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Archdiocese welcomes 10 to priestly formation NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Ten men from the Archdiocese of San Francisco began seminary studies this year, the largest group of new archdiocesan seminarians in years. Including them, the archdiocese now has 17 men in formation.

The seminarians come from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, and several of them moved to the archdiocese before discerning the call to priesthood.

David Sandler was the director of religious education at St. Anthony, Novato before entering seminary. After spending “a beautiful year” there, “It became very clear that the Lord was calling me beyond a life of youth and young adult ministry and into a life of serving his church fully,” he said.

Leandro Calingasan and Stephen Unachukwu, from St. Augustine Parish and St. Mary’s Cathedral respectively, attended seminary before they immigrated to the United States and discerned the call to priesthood again.

Emmanuel Gutierrez, St. Charles, San Carlos, worked in construction for a decade. Cameron Sellers, Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park, retired as a colonel after more than three decades of service in the U.S. Army and spent time working in a legislative office.

Other seminarians worked in information technology, courier service, a movie theater and In-N-Out Burger before joining seminary.

The increase in men discerning a priestly vocation is a boon for the archdiocese, which like much of the U.S. church has struggled with vocations.

Last summer, the archdiocese hit a 20year low in the number of its seminarians in formation. In the past five years, the archdiocese has not enrolled more than three applicants in a single year.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, flanked by Jesuit Father John Piderit and Father Michael Rocha, leads a eucharistic procession from Civic Center Plaza to St. Mary’s Cathedral Sept. 20. The archbishop held the march to protest San Francisco’s limits on public worship and called for equal treatment in it’s reopening plan. Under current rules, churches may have only one visitor inside and 50 for outdoor services.

Archbishop Cordileone: San Francisco Mass restrictions ‘mocking God’ witness to our faith and to the primacy “unrealistic and suffocating,” and said Catholics in San Francisco have been of God and to tell City Hall, no more,” discriminated against as the city loosArchbishop Cordileone said. ens its restrictions on public activities.

The archbishop invited Catholics to More than a thousand Catholics Indoor gyms, malls, nail salons, musejoin him for the procession Sept. 13, from around the Bay Area gathered ums, aquariums and grades K-6 have a few days after Mayor London Breed Sunday morning in San Francisco for all been approved to reopen, while an published a reopening plan that ala eucharistic procession to protest the archdiocesan coronavirus safety plan lowed for more indoor businesses to city’s restrictions on religious gathersubmitted in May has not received an resume but restricted worship sites to ings. Led by Archbishop Salvatore J. official response. one indoor visitor and up to 50 conCordileone, the crowd walked from The archbishop said he has met with gregants for services outdoors. Indoor Civic Center Plaza across from City city and county officials to advocate worship with up to 25 people could Hall to St. Mary’s Cathedral before for the ability to worship publicly resume by October, according to her spreading across the plaza and parkwithout result. “For months, City Hall plan. ing lots to attend one of 18 Masses ignored us, City Hall ignored you,” In a highly charged homily delivbeing offered.

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St. Agnes food pantry recipients defy definition LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The St. Agnes pantry in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district draws clients as varied in cultures, customs and circumstances as the eclectic neighborhood in which it stands.

Recipients of staples, snacks and, occasionally, gourmet goodies run the gamut: a historian who led city walking tours before the coronavirus shutdown; a former jeweler who grew up in an Italian villa; a photojournalist who trains canines for fun and funds; a bankrupt businessman who lives in his car with two dogs; an Army veteran who has stayed off narcotics, alcohol and the streets for over a year.

“I think people have a stereotype in mind when they picture people who use food banks, but there is none,” said Stan Flouride, 67, whose tours encompassed St. Agnes, San Francisco’s First Sanctuary Church and, for the past five months, his meal ticket.

“It’s a diverse crowd, all nationalities, races, ages, genders, backgrounds,” said gem specialist Roger Prather, 69, a greeter at the 8:30 a.m.

Mass intent on carrying on his ministry during the COVID-19 church closure by welcoming passersby.

Residing just a block away with his wife and son, the grandson of a wealthy Cartier protege drops by on an “as-needed” basis to pick up essentials because even after four decades in the business, “I didn’t retire with a big check.”

The villa where he spent a part of his childhood still stands, but “the money’s gone, the people (including his maternal grandfather, who owned stores in Paris, Milan and Naples) are gone, dead and buried,” Prather said.

Whatever the past stories and present situations, everyone benefits from a reliable source of nutrition, said 52-year-old Stephen, who requested his last name not be published.

“Services like this are a ‘win-win,’” said the dog-loving San Francisco State journalism graduate who signed up for the program when the lockdown locked him out of his job in mid-spring. “No one is harmed, and it can only help.”

It helped Bill Clarke, 63, who moved from apartment to auto in January after his restaurant went belly-up.

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The St. Agnes pantry has helped Bill Clarke, 63, who moved from apartment to auto in January after his restaurant went belly-up. Clarke is pictured in the Marina District on Sept. 16 carrying out volunteer duties to keep the neighborhood trash-free. because you never know what it’ll contain and how you’re going to use ingredients you may never have bought for yourself,” he said.

“I made a beautiful summer salad with great peaches and goat cheese and — can you believe it — honey roasted nuts!”

Knowing where his next meal is coming from has eased Clarke’s transition as he “figured out how to live this way.”

This way led the Brown University graduate in modern English and the American novel and studio art to helping maintain the neighborhood he calls home.

Each day, he makes three voluntary rounds of the Marina Green to pick up trash, the two Tibetan terriers he inherited from a deceased friend in tow.

“Keeping this beautiful park clean, which affects the quality of the bay and the habitat restoration for animals and fish that eat the garbage, is a huge cause for me,” said Clarke, who before his financial downfall occupied an entire floor of a building.

“My dream is to live on a boat, but I’ve gotten to a place that’s OK for now.”

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in a loving relationship for eight years, ensconced in an apartment one bus ride from St. Agnes, Ron Jones also thinks himself in a good place.

Assisted by a government pension for six years of military service in Germany, Jones stretches his food budget with weekly visits to the pantry.

“I like the area, I like the people, and I like the food,” he said, crediting the hefty portions of fruits, vegetables and other healthy fare with his “not looking at all like I’m 61!”

The steady supply of provisions keep his mind at peace and his body at the stove.

“I was homeless, living in cardboard boxes, camps, the whole nine yards, so I feel very fortunate to have a kitchen with a stove, microwave, big refrigerator, and I do lots of cooking,” said Jones, who considers applesauce meatloaf his specialty.

“I can get all the ingredients, except the ground beef, at the pantry.”

His affiliation with St. Agnes dates back to the years when, addicted and shelterless, he would stop by for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches the church distributed.

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Chess ministry: ‘Helping students discern their next move’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A retired special education teacher recently named coordinator of the archdiocese’s African American ethnic ministry sees chess as an academic, social and spiritual game changer for students today.

“When we speak about the philosophy of chess, I look at it just like life and how we discern and make decisions,” Chris Major told Catholic San Francisco during a visit to St. Raphael School Sept. 14.

A half dozen third graders stared intently at chess boards as two sixth graders jumped around a super-sized chess board rolled out on the school’s library floor. Major sat across from some of the players as coach.

The school is the first Catholic school in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to host his after-school chess ministry now serving about 50 students in Marin County.

In 2009, Major, launched the Novato Chess Club with a Rotary Club grant to help students from kindergarten through eighth grade become critical and independent thinkers better able to “plan their next move” in life.

(COURTESY PHOTO) He believes the game also helps Chris Major coaches a sixth grade student at St. Raphael School as her chess opponent during an students learn to communicate with after-school chess program. Major, the new African American ethnic ministries coordinator for the others, be gracious in victory and dearchdiocese, believes chess helps students develop youths’ ability to discern their next moves in life. feat and deal with the frustration and emotions that the game brings out.

Major, 59, is a former college baseball player at St. Mary’s College in Moraga who went on to teach special needs high school students before founding a Hayward Youth Academy, a nonprofit that offers academic and recreational enrichment programs to Bay Area families.

He came to chess late in life himself CHRIS MAJOR and believes the game has much to African American. Many, he said, were visions and “doesn’t need someone else offer today’s students of all racial, cul“crack babies” born out of the crack to dictate what his or her next move tural and economic backgrounds. cocaine epidemic of the 1980s with an will be.”

“We are losing a sense of task-orient“inability to connect with the human Still, chess is not just about winning ed young people with the ability to disworld.” for oneself. cern and reason their next move,” he The school had a game playing sched“The language of chess is one of sacsaid, and the ability to ask themselves ule that included chess, something rifice,” Major said. “It’s one of being a independently what they are going to part of a team for the goal of checkmat- Major admits he thought of at the time do next. “We see none of that today.” as “nonsense” and a “waste of time.”

Chess helps cultivate internal motiva- ing the other king but you can’t do that by yourself. You need the other pieces tion, among other things. on the board to help.”

“If I can get children to sit down like Major was raised Catholic and atthe third graders you see here and play tended St. Bede High School in Hayward a 40-minute game of chess, those kids before a baseball scholarship took are going to be able to sit down on their him to St. Mary’s College and later the own and do their homework, review University of San Francisco where he their homework and correct their earned a credential in special education. homework,” he said. was Thaddeus first exposed to chess in the He said that when “youThe startShrine that of St.He Jude 1990s at Skyline High School in Oakengine early with a child,” you develop (Dominican land Friars) where he taught emotionally a self-starter, a self-learner, a person disturbed kids, more than 70% of them who is goal-oriented and has his own

‘The language of chess is one of sacrifice. It’s one of being a part of a team for the goal of checkmating the other king but you can’t do that by yourself.

You need the other pieces on the board to help.’

“My heart was so closed,” he said.

“How can chess possibly help these African American kids that can’t even read?”

He didn’t think about chess again until 13 years later when a chance conversation with another man at a baseball game piqued his interest in learning the game. He literally Googled “learning chess,” found a 250-page document from the federal government and taught himself to play.

He founded Novato Chess Club soon after. He said his niche is teaching chess to children of all backgrounds and abilities.

In addition to running his nonprofit and his new appointment as African American ethnic ministry coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Major is in his fourth year of formation in the permanent diaconate.

“They (the archdiocese) need a face out there right now that speak about unity,” he said.

Major said his parents raised their children to conform to a society of values that were “normative” and did not want them to be overly engaged in racial identity issues and perpetuating negative stereotypes.

“They always wanted us to act in accordance with right values,” he said.

“I think how we show ourselves in our words, our deeds, our gestures and mannerisms are more what we should be defining ourselves than our color.”

Major said that despite that upbringing, he didn’t always live up to that coda.

“I went through a period of my life when I wasn’t that person who my mother would be proud of,” he said.

Major would like to help other Catholic schools start an after-school chess program and envisions an archdiocesan-wide chess tournament.

“I can’t do this program by myself,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to because I think it’s too beautiful to sit in isolation.”

St. Raphael School is the host of a onehour virtual chess class offered by the Archdiocese of San Francisco Ethnic Ministries Chess Club every Wednesday at 4 p.m. until Nov. 19. The class is open to any student in the archdiocese. Email cmajoredu@gmail.com.

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CSF survey reveals sources, toll of 2020’s multiple stressors CHRISTINA GRAY

COPING IN FAITH AND LIFE IN 2020

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Personal health fears over COVID-19, long-term isolation from family and friends, a polarized political and social landscape, and inability to find solace in public Mass and sacraments are the top sources of stress and anxiety for Catholic San Francisco readers in 2020.

The paper sent a four-question, open-ended survey to its nearly 5,000 digital newsletter subscribers Sept.

11 seeking insight into how local Catholics are coping with a pileup of concurring realities in 2020. This includes the coronavirus pandemic, which is now in its sixth month and has claimed almost 200,000 U.S. lives, a crippled economy, a deeply divided political and social landscape, record-breaking heat waves, wildfires and smoke-clogged skies.

Almost 200 people responded to the anonymous survey.

Respondents were asked to name their single-greatest source of anxiety and stress in 2020, to describe any physical or emotional toll the year’s events might be taking on them, and to share what they are doing to maintain or manage their well-being. It also asked how the Catholic community can better support them.

Isolation, loneliness tops list

A quarter (51) of the survey respondents listed longtime separation from friends and family and the absence of social opportunities as a major source of discontent, even despondency.

This was particularly noted by seniors and other populations most at-risk of severe illness or death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention.

One 82-year-old respondent said she hasn’t seen her husband since March. He has been in and out of local hospitals and nursing homes, which restrict visitors to prevent the spread of the virus.

“Not being able to go to the nursing home and see [her husband] has been the most stressful time of my entire life,” she wrote.

Not being able to travel to be with loved ones and remaining largely at home with no clear end in sight has had a despairing effect on some.

“Being alone at home causes me to lose care of myself and my home,” said one respondent.

Physical touch – handshakes, hugs, holding hands as a normal part of life – were all mentioned.

“Not being able to show affection has been the hardest,” said one respondent. “Hugs, which are so important for our mental health.”

Several respondents said that differing opinions about the need to adhere to health recommendations, for example, mask wearing and social distancing, were causing rifts between friends.

“My self-quarantine has another friend angry with me because I am too restrictive to meet up inside buildings, plus carpooling or public transit options,” she said.

Political and social division

Fear of contracting the coronavirus or giving it to a

Here are sample responses from the Sept. 11 CSF newsletter subscriber survey.

“Not being able to show affection has been the hardest. Hugs, which are so important for our mental health.”

“My self-quarantine has another friend angry with me because I am too restrictive to meet up inside buildings, plus carpooling or public transit options.”

(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)

An elderly woman’s hands are seen in this March 2020 photo.

Many residents of nursing facilities are isolated because of COVID-19. One respondent to a Catholic San Francisco survey on coping in 2020 mentioned that not being able to visit her husband in the nursing home where he lives has been the most painful reality of the pandemic.

loved one was a top source of stress for nearly a quarter of respondents. Self-protection and worry about loved ones was a preoccupation for several.

“I have a fear of getting ill so much that I regret being rude to those close to me,” said one respondent.

“I am concerned for my adult children who have serious multiple disabilities getting the COVID-19 virus,” said another.

Some expressed anger at those actively not social distancing or wearing masks.

“Their lack of cooperation is dragging this pandemic out way longer than it should be,” said one respondent.

“The surge of infection cases is all because some people insist on not wearing masks and insist on not following distance protocols,” another said.

Bitter political divide

The second-most frequently noted source of stress and anxiety was neither health concerns nor the wobbly economy nor educating children at home. It was politics. Polarized political, social and religious views were expressed in frustrated and even bitter terms.

“Living each day under the callousness and lies of Donald J. Trump,” said one respondent in a sentiment repeated by slightly more than half of the 29 respondents who spoke about politics.

Another respondent bemoaned the current administration’s “relentless attacks on the environment, the justice system, science, the health care system, the press, voting rights, the post office, decency in civil discourse and the poor and the oppressed.”

There were a nearly equal number of views directed at the other side of the political divide.

One respondent decried “left-wing politicians allowing the destruction of our cities.”

Several lambasted the “tyranny” of state and local government leadership response to the pandemic, which “illegally takes away our civil liberties, micromanages our lives, forces us to wear useless masks, dictates to our churches, makes everyone frightened

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“My single greatest stress has been not being able to go to Mass and receive the Eucharist.”

“I have never felt so apart from those close to me. The political scene is insane and causing close friendships to wane.” of each other when the virus is not as deadly anymore, ignores the early treatments, shuts down small businesses and allows leftist riots.”

Religious restrictions offer no salve

More than a quarter of respondents said that the closure of archdiocesan churches to public Masses and the abrupt cessation of normal parish life has added insult to the injury of a public health crisis.

“My single greatest stress has been not being able to go to Mass and receive the Eucharist,” said one respondent.

“Locked parish doors,” said another.

Anger was also expressed.

“Why haven’t the bishops filed suit to force the opening of churches?” one man asked. “My wife and I are tired of TV Mass but thank God we have that.”

Compounded stressors

About a dozen respondents spoke to the compound anxiety of living with so many dramatic changes and fears at one time.

“There isn’t one thing,” said one person. “It’s the unrelenting combo of all of the problems.”

Another said it seemed like “a major catastrophe or incident is happening almost every day.”

“So many bad things are happening that I just keep wondering what the next bad thing will be.

Physical challenges, emotional resilience

When asked if the individual or collective events of this year have affected their physical or emotional wellbeing, respondents for the most part answered yes and no, in that order.

Most said their physical health was slightly worse now than at the beginning of the year. With more time spent inside, reduced ability to exercise and a tendency to overeat out of stress many said they’d gained weight, slept poorly and felt lethargic.

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ARCHBISHOP: San Francisco Mass restrictions ‘mocking God’ FROM PAGE 1

that they just don’t care about you. To them, you are nothing. To them, you don’t matter.”

The single visitor limit on a building like the 2,500-person capacity St. Mary’s Cathedral is“an insult” and “a mockery,” done out of a desire “to put Catholics at the back of the line,” he said.

“Our people are hurting because they cannot come to church, they cannot receive the sacraments, they cannot exercise their natural right, protected by the First Amendment, to worship without suffering punishment from our city,” he said.

Archbishop Cordileone encouraged Catholics to continue to be strong in their faith and practice love for the poor, and requested the archdiocesan faithful to continue to live out the consecration to the Immaculate Heart by praying the rosary, adoring the Eucharist, fasting and going to confession.

In closing his homily, the archbishop called on Catholics “to continue to exercise responsible citizenship, to abide by reasonable public health rules and to continue to serve our community despite the mockery to which we are being subject in so many different ways.”

The day began with several hundred Catholics walking in a eucharistic procession from St. Anthony of Padua Church in the Mission District to Civic Center Plaza, where hundreds more Catholics from the archdiocese and Bay Area had gathered. A mix of printed and handmade signs dotted the crowd, along with large banners in English and Spanish that said “We are essential: Free the Mass!”

Clemente Silva, a parishioner of St. Peter Church in the Mission District, said “Let them open the churches to us because our children need to continue with faith in God.” He and his wife Erica, and their children Perla, Lupe, Alison and Deren joined the eucharistic procession.

“The government does not listen to us, so we have to go out to protest and let the government see that we really need our faith, and to make ourselves visible because we are many,” he said.

“As you can see we are thousands of people who want the church open again.”

St. Dominic parishioner Joseph Stillwell said, “the restrictions should be lifted in accordance with actual scientific data, so basic social distancing with a percentage of capacity. What’s important is that the restrictions are not discriminatory, especially as things reopen.”

Archbishop Cordileone has been arguing that religious groups should receive accommodations similar to other reopened activities in San Francisco, which tend to open with limited capacity rather than capped numbers.

San Francisco has reopened at a more conservative pace than many other counties in the state: Until Sept.

14, outdoor religious gatherings were limited to 12 persons. Additional guidance from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health released Sept.

14 prohibits hosting simultaneous outdoor religious services, like those the cathedral has held since Aug. 15.

California Department of Public Health guidance on coronavirus reopening limits indoor attendance at worship services to either 100 people or 25% of building capacity. The CDPH recommends outdoor services should

Catholics march through the Mission District in San Francisco Sept. 20 in a eucharistic procession to urge city officials to further ease limits on worship attendance, saying the Eucharist should be considered an essential service. In an effort called

by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone to highlight what he said is unfair application of pandmic public health guidelines on worship gatherings, Catholics processed from Civic Center Plaza to St. Mary’s Cathedral. In addition to the procession from the Mission, Catholics departed from other parishes including St. Patrick, right, and St. Dominic. More than 1,000 Catholics gathered at Civic Center Plaza at 10 a.m. before processing to St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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Catholics gathered at Civic Center Plaza before heading north to St. Mary’s Cathedral, which had 18 physically distanced Masses spread out on its grounds. In his homily, Archbishop Cordileone repeatedly alleged San Francisco officials were discriminating against Catholics and argued that indoor worship should receive equal treatment as the city allows indoor activities to resume. follow safety protocols, including mask wearing and physical distancing.

Diocese of San Jose Bishop Oscar Cantú supported the archbishop in a statement, saying that he supports public health restrictions, but those in San Francisco have been “uniquely severe.”

“As the rest of the state, including our own county, was safely lowering the restrictions on gatherings, the county and city of San Francisco was not,” he said.

Bishop Michael C. Barber of Oakland also condemned San Francisco’s “draconian” measures in his newspaper column in the Catholic Voice, expressing his concern that churches in the city “be treated fairly with regard to indoor

gatherings permitted to other groups of our size.”

After Archbishop Cordileone criticized the restrictions on Mass in a Washington Post editorial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “With all due respect to my archbishop, I think we should follow science on this.”

Pelosi said she misses going to Mass regularly but said attendance should be “scientifically safe, rather than jeopardizing people’s health if they want to go to church.”

In a response published on the archdiocesan website Sept. 19, Archbishop Cordileone pointed to a recent article by three doctors arguing that church

services that follow public health guidelines are not a greater risk for COVID-19 outbreaks than other similar activities.

“There is no science that says only one person should be allowed to pray in churches such as the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, which seats 2,500 people,” he said. “There’s only one explanation for such a rule: a dislike of the Catholic Church.”

With museums being allowed to open with 25% of capacity, he said, “Why won’t the City and County of San Francisco treat Catholics – at a minimum – the same?”

Lorena Rojas contributed.

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San Francisco parish working to build a hospital in Kenya CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Father Mathias Wambua, born in Kenya and raised in Nairobi, serves as a parochial vicar at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco and leads an effort to establish a medical clinic in Kitengela, a poor neighborhood outside Nairobi.

Father Wambua, who has served in some desperately poor areas around Kenya’s capital city, brought the message of the poor’s reduced access to health care in Kenya, to Star of the Sea pastor Father Joseph Illo and the faithful of the parish, asking their support in establishing a clinic.

“Father Illo led the parish to adopt this project as a long-term missionary endeavor, to share a portion of the abundance God has given us with our brethren in Kenya,” said Mariella Zevallos, director of communications and parish life at Star of the Sea. “Parishioners now support Star of the Sea Medical Services in Kitengela with prayers, medical supplies, and construction funding,” she said. “The goodwill of Father Illo and all parish clergy, the faithful at Star of the Sea, as well as many from beyond the parish, have spread the merciful work of Jesus Christ to a people at the other end of the world from us.”

The clinic is situated on the outskirts of Kitengela town, which is part of the larger Kajiado county in Kenya. Its main tourist attraction is wildlife. In 2021, Star of the Sea parishioners will spend two weeks in a working visit to the clinic.

“Although there are several hospitals and health centers in Kajiado county, the state of health care in the rural areas is in deplorable shape,” Zevallos said.

“Residents walk for long distances to access medical facilities. Many are not able to afford any health care.”

ABOUT KITENGELA, KENYA Kitengela town, where Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco is helping build a medical clinic for poor residents, is part of the larger Kajiado county in Kenya bordering Nairobi and extending south to the Tanzanian border. With a population of nearly 700,000, Kajiado county is one of the 47 counties in Kenya in the former Rift Valley province.

The Maasai tribe initially occupied Kajiado, but other Kenyan peoples as well as foreigners have since moved in. The Maasai are nomadic cattle herders, although some members of this community practice subsistence agriculture.

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Father Mathias Wambua is pictured with patients and a physician in front of Kitengela Star of the Sea Medical Services in 2017 when the clinic opened and was blessed by Father Wambua. The clinic has been a breakthrough in medical care for the poor of the neighborhood near Nairobi, Kenya. Parishioners of Star of the Sea hope it is a precursor to a hospital they are currently collecting funds to build.

Kitengela Star of the Sea Medical Services sees an average of 28 patients daily on an outpatient basis, with maternity and child welfare services receiving

an increasing number of clients since the onset of the pandemic. Many households lack basic amenities like food and proper shelter since most workers lost their jobs. The facility staff have been going an extra mile to offer free door to door medical check-ups to those living around the medical clinic.

In August 2020, Star of the Sea entered a new phase of its African mission, building a hospital in Kitengela, Zevallos said. Supporters have purchased two parcels for the hospital planned as a seven-story building with 80 beds.

For information about the Star of the Sea Hospital Project in Kenya, visit www.starparish.com.

Father Mathias Wambua, Father Joseph Illo and Mariella Zevallos contributed to this article.

Archdiocesan survey gives snapshot of parish attitudes NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The results of an Archdiocese of San Francisco survey of parishioner demographics and opinions are almost ready to be delivered, offering pastors and parish leadership a new tool to use in directing parish ministry.

Rob Graffio, archdiocesan vice chancellor and tribunal manager, last year partnered with Rod Linhares, archdiocesan development director, to produce the anonymous survey and organize its results.

Parishioners were asked a mix of multiple-choice and open-ended questions in English and Spanish about household size and age, frequency of Mass attendance, spiritual practices and what they like about their parish. The survey also solicited opinions about why

some Catholics did not practice their faith and how the church falls short.

Out of 30,000 surveys that were placed in parishes last December, nearly 14,000 were returned. Graffio said “We were very pleased with the response rate, it was much higher than we expected.”

Linhares agreed, calling the high participation rate a sign of “the depth of feeling, passion and commitment that people have to their church.”

Each parish that participated will receive a two page summary of their parishioners’ responses, which Graffio and Linhares hope will help inform parish decision making.

“Our goal is to make it information that can be brought back to parishioners so they can act on it if they want,” Linhares said.

The surveys generally indicated deep levels of commitment by parishioners,

Linhares said. Survey respondents cited hearing God’s word and receiving the Eucharist as the top two reasons for attending Mass. They usually reported that their parishes were caring, welcoming communities, and that liked their parish priest. On the other hand, many respondents felt other parishes, or the Catholic Church in general, were not as welcoming.

The survey, which came out of a desire to better understand Mass counts in the archdiocese, also asked respondents why they thought Catholics did not attend Mass or practice their faith. Linhares said some common responses were that non-practicing Catholics did not know enough about the church and what it believes, that the church is too rigid or not

welcoming enough, and that the church is sexist toward women.

The survey showed the sexual abuse scandals continue to haunt the church.

Many respondents cited the scandals as a reason Catholics they knew did not come to church, and the church’s response to the scandals was cited as a way it has “fallen short.”

Regardless of theological divisions in the church, the scandals are “still fresh in the minds of many people,” Graffio said, with many embittered at “the lack of transparency, because they don’t feel the church has revealed what it should.”

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Pandemic must be ‘turning point,’ Texas archbishop says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SAN ANTONIO – Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio said that “we do not know exactly what God has in store for us,” but he hopes that while “we wait and work” for this COVID-19 crisis to be over, it will not “just be an episode in history from which we recovered.”

Instead, it must be “a turning point that we embraced allowing God to heal and transform each one of us, Archbishop our archdiocese and the whole world Gustavo Garciainto something better,” he said before Siller promulgating a new pastoral during a Mass at San Fernando Cathedral Sept.

14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

The pastoral, which is in English and Spanish, is titled “Transformed by Hope, Let Us Rebuild Our Tomorrow!” and addressed to all the people of the Archdiocese of San Antonio.

“In this challenging time, we ask the Holy Spirit to grant us freedom in spirit, in order to loosen ties and hold-backs that prevent our souls from flying toward the divine,” he said before signing the pastoral at the Mass, attended by ministry representatives from various institutions – primarily educational entities – in the archdiocese.

“We pray humbly and constantly for the virtue of fortitude, a gift of the Holy Spirit that is rooted in trust,” Archbishop García-Siller he said.

Copies of the pastoral letter will be distributed to parishes of the archdiocese as well as Catholic schools.

It also is available on the archdiocesan website, www. archsa.org, and on archdiocesan social media outlets.

The 38-page document states: “Ignited by the Holy Spirit who dwells in our hearts, let us dive into the

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dynamics of the current times! Let us come in closer spiritual contact with God and with one another!

“Let us recognize and caress the face of the Lord – whom we adore – in the flesh of every suffering brother or sister. And may our perception, thoughts, feelings and actions become a channel of God’s love for his children. Ven, Holy Spirit, Ven!” Archbishop García-Siller in the pastoral said that so many have suffered in numerous ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have lost their lives, millions have suffered from the illness or have lost dear ones. Countless more are currently undergoing financial turmoil, necessary seclusion or find themselves facing varied causes of seemingly unbearable distress,” he said.

The archbishop said he was “particularly heartbroken” by how the pandemic has exacerbated the “neglect and abandonment” experienced by the marginalized in society, those who are looked on “with indifference or disdain,” who lack access to health care, food and shelter and have other hardships – all of which has been made worse by the pandemic.

As the scientific community works on a COVID vaccine, “we must also cure a larger virus, that of social injustice, inequality of opportunity, marginalization and the lack of protection for the weakest,” he said quoting Pope Francis from his Aug. 19 general audience.

More than ever immigrants “are being treated in less than human ways in many dimensions of our social life, including the legal system,” he said, and “some ethnic groups are suffering more than others.”

“Unequal opportunities and services, stereotypes and prejudices, still tremendously affect the way African American communities are generally treated, as opposed to most people of Western European descent,” he continued. “The same can be said about Native American groups, Hispanics and others.”

During this time, he said, an increased number of people of East Asian and Pacific Island heritage, “have been mocked, bullied and assaulted.”

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The “tremendous recession” caused by the pandemic “has caused further exposed grave deficiencies in our economic system,” leading more low-income people and the middle class to struggle financially, while the rich get richer, he said.

He expressed concern the pandemic and the suffering it has caused have led some to promote “the business of abortion and euthanasia,” with the latter being used to deprive the elderly and the terminally ill of the natural end to their pilgrimage due to a lost sense of the meaning of life in their suffering, and because their treatments are considered too costly by people who care more about their own profit.”

Archbishop García-Siller also called it scandalous some use fetal cell lines taken from aborted babies for research purposes, including trying to develop a COVID vaccine.

He pointed to other important problems drawing attention during the last few months, including the “brutality of some police officers and its frequent connection with racism.”

“Legitimate indignation has triggered demonstrations, which have been infiltrated by violent agitators and ideological agendas. In addition to that, we have witnessed the desecration and destruction of religious and historic symbols,” he added.

“In one way or another the pandemic is affecting the whole world. ... There are undoubtedly some very unique challenges,” he said.

“We are all called to share each other’s burdens as well as their joys. ‘We are in this together’ is a common hope expressed these days,” he added.

During this time “not only is God’s grace readily available for us ... but perhaps the circumstances to which the pandemic is forcing us can be used as opportunities to get to know ourselves, God and the people around us better, in new and different ways, as we grow spiritually,” he said.

“It is a paradox that now that many people cannot go out, we can make a trip inside ourselves,” he added.

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STUDIES: ADSF’s 10 new men in priestly preparation FROM PAGE 1

A year ago, 10 new seminarians would have seemed “an impossible number. It wouldn’t have made any sense,” vocations director Father Cameron Faller said. “It’s a powerful story of the power of prayer.”

The vocations office has emphasized the importance of praying for vocations. In 2018, the vocations office organized Holy Hours throughout the archdiocese when it had no seminarians to ordain to the priesthood that year. Religious orders, priests, parishes and laity in the archdiocese have all been encouraged to dedicate time to pray for new vocations.

“We’re grateful for the prayer warriors in every parish. Their prayers don’t go unanswered,” he said.

A connection with a friendly priest also makes a

difference, Father Faller said. Each of the seminarians “would say there was a priest who helped them during their discernment,” he said.

When asked what advice he would give to men thinking about applying to the seminary, seminarian Jeff Yano, Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park, said “Listen, pray, and get in touch with priests, spiritual directors, even friends and family who can help you properly discern.” Christian Badilla, St. Kevin’s, said “If your decision brings you peace then that is your answer. Do not get discouraged and always pray even if you don’t feel like it or if prayer is dry.”

Two of the new seminarians attend Bishop White Seminary in Spokane, Washington; two have been given parish assignments in the archdiocese, and six go to St. Patrick’s Seminary & University Menlo Park.

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to live out the archdiocese’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart, which Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led in 2017. About 40% of respondents said they had begun praying the rosary on their own after the consecration, and 20% began praying the rosary as a family.

Graffio said “we definitely see here in the archdiocese the distinctive Catholic practice of saying the rosary, and it seems to be a fruit of the consecration year.”

Twenty-five percent of parishioners said in response to the consecration they took up praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament regularly, and 12% now abstain from eating meat on Fridays year-round.

Linhares noted that a number of respondents, however, were not even aware of the 2017 consecration.

About half of respondents get their news about the Catholic Church from Catholic San Francisco or San Francisco Católico. The second most popular source of news about the church is the parish website, (30%), which Linhares said highlights the importance of a parish’s online presence. A fifth of parishioners indicated they get their Catholic news from social media and 6% said they go to other media companies for news.

Graffio and Linhares said the results would be sent to parishes soon and they would also present their findings to the presbyteral council. “It’s up to them if they want to do anything further, but it could be a stimulus for further pastoral action,” Graffio said.

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California bishops launch anti-racism initiative ANN RODGERS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES – The Catholic bishops of California have announced a yearlong initiative to address personal and systemic racism, both in the church and wider society.

After a Sept. 9 Zoom conference with African American Catholic leaders from their state, the California bishops released a statement pledging to “begin a journey aimed at converting our hearts to more fully understand the extent and nature of the sin of racism in ourselves, our church and our nation. This journey is intended to offer tangible change.”

The meeting and announcement occurred on the feast of St. Peter Claver, which many dioceses – including all in California – observed as a day of prayer and fasting to end racism. St. Peter Claver was a 17thcentury Spanish Jesuit who ministered to enslaved Africans in the Caribbean.

The 25 diocesan and auxiliary bishops of California spent three hours listening to three African American Catholic leaders, two laywomen and a priest, who recounted the racism they had experienced inside and outside the church.

“The people shared from their heart. Some of the things were pretty tough to listen to,” said Steve Pehanich, director of communications and advocacy for the California Catholic Conference.

As an example of everyday slights, a high-ranking employee in a Catholic institution spoke of recently moving to a well-to-do community, where her new neighbors asked if she was the nanny, he said.

Although some stories reflected badly on the church, “the bishops were touched. There were some tears. There were some hard to bear moments, but I think they really appreciated it,” Pehanich said.

The California initiative will unfold in three phases: listening, dialogue and action. It was important to the bishops “to listen before we jump to solutions and act as if we know the answer,” Pehanich said.

Listening sessions at the parish, diocesan and statewide levels “will be designed to understand the impact on individuals of racism in our nation, our society, and our church so we can address it and eliminate it wherever we can,” the bishops wrote.

All Catholics in California will then be urged to use the knowledge gained from those sessions as the basis for dialogues that include African-Americans.

Finally, in 2021, “we will implement strategies that root out racist thinking and practices and foster a ‘culture of encounter’ within all aspects of our dioceses, parishes, places of education and homes.”

The initiative is a response to the nationwide protests that followed the May 25 death of George Floyd.

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People in Pasadena take part in a vigil for George Floyd June 2, 2020. Demonstrations continue after a white police officer in Minnesota was caught on a bystander’s video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, an African American, who was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

The African American man, who a store employee had accused of spending a counterfeit $20 bill, died after a white Minneapolis police office knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. He was declared dead later at the hospital.

The outline for the bishops’ initiative draws on church teaching. It quotes an encyclical of St. John Paul II, “Sollicitudo Rei Socialis” (“On Social Concerns”), which urged Catholics to address both personal sin and the “structures of sin” that sinful people create. The anti-racism initiative also cites the U.S. bishops’ guidance on political engagement, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” which identifies racism as a violation of human dignity that can never be justified.

The goal is to create an ongoing culture in which racism will be neither practiced nor ignored, and in which racial reconciliation can occur.

“We must bring about a change of heart and cultivate new habits of the heart that will transform our

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communities with the wisdom and mercy of Jesus,” the bishops wrote.

The process “must necessarily begin for each of us with a personal reflection,” the bishops wrote.

“First, we resolve to listen to African American men, women and children from our Catholic community and beyond. To this end, we are committing to listening sessions to start the process of formulating an action plan. These sessions will be designed to understand the impact on individuals of racism in our nation, our society and our church so that we can address it and eliminate it wherever we can. These sessions will take place at the parish, diocesan and state level.

“Second, we resolve to dialogue. We will then urge all Catholics in our state to take the results of these sessions and hold fruitful dialogue sessions on the sin of racism – as individuals, as a society and as a church. This dialogue may include members of the African American community but should take place in all homes, parishes, small faith communities and other Catholic organizations. It should include religious and laity, students and teachers, young and old.

“Finally, we resolve to act,” the bishops continued. “Assembling what has been shared during the months of listening and dialogue, in 2021 we will implement strategies that root out racist thinking and practices and foster a “culture of encounter” within all aspects of our dioceses, parishes, places of education and homes.”

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Teens’ religious practice less than that of their parents, study says MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A Pew Research Center study released in September shows that teens’ religious practice is less than that of their parents. The lessened observance cuts across all denominational lines.

And religious practice by adults, the study noted, has itself declined in recent decades.

One key finding of the report is that 43% of parents said religion is “very important in their lives,” and that, of teens ages 13-17, only 24% feel the same.

Surveys were taken of 1,811 adults who had given Pew permission for one of their teen children to later take the same survey. The surveys were conducted in April-June 2019, long before the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Christina Lamas, executive director of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry, told Catholic News Service that she finds it hard to square the figures in the Pew report with what she sees at her organization’s biennial conventions in Indianapolis.

“When you’re able to witness the fire and engagement of 20,000 young people ... who are sharing on social media about their relationship with God, it’s hard to process what the statistics are saying with what we’re witnessing,” Lamas said.

She took some comfort in one finding from Pew that 47% of Hispanic teens identify as Catholic.

“Faith is very much embedded into the culture of the community,” Lamas said. “In Hispanic families, God and religious practices are lived out daily. It’s part of who the individual is, not separate. I can see why the specifics are higher among Hispanic families, absolutely.”

Still, she is cognizant of societal forces that can erode strength in Catholic belief and practice. NFCYM

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Teens pray during adoration at a “Life is VERY Good” event at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia, Jan. 23, 2020. A Pew Research Center study released in September shows that teens’ religious practice is less than that of their parents.

Lamas said what happens as dioceses and parishes relax pandemic restrictions on Mass attendance and parish participation will bear watching. “Over the next coming months, I think it’s going to be critical,” she added, noting a quote from the Pew report about how attendance at religious services “tends to be a family activity.”

But a poll of young adults ages 18-35 released Sept.

14 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate found that, while 51% said they intend to go to Mass as much as before once restrictions are lifted, 36% said they would attend less frequently, with 14% reporting they would go more often. The poll also showed only about 25% having watched Mass online since pandemic-necessitated streaming of Mass and other religious services began in earnest.

has had in its toolbox for the past 15 years an initiative called Strong Catholic Families, designed to combat secularizing influences.

Lamas said NFCYM collaborated with the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, the National Catholic Educational Association and the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers in revisions to the program a few years ago.

The Pew study found that teens tend to follow the religious preferences of their parents, whatever they are. Only 17% said they are charting a different course.

Many teens reported that their parents encouraged them to attend worship services and other religious activities together; 21% said their parents did this “a lot.”

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Two Catholic women judges top Supreme Court short list CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Two Catholic women judges are on the short list of possible candidates to fill the vacant Supreme Court justice seat after the Sept. 18 death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The judges are Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate court judge in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa, a federal appeals court judge in Atlanta.

President Donald Trump told reporters the afternoon of Sept. 19, and rallygoers later that evening, that he intended to pick a Supreme Court nominee in the coming days, and it would likely be a woman.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, pledged hours after Ginsburg’s death that he would hold a vote on Trump’s nominee to fill the court vacancy despite blocking President Barack Obama’s nominee in 2016, after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death that February, because it was an election year.

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To move Trump’s nominee through the Senate would require a simple majority vote. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that if he wins the election, he should be the one to nominate Ginsburg’s successor.

One of the first names to emerge as possible contender for Ginsburg’s seat – raised while mourners were gathered on the steps of the court chanting, “RBG!” – was Barrett, a 48-year-old who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit Court, based in Chicago.

The judge, a former law professor at the University of Notre Dame and a mother of seven, is not an unknown.

She was viewed as a potential candidate for the nation’s high court in 2018 after Justice Anthony Kennedy retired,

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a slot that was filled by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Barrett, a former clerk for Scalia, was the focus of Senate grilling during her 2017 confirmation hearing to serve on the 7th Circuit, when she was asked about the impact her faith would have on her interpretation of the law.

At the time, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, told her: “The dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s a concern.”

Barrett responded: “It’s never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge’s personal convictions, whether they arise from faith or anywhere else, on the law.”

After this hearing, several Catholic leaders spoke out against the line of questioning used on her that focused on her faith.

Feinstein had referred to Barrett’s speeches and a 1998 article she wrote about the role of Catholic judges in death penalty cases. The senator questioned Barrett about upholding Roe v.

Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal.

When Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, asked Barrett if she considered herself an “orthodox” Catholic, Barrett said: “If you’re asking whether I take my faith seriously and am a faithful Catholic, I am. Although I would stress that my present church affiliation or my religious beliefs would not bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge.”

The other name that emerged as

short-list contender for the Supreme Court – and quickly gained traction as a potential election boost for Trump – was Lagoa, the 52-year-old Miami-born daughter of Cuban exiles.

Last year, Lagoa spoke at a Florida reception of the St. Thomas More Society after the annual Red Mass, which prays for lawyers and judges, at St. Anthony Church in Fort Lauderdale. She said her Catholic education instilled in her “an abiding faith in God that has grounded me and sustained me through the highs and lows of life.”

Lagoa, a judge of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit, asked the audience if “one could be a strong advocate for one’s client and still be a Catholic?” She answered the question by saying faith was “more than going to Mass every Sunday, and to me at least, it means having a personal relationship with God that in turn informs how we treat others.”

She also gave the example of St. Thomas More and said he shows how legal professionals should not compartmentalize professional lives from spiritual lives to justify a lapse in faith or moral conviction.

“Perhaps it starts with reminding ourselves, even when it is hardest, of the dignity of each human being – even the most difficult opposing counsel – and it also starts with reminding ourselves that none of us are perfect and that we ourselves can contribute to or exacerbate a difficult situation,” she said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Texas archdiocese formalizes Disaster Spiritual Care ministry JO ANN ZUÑIGA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

HOUSTON – When people see their homes destroyed by flood or other disaster that forces them into a shelter, they need someone to listen to them, said priests and deacons who serve on a newly formalized ministry recently approved by Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.

The archdiocesan Disaster Spiritual Care ministry so far has 18 priests and 34 deacons who have agreed to be assigned as needed to emergency shelters working in coordination with Red Cross and social services during hurricanes and other disasters, said Father Lucien “Luke” Millette.

First put into action informally in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in August 2017, Father Millette said he asked permission then to temporarily take leave of his office as vicar of the tribunal, which deals with annulments among other legal matters, so he could help in the shelters.

That request was approved and other priests, depending on their duties at their parishes, also went to the George R. Brown Convention Center and other shelters to help the thousands who had been displaced.

“Established by the cardinal, this pastoral care group will respond to any type of large-scale disaster that cannot be handled by a single parish. In addition to the usual training received by all pastoral ministers, our group will also receive additional training from the American Red Cross and the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation,” Father Millette said.

“When assisting others in the community outside our own faith, this ministry is not to be used for proselytizing, but as a way to provide psychological first aid by

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A man moves his flood-damaged sofas in Houston Sept. 3, 2017.

actively listening to them in their time of need,” he said.

In establishing rapport and relationships with people in shelters, Father Millette said their role is not to make assumptions on what is needed, but instead focus on what is in the hearts of those to whom they are ministering.

“One man, who had been in a shelter for a month and a half, said his main concern was having access to ice and cold water. That made him feel human and normal.

So each day on my way to the shelter, I would stop and get him a big cup of ice. Something that small can give people the strength to carry on,” the priest told the Texas Catholic Herald, the archdiocesan newspaper.

This ministry continued to develop after Hurricane Harvey when local clergy responded to the Santa Fe High School shooting in May 2018, going to hospitals and memorials to be there for families.

Then the group of priests and deacons also came

together to attend a memorial at Yates High School on behalf of former student and Houstonian George Floyd, who died while in the custody of police in Minneapolis May 25 of this year, said Father Italo Dell’Oro, archdiocesan director of Clergy Formation and Chaplaincy Services.

“We attended the memorial at the invitation of the Red Cross to provide a pastoral presence at the memorial. The event was respectful and peaceful after coming on the heels of protests,” he said.

Now in addition to the cardinal’s approval, the ministry has its own email group address to more quickly communicate and coordinate with each other.

Deacon Phillip Jackson, director of the archdiocese’s diaconate formation program, said deacons also were called upon to be part of the Disaster Spiritual Care ministry.

“It is a part of our charitable service to help those in need. We do not want to infringe upon the duties of the Red Cross, but we are there to be a presence where we are dispatched in the shelters,” Deacon Jackson said.

Having this ministry in place will allow more efficient assignments by coordinating which deacons and priests are available to travel to shelters despite any particular streets flooding, he said.

“Many of the questions that those in shelters have, we may not be able to directly answer. They always want to know when they can go home or how can they have access to their medication. We can find out answers to those questions for them, but our main role is to listen and provide pastoral care,” said Deacon Jackson.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time EZEKIEL 18:25-28 Thus, says the Lord: You say, “The Lord’s way is not fair!” Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair? When someone virtuous turns away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, it is because of the iniquity he committed that he must die. But if he turns from the wickedness he has committed, he does what is right and just, he shall preserve his life; since he has turned away from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

PSALM 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14.

Remember your mercies, O Lord.

Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths, guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior.

Remember your mercies, O Lord.

Remember that your compassion, O Lord, and your love are from of old. The sins of my youth and my frailties remember not; in your kindness remember me, because of your goodness, O Lord.

Remember your mercies, O Lord.

Good and upright is the Lord; thus he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice, and teaches the humble his way.

Remember your mercies, O Lord.

PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11 OR 2:1-5 Brothers and sisters: If there is any encouragement in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but also for those of others. Have in you the same attitude that is also in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

God gives chances for us to come around

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he Gospels, like teachers, often propose a contrast – wise and foolish virgins, publican and Pharisee, weeds and wheat, hidden and revealed, light and dark, truth and falsehood, spirit and flesh, sinful and forgiven, blind and seeing, lame and walking, mute and speaking, confused and understanding, first and last.

Paul is overwhelmed and inspired by the contrast between divine glory and the humility of Jesus, between the greatness of God and Jesus’ slave-like selfabasement. Jesus embraces all of human experience, including death in its most painful and shameful form, death by torture.

Instead of grasping at power to command, Jesus surrenders to the destiny that every human being gives up control over life and dies. He is obedient, self-effacing.

Jesus does not seek to escape the SISTER ELOISE vulnerable human ROSENBLATT, RSM imperfect, condition with its wretched and forlorn depths of suffering. How well the sisterhood of women knows this emptying, powerlessness, humiliation, grinding down, and violence. For Paul, death turns to life, shame to recognition, namelessness to heroism, destruction to transformation.

The Gospel lesson of two sons, which appears only in Matthew, seems trivial by contrast. What’s the significance of dad telling both sons to go out to work on the family farm today? Isn’t that what any dad would tell any teen who knows he’s part of the family business?

It’s a non-question, the contrast is so obvious.

This raises the ethical question: Aren’t there degrees of importance to what God asks and to what I then count myself “obedient”? And what does it matter if a son gets distracted and says, “Yeah, yeah,” but puts off doing it right away because he told his mom he’d help her tend the sheep and goats today? In other words, on the way to doing the right thing, I might be doing other good things. What if moms made it a matter of eternal

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salvation if their teens either cleaned up or didn’t clean up their rooms when she frustratedly directed, “Pick up your room, NOW!” In other words, what’s so bad if there’s a delay in perfect compliance? What kind of God is demanding our strict obedience to the rightest of right paths on a daily timetable, and with what change of heart? What relationship exists and is growing over time between the child and the parent? Fear, love, confidence, growing appreciation and loving identity? St. Augustine, who wrote a lot more theology than any Gospel writer, confesses that he prayed earlier in his life, “O God, give me chastity, but not yet.”

I think this is the point of Jesus. Don’t be so quick to condemn prostitutes and tax collectors, the children who seemed to have said no – or ourselves for failures to live up to what we imagine is a cash-register God tracking each yes or no. Don’t pass judgment on the externally sinful, and think you are the only ones who are obedient and doing what God wants. Delay does not mean disobedience. Change of heart unfolds.

Some of those morally deviant people you condemn changed their lives for the better when they heard John the Baptist preaching. You heard him too, but you kept your distance. Was he too eccentric for your tastes? Too threatening for your sense of tradition – with his rejection of the Jerusalem religious institution? He’d walked out on the respectable company of priests and elders, so did he offend you? He ate grasshoppers instead of priest’s bread and meat. He embarrassed people, wearing goat skins instead of a linen tunic. Did you worry what would happen to your political fortunes if you let anyone know you were inspired by his message, that you felt closer to God when you listened to him?

This can’t be the end of the story of who turns out to be the obedient child, who enters the kingdom of heaven. The parable is surely not the last time God says, “My child, go out to work in the vineyard today. What is mine is yours.”

ELOISE ROSENBLATT, RSM, is a Sister of Mercy, a Ph.D. theologian, and an attorney in private practice, mostly in family law. She lives in San Jose.

VATICAN CITY – If people took seriously the Gospel call to forgive one another, the world would be a much better place, Pope Francis said.

“How much suffering, how many wounds, how many wars could be avoided if forgiveness and mercy were the style of our life,” he said Sept. 13 before reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors in St. Peter’s Square.

The pope was commenting on the day’s Gospel reading, Matthew 18:21-35, in which Jesus tells his

MATTHEW 21:28-32 Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: “What is your opinion?

A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.’ He said in reply, ‘I will not, ‘ but afterwards changed his mind and went. The man came to the other son and gave the same order. He said in reply, ‘Yes, sir, ‘but did not go.

Which of the two did his father’s will?” They answered, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him.”

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28: Monday of the Twentysixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Wenceslaus, martyr; St. Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, martyrs. JB 1:6-22. PS 17:1BCD, 2-3, 6-7. MK 10:45. LK 9:46-50.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29: Feast of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels. DN 7:9-10, 13-14 or Rv 12:7-12ab. PS 138:1-2AB, 2CDE-3, 4-5. PS 103:21. JN 1:47-51.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Memorial of St. Jerome, priest and Doctor of the Church. JB 9:1-12, 14-16. PS 88:10BC-11, 12-13, 14-15. PHIL 3:8-9. LK 9:57-62.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1: Memorial St. Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin and Doctor of the Church. JB 19:21-27. PS 27:7-8A, 8B-9ABC, 13-14. MK 1:15. LK 10:1-12.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2: Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels. JB 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5. PS 139:1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 13-14AB. PS 103:21. MT 18:1-5, 10.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3: Saturday of the Twentysixth Week in Ordinary Time. JB 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17.

PS 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130. See MT 11:25. LK 10:17-24.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. IS 5:1-7. PS 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20. PHIL 4:6-9. JN 15:16. MT 21:33-43.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5: Monday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos; St. Faustina Kowalska, virgin. GAL 1:6-12. PS 111:1B-2, 7-8, 9 AND 10C. JN 13:34. LK 10:25-37.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6: Tuesday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bruno, priest; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, virgin.

GAL 1:13-24. PS 139:1B-3, 13-14AB, 14C-15. LK 11:28. LK 10:38-42.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7: Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. GAL 2:1-2, 7-14. PS 117:1BC, 2. ROM 8:15BC. LK 11:1-4.

POPE FRANCIS POPE: ALL RELATIONSHIPS NEED OF ‘MERCIFUL LOVE’

Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

disciples to forgive “not seven times but 77 times.”

“In the symbolic language of the Bible,” the pope explained, “this means that we are called to forgive always.”

Pope Francis said that he knows it is not an easy command to follow because, even when a person thinks he or she has forgiven another, “resentment returns like a bothersome fly in the summer that keeps coming back.”

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8: Thursday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. GAL 3:1-5. LK 1:6970, 71-72, 73-75. ACTS 16:14B. LK 11:5-13.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9: Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Denis, bishop and martyr and companions, martyrs; St. John Leonardi, priest. GAL 3:7-14. PS 111:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6. JN 12:31B-32. LK 11:15-26.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10: Saturday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. GAL 3:22-29. PS 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. LK 11:28. LK 11:27-28.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Moving beyond mistakes and weaknesses

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he excusable doesn’t need to be excused and the inexcusable cannot be excused.”

Michael Buckley wrote those words and they contain an important challenge. We’re forever trying to make excuses for things we need not make excuses for and are forever trying to excuse the inexcusable. Neither is necessary. Or helpful.

We can learn a lesson from how Jesus dealt with those who betrayed him. A prime example is the Apostle Peter, specially chosen and named the very rock of the apostolic community. Peter was an honFATHER RON est man with a childlike sincerROLHEISER ity, a deep faith, and he, more than most others, grasped the deeper meaning of who Jesus was and what his teaching meant. Indeed, it was he who in response to Jesus’ question (Who do you say I am?) replied, “You are the Christ, the son of the

living God.” Yet minutes after that confession Jesus had to correct Peter’s false conception of what that meant and then rebuke him for trying to deflect him from his very mission. More seriously, it was Peter who, within hours of an arrogant boast that though all others would betray Jesus, he alone would remain faithful, betrayed Jesus three times, and this in Jesus’ most needy hour.

Later we are privy to the conversation Jesus has with Peter vis-à-vis those betrayals. What’s significant is that he doesn’t ask Peter to explain himself, doesn’t excuse Peter, and doesn’t say things like: “You weren’t really yourself ! I can understand how anyone might be very frightened in that situation! I can empathize, I know what fear can do to you!” None of that. The excusable doesn’t need to be excused and the inexcusable cannot be excused. In Peter’s betrayal, as in our own betrayals, there’s invariably some of both, the excusable and the inexcusable.

So what does Jesus do with Peter? He doesn’t ask for an explanation, doesn’t ask for an apology, doesn’t tell Peter that it is okay, doesn’t offer excuses for Peter, and doesn’t even tell Peter that he loves him. In-

stead he asks Peter: “Do you love me?” Peter answers yes – and everything moves forward from there.

Everything can move forward following a confession of love, not least an honest confession of love in the wake of a betrayal. Apologies are necessary (because that’s taking ownership of the fault and the weakness so as to lift it completely off the soul of the one who was betrayed) but excuses are not helpful. If the action was not a betrayal, no excuse is necessary; if it was, no excuse absolves it. An excuse or an attempt at one serves two purposes, neither of them good. First, it serves to rationalize and justify, none of which is helpful to the betrayed or the betrayer. Second, it weakens the apology and makes it less than clean and full, thus not lifting the betrayal completely off the soul of the one who has been betrayed; and, because of that, is not as helpful an expression of love as is a clear, honest acknowledgement of our betrayal and an apology which attempts no excuse for its weakness and betrayal.

What love asks of us when we are weak is an honest, non-rationalized, admission of our weakness along

has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.”

Brian Miller Flagstaff, Arizona

taking of human life in “civilized” nations, it has legal sanction.

4. Another distinguishing aspect of abortion is the arbitrary division of humans into those worthy of life and those unworthy. It is the circumscription of an entire class of humans to be denied the basic rights, protections and dignity accorded to others.

5. Abortion is also very different than euthanasia and assisted suicide, importantly, because of the absence of any possibility of informed consent.

6. Finally, abortion is unique because of its relative invisibility; it is done mostly in secret.

Mr. Albert’s reason appears to be an attempt to provide a rationale to allow Catholics to vote Democratic in November, even though the Democratic Party’s platform fully supports abortion.

G.P. Heckert San Mateo

SEE ROLHEISER, PAGE 16

LETTERS In a spirit of fraternal concern, revised

This revised letter is printed at the author’s request. The original letter appeared in the Sept. 10, 2020, issue.

In response to Ms. Wild’s letter (Aug. 20, 2020) and, by her references, to those writers in CSF’s June 25 edition: Violence and profiling by police must stop but look further at the BLM organization and its ideology and political positions.

BLM insists because I am a white male, by that fact alone I am therefore racist, an assertion I reject. One example: I have worked in various companies with people of all races and had bosses of both genders and several different ethnic groups. I think my experience is pretty typical in this day and age. Lifestyle and the influence of popular culture also matter.

Want a better society? Marry and stay married so kids benefit from a loving home with mom and dad.

Breakdown of the family over the past 60-plus years has done more to harm people of all races than any other factor. Regardless of color, education or other factors, that makes the greatest difference.

BLM, like other leftist movements, rejects the nuclear family as normative and being worthy of protection.

Go to their website; I’m not making this up. Respectfully, Mr. Lindh identifying as a “gay, married Catholic” is another example of those who do not accept the gift of born gender and sexuality in harmony with the natural order and the Gospel, which Jesus said did not replace the law of Moses but fulfills it. Those who identify as LGBT are people and we must love one another – but love also requires proclaiming the truth. Gender and sex are not social constructs, these are biological realities as obvious as the sun rising in the morning.

I am not trying to browbeat anyone, but isn’t it better that we help each other’s souls to get to heaven than just let error continue? Space prevents a longer response, but the bishops have an awesome responsibility to shepherd their flocks. They also have, rightly so, criticized leaders for allowing exploitation of the environment and (both directly and by extension) poorer people who suffer greatly. In sum, I agree with some of what these writers wrote but cannot agree with all of it. Feelings have their place, but we also have minds and willpower to understand and accept the Holy Spirit working in our lives. I hope they understand I offer this in a spirit of fraternal concern. Let’s please pray for one another.

J.R. Hermann San Mateo

Faithful witness in troubled times

Dear Archbishop, I am writing this letter as a concerned Catholic.

We are facing some of the toughest times, with the pandemic, the economy and most of all the attack against our faith. There are people in our country against just about everything we believe. That being said we need to hear more from our bishops, priests and deacons about how we are being challenged, the pro-life issue being the biggest. I am just one Catholic pro-life vote but if we heard more from the clergy, I believe we could have more votes for the truth. Thank you for your time and let me leave you with Titus 1:9: “He must hold firmly to the trustworthy messages it

Don’t let tech co-opt family life

I really appreciated the info insert with the latest issue of CSF. In it Archbishop Cordileone says that now families “have been going for walks and bike rides together outside,” and “parents are more engaged in what their children are learning about and having conversations.” Families are even “eating together at the table.” Why weren’t families doing all these things before? What was stopping them? Laziness? Mindlessness? Fear? Basic responsibility lies with the parents.

Looking at things from the outside, I think it might help a lot if parents didn’t so readily permit the current army of electronic gadgets and gizmos to co-opt life as a family.

Michael Biehl San Francisco

Not all sins and trials are equal

I can’t let Peter Albert’s letter on the subject in CSF’s Sept. 10 edition go by without comment. He attempts to balance the sin of abortion with a myriad of other issues, including “equitable distribution of wealth,” “environmental sustainability,” “right to organize labor” and “climate change action,” to name a few, leading to a conclusion that “voting Catholics certainly have a lot to think about.” He even quotes general papal statements and some from the USCCB in an attempt to rationalize these real-life burdens as “equally sacred” with abortion.

I disagree! Not all sins and trials are equal.

In 1995, Pope John Paul’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” boldly specified abortion as a “clear social injustice of the highest degree.” The dean of theology at the Regina Apostolorum University in Rome, Father Thomas Williams, characterized the basis for this principle with six clearly distinctive points: 1. Abortion consists specifically of the destruction of innocent life. In 2004, then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote that “there may be legitimate diversity of opinion about waging war or applying the death penalty even among Catholics, but not in regard to abortion.” To be sure, all life is precious, but moral theology has always differentiated between the killing of innocent life as particularly heinous and always and everywhere condemnable.

2. Another factor is the sheer magnitude of the atrocity. Over 60 million unborn children have been killed in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was enacted almost 48 years ago. This is an American holocaust.

3. The third characteristic separating abortion from other social injustices is its legal status. Unlike other

Critical thinking and the Catholic vote

Our household received a questionnaire from “Catholic Vote.” That organization is badly named.

After reading Dennis Sadowski’s essay on the USCCB political statement (CSF, Aug. 28, 2020) and the whole bishops’ statement itself, here are the key articles that define the real Catholic vote: Article 16 quotes Pope Francis (“Evangelii Gaudium,” no. 64): “We are living in an information-driven society which bombards us indiscriminately with data – all treated as being of equal importance – and which leads to remarkable superficiality in the area of moral discernment. In response, we need to provide an education which teaches critical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.” Finally, some support for critical thinking.

Wisdom and clarity of the document is portrayed in Article 42: “As Catholics we are not single-issue voters.

A candidate’s position on a single issue is not sufficient to guarantee a voter’s support. Yet if a candidate’s position on a single issue promotes an intrinsically evil act, such as legal abortion, redefining marriage in a way that denies its essential meaning, or racist behavior, a voter may legitimately disqualify a candidate from receiving support.” Translated: This year you may disqualify both major presidential candidates on single issues.

Article 30: “It is incoherent to isolate some element to the detriment to the whole of Catholic doctrine.” Skip to the last article for superb social doctrine summaries by the bishops.

Critical thinking suggests in the present election dealing with a pandemic, and its fallout, is priority over single issues. Survival of any morality in government may be equally important.

Alex M. Saunders, M.D. Redwood City St. Charles Parish.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Americans’ right to worship is being denied by governments. I won’t be silent anymore.

This article first appeared in The Washington Post, Sept.

16, 2020.

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never expected that the most basic religious freedom, the right to worship — protected so robustly in our Constitution’s First Amendment — would be unjustly repressed by an American government.

But that is exactly what is happening in San Francisco. For months now, the city has limited worship services to just 12 people outdoors. Worship inside our own churches is banned. The city recently announced it will now allow 50 for outdoor worship, with a goal of permitting indoor services up to a maximum of 25 people by Oct. 1 – less than 1% of the capacity of San Francisco’s ARCHBISHOP St. Mary’s Cathedral.

SALVATORE J. This is not nearly enough to CORDILEONE accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Catholics in San Francisco. In imposing these restrictions, the city is turning a great many faithful away from their houses of prayer.

People can freely go to parks here, as long as they stay six feet apart. If they follow proper social distancing and wear masks, people can eat on an outdoor patio with no hard numerical limit. Indoor shopping malls are already open at 25 percent capacity. Catholics in San Francisco are increasingly noticing the simple unfairness. As one of my parishioners asked recently, “Why can I spend three hours indoors shopping for shoes at Nordstrom’s but can’t go to Mass?”

And it is not just San Francisco. According to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, six states with a

combined population of 67 million Americans single out religious worship for unfavorable treatment compared to similar secular activities: California, New Jersey, Maine, Virginia, Connecticut and Nevada.

We Catholics are not indifferent to the very real dangers posed by covid-19. This is one of the reasons Catholic churches have developed rigorous protocols to protect public health in our facilities. We submitted our safety plans to the city in May along with other faith communities, and while indoor retailers had their plans approved and went into operation, we are still waiting to hear back.

Meanwhile, the scientific evidence from other jurisdictions is clear: These safeguards are working. As three infectious-disease specialists who reviewed the evidence on more than 1 million public Masses over the past few months concluded, there have been no documented outbreaks of covid-19 linked to church attendance in churches that follow the protocols. We have demonstrated that we know how to hold Mass safely. There is no reason not to allow us to put that knowledge into practice.

Nor do our concerns stem from hostility toward government. We Catholics respect legitimate authority, and we recognize that the government has a right to impose reasonable public health rules, just as we recognize its right to issue safety codes for our church buildings. But when government asserts authority over the church’s very right to worship, it crosses a line. Our fundamental rights do not come from the state. As the authors of our Declaration of Independence put it, they are “self-evident,” that is, they come from God. Even this injustice, though, is not as hurtful as the simple lack of compassion. I sometimes wonder whether the increasingly secular elites imposing these restrictions understand the pain they are unnecessarily inflicting. The sacraments as we Catholics understand them cannot be live-streamed. People are being denied the

religious worship that connects them with God and one another. For hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans facing the simultaneous challenges of a pandemic and economic downturn, the church is their key source of spiritual, emotional and practical help. I worry about the poor, the jobless and especially the addicted whose major access to community help is the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings formerly held in churches all over the city and the country.

As one of my parishioners, Kathryn Reese, wrote recently in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Even more than food for my body, this is food for my soul. I need it.

My faith is what got me through all these years, raising my kids, going through a divorce, working as a correctional officer and correctional counselor in San Quentin, and volunteering for my community.” And the Rev. Moises Agudo, who pastors the overwhelmingly Latino churches in the Mission District, echoes the sentiment, saying that his people have lost many things because of the pandemic but “the consolations of the Mass should not be one of those things.”

We want to be partners in protecting the public health, but we cannot accept profoundly harmful and unequal treatment without resisting. This is why I and other Catholics from across San Francisco will join in a public demonstration this Sunday calling on the city’s mayor, London Breed, to treat religious believers fairly.

At our demonstration, we will not be asking for special treatment. We just don’t want religious worshipers singled out for unfavorable treatment relative to people participating in activities with comparable risk profiles. All we are seeking is access to worship in our own churches, following reasonable safety protocols — the same freedoms now extended to customers of nail salons, massage services and gyms. It’s only fair, it’s only compassionate, and, unlike with these other activities, it’s what the First Amendment demands.

ROLHEISER: Moving beyond mistakes and weaknesses FROM PAGE 15

with a statement from the heart: “I love you!” Things can move forward from there. The past and our betrayal are not expunged, nor excused; but, in love, we can live beyond them. To expunge, excuse, or rationalize is to not live in the truth; it is unfair to the one betrayed since he or she bears the consequences and scars.

Only love can move us beyond weakness and betrayal and this is an important principle not just for

those instances in life when we betray and hurt a loved one, but for our understanding of life in general. We’re human, not divine, and as such are beset, congenitally, body and mind, with weaknesses and inadequacies of every sort. None of us, as St. Paul graphically says in his letter to the Romans, ever quite measure up. The good we want to do, we end up not doing, and the evil we want to avoid, we habitually end up doing. Some of this, of course, is understandable, excusable, just as some of it is inexcusable, save for the fact that we’re

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Like Peter when asked three times by Jesus: “Do you love me?” from our hearts we need to say: “You know everything, you know that I love you.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Salvadoran imprisoned for killings of five Jesuit priests CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

A former colonel of the Salvadoran military, Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, has been convicted in a Spanish court for is participation in the murder of five Jesuit priests in 1989. Montano has been sentenced to more than 133 years in prison.

The former colonel was El Salvador’s vice-minister for public security during the civil war that divided El Salvador in the 1980s. He was convicted Sept. 11 of planning and ordering the killing of five Jesuit priests, all of whom were Spanish, at the Central American University in San Salvador.

A Salvadoran Jesuit priest, their housekeeper, and her daughter were also killed, but the former colonel was convicted in Spain only of the killings of the five Spanish Jesuits.

Montano maintained his innocence, though witnesses testified that he believed the Jesuits were collaborators of the Marxist guerilla Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, which El Salvador’s military junta fought in a bloody civil war that spanned more than a decade.

The Jesuits in El Salvador were active proponents of peace talks and a negotiation between the government and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. One of the priests killed, Jesuit Father Ignacio Ellecuria, was an outspoken critic of El Salvador’s government, according to Reuters.

The killings took place on Nov. 16, 1989, during a battle being waged across the city of San Salvador.

Father Ellacuria served as rector of the Central American University, which was occupied by an elite battalion of the Salvadoran army.

A unit of the Salvadoran Army dragged from their beds the six Jesuits and shot them.

The priests killed were Father Ellacuria, rector of UCA; and Fathers Ignacio Martín-Baró; Segundo Montes; Amando López; Joaquín López y López; and Juan Ramón Moreno Pardo. All were Spaniards except for López y López, a Salvadoran.

The priest’s housekeeper Elba Ramos and her 15-year-old daughter Celina were also killed.

The soldiers left a message at the site of the killings meant to implicate the guerillas.

The government was supported by the United States during the 12 year conflict, which killed 75,000 people, and during which 8,000 people disappeared. The United Nations has estimated that 85% of civilians killed during the conflict died at the hands of government forces.

SALVADORAN UNIVERSITY WELCOMES CONVICTION

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – The Jesuit-run Central American University welcomed the verdict of a Spanish court, which convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murder of five Jesuit priests in 1989.

The verdict was “an extraordinary service to the truth” from a conflict in which many atrocities have

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In January, the U.S. Department of State announced that 13 former Salvadoran military members would not be eligible for entry into the U.S. because of their involvement in the killings.

“The United States supports the ongoing accountability, reconciliation, and peace efforts in El Salvador,” Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, said Jan. 29.

“We value our ongoing working relationship with the Salvadoran Armed Forces, but will continue to use all available tools and authorities, as appropriate, to address human rights violations and abuses around the world no matter when they occurred or who perpetrated them.”

“Today’s actions underscore our support for human rights and our commitment to promoting accountability for perpetrators and encouraging reconciliation and a just and lasting peace.”

Pompeo said Jan. 29 that the U.S. “condemns all human rights abuses that took place on both sides of the brutal civil war in El Salvador, including those committed by governmental and non-governmental parties.”

The Atlacatl Battalion, which killed Father Ellacuría and his companions, was trained by American advisers.

gone unpunished, the university statement said. It expressed some sadness, however, that justice had not occurred in El Salvador, where the slayings occurred during the country’s civil war. The trial, the statement continued, “clearly showed the armed forces ... operated as a criminal and cover-up machine.”

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The State Department said Jan. 29 it had credible information that the 13 former Salvadoran military personnel “were involved in the planning and execution of the extrajudicial killings” of November 1989.

It listed Montano, Juan Rafael Bustillo, Juan Orlando Zepeda, Francisco Elena Fuentes, Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno, Yusshy René Mendoza Vallecillos, José Ricardo Espinoza Guerra, Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos, Carlos Camilo Hernández Barahona, Oscar Mariano Amaya Grimaldi, Antonio Ramiro Avalos Vargas, Angel Pérez Vásquez, and José Alberto Sierra Ascencio, who it said ranged in rank from general to private.

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Cardinal: Facilitate Mass as soon as possible CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Church services and Mass online cannot compare to or replace the in-person participation of the faithful, the head of the Vatican’s office for divine worship told the world’s bishops.

“As soon as circumstances permit, however, it is necessary and urgent to return to the normality of Christian life, which has Cardinal Robert the church building as its home Sarah and the celebration of the liturgy, especially the Eucharist,” wrote Cardinal Robert Sarah.

“Once the concrete measures that can be taken to reduce the spread of the virus to a minimum have been identified and adopted, it is necessary that all resume their place in the assembly of brothers and sisters,” he wrote.

The letter by the cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, was sent to the presidents of national bishops’ conferences worldwide.

Pope Francis approved the publication of the letter during an audience with the cardinal Sept.

3, according to Vatican News, which then provided excerpts from the message Sept. 12.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cardinal wrote, “a great sense of responsibility has emerged.”

“In listening to and collaborating with civil authorities and experts,” he wrote, bishops “were prompt to make difficult and painful decisions, even to the point of suspending the participation of the faithful in the celebration of the Eucharist for a long period.”

God never abandons humanity, he wrote, and “even the hardest trials can bear fruits of grace.”

“We have accepted our distance from the Lord’s altar as a time of eucharistic fasting, useful for us to rediscover its vital importance, beauty and immeasurable preciousness,” Cardinal Sarah said.

But, as soon as is possible, the cardinal wrote, “we must return to the Eucharist ... with an increased desire to meet the Lord, to be with him, to receive him and to bring him to our brothers and sisters with the witness of a life full of faith, love and hope.”

The cardinal underlined that even though communication outlets have offered “a valued service to the sick and those who are unable to go to church, and have performed a great service in the broadcast of holy mass at a time when there was no possibility of community celebrations, no broadcast is comparable to personal participation or can replace it.”

Participating only virtually risks “distancing us from a personal and intimate encounter with the incarnate God” whose presence among his people was not virtual, but real, he added.

“This physical contact with the Lord is vital, indispensable, irreplaceable.”

That means that as soon as measures for reduc-

ing the spread of the virus have been adopted, the faithful need to “resume their place in the assembly” and those who have been “discouraged, frightened, absent or uninvolved for too long” need to be invited and encouraged to return, he wrote.

However, needed “attention to hygiene and safety regulations cannot lead to the sterilization of gestures and rites, to the instilling, even unconsciously, of fear and insecurity in the faithful,” he cautioned.

“It is up to the prudent but firm action of the bishops to ensure that the participation of the faithful in the celebration of the Eucharist is not reduced by public authorities to a ‘gathering’ and is not considered comparable or even subordinate to forms of recreational activities,” he wrote.

Facilitating the participation of the faithful in liturgical celebrations, he said, should be done “without improvised ritual experiments and in full respect of the norms contained in the liturgical books which govern their conduct.”

The faithful have a right to receive the Eucharist and worship the Lord present in the Eucharist “in the manner provided for, without limitations that go even beyond what is provided for by the norms of hygiene issued by public authorities or bishops.”

The best way to avoid error, he wrote, is rooted in “obedience to the norms of the church, obedience to the bishops.”

Any provisional norms established by the bishops and bishops’ conferences must be obeyed, but they also should “expire when the situation returns to normal.”

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The services expanded in a joint venture with St. Ignatius Parish and the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, launched June 30, 2018.

Part of a network of more than 275 neighborhood centers, the newly minted St. Agnes-St. Ignatius Community Food Pantry offered patrons a wide variety of fresh produce and non-perishables in a setting resembling a farmers’ market.

A rare “limited-cooking menu” served up readyto-eat proteins for the half of visitors without kitchen access.

“Sheltering in place didn’t quite apply to the

unhoused, and they still needed food,” said Marco Matute, St. Agnes administrative assistant and a pantry coordinator. “So, we’ve been open throughout the pandemic.”

COVID curtailed options while cresting need.

Groceries must be pre-packed for quick and socially distanced pickup.

The 50 to 70 weekly pantry participants now number 120 to 130, Matute noted.

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank’s Keely Hopkins reported a near doubling of the 32,000 households served weekly pre-pandemic.

“Food is a basic need,” she said. “We have enough to share it with our neighbors; all are welcome.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

CARDINAL LIKENS FADING CHRISTIAN PRESENCE IN MIDDLE EAST TO A SINKING SHIP

of Beirut, that the threat “reached its climax” in Lebanon with the catastrophic double explosion in the port of Beirut Aug. 4. The disaster left nearly 200 people dead, injured another 6,000, and displaced more than 300,000 people.

children and young people to prepare them for the sacraments of Christian initiation, the time is right to take a break. Let’s at least give ourselves the autumn to reflect together,” he invited.

He asked for “time and space” to discern the next steps to implement “the priority of formation to Christian life for adults.”

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• Review, update and maintain the Parish and School Finance policy manual located on the Archdiocese of San Francisco website

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• Develop new or adjust current compliance review procedures used for parish and school reviews • Perform review of each parish and school every three years. About 35 locations a year • Review preliminary findings with Pastor, Principal and finance council • Issue Letter of findings and recommendations report to the Pastor or Principal • Follow-up with parishes and schools on completion of review recommendations • Maintain and update Parish and School Finance Policy manual • Provide updates and present to the Audit Committee of the Archdiocese

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Retired Senior finance executive; CFO or Partner of a CPA firm Comfortable working independently and interacting with parish and school leadership Hands-on, individual contributor, can navigate through QuickBooks On-Line Knowledgeable of the workings and Mission of the Catholic Church Experience as member of a Parish Finance Council

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• Flexible hours, part-time role. 20 hours a week • Available to visit Parishes and Schools • Supports the CFO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

Please submit resume and cover letter to:

Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Human Resources, Attn: Christine Escobar One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Or e-mail to: escobarc@sfarch.org All candidates applying for the volunteer position will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin.

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OBITUARIES SISTER RUTH PATRICK, PBVM

Presentation Sister Ruth Patrick died on June 26, 2020, at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was 89 years old and a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary for 71 years.

Born in Berkeley, Sister Ruth held a graduate degree in special education.

“In 1951 she began over 10 years Sister Ruth as a dedicated elementary school Patrick, PBVM teacher in Presentation schools in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montebello, Gilroy and San Jose,” the sisters said in a statement.

In 1963, she began three years of service as assistant director of studies and pupil accounting and seven years in a program she devised in developmental reading at Presentation High School, San Francisco.

In 1980, Sister Ruth entered the Clinical Pastoral Education program at St. Mary Hospital, San Francisco, and subsequently served as a chaplain at facilities including San Francisco’s Letterman Army Hospital, St. Mary Hospital, and St. Luke Episcopal Hospital.

Beginning in 1997, Sister Ruth began 16 years volunteering at SafeHouse, a residential program for women seeking to leave prostitution, and at The Lantern Hospitality and Education Center, a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of the Presentation.

Survivors include Sister Ruth’s brother Jim, sisterin-law Susan and cousin, Doug Patrick.

Due to COVID-19, a memorial service or Mass celebrating her life will take place at a future date.

Remembrances may be made to Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118.

SISTER LILLIAN BARTOSIK, CSJ

Sister Lillian Bartosik died Aug. 29, 2020. Sister Lillian was 97 years old and had been a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange for 79 years.

Taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange in elementary school and in high school, Sister Lillian entered the congregation in September 1941. She held undergraduate and graduate degrees in education.

Sister Lilian taught at Catholic schools throughout California and was the founding principal of Rosary High School in Fullerton.

“Because the Chinese people were particularly dear

to her heart, Sister Lillian spent 20 years serving at the Chinese Mission of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco,” the sisters said in a statement.

In 2000, Sister Lillian moved to her congregation’s Regina Residence for retired sisters in Orange. While there she tutored students part-time at schools in Santa Ana. Because of the pandemic, her funeral was private in the Motherhouse Chapel. She is interred in Sister Lillian Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange.

Bartosik, CSJ Remembrances in Sister Lillian’s memory may be sent to Mercedes Lopez, 440 S. Batavia St., Orange, CA 92868.

SISTER PATRICIA ELOWER, PBVM

Presentation Sister Patricia Elower (Sister Mary Laurence) died on July 7, 2020, at the Sisters of the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Sister Patricia was 84 years old and a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary for 67 years.

Born in San Francisco, Sister Patricia held an undergraduate degree in education and a graduate degree in religious education. In addition, Sister Patricia she was a Certified Master Catechist Elower, PBVM from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

“All she had learned prepared her for the next 40 years of dedicated ministry,” the sisters said in a statement.

From 1956 to 1996 Sister Patricia taught in Catholic elementary schools throughout California including 11 years as principal of Holy Trinity School in San Pedro. She also served as director of religious education at several parishes in Southern California.

For almost 20 years Sister Patricia served as Congregational Secretary with additional responsibilities to the community.

“During the last years of her life she generously volunteered her services at the Presentation Motherhouse. She also always included in her prayers, the needs of Presentation Sisters and Associates, those of family, friends and of the world,” the sisters said.

Due to COVID-19, a memorial Service or Mass celebrating her life will take place at a future date.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the

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Dominican Sister Barbara Ann Hehr, formerly known as Sister Fredrick Ann Hehr, died May 10, 2020, at her congregation’s Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 86 years of age and in the 68th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Barbara Ann held undergraduate and graduate degrees in history having earned the latter at Sister Barbara the University of San Francisco.

Ann Hehr, OP Sister Barbara Ann ministered for more than 55 years in elementary and secondary schools throughout California including two years on the faculty of San Francisco’s St. Brendan. She also taught at schools in states including Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado.

Sister Barbara Ann retired to the Dominican Life Center in 2016.

Survivors include Sister Barbara Ann’s sister, Teresa Knigge of Mundelein, Illinois, and brothers: Edward Hehr, also of Mundelein, Jerome Hehr of Quartzsite, Arizona; and Robert Hehr of Trenton, Missouri.

Due to COVID-19 mitigation protocols, the Dominican Life Center is closed until further notice to all guests or visitors.

A funeral Mass was celebrated in the sisters’ St. Catherine Chapel on May 12, 2020 with interment in the congregation cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Michigan 49221.

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After a lengthy pandemic hiatus, Catholic San Francisco is resuming event listings. The following events are online only unless otherwise noted. CSF newsletter subscribers receive a weekly Catholic events email. Subscribe at catholic-sf. org/free-email-newsletter. Email csf@ sfarch.org with submissions and updates.

LEARNING TUESDAY, SEPT. 22: Online course: Immigration and Catholic Social Teaching: A six-week online course that examines CST, Scripture, papal encyclicals and bishops’ statements to gain an understanding of the church’s position on immigration as a life issue. $20. sfarchdiocese.org/immigration-class.

MONDAY, OCT. 5: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: First Monday of each month, currently on Zoom led

by Father Thomas Martin. Register at sfpriest.org/events.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14: Gather@Grand Speaker Series on Racism: The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael continue their speaker series online, this year focusing on the topic of racism. On Oct. 14 a virtual guided film discussion of the 1997 film “Amistad.” Visit sanrafaelop. org/events.

MONDAY, OCT. 19: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: Third Monday of each month, currently on Zoom led

by Father Cameron Faller. Register at sfpriest.org/events.

FRIDAY, OCT. 23-25: Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery ‘Come and See’ Retreat: A virtual discernment event for single, Catholic women ages 18-38 years. Visit opnunsmenlo.org/ come-and-see-virtual-retreat or contact vocations@opnunsmenlo.org.

FUNDRAISING TUESDAY, SEPT. 1-30: Good Shep-

OUTDOOR MASS These parishes are currently offering outdoor weekend Masses. Please check times with the parish and register per health guidelines now in place.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY Holy Name St. Mary’s Cathedral St. Agnes St. Anne of the Sunset St. Elizabeth St. Patrick Sts. Peter and Paul Star of the Sea

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THURSDAY, OCT. 1: Women’s Christian Fellowship speaker Crystalina Evert: Catholic speaker and author Crystalina Evert brings her dynamic message of hope to a Zoom talk entitled “Finding Peace in Unpredictable Times.” To register RSVP to the Office of Marriage and Family Life at (415) 614-5547 or Hopfnere@sfarch.org.

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Clergy assignments announced fective Sept. 1, 2020, continuing with ministry as president, St. Ignatius College Preparatory.

Father Andrew Spyrow, vicar for clergy, announced the following clergy assignments on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on Sept. 17, 2020.

Transitional diaconate

Pastors

Father Eugeniusz Bolda, SChr, Nativity Parish, San Francisco, effective Oct. 1, 2020; Father Youngsaeng (“Paul”) Goo, St. Michael Korean Parish, San Francisco, tentatively Dec. 15, 2020 (pending approval of immigration application by USCIS).

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Additional updates

Father Andrew W. Ginter , St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, Sausalito, effective Oct. 1, 2020, continuing as chaplain, Marin Catholic High School, where he will reside

Chaplaincy ministry

Father Jerome P. Foley, dean, Coastside Deanery, effective Sept. 17, 2020; Father Alvin A. Yu, discernment leave, effective Sept. 14, 2020.

Father John T. Mitchell, SJ, part-time, San Francisco Fire Department, effective Sept. 1, 2020, continuing with ministry as Superior of the Jesuit Community at St. Ignatius; Father Edward A. Reese, SJ, part-time, San Francisco Fire Department, ef-

SENIOR LIVING

Reverend Mr. Nicholas S. Case, following his ordination to the transitional diaconate Aug. 29, 2020, he has returned to seminary studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome; Reverend Mr. John Winkowitsch, OP, following his ordination to the transitional diaconate Sept. 19, 2020, he will serve at St. Raymond Parish, Menlo Park.

Religious orders

Father David Gaa, OFM, in residence, St. Boniface, Parish, effective Aug. 15, 2020; Father Guglielmo Lauriola, OFM, Alma Via Care Center, San Francisco, effective April 1, 2020; Father Edwin M. MartínezCallejas, SJ, doctorate in education, University of San Francisco with residence at Loyola House, effective Aug. 17, 2020.

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“I come from a line of strong people,” said one.

“We cope.”

From another: “These are definitely challenging times, but I have much to be thankful for. I have come to accept that I will have good days and bad days, and that’s OK.” “No, God is in charge and has a plan.”

To be sure, some respondents reported being more irritable, emotional and anxious.

“Although I feel I have been coping pretty well, the crisis has caused me to have feelings of helplessness and even hopelessness at times,” said one respondent.

Poor air quality from the smoke of almost 100 wildfires in Oregon and California drove people further into hiding. It seemed to be a tipping point for a number of respondents.

“This week is reaching a new low,” said one.

Polarized political perspectives again seeped in when talking about emotional health.

“Not knowing who is carrying the virus, I feel anger when I see people not wearing masks and not distancing,” said one respondent.

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Drama de una inmigrante de Redwood City y la jornada mundial del migrante LORENA ROJAS

La Arquidiócesis de San Francisco ofrecerá el curso Migración y Justicia Social con motivo de la 106 Jornada Mundial del Migrante y del Refugiado.

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La Iglesia Católica celebra el 27 de septiembre la 106 Jornada Mundial del Migrante y del Refugiado, para fortalecer el compromiso con los desplazados en el camino muchas veces forzado y doloroso hacia un nuevo hogar.

La 106 Jornada Mundial del Migrante y del Refugiado, en el 2020 está dedicada a los desplazados internos, quienes representan en la actualidad, más de 50 millones de personas o grupos de personas que han huido de sus hogares o lugar de residencia por conflictos armados, violencia, violación de los derechos humanos, desastres naturales o provocados por el ser humano, pero que no han cruzado una frontera estatal o internacional.

Nieves Pacheco, es una parroquiana de la iglesia San Antonio de Padua en Menlo Park, una inmigrante que se vio obligada a desplazarse debido a la violencia. Salió de Jalisco, México a los 22 años, dejando a sus tres hijos pequeños escondidos en la casa de su mamá para salvar su vida y la de ellos.

Pacheco no es una desplazada interna, es una migrante que cruzó una frontera internacional para ingresar a otro país.

Cuando llegó a la casa de un familiar en Redwood City, pensando que estaba lejos del peligro y llena de esperanza de poder volver a México para traer a sus hijos con ella y construir una vida nueva, no se imaginó la sorpresa que se llevaría al segundo día de su llegada.

“Me vine huyendo de una relación que si no me hubiera escapado o estaría muerta, hubiera perdido a mis hijos, o no sé qué hubiera pasado.

A los dos días de estar aquí en la casa de un familiar, ella me hecho a la calle”, narró.

“Comenzé a buscar una comunidad donde refugiarme y fue así como llegué a la iglesia San Antonio de Padua en Menlo Park, buscando algo que me apoyara moralmente, y ahí encontré una familia de la cual no me he separado en los 32 años que llevo

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viviendo en este país”, dijo Pacheco al San Francisco Católico.

En San Antonio de Padua, Pacheco encontró comida para el cuerpo y alimento para el alma. Durante los primeros dos meses en este país, iba todos los días a comer al comedor de la iglesia, y los domingos iba a la misa.

Ayudó como catequista de Primera Comunión y luego de Confirmación durante 21 años. También se unió al ministerio de Liturgia en el cual todavía ayuda los domingos en la misa de 8:30 a.m., dijo.

A través del servicio en una comunidad de migrantes como San Antonio, ha podido seguir conectada a su cultura latinoamericana y a su idioma español.

Desde hace unos cinco años, Pacheco comenzó a servir con la organización sin fines de lucro Fe en Acción que coordina programas con la Iglesia Católica de ayuda a inmigrantes. Ofrece asistencia legal, ayuda para evitar desalojos y otros servicios comunales.

Pacheco representa a millones de

Nieves Pacheco, parroquiana de San Antonio en Menlo Park, sostiene una pancarta durante una protesta pacífica contra los desalojos en la esquina del Camino Real y Jefferson en su vecindario Redwood City en el 2017. La Iglesia Católica celebra el 27 de septiembre la 106 Jornada Mundial del Migrante y del Refugiado.

desplazados en el mundo por quienes el papa Francisco ha abogado de forma especial desde el inicio de su pontificado.

Para atender el doloroso drama de la migración, existe en la Santa Sede, la Sección Migrantes y Refugiados dentro del Dicasterio para el Servicio del Desarrollo Humano Integral. Esta sección la dirige directamente el papa Francisco.

En el 2017, la Santa Sede publicó el documento “Veinte Puntos de Acción Pastoral” como una prioridad pastoral en los programas locales, temas claves en las homilías, en la educación y en medios de comunicación.

La Santa Sede recomendó estos puntos como una contribución a los Pactos Mundiales de las Naciones Unidas sobre los migrantes y los refugiados, para una migración segura, ordenada y regular, y fueron adoptados a finales del 2018.

Los desplazados internos representan “un drama a menudo invisible que la crisis mundial causada por la pandemia del

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COVID-19 ha agravado”, dijo el papa Francisco en su mensaje con motivo de la 106 Jornada Mundial del Migrante y del Refugiado.

La Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos hace hincapié en la larga historia de esta nación como un país de inmigrantes y de acogida a los inmigrantes, sobre todo a los recién llegados. También resalta la misión de la Iglesia Católica de ofrecerles ayuda pastoral.

En la declaración pastoral “Recibiendo al extranjero entre nosotros: unidad en la diversidad” del 2001, los obispos de los Estados Unidos llamaron a los fieles a una conversión de la mente y del corazón para la comunión y la solidaridad con los recién llegados y a acoger a los migrantes en las iglesias, escuelas y comunidades.

Los obispos de Estados Unidos y de México en la carta pastoral “Juntos en el camino de la esperanza ya no somos extranjeros” del 2003, reconocieron que el sistema de inmigración de este país necesita una reforma integral urgente y propusieron cambios a las leyes y políticas de EE.UU. para lograr un sistema de inmigración más humano y justo.

Los cambios no se han logrado.

Por lo contrario, en los últimos años se han perdido programas fundamentales para el desarrollo humano de los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos, como el programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA por sus siglas en inglés) y el programa de Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS por sus siglas en inglés).

La Arquidiócesis de San Francisco, con motivo de la 106 Jornada Mundial de los Migrantes y los Refugiados, ofrecerá el curso en inglés “Inmigración y Justicia Social” vía Zoom, los martes del 22 de septiembre al 27 de octubre, organizado por la oficina de Desarrollo Humano Integral.

El curso incluye documentos de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos, Vaticano II, documentos de san Juan Pablo II y del papa Francisco entre otros.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Católicos de San Francisco toman la calle Alabama como templo por restricciones contra la Iglesia LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Los parroquianos de San Francisco que no pudieron ingresar a una de las nueve misas celebradas en el estacionamiento de la iglesia San Pedro el domingo 6 de septiembre, a las 11 a.m., convirtieron la calle Alabama como en un templo para poder escuchar la misa.

La Iglesia Católica ha sido limitada por las autoridades de salud y el ayuntamiento de San Francisco a no celebrar servicios religiosos adentro de los edificios. En los patios y área al aire libre solo se permitía grupos de 12 personas. A partir del 14 de septiembre se permiten grupos más grandes afuera.

Las restricciones son consideradas por el arzobispo de San Francisco Salvatore J. Cordileone como “una grave privación bajo la Primera Enmienda, de nuestros derechos y nuestras necesidades espirituales como personas estadounidenses de fe”.

El arzobispo Cordileone, quien celebró una de las nueve misas, y los sacerdotes que celebraron junto a él en el estacionamiento, llevaron la comunión a los fieles que se quedaron en la calle, atrás del portón, escuchando la misa con devoción. Todos usaron mascarilla y mantuvieron la distancia social.

Durante la homilía, el arzobispo se refirió a los mandamientos de la ley de Dios. Los primeros tres sobre la relación con Dios y los siguientes acerca de la relación con el prójimo.

“Aquí estamos cumpliendo con los primeros tres mandamientos adorando a Dios, y cumpliendo con

El arzobispo Salvatore J. Cordileone le da la comunión a Zulma Tellez en la calle Alabama, frente al estacionamiento de la iglesia San Pedro en San Francisco, el 6 de septiembre. los siguientes mandamientos acerca de la relación con el prójimo, abogando por la justicia para todas las personas de fe de nuestra sociedad y por la primacía

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Ditson García, un parroquiano de San Antonio, una de las tres parroquias del distrito de la Misión, (San Carlos, San Antonio y San Pedro) dijo que los fieles en la calle Alabama, durante las misas “están en un acto de presencia, dejándole saber a las autoridades (gobierno local) la importancia de Cristo para nuestros hijos y nuestra sociedad”.

María Auxiliadora Harris, una parroquiana de Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro en Daily City, dijo “para mí, Jesús está en la sagrada Eucaristía.

Podemos ver las misas transmitidas, pero el verdadero católico necesita nutrirse con el cuerpo de Cristo”, afirmó.

El padre Erick Arauz, párroco de la iglesia Sagrado Corazón en Olema, en el condado de Marín celebró una de las nueve misas en San Pedro. Él dijo al San Francisco Católico que hay un enemigo que está tomando ventaja del virus para dividir a la Iglesia.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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

Dionicio G. Abungan Asomuamua Alailesulu Inez B. Albertsen Joseph J. Allen Ana Elizabeth Arias Roy Bava Ester P. Bayudan Maria Josefa Begorre Robert Dan Belluomini Jorge R. Bernal, Jr. Douglas S. Bishop Diana C. Boongaling Eugene John Burbank John F. Burns Maria Chrystina Burton Mauricio Enrique Cabezas Louise A. Camilleri Mary Della Cella John Hong Par Chan Ivan Cikes Margaret M. Cloherty Iva L. Demartini Joseph A. Demartini Mitchell D. Dill Gary “Jack” Thomas Donofrio Mary Joan Herkenhoff Dorward Thomas Armstrong Doyle John Anthony Driscoll Jean L. Dubetz Aida Escuton Mary Feerick Savelina Vea Fine Rosaleen R. Flynn Juana Fonseca Arturo B. Fontanilla Darlene Frost Irene Garcia Elinor Mary Gatto Luis Salvador Gonzalez Sergio Henry Gonzalez Juan Antonio Guevara Maria R. Guitron Josephine C. Guzzo

Elaine Marie Henning Franklin M. Henry Denie T. Hernandez Francisco Huete Lawrence J. Hurtado Marie Jordan Joan Margaret Keane Rose Mary Kennedy Christian Charles Kurek Carlos G. Lara Barbara H. Lavezzo Deacon Joseph Tupou Lavulo Sharon Kay Logan Arturo Trejo Lopez Angela A. Zanette Marchesin Adela Cristina Martinez Jesenia Esperanza Martinez Earl J. McCarthy Robert McCullough Thomas P. McGrath Rev. Msgr. Edward P. McTaggart Ralph Raoul Miranda Pearl G. Moran Elena Naval Jimmy T. Nguyen Rev. P Gerard O’Rourke Soledad Ortiz Erlinda D. Pana Patricia M. Parson Garrett T. Patton Louise Pera Gustavo A. Pereira Dale Jacqueline “DJ” Perez Robert D. Pritchard Fidel Realyvasquez Antonio N. Reyes Julio Rosales Christopher Andrew Samuels Saul Sanchez Cesar Augusto Sanchez, Jr. Louise J. Sansoe Frances A. Scatena Manfred Schaub Marian D. Schmidt Dulce Amor Cruz Shamblin Mary Louise Sheridan

Sr. Mary Estelle Small Rev. Dennis J. Steik , SM Oscar Suruy Esteban Tahmazian Francisco G. Tiffer Edward Cameron Tobin Adelaida Torrevilla Joseph Ishaq Totah Reverend Leonard Traverso Daniel Paul Troche Sach Truong Marcos Valledor Victor Thomas Varesco Susan Viseu George Ward Warren Webster Sr. Patricia Williams

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK

Alma Porta Brennan Xavier Chastenet de Gery Katayoun Ansari Fomanimanskan Eveleen K. Lopez Carmen Curiel Mariscal Jose O. Martinez Melelopasi Mau Olivia U. Pahulu Daniel Sosa Infante Jr. John M. Tiso

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL

Nancy L. Burkhard Andrew Charles Cavagnetto Sylvia M. Costello Guido Farina Remedios O. Gomez Richard Michael Lopez John W. Parsons Rosemary Capurro Parsons Mary Elizabeth Phillips

While we will not have a First Saturday Mass in October, we encourage you to remember in prayer all our beloved dead at rest in our Catholic Cemeteries.

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