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The California Catholic Conference has filed a federal civil rights complaint protesting a state ruling mandating the inclusion of voluntary direct abortion – including genderselection and late-term abortion – in California health insurance policies.

“This is a coercive and discriminatory action by the state of California,” said Bishop Robert W. McElroy, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and chair of the Institutional Concerns Committee of the California Catholic Conference, the public advocacy office of the bishops of California.

The ruling violates the Weldon Amendment, a federal law enacted in 2005 to protect the conscience rights

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis opened the first working session of an extraordinary Synod of Bishops Oct. 6, urging participants to speak fearlessly and listen humbly during two weeks of discussion of the “pastoral challenges of the family.”

Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest then outlined some of the major challenges the bishops would discuss, including such controversial topics as cohabitation, divorce, birth control and the impact of social and economic pressures.

“Let nobody say: ‘I can’t say this; they’ll think such-and-such about me,’” Pope Francis told more than 180 bishops and more than 60 other synod participants. “Everyone needs to say

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Pope Francis raises the Book of the Gospels as he celebrates a Mass to open the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 5.

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Archbishop rededicates National Shrine of St. Francis ‘As we come together to rededicate this church, let us see it as a sign of our commitment to rededicate ourselves to the person of Jesus Christ and to the mission of this shrine.’

After a five-month closure for renovations, the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi reopened Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis, with a rededication Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

The Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bell Ringers and the shrine’s Festival Schola assembled in the choir loft looked down onto a congregation of around 250 where the shrine’s new cross-design inlaid granite floor and refurbished pews were in full evidence, installed this spring and summer as a gift from a major donor.

“Perhaps no saint in the history of the church is more celebrated for his identity to the person of Jesus Christ than is St. Francis,” the archbishop said in a homily centered on the saint’s life and what he called the “perfect joy of St. Francis.”

Francis had no claim on anyone or

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Archbishop Cordileone processes after celebrating Mass at the National Shrine of St. Francis Oct. 4, marking the saint’s feast day and the rededication of a remodeled shrine church. anything, he said, his only heritage was his Lord Jesus Christ. “And yet what most of us think first when we

conjure up the image of St. Francis of Assisi is a picture of simple joy, the perfect joy of St. Francis,” the archbishop said.

The contemporary world doesn’t associate joy with the denial of all material comforts, however, or the embrace of that which is repugnant and socially outcast, he said, but there

is no perfect joy without embracing the cross, he said.

This was made possible for St. Francis, the archbishop said, because he gave first place “No, not to Lady Poverty, no, not to service of the lepers, not to his love of creation, but to his love of the creator.”

The archbishop said Francis’ encounter with the passion of Christ was so intense that it left “stigmata,” or marks of the crucified savior, on his own body. Stigmata means mark or scar, the archbishop said, but it also means branding or ownership, and that was the physical manifestation of Francis’ life.

How many people today, far from embracing the cross, flee the cross, asked the archbishop. “How many people even if they intellectually acknowledge his existence, fail to give God the first place in their lives that is his due and live as if he didn’t exist?” he asked.

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The mystery of the perfect joy of St. Francis This is an abridged version of the homily Archbishop Cordileone gave Oct. 4 on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi at the rededication of the church at the National Shrine of St. Francis.

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ven in a very secular world, St. Francis certainly has a universal appeal even beyond our Catholic family. Francis was completely identified to his Lord, our Savior Jesus Christ.

Perhaps no saint in the history of the church is more celebrated for his identity to the person of Jesus Christ than St. Francis.

Archbishop This identity even Salvatore J. manifested itself Cordileone physically toward the end of his life, which was difficult for him. In 1224, having the leadership of his community taken from him and seeing it head in a direction not to his liking, and being afflicted with a painful disease of the eyes, he took refuge atop Mount Laverna for a lengthy retreat.

On Sept. 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, he underwent a profound and mysterious event, an encounter with the Passion of Christ so intense that it left the marks of the Crucified on his body. He bore the wounds of Christ, the stigmata, on his body. This is the literal word St. Paul uses in reference to himself in the passage we just heard from his letter to the Galatians: “I bear the marks” – the stigmata – “of Jesus on my body.”

This word literally means a mark, a scar, a brand indicating ownership – just as a cattle rancher brands his cattle to identify them as his own.

This was the physical manifestation of Francis’ entire life: his identification with Christ in his Passion.

Francis readily embraced the Cross, not just in theory, but in practical ways that changed his life severely and permanently. Even before his radical embrace of Lady Poverty, there was another embrace, a literal, physical embrace that changed him for good. This is how he describes that moment in his own words: “The Lord granted

Animals blessed Top, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, parishioners David and Jill Thornton celebrated the feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi by bringing their dogs to the church parking lot for the annual Blessing of the Animals Oct. 4. Center and below, pet blessing duties brought smiles to Capuchin Father Harold Snider at the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco and Father Larry Goode at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto.

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Comment from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers me, brother Francis, to begin doing penance this way: When I was in my sins, just to see lepers was very bitter for me. And the Lord himself took me among them, and I showed mercy to them. And on leaving them, what seemed bitter to me had turned for me into sweetness of body and soul.”

Embracing the leper, an act formerly repugnant to him, was the pivotal turning point of his life that led him to embrace the Cross of Christ. In identifying himself with the lepers, loving them, being with them and serving them, and so finding in them “sweetness of body and soul,” he identified himself with Christ in his Passion. In this way Francis started to lose himself and find himself anew in Christ.

His only heritage was to be his Lord Jesus Christ; he had no claim to anyone or anything else.

Owning nothing and hanging out with lepers doesn’t seem like a promising life. Yet this is the “perfect joy” of St. Francis. The secular world and many good people in it cannot recognize this as joy. Modern joy requires many possessions and people who are healthy and fun to be with.

The folly of the cross and the wisdom of God point to the same reality: There is no perfect joy without embracing the Cross.

For Francis, neither Lady Poverty nor service to lepers, nor his love for animals came first. Love of the Creator took precedence over all.

He always gave first place to the Lord of all Creation. To His Majesty we owe fitting reverence. The finest gift was required for worship of the Lord of Heaven and Earth. And that worship, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, was to be celebrated with the utmost dignity and respect.

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How many people today, far from embracing the Cross, flee the Cross? How many people today find the enduring of any kind of suffering for a just cause, any form of self-denial, even any inconvenience, incomprehensible, intolerable, and offensive? How many ignore God, how many, even if they intellectually acknowledge His existence, fail to give Him the first place in their lives that is His due and live as if He didn’t exist? And how much sadness and suffering has this produced, how much conflict and hurt – always the result of human pride?

Conforming oneself to Christ and embracing the particular cross that he gives us require great humility, the swallowing of one’s pride in order to embrace whatever it is that one once found repugnant. And yet, it is the path to healing, to wholeness, to perfect joy.

The Porziuncola is the small church in which St. Francis had one of his great visions. Thank God we now have a porziuncula as part of the national shrine. The Porziuncula means the “little portion” of St. Francis. We all have a little portion to give. But when we give it together, we give something beautiful to God, and God gives us something beautiful in return: the perfect joy of St. Francis. May the Poor Man of Assisi now intercede for us, that each of us, the Catholics of St. Francis, that is, of San Francisco, may embrace the cross and identify ourselves with Christ in his Passion.

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‘Thirsting for Christ’: A priest’s cross-cultural education RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Nigerian Father Edward Edward S. Inyanwachi counts his 11-year sojourn as a visiting priest in the Archdiocese of San Francisco as a blessing that is serving him well as he leads a growing parish in his native country, he told Catholic San Francisco.

The daily Massgoing son of devout parents, Father Inyanwachi was only 24 when he finished seminary in his home Diocese of Abakaliki in southeast Nigeria. Just six years later, in 2000, he was in San Francisco studying for his doctorate in Catholic educational leadership at the University of San Francisco and serving in the first of many pastoral and administrative roles in archdiocesan parishes including Holy Name of Jesus in San Francisco, Our Lady of Loretto in Novato, St. Catherine of Siena in Burlingame and finally St. Raymond in Menlo Park.

He returned to Nigeria last year to become the pastor of St. Patrick Church, a new parish made up of 700 families and including three mission churches in a largely rural area.

On his first Easter as pastor, Father Inyanwachi baptized 67 children and adults and administered first Communion to 27 parish members. His regular schedule includes six or seven infant baptisms a week, religious education twice weekly, Bible study monthly and ongoing activities for children and youth including the Mary League for girls, the St. Joseph League for boys and, reflecting the strong devotion to Mary in the diocese, the Block Rosary Crusade for children 6 and older.

Father Inyanwachi finds time to oversee the building projects necessary for a new and growing parish.

“My ministry has been very challenging and exciting,” Father Inyanwachi, visiting friends and associates in the archdiocese, said during a recent stop at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center. “Readjusting took a little while but it was also exciting.

“One of the great excitements to me is the growth of the faith and the willingness to learn,” he said. “They’re thirsting for Christ.”

The majority of parish members were born into the faith and Catholic roots are deep. Packed Masses include all generations and are full of music and movement, with newly catechized children, parents and elders who converted from traditional spiritualty celebrating together. Worshippers dancing to the front of the church with their contributions extend the offertory to 45 minutes.

The offertory is followed by a prayer of thanksgiving with Massgoers again coming forward singing and dancing in gratitude for blessings in their lives.

In U.S. culture, time is money. When he returned home after his immersion in U.S. Catholic style, Father Inyanwachi celebrated a Mass that clocked an hour and 20 minutes. That would have been on the possibly painfully long side in the U.S. but not in Nigerian culture, where music is integral to communication and defines the sense of time.

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“A lot of people said, ‘Why did you finish it so quickly?’” Father Inyanwachi said. “I had to remind myself that I was home.”

As a new pastor in Nigeria with experience in parish administration in the U.S., Father Inyanwachi is in a position to combine the spontaneity of one tradition with the organizational qualities of the other.

He is part of a diocesan team of priests who will attend the local church’s first clergy study days, Nov. 19. Such study days are a tradition in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, where the Nigerian priest got the idea. There will be workshops on liturgy, finance and administration.

Father Inyanwachi finds that clergy study time “helps with ongoing formation, and helps new priests learn the basics. There’s a need for more learning – liturgical, pastoral, organizational.”

He cited marriage as an example – “how the traditional way of marriage can work without offending the sacrament” in a culturally diverse parish, especially when two ethnic groups marry.

Father Inyanwachi would like to see a single approach to such situations for all priests.

As a priest in the archdiocese Father Inyanwachi enjoyed working with people on the path of conversion. One of his RCIA students was a man who born Catholic, went on to become a Buddhist monk and finally “after so many years, wanted to go home.”

Father Inyanwachi and the former Buddhist are still friends. He also counts among his formative relationships in the archdiocese brother priests including retired St. Catherine of Siena pastor the SEE CROSS-CULTURAL, PAGE 20

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New hats, familiar faces at Mercy, Burlingame TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Students, as well as the wider Mercy High School, Burlingame community, have known Natalie Cirigliano and Lauren Conklin for some time. Natalie is now in her fifth year at Mercy having served in roles including chair of the History Department. Lauren signed on as dean of the English Department in 2012.

New jobs for both are part of Natalie the new school year: Natalie Cirigliano is now assistant principal for student life and Lauren assistant principal for academics. I spoke with both women via email.

Natalie is a Mercy alumna and class valedictorian as well as a graduate of neighboring St. Catherine of Siena School.“I went into education because I wanted to make a difference,” Natalie told me. “I wanted to instill a passion Lauren Conklin for learning in teenagers.”

A call from her old grade school to join the faculty there was Natalie’s “sign from God” that teaching was for her.

“I love my role as assistant principal for student life,” Natalie said. One thing she likes is that it puts her at the table for creating “new programs according to student needs and wants.”

Natalie’s new job puts her, too, at the table for the school’s disciplinary program.

“I believe that many students are made to feel bad about mistakes they make along the way,” she said. “It is my ultimate goal that every student who leaves my office after a difficult conversation feels supported and encouraged. All I want is for my students to learn from their mistakes and to learn to be good people who will positively influence others.”

“Giving your child the gift of a Catholic education is one of the greatest things you can give your child, and one that continues to give their entire life. I will forever be thankful to my parents for investing in the Catholic school system and me!”

Lauren Conklin said she “felt completely at home at Mercy, Burlingame” right on arrival.

“The hospitality and family-like atmosphere at Mercy are one-of-a-kind,” she said.

Lauren started her career after college as a journalist. Covering stories on family life and education pushed her to consider teaching. “Each summer I volunteered at journalism camps at

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Lauren has also been a freelance journalist, feature writer, and reporter in her home state of Illinois and fulfilled “a life-long dream” as a stringer for the Chicago Tribune.

Karen Hanrahan who was named Mercy president in 2013 and at that time introduced in Catholic San Francisco now has the title head of school.

CIAO DOWN: Next date for the pasta lunch at Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St. off Cesar Chavez, is Oct. 15 at noon. All the great, pasta, meatballs and salad you can eat for $9.

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Pictured from left at a recent lunch are Konrad von Emster, retired Father Frank Murray, and retired Immaculate Conception pastor, Franciscan Father Guglielmo Lauriola who has been on hand to say “Hi” and “thanks” to diners for years too many to count. my alma mater, and I realized that working with students was my calling,” Lauren said.

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Cathedral hosts special day for women to study St. Edith Stein VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Archdiocese of San Francisco presents “Endow in a Day seminar: Edith Stein, seeker of truth� on Oct. 25 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The cost is $35 and includes lunch.

Edith Stein, also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism, became a Carmelite nun and was martyred St. Edith Stein in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. In remarks on the beatiďŹ cation Edith Stein in Cologne, Germany, in 1987, St. John Paul II said, “We bow down before the testimony of the life and death of Edith Stein, an outstanding daughter of Israel and at the same time a daughter of the Carmelite Order, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a personality who united within her rich life a dramatic synthesis of our century.â€?

ARCHBISHOP TO CELEBRATE ANNUAL RED MASS FOR LEGAL PROFESSION

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant of the annual Red Mass Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m., Sts. Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco. Justice Peter J. Siggins of the California Court of Appeal will be honored with the St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco’s St. Thomas More Award.

Msgr. Peter Vaghi, a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington and an Justice Peter attorney is homilist at the Mass. He J. Siggins is pastor of Little Flower Parish in Bethesda, Maryland. Msgr. Vaghi and Archbishop Cordileone know each other from days when both were studying or serving in Rome.

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Endow stands for Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women and is an educational program of prayer and study for Catholic women.

Endow speaker Eileen Love will lead the “Endow in a Day� seminar. She travels the country speaking about the “new feminism� of St. John Paul II, promoting Endow and training women to lead their own Endow study groups.

The daylong Oct. 25 event will be structured around the eight-chapter Endow biography on Edith Stein. Since it is designed to be studied in a small group setting over eight to 10 weeks, Love said “Endow in a Day� will introduce main themes. “We are going to kind of turbocharge through it and introduce some of the points about Edith Stein that really resonate with women,� Love said.

Prior to joining Endow, Eileen worked as a parish director of religious formation and was a featured columnist in the Denver Catholic Register from 1994-2000. She holds certiďŹ cation as a master catechist, is a 1994 graduate of the Catholic Biblical School, and has her master’s degree in theological University and Hastings Law School. He was appointed to the bench in 2005 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He and his wife, Veronique, live in Marin County and are the parents of four children.

Isabelle Ord, St. Thomas More Society president, said Siggins “embodies the mission of our society and has made signiďŹ cant contributions to our community through serving as a Catholic attorney while affirming a higher calling through faithful instruction and example.â€?

Fellow jurist Martin L. Jenkins said Siggin’s “commitment to family, faith and community reect the values most evident in the life of St. Thomas More.â€?

The Red Mass is a centuries-old tradition where judges, attorneys, and others in the legal profession pray for inspiration from the Holy Spirit. Red vestments worn at the Mass have given the liturgy its name.

studies. Eileen and her husband Mike have four sons.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 St. Thomas More Church 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. in San Francisco 8 AM, 10 AM, 11:45 AM, 8 PM masses with veneration MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 St. Paul’s Church 1845 Church Lane in San Pablo 7:30 AM mass, veneration all day, 7 PM mass TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption 1111 Gough St. in San Francisco 12:10 PM and 6 PM masses with veneration WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 St. Dominic’s Church 2390 Bush St. in San Francisco 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM masses with veneration THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 St. Anne of the Sunset 850 Judah St. in San Francisco 12 PM and 6 PM masses with veneration

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Chinese Catholics have new website, renewed ministry VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Chinese Catholics in the Bay Area are feeling the energy.

Last week the new and first San Francisco archdiocesan Chinese Catholic website– sfcatholicchinese. com– went live, with audio and video, Mass times, audio of homilies in Mandarin, and Scripture readings. The new director of Chinese Catholic ministry Father Peter Zhai worked on the Chinese language website “day and night, probably for Father Peter a week,” he said.

Zhai That is just the latest of many projects for Father Zhai, a member of the Society of the Divine Word who grew up in mainland China with parents so passionately Catholic that four of their six children entered religious life. Two of Father Zhai’s sisters are religious in the People’s Republic of China and a brother was recently ordained a Jesuit priest in the Philippines.

Father Zhai came to this country in 1997 as a seminarian with the Society of the Divine Word and lived in Chicago and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles before moving here.

For Father Zhai, who became director of Chinese ministry in February, it’s all about evangelization. He is reaching out to every age group, but is particularly focused on the young. And he is using multiple forms of communication. In addition to the website, there

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The mid-Peninsula Chinese-Catholic community celebrated its 13th anniversary at St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo on Sept. 13.

CHINESE MINISTRY EVENTS NOV. 22: Young adult evening of prayer, St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, San Francisco DEC. 13: Retreat, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo DEC. 24: Christmas Eve Mass, St. Anne Parish, for the entire Chinese community, beginning at 7:30 p.m. with Christmas carols and followed by 8 p.m. Mass is a new quarterly newsletter Catholic Chinese Community Newsletter, and of course the Facebook page,

11th Annual Pilgrimage for Saint Jude Thaddeus Saturday October 25, 2014 Location: Walk starts at 9:15 am from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City; and ends at 1:00 pm approx. at St. Dominic’s Church (Home of the Shrine of Saint Jude), 2390 Bush St., San Francisco.

Transportation: Buses will be running from St. Dominic’s Church to O.L. of Perpetual Help Church from 6:30 am to 8:30 am only.

Parking: Available at St. Dominic’s Church parking lot.

Route: Exiting O.L. of Perpetual Help Church, start walking towards Mission St. Turn right on Mission St., right on 14th Street. Turn left on South Van Ness Ave. to Van Ness Ave., left on Pine St. and left on Steiner St. (Approx. 8 miles).

Bilingual Solemn Mass: 1:30 pm - St. Dominic’s Church.

Most Rev. William J. Justice, Auxiliary Bishop Archdiocese of San Francisco

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facebook.com/ccinsf as well as the ongoing radio show Cross Radio, a Cantonese language radio show first begun in the 1990s.

Youth are a big focus for Father Zhai.

In August, about 100 Chinese young adults turned out for a picnic organized by Chinese Catholic Ministry and it was so successful that there will be a young adult evening of prayer Nov. 22 at St. Anne of the Sunset. The Chinese Legion of Mary just started in San Francisco and the Chinese Legion of Mary at St. Matthew’s recently celebrated 500 meetings after 10 years of existence, he said.

Father Zhai is tickled that close to 20 people have signed up for Chinese Rite of Christian Initiation, to enter or become full members of the Catholic Church. Classes began two weeks ago and will culminate at Easter Vigil. “Once they come in, they don’t want to leave – everyone feels so much welcome,” Father Zhai said, crediting the RCIA teams at St. Matthew and St. Anne.

Chinese New Year celebrations will be revamped this year – the centerpiece will be a Chinese New Year Mass celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Feb. 21, with the official Catholic Chinese New Year banquet following in the hall below the cathedral church.

“The Mass is the most important,” part of the Chinese New Year’s celebration and that’s why the banquet will be held at the cathedral as well, Father Zhai said. Chinese and non-Chinese come from all over for the event, which in the past has been held at a Chinatown restaurant. By hosting the banquet in conjunction with the Chinese New Year’s Mass, Father Zhai hopes to reach out with the good news of the Catholic faith to those who would otherwise not hear its truth or feel its warmth and energy, he said.

“It’s an opportunity to evangelize,” Father Zhai said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 10, 2014

Year of Consecrated Life events to help laity learn about religious CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – In an effort to help lay Catholics gain a deeper understanding of religious life, priests, brothers and women religious intend to open their convents, monasteries, abbeys and religious houses to the public one day next February.

“If you’ve ever wondered what a brother or religious sister does all day, you will find out,” said Dominican Sister Marie Bernadette Thompson in announcing the open house scheduled for Feb. 8, 2015.

The open house is just one of the events for the upcoming Year of Consecrated Life, which begins the weekend of Nov. 29-30 – the first Sunday of Advent is Nov. 30. It will end Feb. 2, 2016, the World Day of Consecrated life.

The special year dedicated to consecrated life was announced by Pope Francis and is similar to previous themed years announced by popes such as Year of the Priest (2009-2010) or Year of St. Paul. (2008-2009).

The year also marks the 50th anniversary of “Perfectae Caritatis,” a decree on religious life, and “Lumen Gentium,” the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. The purpose of the yearlong celebration, according to a Vatican statement, is to “make a grateful remembrance of the recent past” while embracing “the future with hope.”

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Raleigh, North Carolina, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations,

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Dominican Sister Marie Bernadette Thompson, council coordinator for the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, discusses initiatives focused on bringing together men and women religious and families, during an Oct. 1 press conference in Washington. announced the Year of Consecrated Life events at an Oct. 1 news conference at the USCCB headquarters in Washington.

He said the scheduled events will provide an opportunity, especially for young people, to see how men and women religious live. He also urged heads of religious orders to let his committee know of activities they are planning so they can be publicized.

Sister Thompson, council coordinator of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, said the purpose of the open house gatherings will be to provide people with an encounter with men and women religious and also an encounter with Christ.

Sister Marcia Allen, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia, Kansas, and president-elect of

Leadership Conference of Women Religious, said another initiative for the upcoming year is called “Days with Religious,” during which laypeople will have opportunities to join men and women religious in works of service throughout the summer of 2015.

She said these opportunities, to be announced locally, will not only give laypeople the chance to “work with us side by side” but will also enable them to become aware of the charisms of different orders.

Sister Allen said she hoped the experience would be a “coming together for the sake of the church’s presence” in the modern world.

The third major initiative for the year is a day of prayer scheduled Sept. 13, 2015.

Prayers intentions, prayer cards, a video on consecrated life and other resources are available at: www.usccb. org/beliefs-and-teachings/vocations/ consecrated-life/year-of-consecratedlife/index.cfm.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 10, 2014

Catholic group launches alternative to health insurance CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A Catholic group is launching an alternative to health insurance that enables people to pay their medical expenses without being part of a health insurance plan they feel compromises their religious beliefs. “We have to ďŹ nd new ways to protect conscience rights in health care,â€? said Mike O’Dea, one of the co-founders of the new program, Christ Medicus Foundation CURO. “Curoâ€? is Latin for care for, cure and heal.

The health sharing program, announced at the National Press Club

Oct. 2 as the ďŹ rst one in the United States that is Catholic, is partnering with Samaritan Ministries International, an evangelical health sharing program that has been operating since 1994 and serves 120,000 members.

Under the Affordable Care Act, health sharing ministries in existence before 1999 are exempt from the federal health care law’s individual mandate requiring everyone to have insurance.

These types of groups, currently serving more than 300,000 in the U.S., are founded on the biblical mandate of believers sharing each other’s needs.

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David Wilson, the other co-founder of Christ Medicus Foundation CURO, based in Troy, Michigan, said the likely candidates for this program are “people who view their faith and religious liberty as very important.�

He described it as a good ďŹ t for the uninsured, self-employed and small-business owners. Members pay a monthly fee, which varies for individuals, couples and families and is spelled out on the group’s website, http://cmfcuro.com.

Medical needs that cost less than $300 are not “shared among members� but amounts from $300 to $250,000 per need are. In circumstances with medical bills exceeding the top amount, special arrangements can be made.

Applicants can pre-register for the program on the website, but enrollment does not begin until Dec. 15 and the program will be operational Jan. 1, 2015.

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Wilson, the ďŹ rst to register for the program, said its costs are signiďŹ cantly less than health insurance premiums and O’Dea concurred, noting recent skyrocketing deductible payments.

When asked whether the program would continue if the Affordable Care Act were overturned, the resounding answer was yes. “With or without the Affordable Care Act, we’re building on community,� said Louis Brown, the program’s director.

He said the program reected the new evangelization going on in the Catholic Church today, emphasizing preaching the Gospel with words and actions and being in solidarity with one another.

Wilson similarly indicated that this new way of paying for health care was opened up by disputes that Catholics, in particular, had with the Affordable Care Act, which he said “created an opportunity for us to practice our faith.�

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 10, 2014

Court declines to review marriage equality rulings PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Rulings that overturned state bans on same-sex marriage in five states will be allowed to take effect, after the Supreme Court Oct. 6 declined to consider appeals of seven lower court rulings that such prohibitions are unconstitutional.

Another half-dozen states in the same appellate court jurisdictions also are likely to begin allowing such marriages.

But the high court’s refusal to hear the cases does not translate to a nationwide mandate for all states to follow them.

The action effectively allows same-sex marriages to begin in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin as soon as lower courts lift temporary stays that were imposed while appeals went to the Supreme Court.

Six other states within the same three federal circuit court jurisdictions would fall under those appellate rulings and likely also will begin allowing such marriages, bringing to 30 the number of states that allow same-sex couples to wed.

The justices’ decision not to take up any of the cases came as a surprise to legal observers. The high court typically does not take up cases with nationwide implications unless there are conflicting lower court rulings. But in each of the seven marriage cases, both the winning and losing sides had asked the court to review the lower court decisions, to help clarify the overall situation.

When the Supreme Court justices consider whether to take a case, it takes four votes to put an appeal on the docket. Four justices dissented from the 2013 rulings that overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. After the U.S. v. Windsor rul-

FATHER GROESCHEL, BELOVED AUTHOR, RETREAT MASTER AND PREACHER, DIES

TOTOWA, N.J– Father Benedict J. Groeschel, who was a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, a leading pro-life figure and popular author, retreat master and preacher, died Oct. 3 at St. Joseph’s Home for Father Benedict J. the elderly in Totowa after a long illness. He Groeschel was 81.

“We are deeply saddened by the death of Father Benedict. He was an example to us all,” said Father John Paul Ouellette, who is also a Franciscan friar and the order’s community servant.

ing, attorneys general in some states declined to defend their bans on samesex marriage, while others vigorously fought to keep them intact.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th, 6th, 9th and 11th circuits all have samesex marriage cases on the docket. The Supreme Court’s decision not to take up the cases gives the appellate courts little new information on which to base their rulings, so it’s possible that a split between circuits could still develop.

While supporters of laws allowing same-sex marriage hailed the result of the court’s decision to bypass the cases, some opponents called on Congress to act.

A statement from the chairmen of two committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said they were disappointed that the court didn’t take up the cases.

“All of these state laws were democratically enacted, including most by the direct vote of large majorities within just the last decade,” said the Oct. 6 statement from Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage.

“Millions of Americans had looked to the court with hope that these unjust judicial decisions might be reversed.”

“The Supreme Court’s action fails to resolve immediately the injustice of marriage redefinition, and therefore should be of grave concern to our entire nation,” the bishops said.

While Catholic teaching opposes discrimination against homosexuals, the church holds that homosexual acts are always immoral and that marriage can only be a union between one man and one woman.

“His fidelity and service to the church and commitment to our Franciscan way of life will have a tremendous impact for generations to come,” he said in a statement released Oct. 4 by the order’s community office in the Bronx, New York.

“Father Benedict was a brother and a father to everyone he encountered. In a world often overwhelmed with darkness, he was a man filled with hope, a hope that he shared with both the rich and poor alike,” said an Oct. 3 statement by Father Groeschel’s community. “His love for others and deep desire to serve, sent him among poor families who were in need of assistance, young people trying to find their way, bishops faced with challenging decisions, priests and religious in need of an encouraging word, and the stranger who was far from God.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 10, 2014

Debate emerges on St. John Paul II’s early writings on social ethics JONATHAN LUXMOORE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WARSAW, Poland – Less than six months after St John Paul II was canonized, questions are being raised about a book of lectures he penned as a young priest in his Polish homeland.

The two-volume “Katolicka Etyka Spoleczna” (“The Catholic Social Ethic”) has never been officially published. But it could, some observers said, affect interpretations of the future pope’s philosophical development, highlighting a youthful commitment to radical change which sounded, at times, close to Marxism.

“The text certainly reveals how he viewed the political realities of the early 1950s, as well as his deep sensitivity to social issues,” said Msgr. Albert Wierzbicki, director of the John Paul II Institute at Poland’s Catholic University of Lublin. He said it contained “a polemical dialogue with Marxism that was courageous at the time, and which throws important light on his later evaluation of such things as liberation theology.”

“The Catholic Social Ethic” was bound in a cheap underground edition of 300 copies at the request of students at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University in 1953 and 1954, when other books on Catholic social teaching had been suppressed by Poland’s communist rulers.

It provides no evidence that then-Father Karol Wojtyla had any direct political affiliation. However, it shows he had acquired, by his early 30s, a detailed knowledge of Marxism and some empathy at least with its strident critique of capitalism.

Concepts important in his later papal teachings, such as “solidarity” and “moral victory,” make first

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Father Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is pictured reading in a kayak in this photo dated 1955. appearances in the writings and have a sharp, passionate edge.

“The church is aware that the bourgeois mentality and capitalism as a whole, with its materialist spirit, acutely contradict the Gospel,” the young priest wrote in one section.

“Class struggle should gain strength in proportion to the resistance it faces from economically privileged classes,” he wrote.

“Jesus Christ showed many times that the realization of God’s kingdom on earth will not happen without a struggle,” he continued. “According to the Gospel assumptions followed by the church in all its social teaching, the realization of social justice is one of its elements.”

When the text’s existence was reported in Polish newspapers in 2006, one national daily, Zycie Warszawy, accused the country’s Catholic Church of trying to suppress it.

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The John Paul II Institute, which oversees St. John Paul’s pre-papal writings, ran extracts on revolution and class struggle in its quarterly journal, Etos, and also agreed to issue a full edition of the 511-page text with commentaries.

Msgr. Wierzbicki, institute director, said problems have since emerged.

For one thing, the pope was personally against publishing the text. For another, a textual analysis suggested much of his material was borrowed from an earlier textbook by Father Jan Piwowarczyk, a former Krakow seminary rector.

Yet much of the work is “original and important,” Msgr. Wierzbicki’s conceded.

“Given the huge interest in his thoughts and teachings, we felt it should be published,” he said. “But the fact that he used Piwowarczyk’s textbook as his model has also made it hard to define precisely how much is Wojtyla’s own work.”

Not everyone agrees this should impede the book’s publication, at least in his native Poland, where most of St. John Paul’s other writings have long since been made available.

In February, St. John Paul’s private notebooks were published commercially, despite a request in his final will that they should be burned, suggesting the late pontiff ’s personal wishes have not always been treated as binding.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 10, 2014

POPE: GLORIFY GOD BY BEING HONEST ABOUT SINS HE FORGAVE

VATICAN CITY – Giving glory to God for what he has done in one’s life means being absolutely honest about one’s sins and failures, Pope Francis said in a morning homily.

“The practice of remembering our histories is not very common.

We forget things; we live in the moment,” the pope said Oct. 7 during his morning Mass in the Domus Pope Francis Sanctae Marthae where he lives.

“Each one of us has a story: a story of grace, a story of sin, a story of journey, many things,” he said. “And it’s good to pray with our story,” to recognize our failures and how, despite our sin and infidelity, God continues to seek us out, call us back and offer his grace.

According to Vatican Radio, Pope Francis focused his remarks on the example of St. Paul in the day’s reading from Galatians 1:13-24. The apostle asks, “Why were we chosen? Why – he asked – am I Christian and that person, who has not ever heard of Jesus Christ, isn’t?”

Paul’s response, he said, is “it’s a grace, a grace of love.” In the day’s reading, Paul is honest about the fact that he had once persecuted Christians. The pope said he proclaims the greatness of God by honestly describing what that grace had to overcome.

ENGLISH BISHOP RESIGNS, ADMITS AFFAIR WITH WOMAN

HOVE, England – An English Catholic bishop has resigned after admitting that he has been “unfaithful to his promises as a Catholic priest.”

Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton, chairman of the Department of Evangelization and

Catechesis of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, said in a statement read in parishes of his dioceses at Masses Sept. 27 and 28 that he would step down “with immediate effect.”

The Vatican announced Oct. 4 that Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Conry in conformity with Canon 401.2 of the Code of Canon Law, which covers “ill health or some other grave cause.”

“I would like to reassure you that my actions were not illegal and did not involve minors,” Bishop Conry said in the statement.

ABUSE PANEL TO INCLUDE ANOTHER SURVIVOR

VATICAN CITY – A papal commission on child protection will be expanding its nine-member panel to include more experts and another survivor of clerical abuse.

The Commission for the Protection of Minors, which Pope Francis established last December, is now awaiting the pope’s approval of members’ latest efforts as they aim to lay out a pastoral approach to helping victims and prevent future abuse.

Marie Collins, a commission member and survivor of clerical abuse, told The Associated Press Oct. 6 that the specially appointed group has agreed on its provisional statutes and finalized a list of potential new members, adding experts from other countries and disciplines as well as including another survivor.

Currently the commission includes: U.S. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, head of the commission; U.S. Father Robert W. Oliver, commission secretary; Collins and six, mostly European, experts in mental health, civil and church law, and moral theology.

The group, which had its third meeting Oct. 4-5 at the Vatican, is awaiting the pope’s final approval of their proposals.

The pope, who has called for zero tolerance and

complete accountability for the “despicable” crime of abuse, has said he wants the commission to help the church develop better policies and procedures for protecting minors.

Collins also told the AP that the commission has created working groups that will focus on priestly formation, accountability and reaching out to survivors.

Getting input from survivors is “essential” for an appropriate, effective and compassionate response to the crisis, said Mark Vincent Healy, one of six abuse survivors who met Pope Francis at the Vatican in July.

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When God says no, he is testing us

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hat do you do when God, your friend and protector, suddenly turns you down and says “no”?

A tragic event, such as a death, can topple your childhood dreams about a heavenly Father who will help you through the trials and tribulations of life. Deaths happen all the time.

However, when someone you love dies, even though you pray and plea to FATHER JOHN save them, it can be CATOIR heart-wrenching.

The anger and confusion that an unwanted death unleashes can be devastating. You begin to doubt the very existence of God. Ultimately, the experience will either lead you to a reluctant acceptance of God’s will or a rejection of his will.

We see examples of this in the Bible, in those disillusioned that God, their protector, would allow others to enslave them, and in those who remained faithful and praised God for their subsequent liberation.

We hear of this when some question why God would allow unthinkable atrocities such as the Holocaust to occur.

In the Bible, God reveals his answer to such questions. A man named Job had his world turned upside down by numerous tragedies. One misfortune after another devastated him, and yet he remained steadfast in his faith. He put on the will to honor God, no matter how great the miseries of his life affected him.

In the end, God rewarded him for his deep devotion.

Upon prayerful reflection of the Job story, you may gain some perspective on the simple concept: Life is a test.

We all have drama in our lives, things that we can’t understand and sometimes take out on God. I had my own drama when I was in the seminary. My mother was very sick, and I prayed incessantly that God would heal her and let her live to see me ordained.

Was that too much to ask?

I was confident that God would grant my plea, but God did not answer. He took her home two years before my ordination.

Needless to say, I was deeply shaken, not because I needed motherly care. After all, I had been on my own throughout my college years and in the Army. I was shaken because I suddenly had serious doubts about God as a helper and protector.

How could I go on as a priest if I could not depend on God’s promise to help when I needed it?

I began to doubt my vocation. Was God really calling me to be a priest, or was it all a figment of my pious imagination?

In the weeks that followed, I endured a state of distress and continued with my classes, putting on as brave a front as I could muster.

Then gradually, in a month or two, I began understanding the whole experience as a test of faith. I thought about the fact that my mother’s suffering, which had lasted for many years, was at last over.

This was a good thing. I could see her sitting in a front-row seat, in heaven, on my ordination day.

I began to realize that time does heal and that God’s will takes into account the suffering of others, not just the pain of one person.

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 10, 2014

LETTERS Keep up the battle Re Special report on Faithful America, Sept. 12, 19, 26: A million thanks for having the courage to publish Valerie Schmalz’ superb expose of the millions of dollars that certain wealthy individuals are pouring out to fund the attacks on the Catholic Church by rogue groups pretending to be Catholics.

As one of your regular readers, I am accustomed to Ms. Schmalz’ thorough researching of the facts in her articles, but this series is obviously the result of a Herculean effort to ferret out the facts that the church’s enemies would rather keep hidden. Those of us who follow Santayana’s famous advice not to neglect the study of history can easily recognize the familiar tactic used by Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-tung and other tyrants: that of applying to their actions the terminology of the exact opposite of what they are really doing: Socialist Republic, People’s Republic? Faithful America indeed!

I don’t doubt for a second that your office is half buried under an avalanche of letters initiated by the internet appeal to thousands of the church’s enemies who never read Catholic San Francisco, and I fully expect that those millionaire organizers of the campaign will soon be hiring a rent-a-mob to picket your office – if they haven’t started already. After all, they can’t allow freedom of speech to anyone who discloses the falsehoods they are promulgating! Imagine the damage to their campaign if the truth were to get out!

I can’t recall how many decades have passed since I last wrote a letter to an editor, but I want to applaud your continuous publication of the truth, even when it meets with outlandish resistance. I know a number of Catholics who feel the same, even if they haven’t gotten around to writing you a letter.

Please keep up the battle for the truth about the church’s actual teachings.

Robert D. Griffin San Francisco The writer is a member of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish.

Great piece of journalism I would like to commend Valerie Schmalz and Catholic San Francisco for a great piece of real journalism.

The article was well-researched, well-written and clearly let us all know the work of principalities and their agents. God bless Valerie and our archbishop. Remember, a few beads tied together and used for prayer routs all evil. Let us continue to have prayer and sacrifice for the glory of Jesus at the center of our lives.

Deacon Dominick Peloso Church of the Nativity Menlo Park

Follow Pope Francis’ lead Your article about Faithful America on Sept. 10 struck me as being a rant that boiled down to character assassination of the organization.

Your criticism of the Family Research Council being labeled as a “hate group” makes me think that you all might be as bigoted as the FRC is with their views on homosexuality. The Southern Poverty Law Center has classified the FRC as a hate group. Some of the accusations the FRC has made about homosexuals are blatant lies. They evidently don’t think the commandment “thou shalt not bear false witness” applies to them.

Pope Francis’ attitude about homosexuals is a welcome change from yours. Why don’t you all try to follow Pope Francis’ lead?

Bill Butler Evansville, Indiana

Mercy rather than severity I found the special report painful and even hurtful to read. I fear that the effect of these articles will only be to push many people of good will even further away from the church.

In my opinion these articles continue the culture wars that are exhausting and demoralizing our church. Without changing teaching Pope Francis has clearly told us that the church has grown “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception and that he chose not to talk about those issues despite recriminations from critics. Francis indeed criticized the church for putting dogma before love, and for prioritizing moral doctrines over serving the poor

and marginalized. He has articulated his vision of an inclusive church, as a “home for all” saying: “It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently. We have to find a new balance, otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”

Francis’ new priorities are a deep challenge to all of us as Catholics, whatever our positions on these or any issues, indeed wherever we see ourselves within the church. For Francis is truly radical in this sense, a person who cannot be defined in the usual tired terms of right and left, liberal and conservative.

Many faithful Catholics have told me they found these articles alienating. Whether they are right or wrong in this is almost beside the point. What is important is that their voices be heard and respected. Only history and the Holy Spirit know the eventual significance of our present debates on these contested matters. It will take us as church a long time to study and prayerfully discern some of these disputed matters.

What we do know however is that our moral teaching will continue to evolve, just as it has in the past.

Consider, if you will, how radically our teaching on religious freedom has evolved, most especially at Vatican II. Francis is clearly saying we need to become a church with fewer condemnations, one that more fully shows the face of God’s mercy and love for all humans. With Francis may we truly become “a church that knows how to open her arms and welcome everybody, that is not a house for the few, but a house for everybody, where all can be renewed, transformed, sanctified by his love, the strongest and the weakest, sinners, the indifferent, those who feel discouraged or lost.”

Father Donal Godfrey, SJ San Francisco The writer is associate director for faculty and staff spirituality at the University of San Francisco.

Jesus welcomed the woman at the well I am afraid that this is a classic case of denial: blaming anti-Catholicism for a legitimate issue that concerns many Catholics. When the pedophile scandal first came out I, like everyone, thought it was vicious lies told by people intent on hurting the church. But the people speaking out turned out to be victims who were hurting. And not listening to them when it first came out and responding appropriately ended up doing far more damage in the long run and alienating so many people. Gay people are also hurting because of this rejection. They don’t want to destroy the church; they want to be included. This is an issue of shunning and rejecting people who are asking to be respected and to have a civil marriage so that they can take care of their families and loved ones, a legitimate human need and right. Civil marriages should not be a concern of our church. And we, as Pope Francis has said, need to embrace all who come to us as our brothers and sisters.

By the way I am very happily married in the church.

Carolyn Coughlin Half Moon Bay

Enlarging the tent I’m sorry you chose to take up so much time and material resources to target one group of struggling Catholics: gays and lesbians. The articles and action further reinforce the culture wars.

Perhaps a more beneficial approach is to create dialogue and enlarge the tent for believers. It may help the long-term sustainability of the church infrastructure.

After a prayerful, reflective process to determine an appropriate response and action, I have decided to go on record with this email and no longer contribute to the archdiocesan annual appeal.

I will reconsider my annual appeal contribution once the archdiocesan leadership demonstrates through thought, word and deed that “all are welcome!”

Prayerfully, Tom Matty San Francisco The writer is a member of St. Agnes Parish.

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Sacred permission to be human

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ometimes certain texts in the Bible make you wonder: Is this really the word of God? Why is this text in scripture? What’s the lesson here?

For example, we have verses in the Psalms, in passages that we pray liturgically, where we ask God to bash the heads of the children of our enemies FATHER RON against a rock.

ROLHEISER How does that invite us to love our enemies? We see passages in the Book of Job where Job is in despair and curses not on only the day he was born but the very fact that anyone was born. It’s impossible to find even a trace of anything positive in his lament. Similarly, in a rather famous text, we hear Qoheleth affirm that everything in our lives and in the life of this world is simple vanity, wind, vapor, of no substance and of no consequence. What’s the lesson here? Then, in the Gospels, we have passages where the apostles, discouraged by opposition to their message, ask Jesus to call down fire and destroy the very people to

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whom they are supposed to minister.

Hardly an exemplar for ministry!

Why are these texts in the Bible?

Because they give us sacred permission to feel the way we feel sometimes and they give us sacred tools to help us deal with the shortcomings and frustrations of our lives. They are, in fact, both very important and very consoling texts because, to put it metaphorically, they give us a large enough keyboard to play all the songs that we need to play in our lives. They give us the laments and the prayers we need to utter sometimes in the face of our human condition, with its many frustrations, and in the face of death, tragedy and depression.

To give a simple example: A friend of mine shares this story: Recently he was in church with his family, which included his seven year-old son, Michael, and his own mother, Michael’s grandmother. At one point, Michael, seated beside his grandmother, whispered aloud: “I’m so bored!” His grandmother pinched him and chided him: “You are not bored!” as if the sacred ambience of church and an authoritative command could change human nature.

They can’t. When we’re bored, we’re bored! And sometimes we need to be given divine permission to feel what we’re spontaneously feeling.

Some years ago, for all the noblest

of intentions, a religious community I know wanted to sanitize the Psalms that they pray regularly in the Divine Office to rid them of all elements of anger, violence, vengeance, and war. They had some of their own Scripture scholars do the work so that it would be scholarly and serious. They succeeded in that, the product was scholarly and serious, but stripped of all motifs of violence, vengeance, anger, and war what resulted was something that looked more like a Hallmark card than a series of prayers that express real life and real feelings. We don’t always feel upbeat, generous and faith-filled. Sometimes we feel angry, bitter, and vengeful. We need to be given sacred permission to feel that way (though not to act that way) and to pray in honesty out of that space.

My parents, and for the most part their whole generation, would, daily, in their prayers, utter these words: To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Our own generation tends to view this as morbid, as somehow denigrating both the beauty and joy of life and the perspective that faith is meant to give us. But there’s a hidden richness in that prayer. In praying in that way, they gave themselves sacred permission to accept the limits of their lives. That prayer carries the symbolic tools to handle

frustration; something, I submit, we have failed to sufficiently give to our own children. Too many young people today have never been given the symbolic tools to handle frustration, nor sacred permission to feel what they are feeling. Sometimes, all good intentions aside, we have handed our children more of Walt Disney than Gospel.

In the Book of Lamentations we find a passage that while sounding negative on the surface, is paradoxically, in the face of death and tragedy, perhaps the most consoling text of all. The text simply states that, sometimes in life, all we can do is put our mouths to the dust and wait!

That’s sound advice, spoken from the mouth of experience and the mouth of faith.

The poet Rainer Marie Rilke once wrote these words to a friend who, in the face of the death of a loved one, wondered how or where he could ever find consolation. What do I do with all this grief ? Rilke’s reply: “Do not be afraid to suffer, give that heaviness back to the weight of the earth; mountains are heavy, seas are heavy.” They are, so too is life sometimes and we need to be given God’s permission to feel that heaviness.

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

Bombing Islamic State is fueling the violence

e need to do something!

With the barbaric Islamic State now controlling large portions of Iraq and Syria, and inflicting rape, torture and even beheading on those who do not conform to their fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, it is imperative that they must be stopped.

TONY MAGLIANO So yes, we need to do something. But that “something” is not more violence and war. Answering violence and war, with more violence and war, is always part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Shortly after the start of the first Gulf War in 1991, St. John Paul II wrote: “No, never again, war, which destroys the lives of innocent people, teaches how to kill, throws into upheaval even the lives of those who do the killing and leaves behind a trail of resentment and hatred, thus making it all the more difficult to find a just solution to the very problems which provoked the war.”

There is a collective amnesia that continues to block government and society’s memory that we have been there, and done that, many times before. Therefore, the war machine keeps rolling on with the encouragement of hawkish politicians, pundits and the military-industrial complex.

During a “Democracy Now” interview with Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, Khouri said the major problems that lead to the formation and growth of militant

CATHOLIC VOICES ON USE OF FORCE AGAINST MIDEAST EXTREMIST VIOLENCE JESUIT FATHER ZIAD HILAL, PASTOR OF HOLY SAVIOR PARISH IN HOMS, SYRIA, and project manager for Jesuit Refugee Service: “Things will get worse” if the U.S.-led coalition continues to bombard Syria.

CARL HETU, CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION CANADA national director: Even if the Islamic State is expelled, civil war could result unless the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds are able to work under a strong government. “The problem is not military, it is political.”

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Displaced people fleeing violence in Iraq walk toward the Syrian border town of Elierbeh in this Aug.11 file photo. Pope Francis opened a three-day summit Oct. 2 on the violence and persecution underway in the Middle East, saying arms trafficking was the root cause of many problems in the region.

Islamic groups like the Islamic State, are brutal dictators – often backed by the United States – who rule much of the Arab Islamic world, and a foreign military presence like the U.S. in Muslim majority countries.

Khouri said American led military action in the Islamic world is the best recruiting tool for al-Qaida and the Islamic State.

And it stands to reason. Imagine how most people would react – including many Christians – to a foreign power bombing and killing their loved ones.

So, what would be a Gospel-based way of responding to this violent crisis?

The Gospel calls us to mount an active response to suffering based on love and nonviolence. This means no

bombs, no drones, no missiles.

The U.S. and other arms supplying nations need to stop flooding the Middle East (and world) with weapons.

A total multilateral arms embargo is needed.

And the diplomatic tool must be vigorously pursued.

Yes, negotiations with the Islamic State are highly unlikely. But negotiating just settlements to the grievances of hurting populations in Iraq and Syria will dry up support for the Islamic State and other militant groups.

The U.S. and other wealthy nations need to provide adequate resources for the quick evacuation of Christians and other minorities who are in harm’s way.

And funds and supplies need to be

VATICAN SUMMIT ON THE PLIGHT OF MIDEAST CHRISTIANS, Oct. 2-4: “One cannot be silent, nor (can) the international community remain inactive, in the face of the massacre of persons.” … “The activity of some extremist groups is a cause of grave concern, particularly the so-called ‘Islamic State,’ whose violence cannot be met with indifference.”

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massively increased to assist nations – like Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey – that are being overwhelmed by Iraqi and Syrian refugees.

Finally, the U.S. and other industrial nations need to do their fair share in offering emergency asylum to these poor, frightened refugees.

It would do us all well to seriously reflect on the words of Pope Francis: “War is never a necessity, nor is it inevitable. Another way can always be found: the way of dialogue, encounter and the sincere search for truth.”

MAGLIANO is a syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. …’

MATTHEW 22:1-14 ISAIAH 25:6-10A On this mountain the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines. On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all nations; he will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from every face; the reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the Lord has spoken. On that day it will be said: “Behold our God, to whom we looked to save us! This is the Lord for whom we looked; let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!” For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain.

PSALM 23:1-3A, 3B-4, 5, 6 I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose; beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul.

I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake.

Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage.

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I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.

I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

PHILIPPIANS 4:12-14, 19-20 Brothers and sisters: I know how to live in humble circumstances; I know also how to live with abundance. In every circumstance and in all things I have learned the secret of being well fed and of going hungry, of living in abundance and of being in need. I can do all things in him who strengthens me. Still, it was kind of you to share in my distress.

My God will fully supply whatever you need, in accord with his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father, glory forever and ever. Amen.

MATTHEW 22:1-14 Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables, saying, “The

kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”’ Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.’ The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment.

The king said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’ Many are invited, but few are chosen.”

Inviting all to the banquet

he Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien says, “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Similar sentiments have been echoed by others. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” (Virginia Woolf ). “People who love to eat are always the best people” (Julia Child).

“I can’t stand people who do not take food seriously” (Oscar Wilde). “Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is” (Irish proverb).

Food is connected with everything we cherish as beautiful and noble in life.

Family is best at the dining table. Friendships are FATHER CHARLES nourished around food.

PUTHOTA Forgiveness can be best celebrated over a meal. Enmity can be ended in food. In death, life is celebrated by sharing food. Mourning and grief are brought to an end by families and communities eating together. Eating is the way to connect with people.

We can show love and affection by breaking bread together.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS SALVATION COMES FROM JESUS, NOT DIY RULES

Jesus, with his gift of mercy, is the source of salvation, not commandments made by people, Pope Francis said. God’s only wish is to save humanity, but people often want to decide the rules for salvation themselves, the pope said in a morning homily Oct. 3. Jesus, just like the prophets before him, faced resistance by the people and even death because their message “ended up being inconvenient” or uncomfortable, he said.

Such delicious blessings flowing from food are celebrated by movies. Among them are “Julie and Julia,” “Chocolat,” “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” “Mostly Martha,” “Big Night,” “Tortilla Soup,” “Haute Cuisine,” “Eat Drink Man Woman,” and “Chef.” There is one film that tops the list for celebration of extravagant generosity, incredible self-denial, and exquisite cuisine, “Babette’s Feast.”

The story is reminiscent of the eucharistic meal as well the ultimate messianic banquet.

The oracle of Isaiah evokes the Messianic age in terms of “a feast of rich food and choice wines.” At this banquet on the Lord’s mountain, God will wipe away all tears and destroy death forever. There will be no more pain, no more sorrow. It’s said that a 7-year-old girl came up with her version of John 3:16: “God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have ever-laughing life.” Over a banquet, ever-laughing life will be celebrated for everlasting time.

This banquet is what Jesus calls the wedding feast of the kingdom of God. A luxurious meal has been prepared. The invited had said yes, but now they say no. God makes sure to fill the banquet hall with all the people who care to come. While the chosen decline, the so-called sinners and tax collectors are eager to share the fullness of life and joy that only Jesus can give.

The wedding garment implies a message to Mat-

thew’s Christian community that they are to live up to the call of Christ continuously by embracing love and service through concrete deeds. This is the garment Paul encourages the Colossians to wear: “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another … ; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection” (3:12-14).

Shall we do some concrete things? Let us participate in the eucharistic meal which foreshadows the Messianic banquet. We need more people at Mass, and more young people too, and more who are on time and until the end. We need more who pay more attention to the word of God as they do to the ritual. Creating the bond of unity and charity at Mass, we can take this explosive experience to set the world on fire. This meal inspires us to wear the wedding garment always, which is not only professing faith but also practicing it. How can we eat this meal meaningfully without addressing the hunger, poverty, and misery of the world?

Let’s give them some food ourselves because “to a hungry person, God comes in the form of bread” (Gandhi).

FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor at St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, OCTOBER 13: Monday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. GAL 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1. PS 113:1b-2, 3-4, 5a and 6-7. LK 11:29-32.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16: Thursday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Hedwig, religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin. EPH 1:1-10. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. LK 11:47-54.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14: Tuesday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Callistus I, pope and martyr. GAL 5:1-6. PS 119:41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48. LK 11:37-41.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr. EPH 1:11-14. PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 12-13. LK 12:1-7.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15: Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila, virgin and doctor. GAL 5:18-25. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. LK 11:42-46.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18: Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist. 2 TM 4:10-17b. PS 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18.

LK 10:1-9.

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SYNOD: Speak fearlessly, listen humbly, pope urges FROM PAGE 1

what one feels duty-bound in the Lord to say: without respect for human considerations, without fear. And, at the same time, one must listen with humility and welcome with an open heart what the brothers say.”

The pope recalled that, after a gathering of the world’s cardinals in February, one cardinal told him others had hesitated to speak out for fear of disagreeing with the pope.

“This is no good, this is not synodality,” the pope said.

Later in the morning, Cardinal Erdo, who as the synod’s relator has the task of guiding the discussion and synthesizing its results, gave an hourlong speech that drew on written statements submitted in advance by the synod fathers and on responses to a well-publicized questionnaire sent to the world’s bishops last November.

The Oct. 5-19 synod is not supposed to reach definitive conclusions but set the agenda for a larger world synod in October 2015, which will make recommendations to the pope.

Cardinal Erdo said the synods would seek to develop shared pastoral “guidelines to help those living in difficult situations,” so that individual bishops would not resort to the “improvisations of a do-it-yourself ministry.”

“What is being discussed at this synod of an intense pastoral nature are not doctrinal issues, but the practical ones, nevertheless inseparable from the truths of the faith,” the cardinal said.

Among the difficult family situations he identified was that of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, whose predicament Pope Francis has said exemplifies a general need for mercy in the church today.

The cardinal made only an oblique reference to what is sure to be one the synod’s most discussed topics: a controversial proposal by German Cardinal Walter Kasper that would make it easier for such Catholics to receive Communion, even if they do not obtain annulments of their first, sacramental marriages.

“It would be misleading to concentrate only on the question of the reception of the sacraments,” Cardinal Erdo said.

He focused instead on the possibility of streamlining and simplifying the annulment process – the task of a special commission Pope Francis established in late August – and noted proposals to allow bishops to declare marriages null as an administrative action, without holding a trial before a church tribunal.

“Under the influence of the existing culture, many reserve the right not to observe conjugal fidelity, to divorce and remarry if the marriage might not be successful, or not to open themselves to life,” the cardinal said, citing attitudes that could render many marriages invalid.

While he reiterated Catholic teaching that “a second marriage recognized by the church is impossible while the first spouse is alive,” the cardinal said it would be important to study the “practice of some of the Orthodox churches, which allows for the possibility of a second or third marriage.”

Noting that Catholics increasingly choose to marry civilly or live together without marrying at all, Cardinal Erdo said the church should “draw close” to such couples in order to lead them on the “path toward celebrating

‘We need new ways to touch people’s hearts,’ couple tells pope, synod FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Bishops arrive in procession for a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis to open the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 5.

US COUPLE AT SYNOD CALLS FOR ‘ROBUST, CREATIVE’ FAMILY PROGRAMS

VATICAN CITY – Existing diocesan programs and Catholic organizations aimed at helping Catholic families fulfill their vocation clearly are not strong enough to meet Alice Heinzen modern needs, a Wisconsin couple told the Synod of Bishops.

“We must develop more robust and creative methods to share the fundamental truth that marriage is a divine gift from God, rather than merely a man-made institution,” Alice Heinzen, director of marriage and family life in the Diocese of La Cross, Wisconsin, told the synod Oct. 7, reading a

the sacrament of marriage.” He said doing that would require the church to recognize the “best part of these situations which oftentimes is not understood or capable of being grasped.”

“When these relationships are obviously stable in a publicly recognized legal bond, they are characterized by deep affection, display a parental responsibility towards their offspring and an ability to withstand trials,” he said.

On the subject of birth control, the cardinal emphasized that “openness to life is an essential part, an intrinsic requirement of conjugal love,” but said that families cannot be expected to live up to that value without an increased expression of “diffused and concrete solidarity” from the wider community, including the church.

“The tendency toward the privatization of love needs to be overcome,” he said. “The Western world risks making the family a reality entrusted exclusively to the choices of the individual, totally detached from a regulatory and institutional framework.”

Cardinal Erdo highlighted social and economic pressures on the family, an area that bishops from developing countries are likely to emphasize.

“We are not dealing with only problems involving individual behavior but the structures of sin hostile to the family, in a world of inequality and social injustice, of consumerism, on the one hand, and poverty, on the other,” the cardinal said, noting in particular the weight of “increasing job insecurity” and migration.

speech she and her husband, Jeff, wrote.

The church needs to review “the methods by which we teach our children about the nature of human sexuality and the vocation of marriage,” Heinzen said, named with her husband as a synod auditor.

She said the church also needs to review “how we provide for the aftercare of marriage that can help couples deepen their relationship.”

The church is not confused or in a state of crisis about its teaching on marriage and family life, Heinzen said. But there is “a crisis of methodology. How do we as a church effectively share what we know to be true in practical, simple and convincing ways, so that all men and women are challenged and supported to live lifelong marriages and build homes that reflect the domestic church?”

In their discussions of sexual and medical ethics, synod participants are giving emphasis to the concept of “graduality,” as a way of thinking about morality that allows for human imperfection without compromising ideals.

In an address to the assembly on its first working day, Oct. 6, Cardinal Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, said that “Humanae Vitae,” the 1968 encyclical by Pope Paul VI that reaffirmed the church’s prohibition of artificial birth control, “needs to be considered in light of the law of graduality.” He suggested that it was unrealistic to expect immediate acceptance of the widely flouted teaching.

The cardinal quoted “Familiaris Consortio,” a 1981 apostolic exhortation by St. John Paul II on the role of the Christian family in the world that was inspired by the last synod on the family in 1980. According to St. John Paul, each person is a historical being who “knows, loves and accomplishes moral good in stages of growth.”

Several bishops referred to graduality in their remarks during an afternoon session dedicated to the theme of “God’s plan for marriage and the family.”

“Despite serious flaws that we always identify in Western culture, we also have to discern and to declare what the steppingstones are for Christian wisdom,” one bishop said, according to Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, an assistant to the Holy See Press Office, who did not identify the bishop in accordance with synod rules.

VATICAN CITY – A married couple told Pope Francis and the Synod of Bishops on the family that Catholic parishes should welcome same-sex couples, following the example of parents who invite their son and his male partner to their home for Christmas.

“The church constantly faces the tension of upholding the truth while expressing compassion and mercy. Families face this tension all the time,” Ron and Mavis Pirola of Sydney told the synod Oct. 6.

“Take homosexuality as an example. Friends of ours were planning their Christmas family gathering when their gay son said he wanted to bring his partner home too. They fully believed in the church’s teachings and they knew their grandchildren would see them welcome the son and his partner into the family. Their response could be summed up in three (sic) words, ‘He is our son.’”

“What a model of evangelization for parishes as they respond to similar situations in their neighborhood,” the Pirolas said.

While Catholic teaching insists homosexual people should not be discriminated against, it holds that homosexual acts are always immoral and that marriage can only be a union between one man and one woman.

The couple, who are participating in the synod as nonvoting auditors, spoke at the beginning of the afternoon session of the synod’s first working day. The session’s designated theme was “God’s plan for marriage and the family.”

The Pirolas also spoke of a divorced friend who “doesn’t feel fully accepted in her parish” yet “turns up to Mass regularly and uncomplainingly with her children. For the rest of her parish, she should be a model of courage and commitment in the face of adversity.”

The couple called for emphasizing the positive dimension of Catholic teaching on sexuality.

“Marriage is a sexual sacrament with its fullest expression in sexual intercourse. We believe that until married couples come to reverence sexual union as an essential part of their spirituality it is extremely hard to appreciate the beauty of teachings such as those of ‘Humanae Vitae,’” they said in reference to the 1968 encyclical by Pope Paul VI that reaffirmed the church’s teaching on contraception.

“We need new ways and relatable language to touch people’s hearts,” the Pirolas said.

The couple spoke as nonvoting auditors at a session on marriage and family.

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BISHOPS: State church leaders challenge abortion coverage as ‘coercive’ FROM PAGE 1

of institutions and individuals, the conference states in a complaint filed Sept. 30 with the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“For the first time in California – indeed, for the first time anywhere in the United States – health plans are now required, as a matter of regulatory fiat, to cover all legal abortions, even late term abortions, for any reason,” the conference states in its Sept. 30 letter.

“The state has robbed the freedom of the individuals and employers who object to abortion to buy coverage which does not include unrestricted abortion, including gender selection and lateterm abortion,” Bishop McElroy said.

All Californians who purchase or receive health insurance through state licensed health insurance companies are affected by the Aug. 22 administrative ruling by the California Department of Managed Health Care.

The department issued its administrative ruling after abortion advocacy groups complained after Santa Clara University and Loyola Marymount University altered their health insurance plans this year to exclude voluntary abortion coverage.

In 2008 and in 2012 the department had approved health plans for Catholic institutional employers that excluded coverage for voluntary abortions, the Catholic conference letter notes. All state

‘The state has robbed the freedom of the individuals and employers who object to abortion to buy coverage which does not include unrestricted abortion, including gender selection and late-term abortion.’

BISHOP ROBERT W. MCELROY licensed health insurance includes coverage of abortion in cases where the life of the mother is in danger.

In an email Oct. 1, the department stated, “We won’t be providing comment beyond what is in the letters” to the insurance companies. Those letters state that under the California Reproductive Privacy Act and multiple California judicial decisions women have a “the fundamental right to choose to either bear a child or to have an abortion.”

The Alliance of Catholic Healthcare, representing the 41 California Catholic health care systems and hospitals, applauded the California bishops’

action, and in a statement joined them in urging the HHS Office of Civil Rights “to commence an immediate, thorough and impartial investigation” of the Aug. 22 directive.

Jim Lyons, vice president of university relations at Santa Clara University, issued a statement noting that it was not a party to the complaint by the Catholic conference but stating that the state agency’s decision “reversed its prior position permitting limitations on voluntary abortions.”

However, Santa Clara University and Loyola Marymount University have both said they would comply with the state agency’s administrative ruling.

The state’s Aug. 22 letter to the heads of eight different health insurance plans ordered them to amend their current health plans and remove any exclusions regarding voluntary abortions on the basis that abortion for any reason was “basic health care” and could not be excluded. The directive was issued to Aetna, Anthem/Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, GEM Care, Health Net, Kaiser Permanente and United Health Care.

The HHS Office of Civil Rights can cut off federal funds to California until it stops its discriminatory practices, according to the Catholic conference.

The Weldon Amendment states: “None of the funds available in this act may be made available to a federal agency or program, or to a state or local government, if such agency, program, or government subjects any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.”

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SHRINE: Archbishop rededicates St. Francis landmark FROM PAGE 1

“As we come together to rededicate this church, let us see it as a sign of our commitment to rededicate ourselves to the person of Jesus Christ and to the mission of this shrine,” the archbishop said. “That this shrine can become all that it is called to be, and capable of being, imbued as it is with the spirit of St. Francis who as himself so perfectly conformed to the Christ.”

“Let us renew our efforts, our stewardship for this shrine to be true to its vision, a place of spiritual refuge, a place where people find healing and solace,” he said.

“A place that radiates and teaches peace, peace for our violent world, peace for our violent neighborhoods.

A place where people are strengthened to embrace the cross in their own lives and receive forgiveness for their failure to do so. A place where the poor are lifted up and the marginalized find hope because God is given first place where his majesty is acknowledged and served in the beautiful and worthy celebration of the mysteries of our faith.”

St. Francis of Assisi Church was built in 1849 to serve gold-rush era Catholics and became the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in 1999. It is run by the Capuchin friars under the auspices of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, with Capuchin Father Harold Snider as current rector.

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Cardinal William J. Levada poses with a group of youths on the steps of the reopened National Shrine of St. Francis church after the rededication Mass for the shrine church Oct. 4. Cardinal Levada was instrumental in transforming the closed St. Francis of Assisi Church into the National Shrine of St. Francis in 1999 when he was archbishop of San Francisco.

On Oct. 2, the archbishop attended a fundraising dinner concert featuring Franc D’Ambrosio, the longest-running Phantom of the Opera, to mark the sixth birthday of the Porziuncola Nuova, a scaled replica of St. Francis’ Porziuncola in Assisi. Angela Alioto built the Porziuncola with the support of Cardinal William J. Levada, then archbishop of San Francisco, in

2008. Alioto told Catholic San Francisco that the event was attended by more than 200 supporters who helped raise nearly a quarter of the $2.4 million needed for the Piazza St. Francis project set to begin in 2015. The 600 block of Vallejo Street between Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue will be closed and transformed into an Umbrian-style piazza.

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Sister Jacqueline Golden, SND, 86 Notre Dame Sister Jacqueline Golden died Aug. 24 at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland. She was 86 years old and a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur for 68 years.

Sister Jacqueline was a graduate of Notre Dame High School, San Francisco and her congregation’s Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. She earned a graduate degree in education from Stanford University and doctorate in the field from the University of Southern California.

Sister Jacqueline served as principal at San Francisco’s St. Thomas More School as well as on the faculty at Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Sister Jacqueline was also among the early leaders of the Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership at the University of San Francisco.

“Former classmates remember Jacqueline as fun-loving, proud of her Irish heritage, a good friend, a talented athlete and gifted in math,” the Notre Dame Sisters said.

Sister Jacqueline is survived by a nephew, Ron Golden, and niece, Laura Golden.

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CROSS-CULTURAL: Nigerian priest blessed by sojourn in archdiocese FROM PAGE 3

‘One of the things I learned was listening more, giving people a chance. We may not have the immediate answers, but sometimes they just want someone to listen.’

late Father Al Vucinovich, current pastor Father John Ryan and Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.

The example of these tested priests paid off.

“I would say my stay here in the U.S. reinforced my faith just by all the challenges,” he said. “Going back I’m more excited about the faith, more renewed about the faith and open to learn even more.”

Father Inyanwachi faced some difficult pastoral issues during his time in the archdiocese, notably as administrator at a San Mateo parish after a sudden and traumatic

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When he left to return to Nigeria, a new parish council was in place, the offertory rebounded and a better

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“I tried not to speak much,” he said. “One of the things that kept me going was just focusing on Scripture.

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Sixty-four years after it began feeding lowincome residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, St. Anthony’s Foundation celebrated the grand opening of a new and larger dining room on Oct. 4, feeding nearly 4,000 people.

The day, which began with a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a tour, concert and hot meal, coincided with the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

The new dining room at 121 Golden Gate Ave. is across the street from the old facility, Robillard said. The new space holds 300 diners at one time, twice the number of the old dining room.

The larger facility doubles the space for children and their families and enables the agency to cook, freeze, and store large food donations for longer periods of time.

Robillard said the new multistory facility is a response to San Francisco’s widening income gap and increase in urban poverty. According to the San Francisco Food Security Task Force, 1 in 4 residents of San Francisco including seniors and families with children, suffer from daily food insecurity.

The high demand for food in recent years meant that while the dining room fed about 3,000 people per day, long lines and long waiting times had been an issue. When plans for the new dining room were announced earlier this year, executive director Barry Stenger reflected on the long lines as a “social barometer and an indicator of economic inequality that continues to plague our city and nation.”

The new building will also provide 89 lowincome housing units and a variety of community services including a free clothing program, a social work center, a medical clinic and job training.

It will also be the cornerstone of a citywide plan for disaster preparedness, becoming a communications and assistance center for the neighborhood and the city in general.

“We’ve been dubbed the ‘Miracle on Jones Street’ because we’ve never run out of food in 64 years,” despite earthquakes, power outages and

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Volunteer Carmelita Lozano served the first meal in St. Anthony’s new dining room Oct. 4. The dining room served almost 4,000 people that day. any other operational disruptions, said spokesman Karl Robillard.

He said that on Oct. 4, 1950, Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddecker, St. Anthony’s founder, expected to serve 150 meals but fed the 400 who showed up.

“On Saturday, we expected to serve 3,000 meals but the final tally after the last person was served was 3,792 meals,” Robillard said. “The miracle continues.”

Tenderloin residents joined St. Anthony’s staff, volunteers and donors under tented tables on Golden Gate Avenue outside St. Boniface Church to celebrate the opening of St. Anthony Foundation’s expanded new facility.

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October 14, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.~ Sing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen as contemplative practice, through the Ear to the Heart.

This gentle, contemplative practice of listening and singing the music of Hildegard together is led by Devi Mathieu and requires no previous experience with the music of Hildegard or with medieval music.

Suggested offering, $10-20.

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October 15, 9:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m. ~ Contemplative Day of Prayer led by Marietta Fahey, SHF, includes presentation, personal and shared reflection and Eucharist. No reservations required.

Suggested offering, $20. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, 415-457-7727; info@santasabinacenter.org

Santa Sabina Center 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael 415-457-7727 info@santasabinacenter.org

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FRIDAY, OCT. 10 3-DAY FESTIVAL: St. Gregory Church, 2715 Hacienda at 28th Ave., San Mateo. Events and activities include carnival rides, food booths, games and entertainment for the whole family.

Saturday night dinner and Sunday pancake breakfast; Friday 6 p.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 2-10 p.m. and Sunday 1-6 p.m.. (650) 345-8506; www.saintgregorychurch.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 11 ROSARY PROCESSION: St. Catherine of Siena Church, Bayswater at El Camino Real, Burlingame, noon, to Burlingame Avenue to pray rosary for peace.

PRO-LIFE: Pray at 435 Grand Ave., South San Francisco, 10 a.m.-noon, Saturdays in October. Rosa, (650) 5890998; Romanie, (650) 583-6169.

BOUTIQUE: Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, Oct. 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Oct. 12, noon-5 p.m.

Goods available for purchase from more than 30 vendors. Breakfast burritos are on sale Saturday with lunch on sale both days.

SUNDAY, OCT. 12 REUNION: St. Gabriel School, class of 1969, 4:30-9:30 p.m., City Forest Lodge, 254 Laguna Honda Blvd, San Francisco, open bar, buffet dinner, dancing. To be put on the invitation list saintgabes69@yahoo.com.

FIESTA: Mission Dolores School, 16th Street at Church, San Francisco, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. with raffle, games, bounce house, live entertainment, international food and drinks, face painting, a DJ, and more. www.mdasf.org; Stacey McNeill, staceym@mdasf.org; (415) 628-6213.

YOUNG ADULT RALLY: Our Lady of Angels Parish, 1721 Hillside Drive, Bur-

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ORGAN RECITAL: Mission Dolores Basilica’s Second Sunday Organ Recital Series, Jerome Lenk on his 25th anniversary as basilica organist, 4 p.m.

Jerome Lenk Free admission. Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St. at Dolores, San Francisco.

(415) 621-8203; www.missiondolores.org. Suggested donation $10.

SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY: San Francisco’s Our Lady of the Visitacion School, 785 Sunnydale Ave., celebrates 50 years beginning with Father Jeff Mass at 10 Finley, CPPS a.m. Precious Blood Father Jeff Finley and San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly, both Visitacion alumni, will join Father Thuan Hoang, pastor, on the altar. All who have attended OLV School or who have taught or worked at the school are welcome. RSVP www.olvsf.org, cdame@olvsf. org or call the school office, (415) 239-7840.

lingame with guest speaker Paul J. Kim and his music and comedy. youthministry@olaparish.org.

TUESDAY, OCT. 14 SCRIPTURE STUDY: Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher on achieving gratitude and a joy-filled heart as well as reflections on Pope Francis “Joy of the Gospel,” 9-10 a.m., Marian Room of St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr.

Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of the Cathedral.

These sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Facilitator is Deacon Christoph Sandoval. Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

FRIDAY, OCT. 17 3-DAY FESTIVAL: “Wizard of Oz” Fall Festival, Oct, 17, 18, 19, St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae.

Enjoy carnival rides, games, food and drink, chili cook-off, pie eating contest, bingo, raffle, silent auction, and Auntie Em’s Country Store filled with handmade items and treats;

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REUNION: All Hallows School, San Francisco, class of 1964, dinner at Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco. lindacassanego@gmail. com; (818) 889-4543.

REUNION: Holy Name of Jesus School, San Francisco, class of 1974, Mass in Holy Name Church 5 p.m. followed by school tour and reception and dinner at 6:30 p.m. in parish Flanagan Center, visit Holy Name reunion website at http://holynameclassof74.myevent.com; Dave Petrini dpetrini@accountnowinc.com. (415) 302-5608.

SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY: Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, 659 Pine St., San Francisco, celebrates 90 years beginning at 3 p.m. with Mass at 5 p.m. in Notre Dame des Victoires Church behind the school on Bush Street across from Sutter/Stockton garage. Micaela Heekin, micaela. khh@gmail.com.

RETREAT: Spiritual direction is focus at St. Matthias Parish, Father Lacey Hall, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, 1:30-4:30 p.m. followed by 5 p.m. Mass. Speakers include Vivian Clausing, Sharon Erro, Sister Dee Myers and Tim Valderrama on how spiritual direction can help on faith journey. Liz Vugrinecz, aff@stmatthiasparish.org, (650) 366-9544, ext. 12, to register. No fee.

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MONDAY, OCT. 20 SUNDAY, OCT. 19 ‘YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE’: Pope Francis has declared 2015 as the Year of Consecrated Life. To commemorate this wonderful occurrence, the Archdiocese of San Francisco through the Office for Consecrated Life will be offering many opportunities for you to join in the yearlong celebration. The first event will take place in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. Please join us for this opening event for the Year of Consecrated Life. Subsequent events commemorating the lives and work of women and men religious will take place through the celebratory year.

PRO-LIFE DINNER: Evening features keynote speaker Eva Muntean, co-founder of Walk for Life West Coast plus catered dinner and raffles, 5- 8 Eva Muntean p.m. $35.

Sponsored by San Mateo Pro-life. Susan, (650) 349-9197; mseed4life@aol.com.

ST. JUDE NOVENA: Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus, St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco commences Oct. 20. Masses MondaySaturday, 8 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, 11:30 a.m. with rosary and blessing with St. Jude relic at all liturgies; a novena pilgrimage takes place Oct. 25 from Daly City to St. Dominic followed by a bi-lingual Mass with Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant, 1:30 p.m. Plenty of parking. www. stjude-shrine.org; info@stjude-shrine. org; (415) 931-5919; (415) 333-8730.

FRIDAY, OCT. 24 RETIRED PRIESTS’ LUNCH: Luncheon and program honoring retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and retired priests of religious orders serving Father Terence in the ADSF, St. Horan Mary’s Cathedral Patrons Hall, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $125 with proceeds benefiting the Priests’ Retirement Fund. (415) 614-5580; email Development@sfarchdiocese.org. Father Terry Horan is retired pastor of St. Michael Parish, San Francisco.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22 MARYKNOLL: Pope Francis has brought new attention to Christians’ call to be missioners. Hear how you can do that assisting in the work of Maryknoll; St. Isabella’s Parish hall, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, 7 p.m.

Nancy McFarland, rnmcfar1938@ yahoo.com; (707) 773-0904.

OKTOBERFEST: Good Shepherd Guild luncheon and bingo at Basque Cultural Center, Railroad Avenue, South San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Tickets at $40 include three-course course lunch and bingo cards. Judy Terracina, (415) 7532081). Proceeds benefit Good Shepherd Gracenter.

RIORDAN ALUMNI: All Archbishop Riordan High School grads who live or work in the San Jose area are invited to attend the first annual San Jose Alumni Luncheon at Scott’s Seafood Restaurant in San Jose. $45 per person; reservations required. Tickets are available online. Visit www.riordanhs. org or call Marc Rovetti, alumni director, at (415) 586-8200, ext 357.

DISCIPLESHIP TALK: Hear about the importance of belonging to a faith community even and maybe especially among the time constraints of work and family. Father Joe Bradley of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, speaks on the topic, 7 p.m., St. Gregory Church, 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo.

SATURDAY, OCT. 25 REUNION: St Stephen School, ‘74 with Mass in St. Stephen Church, 4:30 p.m., followed by school tours and refreshments with dinner 6:30-11, United Irish Cultural Center. Geralyn Forghani (Hayes), gerandbob@yahoo.com; Katherine Moser, development@ststephenschoolsf.org; (415) 664-8331.

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The director provides support for the Vicar for Clergy who works with the priests, and to the Dept. of Catholic Schools, which oversees policies and performance of the elementary and high schools of the Archdiocese.

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