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ALBANO, Italy – Christians are not licensed “inspectors of other people’s lives,” but rather disciples who reach out to others, assuring them of God’s love and welcoming them into the community, Pope Francis said.

Celebrating an outdoor evening Mass Sept. 21 in Albano, about 20 miles south of Rome, Pope Francis used the anniversary of the dedication of the city’s cathedral to talk about what Catholic churches should be and how parishioners should act toward their neighbors who never come to church.

“The Lord remembers us,” the pope said. “He does SEE POPE, PAGE 20 (PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Culture of care is essential for the common good, pope tells doctors

Jonathan Campos is pictured in the San Rafael Arcangel Mission chapel where he was baptized as an infant before his family moved to Brazil. He returned with his own young family and is active in music ministry for the Brazilian community.

Brazilian-Catholic musician seeks to ‘internationalize’ Christian music it’s out there it can touch people, much like scripture can.”

The Risen Project’s first CD, released earlier this “It all began here,” Jonathan Campos told Catho- year, includes 12 songs in both Brazilian Portuguese and English. Two of the songs were writlic San Francisco, opening his arms wide inside ten by Campos; the other 10 feature the songs of the sanctuary of San Rafael Arcangel Mission Brazilian Christian artists with Campos singing chapel in San Rafael where he was baptized three alternating verses in English. Videos of five of the decades ago. songs are available on YouTube.

After growing up in Brazil where his family It’s a compelling mix. It did not take long for this moved when he was a toddler, Campos, 31, is back reporter to start singing along to the Brazilian at his baptismal parish with his own young family Portuguese verses in the first track, “Livre Sou/ as a musician for the Brazilian-Catholic commuFree at Last,” a song by Brazilian artist Essencia nity’s 11 a.m. Sunday Mass. do Rei, that celebrates Christ’s sacrifice for the He’s also working on a music project called forgiveness of sins.

“Risen,” a collaboration with Christian musiCampos said the “external experience” of music cians from other countries he hopes will expand and song “involving all the senses” is imbedded in the audience for and appreciation of Christian Brazilian culture and as a result, central to worship. music.

A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country.

Campos said that before he and his young wife “A song is music only if it is heard and experireceived paraphrasing a flag honoring your one's enced,”If you saidhave Campos, a loved saying inmilitary service and would like to donate it to thethat cemetery to bedefines flown as part an “Avenue of Flags" on Memorial Day, 4th of JulySEE andBRAZILIAN-CATHOLIC, Veterans' Day, Brazil he said theofRisen Project.

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VATICAN CITY – With so many changes and huge technological advancements in the field of medicine, health care must always be at the service of the whole individual, including a supportive relationship between patient and medical professionals, Pope Francis said.

People facing illness must be accompanied “conscientiously, with intelligence and heart,” recognizing their dignity and fragility, he said Sept. 20 during an audience with members of the Italian Federation of Medical-Surgical and Dental Associations.

“By its definition, medicine is serving human life,” which sees the integral whole of the person, including their spiritual-material and individualsocial aspects, he said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Pray the rosary daily for peace

NEED TO KNOW FIRE AND POLICE MASS: Special memorial Mass for fire and police first responders will be held Sept. 29, 11 a.m., at St. Monica Church, 470 24th Ave., San Francisco. Father John Greene, chaplain to the San Francisco Fire Department, will preside. Contact the parish at (415) 7515275.

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s we approach October, the month of the Holy Rosary, we remember and rededicate ourselves to the simple request of Our Lady at Fatima that the whole world recite the Rosary daily for peace in the family and in the world.

MASS FOR CATHOLIC MEDICAL PROFESWe may be personally SIONALS: Archbishop Cordileone will celebrate aware of the life-changing a special White Mass for Catholic Medical Propower of this prayer in our fessionals on Oct. 18, 6 p.m., at Mater Dolorosa circle of friends and family.

Church. The Mass will be followed by a recepThis is because it has the tion hosted by the archdiocese. The Office of power to align our hearts to Human Life & Dignity is organizing the event, God, to focus our thoughts and any questions can be directed to Martin on Him. As our minds quiet Ford, social action director, at fordm@sfarch.org and our bodies become still, or (415) 614-5569. we gain an abiding sense ARCHBISHOP of peace in the assurance SALVATORE J. MASS FOR HOMELESS DEAD: Archbishop that our prayers are heard CORDILEONE Salvatore Cordileone will celebrate the second and answered. Sinners are annual Requiem Mass for the Homeless Faithful saved and those without Departed, Nov. 21, 11 a.m., Church of the Visifaith are converted. tacion, 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco. Visit Pope St. John Paul II wrote a beautiful Apostolic sfarch.org/homelessmass or contact Martin Ford, Letter on the Rosary, saying, “Families seldom fordm@sfarch.org. manage to come together, and the rare occasions Church Goods & Candles Religiouswhen Gifts they & Books do are often taken up with watching HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: The Little Sisters of the television. To return to the recitation of the famPoor Auxiliary holiday boutique benefitting St. ily rosary means filling daily life with very differAnne’s Home for needy elderly will be held ent images, images of the mystery of salvation: Nov. 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at St. Anne’s Home, the image of the Redeemer, the image of his Most 300 Lake St., San Francisco. Admission is free.

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When prayed with others, the rosary’s effectiveness is amplified. We can see this most vividly in history. 70,000 Austrians prayed the rosary for peace when rallied by a Franciscan priest, resulting in the sudden, inexplicable withdrawal of Russia from Austria in the immediate aftermath of World War II; Christians defeated a much superior naval force at Lepanto when all of Europe was called to join in this prayer; an army of 600,000 rosary-praying women is credited with the successful effort to suppress communism in Brazil only 50 years ago. The power of the rosary was in the thousands of voices raised in prayer.

What, then, keeps us from this devotion? We must cling to the rosary if we are to be witnesses to the saving power of Christ in our families and in our world. We should gather with others to strengthen their petitions and allow them to support ours. This October, call down the blessings of the rosary on your family with regular, planned recitations. Kneel before the Blessed Sacrament with your rosary. Join a parish rosary group. Or all of the above – if everyone in the Archdiocese of San Francisco prayed the rosary together, amazing things would happen. Let’s not allow this opportunity to pass us by. Again, Pope St. John Paul’s apostolic letter encourages us: “I look to all of you, brothers and sisters of every state of life, to you, Christian families, to you, the sick and elderly, and to you, young people: confidently take up the Rosary once again. Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.” (43)

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Margaret ‘Peg’ Gleason:

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Remembering a marriage and family life ministry pioneer CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The marriages of couples married in the Archdiocese of San Francisco between the years of 1984-1994 were blessed by the ministry of Peg Gleason, who died Aug. 13.

Peg, 84, and Ed Gleason, her husPeg Gleason, band of 64 years, 1934-2019 were the co-directors of what was then called the office of family life ministries, training parish couples to prepare other engaged couples for the sacrament of marriage.

“We had about 102 parishes at that

time, and we personally worked with almost every single one,” Ed told Catholic San Francisco Sept. 12, two days ahead of the family’s memorial for Peg at St. Boniface Church, the couple’s parish.

Peg was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2012.

Margaret “Peg” Gleason (nee Fiebig) was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1934. She moved to San Francisco and worked as a telephone operator before meeting Ed Gleason at the nowclosed St. Brigid’s Parish on Van Ness Avenue. They married in 1955 and raised six children, Mark, Gerard, Frank, Mary, John and James.

The late Father Peter Sammon, former pastor of St. Teresa of Avila, SEE ‘PEG’ GLEASON, PAGE 14

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The Red Mass is a 700+ year tradition seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the legal profession and all those who seek justice.

www.sfarch.org/medicalmass (415) 614-5569 for questions This event and parking are free.

Dinner and reception to follow in honor of the 2019 St. Thomas More Award recipient,

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone invites all faithful to attend a Mass invoking the Holy Spirit to provide His guidance and protection on the caring hands of medical professionals. After Mass, the archbishop will also impart a special apostolic blessing to all medical professionals in attendance.

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SCHOLARSHIP HOME RUN: Caden Kalagayan, an eighth grader at St. Robert School in San Bruno, won a $5,000 scholarship for leadership, character and academic potential shown as a member of the San Bruno Junior Giants Vipers team.

Caden and nine other recipients of the Harmon & Sue Burns Scholarship were honored Aug. 10 at a ceremony at Oracle Park after Caden Kalagayan standing out in a field of 80 contenders. Winners of the scholarship commit to maintaining their academic performance throughout high school and serving as mentors or coaches with the Junior Giants, a program that cultivates confidence, leadership skills, healthy habits and teamwork through baseball.

Caden will be putting the skills he’s learned through the program to use this year as the student body president of St. Robert’s. “I am grateful to Junior Giants for helping me develop the courage and confidence to be a good leader and to work well with a team of study body representatives.”

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Ryan Quock, right, was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout by his former Scoutmaster Cynthia Dragon, left, at a ceremony held at the Flanagan Center of Holy Name Parish Aug. 17.

He flies like an Eagle Youth minister attains highest Scouting rank CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Ryan Quock, the assistant leader for youth ministry at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco, received the Eagle Scout award in a ceremony Aug. 17.

Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America. Since its inception in 1911, only four percent of Scouts have earned this rank after a lengthy review process. Candidates must have earned at least 21 merit badges for competency in such areas as first aid, citizenship, emergency preparedness and lifesaving.

Ryan’s Eagle Scout project, a requirement of the rank, was to redesign the landscaping for the grotto of Mary at Holy Name, his family’s parish. Eagle Scout projects must demonstrate capable leadership of others while performing a project to benefit the community.

Ryan started as a Cub Scout in first grade at the former St. Mary’s Chinese Day School in Chinatown. He became a Boy Scout in the sixth grade.

He served as class president of his eighth grade class and won prizes in science, speech and debate

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In 2016 and 2017, Ryan was a summer counselor for at-risk Chinese-American children at Donaldina Cameron House in Chinatown. Currently a freshman at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, he is studying bio-chemistry and is interested in becoming a dentist one day.

In the meantime, Ryan treks across the bridge each Sunday to play ukulele at the 9:30 a.m. Mass at Holy Name Parish; on every third Sunday he also plays at the 10:15 Mass at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco.

Ryan told Catholic San Francisco that being an Eagle Scout is “more than just accomplishing tasks” leading to a badge.

“It means being patient to learn about every community you become a part of, and then contributing by leading to make it a better one,” he said.

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Sun., Sept. 29, 4:00 pm: Widor Festival: 175 birthyear of Charles M. Widor. Jonathan Dimmock, Organ. Symphonie No. 5.

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MERCY IN ACTION: In the first two weeks of the new school year, Mercy Burlingame collected 500 pair of shoelaces and socks, and 50 pair of men’s briefs for migrant families served by Missionary of Jesus Sister Norma Pimentel’s Human (COURTESY PHOTO) Respite Center in Left to right: Mercy Burlingame McAllen, Texas. students Eva Denten, Shreya Mehta, Sister Pimentel, Priya Sciacero, Natasha Marangu and executive director Daniella Dommen. of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, opened the center in 2014 to provide temporary shelter, food, clothes, a shower and other necessities for migrant children and adults passing through the city in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas near the border of Mexico.

Campus ministers Sandy Flaherty and Angie Simonetti headed up the schoolwide campaign to educate students, faculty and staff about the crisis at the border after hearing Sister Pimentel speak at the Sisters of Mercy’s annual meeting. Bay Area Border Relief, a local nonprofit, spoke to religion classes, while students in Spanish classes wrote letters of welcome and support for new arrivals. A student-led fundraiser this month will buy toys for migrant children at the HRC. During Tom Burke’s absence, email items and high-resolution images to CSF staff at csf@sfarch.org and/ or mail to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Include a follow-up phone number. If requesting a calendar listing, put “Calendar” in the subject line.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

9th Vianney luncheon honors retired priests ANNIE POWERS

Each year, there are two opportunities to help support retired priests in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The first was the special collection Sept. 21-22 in parishes throughout the archdiocese. The second opportunity approaching is the ninth annual St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests. The luncheon Bishop William will be on Oct. 11 starting at 11:30 Justice am, with a social hour starting at 10:30 in Patrons Hall of St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The 2019 honorees are Msgr. Floro Arcamo, Bishop William Justice and Msgr. John Rodriguez. We had the opportunity to sit down with Bishop Justice to learn about his history in the archdiocese and why supporting our retired priests is so important. Bishop Justice has been a San Francisco Archdiocesan priest for 51 years and has served in many different capacities: priest, friend, pastor, bishop and civic leader.

Bishop Justice moved to San Mateo at age 4 from Boston with his parents. They were strong Irish Catholics who raised “Billy” to cherish and

fully live out his faith. Bishop Justice attended St. Matthew and St. Gregory schools and then Serra High School, where he felt God‘s calling during his senior year. Bishop Justice credits his parents, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Father Jim O’Malley for his inspiration to join the priesthood.

After high school, Bishop Justice answered God’s call and entered St. Joseph’s minor seminary. Two years later he entered St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park and was ordained on May 17, 1968. His first assignment as a priest was at St. John the Evangelist in the outer Mission District of San Francisco. While there, Bishop Justice grew in his early ministry and was also involved with the community at a very key time.

He recalls being in community meetings with Cesar Chavez and other influential figures in San Francisco.

After his time at St. John, Bishop Justice was transferred to All Souls Parish in South San Francisco. He remembers enjoying wonderful “Italian home-cooked meals” from generous parishioners during his time there. He continued his ministry at a variety of different parishes, including St. Paul in San Francisco, St. Timothy in San Mateo, St. Kevin in San Francisco, St. Peter in San Francisco (as pastor) and Mission Dolores (as pastor).

He was then brought to the archdiocese to head pastoral ministry and later became the vicar for clergy. He was ordained bishop in 2008 and a good amount of his time in this ministry was presiding over confirmations throughout the area. After becoming auxiliary bishop, he “retired” in 2017 at the age of 75 and has since been at St. Matthew Parish, back to where he started, serving however he can.

Bishop Justice believes that the most rewarding part of his ministry is to “help people grow in their faith with Jesus and be there to walk with people through their journey of life.” He believes that the priest retirement collection and lunch are extremely important because they contribute to the security of those priests who have devoted their lives to walking with us. He believes we need to support one another because we are one family of God. An unyielding commitment to the faith and the people of God has been the essence of Bishop Justice’s ministry, as it has also been for Msgr. Arcamo, Msgr. Rodriguez and all our retired priests.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is blessed to have such devoted men.

ANNIE POWERS is development and events coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Franciscan sister says respect for migrants under threat NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The truth at the heart of the immigration crisis is straightforward, says Franciscan Sister Sheral Marshall.

“We’re either all part of one human family and everyone deserves our respect, or certain people aren’t and if they aren’t, then we can do anything we want to them,” said Sister Sheral, who is pastoral associate for liturgy at St. Robert Parish in San Bruno.

She spoke Sept. 8 to about 50 people in the church sanctuary about her experience at the border. From Aug. 4-12, Sister Sheral volunteered at a Catholic Charities migrant shelter in Laredo, Texas, witnessing the humanity and gratitude of newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers.

“They’re just ordinary people like us who happen to be born in a different place,” she said.

Part of her talk was to address the general confusion around migration and asylum, Sister Sheral said, emphasizing that both are enshrined in international law.

“People can emigrate if they’re in danger of persecution, or torture, or starving to death,” she said.

Sister Sheral also criticized an asylum process that has been made “deliberately more difficult.”

Under a new Trump administration regulation issued on July 15, U.S. ports of entry have been closed to many asylum claims. According to the new rule, any person who “failed to apply for protection from persecution or torture in a third country through which they transited en route to the United States” cannot apply for asylum. If Central Americans, for example, cross Mexico without applying for asylum there, they cannot be granted it by the U.S. The “third country” policy was a violation of international law on refugees and has led to a severe decline in the number of migrants admitted, Sister Sheral said.

One shelter employee told her only 16 people had been permitted to enter the country within a twoweek span at the crossing in Laredo.

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Migrants who arrived across the U.S.-Mexico border are pictured on a bus to their final U.S. destination with their host families.

Franciscan Sister Sheral Marshall, seen during a recent visit to a migrant service shelter in Texas, said the migrants are given the address of the closest Catholic Charities to help find a lawyer for their immigration court hearing.

As a result, she said, people have turned to “coyotes,” or smugglers, to take them across the border into the U.S where they turn themselves in to the Border Patrol. Desperation has led to steep costs for smuggling, she said, with the price of crossing as high as $8,000.

“It’s an unbelievable situation,” Sister Sheral said.

“If you hear people talking about illegal aliens, all I can think of is sci-fi movies. These people aren’t illegal, they’re undocumented, and they can’t apply at the places they should.”

Sister Sheral also criticized the Trump administration’s decision to end the Flores agreement, which since 1997 has limited the detention of migrant children to 20 days. Indefinite detention would have lifelong harmful psychological effects, she said.

“That it’s being done in our name is the horrible thing. It’s not our values as a country,” she said.

The factors provoking immigration – drought, violence, gangs and corruption, among others – make it difficult to see how it will end, Sister Sheral said.

Sending people back to the nations they fled is inhumane since they used all their resources to make the trip to the U.S., she said.

Sister Sheral also pointed out that the violence and instability in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where many migrants have come from, exists in part because of U.S. involvement in their national affairs.

“It’s such a mess and they don’t deserve it,” she said.

Sister Sheral encouraged people to keep track of political developments around immigration, as well as to pray, write letters and donate to humanitarian organizations helping migrants.

As for returning to the border, Sister Sheral said, “I would love to go again but I don’t know if anyone will be crossing.”

Charismatic renewal conference draws hundreds to cathedral NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Hundreds of Catholics gathered Sept. 21 at St. Mary’s Cathedral for prayer, community and spiritual guidance at the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s annual Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference. Now in its 22nd year, the conference took “Never Thirst Again” as its theme and offered sessions in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Richie Almendrala, who helped organize the conference, said participants “all share the same belief of being renewed by the Holy Spirit, and it’s a way every year to celebrate the Holy Spirit.”

John Murphy, another conference organizer, said the turnout had been excellent: About 500 people attended, drawn from across the Bay Area as well as places like Stockton and Sacramento.

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A man prays at the annual Charismatic Renewal Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral Sept. 21.

This year’s theme, Murphy said, explored how “once we’ve found Jesus and have opened up to him, our spiritual lives are fulfilled and we really don’t need to be looking for anything else.”

Beginning their day with a rosary in the morning, conference participants had the opportunity to attend talks, workshops, praise and worship music and prayer sessions. Later in the day, people could go to a healing service and a Holy Hour. The closing Mass at 7 p.m. was celebrated by Father Ray Reyes, pastor of St. Augustine’s in South San Francisco and archdiocesan vicar for clergy.

The conference’s keynote speakers were Father Jose Maniyangat from Jacksonville, Fla., Father Joseph Freedy from Pittsburgh, Penn., Father Jorge Arias, parochial vicar at St. Timothy and St. Matthew parishes in San Mateo; and Horacio Trujillo from Tijuana, Mexico.

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moved to the U.S. from Brazil 10 years ago, he prayed to Our Lady of Aparecida, the patroness of Brazil.

“I prayed that if it is for God’s purpose, I would love to serve where I was baptized,” he said.

The shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Sao Paulo, Brazil is the largest Marian shrine in the world.

It houses the statue found in pieces by fisherman in 1717 after praying to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception for a good catch after a run of bad luck.

Legend has it that the fisherman cast out their nets which soon became heavy with plenty of fish and a broken statue of the Virgin Mary. Neighbors began to venerate the statue named by the fisherman as Our Lady of Aparecida and devotion grew as many miracles were attributed to her.

St. Raphael Parish and St. Thomas More Parish in San Francisco, both with substantial Brazilian communities, will celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Aparecida on Oct. 12. A traditional proces-

sion includes a replica of the statue being carried into the church by pilgrims in a net-covered boat.

When they first came to the U.S., Campos and his wife first settled in Maryland. But eventually “doors opened,” he said, and they moved to Marin County and began attending St. Raphael Parish.

They also are involved in the greater Bay Area Brazilian charismatic community centered in San Rafael, El Cerrito, Concord and San Francisco.

The Brazilian priest at the mission church both prayed the Mass and moved off to the side to play the guitar. Before he returned to Brazil, he handed his guitar to Campos, who at the time knew “no more than three cords.”

Like his Brazilian grandfather before him, he taught himself to play. Soon he was leading the music ministry for the parish’s Brazilian Mass. He would sometimes be invited to play Brazilian songs at the parish’s multi-ethnic Masses.

Campos said that’s what inspired him to begin doing musical translations.

“People would come up and say, ‘Oh, that was so beautiful, but what is the song saying?’ because it was in Portuguese,” he said.

Campos said it is not always possible or desirable to translate “word by word” because of the variances in the way language is used in different cultures. Instead, it’s an artful translation of word and feeling, he said.

“If there is a hymn that Americans particularly love, I want to translate that and let other countries experience that too,” he said.

On Oct. 5, the Risen project is hosting Brazilian Catholic musician Guilherme de Sa at St. Thomas More Church in San Francisco for a two-hour piano and acoustic guitar concert.

“For me the inspiration came from God,” said Campos of his music ministry and the Risen project. “I was given the seed and to see it happening is like watching a tree grow.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Respect life month puts Gospel values in daily life NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

While attacks on human life “seem to grow more numerous and callous by the day,” Christians’ hope in the Resurrection gives “the grace to persevere in faith,” said Kansas City’s Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, chairman of the USCCB’s Pro-Life Activities Committee, in a letter for Respect Life Month.

Each October inaugurates the Catholic bishops’ conference year-long Respect Life program, which tries to help educate Catholics on respect for human life and ways to value it. The bishops’ conference provides English and Spanish materials to help parishes celebrate Respect Life month, includ-

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Archbishop Naumann thanked Catholics for their work supporting human dignity and life and said their work “on behalf of the unborn, the dying, the elderly, the imprisoned, the poor and so many others have a profound impact, both now and in the life to come.”

This year’s Respect Life theme is “Christ Our Hope: In Every Season of Life.” Because of Christ’s Resurrection and ultimate victory, he said, Christians know their “sacrifices on behalf of the Gospel of Life can contribute to the redemption of this current culture of death.”

The archbishop also noted that the mission to

defend human life and promote justice toward it depends on the laity. “We bishops need your help,” he said. “We know that to build a true culture of life, we must seek to change hearts and minds. And your witness is essential. Your daily activities take you to places I cannot go; they bring you to those I will never meet.”

Valerie Schmalz, director of the archdiocesan office of Human Life & Dignity, said her office “works to empower Catholics and promote Catholic social teaching in an ever changing political and cultural landscape, following the principle articulated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that ‘For the Catholic Church, there is SEE RESPECT LIFE MONTH, PAGE 15

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

40 Days for Life rides wave of pro-life interest NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A heightened profile for pro-life activism this year has led to San Francisco’s first fall 40 Days for Life campaign. Local 40 Days organizer Clarisse Siu said that after last year’s assault on volunteer Ron Konopaski and the release of the pro-life film “Unplanned,” pro-life vigils have seen “a huge increase in participation.”

“In previous years, it’s been please come and now we have more people coming,” Siu said. “We wanted to capitalize on the momentum and have people come out more regularly.”

The fall prayer vigil campaign will run Sept. 25 through Nov. 3.

Started in 2004, 40 Days for Life involves peaceful vigil outside abortion clinics in addition to community outreach and prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. San Francisco began participating in 40 Days for Life in 2009.

40 Days for Life is a non-sectarian organization, but historically the vigils in San Francisco have been attended by mostly Catholics. The increased interest in offering pro-life witness has begun changing that, Siu said.

“We’re getting a lot more people who aren’t just Catholic,” she said.

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40 Days for Life participants pray outside the Planned Parenthood location on Valencia Street in San Francisco in April 2019. 40 Days will run its first fall prayer campaign in San Francisco Sept. 25 through Nov. 3.

The fall campaign will also miss Ron Konopaski, who has been a daily presence over more than a decade of prayer vigils at Planned Parenthood. Konopaski, who was recently honored by 40 Days for Life as Leader of the Year, was unable to attend the fall campaign because of prior commitments.

Siu said she hopes 40 Days can sign up enough people to have someone praying every day outside Planned Parenthood, at its Valencia Street location and on Sundays

in front of the soon-to-be-opened Bush Street clinic. “If we could get up to 12 hours covered every day we would be over the moon. So far we’re halfway there but we have many days that are unfilled,” she said.

Siu encouraged anyone interested to sign up or contact the local 40 Days for Life team for more information or to address concerns. “It’s very peaceful, prayerful and for the most part completely uneventful,” she said.

“In our spring campaign, we know we saved at least two children because their parents came and told us,” she said. “And we’ve had tons of women come to us and counterprotesters acknowledge our point of view. So much good comes from our prayerful presence. If you have any questions, you can come and ask us.”

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Catholic Medical Association holds first San Francisco meeting “live and promote the principles of the Catholic Faith in the science and practice of medicine.”

For many medical professionals, that can be quite difficult. Dr. Michel Accad, the San Francisco chapter president, said Catholics in health care “not only witness things that are wrong but it’s hard to take action – the dysfunction is so profound it can be hard to understand what is going on.”

Many in the health care industry are also concerned about professional repercussions from practicing medicine in accord with their faith.

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Archdiocesan Catholics in the health care industry have an opportunity to meet like-minded colleagues now, as the San Francisco chapter of the Catholic Medical Association held its first meeting at St. Dominic Church on Sept. 14.

The group’s aim is to “encourage your faith and invigorate your ability to practice Catholic medicine,” said Dr. Cynthia Hunt, a CMA regional director.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Study finds US abortion rates at all-time low CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new study from a Planned Parenthood think tank released on Wednesday found that abortion in the United States has dropped to its lowest rate since the procedure was made legal in 1973.

The report from the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, estimated that there were approximately 862,000 abortions in 2017. The rate of 13.5 abortions per 1,000 “women of reproductive age,” marks a drop of 3.4 from 2011, and half the rate in 1980.

Overall, the total number of abortions fell by 196,000 over the past six years, with just over 500,000 of 2017 abortions carried out via abortion pills, as opposed to a surgical method.

The report suggested that increased availability of contraception, including long-term contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, not state laws restricting abortion, were responsible for the drop.

This conclusion was disputed by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a pro-life organization, which suggested that cultural change over time has played a significant role.

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“American mothers are increasingly choosing

life for their children, as well as choosing to identify themselves with the pro-life cause and pro-life policies. This includes the broad protections for women and children being enacted at the state level such as strengthened health and safety standards for abortion facilities, limits on public funding of abortion, parental involvement laws, and increased informed consent,” he added.

Donovan also expressed concern at the increasing percentage of women who opt to end their pregnancies using chemical abortifacients. This, he said, “reveals the abortion industry’s increasingly successful effort to cut the overhead costs of surgical abortion while still profiting off the destruction of unborn children and wounding of his or her mother.”

“The industry’s migration to chemical selfabortion is deeply disturbing as it carries with it the possibility of increasing the overall abortion rate over time and also carries with it a higher rate of injury, about which women are often under informed or deceived,” he added.

Guttmacher’s report found that nearly one out of five abortion clinics, or “nonhospital facilities,” had reported treating a woman who had attempted and failed to induce an abortion on her own. They termed this a “self-managed abortion.”

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Chaput: Father Martin’s message causes confusion about doctrine CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

PHILADELPHIA – After Father James Martin, SJ, spoke at a Philadelphia university, the Archbishop of Philadelphia urged caution about the priest’s message, especially regarding the possibility that Catholic teaching on sexuality might change.

“Father Martin has sought in a dedicated way to accompany and support people with same-sex Father James attraction and gender dysphoria.

Martin, SJ Many of his efforts have been laudable, and we need to join him in stressing the dignity of persons in such situations,” Archbishop Charles Chaput wrote in a Sept. 19 column published on his archdiocesan website.

“At the same time, a pattern of ambiguity in his teachings tends to undermine his stated aims, alienating people from the very support Archbishop they need for authentic human Charles Chaput flourishing. Due to the confusion caused by his statements and activities regarding same-sex related issues, I find it necessary to emphasize that Father Martin does not speak with authority on behalf of the Church, and to caution the faithful about some of his claims,” Chaput added.

Martin is the author of “Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity,” and speaks frequently on issues pertaining to homosexuality and Catholicism.

Chaput’s column raised his concern that “Father Martin – no doubt unintentionally – inspires hope that the Church’s teachings on human sexuality can be changed.”

“In his book, ‘Building A Bridge,’ he writes: ‘For a teaching to be really authoritative it is expected that

it will be received by the people of God … From what I can tell, in the LGBT community, the teaching that LGBT people must be celibate their entire lives . . . has not been received.’ One might easily, and falsely, infer from such language that the Church’s teaching on sexual intimacy lacks binding authority for same-sex attracted Catholics,” Chaput wrote.

The archbishop credited Martin for the priest’s insistence that he has never directly challenged Catholic teaching.

“But what is implied or omitted often speaks as loudly as what is actually stated, and in the current climate, incomplete truths do, in fact, present a challenge to faithful Catholic belief.

“When people hear that ‘the Church welcomes gay people’ or needs to be more ‘inclusive and welcoming’ without also hearing the conditions of an authentically Christian life set for all persons by Jesus Christ and his Church – namely, living a life of chastity – they can easily misunderstand the nature of Christian conversion and discipleship,” Chaput noted.

“For this reason, Catholic teaching always requires more than polite affirmation or pro forma agreement, particularly from those who comment publicly on matters of doctrine. Faithful Catholics who are same-sex attracted need support and encouragement in the virtue of chastity. They deserve to hear – as all people do – the truth about human sexuality spoken clearly and confidently. Anything less lacks both mercy and justice.”

Chaput’s column addressed other concerns about Martin’s work.

The archbishop noted that “Father Martin suggests that same-sex attracted people and those with gender dysphoria should be labeled according to their attraction and dysphoria, calling for use of the phrase ‘LGBT Catholic’ in Church documents and language. But while the Church does teach that the body is integral to human identity, our sexual appetites do not define who we are.

“If we are primarily defined by our sexual attrac-

tions, then, in order to be fulfilled, it would follow that we must identify with and act on our attractions. This is the opposite of the Gospel’s clear teaching that our identity is found in Jesus Christ, created in the image and likeness of God and called to be sons and daughters of God,” the he said.

The archbishop also lamented that Martin “suggests that Catholic teaching on same-sex attraction as ‘objectively disordered’ (for example, in CCC 2358) is cruel and should be modified.”

“It’s worth recalling here that the Catechism also describes lust, extra-marital relations, and contracepted sex, masturbation, and even non-sexual sins such as lying and calumny, as intrinsically ‘disordered.’ The suggestion that the wisdom of the Church, rooted in the Word of God and centuries of human experience, is somehow cruel or misguided does grave harm to her mission. Families have been destroyed because of this misperception, and Father Martin regrettably contributes ambiguity to issues that demand a liberating biblical clarity,” the archbishop added.

Martin tweeted a response to Chaput’s column Sept. 19.

“I think my main response is that it’s difficult to respond to critiques that I am ‘implying’ things, when I am assiduous in my writings and talks about not challenging church teaching,” Martin wrote.

Martin noted that the lecture he offered at St. Joseph’s University “is the same lecture that I presented at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin last year, the text of which was vetted and approved beforehand by the Vatican.”

Acknowledging that same-sex relations and same-sex marriage are impermissible and immoral, Martin tweeted that “LGBT Catholics have heard this repeatedly. Indeed, often that is the only thing that they hear from their church.”

“What I am trying to do instead is encourage Catholics to see LGBT people as more than just sexual beings, to see them in their totality, much as Jesus saw people on the margins,” the priest wrote.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time AMOS 6:1A, 4-7 Thus says the LORD the God of hosts: Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall!

Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise their own accompaniment. They drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the best oils; yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph!

Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and their wanton revelry shall be done away with.

PSALM 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 Praise the Lord, my soul!

Blessed he who keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets captives free.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

The LORD gives sight to the blind; the LORD raises up those who were bowed down. The LORD loves the just; the LORD protects strangers.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

The fatherless and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. The LORD shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

21 TIMOTHY 6:11-16 But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.

LUKE 16:19-31 Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.

When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.’ Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.’ He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they too come to this place of torment.’ But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ He said, ‘Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ Then Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.’”

Lazarus the homeless street-person

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pass the homeless – or the hand-out seekers – any day I’m driving across town to the post office, the market or the freeway ramp. The hand-lettered signage on the ratty fold-up cardboard torn from boxes has evolved. The signs used to say, “Down and out, no money,” or “Will work for food,” or “Help a veteran. God bless.” Now it’s “Anything helps” or no sign at all. The guy just stands there with a giant-slurp plastic cup, and if a car slows down with window rolled down, he leaps into the lane, grabs the bill, and shoves it into his back pocket.

The handout seekers – are they homeless? – present an ever-increasing population.

The guys holding up signs when the light is red used to SISTER ELOISE be decrepit-looking middleROSENBLATT, RSM aged or older men, some with pet dogs, who looked like they hadn’t showered or shaved for days. Now the dogs are fewer. The athletic shoes clean. A series of women in ethnic garb with a baby in a stroller appear regularly on a certain corner. On the median this morning stood a 30-ish guy smoking, ear jack for his phone, a rolled-up sleeping bag at his feet.

A disheveled obese woman, indeterminate age, pushed a shopping cart with a suitcase in it, crossing the street to the mall. I feel compelled to notice,

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but shame that I look away, salving my conscience that there are social services available to all these people, suspicion that this has become a racket, but convinced some are genuinely in need.

But how do I tell the charlatans from the truly desperate? The fact is that many homeless individuals and families are not visible, housed in temporary shelters, and “they” in Santa Clara County social services are trying to place them in low-cost housing. Another set of homeless have erected tents and are camping on sidewalks. They don’t want to be in shelters. This presents another challenge to social services.

Did the rich man have some of these complicated feelings about a homeless man lying at his door who had a name, Lazarus? Was he being used as a “front,” to collect money for his “keepers,” or did he actually live on the street outside the rich man’s house? Luke says he was “covered with sores,” and that the dogs treated him better than people did.

The homeless include a high proportion of people suffering from mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, personality disorders, traumatic stress and malnutrition – plus health conditions aggravated by life on the street. In Luke’s parable, Lazarus may have become habituated to his feeling of helplessness; and he had a repellant, untreated disease.

We can presume Lazarus, like street people, had family somewhere. He was, at one moment of his life, recognized as someone’s son, maybe someone’s dad, someone’s husband, someone’s brother, cousin, former neighbor or classmate. Ultimately, the members of the “family” of Lazarus – the family of the

poor –are angels, Abraham, Moses and prophets.

The poor are destined to be “re-familied,” blessed by God and compensated for their earthly misery.

Luke teaches that those who pay attention to the forgotten, the friendless and abandoned poor, the terrified, the homeless, the chronically sick, the hungry – are on Abraham’s side of the “great chasm” that separates the blessed from the damned.

I know people who serve meals in soup kitchens, who raise money to support homeless relief projects, who open a room off the garage to a guy with no job, who staff the self-help center at court to assist fearful women petition for domestic violence restraining orders, who organize bus trips for family members to visit loved ones in prison, who donate blood, who hear complaints of lonely elders in assisted living, who bring communion to seniors who can’t get to church, who drive to tent sites in a big van with portable showers so camping homeless can bathe and get a haircut. I know people working in Rapid Re-Housing to help recently evicted families who can’t pay their hiked-up rent bill. I know volunteers who distribute packets of shampoo-toothpaste-soap to women in shelters.

You know them, too. A blessing on the people we know who live this Gospel message. And on the one who hands out a fiver to that woman in ethnic dress waving at you, with the baby in a stroller. On the chance the need is real.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5: Saturday of the Twentysixth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos; St. Faustina Kowalska, virgin.

BAR 4:5-12, 27-29. PS 69:33-35, 36-37. SEE MT 11:25. LK 10:17-24.

Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Denis, bishop and martyr and companions, martyrs; St. John Leonardi, priest.

JON 4:1-11. PS 86:3-4, 5-6, 9-10. ROM 8:15bc.

LK 11:1-4.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. HAB 1:2-3; 2:2-4. PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9.

2 TM 1:6-8, 13-14. 1 PT 1:25. LK 17:5-10.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10: Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. MAL 3:1320b. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. SEE ACTS 16:14b. LK 11:5-13.

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

She lives in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Memorial of St. Jerome, priest and Doctor of the Church. ZEC 8:1-8. PS 102:1618, 19-21, 29 and 22-23. MK 10:45. LK 9:46-50.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1: Memorial St. Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin and Doctor of the Church. ZEC 8:20-23. PS 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7. MK 10:45. LK 9:51-56.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2: Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels. NEH 2:1-8. PS 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6.

PS 103:21. MT 18:1-5, 10.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3: Thursday of the Twentysixth Week in Ordinary Time. NEH 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12.

PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. MK 1:15. LK 10:1-12.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4: Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, confessor. BAR 1:15-22. PS 79:1b-2, 3-5, 8, 9.

PS 95:8. LK 10:13-16.

MONDAY. OCTOBER 7: Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. JON 1:1–2:1-2, 11. JONAH 2:3, 4, 5, 8. JN 13:34. LK 10:25-37.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8: Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. JON 3:1-10. PS 130:1b2, 3-4ab, 7-8. LK 11:28. LK 10:38-42.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9: Wednesday of the

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11: Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John XXIII, pope. JL1:13-15; 2:1-2. PS 9:2-3, 6 and 16, 8-9.

JN 12:31b-32. LK 11:15-26.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12: Saturday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. JL 4:12-21. PS 97:12, 5-6, 11-12. LK 11:28. LK 11:27-28.

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Counsels on faith and religion for today’s generation

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t’s no secret that today we’re witnessing a massive decline in church attendance and, seemingly, a parallel loss of interest in religion. The former mindset, within which we worried, sometimes obsessively, about sin, churchgoing, and heaven and hell no longer holds sway for millions of people. As one parent, worried about the religious state of his children, shared with me recently, “our old religious concerns never ever darken their minds.” What’s to be said in the face of this?

Admittedly, I may not be FATHER RON the person best-suited to ROLHEISER offer that advice. I’m over 70 years old, a spiritual writer whose main focus of research and teaching right now is on the spirituality of aging, and I’m a Roman Catholic priest, a religious insider, who can be perceived as simply a salesman for religion and the churches.

But, despite that, here are some counsels on faith and religion for today’s generation.

First: Search honestly. God’s first concern is not whether you’re going to church or not, but whether you are staying honest in your search for truth and meaning. When the Apostle Thomas doubts the reality of the resurrection, Jesus doesn’t scold him, but simply asks him to stretch out his hand and continuing searching, trusting that if he searches honestly he will eventually find the truth. The same is true for us. All we have to do is be honest, to not lie, to acknowledge truth as it meets us. In John’s Gospel, Jesus sets out only one condition

to come to God: Be honest and never refuse to acknowledge what’s true, no matter how inconvenient. But the key is to be honest! If we’re honest we will eventually find meaning and that will lead us where we need to go – perhaps even to a church door somewhere. But even if it doesn’t, God will find us. The mystery of Christ is bigger than we imagine.

Second: Listen to what’s deepest inside you. Soul is a precious commodity. Make sure you honor yours. Honor the voice inside your soul. Deeper than the many enticing voices you hear in the world inviting you in every direction is a voice inside you which, like an insatiable thirst, reminds you always of the truth of this prayer from Saint Augustine: You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

Stay in touch with that voice. You will hear it in your restlessness and it will, in the words of Karl Rahner, teach you something that’s initially is hard to bear but eventually sets you free: In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we eventually learn that here in this life there is no finished symphony.

Third: Beware the crowd! In the Gospels the word “crowd” is almost always pejorative. For good reason: Crowds don’t have a mind and the energy of a crowd is often dangerous. So beware of what Milan Kundera calls “the great march,” namely, the propensity to be led by ideology, groupthink, the latest trend, the popular person or thing, the false feeling of being right because the majority of people feel that way, and the social pressures coming from both the right and the left. Be true to yourself. Be the lonely prophet who’s not afraid to be alone on the outside. Dream. Be idealistic. Protect your soul.

Don’t give it away cheaply.

Fourth: Don’t confuse faith with the churches – but don’t write off the churches too quickly.

When they ask those without religious affiliation today why they aren’t religious invariably their answer is: “I just don’t believe it anymore.” But what’s the “it” which they no longer believe?

What they don’t believe anymore isn’t in fact the truth about God, faith, and religion, but rather what they’ve heard about God, faith, and religion.

Sort that out and you will find that you do have faith. Moreover, don’t write off the churches too quickly. They have real faults; you’re not wrong about that, but they’re still the best GPS available to help you find your way to meaning. They’re a roadmap drawn up by millions of explorers who have walked the road before you. You can ignore them, but then be alert to God’s gentle voice often saying: “Recalculating.” God will get you home, but the churches can help.

Fourth: Don’t forget about the poor. When you touch the poor, you’re touching God and, as Jesus says, at the judgment day we will be judged by how we served the poor. Give yourself away in some form of altruism, knowing, as Jesus puts it, that it’s not those who say Lord, Lord, who go to heaven but those who serve others. In your search, you need to get a letter of reference from the poor.

Fifth: Look among your contemporaries for a patron to inspire you. Jean Vanier, Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Oscar Romero, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Simone Weil, Etty Hillesum and Dag Hammarskjold, among others – they’ve all navigated your issues.

Christian values (“Archbishop Gomez: ‘With El Paso, a line has been crossed in our nation,’” Aug. 22). I agree with him. Some so called Christians in my own community are hostile to people from Latin countries. I too am of Mexican descent and agree with his comment, “This land was born as an encounter of cultures first with the Native Americans.” “The humanity of others is never negotiable.” Thank you, Archbishop Gomez.

Mary Murphy San Francisco

mistranslation here somewhere, I decided to conduct a little research into the matter.

As it turns out, the word “hate” is a translation from the Greek and Aramaic word “miseo.”

Unlike English, which has a rich choice of words to express the various degrees of each emotion, Greek and Aramaic have limited choices of words. Therefore, the word “miseo” includes several translations, such as, “hate,” “dislike,” and “esteem less.” Therefore, wouldn’t it be obvious that the choice of translation in concert with the “meaning” of this Scripture would clearly be “esteem less” rather than “hate?”

Check it out: “If anyone comes to me and does not esteem less father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be my disciple.”

Realize how much confusion, discomfort, and efforts to justify sacred Scripture would be avoided if this appropriate translation were used. Again, I ask, “Who are these so-called Bible scholars?”

Give me a break!

Mary Pecci San Francisco

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

LETTERS Courage on the front lines

Re “Local pro-life leader wins national award,” Aug. 22: What a wonderful surprise to see Ron Konopaski awarded the “Leader of the Year” award by 40 Days for Life. There is no one more deserving of this honor. Rain or shine, enduring daily abuse, Ron has been there to speak for those who can’t, by his witness. Never responding to the verbal abusers in kind, he has endured much ill will with courage and kindness and love. Thank you for this article informing us of a well-deserved honor for him.

Sonia Braa San Francisco

Pray for healing

Re “Disservice to illegal immigrants,” letter, Sept. 12: As I read differing perspectives about our country’s immigrants (whether legal, illegal, recent arrivals or “illegals” who have lived, worked, raised families here over years), I want to pray with the Sisters whose letter implores us to pray for the healing of our country. Laws matter of course, but what we really need to heal is hardness of heart towards our neighbor. Christianity certainly includes desperate refugees as our neighbors, because the sanctity of God’s children doesn’t lessen by crossing a border, whether legally or not. If not criminally dangerous, we need to welcome them with kindness until their petitions can be fairly addressed. Some will have to be deported, but no one should feel hated or unworthy of respect.

We need to pressure the president to stop ICE from raids that break up and traumatize families of law abiding, hard-working illegal immigrants who have established new lives here for years. Pressure him, also, to treat people crossing our border with decent, respectful, humanitarian care. Enough food, medical care, enough Christian love. As for laws and policies, they can be changed for the better if we care enough, and speak up enough.

Susan Brown San Carlos

Welcoming the stranger

Thank you for publishing Archbishop Gomez’ article regarding the U.S. having lost touch with

The linguistics of ‘hate’ in Luke 14:26

A few years back, you published my comment regarding the Scripture reading Luke 14:26, which was repeated at this Sunday’s Mass, Sept. 8, 2019: “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”

Since many people find this Scripture upsetting and an actual turnoff, I would appreciate your republishing my comment for the sake of those who need reassurance of their faith in Jesus’ character.

I never cease to wonder who are these so-called “Bible scholars” who take it upon themselves to translate the sacred words of Scripture from one language to another, often to the detriment rather than to the enlightenment of the faithful?

Take, for example, Luke 14:26, which is translated as follows: “If anyone comes to me and does not HATE father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, even his own life – such a person cannot be my disciple.”

Now consider for a moment how many people, Catholics as well as non-Catholics, have been totally turned off by the suggestion that Jesus, the supreme personification of love, would ever suggest, even in the extremist sense of hyperbole, that we hate? After wrestling with this problem and being fully convinced that there must be a

Women’s stories inspirational

With so many articles in the Sept. 12 Catholic SF, I almost overlooked “Women discuss ‘getting out and staying out’ of jail,” but I’m glad I took the time to read it. The women interviewed for the article, Jeris Woodson, Victoria Westbrook, Marilyn Jones, Rebecca Jackson and Shannon Wise, were all on one of the panels that were part of the Restorative Justice Reentry Conference Fair at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Their stories were inspirational. Their determination to succeed and their commitment to helping others is very impressive. May God bless all of them with continued success.

Dolores Brady San Francisco

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the family parish, served for 25 years as the archdiocesan director of family life. After he received an award from the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers in 1985 for his pioneering work in marriage ministry, Father Sammon recommended to the priests’ council that parishioners Peg and Ed

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Father Sammon had wryly replied.

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The Gleasons later became involved in the Christian Family Movement, a network of Catholic parish families and groups who engage in “practical Christian action,” such as foster-parenting, prison ministry, refugee sponsorship, religious education and couples counseling.

“We were a leaven in the parish and community, and in a sense activists,” Ed said.

The couple also established the Bay Area Retrouvaille Program for troubled marriages.

In 1987, Peg and Ed were asked to be the master of ceremonies when then-Pope John Paul II came to St. Mary’s Cathedral during the pontiff’s visit to San Francisco.

Protocol flew out the window when Peg reached out to embrace the pope, said Ed. “That was Peg,” he said.

In more recent years, Peg was a volunteer at St. Anthony Foundation and St. Boniface’s Gubbio Project for the homeless.

Franciscan Father Tom West, parish administrator for St. Boniface in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco said the church “was full of those who felt Peg’s loss” at her funeral Mass.

He got to know the Gleasons when he was chaplain at the St. Anthony Foundation. In addition to Peg’s work in the dining room, the couple taught a class on family systems and life skills to men in the alcohol and drug abuse recovery program.

“Peg was full of good humor and had a wonderful gift dealing with people,” said retired Father Anthony McGuire, former pastor of St. Patrick Parish in San Francisco and now in residence at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo.

The couple had a “tremendous affect” on Catholic couples in the archdiocese during their time, he said, both those preparing for marriage and those trained to prepare them.

“They helped couples view marriage in its sacramental nature,” Father McGuire said.

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The Catholic Medical Association “has been helpful” because of the educational and communal resources it provides health care workers, Dr. Accad said.

The chapter’s mission for its first years, he said, will be aimed at “mutual support, educating ourselves and making connections.”

Angela Testani, a retired nurse, said that while she was working at the University of California San Francisco her conscientious objection to attending abortions was honored by her manager. Other Catholic co-workers, however, did not take the same stand “because they weren’t as close to retirement and were afraid of reprimands from management,” she said.

Testani said she looked forward to participating in the association.

“We’re all God’s children. No matter where in the world we are, when we get together, we all have a common goal to nurture and heal people, body, mind and soul. It’s the perfect fit for me,” she said.

Protecting the conscience rights of health care workers has become a national issue. In May, President Donald Trump announced a conscience protection rule that says medical workers or institutions would not have to provide, participate in or pay for procedures they object to on moral or religious grounds, such as abortion and sterilization. It was to have taken effect July 22, but enforcement was postponed because it is being challenged in court.

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BISHOPS URGE LIMITS ON MEDICALLY ASSISTED PROCREATION

PARIS – France’s Catholic bishops opposed legislation to allow medically assisted procreation for single mothers and lesbian couples and urged citizens to help block its enactment.

“We hear and understand the suffering of those who cannot have children from their union with a person of the opposite sex and of homosexual women who aspire to have children,” said Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims, president of the bishops’ conference. “But our societies are making a collective mistake when they pretend to resolve sufferings with medical and juridical techniques, and when they turn medicine intended for caring and curing into a vehicle for demands and frustrations.”

The archbishop spoke at the College des Bernardins in Paris, as France’s National Assembly prepared to debate a revised bioethics law extending rights to state-funded medically assisted procreation.

He said the French bishops repeatedly had outlined what was at stake in the projected measures, but added that the church’s “attitude of listening and dialogue” had been ignored by legislators in “their fascination with the promises of medical and juridical techniques.”

Archbishop de Moulins-Beaufort warned the measures risked “pointing the way to a liberal eugenics,” and said the “beauty of parental love for children” could not justify “surrendering procreation to medical manipulation” and “family relationships to DIY.” Archbishop Eric Aumonier of Versailles urged citizens to consider the “grave transgressions” embodied in the legislation, which would “place the desire of adults before the welfare of children.”

JESUIT PROVINCIALS CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION ON NICARAGUA

SANTIAGO, Chile – The Society of Jesus has urged Latin American countries – working “through international diplomacy” – to “take all the necessary measures to rescue democracy in Nicaragua and hold the current regime responsible for the crimes it has committed.”

In a lengthy statement, “Crimes that demand justice: an urgent call to the international community,” released Sept. 19, the Conference of Jesuit Provincials of Latin America and the Caribbean called for justice and an end to the violence in Nicaragua where, for the past 18 months, the government has targeted opponents of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo.

“We will not tire in denouncing the arbitrary actions of the Ortega-Murillo regime,” said the statement signed

by Father Roberto Jaramillo Bernal, conference president, and Father Rolando Alvarado, Jesuit provincial for Central America. “We want to continue being attentive of the voices of those who are suffering the unmerciful tyranny of power that tries to subject the dreams of freedom and democracy through terror, repression, torture and killings.”

Nicaraguans took to the streets, starting in April 2018, against a proposed reform to the country’s social security institute. Their demands expanded to include the ouster of Ortega and his Sandinista party. Ortega deployed police and paramilitaries to crush the protests and baselessly accused opponents of plotting a coup.

The Inter-American Human Rights Commission put the death toll at 328, while the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reports 88,000 Nicaraguans have fled the country, mostly to neighboring Costa Rica.

Ecuador, Venezuela, Suriname, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Guyana and French Guiana.

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Men attend a horse and plow during the National Ploughing Championships in County Carlow, Ireland, Sept. 17, 2019. More than 250,000 visitors were expected at the annual agriculture show, many of which participated in evangelization initiatives. Participants were asked to vote for Ireland’s favorite prayer. Bishop Denis Nulty, “overwhelmed” by the response to the initiative, said he believes “it’s so important we as a diocese are present in the middle of Europe’s biggest outdoor event, responding to the call of Pope Francis to be present to people in the midst of their busy and hectic lives.”

LETTERS TO NEWMAN SHOW HIS ROLE AS PASTOR, EVANGELIST

OXFORD, England – Thousands of documents relating to England’s 19th-century convert-cardinal, Blessed John Henry Newman, are being released ahead of his Oct. 13 canonization, highlighting his role as a pastor and evangelist, said church Blessed John experts.

Henry Newman Although 32 annotated volumes of the cardinal’s letters and diaries have been published over the past five decades, the new material includes letters and correspondence to the future saint.

“Up to now, we’ve had only half his correspondence, with just fragments of letters he received, so this will greatly improve ... understanding of the complex issues he dealt with,” said Paul Shrimpton, an Oxford-based expert on Newman’s educational theories.

Father Ignatius Harrison, provost of Birmingham’s Oratory of St. Philip Neri, said Cardinal Newman “wasn’t just a lofty philosopher – he was primarily a priest and prophet, who foresaw the difficulties facing Christianity in a secular world. He was loved in his lifetime not because everyone had read his academic masterpieces, but because of his pastoral kindness to the poor and sick, as these collections graphically illustrate,” Father Harrison said.

CATHOLIC NETWORK: NATIONS HAVE ‘MORAL DUTY’ TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

MANCHESTER, England – Governments have an unprecedented “moral duty” to take urgent action to combat climate change, Catholic development agencies said. In a statement released ahead of the U.N. Climate Action Summit, which started in New York Sept.

23, they described the rate of climate change as an emergency, a social crisis and an environmental catastrophe.

They said targets to reduce global warming were too low and said governments must seek to reduce carbon emissions by 65% if climate change was to be limited to a rise of less than 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030. A 2018 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that a slightly higher increase would produce a rise in sea levels, flooding, heatwaves, famine caused by poor crop yields and the loss of habitats such as coral reefs.

The 20 organizations that signed the statement are members of CIDSE, an

umbrella group mostly of Catholic aid agencies from Europe and North America. In the Sept. 19 statement, the agencies accused governments of procrastinating “while the vulnerable suffer and our planet literally burns before our eyes.”

In a video message to participants at the summit, Pope Francis said that while the 2015 Paris climate agreement raised awareness and the “need for a collective response,” the commitments made by countries “are still very weak and are far from achieving the objectives set.”

PHILIPPINE SENATE HEARS PROPOSALS TO LEGALIZE DIVORCE

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Senate has begun hearing proposals from various sectors to pass a law to legalize divorce in this predominantly Catholic country.

Two divorce bills pending in the Senate propose a six-month coolingoff period after couples file a petition for divorce as a final attempt at reconciliation between estranged spouses, reported ucanews.com. The agency reported some of the proposed grounds for divorce include physical violence, grossly abusive conduct, drug addiction, habitual alcoholism, chronic gambling, homosexuality, bigamy and infidelity.

Senate President Vicente Sotto said senators are unsure about divorce but may be willing to pass a bill allowing for the dissolution of a marriage. The Philippines is the only country besides Vatican City without a legal provision for divorce. Several representatives of the Philippine bishops’ conference have reiterated their opposition to the legislation, saying divorce is anti-marriage and anti-family.

VATICAN RELEASES LISTS OF AMAZON SYNOD PARTICIPANTS

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has named Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston and the other members of his international Council of Cardinals to be voting members of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon.

Releasing the list of synod participants Sept. 21, the Vatican also noted that the pope had nominated as synod members Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego and Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Quebec, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Most of the 185 voting members of the synod are bishops or priests from the nine countries that include part of the Amazon rainforest: Brazil,

PHILADELPHIA – The term “social justice” is on the lips of many pastoral leaders these days. Dioceses, parishes and religious congregations usually have some sort of social justice coordinator, who advocates for faith-based responses to issues such as immigration, racism, poverty or climate change. But for all the discussion and outreach, do Catholics in the pews actually understand what social justice means?

Not really, according to Craig Giandomenico, an adjunct professor of religion and theology at La Salle University in Philadelphia. “It’s a term that history has loaded to the breaking point,” said Giandomenico, noting that “it’s important to unpack social justice, especially given our heightened political climate.”

He said that “such a crucial time in the church calls for clearing up confusion over the terms we all tend to believe we are using in the same ways.”

Giandomenico observed that U.S. Catholics often find it harder to understand what social justice entails, given the nation’s “complicated history of struggling with the role of religion in the public sphere.” As a result, he added, many “rank and file parishioners” tend to have “a privatized conception of the church’s ministry” that assumes the church only speaks to individuals, rather than communities, cultures and societies as a whole.

TRANSGENDER MAN SUING CATHOLIC HOSPITAL OVER HYSTERECTOMY

SACRAMENTO – A Sacramentoarea woman who identifies as a transgender man will be allowed to sue a Catholic hospital for cancelling and rescheduling a procedure to remove her uterus, following a ruling from the 1st District Court of Appeal that overturned a lower court ruling.

Evan Minton, who identifies as a male, says in the lawsuit that Dignity Health, a Catholic health system that operates Mercy San Juan Medical Center outside Sacramento, in 2017 cancelled a planned hysterectomy when she mentioned to a nurse that she identifies as transgendered. Dignity Health arranged for Minton to have the procedure done at a non-Catholic affiliated hospital within 72 hours of the cancellation, the Sacramento Bee reports.

Minton sued, arguing that the hospital’s actions violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, which says businesses must offer full and equal access to state residents.

Dignity Health told the Sacramento Bee “Catholic hospitals do not perform sterilizing procedures such as hysterectomies for any patient regardless of their gender identity, unless there is a serious threat to the life or health of the patient. Courts have repeatedly recognized the right of faith-based hospitals not to provide services based on their religious principles. In this case, Mr. Minton was able to quickly receive the sought-after procedure at another nearby Dignity Health hospital that is not Catholic-affiliated.”

A San Francisco Superior Court judge initially dismissed Minton’s lawsuit, on the grounds that the hospital followed court precedent in rescheduling the patient quickly at a different hospital.

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QUITO, Ecuador – The upcoming Synod of Bishops for the Amazon will focus on the devastating effects of climate change on the environment and on indigenous communities, but it also will look at ways to meet the spiritual needs of the region’s people.

One of the big challenges in evangelization and ministry is the lack of missionaries and priests, which some people in the region believe can be resolved by the ordaining of married “viri probati,” or men of proven virtue.

The ordination of married “viri probati” would “respond to a concrete challenge in a concrete reality, for example, in the Amazon,” Spanish Bishop Rafael Cob, apostolic vicar of Puyo, told journalists in Quito Sept. 14.

The journalists were on a study trip organized by REPAM, the Pan-Amazonian Church Network, in advance of the synod Oct. 6-27.

“The Amazon is a geographically difficult region to evangelize first because of its distance, its inaccessibility,” the bishop said. But there also is a “lack of candidates who can or want to be priests with that discipline (celibacy). So, logically, the church is looking for new methods to respond to concrete challenges.”

The synod’s 45-page working document, published by the Vatican June 17, suggested studying “the possibility of priestly ordination for elders – preferably indigenous, respected and accepted by the community – even if they have an established and stable family.”

While Pope Francis has made it clear that he did

not agree with allowing “optional celibacy” for priests, he did say he was open to studying the possibility of ordaining married men for very remote locations, such as the Amazon and the Pacific Islands, where Catholic communities seldom have Mass because there are no priests.

One of those remote locations is the Kichwa indigenous community of Sarayaku, located deep in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon region and accessible only by small plane or a four-hour canoe ride.

Franco Tulio Viteri Gualinga, former president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon and a member of the Sarayaku community, told journalists Sept. 17 that sometimes a priest or a bishop will come every two weeks or sometimes just once a month.

In the absence of a priest, a nun living in the village will lead the community in a liturgy of the word, he said.

When asked about the possibility of having an ordained married elder person in the community, Viteri said, “that’s what the church needs to do.” He cited the example of his uncle, who is a catechist in Sarayaku, as a possible candidate.

Sister Rosa Elena Pico, a member of Missionaries of Mary Co-Redemptrix, said that Christian formation, particularly among those who want to fulfill a ministry within the community, was very important in the region and that while there is a lack of priests, ordination of married “viri probati” isn’t the only solution.

“I believe that it is necessary that if there isn’t a priest, there must be somebody who should be a representative, for example, a permanent deacon who can administer the sacraments,” she said.

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POPE: Show others God’s mercy, don’t judge them FROM PAGE 1

not forget us, he does not lose sight of us despite the obstacles that can keep us far from him,” as the Gospel story of Zacchaeus demonstrates. Although the tax collector had a “small stature, physically and morally,” Jesus noticed him and decided to go to his house even though everyone in Jericho knew he was a sinner.

Reading the Zacchaeus story on the anniversary of the cathedral dedication, Pope Francis said, is a reminder that “every church – the church with a small ‘c’ – exists to keep alive in people’s hearts a reminder that God loves them.”

“It exists to say to each person, even those furthest away: ‘You are loved and called by name by Jesus. God does not forget you. You are in his heart.’”

The followers of Jesus, the pope said, must follow his example with Zacchaeus and “go to those who are most forgotten, those hiding behind the branches of shame, fear and solitude, and say to them, ‘God remembers you.’”

Knowing that at Mass in the square there probably were people who didn’t go to church regularly, Pope Francis spoke directly to them: “Dear brother, dear sister, if like Zacchaeus you are looking for meaning in your life but not finding it, if you are throwing it away with ‘surrogates for love’ like wealth, career, pleasure or some form of dependence, let yourself be seen by Jesus.

“Only with Jesus will you discover that you always have been loved,” the pope continued. “You will feel touched inside by the invincible tenderness of God who moves and inspires your heart.”

Although he did not speak directly about the day’s feast of St. Matthew and his own overwhelming experience of God’s mercy during confession on the Sept. 21 feast day in 1953, it obviously was on his mind. His episcopal motto, “Miserando atque eligendo” (“because he saw him through the eyes of mercy and chose him”) comes from a homily on the Gospel call of St. Matthew by eighthcentury St. Bede the Venerable.

In his homily in Albano, Pope Francis told the people that every conversion begins with the outpouring of God’s love and mercy, and if that mercy and love are not the first inspiration for everything a parish does then “we risk making the faith mundane, complicating it, filling it with non-essentials.”

“You don’t need to be complicated Christians who elaborate a thousand

theories and get lost searching for answers online,” he said. Those who have experienced God’s mercy and are active in parish life must do their best to make sure their churches are places where others can feel God’s mercy and love.

“Unfortunately, it can happen that our communities become extraneous and unattractive to many people,” he said. “Sometimes we give in to the temptation of creating closed groups, intimate spaces among the elect. We think we’re the elect, the elite.”

But Jesus wants everyone to know his saving love and that means trying to help those who feel unworthy or unwelcomed or who have stayed away “because a priest treated them badly,” the pope said. Jesus wants his church to be “a hospitable tent” where every person can encounter him.

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It is precisely because of their belief in this truth that they are rightly concerned about the “hidden dangers today’s medicine is exposed to,” he said.

They must resist temptations – led in part by policies making it legal – “to use medicine to support a possible desire for death by the person who is ill, providing assisted suicide or

directly causing death with euthanasia,” the pope said.

Such choices are not expressions of the person’s freedom when they include the possibility of “discarding” the ill or the false compassion of helping people hasten their death, he said.

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Pope Francis repeated that message later the same day, when he met participants in a symposium promoted by Somos Community Care on immigrant families and their health care needs.

Somos is a New York City-based network of physicians whose patientcentered approach focuses on building trust through sharing a common language and culture. Doctors also try to address social and environmental factors that may affect well-being.

The pope praised Somos’ approach and its commitment to people who “live on the margins of society in situations of poverty and hunger.”

This kind of “personal engagement” must be encouraged in a society that displays extreme indi-

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“Your daily commitment is aimed at opposing that throwaway culture” and supporting the overall care of the person, he said.

“This solidarity with the sick is a real treasure and is a distinctive sign of a care and authentic health assistance that place the person and their needs at the center,” he added.

“Even though not all medical interventions lead to physical healing, health care offered with a human heart will always have the capacity to do good to life, in body and spirit.”

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Sister Walsh met Sister Patricia the Dominican Sisters Marie Walsh, OP of Mission San Jose at the School of the Madeleine in Berkeley. She entered the congregation in 1946 and made first profession of vows as a Dominican sister on

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Sister Walsh also ministered as a hospital chaplain in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Tucson, Ariz., and was a founding member of the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network.

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ADULT FAITH MATURATION: The “Gather at Grand” speaker series sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael hosts Father Diarmuid O’Murchu, MSC, on “The Evolution of Adult Faith Maturation,” 7-8:30 p.m., Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Light refreshments provided. RSVP CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org or call (415) 453-8303.

MOSAIC-TV ON MARY: Raymond Frost of the Legion of Mary and Deacon R. Christoph Sandoval discuss Mary, the rosary, the upcoming Rosary Rally and the archdiocese’s renewed consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. 5:30 a.m., KPIX-Channel 5, CBS Bay Area. sfarch.org/mosaic-tv.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 27

CATHEDRAL CONCERT: Free, 4 p.m. recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, celebrating the 175th birth year of Charles Marie Widor. Freewill offering. Visit smcsf.org.

‘GREATNESS’ WORKSHOP: Speaker Jonathon Fanning presents an event based on Matthew Kelly’s book “The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic,” 6:30-10:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco.

Registration $25 at dynamiccatholic. com/sanfrancisco or call (859) 9807900.

SVDP FUNDRAISER: Composer concert featuring Father Rick Manalo, CSP, and Janet Sullivan Whitaker benefitting Larkspur and Corte Madera neighbors in need, St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur. Concert, $35, at 5 p.m. followed by no-host beer and wine tasting, $25. Tickets at the door.

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ANIMAL BLESSING: Pet caretakers are invited to bring their pets to the plaza of St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, at noon for a blessing by the pastor in the tradition of San Francisco’s patron, St. Francis of Assisi. Dogs must be on leashes and cats in carriers. Small animals and birds in cages are welcome. (415) 567-2020.

ANGELIC PARISH MISSION: Father Peter Prusakiewicz, CMSA, a speaker on the Holy Angels, the Divine Mercy and St. Faustina, will lead a threeday parish mission at Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Visit stmichaelthearchangel.info or contact Patsy Gonzalez, patsygee@ yahoo.com.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 FIRE AND POLICE MASS: Special memorial Mass for fire and police first responders. 11 a.m. at St. Monica Church, 470 24th Ave., San Francisco. Father John Greene, chaplain to the San Francisco Fire Department, presiding. Contact the parish at (415) 751-5275.

TUESDAY, OCT. 1 ORDER OF MALTA CLINIC GALA: The clinic’s annual “Champions Gala” celebrates volunteer physicians, staff and board members, 6-9 p.m., St. Francis Yacht Club, 99 Yacht Road, San Francisco. Proceeds will raise funds for operations and expanded services. Visit orderofmaltaclinic.com/ annual-gala for tickets and information.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 5 BRAZILIAN WORSHIP MUSIC: Brazilian Catholic musician Guilherme de Sa will play acoustic guitar and a piano duet in a two-hour concert beginning at 9 p.m. at St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco. $20. Doors open at 7. Jonathan Campos, contact. risenproductions@gmail.com.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 4 ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP: Free monthly support session led by Deacon Christoph Sandoval from 1-3 p.m. in the Msgr. Bowe room at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, on the west side of the parking lot. Register with Deacon Sandoval at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218, or csandoval@stmaryscathedralsf.org.

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

FIRST SATURDAY MASS: For peace and reparation in honor of Our Lady of

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Pastor Father Raymund Reyes, celebrant.

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

CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP: A free workshop to learn how people and groups are working in coalitions to respond to the climate change challenge, globally, nationally, locally.

9 a.m.-noon, St. Teresa of Avila parish hall, 1490 19th St., San Francisco. greenteam@stteresasf.org.

SUNDAY, OCT. 6, 13, 20, 27 CATHEDRAL CONCERT: Free, 4 p.m. recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Freewill offering. Visit smcsf.org.

THURSDAY, OCT. 10 ‘GLORIOUS’ PREACHERS: Best-selling author and speaker Bo Sanchez, together with his team of Kerygma preachers, will present a night of praise, worship and preaching, 7 p.m., St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco. $25. For tickets call/text (415) 748-1848 or (415) 756-1627.

FRIDAY, OCT. 11 PRIESTS RETIREMENT LUNCHEON: The St. John Vianney luncheon supports retired priests. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Contact Rod Linhares, archdiocesan director of development, (415) 614-5581.

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ST. DUNSTAN FALL FEST: A threeday family festival including bingo, live entertainment, a silent auction, carnival rides and food and game booths. St. Dunstan Parish, 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae. Mimi Muller, jetlaggedmimi@ gmail.com or (650) 722-1931.

THE DON BOSCO STUDY GROUP: Will discuss “Spiritual Direction” by Henri Nouwen, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 12 PAX CHRISTI SPEAKER: Marie Dennis will talk about how the institutional Catholic Church can adopt active nonviolence as its Gospel-based default approach. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Newman Hall/Holy Spirit Church, 2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley. Suggested $20-25 donation. Visit paxchristinorcal.org or call (510) 469-8096.

RELATIONSHIPS CONFERENCE: Dynamic presentations on dating, respect, pornography and handling sexual harassment for teens, parents and catechists. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Hyatt House, 2611 Contra Costa Blvd., Pleasant Hill. Free. Co-sponsored by the Office of Life and Justice, Diocese of Oakland and Ethos California. Text “ethosca” to 313131 or call (925) 4495887 to register.

SUNDAY, OCT. 13 MOSAIC TV: A special segment on the history, charism and current work of the Franciscan order. 5:30 a.m. on KPIX television Channel 5, CBS Bay Area.

Past episodes of Mosaic are archived and viewable at sfarch.org/mosaic-tv.

MISSION DOLORES FIESTA: International food and drink, live entertainment, a “bouncy house” and raffle with six chances to win up to $2,000 in prizes. From 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in the schoolyard behind the mission at 16th and Church streets. Visit missiondolores.org or contact Gustavo Torres, at gtorres@missiondolores.org or (415) 621-8203, ext. 11.

SACRED HEART PICNIC: Sacred Heart Parish’s annual picnic. Raffle, potluck, basket sale, children’s activities, and bocce ball. 12-4 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church, 10189 State Route One, Olema.

Visit www.marinsacredheart.com or contact the parish at (415) 663-1139, or sacredheartrectory@horizoncable.com.

CATHOLIC WOMEN’S CONFERENCE: The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women’s fall conference will meet at Holy Name of Jesus Parish’s Flanagan Center from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Includes Mass and lunch. Contact Cathy Mibach, dcmibach@aol.com.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: Join the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose for a creative, hands-on workshop on making “ofrendas” or altars for the home to honor loved ones who have died. 1-5 p.m. at the Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. $45 per person, $5 for children.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 24 2019 BRENNAN AWARDS: The St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco honors the “humanitarian spirit” of San Francisco Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, 6 p.m., Westin St. Francis Union Square, 335 Powell St., San Francisco. Visit svdp-sf. org or call Terry Hopper, (415) 757-6561.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 24 NIGERIA BENEFIT: Mother of Mercy Charitable Foundation hosts a presentation by Father Edward Inyanwachi to benefit the rural poor in Nigeria. From 6-8 p.m. in Flanagan Hall at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Ave., San Francisco, $50. Contact Angela Testani, (415) 347-1866, or a.testani@ mmcharitablefoundation.org.

Father Edward Inyanwachi, director of education for Abakaliki Diocese in Nigeria, and Angela Testani, a retired San Francisco nurse, formed MMCF to alleviate the health care, educational, pastoral and humanitarian needs of the rural poor in Nigeria.

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WOMEN’S RETREAT: Lisa Fullam, D.V.M, Th.D, speaks on “Holy Desire: Ours and God’s” from 8:30 a.m.1 p.m., Del Santo Reading Room, University of San Francisco’s Lone Mountain campus, 2820 Turk Blvd., San Francisco. Register at eventbrite. com/e/71384516009, or contact Franca Gargiulo, fgargiulo@usfca.edu.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August HOLY CROSS, COLMA Primitiva M. Agcaoili John David “Jack” Arnautou Carmen Luz Arostegui (Aka Chyna) Kathleen Helen Bagdon Margaret J. Battaglia Yvette Battezzato Mary Louise G. Bautista Richard A. Becketti John L. Berenguer Judith Rae Boler Herbert A. Calderon Olga L. Calegari Peter Paul Vincent Cardozo Barbara Silk Carpenter John T. Casserly Danny Cassidy David Castro Virgilio Castro Georgia Chircop Joseph Chircop Patricia F. Connolly Monica V. Contreras-Ayala Pura H. Corado Betty B. Cuevas Anne Marie Cuevas (Née Micheletti) Simon N. Dabit Diane S. Davalos Gladys E. Derry Sarah Doggett Theresa C. Dsouza Maria R. Galan Edwin Augusto Galindo “Gunny” John A. Garcia Madeline A. Gaul

Federico Gomez Mary A. Guaraglia William Lanyon Hambley William Ernest Haynes Jovita (Joyce) Hipona Fred Houston Rodolfo Z. Javier Charlene Haught Johnson Aurora Jose Joan T. Kelley-Ryder Margarita Kramer Eva B. Kuenzli Patricia Dennis Lucey Catherine T. Lyons Estela Luna Manalo Dolores Janice Marucco Cosmedin Matoza Delia McCabe Ernesto Medina Richard Vincent Mercurio Angel Francisco Merida Maria M. Michel Minnie W. Miguel Romeo Villa Miguel Josephine H. Milligan Mary Louise Minero Laura Jean Mizzi Joseph W. Mooney Sister Lillian Murphy Michael O’Donnell Bo Ching Or William C. Parenti Helen Gloria Perez Maureen M. Petiti Janet Plante Angelina Presti Joseph P. Reagan Carmen Milagro Rodriguez Esther M. Roscelli Richard D. Saxton

Patricia A. Scardino Roy Scocci Rafael Jaden Siao Marie Antoinette Somky John Anthony Soto Ruth B. Teahan Louis A. Tricerri Corazon Vargas Jose A. Vigil Timothy John Ware Charles Harris Webb Helen S.Y. Xavier Francisco R. Velarde Zevallos

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Gilberte Daisey Cuisinot Joan R. Ferrari Jerome Gibson Jeanne Gressens Deacon Fred Iskander Joanne O’Donohoe Pasotti Maria Refugio Quiroga De Guitron Malia Mahafutua Sevelo

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