been leading a campaign for 40 Days for Life, “one of the big things is I’ve learned the power of prayer. We say our prayers, and we know that our prayers are heard, but sometimes there can be skepticism over whether they’re taken seriously or not. A lot of times you’re out there on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood, and it’s easy to get discouraged, wondering if it’s making any difference. But every once in a while, the Lord sends you a little miracle that lets you know something’s happening,” he said.

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Top left, Christ is depicted as Divino Salvador del Mundo (Divine Savior of the World), which is the national feast day of El Salvador. The change from red to white garments shows Christ’s transfiguration. Bottom, parishioners at Corpus Christi sang the Salvadoran national anthem. Lillian Khan,right, and her brother and sister-in-law are pictured at the celebration Aug. 11.

Salvadoran holiday brings fellowship, food, faith NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Celebrating El Salvador’s national feast day brought parishioners at Corpus Christi parish back home for an afternoon.

“The food, the music, you’re in the church and you feel like you’re back in El Salvador,” parishioner Wenceslao Brito said.

The San Francisco parish celebrated on Aug. 11 the feast of Divino Salvador del Mundo – Divine Savior of the World. It has been celebrated

as a holiday in El Salvador for nearly 500 years and commemorates Christ’s transfiguration.

After the 11 a.m. Mass, a statue of Jesus dressed in red vestments processed out from the church down to the parish hall, where it was placed on a stage. During the festival, Christ’s garments are changed from red to white to portray the Transfiguration.

In the kitchen, parishioners made pupusas, flatbreads stuffed with toppings like cheese or pork rinds. At

tables along the walls parishioners sold tamales, empanadas, horchata and other items to raise funds for the church. A DJ in the corner played Salvadoran music and a few couples together danced as lunch went on.

Brito, a Corpus Christi parishioner and organizer of the parish’s celebration, said he appreciates how the holiday brings together all the Latino communities in the parish for fellowship and food.

“Everybody’s here, all celebrating together like a whole big family,” he said.

Parishioner Lillian Khan said she loves the festival “because we get to reminisce our youth, our childhood and all the celebrations that we had when we were born there. Ever since I came to this country I’ve stuck with them, we celebrate them every year. It’s a great feeling.”

Khan added that “especially now that the Hispanic community is having so many problems, it’s nice to come and be with family and friends celebrating our country, our divine ‘Salvador del Mundo.’”

RAYMOND DENNEHY: ‘Warrior for life’ reflects on 50-year career FROM PAGE 2

Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health who continues to debate pro-life voices.

“We demonstrated to the students that people with diverse opinions don’t have to fall into antagonistic groups trying to kill each other but can actually benefit each other.”

Dennehy’s wife of 29 years, Maryann, remains awed at her husband’s unruffled handling of angry students whose verbal attacks left her “scared and very tense.”

“I think God has graced me with

a thick skin,” the quick-to-quip son of impoverished immigrants mused.

“Maybe because I’m an Irishman always looking for a good fight, I don’t even think of what others might think of me.”

On one occasion, he drove Derek Humphry, cofounder of the now defunct right-to-die-advocating Hemlock Society, to the airport after a televised clashing of the minds on euthanasia.

The enduring exploits have earned Dennehy ample awards and acclaim.

In 2013, he received one he especially treasures, The Rupert and Timothy Smith Award for Distinguished Con-

tributions to Pro-Life Scholarship, granted annually by the University Faculty for Life to an academic for significant intellectual contributions to the cause.

“Professor Dennehy was chosen to receive this honor because of his stalwart defense of the unborn and the aged, both in his publications and in his public debates over the years with various pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia scholars,” said Jesuit Father Joseph Koterski, professor of philosophy at Fordham University and member of the UFL Board of Directors, which determines the recipient.

Although he misses being in the thick of the battle and the spotlight it brought him, Dennehy has no regrets about a life he would not change had he the chance.

“God’s been very good to me,” said Dennehy, who in retirement spends two hours a day writing to add to the collection of books he has dedicated to his parents, his wife, his four children and his 12 grandchildren.

“I think at times we don’t even see the plan God has for us, and for me, it’s been to fight for life,” a mission he will carry out “until I reach room temperature.”

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ARCHBISHOP: Christians called to be moral conscience of society FROM PAGE 1

if this is the case? Perhaps at a superficial level, perhaps we can be polite to each other, but at a deeper level of shared values there is a crisis going on,” he said.

While it seems “the tide is turning” and the stakes of abortion have become clearer and less deniable, Archbishop Cordileone said the pro-life cause still has much to accomplish, especially in politics, where politicians have felt the need to become “as pro-abortion as possible in order to make themselves viable candidates.”

For those who want to build a culture of life, he said, the readings are especially helpful, offering lessons on identity, vigilance and charity for believers.

Like the Israelites at the first Passover, Christians are rooted in a historical event which gives “the certainty of hope for God’s deliverance in his own time and in his own way.”

Putting that identity into action means Christians should be “spiritually agile” and resistant to being fooled by popular fashions, political conventions or cultural pressures. Instead, he said, Christians should make the Gospel the foundation of their thinking and action in the world and “serve as the conscience of society,”

which can only happen if they live their faith with integrity.

“If Christians are failing in this role, perhaps it is because too many of them are themselves corrupted in their way of thinking and in their own conduct, private as well as public,” the archbishop said. “We are supposed to know better and so we will be held to a higher standard.”

The commandment to charity is an obligation for Christians, and “what could be a greater act of charity than to defend those who have no voice with which to defend themselves?” the archbishop asked. “It is precisely by such acts of charity on behalf of the poor, defenseless and marginalized that we prepare ourselves for the life of heaven.”

Seeking the good of those “who are most disadvantaged and defenseless” is the highest form of acting as the moral conscience of society, he said, and a clear witness to God’s love.

“Ultimately God has created us for life and love.

Let us love then that we may have life and have it to the full.”

SB 24 could be passed by the state Assembly after the Legislature returns from its summer recess on Aug. 12. It would then go to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature.

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successful vocation,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “Father Donohoo is uniquely prepared and qualified to take on the leadership of this important institution at this time.”

The appointment came as a surprise for Father Donohoo, who told Catholic San Francisco he originally joined the seminary to “do spiritual direction and ride off into the sunset, as they say.”

Father Donohoo said the key to his role as rector-president is “to make sure that we’re forming good and holy priests that can serve the church during very difficult times, who can get into parish work and be effective ministers of Christ’s Gospel.”

Going forward, his most pressing challenge as president will be “encouraging young men to say ‘yes’ to the call of Our Lord. There are so many other voices that clamor after them, it really takes a certain heroism to say yes to even entering the seminary today.”

Increasing enrollment at the seminary will be another focus of the administration.

“We’re at about 50 students for the coming year, and I’d like to expand our outreach to other dioceses to send students here,” Father Donohoo said.

The seminary has about 30 faculty and has historically served just over 100 students. Enrollment last year was 53 but had increased significantly from the previous year, according to a June 2018 report by the WASC Senior College and University Commission.

Father Daniel B. Donohoo

The seminary also faces the task of maintaining and improving a building more than 120 years old and hopes to form an alumni group in the future.

Father Donohoo said he is “fundamentally a pastor” and will bring that to his role at the seminary.

“And that’s what I hope we will produce, people who really do have hearts that are after the heart of Christ, who care deeply about people, who are willing to listen and accompany and who are willing to offer the truth,” he said.

Part of his role as well will involve guiding the seminary through the twin tragic losses it suffered over the summer: the deaths of former academic dean Dr. Karen Chan and her unborn child in May and of rector-president Bishop Robert Christian in July.

“This is where I need to be a pastor to our men, teach them how to process grief, be present, and be faithful to prayer,” he said. Donohoo said it was important to be attentive to pain but also remember God’s providence in each life.

“While we don’t always understand something, providence can give us the ability to find the peace of Our Lord in all of it,” he said.

Father Donohoo’s previous positions at the seminary include terms as dean of students and vice president of administration. In addition, in

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Father Anthony Stoeppel joins the seminary as a faculty member and as its new vice rector.

He brings significant diocesan experience to the seminary. He was most recently vicar general of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, and also served as chairman of the Parish & Mission Assistance Program and president of Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic Schools, as well as pastor of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, a largely Spanish-speaking parish in the Diocese of Tyler.

Father Stoeppel attended Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Conn., and holds a Doctorate of Sacred Theology in the field of bioethics from Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

Other significant changes at the seminary include a new advancement director, Bryan Fegley, and new academic dean, Dr. Anthony Lilles. After discerning out of seminary to pursue marriage, Fegley worked in fundraising for higher education, most recently at University of North Carolina Wilmington.

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“The crisis is caused, in part, by a small number of gun owners who abuse the firearms that are readily available to them and by Bishop Edward the lack of consensus on the part K. Braxton of the American people and their elected representatives,” Bishop Braxton said in his message, issued Aug. 6, days after the previous weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left 31 dead and dozens more wounded.

Bishop Braxton said that, in the past, he has asked Catholics in his diocese for prayers for the victims, the survivors, those grieving and for elected officials after noted mass shootings, but “in

GREGORY: CATHOLICS CAN’T ‘SIT ON THE SIDELINES’

WASHINGTON – In a crowded bar, bustling with young adult Catholics from the Washington area for the monthly Theology on Tap, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory shared his pain over what this archdiocese suffered in the past year due to priestly abuse scandals, and encouraged the young adults to turn to the Eucharist as a source of healing.

“I’m not quite as young as you, but I, too, am let down by the leadership in the church,” Archbishop Gregory said. “I’ve been embarrassed. I’ve been embarrassed as a Catholic, as a priest, and as a bishop, because of the behavior by some of my fellow clerics.”

“When the family has been embarrassed, everyone in the family feels embarrassed, and I do too,” said the 71-year-old archbishop. “I know this past year has been an extraordinarily painful year for Washington.”

Archbishop Gregory told the young people that a Catholic can’t “sit on the sidelines.”

“To be a member of the church means you’ve got to get in and get your hands dirty in the mix of the whole arena of faith from what we believe and profess to how we live and treat one another.

“To belong to a family means that you are invested in the life, the struggles, the pain, the joys that belong to being a member of this family, and that includes our faith, what we hold as true, and also it involves our investment in social justice dimensions of our faith,” Archbishop Gregory said. “You can’t be a good Catholic invested in eucharistic adoration, but unconcerned about the poor, those waiting to be born, those on death row. You’ve got to buy the whole lot.”

recent months, I have not written to you because these heartbreaking assaults on the value and dignity of every human life have been happening so frequently that it has not been possible to keep up.”

In his reflection, “A National Crisis: A Pastoral Reflection on the Deadly Epidemic of Gun Violence in the United States,” he added: “According to published statistics, there have been 255 mass shootings – four or more victims – in this country already this year. One hundred people a day and 36,500 people a year die from gun violence.”

Bishop Braxton said, “Like you, I am deeply distressed by the erosion of fundamental moral principles.”

He added that “there is mounting evidence that social media platforms like 4chan and 8chan are being used to create international communities of like-minded people who reinforce each other’s ethnic and racial hatred, encouraging and even applauding acts of violence against those who should be purged from the ‘nation’ as they narrowly define.”

Noting that the alleged El Paso shooter targeted

Latin Americans, Bishop Braxton said, “We deplore the fact that our sisters and brothers are sometimes the objects of stereotypes, hateful words, scorn and violent acts. We know their vulnerability and fears due to the lack of comprehensive immigration reform.”

“Words of comfort are not sufficient,” he added.

“Soon after these latest shootings, President Donald J. Trump said, ‘In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy.

These sinister ideologies must be defeated.’ The president’s critics complained that his own rhetoric reinforces these very attitudes and that his words were not preceded by sincere expressions of regret.

Nor have the words been followed by swift and decisive actions to prevent gun violence.”

Catholics “truly want to do something” but “feel helpless, even paralyzed,” he said, adding that he shares the sentiment.

He advised Catholics not to expect God to intervene in human history to stop gun violence. “Here on earth, God’s work must truly be our own,” Bishop Braxton said.

YEARLONG ‘WINDOW’ IN NEW YORK STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON ABUSE SUITS OPENS

bravery but also for something else: “He kept his faith and hope and love in a very dark time.”

“Today I don’t mind admitting to you this is a dark time in the life of the church,” Cardinal Dolan said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Child Victims Act into law Feb. 14, opening this window in the state’s statute of limitations and making it easier for abuse victim-survivors to sue over the next year.

The state’s Catholic bishops supported the final measure because it was drafted to include both private and public institutions. Earlier versions only targeted the Catholic Church.

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York state’s yearlong “window” in the statute of limitations opened Aug. 14, allowing suits to be filed by victims alleging abuse by priests, church workers and employees of public schools, hospitals and other institutions no matter how long ago the alleged abuse occurred.

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan in a video message on Twitter noted that the day was also the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who gave his life at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in Poland to spare the life of a young father.

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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 ISAIAH 66:18-21 Thus says the LORD: I know their works and their thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory.

I will set a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations. They shall bring all your brothers and sisters from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries, to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their offering to the house of the LORD in clean vessels.

Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the LORD. PSALM 117:1, 2 (Mark 16:15) Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

Praise the LORD all you nations; glorify him, all you peoples!

Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

For steadfast is his kindness toward us, and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever.

Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

HEBREWS 12:5-7, 11-13 Brothers and sisters, You have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.” Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?

At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.

LUKE 13:22-30 Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem.

Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.

After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will say to you in reply, ‘I do not know where you are from. And you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets. ‘Then he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.

Depart from me, all you evildoers!’ And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out.

And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

The tragic teaching of the narrow gate

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The reason is that Jesus allows us no latitude whatsoever for complacency; a self-assurance of our own salvation, accompanied by unawareness of actual deficiencies in our conformity to His Gospel, leading to a lack of true vigilance towards the very real dangers of actually losing salvation.

The strongest example of this is in Jesus teaching on the Narrow Gate. Unlike in parables like the Wise and Foolish Bridesmaids, or the Rich Fool, or the Talents, or even the Last Judgment, all of which deal with people who are rejected by God and denied the eternal Kingdom, the words Jesus speaks regarding the Narrow Gate are directed explicitly at his listeners, and by extension, through the Scriptures, to us.

When asked, “Will only a few people be saved,” not only does Jesus NOT give a heavenly promise, but He gives a progression of assurances that are the exact opposite of what we would hope His answer to be, and which gets more and more personal as the answer goes on. Using the image of entering through the Narrow Gate, Jesus’ teaching can be summed up: Many will try, few will succeed and YOU will be left out. He then continues with a detailed description of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the prophets and people from both east and west reclining with the Master, who subsequently casts us out despite our pleas.

Thanks, Lord. Don’t encourage us too much!

When it comes to Eternal Life and the promise

of salvation, we, as Modern Christians, like to give one another assurances under the facade of hope.

We offer promises on which we have no power to deliver, often falling back on the popular presumptions of “what Jesus would say” rather than listening to “what Jesus DID say.” We like to presume we are going to heaven and look for assurances from our religious preachers that salvation is guaranteed by virtue of the fact that we can’t fathom the very notion of losing it. We even refer to Masses for the deceased as “celebrations of life” rather than “funerals” in which we prayerfully intercede before Almighty God for the salvation of the soul who has been called from this life.

Jesus, however, never gives such assurances, especially when asked. Rather He gives the very real and personal impression that all of us can easily find ourselves in grave danger of losing salvation simply because we have lulled ourselves into a sense of complacency. Instead Jesus calls us to fully embrace the Kingdom of God, and continually engage in ongoing conversion, and,

by God’s grace, grow more and more in living the standards Jesus has given us; not by asking “who,” “how many,” or “are there few who will,” but by asking, “what must I DO to inherit eternal life?”

MONDAY, AUGUST 26: Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10. Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. Jn 10:27. Mt 23:13-22.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29. Ps 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11. Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a. Mt 11:29ab. Lk 14:1, 7-14.

ond Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:15-20. Ps 100:1b2, 3, 4, 5. Jn 8:12. Lk 5:33-39.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 27: Memorial of St. Monica.

1 Thes 2:1-8. Ps 139:1-3, 4-6. Heb 4:12. Mt 23:2326.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2: Monday of the Twentysecond Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:13-18. Ps 96:1 and 3, 4-5, 11-12, 13. See Lk 4:18. Lk 4:16-30.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28: Memorial of St. Augustine, bishop, confessor and doctor. 1 Thes 2:9-13. Ps 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab. 1 Jn 2:5. Mt 23:27-32.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3: Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor. 1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11. Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14. Lk 7:16. Lk 4:31-37.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29: Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist. 1 Thes 3:7-13. Ps 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17. Mt 5:10. Mk 6:17-29.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4: Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Bl Dina Bélanger; Bl. Mary Stella and Her Ten Companions, virgins & martyrs. Col1:1-8. Ps 52:10, 11. Lk 4:18. Lk 4:38-44.

ne thing you can always count on with Jesus of Nazareth is that He will never, ever, give assurances of one’s salvation, especially when asked. Of course He has the occasional, “you are not far …” statements (Mark 12:34), and every now and then He gives the promise with a condition that is extraordinarily difficult, if not virtually impossible for the recipient – “Go sell all you have and give to the poor …” (Matthew 19:16-22ff), but at no point does Jesus tell anyone personally, “Well done!

You’ve made it!”

The one exception to this is, as Jesus hung upon the Cross, He said to the “good thief”: “Today you shall be FATHER WILLIAM with me in paradise.” The NICHOLAS person to whom he gave this assurance, however, was being crucified alongside Him, and did not have much living left to do. To the rest, Jesus never gives an assurance; and in some cases, not only does he assure the opposite – “for human beings it is impossible …” (Matthew 19:26) – but he makes that opposite assurance very personal.

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FATHER WILLIAM NICHOLAS is administrator at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, San Francisco.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30: Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:1-8. PS 97:1 and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12. Lk 21:36. Mt 25:1-13.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31: Saturday of the Twentyfirst Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:9-11. Ps 98:1, 7-8, 9. Jn 13:34. Mt 25:14-30.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5: Thursday of the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta. Col 1:9-14. Ps 98:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. Mt 4:19. Lk 5:1-11.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6: Friday of the Twenty-sec-

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7: Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Col1:21-23.

Ps 54:3-4, 6 and 8. Jn 14:6. Lk 6:1-5.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Wis 9:13-18b. Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17. Phmn 9-10, 12-17. Ps 119:135. Lk 14:2533.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9: Memorial of St. Peter Claver, priest. Col1:24–2:3. Ps 62:6-7, 9. Jn 10:27. Lk 6:6-11.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10: Tuesday of the Twentythird Week in Ordinary Time. Col 2:6-15. Ps 145:1b-2, 8-9, 10-11. See Jn 15:16. Lk 6:12-19.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11: Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. Col 3:1-11. Ps 145:2-3, 10-11, 12-13ab. Lk 6:23ab. Lk 6:20-26.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 22, 2019

Divine understanding

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number of years ago at a symposium on faith and evangelization, one of the speakers made a rather startling statement. She, a Christian activist, ended her presentation with words to this effect: I work for the poor and I do it out of my Christian faith.

I’m committed to this because of Jesus, but I can go for three years FATHER RON on the streets ROLHEISER without ever mentioning his name because I believe that God is mature enough that he doesn’t demand to be the center of our conscious attention all the time.

Like many others in the audience, I’d never heard a spiritual writer or preacher ever say this so bluntly. I’d heard biblical scholars speak of God’s self-emptying in the incarnation, of Christ’s burying himself into anonymity, and of God’s patience in being ignored, but I’d never heard anyone say so plainly that God doesn’t mind that we don’t give him explicit attention for long periods of time.

But is this true? Is God okay with this kind of neglect?

There’s an important truth here, though only if it’s sufficiently qualified. Taken as it stands this can be used to justify too many things (spiritual laziness, selfishness, excessive selfpreoccupation, culpable resistance to deeper thought, excessive procrastination with what’s important, and countless other things) that are not good. But here’s its truth: God understands! God is a loving parent who understands the inattentiveness and self-preoccupation of his children.

God has not put us into this life primarily to see if we can keep our attention focused on him all the time. God intended for us to immerse ourselves in the things of this world without, of course, forgetting that these things are, at the end of the day, passing and that we’re destined for a life beyond this world. We’re not on this earth to be always thinking of the eternal, though we’re not on earth either to forget about the eternal.

However, because the unexamined life is less than human, we also need to have moments where we try to make God the center of our conscious awareness.

We need regular moments of explicit prayer, of meditation, of contemplation, of worship, of Sabbath, of explicit acknowledgement of God and of explicit gratitude to God. We do need moments when we make ourselves consciously aware that there is a next life, an eternal one, beyond this present one.

But, in the end, that’s not in competition with or in contradiction to our natural focus on the things of this life, namely, our day-to-day relationships, our families, our work, our concerns for health, and our natural focus on news, sports, entertainment, and enjoyment. These are what naturally draw our attention and, done in good will and honesty, will in the end help push our attention towards the deeper things and eventually towards God. The great mystic, John of the Cross, tells us that if we’re sincere and honest as we focus on the mundane things in our lives, deeper things will happen, unconsciously, under the surface and we will grow closer to God. For example, the famed monk, Carlo Carretto, shares this story: After living many years alone as a hermit in the Sahara desert and spending countless hours in prayer and meditation, he went back to Italy to visit his mother. She was a woman who had raised a large family and who had gone through years of her life when she was too burdened with responsibility and duty to spend much time in explicit prayer. What Carretto discovered to his surprise was that she was more contemplative than he was, not because all those hours of explicit prayer as a monk weren’t good, but because all those selfless tasks his mother did in raising her family and caring for others were very good.

New pastoral response to Asian, Pacific Island communities FATHER RICKY MANALO, CSP CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Paulist Father Joe Scott was presiding over a funeral Mass of a parishioner at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. He was discouraged to see that only two family members showed up to pay their respects to the deceased.

Later he noticed two Filipinas entering the church. Not knowing about the service, they nonetheless sat at a distance and joined in prayer. At the end of the service, Father Joe mentioned the name of the cemetery where the committal would be taking place.

When he arrived at that site an hour later, he discovered the two Filipinas standing there, awaiting his arrival.

After expressing his gratitude, they explained, “This is what we do in the Philippines!”

Father Joe’s story is one of a million stories of how Asian and Pacific Island Catholics remain a vibrant presence in our parishes today. There is a growing presence of Asian and Pacific Island Catholics in the U.S. – a population of close to 3 million.

In 2001, the U.S. Catholics bishops put forth a statement titled, “Asian and Pacific Presence: Harmony in Faith,” that recognized this presence and growth. Since that time, more needs have been discovered and are now addressed in a new pastoral response by the bishops, “Encountering Christ in Harmony.”

Its goal is twofold: “to make Asian and Pacific Island Catholics feel at home, both in the church and in the United States, while being able to preserve the richness of the spiritual and cultural backgrounds that they bring as contributing members of the body of Christ.”

This response addresses the needs of those whose ethnic heritages can be traced to East Asia, including China,

Hong Kong, Korea and Japan; South Asia, with India and Sri Lanka; Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia; as well as the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii, Guam, Samoa and Tonga.

“Encountering Christ in Harmony” begins with a brief history of Asian and Pacific Island Catholics in the U.S. Racism is also raised as they are often labeled as “not from this country,” “model minorities,” “submissive” or “hardworking.”

Such stereotypes presume that Asian and Pacific Island communities do not experience racism themselves, and unfairly sets them up over and above other ethnic groups.

The pastoral document also underscores that Asian and Pacific Island Catholics are made up of ethnically, racially, culturally, nationally and socially diverse groups of people.

As a means to address these distinctions, the various liturgical and devotional practices are considered, such as the Filipino “Simbang Gabi” (“night Masses” during Advent); the Chinese, Korean, Laotian and Vietnamese Catholic celebrations of the Lunar New Year; and the variety of Marian devotions, such as the feast of Our Lady of Camarin, the most venerated title of Mary in Guam.

Other concerns revolve around the need for Asian and Pacific Island Catholics to remain connected to families and relatives from their countries of origin (transnational ties), the rise of intercultural marriages and resulting tensions when subsequent generations become more immersed in mainstream U.S. culture.

Pope Francis’ 2013 apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”), proposes that our daily encounters with Jesus are often experienced through encounters with people from other cultures that call us to move beyond ourselves to become

better missionary disciples.

As a tool to guide us during such encounters, pastoral suggestions are offered at the end of each section (30 suggestions in all) of “Encountering Christ in Harmony.” Some examples include: – Directly invite input from Asian and Pacific leaders throughout all stages of planning for any event or encounter, rather than just announce they are welcome at something they have not helped create.

– Promote ongoing formation of intercultural and pastoral skills for all leaders and communities.

The title of “Encountering Christ in Harmony” offers us its core aim: “In the Asian and Pacific worldview, harmony does not mean leveling off differences in order to arrive at consensus at any cost. Rather, harmony includes diversity as a richness to be embraced and nurtured. At the same time, attaining harmony requires never losing sight of our unity in Christ, which is the goal.”

Until all members of the body of Christ feel fully welcome in our communities, the call to reach out continues to be before us. While the pastoral specifically focuses on Asian and Pacific Island Catholics, it is a welcomed resource for anyone engaged in intercultural ministry.

More information can be found at: http:// www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/ cultural-diversity/asian-pacific-islander/ index.cfm. For workshops and seminars on this pastoral response, visit: www. rickymanalo.org.

Paulist Father Ricky Manalo serves as a consultor for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church. He is a liturgical composer for Oregon Catholic Press and resides at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco.

And God understands this. God understands that we’re human, spiritually frail, busy, and instinctually geared towards the things of this world so that we don’t naturally move towards prayer and church, and that even when we are at prayer or in church, we’re generally still distracted, tired, bored, impatient, thinking of other things, and longing for prayer and church to be over with.

It’s not easy to keep God as the center of our conscious attention; but God both knows this and is not unsympathetic.

Kate Bowler, coming at this from the Mennonite tradition, comments on what the church calls “Ordinary time”, that is, those times during the year when, unlike the Advent, Lenten, Christmas, or Easter seasons, there is nothing special to celebrate. What happens then? Well, what happens then is that things get “ordinary”: “There is no birth at the manger or death on the cross, just the ponderous pace of people singing, praying, and keeping their kids quiet during the sermon. The magic fades and reveals the church for what it is: a plain people in a boring building who meet until kickoff.”

Yes, most of the time that’s us, plain people in boring buildings waiting for the kickoff. And God understands perfectly.

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

LETTER Truth and tolerance

Notwithstanding Mr. McCrea’s claims about me (letter of Aug. 8), my July 8 letter’s point is that Catholics need to live and share the truth of the Gospel in love. If he is honest he will admit that I accuse no one. If LBGTQ advocates insist on portraying their understanding of sexuality as normal and try to portray “the likes of me” as intolerant, Satan sits back and laughs. If I truly love someone I want the good for them, even if my intentions are misrepresented and I must endure scorn. Isn’t the objective to live in harmony with Christ that we might eventually enter heaven?

Gender dysphoria and same-sex attraction must be handled with sensitivity, but the truth cannot be silienced. I stand by my earlier words that aiding and abetting sinful error through what Mr. McCrea insists is tolerance is actually letting people continue down the path to more despair, tumult and perhaps their soul being lost. Christ warns of hell many times and of the consequences of merely “going along” to get along.

Finally, his letter actually proves the main point of my letter, which is that in the present time, people who try to speak in defense of the faith and morals are portrayed by the left as heartless and opposing justice. Mr. McCrea, who is actually the intolerant one?

Let’s please pray for one another.

JR Hermann San Mateo

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 22, 2019

Catholic talk about immigrants and refugees

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o speak of immigration and refugees in the United States of America at this historical juncture is risky business. One never knows where one’s conversation partner stands on this question. One does not know whether one will be welcomed into that conversation again.

While many Catholics seem reluctant to speak about immigration to avoid conflict, ironically we hear about the topic everywhere on social networks and in the mass media.

Yet, there is no irony HOFFMAN without consequences.

OSPINO Many voices that are loud and prejudiced are feasting in the silence of voices that are more moderate and better informed about our Catholic tradition regarding immigrants and refugees.

Silence has consequences. Remaining silent before the excesses of people who InternatIonal organIzatIon of demonize immigrants and twist their experiences for politiMasters, Mates and Pilots Ila,has afl-CIo cal or social gain consequences. Remaining silent by failing to affirm the human dignity of every immigrant and refugee has consequences.

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program for Catholic children and adults today puts serious time into studying the consequences of biased rhetoric against immigrants. European Catholics who arrived in the U.S. about a century ago experienced such biases.

Let us not ignore the brutal mistreatment of immigrants from Africa brought to our shores under the most dehumanizing conditions. Decades of discrimination against immigrants from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean should give us pause.

We must take time to learn about the consequences of remaining silent before the mistreatment and exploitation of immigrants in other societies. There are important lessons to learn from the tragic end of refugees who were denied asylum by nations that could have welcomed them.

Ignorance feeds silence. Even when someone speaks, doing so with prejudice would silence the truth. Ignorance and silence together make us complicit in sin.

I have been paying close attention to recent debates in the U.S. about immigration and refugees.

Doing this is sometimes painful. More painful is to learn that quite a good number of the voices that are loud and prejudiced about immigrants and refugees are Catholic.

The pain becomes more acute when Catholics, especially many holding positions of leadership in church and society, choose to remain silent before the excesses of the loud and prejudiced

voices – Catholic and non-Catholic – or fall short from being prophetic.

Did we all read the same Bible? Did we all study the same Catechism of the Catholic Church? Did we ever pay any attention to the social teachings of the church about immigration and refugees? Did we ever hear that rejecting the other is equivalent to rejecting Jesus?

I am personally invested in this conversation.

I am an immigrant and have immigrant relatives. I serve in a parish community constituted by thousands of immigrants. I know that many of the women and men who are renewing thousands of Catholic parishes in the U.S. are immigrants.

Not all Catholics have to be immigrants or refugees to become invested in this conversation, of course. Neither does one need to be in a parish with large numbers of immigrants to affirm the dignity of immigrant women and men.

As the conversation about immigrants and refugees continues, Catholics in the U.S. have a fourfold responsibility: Prophetically decry prejudiced rhetoric, remember our own history, educate ourselves about who immigrants are and why they arrive in our country, and affirm the human dignity of every immigrant and refugee.

HOSFFMAN OSPINO, a professor of theology and religious education at Boston College, writes the “Journeying Together/Caminando juntos” column for Catholic News Service.

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GOMEZ: ‘With El Paso a line has been crossed in our nation’ FROM PAGE 1

His post lamented a “Hispanic invasion” in the U.S., decried intermarriage between Hispanics and white Americans, and criticized Democratic and Republican politicians, while noting that some Republican policies might reduce “mass immigration.”

“If ‘white nationalism’ is on the rise, it is a sign of how far we have fallen from the Christian universalism of our nation’s founding ideals,” Gomez wrote.

The archbishop, who is an immigrant to the United States from Mexico, added that “El Paso hit me in a personal way. My family is Mexican and American, and we trace our roots back to the early 1800s in what is now Texas; I lived much of my adult life there, including my five years as Archbishop of San Antonio,” he added.

“But El Paso is more than personal. With El Paso a line has been crossed in our nation.”

“In recent years, we have seen the evil of African

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‘The myth that America was founded by and for white people is just that — a myth.’

LOS ANGELES ARCHBISHOP JOSE GOMEZ Americans being targeted in racist terror attacks, notably with the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. With El Paso, for the first time, a massacre has been carried out in the name of stopping Mexican migration,” Gomez noted.

“In Jesus Christ, there is no Mexican or black, no Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean or Filipino, no Russian or Italian, African or Salvadoran, no migrant or native-born,” the archbishop wrote, adding that human dignity must always be respected.

“The humanity of others is never negotiable. Men and women do not become less than human, less a child of God, because they are ‘undocumented.’

Yet, in our nation, it has become common to hear migrants talked about and treated as if they are somehow beneath caring about.”

Gomez noted other instances of “white nationalism and domestic terrorism,” including the intern-

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ment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, church bombings during the Jim Crow era, and the lynching of Mexicans in Texas in the 1920s.

“The myth that America was founded by and for white people is just that – a myth,” he wrote.

“This land was born as an encounter of cultures, first with Native Americans. Hispanics arrived in Texas in 1519. Asians started arriving in California about 50 years before the pilgrims made it to Plymouth Rock.”

Noting that Spanish was spoken in North America well before English was, Gomez added that “this country has always been renewed, again and again, by successive waves of immigrants from every nation on earth.”

In response to racism, the archbishop said, Catholics “need to help our society to see our common humanity – that we are all children of God, meant to live together as brothers and sisters, no matter the color of our skin, the language we speak, or the place we were born.”

“The way we honor the lives taken at El Paso is to live with true Christian love – and to live for the vision of America that their killer denied,” Gomez concluded.

“And let us implore our Blessed Mother to intercede for us, that we may build an America that is still a beacon of hope for peoples of every country, who look to this nation for refuge, for freedom and equality under God.”

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BOGOTA, Colombia – Bishops, nuns, priests and residents of the Amazon basin met in Colombia’s capital city in mid-August to prepare for a special Synod of Bishops for the Amazon this fall at the Vatican.

The meeting gave bishops who will be attending the synod a chance to develop proposals and listen to residents of the Amazon region before they head to the Vatican in October for the gathering. Similar presynod meetings have been held recently in Peru and Brazil.

Pope Francis “wants to give visibility to the people of the Amazon and listen to their concerns, their teachings, their spirituality,” said Bishop Joaquin Pinzon Guiza of Puerto Leguizamo-Solano, a vicariate deep in the world’s largest rainforest. “As bishops we don’t just want to take our thoughts to the synod, but also what lies within our peoples’ hearts.”

The synod, announced by Pope Francis in October 2017, will focus on how to improve the church’s work in the vast but sparsely populated Amazon biome, which

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sprawls across nine South American countries and is largely inhabited by indigenous groups.

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Before praying the Angelus with visitors gathCARDINAL: CHRIST’S LOVE GIVES HOPE TO THE FORGOTTEN ered in St. Peter’s Square Aug. 18, Pope Francis reVATICAN CITY– In a world where many are flected on the day’s Gospel reading (Luke 12:49-53) often marginalized and discriminated against, the in which Jesus says he has come “to set the earth message of Jesus’ love must continue to be proon fire” and to bring “division,” not peace. claimed, a Vatican official wrote on behalf of Pope What this means, the pope said, is Jesus has Francis. come to separate “good from evil, the just from In a message sent Aug. 16 to the 40th Meetthe unjust. In this respect, he has come to ‘divide,’ ing in Rimini, an annual event sponsored by the to spark a ‘crisis’ – in a healthy way – in the life Communion and Liberation movement, Cardinal of his disciples, shattering the simple illusions of Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said that thoseThe whoMost believeRequested they can combine Christian life countless men, women andof children, especially Funeral Directors in San The Most Requested Funeral Directors in the the Archdiocese Archdiocese of San Francisco Francisco and worldliness, Christian life and compromises those fleeing war and poverty, “are often treated

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One of the topics that will be discussed is the ordination of married men as priests in far-flung villages where Catholics are currently struggling to get sacraments, and even celebrate Sunday Mass, due to the scarcity of qualified church personnel.

Some church leaders have criticized the idea of ordaining married men, saying it presents a “breach” with apostolic tradition. But many at the Colombia session seemed to favor the move.

Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, told participants in the Colombia meeting: “The Eucharist is at the center of our faith, and Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI both said that, without it, you cannot build the church. ... We need to reflect on how to help our brothers in these poor and abandoned communities to be full members of the Catholic Church.”

He said the synod also will look at ways in which the Catholic Church can address social problems facing the Amazon region, like deforestation, destructive mining practices and threats against indigenous leaders.

as statistics and numbers” rather than as human beings with faces, names and stories.

The theme of the Aug. 18-24 meeting – “Your name was born from what you gazed upon” – was inspired by a poem written by St. John Paul II which referred to St. Veronica who, according to legend, wiped the face of Christ on his way toward Calvary.

“In an age where people are often faceless, anonymous figures because they have no one to look at, the poetry of St. John Paul II reminds us that we exist because we are connected,” Cardinal Parolin wrote.

Reflecting on the event’s theme, the Vatican secretary of state said that only by “fixing one’s gaze upon Jesus’ face and attaining familiarity with him” can Christians be purified and prepared “to look at everything with new eyes.”

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THURSDAY, AUG. 22 FUNDRAISER: A fundraising gala to build schools for the Santals, an Indian tribe who live with prejudice and poverty.

6-8:30 p.m. at Marin Country Club, 500 Country Club Drive, Novato. Visit triberisingindia.org for information; purchase tickets at triberisinggala.eventbrite.com.

DISCERNMENT MEETINGS Discerning a priestly vocation involves listening to God, learning about yourself and seeking the guidance of others. Join two priests of the archdiocese for on the first Monday or Thursday of the month for a program that includes eucharistic adoration followed by dinner and discussion in the rectory.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, AUG. 23-25 AUTOBIOGRAPHY RETREAT: A three-day retreat on writing autobiography led by Liz Dossa and Mercy Sister Bernadette Hart at Mercy Center Burlingame, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. Visit mercy-center.org or call (650) 340-7474.

SATURDAY, AUG. 24 FAITH FORMATION DAY: Workshop sessions for parents, catechists and others on keeping kids Catholic.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. at St. Denis Church, 2250 Avy Ave., Menlo Park. For more information, contact Lucy Soltau at lsoltau@stdenisparish.org.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, AUG. 24-25 YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING: A weekend workshop for young Catholics interested in leading retreats or youth group events for parishes or schools will be held at Point Bonita YMCA Center, 981 Fort Barry, Sausalito. $50 enrollment includes lodging, meals and materials. Contact Chris Mariano at (415) 614-5594 or marianoc@sfarch.org.

MONDAY, AUG. 26 PRAY FOR HONG KONG: The archdiocese will hold a prayer vigil for the people of Hong Kong, 6:30 p.m., St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St., San Francisco. (415) 614-5574.

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REPARATION & PEACE MASS: Father Joseph Illo, pastor, will celebrate an 8:30 a.m. Mass for Reparation and Peace in the World at Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. Contact Zonia Fasquelle at (650) 269-2121 or zoniafasquelle@gmail.com for more information.

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FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 13-15 PRAYING THE GOSPEL OF LUKE: An opportunity to pray with the major themes of Luke which offer a blueprint for living the faith at the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. For more information visit jrlosaltos.org or call (650) 917-4000.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 14-15 POST-ABORTION HEALING RETREAT: Project Rachel helps women and men heal from the pain of abortion and find peace and reconciliation. Held at a confidential site by Father Vito Perrone with the Contemplatives of St. Joseph with the Daughters of Carmel. Visit sfarchdiocese.org/rachel for more information. Sign up on the website or send an email to Projectrachel@sfarch.org.

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‘GREATNESS’ WORKSHOP: Speaker Jonathon Fanning presents an event based on Matthew Kelly’s book “The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic.”

6:30-10:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. $25 online at dynamiccatholic.com/sanfrancisco, or call (859) 980-7900.

FILIPINO MINISTRY ANNUAL GALA: A celebration of Filipino heritage and culture from 5:30-10:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral’s Patrons’ Hall, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. The Children’s Choir of St. Augustine Parish and Filipino-American youth dancers will be among the performers. For tickets or more information contact Estelle Oloresisimo at estelle. oloresisimo@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 5 ROSARY RALLY: Mass, eucharistic procession to U.N. Plaza, adoration and confessions are all part of the family rosary rally this year. 10 a.m.-12:45 p.m. starting at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. For information visit rosaryrallysf.com or call (415) 419-9477.

Pio of Pietrelcina, Italy, became a Capuchin friar at age 15. Eight years after he was ordained a priest in 1910, the five wounds of our Lord’s PasPadre Pio sion appeared on his body.

Physical and spiritual suffering accompanied him throughout his life and in 1956 he opened Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (“home for the relief of suffering”). Today it is one of Europe’s largest and most well-respected private research hospitals.

Padre Pio died in 1968 and was proclaimed a saint by Pope John Paul II in 2002.

YOUNG ADULT BALL: A semi-formal young adult (20-39) dance sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Santa Rosa from 7-10 p.m. at St. Hilary parish hall, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon. $20 in advance, $30 at the door. Contact Amanda George at georgea@sfarch.org or (415) 624-5595.

FRIDAY, OCT. 11

ther Peter Prusakiewicz, CMSA, a speaker on the Holy Angels, the Divine Mercy and St. Faustina, will lead a three-day parish mission at Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Includes daily Mass, talks, recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, confession, Adoration, and veneration of a first-class relic of St. Faustina. Visit stmichaelthearchangel.info for more information or contact Patsy Gonzalez at patsygee@ yahoo.com.

PRIESTS RETIREMENT LUNCHEON: The 9th Annual St. John Vianney luncheon supporting retired priests will take place from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. For more information, contact Rod Linhares, archdiocesan director of development, at (415) 614-5581.

SATURDAY, OCT. 12 PAX CHRISTI SPEAKER: Marie Dennis will talk about how the institutional Catholic Church can adopt active nonviolence as its Gospel-based default approach. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Newman Hall/ Holy Spirit Church, 2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley. Suggested $20-25 donation.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 22, 2019

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July HOLY CROSS, COLMA Alex Tenito Alcantara Julio Aldana Menjivar Fabian Raul Avalos Pastor B. Banias Christine Barbano Silvana Barragan Fe Rubio Bataclan Raymond Blair George M. Bonanno Diane J. Bromann Charles Wayne Brown Andrew C. Cajita May R. Cantwell Francisco F. Caranto Anthony P. Carolla Edgardo C. Casayuran Lena A. Castellotti Jane Catania Theodore L. Cerruti Josephine Chetcuti Gerald J. Colombo Thomas J. Cotter David Ross Cresto Jr. Paul John Crowley Manuel L. Cruz Margarita Cuevas Vincent Debono Mary Louise Degliantoni Yvonne J. Delclaux Joan Dimare Jennie Donnici Ingeborg G. Duranth Robert R. Duranth Richard J. Facciola Irene C. Farrell Jeanette V. Ferreira Rosenda B. Ferrer Thomas A. Flowers Griselda Casillas Fontes Saul Edgardo Fuentes Helen Fuentes Jerome Enrique S. Gacula Linda Giannecchini James J. Gleeson Deirdre Glick Veronica Glick Sal Gonzalez Robert James Halcro Halina Hamerlak Mary L. Han Robert Sucheil Hendricks Dorianne Adel Herrera

Vincent A. Jones Jr. Walter Jong Martin Juarbe David Edward Keith Emma A. Kirkham Carolyn M. Kleyn Laura Rodriguez Krupp Herman J. Lauterkorn Lena “Même” LeBihan Rosemary Levine Amy Michelle Lie Melanie Limu Shirley Marasco Al M. Marinai William J. McCarthy Patricia A. McCarthy Ellen McGibben David John Monfredini Patricia Morazan Moore Khail Naim Muhawiyeh Shau Mui Virginia Narciso John J. Nerney Pauline Nicola Anna Maria O’Connor Gaspar T. Ochosa Toafitu Olomua Abdon Ortiz Daniel Gene Park Cornelio “Nel” C. Pascual Darryl Francesco Perna Harold A. Petrocchi, Sr. Caridad M. Pillazar Alice E. Puccetti Federica Camacho Ramos Lorraine Martha Rapp Charles E. Re Marianne E. Reichel Josephine Agnes Revilla Dalmacio Reyes, Jr. Patrick J. Rocks Teresita A. Roxas Carmen Haydee Rubero Francine Sallaberry Julia Sarracino Bart A. Scanlon Danile Lee Siewert Christine M. Sigillo Edward M. Silvia Teresita P. Solis Vanessa M. Soriano Alice Stuehmeyer Delia Styles Malia Koleti Tau Shirley F. Terry

Mary Whittle Tipton Margarita Vinluan Tomas Barbara Tomasello Edward Francis Toner Aurora M. Versoza Mary Frances Ware Matilda Watso Patricia Ann West Charles F. Xuereb Ascuncion Ynostroza

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William Martin Poncia, Jr.

Nancy Louise Cottrell Helen Theresa De Carlo George A. Grasso Margaret M. Marks Grasso Noel F. McCarthy Donald J. Miller

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Felipe G. Andrade John Lincoln Burke Tevita T. Faleofa Douglas E. Hewitt Renee E. Hewitt Lillian Edith Garcia Leon Judy A. Lucier Dr. Max Richard Tarmann Steven Graham Taylor

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS Saturday, September 7, 2019 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev Msgr C. Michael Padazinski, JCD, Celebrant Chancellor and Judicial Vicar, Archdiocese of San Francisco St. Patrick, Larkspur

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

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