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Called “A Prayer for Wholeness,” the event came out of a listening session Our Lady of Mount Carmel held after the publication of the Pennsylvania grand jury report in August on clerical abuse and church cover-up in six dioceses in that state. Father Michaels told Catholic San Francisco that several parishioners talked about “a sense of powerlessness” in the face of the crisis affecting

VILNIUS, Lithuania – For the first time in decades, all of the Catholic bishops in China are in full communion with the pope, the Vatican announced.

Pope Francis lifted the excommunications or irregular status of seven bishops who had been ordained with government approval, but not the Vatican’s consent, the Vatican announced Sept. 22. A few hours earlier, representatives of the Vatican Cardinal Joseph and the Chinese government signed Zen Ze-kiun what they described as a “provisional agreement” on the appointment of bishops.

“With a view to sustaining the proclamation of the Gospel in China, the Holy Father Pope Francis has decided to readmit to full ecclesial communion the remaining ‘official’ bishops ordained without pontifical mandate,” the Vatican said, listing their names.

The pope also included in the list Bishop Anthony Tu Shihua, who, before dying Jan. 4, 2017, “had expressed the desire to be reconciled with the Apostolic See,” the Vatican said.

Regularizing the bishops’ status, the Vatican said, Pope Francis hopes “a new process may begin that will allow the wounds of the past to be overcome, leading to the full communion of all Chinese Catholics,” some of whom steadfastly have refused to participate in activities or parishes under the leadership of bishops not recognized by Rome.

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An interfaith gathering in Mill Valley on Sept. 15 prayed for wholeness and healing in response to the sex abuse crisis. The event came out of a listening session Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish held after the publication of the Pennsylvania grand jury report in August.

Prayer at heart of parish’s response to sex abuse Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

About 50 people gathered Sept. 15 in Mill Valley to pray for healing amid the clergy abuse scandals.

Led by local ministers, including Father Patrick Michaels, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, a small circle formed in Mill Valley’s Depot Square to pray for victims of sexual violence, its perpetrators, and themselves.

Pro-life conference highlights diversity of movement Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

A Sept. 8 pro-life conference at University of California at Berkeley took aim at uniting pro-life people from different backgrounds to build a broad base for activism in California.

The “Let There Be Life” conference, organized by Pro-Life San Francisco, was the organization’s first attempt to “unite pro-life people across the state, across generational lines, across religious persuasions,” executive director Terrisa Bukovinac told Catholic San Francisco.

The conference brought such well-established pro-

Life to the stage along with activists from younger organizations such as New Wave Feminists and Rehumanize International.

Bukovinac said the goal had been to organize a conference that would be interesting for an older generation while still drawing millennials. “The pro-life movement has largely failed to attract young people,” she said. By bringing in speakers who could speak to issues millennials care about, she said, she hoped to draw more interest and inMonica Snyder volvement from a younger generation.

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Need to know ‘ESSENTIAL HENRI NOUWEN’: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose present “Spiritual Guides for Today: The Essential Henri Nouwen,” with Dominican Sister Ingrid Clemmensen and Mary Ellen Parker, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont; 1-2:30 p.m., $10 per session. Register by Sept. 27, http://bit. ly/2018HenriNouwen; (510) 933-6360.

correction “Holy Angels brings a rose to Our Lady of Guadalupe,” Sept. 13, Page 11: A caption for the photo accompanying the article misidentified the pictured Knights of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus shown were from San Pedro Calungsod Assembly and Maria Regina Assembly. The photo credit was also incorrect. Colleen Hera provided the photograph to Catholic San Francisco.

Archbishop cordileone’s schedule Sept. 25-26: Chancery meetings Sept. 27: Red Mass, 5:30 p.m., Sts. Peter and Paul Sept. 28: IRB meeting; Mass of welcome, 2PM, St. Joseph Basilica, San Jose; St. Jeanne Jugan awards dinner, 5:30 p.m., cathedral Sept. 29: Together in Holiness Mass, 10:30 a.m., IHM, Belmont; St. Patrick Seminary gala dinner, 5 p.m.

Sept. 30: St. Benedict parish visit Oct. 2: Knight of Malta Dinner, St. Francis Yacht Club Oct. 3: Cabinet and chancery meetings; St. Dominic dinner and young adults talk.

Oct. 4: Presbyteral Council, chancery and finance Council meetings Oct. 5-7: St. John the Evangelist parish visit Oct. 6: Rosary Rally Oct. 7: Town Hall meeting, 5 p.m., St. Matthew

for her unwavering reliability in providing compassion and support to those who are survivors of clerical sexual abuse. For those who can benefit from this service provided by our Archdiocese, Rocio may be contacted at: Dear People of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, rodriguezr@sfarchdiocese.org.

In my letter to you of August At the same time, we also continue to make available 17, 2018, I explained that I would on the Archdiocesan website a means for easily and consult the Presbyteral Council of promptly reporting abuse (www.sfarchdiocese.org/howthe Archdiocese and my Cabinet to-report-suspected-abuse). in order to determine how I would While we must continue to discern what practical designate an act of reparation be measures in the temporal order must be taken in order conducted in the Archdiocese for to achieve the reform we all earnestly seek, we must the horrendous crimes of clerical remember that none of it will have the desired effect sexual abuse. Since then, revelawithout help from above. Therefore, in light of the distions have continued to unfold cussions I have had, I am designating three successive – especially with the publication First Fridays of the month for our priests to dedicate of stories from the Pennsylvania Archbishop themselves to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Grand Jury report – which speak Salvatore J. to serious bodily fasting. Adoration will take place from to the depth of the evil that ocCordileone 9:00am to 6:00pm on October 5, November 2 and Decemcurred. The violations of sacred ber 7, and priests are asked to sign up for at least one trust by those called to be spiritual fathers to God’s people fill us all hour (and preferably more if they can) of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on those days at one of the folwith disgust and horror. Indeed, some of these incidents lowing locations: are nothing short of diabolical.

St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco This is why our focus on the urgently needed reform & Candles Religious Gifts Parish, & BooksSan Rafael St. Isabella in the Church ChurchGoods must be on prayer and penance. As our St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo Lord himself has said, “This kind cannot be driven out On December 15th, these locations will host Adoration by anything but prayer and fasting” (Mk 9:29). At the same time, while this spiritual focus must always remain of the Blessed Sacrament for you, our lay faithful, deacons and religious, to join with your priests in prayer, primary, there is more we have to do. During this time from 10:00am to 12:00 noon. Of course, you are also welof rightful righteous indignation among our people, it is come to join them if you wish on any of the other three more important than ever that we, 5your leaders, listen locations in California days of Adoration. Moreover, in light of the discussion to you. Therefore, in addition to the consultations I have Local Store: at the Presbyteral Council meeting, I also ask our priests already undertaken, I have alsoYour scheduled five opportunities for people in our Archdiocese to S.San meet with me and to take up a specific act of charity sometime during the 369 Grand Ave., Francisco,650-583-5153 in which the First Friday occurs in October, Nospeak to me directly. The schedule is as follows: Near SF Airport - Exit 101 Frwy @week Grand vember and December.

Sunday, September 30, 5 p.m.: St. Anthony, Novato It is clear to me that our prayer and sacrifices must be Sunday, October 7, www.cotters.com 5 p.m.: St. Matthew, San Mateo cotters@cotters.com offered up for the renewal of the Church. Most espeWednesday, October 17, 7 p.m.: St. Mary’s Cathedral, cially, we must pray for those who have been abused at San Francisco the hands of clerics: they are the victims of the deepest Thursday, October 18, 5 p.m.: St. Stephen, San Francisco betrayal imaginable, and more than anyone else need Sunday, October 28, 6 p.m.: Immaculate Heart of Mary, and deserve our support and care. It is also clear to me Belmont that we must be offering prayer and sacrifices for our Since the primary focus must always be on prayer, Holy Father, Pope Francis, as well. God has entrusted we will begin these sessions with praying the Church’s the pastoral governance of the Universal Church to him Liturgy of the Hours for the Evening Hour, Vespers. Afat a particularly tumultuous time, and now more than ter that, those present will be able to ask questions and ever he needs our love and support, and our prayers that make comments. While I cannot claim to have all of the God will give him the wisdom and stamina he needs to answers to the trials the Church is suffering at this time, guide His people on the path of holiness during this time I pledge to do my best to listen and respond. of great trial.

After these meetings with you, and further consultaFinally, I ask that you keep your priests uppermost in tions with our Archdiocesan Independent Review Board your prayers. They are the laborers who bear “the burand my Cabinet, I will determine what further steps will den of the day and the scorching heat” (Mt 12:20), and I be necessary to help bring about the desperately needed remain deeply grateful to them for the pastoral care and purification of our Church. I also take this opportunity support they provide to you, the People of God. Please to thank the members of the IRB for using their broad pray for me, too. range of expertise from their diverse professional backgrounds for insuring accountability and transparency Sincerely yours in our Lord, in handling both individual cases and general policies regarding the sexual abuse of minors by the Church’s ministers, and for their steadfast love of the Church. I find their insights and recommendations to be invaluMost Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone able. I wish as well to express a special word of gratitude Archbishop of San Francisco to our Victims’ Assistance Coordinator, Rocio Rodriguez, September 21, 2018 Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August HOLY CROSS, COLMA Sebastino R. Alesci Josephine Begley Alunan Miguel Amistoso Maria Del Carmen Anguiano Dolores A. Arata Dominique Argain Siu Wah Au Poon Clarita Badillo Janet S. Binalinbing James F. Boler Henry Wing Cheung Bong Dora Carcache Alma Olivia Castillo Robert W. Chernotsky Marilyn J. Cichor Alison Collins Rolando Juaquin Coronado Joseph Costa Rhonnie Jose Lustre Cruize Bernard Cuburu Anthony Patrick DeGraca Gloria Stella Deshaies Lorraine B. Duvall Juanita “Swanee” Eckert Mary P. Engel Patricia Ann “Patti” Esquibel Maria G. Estrada Serafin G. Evangelista Anna Jean Fanucchi Ricardo E. Flores Gerald T. Forbes Josephine Jenkins Gaedeke John B. Garcia, Jr. Amanda Terrisita Glass Harriet Anne Golberg Lois A. Grant Nancy Guaragna Grace Hagedorn Terrence Daniel Hanley Henry H. Hansel Richard Bryant Harvell Joanna Ilaoa

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Retiring quite a process for longtime educator Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

As I get closer to retirement, I expect ending my years as a chancery grunt will be my one and only opportunity to lift the prized milestone. Lorraine Paul has several retirements under her belt.

Lorraine Paul “Lorraine has been a teacher, principal, president, dean of women, dean of students, development director, and a number of other titles besides the obvious roles of wife, mother, grandmother and friend,” Vicki Bornstein, a friend of Lorraine’s and former pastoral associate at St. Hilary Parish, told me in a note to this column. “She is a devoted and dedicated teacher and administrator and she will be missed.” Lorraine is a 1968 graduate of Mercy High School, Burlingame.

Wearing her educator hat, Lorraine has made a substantial and lasting contribution to the Archdiocese of San Francisco. She served two terms as principal of St. Gregory School, San Mateo, worked at Junipero Serra High School and other Catholic schools, and served on numerous boards, search and accreditation committees. She is a once-and-again principal of Jesuit High School in Carmichael. Thinking she had called it a day, she was coaxed out of retirement by the Sisters of Mercy to work for Mercy High School, San Francisco. Lorraine retired officially when her return stint in Carmichael ended in August.

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REMAINING UP-TO-DATE: Charismatic Renewal prayer group leaders met Aug. 11 with Father Raymund Reyes, renewal archdiocesan liaison.

“Participants had an opportunity to discuss the status of their groups, their needs and how they could be supported by the archdiocese Charismatic Renewal Board,” the group said. The meeting included an update from the Vatican creating a new service body to support Charismatics worldwide. For Charismatic Renewal information, visit www.sfspirit.com.

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Now she takes up the job of grandmother/babysitter for her daughter Katie’s two little girls, so Katie can continue her job in Catholic education at St. Ignatius College Prep.

Her son Ian is an assistant professor at Stony Brook University in New York. Her son Bruce is in the tech field.

“I am grateful for the many students and parents I have had the privilege to serve over these 43 years, and honored to have worked with teachers and administrators who truly believed that the best teaching doesn’t come from behind the desk, but rather from behind the heart,” Lorraine told me.

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HOLY FATHER: Pope Francis greets Father Ken Weare, pastor, St. Rita Parish, Fairfax, July 6 inside the Vatican’s Sala Clementina Hall. “We spoke briefly in Spanish. He looked straight at me,” Father Weare told Catholic San Francisco.

“For those treasured moments, I was deeply honored to have met such an exemplar Christ-like figure.” Father Weare was among a group of theologians, scientists, and environmental experts, personally brought to Rome for “Saving Our Common Home and the Future of Life on Earth,” a conference marking the third anniversary of the release of “Laudato Si’.” Father Weare addressed the body about items including implementation of the encyclical within the Archdiocese of San Francisco, particularly the establishment of “Green Teams” in each parish.

HEAR YE, HEAR YE: Hats off and many more years to the Catholic Marin Breakfast Club founded in September 1994 by Denis Ragan “assisted by Wayne Batmale. Jim Mahoney and Dave Dawson,” Denis told me via email. The approximately nine meetings a year include Mass at 7 a.m. followed by breakfast and an invigorating talk. Founders saw the get together as “an open forum for speakers on a variety of topics of interest to Catholic laypeople,” Denis said. About 50 people are members of the club today. They celebrate their 25th year in 2018. “We have had a great run,” Denis said, counting more than 170 speakers

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Vatican speaker: How Catholics can join pope’s climate ‘revolution’ not a document,” he said. “‘Laudato si’’ is a prayer, Praise be to God.” The encyclical is “a proposal to rediscover the way we live together in our common home,” not just something to read.

Father Zampini said lifestyle changes such as simply eating less meat, recycling or reducing atmospheric carbon emissions are “not really what ‘Laudato si’’ is about.”

He said the encyclical is about a spiritual conversion that changes our heart in a way that motivates us to reconsider “how we produce, how we trade, how and what we buy, what we consume and what we waste.”

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Pope Francis is urging Catholics to join hands with others outside the church to combat climate change, said one of two Vatican priests representing the Holy Father at the Global Climate Action Summit held Sept. 10-14 in San Francisco.

“The fabulous message of ‘Laudato si’’ is how we can all contribute to the solution,” Father Augusto said Father Augusto Zampini, Zampini an Argentinian theologian and official on the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development, referring to the pope’s 2015 encyclical on ecology. He spoke at a thinly attended Catholic-focused event at the University of San Francisco Sept. 14 at the conclusion of the summit.

“We need to start making connections and forming partnerships with people of other churches and faiths and people of no faith in order to take action,” Father Zampini said.

On the third anniversary of “Laudato si’” this summer, he said, the Vatican decided to link its action plans with those that are already happening in the world.

“To the Catholic mindset, this is a revolution,” Father Zampini said. “We didn’t organize to publish something of our own.”

He also announced that the Vatican has put its “full support” behind COP24, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. COP 24 takes place Dec. 3-14 in Katowice, Poland.

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Father Dermot Lane from the Archdiocese of Dublin speaks with Franciscan Sister Irene Ogutu at a workshop on “Eco Spirituality, Liturgy and ‘Laudato si,’” held Sept. 14 at the University of San Francisco in conjunction with the Global Climate Action Summit.

The Global Climate Action Summit was organized by California Gov. Jerry Brown as a response to the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement in 2017.

Government leaders, business leaders, scientists, and faith leaders gathered to discuss progress and accelerate new commitments to reducing carbon emissions.

Father Zampini reminded his audience about the prophetic nature of “Laudato si.”’

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Catholic hospital ministry brings spiritual healing Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

On a Friday morning at San Francisco General Hospital, Father Francis Htun stood out in his Roman collar and clerics in a hallway filled with nurses and doctors. While not part of the medical staff, he is part of the healing mission of the hospital. Father Htun, the Catholic chaplain at the hospital, has the responsibility to provide for the spiritual needs of between 30 and 50 Catholic patients on a daily basis.

Htun, who began working at the hospital a year ago, told Catholic San Francisco that chaplain work attracted him because of the opportunity “to tell people our God is loving and forgiving, and the chance to tell people Jesus died for all of us, and loves and forgives us.”

Like the medical care providers at the hospital, Father Htun works as part of a team to serve patients. In addition to Father Htun, one deacon, four Missionaries of Charity and several extraordinary ministers of holy Communion volunteer weekly to visit patients, bring them Communion, and comfort them in their suffering.

Rosa Gallardo told Catholic San Francisco “this is a very beautiful ministry, and we have seen there is a great need for this ministry.”

Amid the loneliness, sadness, and pain of a hospital stay, people need to hear a comforting word, she said.

Emilia Romero added “it’s about time we recognized spirituality is important to the healing of the person”.

Many of the patients they see are homeless and return to living on the street after they are released, Celia Halsey told Catholic San Francisco. “It’s a haven to come here,” she said.

Several of the volunteers at the hospital are Spanish speaking or bilingual, and all emphasized the importance of ministry to Latino patients. Many of the people they visit have lapsed in practicing their faith. While some of the people they encounter can be initially hesitant about talking to them, Gallardo said, “once they start talking they melt a little bit. They remember their traditions and love of Christ in the Catholic Church.”

“The Latino community needs that,” she added. “We’re raised as Catholics, we just need a sign, an invitation.”

Romero said the spiritual needs of the Latino community motivated her ministry at the hospital. “The language is so important,” she said.

A renewed emphasis on Spanish language ministry began at the hospital two years ago. San Francisco General is also preparing to launch a Spanish language grief group.

While bringing Communion to patients is the focus of volunteers’ ministry at the hospital, “in reality our ministry is very big,” said Rosa Gallardo. Ministry volunteers at the hospital answer questions about the faith, find out who needs to see Father Htun for confession or other sacraments, and act as the ambassadors of Christ on the hospital floors.

The enduring question of suffering, “why me?” is one they often encounter, the colunteers said.

“People ask if God is punishing them,” Gal-

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Father Francis Htun, a Catholic chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital, and members of the hospital’s Catholic spiritual care team gather in front of the county medical center on Sept. 14. They discussed their work of spiritual healing with Catholic San Francisco.

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From left, volunteers Rosa Gallardo, Celia Halsey and Rosy Garcia at a Catholic ministry meeting at San Francisco General Hospital. Right, Father Francis Htun, Catholic chaplain at the hospital, listens during the meeting. lardo said. “God is testing us a little bit to see how far we can handle it, how far we love him, how far our own faith goes.”

Gallardo, who lives with a chronic illness, said that answer gains more force when she shares her own experience of suffering with patients.

“When we share our personal experience, then the credibility of our ministry falls into place,” she said.

While their work is difficult, all agreed their

ministry had enriched their faith. Halsey said their work “helps us to focus on Christ, to love and to serve. It has really deepened our faith, because you can only share what’s in your heart.”

Father Htun said that through working with patients, he has gained a deeper understanding of the meaning of suffering. “Every day I’m dealing with suffering and dying, and our God is joy in suffering. I feel like I’m dealing with Jesus when dealing with those who are suffering.”

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Father Zampini said the Vatican is a “tiny part of the church.”

“We need the full support of all of you, of all your congregations and of all your institutions, schools, parishes,” he said.

Following Father Zampini’s remarks, participants broke off into workshops on topics such as Greening Your Institution, Raising the Catholic Voice, Fossil Fuel Divestment and Liturgy and “Laudato si’.”

Father Dermot Lane, a theologian from the Archdiocese of Dublin, spoke on “eco spirituality” at a session attended by just two people, a Franciscan

sister from Marquette University in Wisconsin and a Franciscan brother from Rome.

“The title of the encyclical, the opening verse of the encyclical, the final line of the encyclical and the existence of two prayers at the end indicates to me that part of the intention of Pope Francis is that this would influence the way we pray, the way we celebrate liturgy and the way we celebrate the Eucharist,” Father Lane said. “But that’s not happening.”

In 2015 Pope Francis initiated the World Day of Prayer for Creation to open the Sept. 1-Oct. 4 ecumenical Christian “Season of Creation,” Father Lane said.

“But how many parishes have adopted the ‘Season of Creation?’” he asked. “I am here on sabbati-

cal and have gone around to several parishes on Sunday without hearing any reference to it.”

Capuchin Brother Benedict Ayodi said that although it “is not a requirement that any parish must observe the season,” he and others hope it becomes part of the liturgical calendar.

Father Lane said that incorporating prayers for creation into the Catholic liturgy is perhaps the best way to effect the “ecological conversion” Pope Francis talks about in “Laudato si’”.

He cited the Latin credo, “Lex orandi, lex credenda,” which loosely translated means how we worship reflects what we believe and how we will live.

“I think this should be our ambition,” Father Lane said.

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Respect life conference focuses on end-of-life care Vicki Evans

Catholic social teaching is the foundation of good medicine and ethical health care. That is the message of this year’s respect life conference, “The Heart of End of Life Care: Catholic Social Doctrine,” Nov. 17 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The program is structured to begin with an explanation of core Catholic principles that underlie care for the sick and dying, then to apply these principles to the practical realities of clinical and spiritual care. Afternoon speakers present insights on how to respond to cultural trends in contemporary medicine that are diminishing conscience rights of medical professionals.

Doctors and nurses everywhere are assailed by a changed perception of the function of medicine from “first do no harm” to “the patient is always right.”

Those with the conviction that effective medicine does not include contraception, sterilization, abortion or assisted suicide are increasingly ostracized or threatened with legal action. California’s assisted suicide law presents dangers to Catholic physicians, hospitals and nursing facilities refusing to assist in or refer for a patient’s suicide. A recently signed California law threatens health care professionals with jail time for failure to use a patient’s “preferred pronoun.” Conscience clauses are now referred to as “refusal clauses” in a society where the demands of a patient trump the ethical and religious beliefs of a doctor every time.

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To combat these growing trends, a group of local medical professionals has established a new San Francisco chapter of the Catholic Medical Association. The CMA’s mission is to inform, organize and inspire its members to uphold the principles of the Catholic faith in the science and practice of medicine.

Although the conference is tailored to physicians, nurses and other medical professionals and offers continuing education credits for health care professionals, anyone with an interest in end of life matters will find the conference informative and tremendously helpful in dealing with medical issues in their own lives and the lives of loved ones.

One of the day’s main events is the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s first White Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral at 5:30 p.m. A White Mass is celebrated to acknowledge the unique contributions made by Catholic health care professionals. It takes its name from the white coat commonly worn by those in the see respect life, page 10

Respect Life Essay Contest The annual Respect Life Essay Contest is a program of the archdiocesan Office of Human Life & Dignity to help educate students of Catholic schools and parish schools of religion programs on pro-life topics. Essay questions and contest guidelines are mailed to principals and pastors in October for distribution to teachers, who are encouraged to use the essay contest as a class project. Cash prizes ranging from $50-$250 are awarded to winning students at a special liturgy and awards ceremony at St. Mary’s Cathedral in February. The contest is celebrating its 30th year during which time it has reached generations of students. Contact Vicki Evans, respect life coordinator, at evansvsfarch.org or visit https://sfarchdiocese.org/hld.

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Serra Club says ‘always forward’ and goodbye Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

When Jeanette Cook-Barrett joined the San Mateo Serra Club years ago, she never imagined she would watch it close. On Sept. 21, Cook-Barrett, the final president of the San Mateo Serra Club organized its last act. After a Mass at St. Matthew Church commemorating the club and the canonization of St. Junipero Serra, the group donated its remaining funds to St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, and walked in a silent procession to a nearby bust of St. Serra overlooking El Camino Real, where they offered a special prayer for vocations.

Tony Schunk, the district governor of Serra International, presented a check for $5,000 to John Callan of St. Patrick’s Seminary, calling it “a final thank you from Serrans in the county.”

First founded in 1934 in Seattle, Serra Clubs had the aim of promoting vocations through prayer and financial support. But in recent years, clubs on the San Francisco Peninsula have faltered. San Mateo Serra Club stopped meeting in 2015; Serra Clubs in Menlo Park and San Francisco also folded within the past three years.

Serrans said the survival of many voluntary associations like Serra Club was in danger. Older members are no longer able to sustain the duties of organizing events, but the organizations have not been able to attract newer, and younger, people.

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ful,” Serran John Barrett told Catholic San Francisco.

Cultural changes may be to blame. Serran Roland Bianchi told Catholic San Francisco membership “became too economically difficult.”

People no longer had the time to spend an hour at a luncheon because of their work obligations, he said. Bianchi also said younger people seemed less interested in associations like Serra focused on prayer and spiritual formation, instead preferring groups committed to carrying out specific activities.

His wife, Judy Bianchi, told Catholic San Francisco she thought young people were “still searching,” but felt drawn to different organizations, like Newman Centers, to find a sense of belonging.

“It’s a whole different ballgame trying to attract young people,” she said.

While the needs Serra Clubs addressed have remained, the emphasis on them has diminished, Roland Bianchi said. His generation grew up in a Catholic culture filled with daily contact with priests and religious. Today, he said, “the clergy has diminished, and the call to vocation has diminished.”

Every organization is going through this, said Judy Bianchi. “A new generation is not rising to assume leadership,” she said.

Cook-Barrett, said the demands of organizing activities together simply became too much for an aging membership to sustain. Cook-Barrett said she missed gathering with her friends at Serra Club, along with the insight meetings gave into the spiritual journeys of priests and religious. see serra club, page 25

Parishes in Marin County will celebrate the feast of the most holy rosary, Oct. 7, with Masses and the rosary at St. Vincent Chapel, One St. Vincent’s Drive, San Rafael. Msgr. Robert Sheeran will celebrate Mass at 9:30 a.m. and Father William Young will celebrate a Mass in the extraordinary form at 12:15 p.m. The rosary will be prayed at 11:15 a.m. in the time between the Masses. In recognition of the feast, the schola from the Benedict XVI Institute and other singers will accompany the 12:15 high Mass in song.

A rosary Mass and rally for the Archdiocese of San Francisco is scheduled for Oct. 6 at St. Mary’s Cathedral with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presiding. www.rosaryrallysf.com; robertjohnson6211@sbcglobal.net.

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“We did it last year and six people ended up being received into the church, with three other Catholics who grew to learn more about their faith and one more who will be baptized later this year,” Father Dan Nascimento, pastor, told Catholic San Francisco. The parish also introduced the youth extension of the program with similar success, Father Nascimento said.

“This is a great evangelization tool that introduces people to Jesus,” said Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director, Office of Faith Formation for the archdiocese who introduced Alpha at a meeting attended by about a dozen parishes about two years ago.

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Catholics air anger, outrage at San Jose listening session Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

Anger, mistrust and disappointment poured out at a Sept. 22 listening session held by the Diocese of San Jose in the wake of revelations from Pennsylvania of the systematic cover-up of clerical sex abuse by the Catholic Church. Bishop Patrick J. McGrath of the Diocese of San Jose stood at the front of the parish hall at Our Lady of the Rosary in Palo Alto for two hours while members of his diocese talked about how the church can move forward after the wounds it has inflicted.

For sex abuse survivor J.H., the shock waves running through the church today could have been avoided if diocesan offices had opened their files on clergy sex abusers earlier.

“Here we are 16 years after 2002, and all of us are reliving the pain all over again,” he said.

In addition to holding three listening sessions, the Diocese of San Jose has pledged to release the names of every priest in the diocese credibly accused of abusing minors and has commissioned an independent review of diocesan files pertaining to clergy sex abuse and how allegations against clerics were handled by the diocese.

The mistrust of the church was palpable. While the diocese has hired an outside firm, Kinsale Management Consulting, to conduct a review of its records, several people suggested its final report would lack objectivity, since its work had been paid for by the church.

Instead, J.H. asked the bishop to invite the district attorney to examine the diocese’s files. “It’s going to be ugly, let’s just get it all out,” he said.

Bishop McGrath said he would take that under consideration, but noted it was ultimately up to the district attorney to investigate the church.

Another speaker asked about the possibility of a

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Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Palo Alto hosted a listening session Sept. 22 for the faithful of the Diocese of San Jose to share their questions and concerns about the sex abuse crisis with Bishop Patrick J. McGrath. statewide investigation commissioned by Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Bishop McGrath said the attorney general had to make that decision, but

the bishops of the California Catholic Conference would discuss it at their next meeting.

Bishop McGrath emphasized that the Diocese of San Jose would support and fully cooperate with any outside investigation.

The moral authority of the church was also called into question, with one woman asking the bishop how Catholics were expected to behave a certain way when their leaders had not.

Bishop McGrath said “trust has to be earned. I am hopeful we will begin the process of earning back some of that trust.”

One man, whose mentally ill family member was abused by several priests, told the bishop that priests need to be recalled to the holiness of their vocation.

“The people around you, some of them believe in the living God, and some of them don’t,” he said.

In addition to acting as a venue for the bishop to hear from sex abuse survivors, the listening session also offered an opportunity for laity to propose ways the church could reform itself. Several of the speakers at the session discussed ending clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church and opening up the priesthood to women.

“Two thousand years of tradition is not something I’d wear as a badge of honor,” one man said.

Bishop McGrath acknowledged the importance of questions around the place of women in the church but joked that at his age he was unlikely to live to see any significant changes.

To some, the crisis of authority in the church hierarchy offers an opportunity for the laity to organize and propose their own reforms.

One woman said “we cannot let religion get in the way of our faith,” and suggested people organize small groups in their parishes to determine what changes they want to see in the church, and how to accomplish them. “To hear that we are not going to live to see these changes is unacceptable.”

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medical field. A wine reception will follow Mass downstairs in St. Francis Hall.

The roster of speakers includes renowned physicians from around the country: Dr. Michael Brescia, executive director of Calvary Hospital; Dr. Ashley Fernandes from Ohio State University College of Medicine, Center for Bioethics; Dr. William Toffler of Oregon Health & Science University; Dr. Natalie Rodden, palliative medicine specialist at St. Anthony Health Campus in Colorado.

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Participants will also hear from Arland Nichols, president of the St. John Paul II Foundation; Christopher Kaczor of Loyola Marymount University; and USF philosophy professor, Tom Cavanaugh, who will sign copies of his new book, “Hippocrates’ Oath and Asclepius’ Snake,� at the reception following Mass.

The conference has the endorsement of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone who states: “Converging Roads is a wonderful opportunity for you, our local medical professionals, to be renewed, informed, and inspired as you care for your patients. I encourage all involved in health care to attend as together we explore how to integrate ethical convictions and medical expertise in the care we provide the whole person.�

Vicki Evans is respect life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco, in partnership with St. John Paul II Foundation, the University of San Francisco and the Catholic Medical Association, hosts a medical ethics conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral on “The Heart of End of Life Care: Catholic Social Doctrine.� The conference is scheduled for Nov. 17, 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. The $79 general admission cost includes breakfast, lunch and a wine and hors d’ oeuvres reception following a 5:30 White Mass at the cathedral.

Continuing education credits for physicians and nurses are offered at an additional cost. Detailed information and registration can be found at convergingroads.com.

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Catholics believe in God but ‘don’t believe in us,’ Miami archbishop says Catholic News Service

MIAMI – The crisis the Catholic Church is facing is not “a crisis of faith” or “mainly about a crisis of sexual abuse by clergy,” but is “a crisis of leadership,” Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said in a Sept. 18 homily.

“Our people still do believe in God; but they don’t believe in us,” he said. “Of course, they’re supposed to believe in the Lord, not us; but if we are going to lead them – as bishops, as pastors and parish priests – they need to be able to trust us.”

The archbishop preached to all of Miami’s archdiocesan priests during vespers at the start of their annual convocation Sept. 18-20.

He talked about the major developments regarding clergy abuse in recent months, saying they “have reopened wounds that many thought were cauterized in 2002 when bishops adopted a ‘zero tolerance’ policy (about) those who abused minors and vulnerable adults.”

He cited the Pennsylvania grand jury report on allegations of sex abuse of minors by clergy and other church workers over a 70-year period in six Catholic dioceses in that state and “the fallout over the disgrace” of Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, former cardinal-archbishop of Washington, and a former nuncio’s “testimony” implicating Pope Francis “in having ignored evidence of McCarrick’s abuse.”

“The grand jury report did acknowledge that since 2002 an almost negligible number of priests have offended,” Archbishop Wenski said. “But anger, especially toward church leadership who in the past failed to address abuse, shows that 2002 came too late for too many victims.”

He quoted St. Paul to the Corinthians, “In wisdom made perfect, instruct

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and admonish one another,” and said these words “should remind us that as a presbyterate we are accountable to one another and to the people we are ordained to serve. But also, if we allow the word of Christ, ‘rich as it is’ to dwell in us, then we know too that we are also accountable to the Lord.”

Archbishop Wenski told the priests he hoped they have been “reading the Office of Readings these days,” because if so they would be reading from St. Augustine’s sermon on pastors.

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Encuentro reflects ‘energy, maturity’ of a church ‘here to stay’ Norma Montenegro Flynn Catholic News Service

GRAPEVINE, Texas – The thousands of Hispanic Catholic ministry leaders gathered in Texas for the Fifth National Encuentro shared views on the maturity and presence of their diverse community and held dialogues on the dreams and challenges that they face.

The contributions of Hispanic Catholics to the church and society show the beauty and excitement of their people and culture, but it can be messy and complicated at times, expressed in a panel dialogue a group of Catholic leaders during the second day of sessions at the Sept. 20-23 gathering.

The coming together of Hispanic Catholic leaders from around the country reflects a mature church, said Hosffman Ospino, a theologian at Boston College and a member of the Fifth Encuentro’s organizing committee. But he also sees that as the community is becoming bolder there is also a sense of excitement and “messiness.”

“All these processes of the encuentros since 1972 reflect the energy and a maturity of a church that is here and is here to stay,” Ospino said. However, the “messiness” is the challenges that must be overcome, such as a fragmented church, a church that struggles to embrace the Hispanic community, the young leaders who are transforming the church.”

While talking about the ways to move forward and continuing the collaborations and outreach that they have gained within their parish and diocesan communities, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of

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A delegate from Region 11 – California, Nevada and Hawaii – carries the Encuentro cross Sept. 20 at the start of the Fifth National Encuentro, or V Encuentro, in Grapevine, Texas.

Newark, New Jersey, stressed the importance of a pastoral conversion.

“We have to not only allow the spirit to convert our hearts, but also our strategies, our methods and our structures, whether it’s at the parish level, diocesan or national,” Cardinal Tobin said during the plenary session.

Ospino also highlighted the leadership of Hispanic women, which was evident during the Encuentro process, where they played a leading role in organizing and pulling through the Encuentro at all levels of the process.

“It is women who are leading the way, but at the

same time, the downside of this is that we still fail to recognize and affirm that leadership role of Latino women in our church,” Ospino said.

The Fifth National Encuentro, also called V Encuentro, is a process of missionary work, consultation, leadership development and community building that seeks to develop better ways in which the Catholic Church in the United States can respond to Hispanic Catholics. Over 3,000 Hispanic ministry leaders were participating in the Sept.

20-23 event, representing their parishes and 159 dioceses and other national Catholic organizations and groups.

Hispanics represent about 40 percent of U.S. Catholics and nearly 60 percent of millennial Catholics, according to research from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

During the afternoon sessions, representatives for each of the 14 episcopal regions – in which the dioceses of the United States are geographically divided – reported the results of the small group consultations they held throughout the day.

The task at hand was to highlight the areas that need accompaniment the most, and obstacles for Hispanic Catholics in 28 ministerial areas such as vocations, evangelization, Catholic education, family life, immigration and care for immigrants, among others.

Among the most pressing issues mentioned by participants is outreach to youth and young adults and creating spaces within their communities where they can feel heard, engaged, and supported in taking leadership roles.

Young Latinos face challenges such as feeling abandoned and lonely, said a priest-participant.

Those struggles others such as family separations and social media often play detrimental roles in leading them down a path of alcoholism or drug abuse. “Families in crisis lead to youth in crisis,” declared the priest.

Pastoral accompaniment during this somber time for the church in the U.S. amid the clerical sex abuse crisis was also addressed. Sister Ruth Bolarte of the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, voiced the concerns and the response of Hispanic Catholics in episcopal region 3 that encompasses Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

The crisis has brought up a lot of pain, confusion and questions, and at the same time it is an opportunity for the community to support their bishops and priests through listening, sharing accompaniment and communication, explained Sister Bolarte, a member of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who is director of the diocese’s Office for Cultural Diversity Ministries.

“Through liturgy and prayer, we respond with a spirit of forgiveness and penitence so we can open those windows of hope, recognizing the pain but at the same time recognizing the opportunity, and what can be done. We want to defend our faith and we want to move forward,” Sister Bolarte said.

During the gathering’s opening day, Pope Francis captivated the audience with a video message that was received with a standing ovation.

“I see that the Fifth Encuentro is a concrete way for the church in the U.S. to respond to the challenge of going beyond what is comfortable, business as usual, and to become a leaven of communion for all those who seek a future of hope, especially young people and families that live in the peripheries of society,” the pontiff said.

He also urged them to continue the process of pastoral conversion at all levels through an encounter with one another centered in the adoration of Jesus Christ.

Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio led the evening prayer and asked for prayers for the victims of clerical sexual abuse.

“Let us pray to God for the victims of the crimes that led to this crisis. Do everything you can for the healing of all the victims of these abuses and pray also for the perpetrators and for us, your shepherds,” Archbishop Garcia-Siller said.

Remembering the nearly five decades of encuentros in the United States, Mercy Sister Ana Maria Pineda, a theologian at Santa Clara University in California, called the Texas gathering a historic moment.

“We are the elders and the offspring of the sacred history woven with the many threads of the past and the present and looking toward the future,” she said. “We recall the past and how God has traveled with us throughout these many decades as Catholic Hispanics, Latinos.”

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Speaker: UN declaration on human rights must extend to unborn

WASHINGTON – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948 in the wake of the atrocities of World War II, is the foundation of religious liberty worldwide and also covers the rights of nonbelievers.

A leading scholar suggested in a Sept. 20 talk that although the landmark document doesn’t mention this, its demand for respect for human dignity should even extend to the unborn.

“Think of how some people treat the unborn child,” Robert George, a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University and a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, told an audience at The Catholic University of America. “Well, the unborn child isn’t far enough in its development, so we can treat the unborn child as inferior. Or even the newborn child, (who) could be treated as less equal than a mature rabbit or dog.

“So we have to fight against that temptation all the time. ... We need to be able to see the fundamental worth in all humanity of anybody,” he continued.

“The homeless person under the bridge. The disabled person, the mentally disturbed person, the person whose mental illness may result in his being very offensive, even involved in criminality of some sort. ...

Still, they have an unerasable human dignity.”

George spoke at the university’s Institute for Human Ecology at a program to mark the university’s new master’s degree program in human rights.

Blessed Romero’s ‘heroic life, sanctity’ hold many lessons, bishop says

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – Blessed Oscar Romero’s martyrdom, “the holy sacrifice of his life,” during his celebration of the “holy sacrifice” of the Mass holds a powerful lesson for Catholics, said Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Centre.

“He teaches us so powerfully that our embrace of the cross of Christ in our lives connects with the rhythm of the pascal mystery sacrifice of the Mass streaming through every dimension of our lives and missionary spirit on Long Island and beyond,” he said in a new pastoral on the life and ministry of the soon-to-be saint.

It was released Sept. 23 in advance of the Oct. 14 canonization of Blessed Romero. In it, Bishop Barres outlines ways the church can prepare for “this historic moment.”

A native of El Salvador, then-Bishop Romero became archbishop of San Salvador in 1977.

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His radio show and homilies drew thousands of listeners and earned him the title “Voice of the Voiceless.”

On March 23, 1980, in response to increasing violence, Archbishop Romero gave a homily in which he told soldiers to follow the law of God and disobey orders A mural of Salvadoran Archto fire on unarmed bishop Oscar Romero is seen civilians. The next day, in 2015. he was fatally shot by an assassin while saying Mass in the chapel of a hospital.

Catholic Extension launches media campaign for ‘hope and unity’

DALLAS – Catholic Extension has launched a new social media campaign called #WhyImCatholic to offer “hope and unity” for Catholics by inviting them to share their positive stories about faith and community “during this difficult chapter in the church.”

As U.S. Catholics “struggle with the painful issues facing the church today,” particularly the abuse crisis, Catholic Extension “recognizes that it is a difficult time to be Catholic.” Catholics “must face hard truths together in order to change and grow stronger in love. It will hurt. It will be hard. And we will endure as a family of faith,” the Chicago-based national organization said Sept. 20.

Archbishop Gomez: Today is ‘hour of laity’

GRAPEVINE, Texas – Hispanic Catholic leaders are living an important moment in the history of the Catholic church in the U.S. and are called to rise and continue the work of building the church, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said Sept. 23.

He made the comments during the closing Mass of the Fifth National Encuentro in Grapevine.

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“The Encuentro has made us see our missionary reality and responsibility as Hispanic Catholics in the United States,” he said. “But most important, the Encuentro has made us reflect on the personal ‘encounter’ with Jesus Christ.”

Archbishop Gomez, who is vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was the homilist. The USCCB’s president, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, was the main celebrant of the Mass. Concelebrants were Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States; Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, the hosting diocese; and Archbishop Gustavo GarciaSiller of San Antonio.

Archbishop Gomez reminded the faithful that they’re missionary disciples on a journey, just like those who walked with Jesus in Galilee and Jerusalem.

Retired judge to review NY archdiocesan policies

New York – New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan has named a former federal judge to study archdiocesan policies and procedures with respect to sexual abuse by clergy and recommend enhancements directly to the cardinal. Cardinal Dolan introduced Judge Barbara S. Jones, his first special counsel and independent reviewer, at a Sept. 20 news conference at the New York Catholic Center. He said Jones will have complete access to records, personnel and himself to “conduct an independent, scrupulous review” of how the archdiocese deals with accusations of alleged abuse of a young person by a priest, deacon or bishop.

Class-action suit filed in PA

PITTSBURGH – A class-action lawsuit was filed Sept. 17 against eight Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania demanding the dioceses provide proof that they submitted the names of all suspected predators. The lawsuit was filed in the Court of Common Pleas for Allegheny County by two people representing two classes of plaintiffs: survivors of clergy sexual abuse and children currently enrolled in Catholic schools who could be at risk of abuse, according to the lawsuit.

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Sunday readings

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time NUMBERS 11:25-29 The Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, the Lord bestowed it on the 70 elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied. Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not in the gathering but had been left in the camp. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; yet the spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in the camp. So, when a young man quickly told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp, “Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses’ aide, said, “Moses, my lord, stop them. “But Moses answered him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all!”

PSALM 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14 The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul; the decree of the Lord is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple.

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the

ordinances of the Lord are true, all of them just.

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

Though your servant is careful of them, very diligent in keeping them, yet who can detect failings?

Cleanse me from my unknown faults!

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

From wanton sin especially, restrain your servant; let it not rule over me. Then shall I be blameless and innocent of serious sin.

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

JAMES 5:1-6 Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire. You have stored up treasure for the last days.

Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter. You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous one; he offers you no resistance.

MARK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 At that time, John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him.

There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me.

For whoever is not against us is for us. Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”

‘Bestow the Spirit upon them all!’

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n Numbers, Moses feels overwhelmed by his responsibilities for a restive people in the desert.

He begs God for help. God’s response could have been thunder and lightning, to awe the Israelites into submission, so they would stop complaining or interfering, and passively surrender to Moses’ decision-making.

It would have been easier if people didn’t question Moses about the Sinai commands, didn’t dissent from his counsel, and didn’t argue among themselves over his credibility.

Moses isn’t a leader who threatens, shames or cajoles people into submission, nor does scripture show him promising promotions if people do what he wants. It’s about what God wants, and Moses is often sister Eloise at a loss to persuade people to Rosenblatt, RSM obey God. Israelites don’t comply with Gods’ commands out of fear of Moses’ disapproval.

Yes, they get afraid to face superior military forces. But they don’t readily accede even when God gives divine commands from Sinai. Israelites rebel when they feel hungry, thirsty or uncomfortable. There are plenty of incidents where a group – even Moses’ own brother Aaron – tries to subvert his leadership.

In today’s reading, we recognize that Moses is

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deeply relieved that God shares the Spirit resting on him with 70 elders. It’s a major transition in the hierarchical power structure, a burden he can’t bear alone. It’s the voluntary end of one-man rule, and of a hereditary family oligarchy. God creates and Moses blesses this horizontal exercise of decision-making among the elders. No tears over what’s lost. It’s so restorative of Moses’ energy, so beneficial for the whole community, that Moses defends the spontaneous, charismatic spread of the Spirit’s power to Medad and Eldad – people he didn’t originally authorize. “Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all!”

The Gospel replays a similar “authority crisis” among the disciples of Jesus. If persons unknown to the disciples, and not formally authorized by Jesus are exercising power over demonic spirits – shouldn’t Jesus intervene, assert his authority and stop them?

Shouldn’t the power to drive out demons be reserved to men formally missioned by Jesus? Like Moses, Jesus breaks with a vertical exercise of power and blesses the “unauthorized” increase of the number of people who are doing good works, even if he didn’t appoint or elect them as his disciples. Good deeds done in Jesus’ name should be judged by their effect, not by the gender or apostolic rank of the performer.

It’s as if Jesus said, “Would that all the people of the Lord would drive out demons from our midst!”

The Gospel follows this instruction with a condemnation. It’s children who have to be defended against the idea that holy power should be exercised only by those with apostolic authority. The persons most in

danger – if the disciples cling to their exclusivity as Jesus’ agents – are children.

Children are trusting, playful, full of wonder, credulous – and vulnerable to those who cling to holy power as a possession. Children, viewed as powerless, can be led astray, seduced, corrupted, damaged, confused and hurt. The condemnation of adults who hurt children is merciless. They should be drowned in the sea. So much for the evangelist’s view of capital punishment.

But is the image of an abuser cast into the sea with a millstone around his neck to be read figuratively rather than literally? The Gospel directives are vivid ultimatums. Cut off your hand – i.e., cut yourself off from actions – even in your head of memories of what “used to be done” – that lead to abuse of children. Cut off your foot – i.e., cut yourself off from places where you go, even in your head – that are shown to lead to abuse of children. Cut out your eye – i.e., cut yourself off from familiar sights – even in your head of power structures that used to be – that have proved to lead to abuse of children.

The Gospel suggests a curriculum for identifying “clerical culture” and a review of how administration of holy power can be exercised by the entire faith community. The alternative is as severe as a millstone around one’s neck. If you don’t repent, God’s judgment is already passed on you: Go to hell.

Eloise Rosenblatt is a Sister of Mercy, a Ph.D. theologian and a practicing attorney with a family law practice.

She lives in San Jose.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, October 1: Memorial St. Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin and Doctor of the Church. Jb 1:622. Ps 17:1bcd, 2-3, 6-7. Mk 10:45. Lk 9:46-50.

Tuesday, October 2: Memorial of the Guardian Angels. Jb 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23. Ps 88:2-3, 4-5, 6, 7-8. Ps 103:21. Mt 18:1-5, 10.

5. Ps 139:1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 13-14ab. Ps 95:8. Lk 10:13-16.

Saturday, October 6: Saturday of the Twentysixth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bruno, priest; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, virgin. Jb 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17. Ps 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130.

See Mt 11:25. Lk 10:17-24.

St. John Leonardi, priest; Bl. John Henry Newman.

Gal 1:13-24. Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15. Lk 11:28. Lk 10:38-42.

Wednesday, October 10: Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Gal 2:1-2, 7-14. Ps 117:1bc, 2. Rom 8:15bc. Lk 11:1-4.

Sunday, October 7: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Gn 2:18-24. Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6.

Heb 2:9-11. 1 Jn 4:12. Mk 10:2-16.

Thursday, October 11: Thursday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John XXIII, pope. Gal 3:1-5. Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75. See Acts 16:14b. Lk 11:5-13.

Thursday, October 4: St. Francis of Assisi, confessor. Jb 19:21-27. Ps 27:7-8a, 8b-9abc, 13-14. Mk 1:15. Lk 10:1-12.

Monday, October 8: Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Gal 1:6-12. Ps 111:1b2, 7-8, 9 and 10c. Jn 13:34. Lk 10:25-37.

Friday, October 12: Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Gal 3:7-14. Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. Jn 12:31b-32. Lk 11:15-26.

Friday, October 5: Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos; St. Faustina Kowalska, virgin. Jb 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-

Tuesday, October 9: Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Denis, bishop and martyr and companions, martyrs;

Saturday, October 13: Saturday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Gal 3:22-29. Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Lk 11:28. Lk 11:27-28.

Wednesday, October 3: Wednesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Jb 9:1-12, 14-16. Ps 88:10bc-11, 12-13, 14-15. Phil 3:8-9. Lk 9:57-62.

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Letters Accountability and transparency

I have read Archbishop Cordileone’s two letters (Aug. 23, Sept. 13) and I agree with them.

But it’s not enough. All dioceses must be investigated and the names must be disclosed. All perpetrators must be prosecuted. All enablers must resign. And finally there needs to be financial transparency. Purchasing unnecessarily large and expensive homes for bishops such as in San Jose has to stop. Until then many of us laity are not going to support the diocese annual appeal.

I have done so annually for as long as I can remember. Not anymore. I will support my parish and pray for all clergy and especially victims.

J.R. Hermann San Mateo

Why refuse to allow married priests?

Bev Rowden’s insightful letter, “Effect of the celibate lifestyle” (Sept. 13), brought to mind some long held thoughts on mandatory priestly celibacy. As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said in an interview early in his papacy, the celibacy requirement for priests is a church discipline, not a church doctrine. Thus, this discipline could be changed. The Catholic Church forbade priests from marrying in 1141 at the Second Lateran Council. Four centuries later, at Trent, the church formally forbade married men from becoming priests (as men were marrying in secret and then becoming priests). Despite some who will assert that a required celibacy for priests can be found in certain Gospel passages, priests were allowed to marry for many centuries.

The advantage for the church today in allowing priests to marry would be a likely reduction in the priest shortage in many countries.

If marriage is indeed sacramental, then the church ought not remain obstinate in clinging to its celibacy requirement for priests. For many persons, celibacy is seen as an ascetic, burdensome, and unnatural condition for the human person. The natural state is for men and women to marry. Past surveys of priests have shown a large majority, more than 70 percent believe that lifelong celibacy should be optional. (Of course, celibacy is understandable for priests who go into the mission fields or seek the contemplative life in a monastery.)

Sadly, it is deeply distressing that the church seems to not be bothered by unrepentant pedophiles and sexual predators celebrating Mass and administering the sacraments, while stubbornly refusing to allow married men to become priests. Why is this? Do some in the church hierarchy fear the long-term effects on the church’s understanding of married sexual love from once again allowing a married priesthood? Consider, men who have the personal experience of the goods of marriage, including the unitive dimension of married lovemaking, will likely help the church to finally value and respect the unitive on a par with the procreative good of married sexual love.

Larry Burdoin San Francisco

Spiritual warfare

One positive response to the current moral crisis in our church was made by Bishop Caggiano, Diocese of Bridgeport (Connecticut), who mandated all priests in the diocese to pray the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel near the end of every Mass. Besides the very real intervention of St. Michael in our troubled church and world praying such prayer in community may help raise the conscious awareness that we are, and have been since the fall, in spiritual warfare with the person of Satan and his dominions. I pray that this mandate come to other dioceses, especially our own Archdiocese of San Francisco and surrounding dioceses of Oakland, Santa Rosa and Sacramento. Satan and sin are as real as our souls and this major battle calls all of us to go back to boot camp to reacquire the skills, weapons and resources for spiritual warfare before this battle claims more souls.

Mary McCurry Benicia

Contradiction is not development

Re “The pope, capital punishment and Catholics,” Father Gerald D. Coleman, PSS, Aug. 23: Pope Francis did not and cannot order “a

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definitive change in Catholic teaching”; short of the Second Coming, there is no such thing as a “new teaching of the church.” The Roman pontiff is custodian and protector of the Catholic faith handed down; he is not its author. What the Holy Father did was authorize a textual change in a catechism paragraph which unfortunately renders this precious document a less accurate presentation of the perennial Catholic faith. This is hardly an act which engages the charism of papal infallibility, which in any case could not trump the witness of Scripture and tradition.

Contradiction is not development.

In a pontificate focused on the pastoral often to the detriment of doctrinal clarity, we must interpret this as an expression of his personal prudential judgment for modern, developed societies (arguably out of place in a catechism meant to summarize the Catholic teaching for all times and all societies). As such, it deserves our respect and serious consideration, but unfortunately, as with other such clumsy initiatives, this action has obviously contributed to doctrinal confusion and division. However “inadmissible” is read, it cannot mean “intrinsically evil.” Francis’ immediate predecessors apparently shared his judgment, but recognized the limit on their authority to impose it in an unqualified manner; they were not just setting up the shot for him to sink with his putter. If we accept that the church taught error on this important moral issue (the conditioned justness of capital punishment) for thousands of years, what reason could we have for believing her now? In asking his rational creatures for religious assent to a body of doctrine, God does not present us with a moving target.

A convincing case against recourse to capital punishment must reckon with the retributive and deterrent purposes of the penal system and not simply appeal to an ill-defined concept of “dignity” and the ostensibly modern invention of reliable prisons. I intend no “viciousness” toward the Holy Father, nor any disrespect toward the eminent Father Coleman, but only to maintain the viability in troubling times of my faith in a church that witnesses to eternal truth.

Christopher Nantista Redwood City

A starry night on the tundra

Recently, I was in a remote native village on the southwest shore of the Norton Sound in Western Alaska. One evening, a local native, Joseph, who had befriended me, took me for a late drive about six miles outside the village to a hill overlooking the hamlet and the valley. I could see a canal which drained into the Yukon River well south of where we stood, as well as a vast mountain range to the east. There were flocks of crane and geese migrating in “V” formations

above. As we stood on the edge of the dirt road path, Joe started to point out the different star formations. He mentioned that he would bring his son out to this site and view the heavens above, sometimes bringing sleeping bags and just sitting in the back of his pickup until well past midnight. It brought me back more than a half century with my father. Dad would bring me to our backyard on the Peninsula in the evening and we would sit on folding chairs and gaze at the night sky. To me, the nighttime sky was a labyrinth of luminous objects. Dad, who had been in the Navy, knew the nighttime sky. He would put his hand on my shoulder and tell me about the different stellar bodies, pointing out the planets and stars amidst the cosmos. I was transfixed as I looked upward. Those evenings spent with dad are among the fondest of my memories of my youth.

On a vast landscape, well into the northern latitudes of the last frontier, near the end of my seventh decade, I was transported back in time.

With moist eyes, I could hear my father’s reassuring voice and feel the touch of his hand on my shoulder, guiding me through the night sky, shedding light where there was darkness and warmth where there was a cold chill. Six decades later, on a starry night on a tundra plain, I was 8-years-old again with my father at my side.

Mike McAdoo San Francisco

Issue read cover-to-cover

Your Sept. 13 issue was well received and well read from cover-to-cover. Great.

From our archbishops to all concerned came some very, very powerful comments from all over the world. Pictures showing priests and parishes were a real extra: Hispanic leaders meeting challenges of evangelization; Knights of Columbus in Fourth Degree outfits for a dedication to the Virgin of Guadalupe for Dec. 12.

Page after page of national and world news from Ireland, Vatican City, Colombia, Australia.

Columns from Bishop Robert Barron, Father John Catoir, George Weigel, Mercy Sister Jean Evans, and a “Homily for a church that sinned,” Father Lou Meiman, a pastor from Louisville, Kentucky. Also, local news including young adults and the hard work of our catechists.

About the only sad news was the obituaries.

God bless them and all our families and friends.

Bob Huerta San Francisco

‘Bombshell’ aimed at bishop of Rome

In (Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s) “Letter to the Faithful” (Sept. 13) he cites an exchange with a priest who expresses an unforgettable rejoinder: “But it is a good time to be a great bishop.” This prophetic utterance deserves a second look, for it has meaning for us that goes beyond the instant context when the archbishop received his appointment.

The (Archbishop Carlo Maria) Vigano “bombshell” is aimed at the bishop of Rome, the pope.

Some think Francis is great and some do not.

Archbishop Vigano is among the latter. The vision and guiding theme that Francis has of seeing Jesus in the face of the poor is unpopular among some hierarchy, even to the point that they put roadblocks in front of the pope’s path or even want to get a new bishop of Rome.

Francis vision is not one his adversaries can comfortably attack directly, so they hang the sex scandal albatross around his neck. First, the victims of sex abuse are exploited by predators then by Francis adversaries. Have they no decency?

The greatness of our present bishop of Rome will be tested much by those whose guile knows no bounds.

Brian Gagan San Francisco

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Bridging the unbridgeable gap

esides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.”

Abraham speaks these words to a soul in hell in the famous parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16, 19-21) and they are generally understood to mean that there exists between heaven and hell a gap that’s impossible to bridge. Nobody passes from hell to heaven.

Hell is forever and no amount of regret or repenFATHER ron tance there will get you to rolheiser heaven. Indeed, once in hell, nobody in heaven can help you either, the gap between the two is eternally fixed!

But that’s not what this parable is teaching.

Some years ago, Jean Vanier delivered the prestigious Massey Lectures and he took up this parable. The point he emphasized is that the “unbridgeable chasm” referred to here is not the gap between heaven and hell as this is understood in the popular mind. Rather, for Vanier, the unbridgeable gap exists already in this world in terms of the gap between the rich and the poor, a gap that we have forever been unable to bridge.

Moreover it’s a gap with more dimensions than we first imagine.

What separates the rich from the poor so definitively with a chasm that, seemingly, can never be bridged? What would bridge that gap?

The prophet Isaiah offers us a helpful image here (Isaiah 65, 25). Drawing upon a messianic dream he tells us how that gap will finally be bridged. It will be bridged, he submits, in the messianic age, when we’re in heaven because it’s there, in an age when God’s grace is finally able to affect universal reconciliation, that the “the wolf and lamb will feed together” (or, as this is commonly read, “the lion and the lamb will lie down together”).

The lion and the lamb will lie down together. But lions kill lambs! How can this change? Well, that’s the unbridgeable gap between heaven and hell.

That’s the gap between the victim and the killer, the powerless and the powerful, the bullied and the bully, the despised and the bigot, the oppressed and the oppressor, the victim and the racist, the hated and the hater, the older brother and his prodigal brother, the poor and the rich. That’s the gap between heaven and hell.

If this is what Isaiah intuits, and I think it is, then this image contains a powerful challenge which goes both ways: It isn’t just the lion that needs to convert and become sensitive, understanding and non-violent enough to lie down with the lamb; the lamb too needs to convert and move

to deeper levels of understanding, forgiveness and trust in order to lie down with the lion. Ironically, this may be a bigger challenge to the lamb than to the lion. Once wounded, once victimized, once hated, once spit on, once raped, once beaten-up by a bully, once discriminated against because of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation, and it becomes very difficult, almost impossible existentially, to truly forgive, forget, and move with trust toward the one who hurt us.

This is a tough saying, but life can be grossly unfair sometimes and perhaps the greatest unfairness of all is not the injustice of being victimized, violated, raped, or murdered, but that, after all this has been done to us, we’re expected to forgive the one who did it to us while at the same time knowing that the one who hurt us probably has an easier time of it in terms of letting go of the incident and moving toward reconciliation. That’s perhaps the greatest unfairness of all. The lamb has to forgive the lion who killed it.

And yet this is the invitation to all of us who have ever been victimized. Parker Palmer suggests that violence is what happens when someone doesn’t know what else to do with his or her suffering and that domestic abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia, and contempt for the poor are all cruel outcomes of this. What we need, he suggests, is a bigger “moral imagination.” see rolheiser, page 17

Inner peace depends on you

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eople have asked me: How do you prepare your soul to receive inner peace? It’s a good question because inner peace is a gift from God, and you need to know how to accept it, and make it your own.

A few obvious things might prevent you from gaining inner peace, and they must be eliminated.

Drug and alcohol abuse will cause needless cravings that disturb your peace. Anger and vindictiveness will stir your passions, and create needless anxiety. Work on forgiveness.

But, if you really want FATHER JOHN to go into training, and are CATOIR willing to overcome these obstacles, I have just what you need. It’s a special prayer that will reap a harvest of blessings in your life.

The type of prayer I’m referring to is not based on your emotions; no need to beg or force feelings

of any kind. True prayer is in the will. The will says yes or no. Cardinal Mercier, a 19th century prelate from Belgium, wrote this prayer, which captures the idea that true prayer is in the will to give yourself to God: Holy Spirit, Soul of My Soul, I adore you. Guide me, strengthen me, and console me. Tell me what to do. Give me your orders. I promise to submit to whatever you desire of me, and accept everything you allow to happen to me. Let me only know your will.

Once you get into the habit of saying this prayer on a regular basis, your life will take on a new level of enthusiasm. Peace will come to you. Peace is the gateway of joy, and spiritual Joy is the infallible sign of the Holy Spirit.

I grant you, this prayer is a bit risky. What if God asked you to do something you don’t want to do, or something beyond your strength? Wouldn’t that make you more anxious than ever? Yes, it might, but here’s the rub. If you trust God, there’s no need to doubt hs love. He will always do right by you.

Remember, God designed you for a purpose.

He knows what your heart wants and needs. He

would never ask you to go against your conscience.

Besides, he will supply all the strength you need for any challenge that life may present.

How do I know this? Because I’ve lived it for decades. If the truth be known, I didn’t want to be a priest at first. I stubbornly resisted my vocation for years, but the secret desire for it was there all the time. I was just afraid. I’m so glad I took the risk.

Men and women from all walks of life have gone through this same type of struggle, and felt God’s strength guiding them through the storms of life.

They turned their lives over to God, and never looked back.

Once you attain a prayerful state of peace, your life will take on a meaning that this world cannot give.

Wouldn’t you like to speak and act spontaneously, and not from fear? Wouldn’t you like to enjoy the feeling that your soul is in harmony with God’s will?

Say this prayer, and no matter what your vocation is, you’ll be on your way to true holiness.

Father John Catoir is a canon lawyer and a priest of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey.

What ‘Kumare’ means Nellie Hizon

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umare, as we members of ALLICE, Alliance for Community Empowerment, call ourselves, have a heightened awareness of dating and domestic abuse, or what is now known as intimate partner violence.

We teach what we learn from clinicians, advocates, survivors and perpetrators, about the dynamics of healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

There is the case of a young student, Tomoko, not her real name, I met in early 2000. She confided to me that her newly married husband had begun to be very jealous, had watched her every move.

Over several months, after having their first child, the situation worsened.

Then came a day when she called to inform me that she had managed to escape. She had cautiously consulted an agency about her situation and arrangements were made to place her in a shelter.

I took her to my place for the weekend where we had security.

Tomoko and I went out to get her personal supplies and had dinner. When we returned, a

notice from the police was posted on my door that required us to check in at a nearby police station.

A missing person report had been filed and I was believed to have Tomoko with me. The husband had reported her missing, and suspected that I was helping her. I was a witness to their civil wedding.

We left my house, presented ourselves at the police station, and were cleared.

No sooner had we gone back inside the house when we heard loud knocking on the door: The husband, with their child crying, was at the door.

Hearing the husband’s voice, Tomoko immediately ran and hid under the dining table very scared. I called 911. The 911 attendant guided us while assuring the police were on the way. I was afraid, too.

Upon the police arriving they became the intermediary, conveying each party’s messages.

The husband threatened that she go home with him that night or she would never see the child again. That conversation was outside the house but in the presence of the police.

Tomoko agonized, bitterly crying, and heartbroken. She decided to go with him that night.

I never heard back from her again, my phone number must have been blocked. Even years later, in social media, her name does not come up. I hope she is alive.

Now, more than ever, education on how to recognize abuse early on, what to do, where to go, what resources are available, is essential to the healing process.

ALLICE has, for 15 years, been an advocate, helping educate the community on maintaining healthy relationships and preventing abuse and violence by instilling the dynamics of healthy interaction.

We invite everyone to attend our free and open to the public event because our community is our responsibility. Arming ourselves with information is the first step to protecting our homes and neighborhoods.

Nellie Hizon is president of ALLICE (Alliance for Community Empowerment) promoting prevention of abuse and violence. She is a parishioner of St. Stephen, San Francisco.

An ALLICE meeting is scheduled Oct. 12, 5-7:30 p.m., Colma Community Center, 1520 Hillside Blvd., Colma. Admission is free. Visit www.allicekumares. com. Presentations include public officials calling the community to action against domestic violence; testimony from a family that lost a loved one in a fatal attack by an ex-boyfriend; resource providers will be available to consult about their services.

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In letters to cardinal, Benedict defends way he stepped down Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Retired Pope Benedict XVI expressed his displeasure with the way a German cardinal publicly criticized his stepping down as pontiff, and he defended taking the title “pope emeritus.”

In two private letters from the retired pope to German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller, former president of the Pontifical Committee Cardinal Walter for Historical Sciences, the pope Brandmuller defended the way he handled his resignation and warned the cardinal of the negative impact his public comments could have.

The German newspaper, Bild, obtained copies of the letters written in November 2017, but blurred Cardinal Brandmuller’s name in photos. The New York Times named the cardinal and also published translated excerpts from the letters Sept. 20.

The first letter from the retired pope was a response to a comment Cardinal Brandmuller made in a lengthy interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published Oct. 28, 2017.

The interviewer had asked what the cardinal thought about the “construction” of “pope emeritus” – the title the retired pope has taken on. The cardinal responded that the figure of a “pope emeritus” had never existed in the church’s history and having a pope “withdrawing now and overturning a 2,000-year tradition totally astounded not only us cardinals.”

Referring to that portion of the newspaper interview, the pope wrote that Cardinal Brandmuller should certainly be aware that other popes had – though rarely – stepped down.

Pope Benedict wrote that by using the title “pope emeritus,” he would be away from the media spotlight and make it thoroughly clear there was just one pope.

“If you know of a better way, and therefore think that you can judge the (title) chosen by me, please tell me,” the retired pope wrote.

In the second letter, the pope acknowledged the cardinal responding to his first letter, and he said he was grateful that it seemed the cardinal would no longer discuss his resignation in public.

“I can very well understand the deep-seated pain that the end of my papacy has caused you and many others,” Pope Benedict wrote. “However, for some people and -– it seems to me – also for you, the pain has turned into an anger that no longer merely concerns my resignation, but increasingly

also my person and my papacy as a whole.”

With such an attitude, he wrote, his whole papacy “is now being devalued and conflated with sadness about the situation in which the church currently finds itself.”

Cardinal Brandmuller had already postulated the idea that an “emeritus” pope figure could threaten church unity in his essay, “Renuntiatio papae: Some Historical Reflections,” published online in July 2016.

Cardinal Brandmuller was also one of four cardinals, including U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, who publicly released in September 2016 a critical set of questions, known as “dubia,” asking Pope Francis for clarification about his teaching on the family.

Pope Benedict, a noted theologian, had described his decision to be the first pope to resign in almost 600 years as the result of intense prayer and an examination of his conscience before God. In the last two days of his pontificate, he pledged obedience to his successor and noted that he was leaving the “active exercise of the (Petrine) ministry.” While promising to remain “hidden” in retirement, he also said he was “not returning to private life” but would belong “always and totally to everyone, to the whole church” and “remain, so to speak, within St. Peter’s precincts.”

Rolheiser: Bridging the unbridgeable gap FROM PAGE 16

He’s right, I believe, on both scores: Violence is what happens when people don’t know what to do with their sufferings and we do need a bigger moral imagination. But understanding that our abuser is in deep pain, that the bully himself was first bullied, doesn’t generally do much to ease our own pain and humiliation. As well, imagining

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how ideally we should respond as Christians is helpful, but it doesn’t of itself give us the strength to forgive. Something else is needed, namely, a strength that’s presently beyond us.

This is a tough teaching, one that should not be glibly presented. How do you forgive someone who violated you? In this life, mostly, it’s impossible; but remember Isaiah is speaking about the messianic time, a time when, finally, with God’s

help, we will be able to bridge that unbridgeable chasm.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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God is patient, even with failures, pope tells young Lithuanians

VILNIUS, Lithuania – Meeting young Lithuanians in Vilnius, Pope Francis said he wanted a relaxed conversation, like they were sitting in a pub drinking “a beer or a gira,” a slightly alcoholic beverage made from fermented rye bread.

Yet the stories two young adults shared with him Sept. 22 and his responses to their concerns were not casual.

Monika Midveryte spoke about growing up with an alcoholic father who beat her and eventually committed suicide.

A young man, identified only as Jonas, spoke about being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and how serious illness made him and his young wife realize just how serious their wedding vows were.

Meeting the teens and young adults outside the city’s Cathedral of Sts. Stanislaus and Ladislaus, which has been destroyed and rebuilt several times, Pope Francis urged the two and all their peers to think about how God has been close to them, too, even amid tragedy.

Almost always, he said, it is through other people that God’s grace arrives to those in need. “It doesn’t drop from the sky. It doesn’t happen by magic, there’s no magic wand.”

Pope in Lithuania: Don’t let anti-Semitism, hatred resurge

VILNIUS, Lithuania – Outside the former KGB headquarters in Vilnius, Pope Francis ended a day of paying homage to victims of totalitarianism and of warning Lithuanians to be attentive to any signs of anti-Semitism or hatred.

The walls of the KGB building – a

lished Sept. 20, the bishops predicted that liberalization of the law also would lead to the social acceptance of surrogacy, the rise of eugenics and the notion that children were commodities to please adults.

They said opening medically assisted procreation to all women would remove biological and social references to fathers from the family and “would undermine the good of the child, who would be deprived of his reference to double parentage, whatever his mental abilities of adaptation.”

Human sexuality is gift from God

(CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope Francis visits Latvia

People wait for Pope Francis’ arrival for a meeting with government authorities, local leaders and representatives of the diplomatic corps at the presidential palace in Riga, Latvia, Sept. 24. former jail and execution site – echo the cry of Jesus on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” the pope said.

Although thousands of people filled the square in front of the building, the mood was somber for the pope’s visit Sept. 23. And it was punctuated by long pauses for silent prayer.

He had toured the museum with 79-year-old Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevicius, whose photo is featured prominently on a wall display honoring the priests and bishops who endured imprisonment in the building’s basement.

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The pope had gone to the museum after stopping to pray at a monument to more than 40,000 Jews in Vilnius killed by the Nazis. The prayer coincided with the national commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto.

French bishops: Fertility treatment for gay, single women harms society

PARIS – The French bishops said proposals to extend fertility treatments to lesbian couples and single women would harm society by removing fatherhood from the lives of children.

In an eight-page statement pub-

VATICAN CITY – Human sexuality is not taboo, it is a gift of God, Pope Francis told a group of young people from France. Sexual relations between a man and woman joined together in marriage is “a gift that the Lord gives us. It has two purposes: for loving each other and generating life. It is passion, it is passionate love.

True love is passionate,” he said.

The pope was speaking with young people from the Diocese of GrenobleVienne in France, Sept. 17. The Vatican press office released a transcript of the audience in which the pope answered several questions on issues such as vocations, helping the poor, evangelization, living one’s faith and sexuality. Manon, 16, asked how to navigate a world that “desecrates” the human body and that proposes so many “different opinions.”

The pope said, “Sexuality, sex, is a gift of God. Not taboo. Love between a man and a woman, when it is passionate, it leads you to give your life forever. Forever. And to give it with your body and soul,” he said.

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Pro-life: Conference highlights diversity of movement FROM PAGE 1

Bukovinac said. “We’re bringing people from profoundly different backgrounds together on this topic,” she said. While that involves some challenges, “we have to find a way to unite unless we want to be another casualty of the abortion industry,” Bukovinac said.

Michelle Holguin, who came from the Central Valley to attend the conference, told Catholic San Francisco she had believed the movement was mostly Christian before attending the conference. “I didn’t realize how broad the pro-life movement was,” she said.

Holguin credited the conference for giving her broader appreciation for why people are pro-life. “It’s not just something I understand from a Christian perspective now,” she said.

Monica Snyder, a co-leader of Secular Pro-Life, spoke at the conference about the scientific and philosophical reasoning behind the pro-life position. Snyder told Catholic San Francisco she hoped conference attendees brought away the understanding that being pro-life is not restricted only to Christians, but “embraces everyone and can be embraced by everyone.”

“I hope that people understand that pro-life people come from all walks of life – anyone can be against abortion. It’s not a partisan issue,” Snyder said.

Walter Hoye, president of the Issues4Life Foundation, discussed the importance of understanding the reasoning of people who do not have pro-life convictions. “If you don’t know why they are saying no, then you aren’t prepared for this,” he said. “Don’t even try: You’re not in a position to do effective work.”

While the legislative success of the pro-life movement in U.S. states has been significant, the conference emphasized the importance of changing the culture of secular and religious communities to welcome life.

An unplanned pregnancy at 19 led to Amy Ford’s ostracization at her local church, with her pastor even refusing to marry her and her boyfriend. While her pastor eventually reconciled with her family, the experience led Ford to found Embrace Grace, an organization dedicated to helping churches become more supportive of women with unplanned pregnancies.

“We have to be known more for what we’re for than for what we’re against,” she said. Ford said the preva-

(Photos by Nicholas Wolfram Smith)

A Sept. 8 pro-life conference at University of California at Berkeley took aim at uniting pro-life people from different backgrounds to build a broad base for activism in California. The “Let There Be Life” conference, organized by Pro-Life San Francisco, was the organization’s first attempt to “unite pro-life people across the state, across generational lines, across religious persuasions,” executive director Terrisa Bukovinac told Catholic San Francisco. lence of abortion within Christian churches as well as outside it showed women do not believe they can go to their church and find the support they need during an unplanned pregnancy.

“Life is messy, everyone can mess up, but we don’t kick our own people,” she said. Through welcoming and supporting women in unplanned pregnancies, churches can change the culture one life at a time, said Ford.

Cessilye Smith, co-founder of Abide Women’s Health Services, talked about the historical injustices – slavery, systemic racism, control of women’s bodies – the pro-life movement can address.

“We need no more allies,” she said. “We need accomplices. Don’t leave it up to black and brown people to feel the weight of injustice.”

Opening up the boundaries of pro-life activism to embrace racial justice can build more credibility with people who believe in abortion rights, Smith said. “By showing that we do care about social justice, police brutality, infant and mortality rates, it softens their heart.”

Ignacio de la Torre, a parishioner at St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco, said he had come to the conference to learn more about what pro-life organizations are working on. The conference had

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“That is something Jesus would love, a pure act of Catholicism, of how we imitate him,” de la Torre told Catholic San Francisco. “And a way to energize people around the pro-life message. Not against, but for.”

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Holy Names Sisters, archdiocesan pioneers, mark 150th year Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary have a history in the Archdiocese of San Francisco from its earliest years, and Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, the see’s first ordinary. This year the sisters celebrate their 150th year of service in California with Mass on the feast of congregation founder, Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Oct. 6, 3:30 p.m., Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. Oakland Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, will be principal celebrant.

Today, there are 120 Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary serving in California. Schools where the sisters have taught and led include St. Cecilia, St. Monica, and the now-closed St. Joseph School in San Francisco, St. Anselm in Ross and Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield as well as a wide variety of parish and archdiocesan posts held by the sisters through the years.

It all started, the sisters say on their website, with “an urgent appeal” from Archbishop Alemany to the congregation that brought six young sisters to California from Canada on May 10, 1868. Their first convent and school were on Lake Merritt in Oakland. Later, the sisters established Holy Names University and high school and “responded generously to the period of growth and development of parish schools both elementary and secondary in the archdioceses of Los Angeles and San Francisco.”

In 1961, the California Province re-

(Photos courtesy SNJM)

Above, Holy Names Sister Mary Immaculata Gallant with students at St. Joseph’s School, San Francisco, around 1891 Left, Holy Names Sister Mary Eugene Charbonneau with students at St. Joseph School, San Francisco around 1885. sponded to Pope John XXIII’s appeal for missionaries to Latin America by sending three sisters to staff a mission in Peru. Holy Names Sisters currently minister in San Juan de Lurigancha, one of the poorest areas of Lima.

As laity became more involved in

Millennial hears call to consecrated life Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

Christian Cahill is a candidate with the Sisters of the Holy Names, a period of formation where she lives with sisters, and meets regularly with her candidate director discussing areas including prayer and the community’s history. Her Christian Cahill next step will be the two-year novitiate then first vows.

Christian’s vocation grew from a question from a priest at a church where she had been an altar server in high school. “He asked me if I had ever considered becoming a nun because he saw characteristics in me that would fit well. I of course immediately replied with a ‘No!’” Christian told me via email. The priest’s observations stayed with her she said: “As any millennial would do, I turned to online research and the more that I found, the more open to the possibility I became. By the time that I got to college, I knew that I wanted to keep exploring that possibility, so I got a spiritual director.”

Christian then began a process of meeting sisters from different communities seeking a congregation where she felt “comfortable being myself and where I felt at home with the other sisters and with the spirituality, mission and charism of the community.

Each Holy Names Sister that I met

was unique and full of energy and passionate about one aspect or another of education or social justice.”

The sisters’ way of prayer and other practices matched well with Christian’s methods. “I always left feeling nourished, joyous and welcomed by the community,” she said. “Over time as I formed deeper relationships with specific sisters, I started spending a lot of my free time visiting the sisters.” She then started her first step in formation as a pre-candidate where she “spent time getting to know the community and a variety of sisters within the community better in a more intentional way.” Christian also visited older sisters in the retirement and care centers and sisters in other states.

Christian holds a graduate degree from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and has done parish work in liturgy and youth ministry for the last four years. “Now I am doing campus ministry in a Catholic high school and loving it,” she said.

“In this day and age, ministry is an option outside of religious life, as is participating in prayer groups and retreats,” Christian said. “There are a lot of resources available for lay people, which is awesome. So for me, religious life is unique in that it is lived in community. I have already experienced a little bit of this and I am looking forward to continuing to have a supportive group of women that understand ministry with its joys and its challenges who can be there for each other through it all and hold each other in prayer.”

running Catholic schools and religious education programs, some sisters began to focus on the more pastoral aspects of parish life, serving in roles including directors of religious education, liturgy coordinators and parish administrators.

The sisters’ website states: “We

believe that the charism and mission of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary is gift and grace for our world - a world with an ever-increasing need for healing and liberation. We hear the calls of those on the peripheries of society; men and women who have lost all hope, families in difficulty, young people without a future, men and women looking for a purpose in life.

We invite all who share the SNJM charism and mission to join us in social justice and service actions throughout this year of gratitude and grace.”

Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary was founded in 1843 by Eulalie Durocher, Sister Marie Rose, in Lonqueuil, Quebec, Canada focusing with those joining her in providing a Christian education for poor girls in rural areas.

“Today, we are an international congregation of vowed Catholic women and associates dedicated to the service of others” The U.S.-Ontario Province consists of about 570 SNJM Sisters and 400 associates, women and men who share the sisters’ mission but do not make vows.

The Sisters of the Holy Names are celebrating 150 years of ministry in California with a special Mass, Oct. 6, 3:30 p.m., Cathedral of Christ the Light, 2121 Harrison St., Oakland. Parking available in the Kaiser lot nearby, 300 Lakeside Drive, $5. To help with planning for the reception, an RSVP is requested by September 28. Visit www. snjmca150.org or email CAanniversary@snjmuson.org.

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Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus celebrating Golden Jubilees were honored on April 7 at St. Mary’s in Los Gatos with a Mass and reception. Holy Names Sisters celebrating other milestone years of consecrated life were honored with a Mass and reception on June 23 at Sacred Heart Church in Saratoga.

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Prayer: At heart of Marin parish’s response to sex abuse FROM PAGE 1

the Catholic Church in America. The public prayer service was designed to move everyone toward a sense of healing, he said.

“It’s a call for wholeness, on behalf of the church, so we can reach out in ministry,” he said.

But while the idea started at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, it quickly became an interfaith project. Father Michaels said local pastors meet frequently to discuss their work and support each other in their ministry in Mill Valley and Marin County. When he told them he had been planning a prayer service as a response to the revelations of clerical abuse, they asked to join the effort.

“All of them recognize that all churches and organizations struggle with the same sins,” he said.

While the clergy sex abuse scandals are the immediate reason for the service, Father Michaels said it was important to remember all victims of sexual violence.

“There’s a general lack of respect for human dignity, and we want to pray for that,” he said.

In addition to Father Michaels, the Rev. Brother Richard Edward Helmer of Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Church and the Rev. Kent Philpott of Miller Avenue Baptist Church helped lead the service. After opening with the Our Father, the three took turns leading a litany for healing and wholeness, praying for the church, for victims of sex abuse, and for perpetrators of abuse. Holding flowers to honor the victims of sex abuse, the crowd prayed for God’s mercy and healing, gathered in a circle while couples and families ate lunch in the square or shopped at nearby stores.

John Murphy told Catholic San Francisco the service was the beginning of “a long healing process” for the church.

“Society only sees the assaults in the church. It doesn’t see the heart and forgiveness that we need to demonstrate,” he said.

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An interfaith gathering in Mill Valley on Sept. 15 prayed for wholeness and healing in response to the sex abuse crisis.

Jovita Addeo, a parishioner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, said she was relieved to know that the truth “is coming out into the open, and that our clergy are doing something. Thank God for Father Pat.” While the clergy sex abuse scandals have affected the Catholic Church primarily, Rev. Brother Helmer and Rev. Philpott said the credibility of all Christianity, and its reception in society, had been damaged. Rev. Philpott told Catholic San Francisco that “all of us are impacted. The non-Christian world tarnishes everyone with the same brush.”

Their joint prayer at the public service was not only a show of solidarity, according to Rev. Brother Helmer, but also a reflection of the body of Christ.

“What impacts the people of Mount Carmel impacts us all.”

Christina Rose, the music minister at Miller Avenue Baptist Church, told Catholic San Francisco she was hopeful that San Jose and other dioceses in the Bay Area would lead the way for “brave congre-

gations of Catholics to step up and open records.

Confessors need to be open to confession, and then they can heal and rectify injustice,” she said.

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Christian hope, resources for prisoners returning to society spark conference More than 350 people attended the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Reentry Conference Sept. 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone offered remarks and led the day’s opening prayer. The day focuses on offering resources for those returning from prison and jail.

“There is so much waste of human potential in those behind bars,” the archbishop said, commending those who help prisoners and former prisoners, noting that is what Jesus calls us to do. “You are helping them to realize their potential and recover it and helping people to heal and helping people to reintegrate.” The formerly incarcerated are, he said, “part of the population that is easily ignored and is ignored.” They are “the very ones we are called to reach out to and show his love to and that is what you are doing. God bless you.”

Julio Escobar, archdiocesan restorative justice coordinator, originated the free gathering. “We offer resources to people that otherwise may not reach these services while we build community with agencies that are partners of the archdio-

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Pictured at the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Reentry Conference Sept. 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center are, from left, Brian McAuley, Julio Escobar (restorative justice coordinator for the archdiocese), Micah Sullivan, Kirk Sarkine, Fernando Medina, Jordan Jeske, Ricky Cadriel. Right, St. Paul of the Shipwreck parishioners serving in a newly formed ministry supporting the families and friends of incarcerated persons gathered at the conference. From left, Kathy O’Brien, Desiree Pascual, Deacon Larry Chatmon, Loretta Chatmon. cese,” Escobar, who continues to organize the event with help from dozens of volunteers, said.

San Francisco County Sheriff Vicki Hennessey, San Francisco Chief Adult Probation Officer Karen Fletcher and Tinisch Hollins, Bay Area chapter coordinator for Californians for Safety and Justice spoke as part of a panel moderated by Escobar.

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Parishes including San Francisco’s St. Dominic, St. Paul of the Shipwreck and Star of the Sea had representatives at the sessions as did Catholic Charities; San Mateo St. Vincent de Paul Society, and Eternal Word Television Network. More than 50 government and nonprofit organizations including Jails to Jobs, Five Keys Charter Schools, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Development Corporation and Bay Area Legal Aid were available at the talks.

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You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

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Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

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Catholic pilgrims walking down Gough Street toward St. Mary’s Cathedral escorting the image of Our Lady of Sorrows during a procession celebrating Hispanic Day in the Archdiocese of San Francisco on Sept.

15. Right, Juana and Enrique Rodríguez are pictured with their grandchildren Maniah and Milany at the conclusion of the Mass on Hispanic Day.

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by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and concelebrants on the feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows.

The procession led by Father Moises Agudo, archdiocesan vicar for Hispanics and pastor of St. Peter, St. Charles and St. Anthony parishes and parishioners from Mission district parishes, had gathered at 8 a.m. that day at the intersection of César Chávez and South Van Ness proceed-

ing toward St. Mary’s Cathedral and stopping in front of City Hall. Father Agudo said they were there to pray “for so many grieving mothers that today are forced to be separated from their children” and the reason behind the event taking place on the feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows.

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“They even want to blame our Holy Father Francis. To me he is not guilty,” said Rodriguez after watching the news that seemed to want to implicate the pope instead throwing out and blaming the clergy responsible for the crimes.

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Sister Helen (St. George) ThompHoly Names Sister Patricia Bussson, 85, died Sept. man, formerly 4 at Marian Hall, known as Sister Dubuque, Iowa.

Mary Annunciata, Born in San died Sept. 10 at Mercy Francisco, she enRetirement Center in tered the Sisters Oakland. She was 85 of Charity of the years old and a Sister Blessed Virgin of the Holy Names Mary Feb. 2, 1951, for 64 years.

Sister Helen from St. Brendan “Sister Patricia relSister Patricia Thompson, BVM Parish, San Franished being a native Bussman, SNJM cisco. of San Francisco and Sister Helen was an elementary was a graduate of St. Monica School teacher in Chicago and San José, an and Presentation High School,” the academic dean at Clarke University Holy Names Sisters said. in Dubuque, Iowa, an instructor at A former principal of her congreMundelein College in Chicago and gation’s Holy Names High School the Graduate Theological Union in in Oakland, Sister Patricia’s entire Berkeley. ministry was in education. She also Survivors include a brother served in the education office of the George, now living in Florida, and a Los Angeles archdiocese and later nephew Robert and his wife, Susan, taught math at Damien High School, of Utah.

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A funeral Mass was celebrated A funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 10 with interment in the at Holy Spirit Chapel, Sept. 15, Mount Carmel cemetery. with interment at Holy Sepulchre Remembrances may be made to Cemetery, Hayward. Remembrances the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support may be made to the Sisters of the Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Holy Names, P.O. Box 907, Los Gatos Iowa 52003.

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St. Matthew parochial vicar Father Alvin Yu and members of the San Mateo Serra Club gathered at St. Matthew Church on Sept. 21, the day of the group’s final meeting.

Serra Club: San Mateo group says ‘always forward’ and goodbye FROM PAGE 8

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“A priest would come and talk about his upbringing, his calling and faith formation, how his family reacted when he was called – his path in life as a servant of God. That’s what I miss the most. You normally don’t have that connection,” she said.

Father Alvin Yu, parochial vicar at St. Matthew Parish, told Catholic

San Francisco that while the official club has gone, its mission remains.

“We don’t stop praying for vocations because Serra Club isn’t there,” he said.

Its end, he hoped, could even become a chance for families and parishes to assume responsibility for vocations.

“It’s an opportunity to encourage considering this life in our own families,” he said.

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The passage contract use by these when luggagefees handlers ($158.50); and 3:inoptional travel it insur-speaking guides andand entrance to places included the shall constitute theprovide sole contract betweenoutside the companies ance. An amount to cover these items will be added toPlease your note thatissued Medicare does not coverage of .S. Citizen: ary. Masses at churches indicated subject to availability. and the purchaser of own theseinsurance tours and/or passage.to deteroriginal invoice.are Also not included: domestic baggagethe fees, United States.

Check with your provider Y  N passport and visa fees, laundry, wines, liquors, not includmine whether orMISCELLANEOUS not you are covered outside of the U.S. INCLUDED: 1: Airport departure taxes or and fuel sur-meals FEES: All changes must be in writing and may ed infees, the itinerary, sightseeing services other than those speender: ges (est. - $439); 2: tips to mentioned guides and servers incur a per-person charge for each revision. Deposits received cifically anddrivers, items ofmeal a personal nature. Note: Due to RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY: Land arrangements including uggage M  F handlers (est.

- $13storage per day); 3: optional within 92Pentecost days of departure may fee. limited spaceand on motor coaches,travel Pentecost Tourssurface enti- transportation: Tours, Inc.,incur anda late theregistration participating tles each passenger one and one carry-on bag ance. An amount to cover these itemsto will bechecked addedbag to your Tour Operators operate the land tours offered this program .S. Citizen: LAND ARRANGEMENTS: The tour under operator reserves the right meets airline “size/weight” Domestic baggage nal invoice. Also notthat included: airline baggageallowances. fees, passonly as agents of the railroads, carbecause rental of contractors, steamship to change the itinerary emergencies or extenuating fees, overweight baggage charges, and fees for additional bags and Y  N visa fees, laundry, wines, liquors, meals not included in operators, sightseeing contractors and others that beyond our control. fall services under theother responsibility of thespecifically passenger. Be aware,lines, while hotels, buscircumstances inerary, sightseeing or than those you may agree to pay fees for additional luggage, thereprovide may the actual land arrangements and are not liable for any act, ioned and items of anot personal NOTE: Due to limited The damage Pentecost or Tours staff does its bestoccurring to provide you be roomnature. on the motor coach. omission, delay, ERRORS: injury, loss, nonperformance ge space on motor coaches, Pentecost Tours entitles each withthese accurate billing, brochures, etc.

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Delta and other computer error, verbal or written human errors, we whose reserve the Pilgrims whobag require must steamship enger to one checkedASSISTANCE: bag and one carry-on thatpersonal meets assistancein carriers, lines and other transportation companies right to invoice, re-invoice, or forward corrected materials. be accompanied by a paying passenger who will provide that e “size/weight” allowances. Domestic baggage fees, overservices are featured in these tours are not to be held responsible ht baggage charges, assistance. and fees for additional bags fall under for any act, omission orCALIFORNIA event during the timeSELLER passengers are not REGISTERED OF TRAVEL esponsibility of the passenger.

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CONSTITUTE APPROVAL BY THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA) the price of the tour, with the balance to be paid in full nothe later companies and the purchaser of these tours and/or passage. than 7/23/2017. Payment of remaining balance received after STANCE: Pilgrims who require personal assistance must be 7/23/2017 will incur a $50 penalty. Reservations made within MISCELLANEOUS FEES: All changes must be in writing and may mpanied by a paying passenger will provide assistance.

92 days ofwho departure may bethat subject to a late charge. In the a per-person charge for each revision. Deposits received withincur event of cancellation, refund will be made up to 6/25/2017 inwith 92 days of departure may incur a lateArrangements registration fee.

Travel by: a $100 administrative fee plus any airline cancellation penalOSIT AND CANCELLATION: A deposit of $500 per person is ties. From 6/25/2017 to 7/23/2017 thetocancellation penalty is ARRANGEMENTS: The tour operator reserves the right to LAND red to secure reservations, which sum will be applied the plus to anybe airline cancellation penalties.

If cancellation is PO Box 280 change the itinerary because of emergencies or extenuating cirof the tour, with the$500 balance paid in full no later than received after 7/23/2017, refund will be subject to a minimum Batesville, IN 47006 cumstances beyond our control.

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Therereceived will be no after refund8/8/2018 for cancellations within 33ERRORS: days with accurate billing, brochures, etc. However, in the event of comof departure. mustReservabe in writing and the effective PENALTY PHASE ONE] will incur Cancellation a $50 penalty. we reserve the right to date will be the date may that Pentecost Tours, In the error, verbal or written human errors,travel@pentecosttours.com ions made within 92 days of departure be subject to Inc. receives it. puter www.pentecosttours.com invoice, do not bookwill the tour within 120 days of re-invoice, or forward corrected materials. a late charge. In the event event15 ofpassengers cancellation, refund the agent reserves the rightbe to cancel the tour. Upon ur 71023 made up to 7/11/2018departure, with a $100 administrative fee CALIFORNIA REGISTERED SELLER OF TRAVEL Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 AM - 5 PM E.S.T. cancellation of the transportation or plus travel services, where you, 23, airline 2017 cancellation any penalties.

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China: Vatican pact ‘will allow past wounds’ to heal, pope says FROM PAGE 1

In recent years, most bishops chosen by the government-related Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association have sought and received Vatican recognition before their ordinations.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said in a statement that “the objective of the Holy See is a pastoral one: the Holy See intends just to create the condition, or to help to create the condition, of a greater freedom, autonomy and organization, in order that the Catholic Church can dedicate itself to the mission of announcing the Gospel and also to contribute to the well-being and to the spiritual and material prosperity and harmony of the country, of every person and of the world as a whole.”

“What is required now is unity, trust and a new impetus,” Cardinal Parolin said in a video message recorded before he left Rome to join the pope in Vilnius. “To the Catholic community in China – the bishops, priests, religious and faithful – the pope entrusts, above all, the commitment to make concrete fraternal gestures of reconciliation among themselves, and so to overcome past misunderstandings, past tensions, even the recent ones.”

The nomination and assignment of bishops has been a key sticking point in Vatican-Chinese relations for decades; the Catholic Church has insisted that bishops be appointed by the pope and the Chinese government has maintained that would amount to foreign interference in China’s internal affairs.

Catholic communities that have refused to register with the government and refused to follow government-appointed bishops commonly are referred to as the underground church. Many communities, though, have bishops who were elected locally

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Left, a priest hears confession on Holy Thursday, March 29, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing. Right, a man prays during Mass in 2017 at in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing. but who pledged their unity with and fidelity to the pope, which in effect meant they were recognized by both the government and the Vatican.

Vatican officials always have said that giving up full control over the nomination of bishops would not be what it hopes for, but could be a good first step toward ensuring greater freedom and security for the Catholic community there.

The Vatican announcement said the agreement was signed Sept. 22 in Beijing by Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, undersecretary for foreign relations in the Vatican Secretariat of State, and Wang Chao, Chinese deputy foreign minister.

The provisional agreement, the Vatican said, “is the fruit of a gradual and reciprocal rapprochement, has been agreed following a long process of careful negotiation and foresees the possibility of periodic reviews of its application. It concerns the nomination of bishops, a question of great importance for the life of the church, and creates the conditions for greater collaboration at the bilateral level.”

“The shared hope,” the statement said, “is that this agreement may fa-

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The Vatican did not release the text of the agreement nor provide details about what it entailed.

News reports in mid-September, like earlier in the year, said the provisional agreement would outline precise procedures for ensuring Catholic bishops are elected by the Catholic community in China and approved by the pope before their ordinations and installations.

Media reports in the days before the announcement said future candidates for the office of bishop will be chosen at the diocesan level through a democratic election system, and the results of the elections will be sent to Beijing for government authorities to examine.

The government would then submit a name via diplomatic channels to the Holy See. The Holy See will carry out its own investigation of the candidate before the pope either approves or exercises his veto, according to the Jesuit-run

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The pope will have the final word on the appointment of bishops in China, the report said.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, the 76-year-old retired archbishop of Hong Kong, has been one of the rumored agreement’s strongest critics.

In an interview with the Reuters news agency in Hong Kong Sept. 20, Cardinal Zen said Cardinal Parolin should resign.

“I don’t think he has faith. He is just a good diplomat in a very secular, mundane meaning,” Cardinal Zen told Reuters. “They’re giving the flock into the mouths of the wolves. It’s an incredible betrayal.”

Cardinal Parolin, meanwhile, told reporters Sept. 20 the Vatican is “convinced that this is a step forward. We are not so naive as to think that from now on everything is going to go well, but it seems to us that this is the right direction.”

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 29

TUESDAY, OCT. 2

ST.PATRICK’S SEMINARY GALA: St. Patrick’s Seminary will honor Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio and the Archdiocese for the Military Services at the school, 320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. The evening includes vespers, 4:30 p.m.; tours and cocktails, 5 p.m.; dinner 6 p.m. with a program and silent auction until 8:30 p.m. For ticket information, contact John Callan, (650) 325-5621; advancement@stpsu.edu.

NERT TRAINING: The San Francisco Fire Department offers a free Neighborhood Emergency Response Team training at sessions, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Nov. 6, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Flanagan Center, 39th Avenue at Lawton, San Francisco. “This event is sponsored by the SFFD to train individuals on the basics of personal preparedness and prevention, including hands-on disaster skills.

NERT training is done by professional firefighters and is a free public service from the City of San Francisco. NERT volunteers are individuals who are active and involved in the community – or someone who wants to be,” said information from event coordinators. Topics include earthquake awareness and preparedness, disaster medicine, and hazard types. To register, visit http:// bit.ly/29OhzgG or call (415) 970-2024.

Already NERT trained? To recertify, visit http://bit.ly/29OhBVW. Visit www.sfgov. org/sfnert for more on the training.

REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, Class of 1968, Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave. South San Francisco, 11:30 a.m., $50. Judy McElearney Norbriga, judyaileen@ yahoo.com.

REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, Class of 2003, 7 p.m. with additional events Sept. 30, noon, Mercy High School, Ashley Barth Forbes, ashley.dbf@gmail.com.

BLESSING OF ANIMALS: St. Mary’s Cathedral Plaza, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, noon, with visit from SFFD rescue dogs, and SFPD mounted patrol. Remember dogs on leash, cats in carrier, caged animals welcome. Treats for pets while supplies last courtesy of Pet Food Express.

‘TOGETHER IN HOLINESS’: Day for married couples: Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 1040 Alameda de Las Pulgas, Belmont, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Includes talks from experts in Catholic marriage and family life plus Mass with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, eucharistic adoration, and reconciliation, $59 a couple, or $35 individual; childcare (2 to 12 years) available, space limited.

Speakers include Father Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco who has studied at the Angelicum in Rome and at Oxford, Dr. John Grabowski, a highly renowned professor at Catholic University and an expert in the magisterium of St. John Paul II, and Dr. Chris Stravitsch, co-founder of the St. John Paul II Foundation where a large part of the focus is on Catholic marriage. Ed Hopfner (415) 614-5547, hopfnere@ sfarch.org. Visit www.forlifeandfamily. org/events/th18-sfca/.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3 TRANSITUS: Our Lady of Angels Parish, lower hall, 1335 Cortez Ave., Burlingame, 7 p.m. Rite includes candlelight procession, prayer service, and litany. Reception follows. (650) 678-6449.

‘STRENGTH FOR THE JOURNEY’: Monthly support group for people with life threatening illness, St Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10 a.m-noon.

Sessions offer spiritual support through word, sacrament and community as well as guidance on Catholic teaching and the preparation of Health Care Directives, free. Deacon Christoph Sandoval, facilitates, (415) 567-2020, ext.

218; csandoval@stmarycathedralsf.org.

THURSDAY, OCT. 4 BRENNAN AWARD DINNER: St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco Brennan Award Dinner, honoring SF Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, Hilton San Francisco Union Square. Individual tickets are priced at $200 with availability for event sponsorship. For more

information please visit our website: https://svdp-sf.org/get-involved/ events/ or contact Lisa Handley at lhandley@svdp-sf.org; (415) 757-6560.

SATURDAY, OCT. 6 DINNER WITH DEAN: A tribute to the Dean Martin Dinner Show, St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae, dinner, dancing, show, dessert. Doors open 5:45 pm; dinner, 6:30 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. $50 per person, no host bar.

For more information and tickets, Ann Woolen (650) 697-4730 or notify her via email secretary@saintdunstanchurch. org. Advance table reservations available for parties of 10.

ROSARY RALLY: Rosary rally will take place at St Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Oct. 6: 9 a.m. rosary,; 10 a.m. Young People’s Mass, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant; 11 a.m. procession; noon Renewal of Consecration to Immaculate Heart of Mary, crowning of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Benediction. rosaryrallysf.com, (628) 600-8589.

SOCIAL JUSTICE FORUM: “Healthy Children, Healthy Community, Healthy World” with Dr. Michael Anderson, president, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, 6 p.m., St. Ignatius Church, Fromm Hall, tickets at $40 include dinner. www.stignatiussf.org/event/jesuitconnections; Franca Gargiulo (415) 422-5901, fgargiulo@usfca.edu.

FRIDAY, OCT. 12 RIORDAN GOLF: Alumni and friends of Riordan High School are invited for a fun day of golf at TPC Harding Park to support Riordan’s athletic facilities.

Individual golfers: $250, foursomes: $900. Sponsorships available! More information: www.riordanhs.org or call Paul Cronin, (415)586-8200, ext. 357.

3-DAY FESTIVAL: :Fiesta Forever,” St. Dunstan Parish, 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae, Oct. 12, 5-10 p.m.; Oct. 13, 1-10 p.m.; Oct. 14, noon-6 p.m., rides, carnival games, food, cash bar, bingo and silent auction. gabrielleoneil@ gmail.com; (650) 697-8119.

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VIOLENCE PREVENTION: Free from violence presentation and resource provider fair, 5:30-7 p.m., Colma Community Center, 1520 Hillside Blvd., Colma, free and open to the public.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 13 70TH ANNIVERSARY: San Francisco’s St. Gabriel School celebrates its 70th anniversary with events beginning at 3 p.m. including an alumni Mass at 5 p.m., and receptions with free appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages, and a no-host bar. Visit www.stgabrielsf. com or email rsvp70@stgabrielsf.com.

DOROTHY DAY: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education & Spirituality, “Dorothy Day – The Word Will be Saved by Beauty,” with Kate Hennessy, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont, 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m., $20, Register at http://bit.ly/2018Kate_Hennessy or (510) 633-6360.

OL FATIMA WALK: Rosary walk, St. Catherine of Siena Church, Bayswater at El Camino Real, Burlingame, noon.

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manager Rick DelVecchio, editor and general recognized of Catholic San Francisco, was as Editor of the Year by the Catholic Catholic Press Association at its annual WisMedia Conference in Green Bay, consin, June 12-15.

The Catholic Press Awards recognize the professional excellence of Catholic newspapers, magazines, newsletters and communications North departments in four regions of Catholic America including Canada. The publication Press Association has nearly 250 The 2018 members and 600 individual members. members in work of awards were based on the 2017 and newsletseven divisions including magazines

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Such journalism is not saccharine or sentimental, the Holy Father said, nor does it shrink from serious problems. It is neither rhetorical nor sensational.

A journalism of peace, he said, is “created by people for people” and is in the service of all, especially those without a voice.

Invoking the Franciscan prayer that urges all the faithful to be instruments of peace, Pope Francis said a journalism of peace is less in a hurry to break news than to promote deeper understanding and help resolve conflicts by encouraging virtuous thought and action.

As Catholic San Francisco nears its 20th anniversary as the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, peace, understanding and such virtues as listening, attending, accompaniment and imagination are among the principles that inform our work.

We greatly value our relationships with our readers and with our parishes and strive to accompany all in their faith journeys as they accompany us. We know the quality of our service to our parishes makes or breaks the trust placed in us, and we think the most recent four issues of the paper represented one of our best sustained editorial efforts so far. We’re organized to maintain that level of quality. Also, we’re proud to have re-engineered our subscriber and donor services unit for the best economy and hospitality we can offer parishes, individual subscribers and donors.

Thousands of our parishioner-readers make small contributions to the paper each year to affirm what the relationship means to them. These gifts help to sustain, among other things, free home delivery and special editorial efforts including the expanded issue of Sept. 13 to cover the many dimensions of the national crisis in the church, our popular reprints of the pope’s apostolic exhortation “Gaudete et Exsultate” and the California bishops’ pastoral letter “Hope and Healing,” an upcoming special report on the good work of police and fire priest-chaplains and special photography for the 2019 Official Directory.

Not only the material support but also the affirmation of relationship embodied by your gifts played a part in our national recognition at the 2018 Catholic Media Conference. CSF won eight awards, including “Editor of the Year.” Such awards do not occur unless there is a living, breathing connection between a publication and its readers.

As we look ahead to our 20th anniversary and many more years of faithful witness to come, we thank you for your accompaniment and invite you to share by using the envelope included in this issue of Catholic San Francisco or the form below.

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