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Archdiocese welcomes full-time vocations director VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

For the first time in decades, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has a full-time vocations director, Father David Schunk—a sign of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and the archdiocese’s commitment to encouraging vocations to the priesthood.

“It is the archbishop’s emphasis and the rest of the archdiocese’s emphasis on the need to promote vocations, especially to the diFather David ocesan priesthood,” said Father Schunk Schunk, 34.

“I guarantee there are a lot of young men who have a vocation but we just have to help them listen to the voice of God,” Father Schunk said.

One of the greatest obstacles to vocations is that society, including much of Catholic society, does not consider the priesthood a viable possibility, Fa-

Bishops humbled, moved by encounters with prisoners CHRISTINA M. GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Following their pastoral visit to San Quentin State Prison Sept. 30, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and eight other California bishops were asked by Debbie McDermott of the California Catholic Conference, the organizer of the visit, to submit written reflections within a week.

Many reports arrived just hours later from delegates who seemed eager to distill an experience that opened their eyes and hearts in unexpected ways.

“Little did I know that within the walls of San Quentin I would encounter, among many others, a SEE SAN QUENTIN, PAGE 20

Blessing of the animals A priest blesses dogs during the blessing of the animals outside St. Francis Church in Lima, Peru, Oct. 6. The blessing coincided with the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals.

Catholic women fighting ‘all forms of poverty’ LAURA DODSON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Attendees at a regional conference of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations focused on how Catholic women can take action, locally and globally, on “all forms of poverty” – hunger, domestic violence, human trafficking and the needs of migrants.

“We come together to pray and work for a world of peace, a world in which all of our brothers and sisters will live lives of dignity, free from all forms of poverty, with souls filled with the love that our savior taught us as we follow his command to love our neighbors as ourselves,” said Mary Elizabeth Stewart, from the Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn.

She is the National Council of Catholic Women’s representative to the union, which held its North American regional meeting Sept. 29-30 in Fort Lauderdale, right after the NCCW annual convention. Stewart is also vice president rep-

resentative from North America to the union’s executive committee.

The North American regional, which is held every four years and rotates between the U.S. and Canada, drew 164 participants. Their focus was a better understanding of some of today’s most pressing issues; their challenge was to develop actions that could be implemented at the parish level and on the international front.

“I wish you all the very best and a rich and fruitful conference,” said Maria Giovanna Ruggieri, the union’s president-general who arrived from Italy. “Each conference has been a gift of the Holy Spirit and that’s what I wish for you all. The work that you do here, I wish for the benefit of everybody.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 11, 2013

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Benedictine contemplative monastery idea explored for Archdiocese of San Francisco

STUDY PROGRAM FOR WOMEN: Information days about “Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women,” a study program for women from early ages and throughout life, will be held Saturdays Oct. 19, Nov. 9 and Dec. 14 at St. Brendan Church, convent study room, 29 Rockaway Ave. at Laguna Honda Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30-11:30 a.m. The informational talks are for women interested to learn more about joining a study group, becoming a facilitator or how to bring ENDOW to their parish. Content of the ENDOW program will include Blessed Pope John Paul II’s “On the Vocation and Dignity of Women”; Pope Paul VI’s encyclical “Humanae Vitae”; “Lumen Gentium” (Light of the Nations), a principal document of Vatican II; and studies on the lives and work of saints such as Edith Stein and Thomas Aquinas. Among the purposes of ENDOW is to allow women “to learn about their true beauty, dignity and vocation as women and daughters of God,” said information about the classes. RSVP to Maria Martinez and Pauline Talens at ENDOW.SF@gmail.com. Visit www. endowgroups.org.

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Last month, Benedictine oblate Brother Joseph Murphy retired from his job as an assistant in the San Francisco archdiocesan Office of Worship to devote himself full time to his life love – building a contemplative Benedictine monastic community.

The proposed St. Gregory Monastery will be a contemplative community of Roman Catholic monks living a renewed spirit of the rule of St. Benedict, building their lives around the Benedictine spirituality of work, hospitality, the daily celebration of the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours, prayed six times daily from before sunrise throughout the day, Brother Joseph said.

Brother Joseph has the blessing of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and has taken temporary vows to the archbishop. He is under the direction of the archdiocesan director of the Office for Consecrated Life, Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto. If the monastic community attracts other men, the community would eventually join the Benedictine Subiaco Cassinese Congregation, a worldwide federation of contemplative Benedictine monasteries.

For right now, Brother Joseph says, he is living as a hermit, albeit in the urban environment of a San Francisco neighborhood while he seeks an “angel” to buy a rural piece of property in San Mateo County he has his eye on in La Honda. In time he

US BISHOPS FALL MEETING: The annual fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will take place Nov. 11-14, at the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott Hotel.

During the meeting, the bishops will hear addresses by New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, president of USCCB, and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, apostolic nuncio to the United States. The bishops will also hear a report from the National Advisory Council and a report on the status of their strategic/pastoral plan, The New Evangelization: Faith, Worship, Witness. Other agenda items include: An update by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, chairman of the USCCB Subcommittee on the Promotion and Defense of Marriage; a presentation for a proposal to develop a formal statement on pornography; an update and discussion on the Call to Prayer for Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty.

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hopes to be joined by other men who share the same vision of monastic enclosure, fraternal charity and Benedictine peace.

The vows of the community are specific to the Benedictine way of life, he noted.

“Benedictines take a vow of stability in the community and obedience to the superior. The third vow is conversatio Brother Joseph morum – a ‘change of life” into a monastic observance which includes communal poverty and celibacy, as well as a commitment to prayer, and all things monastic,” he said.

Decades ago, Brother Joseph joined a Benedictine community, but it did not embrace the contemplative and liturgical way of life he was seeking.

Rather than leave the Bay Area, he stayed in the area and affiliated as an oblate to St. Mary’s Monastery Petersham in Massachusetts.

“My vision goes back 30 or 40 years,” Brother Joseph said of his call to this way of life. St. Gregory Monastery will follow the monastic tradition that began with St. Benedict of Nursia, who lived 480-547 AD. St. Benedict began as a hermit monk but as others joined him, he formed 12 monasteries and wrote his famous “Rule for Monasteries,” the doctrine and spirit of which endures to this day.

The Order of Saint Benedict as we know it found its origin at the Abbey

of Cluny in Saône-et-Loire, France, in 910 A.D. St. Gregory Monastery will be part of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation (formerly the Cassinese Congregation of the Primitive Observance) which revived the more “contemplative” aspects of Benedictine observance in the 19th century, according to St. Gregory’s website. The Subiaco Cassinese Congregation’s worldwide membership includes 64 monasteries of men and another 45 affiliate houses of women.

Brother Joseph’s St. Gregory Monastery will begin as an archdiocesan monastery under the archbishop.

If it attracts enough members and otherwise shows it meets the criteria, it would eventually join the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation, he said.

Monasticism is a tradition of the early church that takes its monks away from the world, living behind the walls of the monastery for the most part. “The apostolate is the life of worship, the liturgy, and prayer and forming community,” Brother Joseph said. “The main substance of the life is the Liturgy of the Hours” and the Eucharist, Brother Joseph said.

“Also one aspect that is very important to Benedictines is hospitality, to receive guests, provide lodging,” he noted. “People are welcome to come attend Mass, liturgy. But there is still a separation even though you try to make them feel welcome.”

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Any man who feels called to service and seeks to discern this call further should attend this meeting. An applicant must be 35 years old at the time

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California’s Catholic school leaders move ‘beyond’ Common Core standards VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Call it “Common Core Plus.”

California Catholic schools superintendents are implementing the new national academic standards but with a big difference – Catholic schools’ mandate to teach the Gospel and Catholic principles of faith and social justice are integrated into the new curriculum.

“All we do in Catholic schools is within the context of our individual and communal relationship with Jesus Christ and all that is taught in Catholic schools is from a Catholic worldview and infused with strong Catholic identity,” said the 12 California Catholic schools superintendents in a statement.

The Catholic Common Core addition – a national project entitled the Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative –will give secondary and elementary school educators the tools to integrate Catholic faith into the Common Core, according to the statement by the Catholic schools superintendents.

The Common Core State Standards, accepted by 45 states including California, are the result of collaboration by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers that began in 2009. All California public schools are required to implement the Common Core standards.

All 12 California Catholic dioceses and archdioceses have chosen to implement the Common Core academic standards for English and mathematics in grades K-12, the superintendents said in their August statement. Since California enacted state education standards in 1997, Catholic schools have followed state standards but they have never been required to do so by law. They still are not, the superintendents said in their statement.

The California bishops’ Education Committee commends the superintendents ‘for keeping the Gospel message central – insuring the spiritual growth and well-being of students – as they also strengthen the traditional academic excellence of Catholic education.’

LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY BISHOP EDWARD CLARK “While the Common Core State Standards were created primarily for public schools, we have concluded after much research, thought and discussion that the rigor and clarity they provide will benefit our Catholic school students and will allow them a better opportunity to excel at a high academic level,” they wrote.

The Common Core will be central to the college admissions process, including admission to the University of California, so assuring that Catholic school students can demonstrate that they meet those standards is important to their success, the superintendents said.

“We want our kids to be at the top of the class, able to take on the next step,” said Archdiocese of San Francisco schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington.

Archdiocesan schools have begun implementing the mathematics portion of the Common Core in the classroom and will begin studying the English language arts portion next year, perhaps taking as long as five years to put the new standards for English in place, Huntington said.

The Common Core approach is less textbook driven, will require more ability to read factual social studies and scientific texts, requires more writing and analysis, and also will include more practical applications of mathematics as well as greater use of digital and multimedia technology.

What Catholic school children learn will not change too much, said Huntington, adding much of the change will be in broadening the ways students can demonstrate what they learn to include more project and report based assessments.

“In their statement, the superintendents recognize the sacred role of Catholic schools to educate the whole person,” said the California Catholic Conference’s Education Committee chairman Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark in a report by Catholic Legislative Network Public Policy Insights, a newsletter of the California Catholic Conference.

“The Education Committee commends them for keeping the Gospel message central – insuring the spiritual growth and well-being of students – as they also strengthen the traditional academic excellence of Catholic education,” said Bishop Clark, a regional bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The Western Catholic Education Association, which accredits Catholic K-12 schools, already requires that California schools meet eight standards of Catholic identity, so there will be little actual change in required content, said WCEA executive director Christian Brother William Carriere.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 11, 2013

School’s presence in community wins students, teacher awards TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Notre Dame High School junior Crystal Batshon and freshman Devin Johnston with music teacher, Kristin Pfiefer, were presented with Jefferson Awards for their extensive community service Sept. 18 at the opening Mass at Notre Dame for school year 2013-14. Crystal has completed over 300 hours of community service, including 90 hours of service to Notre Dame. She has Crystal Batshon helped with the Special Olympics in soccer and basketball and with the St. Vincent de Paul Society in its efforts to feed the hungry. Devin has completed nearly 50 hours of service, and volunteers with numerous organizations such as the National Charity League and the Ecumenical Hunger program.

Kristin, a Notre Dame teacher for Devin Johnston 14 years, raises money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. She has biked over 130 miles raising $4,500 in donations. Her Notre Dame choirs perform throughout the county. “For years I have watched students giving back to their community through a variety of ways, and they have inspired me to give back to my community,” Kristin said.

CONGRATS: Kudos and thank you to Vince Silvestri who received the CYO Camp Alumni Volunteer of the Year Award at the camp alumni Mass at CYO Camp Sept. 22. “Vince has been a great asset in volunteering over the last couple of years working on the reconstruction of the chapel, Harriman Hall and cutting trees,” CYO said.

“Vince was also a camp counselor and program lead counselor for our summer camp program for several years.” Vince’s proud folks are Clotilde and James Silvestri. Thanks for the good news to Vince’s grandmother Clare Denegri. Clare and her husband, Raymond, celebrated 63 years of marriage Feb. 11. Raymond grew up in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood and attended Mass at the now closed St. Edward the Confessor Parish.

He will be 92 years old Oct. 27. Clare is a former member of the faculty at St. Raphael School in San Rafael and also taught in the religious education program at the parish. Clotilde and James are both St. Raphael School grads.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 11, 2013

Bishops award anti-poverty funds for economic development EDISON TAPALLA CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The U.S. bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development has granted awards to three applicants from the Archdiocese of San Francisco – two of them organizations working to help provide affordable housing in the Bay Area.

With the bursting of the housing bubble in 2012, the bishops’ anti-poverty campaign has put a greater emphasis on funding organizations that are helping to preserve affordable housing.

The San Francisco Community Land Trust was founded in 2001 and is a membership-based organization whose mission is to create affordable, residentowned housing in San Francisco. The organization’s proposal was funded with a grant of $60,000. The land trust has a wide portfolio of real estate including a 21-unit mixed use apartment complex at the edge of Chinatown that is cooperatively owned by low-income Chinese-American residents.

Peninsula Interfaith Action, a community organizing association made up of 23 religious congregations representing more than 15,000 households from Daly City to Mountain View, was awarded $55,000 to support its work on economic development, education and housing. The organization was in the news earlier this year for its efforts to create 600 homes for low-income residents among 2,000 new homes that have

been proposed in the city, which is at the northern end of Silicon Valley.

The San Francisco Organizing Project was granted $45,000 in anti-poverty funds. Founded in 1972 the group is known for its work on immigration, economic development and public education. The project is a coalition of interfaith congregations that includes a number of Catholic parishes.

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been reaching out to those in need in society since its inception in 1969, with a mission to address the root causes of poverty in America.

Its yearly national collection raises funds that are awarded to nonprofit organizations that help carry out the bishops’ pastoral vision to alleviate poverty.

The CCHD directs each diocese nationwide to create selection committees made up of laity and clergy to evaluate grant applicants. After a series of interviews, on-site visits and a final presentation the selection committee drafts a proposal that outlines which organizations meet the criteria established by the national CCHD committee.

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he stressed that Catholics cannot “insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.”

According to the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, support for the pope’s remarks was about the same

across age groups, sexes and weekly Massgoers and those who attend church less frequently. Twenty-three percent disagreed with his comments.

The poll – taken Sept. 23-29 and released Oct. 4 – also showed that 53 percent of American Catholics view Pope Francis favorably; 36 percent have a very favorable opinion of him and 4 percent view him negatively.

The results were similar to a poll released Sept. 12 by the Washingtonbased Pew Research’s Religion & Public Life Project Center, which that found 79 percent of Catholics have a favorable view of the pope and 4 percent thought poorly of him.

Seventeen percent of those surveyed in the Pew center’s poll conducted Sept.

4-8 had no opinion of the current pope.

The poll – a national sampling of 1,506 adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points – showed older Catholics were slightly more enthused about the pope, giving him a 44 percent rating, compared to 31 percent of those under the age of 50 who gave him a favorable rating.

The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Connecticut not only surveyed American Catholics’ views of Pope Francis but also sought their views on same-sex marriage, abortion and women’s ordination. It surveyed 1,776 American adults – with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points – and surveyed 392 Catholics with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

The survey found that U.S. Catholics support same-sex marriage 60 to 31 percent, compared to the 56 to 36 percent support among all U.S. adults. More devout Catholics, who go to Mass about

once a week, support same-sex marriage at a slightly lower level, 53 to 40 percent, while less observant Catholics support it 65 to 26 percent.

The Quinnipiac poll found Catholic views on abortion slightly different from the American public. Sixteen percent of polled Catholics said abortion should be legal in all cases, compared to 19 percent of all Americans and 21 percent of polled Catholics said abortion should be illegal in all cases, compared to 16 percent of all Americans.

The survey also found that Catholic women support same-sex marriage 72 to 22 percent, while Catholic men were more divided at 49 to 40 percent. It also found that 60 percent of polled U.S. Catholics support the ordination of women priests while 30 percent oppose it.

The Catholic Church opposes samesex marriage. Church teaching upholds the sanctity of traditional marriage, between one man and one woman, and also teaches that any sexual activity outside of marriage is sinful. The church says that barring the ordination of women is definitive teaching “and not open to debate among Catholics.”

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, called the Quinnipiac poll flawed. In an Oct. 4 statement he said: “There are more than 78 million Catholics in the U.S. and Quinnipiac interviewed 392 of them.” He also faulted the poll for failing to distinguish between those who go to church monthly and those who no longer go to Mass.

“They are lumped together for a reason, and it is a dishonest one: Every poll ever taken shows that the more practicing the Catholic is, the more in line he is with the church’s teachings,” he said.

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Bishop: Holy Spirit ‘source of unity’ on ‘all that matters’ MARK ZIMMERMANN

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WASHINGTON – In his homily at the 61st annual Red Mass in the nation’s capital, Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell said that the Holy Spirit can help people seek unity and work for the common good. “The Holy Spirit is the source of unity on all that matters, and the source of variety in and among the many differences we have that make us who we are,� Bishop Farrell said Oct. 6. He said that the Holy Spirit, as at the first Pentecost, today “bestows wisdom, clarity, insight and, yes, unity.�

The annual Mass is held on the Sunday before the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new session on the first Monday of October, and it is sponsored by the John Carroll Society of the Archdiocese of Washington.

Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington was the principal celebrant at the Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. Concelebrants included Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington, Va. The Mass is celebrated to invoke God’s blessings on those who work in the administration of justice.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and four current Supreme Court justices attended the Mass, Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Stephen G. Breyer and Elena Kagan. Denis McDonough, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, also attended the Mass.

Cardinals William W. Baum and Theodore E. McCarrick, both former archbishops of Washington, were there, as were judges and attorneys, and deans, professors and students from local law schools.

Bishop Farrell noted that he was making a homecoming to Washington, where he had served as a priest and administrator from the early 1980s until being ordained as an auxiliary bishop there in 2002. Five years later, he was named to head the Dallas diocese.

While not mentioning the federal government shutdown and the budget impasse between Congress and the White House, the bishop in his homily did speak about how people should work together and respect each other.

The annual archdiocesan Red Mass to bless those who serve in the administration of justice will be held at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Washington Square, San Francisco, 5 p.m., with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant.

Banquet follows, 7 p.m., San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton St. William H. McInerney Sr., McInerney & Dillon, will be honored with the St. Thomas More Award. Red Mass and banquet are open to the public, with dinner tickets at $90 per person, $45 for clergy and students, Matt Graham (510) 8346600; mgraham@wendel.com.

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Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts talk Oct. 6 as they depart the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington following the annual Red Mass. The Mass traditionally marks the start of the court year, including the opening of the Supreme Court term. “We can and should debate, refine positions, truly listen to each other and seek consensus on essentials and respect details that may well be different,� Bishop Farrell said, adding that “if dialogue means anything, it means not only that we take another seriously, but it means that we revere the other as a fellow human being with gifts and talents from God.�

The bishop also later noted, “Petty partisanship and ever-politicizing rhetoric should have no place when men and women of good will come together to serve the common good.�

In his homily, Bishop Farrell did not mention the immigration reform debate that has been stymied by the shutdown, but he did emphasize the importance of welcoming newcomers.

He highlighted the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a Washington parish founded in the 19th century by Irish and German immigrants that now serves many different immigrant populations, with weekend Masses in Spanish, Vietnamese, Creole and English. “The parish also does what so many parishes do today,� he said. “They welcome the stranger in our midst in new

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Bishop Farrell emphasized the importance of loving and serving the poor. “We serve all in need, not because they are Catholic, but because we are Catholic. That is our mission and our ministry. That is not just what we do; it is who we are,� he said.

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Marcher: ‘Prayer and action’ give hope for reform CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – In Phoenix, Boston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis and more than 150 other cities Oct. 5, thousands of people carried signs at marches and rallies to call on Congress to pass immigration reform legislation.

In Phoenix Oct. 5, an estimated 4,000 people in red shirts walked from Immaculate Heart of Mary Church to the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse during the “National Day of Dignity and Respect.” They carried signs reading: “Immigration reform now!” “No more raids” and “Papers for my parents.”

“Unfortunately, immigration reform has become a political question,” said Phoenix Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares, who spoke to marchers outside the church. “For us in the church, it’s a religious question. Jesus Christ told us that what we do to the least of our brothers and sisters, we do to him.”

The procession in Phoenix followed a float bearing images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the risen Christ.

Traditional Mexican dancers, whose performances honor Mary, followed close behind.

In New York, marchers gathered at Cadman Plaza and walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying signs urging the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The Senate passed such a bill in June, but there’s been little interest in the House in taking up that bill.

After a bipartisan committee attempt-

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Participants raise their hands to sing and pray before marching for immigration reform in Los Angeles Oct. 5. The rally was one of many held in major cities across the United States to pressure Congress to act on a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system. ing to draft a similar bill in the House fell apart last month, House Democrats introduced their own bill in early October, but there is no indication that the House Republican leadership will move the bill.

The New York event featured remarks by several Democratic members of Congress, union leaders, and activists from ethnic and immigrant organizations.

In many cities, the rallies and marches began or ended at Catholic churches.

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In Florida, prayers led off a pair of 150-mile walks from Winter Garden to Tampa and from Clearwater to Tampa, conducted in seven-day treks to draw attention to the need for immigration reform. The kickoff Oct. 7 and the closing were scheduled at Catholic churches.

The thousands of marchers in Los Angeles Oct. 5 were in a celebratory mood, as Gov. Jerry Brown two days earlier had signed one bill that allows people who are in the country illegally to get a driver’s license and another called the Trust Act, which will prohibit California law enforcement officers who arrest undocumented immigrants for minor offenses from holding them to be transferred to immigration authorities.

Speakers in Phoenix summed up issues that were bringing out people around the country to the immigration events.

Christians are required to be “the voice for the voiceless,” Bishop Nevares said. “We must recognize the dignity of each human person and the dignity of the family. It is our religion that brings us here to stand for the most vulnerable in our society.”

“There’s always hope,” said Armando Contreras, former executive director of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry. “This is not political. This is based on the teachings of the Catholic Church. This is based on Christ. Our hope comes from prayer and action.”

UN EXPERT: US HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD HURTS ITS INFLUENCE

DAYTON, Ohio – The U.N. special rapporteur on torture and the executive director of the World Peace Foundation told audiences at the University of Dayton that America’s own involvement in human rights violations weakens its influence against rogue regimes. During keynote addresses at the Catholic university’s “Social Practice of Human Rights” conference, Juan Mendez, U.N. special rapporteur, said U.S. human rights abuses give rogue regimes an out and allow others to downplay U.S. rhetoric on human rights. Alex de Waal of the World Peace Foundation said Oct. 4 that with such practices as target killings and prolonged arbitrary detentions, the U.S. government has put itself above international law, creating an international political order that he said is increasingly inhospitable to human rights.

POOR BLACK FAMILIES SINKING ‘DEEPER INTO PIT’

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The vast majority of the black community is worse off than it was before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, said the Rev. Dwight Hopkins, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School and a member of the Council of Elders of the Oblate School of Theology’s new Sankofa Institute for African American Pastoral Leadership.

“No one wants social relations in America to be based on racial segregation, but the majority of black poor and working-class families have sunk deeper into the pit of being human in an unhealthy way,” he said Sept. 27.

CARDINAL: BEING PRO-LIFE ‘REQUIRES US TO BE HEROES’

NEW YORK – New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan told a group gathered recently for the Human Life Foundation’s annual awards dinner that “being pro-life requires us to be heroes.”

“Everyone here this evening supporting life is a hero!” he said at the event held at the Union League Club in midtown Manhattan.

The foundation presented its 2013 Great Defenders of Life Award to a married couple, Eric and Susanne Metaxas, for their outstanding service to the pro-life movement.

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Pope in Assisi: Church must renounce ‘spirit of the world’ FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ASSISI, Italy – Making his first pilgrimage as pope to the birthplace of his papal namesake, Pope Francis called on the whole church to imitate St. Francis of Assisi, embracing poverty and stripping itself of the “spirit of world.”

“A Christian cannot coexist with the spirit of the world,” he said. Worldliness “leads us to vanity, arrogance, pride. And this is an idol, it is not of God.” The pope spoke Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis, in the “stripping room” of the Assisi archbishop’s residence, where the saint shed himself of his rich clothes and embraced a life of poverty.

“This is a good occasion for inviting the church to strip itself,” the pope said, adding that he directed his invitation not merely to the hierarchy but all the church’s members, and that he sought renunciation of spiritual complacency as well as material riches.

“It is so sad to find a worldly Christian, who thinks he enjoys the security of the faith and of the world. One can’t have it both ways.”

Pope Francis’ talk in the archbishop’s residence, one of six addresses he was scheduled to deliver during his daylong visit to Assisi, was to a group of poor people receiving assistance from local Catholic charities, whom he later joined for lunch.

“Many of you have been stripped by this savage

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Pope Francis blesses a disabled person during his visit at the Serafico Institute in Assisi, Italy, Oct. 4. The pontiff was making his first pilgrimage as pope to the birthplace of his papal namesake. world, which doesn’t provide work, which doesn’t help, to which it makes no difference that children die of hunger,” he said.

The pope mourned the African immigrants killed in the previous day’s sinking of a boat near the southern Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, where in July he made his first trip as pope outside Rome.

As he often does, the pope set aside his prepared remarks and spoke entirely off the cuff.

He did the same thing earlier in the morning, when he addressed a group of disabled children and young people and their caregivers at a church-run rehabilitation center, the first of a dozen stops on his tightly packed schedule.

Pope Francis spent about 45 minutes prior to his talk personally greeting the young patients, many of whom were confined to wheelchairs.

Throughout his visit, the room resounded with their cries and moans.

“We are among the wounds of Jesus,” the pope said. “Jesus is hidden in these kids, in these children, in these people. On the altar we adore the flesh of Jesus, in them we find the wounds of Jesus.”

The pope’s morning in Assisi culminated in a Mass he celebrated in the square outside the Basilica of St. Francis. In his homily, the pope disputed what he characterized as popular misconceptions of St. Francis and his legacy.

“Many people, when they think of St. Francis, think of peace,” he said. “Very few people, however, go deeper.”

He later added: “Franciscan peace is not something saccharine. Hardly. That is not the real St. Francis. Nor is it a kind of pantheistic harmony with the forces of the cosmos. That is not Franciscan either; it is a notion some people have invented.”

SALVADORAN WAR-CRIMES PAPERS TARGET OF PROTEST

SAN SALVADOR – Social organizations demonstrated to demand San Salvador Archbishop Jose Escobar Alas clarify the fate of thousands of documents containing information on human rights violations. The documents have been in limbo since his Sept. 30 decision to close Tutela Legal, the office that guarded them since 1982. The archbishop said he decided to shut down the archdiocesan legal aid office after finding cases of embezzlement and corruption, but he did not show any evidence to the press.

Tutela Legal investigated war crimes during the 1980-92 Salvadoran civil war. Protesters believe that Tutela Legal houses about 50,000 files containing evidence of war crimes.

The archbishop has faced criticism from social organizations because they fear that the documents have been altered or are missing.

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10 Annual Pilgrimage for Saint Jude Thaddeus Saturday October 26, 2013 Duration of walk: 10:00 am – 11:30 am

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Holy Rosary: 9:00 am, Star of the Sea Church.

Location: Walk starts at 10:00 am from Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco; ends at 11:30 am at St. Dominic’s Church (Home of the Shrine of Saint Jude), 2390 Bush St., San Francisco.

Transportation: Buses from St. Dominic’s Church to Star of the Sea Church from 7:30 am to 9:30 am only.

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Change in approach results in vocations bump in England MARK GREAVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England – Janet Hopper said that when she started as a novice at the Society of the Sacred Heart, she thought, “This is completely mad.”

She had never imagined herself as a religious. Growing up, she felt she was “too independent and mischievous.” She liked soccer and music too much. But, when she met sisters from the Society of the Sacred Heart, she felt that she fit in.

“Something clicked,” she said.

Hopper, 33, is one of three novices who joined the society in England and Wales last year. Before that, no one had joined for 15 years.

The bump in interest illustrates a national trend. The number of people entering religious orders is at its highest level in England and

The number of people entering religious orders is at its highest level in England and Wales in 17 years – partly as a result of ‘a great strengthening’ of Catholic faith and pride following Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic visit in 2010.

Wales for 17 years. The figure has grown from 19 in 2004 to 64 last year.

The increase does not seem to be matched in the rest of Western Europe. In France, for instance, the number of novices dropped by

a third between 2004 and 2011. In Germany, over the same period, the number fell by a tenth.

At the Society of the Sacred Heart, a turning point was the appointment of Sister Barbara Sweeney as vocations director, a post that had not previously existed. She and her team set up a Facebook page, a Twitter account and a vocations website.

They redesigned and rewrote all the material about the society.

“It had to be brief, interesting and to the point,” Sister Barbara said.

The sisters cleared rooms in three houses so that interested women could come and stay. And they started offering discernment weekends, which now happen three times a year, where women could meet the sisters, pray with them and hear about their lives.

For Hopper, the discernment weekend was crucial. Without it, she said, “I would have shoved the question (of religious life) to the back of my head.”

Sister Barbara said she had been “banging on” about vocations for years. Out of the society’s 70 or so members, only two were under 50 — the same number was over 100.

Many were in their 70s.

But not all sisters saw the need for vocations work. Sister Barbara said there was a sense “that religious life

was not for today.” It was not an option she could accept.

“Our life is about discovering God’s heart in the world and bringing that to people — you can’t say that’s out of date,” she said.

Part of the problem, she explains, is visibility. When Sister Barbara joined, 49 years ago, the sisters wore habits and taught in schools. Now, “we look like everybody else. We do jobs like everybody else. If we don’t share our life, no one is going to hear about it.”

Benedictine Father Christopher Jamison, director of the National Office for Vocation in England and Wales, said the work of Sister Barbara reflects a general trend. In the past, he said, religious orders had the idea that “you should simply pray for vocations. If you did more than that it showed a lack of faith in God.” Now, he said, a “significant number” of orders in England and Wales have a full-time vocations director.

That means, in turn, that these orders have “a better understanding of where young Catholics are and where to go out to meet them,” he said.

Both Father Jamison and Father Stephen Langridge, chairman of vocations directors in England and SEE ENGLAND, PAGE 11

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Santa Sabina Center Ark to Compassion: November 14-17, 2013 Mythic and Scientific Stories that Sustain Us. Linda Gibler, OP, a Dominican Sister of Houston, TX, will lead this cosmologically based retreat. Drawing upon the 13.7 billion year story of elements that surround us, she will incorporate the wisdom of sacred traditions and inviting participants to consider deeper intimacy with and commitment to the world around us. Linda, mentored by Brian Swimme throughout her studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, has worked to integrate philosophy, cosmology and consciousness in her own work as teacher, author and retreat leader. She serves as associate academic dean at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. Fee: $400. Registration by October 28, 2013. For more information: info@santasabinacenter.org or visit www.santasabinacenter.org. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael, CA

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ENGLAND: Visibility, focus help boost vocations to 17-year-high FROM PAGE 10

Wales, argue that the whole approach to vocations has changed in recent years. In the past, said Father Langridge, the model was one of recruitment. “Posters would be put at the back of the church,� he said. “People would walk past and not even see them.�

Now, he said, the focus is on offering “discernment opportunities� where people can figure out what their vocation is — whether that’s to be a priest, a religious, a single or married person. These vary from monthly evenings organized by priests or laypeople to national events such as the Invocation festival, which takes place over several days.

Assumptionist Sister Cathy Jones, religious life promoter at the National Office for Vocation, said these

opportunities have led to a situation where “at least half � of very committed young Catholics “consider (religious life) seriously at one point or another. It is almost the norm.�

Another factor in the increase of interest, said Sister Cathy, was Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain in 2010. “There was a great strengthening of faith and pride at being Catholic,� she says. “People who had been discerning a good number of years thought, ‘I’ll give this a go.’�

Sister Barbara laughed at the idea she might be a vocations guru. “The really important thing is to love religious life, to love your own vocation,� she said. Someone who can communicate that can show that “religious life isn’t for weirdos. It’s just ordinary. It just happens that the Lord becomes everything to you.�

Dominican to lead All Souls Day retreat Join Dominican Father Michael Dodds, in Tiburon for a day of reflection and remembrance with a silent retreat on All Souls Day, Nov. 2.

The retreat will begin with morning prayer at 9 a.m., followed by two morning sessions, led by Father Dodds. Opportunities for silent reflection, reading, prayer and the sacrament of reconciliation will be available after the morning sessions.

Celebrate midday prayers at noon

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The retreat will conclude with an afternoon session, evening prayer and a eucharistic celebration that begins at 3:30 p.m., with a social hour to follow. A suggested donation for this retreat is $25. Contact Father Bruno Gibson for inquiries, reservations and directions at (415) 272-1866 or email brunogibsonop@gmail.com.

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POPE, ADVISERS LOOKING AT MAJOR CURIAL REFORM

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals are laying out plans to completely overhaul the Roman Curia, underlining its role of “service to the universal church and the local churches,” the Vatican spokesman said. As the pope and the eight cardinals he named to advise him were about to begin the final session of their Oct. 1-3 meeting, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the spokesman, said the role and responsibilities of the Vatican secretary of state, the revamping of the world Synod of Bishops, and the Vatican’s attention to the role and responsibility of laity also were major themes of discussion.

MUSLIM LEADER: POPE IS MODEL RELIGIOUS FIGURE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, like Islam’s Sufi mystic theologians and poets, “is trying to do good for the sake of the Good One, motivated by love and compassion,” said the president of the Islamic Affairs Council of Maryland.

Mohamad Bashar Arafat, a Syrian who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years,

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VATICAN CITY – A list of Pope Francis’ topeight saints has emerged from his interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica Oct. 1; his Sept. 19 interview with the Jesuit journal, La Civilta Cattolica; and a 2010 book-length compilation of interviews with Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti, titled “Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge St. Therese of Bergoglio.” Here are the eight: Lisieux St. Augustine; St. Francis of Assisi; St. Paul the Apostle; St. Ignatius of Loyola; St. Benedict; St. Thomas Aquinas; St.

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In an interview with Catholic News Service, Arafat said he sees Pope Francis acting as all truly religious leaders should: reaching out with respect for the human person and open to dialogue.

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The pope told Rubin that when he has a problem, he asks St. Therese “not to solve it, but to take it in her hands and help me accept it, and, as a sign, I almost always receive a white rose.”

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Pope calls synod on families, divorce, remarriage FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The predicament of divorced and remarried Catholics will be a major topic of discussion when bishops from around the world meet at the Vatican in October 2014.

The Vatican announced Oct. 8 that an extraordinary session of the Synod of Bishops will meet Oct. 5-19, 2014, to discuss the “pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization.”

The pope had told reporters accompanying him on his plane back from Rio de Janeiro in July that the next synod would explore a “somewhat deeper pastoral care of marriage,” including the question of the eligibility of divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion.

Pope Francis added at the time that church law governing marriage annulments also “has to be reviewed, because ecclesiastical tribunals are not sufficient for this. It is complex, the problem of the pastoral care of marriage.”

Such problems, he said, exemplified a general need for forgiveness in the church today.

“The church is a mother, and she must travel this path of mercy, and find a form of mercy for all,” the pope said.

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This will be only the third extraordinary synod since Pope Paul VI reinstituted synods in 1965, to hold periodic meetings to advise him on specific subjects.

A 1969 extraordinary session was dedicated to improving cooperation between the Holy See and national bishops’ conferences; and a 1985 extraordinary session, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the end of the Second Vatican Council, recommended the compilation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which was published seven years later.

Pope Francis, who replaced the synod’s secretary-general Sept. 21, has suggested that he wants to make it into a permanent advisory body. On Oct. 1, Pope Francis and the new Council of Cardinals advising him on church governance spent much of their first day together discussing synod reform.

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The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, said that such matters were more properly dealt with at a church-wide level, “under the guidance of the pope and the bishops.”

“For persons or local offices to propose particular pastoral solutions runs the risk of generating confusion,” he said. “The Holy Father is placing the pastoral care of the family at the heart of a synod process that will be larger, involving the reflection of the universal church.”

The October 2014 gathering will be an “extraordinary general session” of the synod, which according to the Code of Canon Law is held to “deal with matters which require a speedy solution.” It will be composed for the most part of the presidents of national bishops’ conferences, the heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches, and the heads of major Vatican offices.

Only about 150 synod fathers will take part in the session, which will run for two weeks, Father Lombardi said, compared with about 250 bishops

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Here to stay: The precious gift of celibacy This unsigned editorial from the Sept.

26 issue of Rhode Island Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Providence, R.I., was redistributed to Catholic News Service clients as an example of current commentary from around the Catholic press. As a guest editorial it represents the views of the individual publication and not necessarily the views of CNS, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops or Catholic San Francisco.

The issue of clerical celibacy is once again in the news when Archbishop Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis’ recent choice for the allimportant position of Secretary of State, made headlines when he said celibacy represented a discipline, and not a dogma, of the church.

Nothing he said was revolutionary, nor merited the headlines suggesting the church was ready to reject the tradition of a celibate clergy.

What the church teaches about celibacy comes from the words of Jesus himself. Some are called to renounce marriage for the sake of the kingdom of God (Mt 19:12).

Like Christ who was unmarried, those promised to celibacy live in anticipation of heaven where we are not married or given in marriage (Mt 22:30). The value of celibacy as the great sign of heaven lived out in a service of love is a gift to the church. Its special connection and value for priesthood should be unchangeable.

As seminarians will tell you, although they recognize the gift of marriage, they don’t desire to be married priests. Very much part of their calling is to leave everything in service to God’s people. It is true that from the beginning the church has ordained some married men. That continues today in the Eastern Catholic Churches as well as the some former Anglicans received into the church. This however should in no way undermine the special gift of a celibate clergy.

The Second Vatican Council rightly explained: “This holy synod asks not only priests but all the faithful that they might receive this precious gift of priestly celibacy in their hearts and ask of God that he will always bestow this gift upon his church.” Despite reports to the contrary, celibacy is here to stay. As Vatican II says, it should be received as a precious gift.

Editor’s note: Pope Francis spoke about the vocation of marriage to a gathering of young adults and teenagers Oct. 4 outside the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Assisi, Italy.

While God inscribed the vocation of marriage in human nature, the pope said, “celibacy or virginity for the kingdom of heaven” is a complementary vocation and “is the vocation Jesus himself lived,” Catholic News Service said in its report on the pope’s remarks. Priesthood and religious life do require giving up the possibility of marrying and having children, the pope said, “but virginity for the kingdom of God is not a ‘no,’ it’s a ‘yes,’” it is a total response to God’s call.

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We are called to godliness, even in the business world

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iven my work in business education and particularly my last role as the dean of the business school in a Catholic university, I am often asked whether work in the business sector can be a vocation. The answer is simply, “Of course!”

Business is a necessary good, not a necessary evil.

As such, it is CAROLYN WOO worthy of the brightest mind, biggest heart and deepest faith. You would need to write a book to fully explore this topic, but know that the potential benefits of business are recognized in papal encyclicals, including “Centesimus Annus” and “Caritas in Veritate.”

At the same time, these also point out the abuses, exploitation and idolatry that exist in business, free markets and globalization. The difference, as retired Pope Benedict XVI teaches, lies with the moral energies of leaders.

Despite authentic and encouraging actions undertaken by some businesses, there is a prevailing percep-

tion of the “real world” that renders the notion of vocation and sanctity in the workplace as a naive notion with limited applicability.

I can hear the skepticism in the unspoken but still screaming question of the audience when I talk about business as a vocation: Does she know the real world where I work? Where people do not tell the truth, do not share information, do not look out for one another and where life is a zerosum game and scores are kept solely in profits?

I detect it in students who dread going into that “real world” when they are about to graduate. Their feeling reflects the fear of entering a world that, to different degrees, has shut its doors on goodness, generosity and godliness.

The new evangelization has focused on bringing Catholics back to the church so that the word of God and his sacraments can take hold of us and join us to him. At the same time, there is much work to be done for Catholics to bring God into the world.

What does it say about our faith if God is only relevant in “God’s world” confined to church, families and communities where we play nice, act gracious, break bread and leave behind the “dirty” work of making a living?

Is “God’s world” a retreat, a bubble,

an escape from what is real? Did Christ not come into the real world to dwell among us with all our frailties, hurts, failings, needs, fears and pride? Did God not charge us to go into the world and proclaim his good news? How can we do that if we do not believe he is there? What good news would we have to proclaim?

Did God not take the fruits of our work and convert these into his own body and blood? Why do we assume that this “real world” is impenetrable to God’s grace, his goodness, his wisdom, his power, his unbounded love and mercy?

Doesn’t “Lumen Gentium” tell us that it is in the expanse of our daily life (including work) that we are to be the light of the world? “Now the laity are called in a special way to make the church present and operative in those places and circumstances where only through them can it become the salt of the earth. Thus every layman, in virtue of the very gifts bestowed upon him, is at the same time a witness and a living instrument of the mission of the church itself according to the measure of Christ’s bestowal.”

human being, and considering he has elected to give us free will, it would only be reasonable to assume that considering the time period, he knew there was no hope of humanity accepting any revelation from a woman. Would it not make sense to believe that God knows that people actually listen to women now?

Finally, the issue of excommunication — a cruel and marginalizing action.

Because politicians won’t force Catholic views upon the non-Catholic? Because cultural/liberal Catholics don’t agree with the church, hook, line and sinker? Is this not against the self-interest of the church in light of the “new evangelization” so desired? Did Christ not consort with sinners as well as saints?

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similar bill that involved a three-year time limit failed to mention schools.

My then-Sen. Joe Simitian fought this limitation in 2009, but it only applied to public school cases of the future, not the past and future as in the case of NGOs. Why did it take seven years to put a legislative foot in the right direction? Simitian cited an Associated Press series about sex abuse in public schools. The AP played hooky for a long time on this subject. As far back as the 1990s, Education Week ran a similar series called “Passing the Trash,” which reported on how school officials moved teachers suspected of sex abuse from one school to another. Few newspapers — if any — picked up on that and few ran the AP series that moved decades too late.

Ashamed? They should be.

Those defending the lack of public schools in SB 131 usually say the legal ramifications are complicated so public agencies should be treated in separate legislation. How naive. We hardly know about the current bill. Why would we be told about a separate one? Liberal bias? Maybe, but I think the problem is that newspapers, still the backbone of the news chain, just don’t have the people to cover everything that should be covered.

James O. Clifford Sr. Redwood City

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LETTERS Cardinal reformers must confront ‘church survival’ issues Reform of the Vatican Curia would have to entail assigning the appropriate cardinals to address real-world and often painful contemporary issues having to deal with “church survival” — like it or not. This means dealing with an enlightened public that has long since been living in the age of reason.

Quoting canon law and the Bible no longer works. Canon law was largely instituted in the fourth century, at least 300 years after Christ. And the Bible, even if divinely inspired, was subject to the many authors’ misunderstandings, misinterpretations and manipulations. This means reconciling their claims that the church “cannot change” things when in fact changes were made during Vatican II. It seems as if the church wants to pick and choose what it can change.

If Catholics “are called to be out of step with the times,” how come most of us do not hear this calling? We need better explanations than instructions to “pray” and “discern.”

Key church survival issues are celibacy of the clergy and the ordination of women.

Referring to Jesus Christ’s alleged bachelorhood and the various historical requirements of celibacy for clergy falls flat. As Christ was crucified at age 33, one cannot know that he would never have married, nor could one know that he would have never decided to ordain women. I realize the pope has already said that “the door is closed” when it comes to women’s ordination, but God deserves a lot more credit than what the Vatican gives him. If he chose to reveal himself to humanity in the form of a

Bill targets churches, other nonprofits If Gov. Jerry Brown allows Senate Bill 131, the best example of a “stealth law” I have ever seen, to become law I hope his father comes back to haunt him. Brown Jr. has until Oct. 13 to veto the bill, which virtually lets public schools off the hook in sex-abuse lawsuits. Rather than focusing on sex-abuse victims, the bill is clearly aimed at churches and other NGOs, including the Boy Scouts.

I can’t imagine Brown’s dad, Gov. “Pat” Brown, allowing political pressure to override his sense of fairness.

I’ve combed the Internet to harvest comment on the bill, which would open nonprofits to civil liability for alleged sexual abuse that took place before Jan. 1, 2004, but for which victims only discovered their injury after that date.

Repressed memory, I guess.

We have been here before. In 2002 a

Bishop Daly an able leader Re “Bishop Thomas Daly to lead seminary in interim post,” Sept. 20: Bishop Daly will do a great job as he did at Marin Catholic High School. He reminds me of Pope Francis and his open approach.

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Reflections on Francis’ interview Bringing a culture

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s by now everyone in the world knows, Pope Francis offered a lengthy and wide-ranging interview to the editor of Civilta Cattolica, which was subsequently published in 16 Jesuit-sponsored journals from a variety of countries.

As we’ve come to expect practically any time this pope speaks, the interview has provoked a media frenzy. To judge by the headlines in The New York Times and on CNN, the Catholic Church is in the midst of a moral and doctrinal revolution, led by a maverick pope bent on dragging the old institution into the modern FATHER ROBERT world. I might recommend BARRON that everyone take a deep breath and prayerfully (or at least thoughtfully) read what Pope Francis actually said. For what he actually said is beautiful, lyrical, spirit-filled, and in its own distinctive way, revolutionary.

The first question the pope answers in this interview is simple: “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio (his given name)?” After a substantial pause, he said, “a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.” At the heart of the matter, at the core of the “Catholic thing,” is this encounter between us sinners and the God of amazing grace. Long before we get to social teaching, to debates about birth control and abortion, to adjudicating questions about homosexual activity, to disputes about liturgy, etc., we have the graced moment when sinners are accepted, even though they are unacceptable. Pope Francis aptly illustrated his observation by drawing attention to Caravaggio’s masterpiece, “The Conversion of St. Matthew,” which depicts the instant when Matthew, a thoroughly self-absorbed and materialistic man, found himself looked upon by Christ’s merciful gaze. Because of that look, Matthew utterly changed, becoming first a disciple, then a missionary, and finally a martyr.

I believe that this first answer given by Pope Francis provides the interpretive lens for reading the rest of the interview. He is confessing to be a sinner who has found grace and conversion and who has thereby been transformed into a missionary. On the basis of that master insight, he is able to survey both church and society with astonishing clarity and serenity.

One of the most commented upon remarks in the interview is the following: “This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people.” What the pope is signaling here is that the church, as his predecessor Paul VI put it, doesn’t have a mission; it is a mission, for its purpose is to cause the merciful face of Jesus to gaze upon everyone in the world. It is not an exclusive club where only the morally perfect are welcome, but rather, a home for sinners, which means a home for everybody.

And this insight provides the right context for understanding another controversial remark from the interview: “The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The

most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.” The pope is not suggesting that rules – moral, spiritual, liturgical, etc. – are unnecessary or unimportant, but he is indeed suggesting that they are secondary to the central reality of encountering the living Christ. If the church leads with moral regulation, it will appear, especially to our postmodern culture, as fussy, puritanical, censorious. And it will most likely awaken a defensive reaction on the part of those it wishes to reach. It ought to lead with its always appealing central message, namely the saving cross of Jesus, and only then should it speak of the moral and spiritual disciplines that will bring people into greater conformity with Christ. If I might proffer a perhaps trite analogy: When attempting to attract a young kid to the game of baseball, you don’t begin with the rule book; rather, you begin with the beauty and majesty and rhythm of the game – and then you trust that he will come in time to understand the nature and purpose of the rules from the inside.

One of Pope Francis’s gifts as a communicator is a peculiar feel for the memorable image: “Shepherds should smell like their sheep;” seminarians and priests ought to be willing to “make a mess” come readily to mind. The most striking analogy in the interview is this: “I see the church as a field hospital after battle.” No doctor doing triage on a battlefield is going to be fussing about his patients’ cholesterol or blood sugar levels. He is going to be treating major wounds and trying desperately to stop the bleeding.

What we find today, the pope is implying, are millions of people who are, in the spiritual sense, gravely wounded. They are alienated from God, stuck in the no-man’s land of moral relativism, adrift with no sense of direction, and tempted by every form of errant desire. They require, therefore, not the fine points of moral doctrine, but basic healing. Perhaps this explains why the church’s altogether valid teachings on ethics are so often met with incomprehension or hostility: Far more elemental instruction is required.

I will confess to sharing some of the misgivings of commentators who have lamented that the pope’s criticism of excessive legalism gave comfort to the wrong people. The National Abortion Rights Action League published an ad, which simply said, “Pope Francis, Thank You. Signed, Pro-Choice Women Everywhere,” and Planned Parenthood expressed its approval of the pope’s call to Catholics not to “obsess” over the issue of abortion. I certainly understand that those who have stood on the front lines of the pro-life battles for years feel that the pope has unfairly characterized them as fanatics.

In the end, I feel that this relatively casual interview, precisely because it is not a formal encyclical, will provide a route of access to the church for many people who might otherwise not have bothered to pay attention. It might in fact appeal to many of the walking wounded today who are in desperate need of mercy and healing.

FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

LETTERS Hindsight still insufficient to judge A-bomb attacks Lenny Barretto (“What U.S.. commanders said about the atomic bombings of Japan,” letter, Oct. 4) argues that using the A-bomb to end WWII was unjustified.

Opinions from wartime military leaders seemingly support his view but he fails to cite sources or the context in which those opinions were expressed. It seems highly unlikely that Adm. Leahy or Gens. MacArthur, Arnold, Kenney or Eisenhower would have publicly stated these (highly unpopular) opinions at the time of Japan’s surrender. If expressed well after the decision to use the bomb, these opinions are irrelevant to Barretto’s argument. Messrs. Barretto and Chris Stefanick earlier column on the topic engage in wishful thinking about whether Japan was close to surrender. A civilian desire for surrender notwithstanding, the Japanese military remained in control and was violently opposed to surrender even after Nagasaki. Stefanick simply assumes otherwise. While Japan’s fuel supplies were nearly exhausted, Barretto naively assumes there was no fuel available for the 5,000 aircraft outfitted for (one-way) Kamikaze attacks. What is forgotten is that had we not used the bomb, conventional bomb-

ing would have continued followed by an invasion producing far more civilian and military casualties.

Presumably those additional casualties are acceptable

by Stefanick and Barretto so long as we avoided using the “immoral” atomic bomb. That view is unlikely to have been shared by those who would have been asked to fight (and die) - and by their families.Nearly 70 years of hindsight is still insufficient to prove that the A-bomb wasn’t necessary. That doesn’t discourage armchair generals from second-guessing.

Kent Grealish Daly City

Leave the past to God’s mercy Would the Philippines, my beloved country, have been freed from Japanese oppression if no bombings happened and if the U.S. did not come to our rescue?

Would there be a July 4 Independence Day as we Filipinos celebrate this as U.S. Friendship Day in the Philippines? Why not leave the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, the future to his providence?

Rose M. Jardin San Bruno

of encounter to the campus

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ope Francis says he wants the church to have a “culture of encounter.” One small step that could be taken in that direction in the United States is to end the banning of certain speakers on Catholic campuses, which has done little to protect the faith and much to diminish the church’s reputation in the scholarly community.

Recently, a Catholic college decided to revoke the invitation of a guest speaker. Initially, the school wanted the speaker to talk and also offer STEPHEN KENT another speaker countering that point of view, therefore balancing the principle of academic freedom and the Catholic identity of the college.

John Corvino was to deliver a lecture at Providence College on “The Meaning of Gay Marriage.” Hugh Lena, provost of the Dominican-run college in Rhode Island, said Providence policy requires a two-sided debate on controversial topics. He said sponsors of the talk did not give the rebuttal speaker sufficient time to prepare.

“We believe that this kind of free and fair discussion of both sides of a controversial issue would be beneficial to our community,” the college said in a statement. “The event was cancelled only when it became clear that this would not be the case.”

A Catholic university cannot teach in opposition to Catholic dogma, nor can it tolerate a faculty member doing so under the cover of academic freedom. Nor should an institution honor or endorse a speaker because of that person’s opposition to Catholic belief. A speaker whose celebrity is based on his or her anti-Catholic public persona may not be welcomed.

But a speaker invited for his or her expertise should not be banned for holding a belief in another field not in keeping with the church.

Speakers do not have to be honored or endorsed, but they can be heard.

Pope Francis, in an interview with an Italian newspaper, said that the “church will not deal with politics,” and suggested that church leaders not pressure Catholic office holders to take particular positions in matters of public policy.

“I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them,” he said.

A university is supposed to be a place of formation, of study. Graduates will not go through life in an environment with no challenges to their faith. If there is fear that students will be swayed, then maybe it’s time to strengthen the theology department.

To have this “culture of encounter,” we must be trained to do that.

“A country grows when constructive dialogue occurs between its many rich cultural components: popular culture, university culture, youth culture, artistic and technological culture, economic culture, family culture and media culture,” Pope Francis said during his July trip to Brazil.

He has repeatedly urged a church that goes outside of itself to interact with others.

“The view of the church’s teaching as a monolith to defend without nuance or different understandings is wrong,” he said in an interview published in Jesuit journals worldwide.

This “culture of encounter” means to “express who we are, what we think and believe, how we wish to live and, perhaps more importantly, to come to know those with whom we are called to live,” he said.

A speaker policy should reflect that. We can’t know those whose words we cannot hear.

KENT is the retired editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle. He can be contacted at considersk@gmail.com.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time The ten lepers met Jesus. Then he said to one, a Samaritan, ‘Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.’

LUKE 17:11-19 2 KINGS 5:14-17 Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of Elisha, the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean of his leprosy. Naaman returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before Elisha and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant.” Elisha replied, “As the Lord lives whom I serve, I will not take it;” and despite Naaman’s urging, he still refused. Naaman said: “If you will not accept, please let me, your servant, have two muleloads of earth, for I will no longer offer holocaust or sacrifice to any other god except to the Lord.”

PSALM 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; his right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm.

The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

The Lord has made his salvation known: in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.

The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands: break into song; sing praise.

The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

2 TIMOTHY 2:8-13 Beloved: Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David: such is my gospel, for which I am suffering, even to the point of chains, like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

Therefore, I bear with everything for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, together with

eternal glory. This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him we shall also live with him; if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us. If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

LUKE 17:11-19 As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee. As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance from him and raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” And when he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” As they were going they were cleansed.

And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan. Jesus said in reply, “Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” Then he said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”

Make God’s blessings accessible to all

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ohn Hughes, a cab driver in New York City for over 35 years, recounts a personal experience: “One time in Brooklyn, I found an emerald ring in my cab. I remembered helping a lady with a lot of bundles that day, so I went back to where I had dropped her off. It took me almost two days to trace her down in order to return her ring to her. I didn’t get as much as ‘thank you.’ Still, I felt good because I had done what was right. I think I felt better than she did.”

It is disappointing to encounter ingratitude, but what is distressing is that the person receiving the gift chooses not to celebrate and rejoice for his or her own sake – and express it in words and deeds.

FATHER CHARLES Spotlighting gratitude, the PUTHOTA word of God this Sunday invites us to take a closer look at the occasions for such gratitude. They are incidents of restoration of health.

Lepers experience astounding healings. Desperate, they will do anything to be healed. Naaman,

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a powerful official, humbles himself and is cured while taking a dip in the river. The 10 lepers are cleansed by Jesus. Naaman expresses his gratitude by taking the soil from Israel and vowing not to offer “sacrifice to any other god except to the Lord.”

The Samaritan leper returns to Jesus to thank him for the incredible blessing of healing, which will now restore him to family and community.

Fast forward! We live in a world where millions do not have medical care. This is sadly true both in poor and rich countries. God calls us to set aside all sorts of obstacles to ensure health for everyone, rich or poor.

Pope Francis’ gestures of tender compassion recently for the disabled children in the Seraphicum Institute in Assisi embody the urgent message. He said we need to heal the wounds of Christ in the suffering humanity, the body of christ.

It is contrary to the mind of Christ to deprive people of the basic necessity of health care – all in the name of economics and power politics. In the midst of the present debate in America, shouldn’t all the churches be speaking strongly in support of health care for everyone, no matter rich or poor? Health is as basic as food or water or education or free speech.

The followers of Jesus the healer have no choice but to be engaged in ensuring health for everyone.

The second occasion of gratitude focuses on

the insider-outsider dilemma we face in the world today. The drowning of more than 200 people recently near Lampedusa in Italy highlights the problem. Naaman, the Syrian, an outsider, receives healing from the Jewish prophet. Outsider he may be, he will become an insider now because of his unassailable faith in the living God, the God of all people in the world.

The Gospel portrays the odd man out, an outsider, a Samaritan, thanking Jesus. He is the only one who has grasped the meaning of how deeply he is loved and cherished – and rejoices over it with gratitude. Jesus goes about celebrating the outsiders like the Syro-Phoenician woman, the Roman Centurian, the Samaritan woman, the good Samaritan, tax collectors, sinners, prostitutes, etc.

As followers of Jesus, should we not be engaged in breaking down barriers and divisions? Should we not be more compassionately inclusive of the outsiders, whether they are immigrants or poor or those outside our tight ideological, cultural, ethnic circles?

The mandate from the word of God is loud and clear: Live a life of gratitude to God by actively making God’s blessings accessible to all!

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

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS

POPE FRANCIS REJECT ‘GLOBALIZATION OF INDIFFERENCE’

In his homily at morning Mass Oct. 7 in Casa Santa Marta at the Vatican, the pope spoke about the Samaritan “who saw and was moved with compassion,” keeping his heart open to humanity and thus bringing himself closer to God. The importance of truly “seeing” human tragedy, remaining compassionate and rejecting the “globalization of indifference,” is a theme Pope Francis has often picked up in relation to the plight of migrants across the world. Most recently, he called for solidarity toward migrants in southern Italy, in the wake of the shipwreck that left hundreds dead when their boat sank Oct. 3 off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.

As of Oct. 8, the official death toll was 232.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14: Monday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Callistus I, pope and martyr . Rom 1:1-7. PS 98:1bcde, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. Lk 11:29-32.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15: Memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the church. Rom 1:16-25.

PS 19:2-3, 4-5. Lk 11:37-41.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16: Wednesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Hedwig, religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin. Rom 2:1-11. PS 62:2-3, 6-7, 9. Lk 11:42-46.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr. Rom 3:21-30. PS 130:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab. Lk 11:47-54.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18: Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist.

2 Tm 4:10-17b. PS 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18. Lk 10:1-9.

MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE 1647-1690 October 16 This French saint, who increased devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, spent her life in Burgundy.

Margaret was bedridden from ages 9 to 15 with a rheumatic illness. She gradually understood a call to religious life, and already had a mature prayer life when she entered a Visitation convent near Lyon in 1671. Between 1673 and 1675, she received four visions of Christ’s heart, burning with love for humanity, with instructions to promote first Friday devotions.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19: Memorial of Sts. Isaac Jogues and John de Brebeuf, priests and martyrs and companions, martyrs. Rom 4:13, 16-18. PS 105:6-7, 8-9, 42-43. Lk 12:8-12.

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Pope Francis, in his own words

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any of us, I suspect, have heard snippets of an interview that Pope Francis did for a series of Jesuit publications, including America magazine. He suggested, among other things, that we might be wise to not always emphasize the moral issues around abortion, gay marriage and contraception FATHER RON in our conversaROLHEISER tions. That’s, of course, the phrase that most caught the attention of the media, but the whole interview is remarkable for its candor and includes a whole range of thoughts that help give us a sense of how Francis intends to color his papacy. Here are a few of his thoughts, in his own words.

On why our pastoral focus needs to be on healing and not on reiterating certain moral concerns: “I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask an injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the levels of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about something else. ...

“During the return flight from Rio de Janeiro I said that if a homosexual person is of good will and is in search of God, I am no one to judge. By saying this, I said what the catechism says.

Religion has the right to express its

opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person. A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ ... I also consider the situation of a woman with a failed marriage in her past and who also had an abortion.

Then this woman remarries, and is now happy and has five children. That abortion in her past weighs heavily on her conscience and she sincerely regrets it. She would like to move forward in her Christian life. What is the confessor to do? We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I have been reprimanded for that.

But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in context.

The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”

On women in the church: “Women are asking deep questions that must be addressed. ... We must therefore investigate further the role of women in the church. ... The challenge today is this: to think about the specific place of women also in those places where the authority of the church is exercised for various areas of the church.”

On what it means to think with the church: “All the faithful, considered as a whole, are infallible in matters of belief, and the people display this infallibility in believing, through a

supernatural sense of the faith of all the people walking together. This is what I understand today as ‘thinking with the church’. ... We should not even think, therefore, that ‘thinking with the church’ means only thinking with the hierarchy of the church.”

On manifesting a wide catholicity: “This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting mediocrity.”

On Benedict’s decision to allow a wider use of the Tridentine Mass: “I think the decision was prudent and motivated by the desire to help people who have this sensitivity. What is worrying, though, is the risk of the ideologization of the Vetus Ordo (the decree authorizing a limited use of the Latin Mass), to its exploitation.”

On the temptation to defensively circle the wagons in face of a growing secularity: “If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing.

Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God. Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‘security,’ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inner-directed view of things. In this way faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. ... It is amazing to see the denunciations of lack of orthodoxy that come to Rome.”

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

Artificial insemination; pain’s patron saint?

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We are a young couple who have been married for just over two years. We want to have children and, of course, bring them up in the faith. But recently we learned that it is very unlikely that we will be able to conceive children naturally, which leads us to this question: What is the church’s teaching on artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization? We are very conscious FATHER of wanting to KENNETH DOYLE do God’s will and wondering whether God might be telling us that we should not be parents. (Louisville, Ky.) Studies show that in the United States, one in six couples of childbearing age is infertile. For most couples, this is clearly a heavy burden.

The church senses the pain in questions such as yours, and for that reason encourages scientific research to help reduce infertility.

However, there are some fundamental moral principles as to which techniques the church allows. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, in No. 2376, notes that “techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other

QUESTION CORNER

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than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus) are gravely immoral.”

The reason is that every child has the right to be born of a father and mother who are known to the child and married to each other. The more difficult moral issue comes with techniques that involve only the married couple (i.e., the couple’s own sperm, ova and uterus). One’s natural instinct is to leap to assist a loving, committed couple trying to conceive their own biological, genetic child.

But at the same time, not only do such techniques often involve the destruction of multiple embryos (thus snuffing out many lives in the zeal to produce one), but they may deny the child’s right to be born from the loving marital act of his parents, rather than as a product of laboratory genius.

There are, however, some techniques of reproductive technology that are viewed by many Catholic moral theologians as permissible, because they simply help marital intercourse to reach its procreative potential (e.g., lower tubal ovum transfer and gamete intrafallopian transfer).

More can be learned about such techniques through the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha, Neb., and you might also inquire from local church representatives whether there are infertility specialists in your area who would be sensitive to the church’s moral guidelines.

Finally, I don’t believe that God is telling you that you should not be parents.

Perhaps a morally acceptable infertility treatment can help you to conceive. If not, there are many children available for adoption who would benefit greatly from a loving home.

Because of chronic pain, I have trouble getting the good restorative sleep that everyone needs.

And due to the fact that I cannot tolerate medications, the only possible relief that I have from pain is sleep. Is there some saint to whom I could pray to help me? (Glen Burnie, Md.) There are many saints who experienced considerable physical suffering in their lives. One of them is Gemma Galgani, an Italian mystic who died in 1903 at the age of 25 and was canonized in 1940.

She was one of eight children whose father was a prominent pharmacist in the Tuscan city of Lucca. Orphaned at 18, Gemma took over the responsibility for raising her younger siblings. At 20, she developed spinal meningitis, which required her to wear a heavy iron back brace and eventually confined her to bed. At 21, she began to display signs of the stigmata, the wounds of Christ.

Several months before her death, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which brought constant pain during her final days. Through it all, she maintained her prayerfulness and her trust in the Lord. She is widely venerated in Italy and Latin America, especially by those who are ill and suffering greatly.

Q. A.

Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY, 12208.

Goodbye to a bishop and a friend

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ene, what’s new in your neck of the woods?”

Chicago Bishop Timothy J. Lyne’s question wasn’t just meant to make conversation when I stayed with him at Holy Name Cathedral. He was truly interested in me and in my work. His FATHER EUGENE true concern HEMRICK was deeply moving, and, I must confess, made me feel important.

A month before his Sept. 25 death, I stayed with him and remember driving back to Washington, D.C., feeling especially touched by our last conversation. Here was a man, age 94, whose interests had not waned. He was connected to daily events and the many friends he had made over the years. He was officially retired, but he hadn’t retired from life.

There is the saying that “familiarity breeds contempt.” It also breeds boredom, apathy and indifference, three of the deadliest enemies to our ability to relate meaningfully with one another.

This never happened to Tim. He kept interest – the one thing that researchers credit with keeping marriages together – in those of us who were lucky enough to know him.

Tim was concern personified.

When I asked about a classmate who was suffering from cancer, and whom I hadn’t seen in years, Tim slipped, within the hour, a note with his number under my door.

When I called my classmate, he said, “Oh, I was just on the phone with Tim and he told me you were with him.” Tim cared that we connect and took action to make sure it happened.

When my best friend, the first African-American priest ordained in Chicago, who was living in Albuquerque, N.M., began having health problems, I called Tim. Within a few weeks, he worked out a way of getting him back to Chicago and into a retirement home for priests.

In an interview on the elderly between then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) and Rabbi Abraham Skorka, the two discussed the problem of isolation that occurs. The elderly have fewer friends who are alive, and they also noted that we tend to look back rather than forward as we age.

As true as this may be, Tim was forever forward-looking and surrounded himself with people.

Although we had much to reminisce about, the present and what the future holds were his primary interests, as were people who needed help.

As a caring God came among us and taught us how important we are to God, so, too, did God bless us with a man who modeled himself after God’s loving interest in us.

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SAN QUENTIN: Bishops humbled, moved by visit FROM PAGE 1

former seminarian from my alma mater, St. John’s in Camarillo,” wrote Fresno Bishop Armando X. Ochoa in his report to the CCC. The bishop described meeting the man with whom he had both much and nothing in common at the prison’s Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Chapel and thinking: “There but for the grace of God go I.” Many of the bishops described their humbling awareness that prison inmates carry an additional burden of being seen by the world – bishops included – as a unit, not as individual persons.

“What struck me most, not only in our visit to San Quentin, but in the other institutions I have visited in my diocese, is my own perception of the lack of respect we afford the prisoners we visited,” said Bishop Ochoa. “The very fact that we don a bulletproof vest in order to speak and pray with them is very unsettling for me. It seems to say that I am here to bring you the presence of Jesus, but I would definitely feel better about this encounter if only I had a little more security around me.”

Shackled, pale and heavily tattooed, some of the men seen early in the day hobbling throughout the prison complex under the watch of rooftop riflemen and prison staff did

indeed meet visual expectations. But after a day spent in face to face encounters with prisoners, many delegates felt humbled by the stereotypes they brought with them Bishop Justice and keenly aware of their human connectedness despite the very different paths their lives had taken.

“Abandon all stereotypes,” said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in a reflection delivBishop Ochoa ered the night of the visit (printed in full on Page 21). “The personalities and levels of intellectual and spiritual maturity of inmates are as diverse as any other collection of human Bishop Luong beings. Many of the inmates we briefly visited with on death row showed a religious sensitivity.”

The visit to the death chamber was distressing to many of the delegates.

“How someone could be killed

to bring about healing just doesn’t make sense,” said San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.

Bishop Ochoa said he was deeply moved by the various options that the condemned have in regard to their own execution. “The cold, austere chairs with straight lines and arm straps put a punctuation mark on the whole visit,” he said.

The apparent rehabilitation of many of the prisoners was the most positive impression of the day for the bishops.

“Without a doubt, many of the men with whom I spoke appear to have experienced a change of heart,” said Bishop Ochoa, who credited rehabilitation to the ongoing presence and ministry of the Catholic priest and the breadth of prison programs.

According to McDermott, the bishops will be meeting at the end of this month to discuss their collective experience at San Quentin and ideas for how the church can respond to the needs of inmates at smaller rural prisons.

In the meantime, the bishops agree they will keep the prisoners in their prayers.

“The inmates served us with such admirable courtesy,” said Diocese of Orange Auxiliary Bishop Dominic M. Luong. “I wish I could do more to change their life. I promise myself I will pray for them more often.”

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en’s organizations from 66 countries in five regions: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean and North America. In 2006, it was granted canonical status by the Vatican as a public international association of the faithful.

“We are all neighbors now, but we are yet to learn to live as brothers and sisters,” said Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, who addressed immigration. “To be a Christian is not a burden, but a gift and to share that gift with others is our greatest joy.”

The union’s aim is “to promote the presence, participation and coresponsibility of Catholic women in society and the church, in order to enable them to fulfill their mission of evangelization and to work for human development, particularly by increasing educational opportunities, reducing poverty, and advancing human rights beginning with the fundamental right to life.”

Speaker Alexis Torres-Fleming said that when she was growing up in the South Bronx, she was “exposed to all the ‘at risk’ factors of poverty. I knew that the measure of success in the world would be how far I could escape from my family and culture.”

Torres-Fleming left home – considered the poorest district in the U.S., with more than 70,000 people living in one-square mile and 50 percent of them living below the poverty level – and entered the banking world of corporate America.

“I enjoyed European travel, nice clothes,” she said, “but a still small voice said this is all false. I recognized that there was something specifically mine to do that was not important in the world. I had every-

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Women hold signs during a pilgrimage and immigration rally sponsored by the Archdiocese of St. Louis Oct. 5. Attendees at a regional conference of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., focused on how Catholic women can take action, locally and globally, on “all forms of poverty” – hunger, domestic violence, human trafficking and the needs of migrants. thing to live with, but nothing to live for. I was empty inside.”

She quit her job, returned to the South Bronx and founded Youth Ministry for Peace and Justice to helping others to overcome “at risk” factors that result in a life of poverty.

“I was pregnant – such a miraculous experience that you can’t help but meditate and ponder – with my son who’s now 12,” Torres-Fleming said. “He lived in me, breathed in me, ate of me. His entire existence was dependent upon me and he was unaware of his need for me. That is the way we are with our God. We are totally unaware of existing in God’s moment.

“It is the poverty from the place of belonging to one another,” she continued. “The expression on my

baby’s face as he was nursing – desperately wanting and we as mothers say ‘take and eat – this is my body for you.’ Jesus understood that – what it means to be food for another.

We belong to one another as we belong to God and we have the capacity to be food for one another.”

Attendees divided into groups to formulate concrete actions they could take back to their parishes.

The general consensus was that material poverty was the foundation of so many problems, and that overcoming a “poverty of complacency” is the foundation for resolving problems.

The group addressing violence told the rest that the resolution to that is to begin is “by practicing being peacemakers ourselves.”

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ther Schunk said. Young men rarely consider becoming a priest, Father Schunk said. He aims to change that by being visible—in the high schools and the parishes in particular.

Presence is important, Father Schunk said, “just to promote the idea of the possibility and raise awareness that a religious vocation is a possibility in a person’s life and God might be calling a man or woman to a religious vocation or the priesthood.”

“It’s OK to think about it – you don’t have to do it, but it is important to think about it,” Father Schunk said. If a young person seriously contemplates the priesthood or religious life, and then marries, he or she will be more open to their own children considering a vocation, Father Schunk said. “It is not something to be pushed aside” as inconceivable – which can be the first reaction to the idea of the priesthood.

Statistics show that the majority of priests were asked by a parish priest, friend or parent if they had ever considered the priesthood, Father Schunk said.

Father Schunk said he plans “just to talk to young people and ask them if they have considered a religious vocation. The asking part is very important. Many of the people who are in religious life or the priesthood are there because someone asked them, ‘have you ever considered becoming a priest or sister or brother?’” Father Schunk said.

Personally, Father Schunk says, he tries “to show people how joyful I am personally (as a priest) and try to convey that to our young people and to our young adults.”

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops-commissioned study of the 2013 class of ordained priests found that “two in three (67 percent) say they were encouraged to consider a vocation to the priesthood by a parish priest. Others who encouraged them include friends (46 percent), parishioners (38 percent) and mothers (34 percent).” The study was conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), a Georgetown University-based research center.

Father Schunk was ordained a priest in 2010 and was serving as parochial vicar at St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo, prior to his appointment. He holds a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical North American College in Rome and an undergraduate music education degree. He spent two years as a teacher before entering the seminary in 2003.

As vocations director, Father Schunk has three primary responsibilities: to supervise the 15 seminarians at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University and the one at Mount Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Ore., to help in their formation; to work with men discerning whether they should enter the seminary, and to promote vocations in the schools and parishes of the archdiocese.

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Prisoners’ cry: ‘We are human beings, too’ ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE

Editor’s note: Archbishop Cordileone wrote the following reflection for the California Catholic Conference on his Sept. 30 pastoral visit to San Quentin State Prison with a delegation from the conference.

My first impression is: Abandon all stereotypes! The personalities and levels of intellectual and spiritual maturity of inmates are as diverse as any other collection of human beings. Many of the inmates we briefly visited with on death row showed a religious sensitivity. One of them remembered the exact date and occasion of his confirmation two years ago; another proudly showed us a picture he treasures of Cardinal Levada that the cardinal gave him when he was the archbishop of San Francisco; still another was happy to show us the collection of crosses he had put up on the wall of his cell. Of course, the inmates we met in the chapel, who sing in the Catholic choir, were a cut apart. One of them even shared with me that he and his wife used to teach natural family planning. They were all men of deep faith and spiritual maturity.

Another thing I learned – and this did come as something of a surprise to me (which shows my ignorance of the subject matter) – is that San Quentin is far advanced in the services and programs it offers to its inmates. As for religious programming, every day of the week there is some type of program at the Catholic chapel, and this is in addition to what is offered for those of other faiths. Most impressive is the restorative justice session held once a week, which over 100 of the inmates attend, and which teaches them how to

The death chamber at San Quentin State Prison. Archbishop Cordileone felt “an ominous, even evil, sense about the place.” find healing, peace and rehabilitation. All of these programs help the inmates transition to the outside world once they are released. One of them – a bright, charming descendant of Senegalese Jews who interviewed me for their in-house newspaper – shared with me that inmates in other prisons throughout the state try and hope to get transferred to San Quentin, because the treatment of the prisoners is so much better.

Along with three other bishops, I had a brief visit with three inmates in the “Adjustment Center” unit.

This was described as the “jail within the prison.”

This is basically a solitary confinement unit for the most violent and dangerous prisoners. The three we visited were out of their cells for the visit, but kept inside individual cages, like a caged animal. It seemed inhuman, but I could understand the need for it, even if they did not manifest any violent

traits during our conversation. In fact, they were very bright and conversant, and spoke of legitimate concerns, including their concern that their religious needs were not being adequately addressed. One of them is trying to prepare for confirmation but is having difficulty in pursuing the catechesis. These are men who committed heinous crimes, who have done evil. Yet, they themselves are not evil. In fact, they seemed to have so much potential, and I cannot help but wonder how their lives would have turned out if they had grown up in more favorable circumstances.

It is a tragic loss, one repeated all too often, and one that I mourn.

The most chilling part of the visit, though, was, of course, the visit to the gas chamber. It seemed incongruous that we could talk matter of factly about what goes on in there, and that working there could be a standard part of anyone’s job, while there was such an ominous, even evil, sense about the place. I felt like we should just keep silent and pray, but didn’t say anything because I was uncertain if others felt the same way. I was relieved when one of the other bishops (who had visited there before) suggested that we pause to pray, and then led us in prayer.

The cry of the prisoners in San Quentin is clear: We are human beings, too, we have human dignity.

Many of them committed truly heinous crimes, for which they are now paying the price; yet, what they say is exactly what our church teaches. I hope we can find ways to assure them of this, effectively placing more emphasis on the “rehabilitation” in the title of the state agency charged with this work: the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Inmates ask bishops for healing and simply to ‘remember us’ STEVE PEHANICH CALIFORNIA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE

Just past the canteen, down a small alley enveloped in shadow and behind two sets of huge metal doors is California’s death row. In this old, dank, dimly lit place, more than 700 men, stacked in tiers of cells and surrounded by guards, await execution.

San Quentin State Prison sits on prime real estate overlooking the northern portions of the San Francisco Bay. Notorious because of death row, in reality the prison is the state’s oldest. It was founded in 1852 after California’s first prison – a ship anchored in the bay – became overcrowded.

It is a study in contradiction – a fortress-like complex set in a place of natural beauty; the state’s most infamous prisoners housed near some who are models of rehabilitation; the bland, eerie death chamber in a facility that has more programs for prisoners than most others.

Nine California Bishops – accompanied by St. Joseph Sister Helen Prejean, the noted advocate to abolish the death penalty – made a pastoral visit to the men on death row (Sept. 30). But in another of those contradictions, they also engaged with a lively, hope-filled Catholic community of prisoners and fostered relationships with corrections’ administrators and guards.

After briefings with warden Kevin Chappell and senior staff, the delegation was escorted to death row through a pleasant, well-kept courtyard – but with the incongruous sight of guards leading men in shackles and other restraints.

Warned to stay an arm’s length from the cells as they entered death row, the bishops nevertheless moved closer – it was too difficult to talk with and see the prisoners from the other side of a yellow line painted on the floor.

Many inmates recognized bishops from their home dioceses and were thrilled to see a familiar face and probably just as pleased to talk with someone new.

“You confirmed me,” one inmate said to a bishop; “I attended a parish in your diocese,” said another. “Is Father Jones still around?” asks another.

It’s readily apparently why so many people compare death row to a warehouse – it is really a building within a building. The “inside building” is five tiers of cells with heavy metal mesh, not bars. The block of cells sits fully inside a “containment” building with exposed pipes, air ducts and the other utilities on the roof and walls.

Adding to the warehouse feel, the walls opposite the cells are lined with cases of tissue, towels and other sundries. However, the armed guards walking

The bishops stood around the death chamber in a circle listening to the public information officer describe its history.

But they stopped him and asked for a moment. Then they prayed together where 195 people have been killed. silently on platforms just above and behind the bishops are a stark reminder that this place is different.

The “chapel” is another reminder: It’s a pair of cages – one for the presider and a larger one with benches for the inmates. It sits on one end of the row in an old shower area. Communion during the Catholic service is handed out through the steel mesh.

The exercise yard is cleaner, feels newer. Unrushed by prison staff, the bishops were able to talk freely with many while others continued playing basketball or cards, exercising or finding other means to pass the time. In the fresh air more stories were shared and blessings exchanged.

The reality for these men is that they live knowing that they are slated to be executed by the people of the state of California. (Condemned women are housed in a Chowchilla prison.) Delays and court proceedings aside, they are all aware of that fact.

They have committed horrifying crimes but, more important, they are still human beings in need of spiritual care.

The bishops were also granted access to the gas chamber – a converted diving bell from the 1930s surrounded by 12 folding chairs for official witnesses, period-green linoleum and wooden platforms for other observers. The bishops stood around the death chamber in a circle listening to the public information officer describe its history.

But they stopped him and asked for a moment.

Then they prayed together where 195 people have been killed.

“I believe the strongest part that affected me was the old gas chamber,” reflected Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice of San Francisco, “how someone would be killed to bring about healing! It just doesn’t make sense. It was a very solemn and sad part of the day.”

The majority of prisoners at the state facility are not on death row. They are Level 1 and 2 – the lowestrisk population. Their spiritual needs, as well of those of the men on death row, are handled by Jesuit

Father George Williams. He describes his chaplain position at San Quentin as “his dream job.”

“These men have so little beauty in their lives,” said Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton. “The love from the chaplain brings a divine beauty into their lives.”

In a remarkably spiritual encounter, the delegation met with the “parishioners” of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Chapel. From RCIA to three weekend Masses (one in Spanish) to the words of songs displayed on screens in the sanctuary, the chapel looks like a typical chapel found in many institutional settings.

San Quentin’s advanced age is one reason it houses the lowest risk prisoners except for the heavily secure but antiquated death row. Nevertheless, prison officials took pride in the fact that they have fewer gang problems and more programs than many other state facilities. Inmates agreed with that assessment.

Bishop Richard Garcia of Monterey and co-chairman of the California Catholic Conference’s Restorative Justice Committee, spoke to the complex need for healing in every aspect of the criminal justice system.

In a statement issued earlier this year to commemorate Crime Victims Week he said: “The effects of crime can linger long after a person’s physical wounds have healed. The people and families affected need to know that they’re not alone, and that they can turn to their church and to their community for the help and support they need.”

At the end of the day, in small group discussions with the bishops in the chapel, the inmates asked for vigorous young-offender prevention programs, strong schools and other youth enrichment programs. Many of them entered prison as teens and regret not “listening” when they had the chance. One inmate even went so far as to urge that the programs be “mandatory” for at-risk youth. He entered state prison at 16.

They also stressed the need for re-entry programs – how to apply for a Social Security card, a driver’s license or other necessities of modern life that most of us take for granted.

But most of all, they asked the bishops to ask the outside world to learn more about the healing aspects of restorative justice – to offer compassion, resources and services to anyone affected by crime including victims, offenders and their families, corrections staff, chaplains and others in the system.

In short, the prisoners simply asked to “remember us.”

PEHANICH is director of advocacy and education for the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops.

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Viewers asked to support sisters’ documentary CAROL STANTON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ORLANDO, Fla. – Sister Ann Kendrick doesn’t think of herself as a celebrity, but her role in the documentary “Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America” may change that.

A Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, she and two other religious sisters arrived in Apopka more than 40 years ago to serve farmworkers and the working poor in the Diocese of Orlando. Their empowerment and advocacy work at Hope CommUnity Center is featured in the program produced by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and narrated by news analyst and author Cokie Roberts.

“Women & Spirit” is now available for broadcast by NBC affiliate stations nationwide as part of the network’s “Horizons of the Spirit” series in partnership with the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission. The window for local stations to air the film runs until March 15, 2014.

It is not a “must carry” program.

Stations can decide when to air it or not, so viewers were being encouraged

by LCWR and others involved with the project to contact their local NBC affiliate and urge the film be broadcast.

“Women & Spirit” chronicles the 300-year contribution of religious women in the United States. It shows their arrivals on immigrant ships, their nursing of Civil War soldiers and courageous care for epidemic victims.

Through determination and sheer grit, they established hundreds of schools, one out of every five hospitals in the U.S. and 110 colleges, all at a time when women had less public freedom than they do now.

“The documentary made me so proud of our historical legacy,” said Sister Kendrick. “We’re just one in thousands of examples of sisters

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Benedictine nuns are pictured in 1900 before the completion of St. Anthony’s Hospital in Bemidji, Minn. The image appears in a documentary titled “Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America” and airing on NBC as part of its “Horizons of the Spirit” series. doing quiet, amazing work, with no fanfare.”

The documentary’s project coordinator, Sister Ellen Maher Garvey, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, said the project gathered enough material for “a thousand stories.” The religious sister from Dubuque, Iowa, described “Women & Spirit” as having two phases. The first was a touring exhibit for which each U.S. community of sisters sent three or four artifacts for display. Sister Garvey said the final choices were “illustrative rather than exhaustive.” Phase two is the DVD. Sister Mary Dacey, a Sister of St. Joseph from Philadelphia, said the documentary became “almost more important” than the exhibit.

“The DVD is a living, breathing thing,” said Sister Dacey, who was a member of the LCWR leadership and helped launch “Women & Spirit.”

“It’s not just about history. Though it reveals the richness, diversity and impact of the sisters, it doesn’t stop there.

The earlier sisters came with immigrants,” she told The Florida Catholic, newspaper of the Orlando diocese. “Today we’re into immigration in a new and bold way. This connects us with the prophetic stance of the church. It is so exciting and makes a difference for our lay brothers and sisters.”

The documentary captures that prophetic stance, in part, by highlighting the immigration efforts of Sister Kendrick and the Hope CommUnity

Center, whose young people traveled to Washington to lobby for the Dream Act and who are now gathering support to encourage Congress to pass an immigration bill.

When LCWR asked Roberts to write an endorsement for the traveling exhibit, she did so gladly. She also was the natural choice for narrator when Nancy Seruto and Tim Steinouer suggested the sisters make a video from the exhibit and offered their production services.

“The script left me amazed at the stories of these women, and this from a Sacred Heart girl,” said Roberts, who was educated by the Sacred Heart Sisters and regards them as “very important people” in her life.

“We learn, from the age of 5, I think, about St. Rose Philippine Duchesne and the incredible obstacles she faced.

It is so easy to say, ‘She established the first free school west of the Mississippi,’ and to say, ‘Oh, yes.’ But we have to ask, ‘How does that happen?’

“There were treacherous ship voyages, arduous travel in heavy wool habits, incredible heat and bishops who changed their minds. These women were always fighting civil and church authorities to do what they were called to do.”

Sister Kendrick is happy that the documentary recognizes her work for justice, but she also is grateful for the way “Women & Spirit” portrays sisters in general.

“Sometimes sisters are trivialized by being portrayed as innocent little girls in an enclosed world or, on the other hand, as outspoken and harsh women. I was happy to show a different image,” Sister Kendrick said. “We step in and do what needs to be done. It is a path that may lead to controversy or conflict, but we are not seeking that.

“We are following our heart and what the Gospel is telling us to do.”

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VINCENTIAN FAMILY MASS: The St. Vincent de Paul Society will gather with Vincentian family members at the Cathedral of St. Mary Archbishop of The AsSalvatore J. sumption, Cordileone Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco to celebrate the 200th anniversary of their founder, Blessed Frederic Ozanam.

The program, which features excerpts from the movie “Les Miserables,” will begin at 3 p.m. with registration 2:30 p.m. followed by Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant, followed by a simple supper.

Contact the SVdP website for your county. San Francisco: www.svdp-sf.org; San Mateo: www.svdpsanmateoco.org; Marin: www.vinnies.org.

3-DAY RETREAT: Beginning Experience Weekend, Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos for widowed, separated and divorced taking a step toward closure. Includes twonight stay, meals, materials. $260.

Scholarships available. (650) 6924337, sjbeginexp@aol.com; www. sanjosebe.com.

3-DAY GARAGE SALE: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 19, Oct. 18, 19, 20, 225 Wildwood Drive, South San Francisco. All proceeds go to charity. Choose from furniture, household items, clothes and more.

2-DAY SALE: More than 40 vendors at Church of the Good Shepherd, 901 Oceana Blvd, Pacifica, Friday 6-9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Donna Smith, (650) 355-2593; good.shepherd.pac@sbcglobal.net.

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PRO-LIFE WALK: “Alpha Pregnancy Center Walk for Life” 10 a.m., checkin 9 a.m., Alpha Pregnancy Center, 5070 Mission St., San Francisco, ending at John McLaren Park with barbecue at 12:30 p.m. Registration $30; after Oct. 5, $40. Register online at www.alphapc.org. (415) 584-6800.

AUGUSTINIAN PERSPECTIVE: Augustinian monk Walter Hilton is the focus of Paulist Father Terry Ryan’s talk 9 a.m.noon, Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco.

Coffee and treats begin at 9 a.m. The workshop is free but free-will donations welcome. (415) 288-3844.

SUNDAY, OCT. 20 YOUTH MASS: The Archdiocese of San Francisco Youth Mass, 2:30 p.m., St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, San Francisco. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant and homilist. Ynez Lizarraga, associate director for youth ministry and catechesis, LizarragaY@ sfarchdiocese.org.

ICF POLENTA DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 173 polenta, sausage and chicken dinner at Our Lady of Angels Parish gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. No-host bar at 4 p.m., dinner at 5 p.m., wine for purchase with dinner, fabulous raffle prizes, adults $20, children $5 (14 and under). Bea, (650) 344-5276 to RSVP by Oct. 16.

ST JUDE NOVENA: Oct. 20-28 at St. Dominic Church, Bush Street at Steiner, San Francisco with Masses MondaySaturday 8 a.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m. Visit www.stjude-shrine.org; email info@stjudeshrine.org. (415) 931-5919.

PUBLICIZE YOUR EVENT: Submit event listings by noon Friday. Email calendar.csf@ sfarchdiocese.org, write Calendar, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109, or call Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 29

RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests, 11:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco: Proceeds benefit Priests Retirement Fund of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Call (415) 614-5580, email development@sfarchdiocese.org for information regarding tickets and sponsorship opportunities.

GOLF TOURNAMENT: Alumni and friends of Archbishop Riordan High School are invited to tee off at Presidio Golf Course. Event will support the Crusader athletic program. Tickets are $275/person; $1,000/foursome.

Sponsorships are available. www. riordanhs.org. Alumni director Marc Rovetti, (415) 586-8200, ext. 357.

SATURDAY, OCT. 26 FEAST DAY MASS: St. Elizabeth Church, Wayland and Somerset streets, San Francisco commemorates the feast day of St. Elizabeth, 4:30 p.m., with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant. Reception in Cantwell Hall follows. (415) 468-0820.

HOMECOMING: Archbishop Riordan Crusaders take on Sacred Heart Cathedral for the coveted Stanfel Cup honoring ARHS graduate Nicholas Stanfel ’83. Barbecue at noon followed by the varsity game at 1 p.m. Tickets $20 in advance; $25 at the door. www. riordanhs.org; alumni director Marc Rovetti, (415) 586-8200, ext. 357.

FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m., followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

USF DINNER: The USF California Prize Dinner begins 6 p.m. at the school’s Memorial Gymnasium.

Drs. Tricia and Richard Gibbs, founders of the San Francisco Dr. Tricia Gibbs Free Clinic now in its 20th year, will be honored with the school’s USF California Prize for Service and the Common Good. The couple met at Yale University Medical School.

Individual tickets Dr. Richard are available for Gibbs $350; proceeds benefit USF service-learning programs. Visit www.usfca.edu/ca_ prize, or call (415) 422.2697 for further details.

MARRIAGE RETREAT: Marriage Help – Retrouvaille has helped thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage.

The program consists of a weekend and post sessions. For confidential information about, or to register for the program on Nov. 1-3. (415) 893-1005, email SF@Retrouvaille.org or visit www.Retrouvaille.org.

ASSISI CONCERTS: Franciscan Friar Alessandro, the “voice of Assisi,” performs Nov. 1, 2 at the National Shrine of St. Francis, Columbus and Vallejo, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. Ticket information available at www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com; (415) 434-8700; email event@knightsofsaintfrancis. com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 2 TUESDAY, OCT. 29 OKTOBERFEST: Good Shepherd Guild Oktoberfest luncheon and bingo at Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Tickets at $40 include a three-course lunch and bingo cards.

Jeannette Gregory, (415) 517-6768. Proceeds benefit Good Shepherd Gracenter.

BINGO: St. Veronica Thanksgiving bingo luncheon, parish center, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco with traditional Thanksgiving meal noon-1 p.m. and bingo after. Pre-sale $20 includes buy-in, lunch and a raffle ticket; at door $25 includes buy-in and lunch.

Register online www.stveronicassf. com; Terri (415) 519-1748. Must be 18

SATURDAY, NOV. 9 ALL SCHOOL REUNION: “Blue and Green Bash” for graduates of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School at San Francisco Design Galleria Center 101 Henry Adams Kevin Grogan St. An evening of food, dancing, drinks; a night to reconnect. Patrick Kealy, alumni relations manager, (415 775 6626, ext. 682; pkealy@ shcp.edu. Tickets $80 and $65. Kevin Grogan is a 1983 SHC graduate who played 14 years with the National Football League and went to the Pro Bowl three times.

to play. Proceeds benefit St. Veronica Capital Campaign.

SILENT RETREAT: “All Souls Day and the Body of Christ” with Dominican Father Michael Dodds in Tiburon, 9 a.m., with evening prayer and Mass ending the day at 3:30 p.m. Social hour follows. Sacrament of reconciliation will be available. $25 with lunch included. Reserve by Oct. 29. Marilyn Knight, (415) 435-1524; tiburonmarilyn@gmail.com; Father Bruno Gibson, (415) 272-1866; brunogibsonop@ gmail.com.

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