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Beloved friar retires, mission chapel closes

Local parishes hosting traditional Peruvian devotion

Archbishop lauds retired priests at annual luncheon

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Archbishop consecrates archdiocese to Blessed Virgin Thousands fill cathedral for rite on Fatima centenary

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Carrying a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, the faithful process through San Francisco city streets near St. Mary’s Cathedral during the Oct. 7 rosary rally and consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The events were designed to mark the centenary of the Marian apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, and inspire renewed devotion to the Blessed Virgin among all Catholics in the archdiocese. Left, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blesses the Fatima statue during the consecration rite in the cathedral. More coverage on Pages 18-19.

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Need to know Disaster and emergency collections guidelines: In a letter to pastors Sept. 28, on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Jesuit Father John Piderit, vicar for administration, explained guidelines for second collections to assist in areas affected by recent natural disasters and other emergencies.

“The archbishop does not wish to burden pastors and their parishes, but he also wants pastors to be able to respond to the need and desire of their parishioners to provide help to areas in need, especially when those areas are in regions with which the parishioners have close ties,” Father Piderit said. He said “no parish in the archdiocese is obliged to take up a collection for Hurricane Maria or Hurricane Jose or the earthquakes in Mexico” but “if, responding to the urgings of his faithful, a pastor would like to take up a collection in his parish, he can do so” and monies collected are asked to be in the chancery by Nov. 15.

Immaculate Conception Chapel closes as Father Lauriola departs Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

On Oct. 1, Franciscan Father Guglielmo Lauriola, 90, celebrated his last public Mass at Immaculate Conception Chapel and with his retirement the Franciscans relinquished their presence at the chapel on Folsom Street in San Francisco.

“We have been blessed by Father Lauriola’s presence in this archdiocese since 1974 – an astounding 41 years,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said in a letter announcing the closing of the chapel with the loss of the Franciscan Friars of the Province of Santa Barbara.

FATIMA coverage on EWTN: EWTN will broad“He has been present to your families for decades, cast events commemorating the 100th anniversary selflessly giving his time to serve you at many of the of Our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima Oct. 13. EWTN is most important moments in your lives,” the archavailable on Bay Area channels including COMCAST bishop wrote. “His departure is a great loss for the 229, AT&T 562, WAVE/ASTOUND 80, SAN BRUNO archdiocese and he will be deeply missed.”

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Father Lauriola is moving to the Franciscan Fricom; ewtn.com/espanol. ary in Oakland, and the Franciscans do not have Church enough Goods & Candles Religous Gifts & Books priests to continue to staff the chapel, wrote Father David Gaa, OFM, provincial minister of the Province of Santa Barbara. correction Father Lauriola grew up in the small Italian town of Monte Sant’ Angelo where his parents brought (Courtesy photo) him to see the Capuchin Franciscan St. Padre Pio in Deacon R. Christoph Sandoval is blessed by Franciscan ‘California nursing board denies conhis monastery nearby and FatherinLauriola Father Guglielmo Lauriola, Oct. 1. tinuing-ed credit for abortion pill 5 locations Californiacontinued with a close relationship through ordination and reversal course,” Sept. 28, Page 10: Jay Local Store: his early years as a Your priest, until the saint died in 1968. Francisco as Father Guglielmo (William or GuillHobbs was improperly identified. He is director of ermo) Lauriola, OFM (90 years old) retires … He has Before369 coming to the U.S., Father Lauriola and marketing and communications of Heartbeat InternaGrand Av, S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 three priests were sent as missionaries to Korea tional. The organization has 1,350 affiliates in the U.S. Near SF Airport - Exit 101 Frwy @ Grandbeen a mentor, a friend and a spiritual father for my ministries.” where they founded the Sacred Heart Leper Colony and 2,200 worldwide. The U.S. number was incorrect.

“On the day of my ordination he offered a Mass which became home to 400 lepers, according to an www.cotters.com cotters@cotters.com in the morning and blessed me before going to the account in a 2012 edition of the Padre Pio NewsletCathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption to be ter. When he left for Korea, Padre Pio gave Father Archbishop cordileone’s schedule ordained. He will remain a giant for those of us in Lauriola the advice, which the Franciscan repeated the healing ministries and for his profound love for for the newsletter, “It is the grace of God that brings success to all our efforts. Never attribute anything to the holy people of God,” Deacon Sandoval wrote.

Oct. 12: Presbyteral Council and chancery meetings; Immaculate Conception Chapel is canonically yourself.”

Red Mass, 5:30 p.m., Sts. Peter & Paul; Thomas More connected to St. Anthony of Padua Parish, and the Father Lauriola was an exorcist for the archdioSociety Dinner parish will welcome all those from the church up the cese for years and a spiritual director for many. In a Facebook post, Deacon R. Christoph Sandoval wrote, street, as well as be the place to access baptismal, Oct. 13-15: Parish and school visit, St. Thomas More marriage and other church records, the archbishop “A sad day for me, the parishioners of Immaculate wrote.

Conception Chapel and the Archdiocese of San Oct. 15: Filipino Ministry Gala, cathedral, 5 p.m.

Oct. 16-17: California Catholic Conference bishops’ meeting, Burbank

On Francis’ feast, Jesuits launch ‘ecological examen’

Oct. 16: Conference call, USCCB Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance

Combining the spiritualties of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Ignatius of Loyola, two Jesuit organizations have created what they term an “ecological examen” – an examination of conscience much like the well-known Ignatian examen but with a Franciscan ecological inspiration.

Developed by the Jesuit Conference, the organization that represents the Jesuits of the U.S. and Canada, and the Ignatian Solidarity Network, the ecological examen is similar to a traditional Ignatian

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Barbara McGuigan, host of EWTN’s “The Good Fight,” will speak to the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, Oct. 21 at St. Brendan Parish, San Francisco. It was my pleasure to speak with the well-known Catholic communicator via email.

Barbara, “a card-carrying member of the pro-life movement,” has been at the podium for 35 years “in Barbara the trenches giving lectures, semiMcGuigan nars, retreats, women’s conferences” and more, she told me.

It should be no surprise she ended up behind a microphone, she said. “I’m the oldest of 11 children, I’ve been speaking to a large group for a long time!”

Barbara said God called her to be a voice for the church. “I would like to think, it was the Holy Spirit who gave me the abundant graces needed to fulfill my desire to defend the defenseless unborn from abortion, the defenseless newborn from infanticide and the defenseless long-born, that is, the elderly, disabled and terminally ill from euthanasia and assisted suicide,” she said.

God, too, keeps her on the path, she said. “Only

by God’s powerful graces that I simply could not function without, along with my love and respect for his children made in his image and likeness, can any of us persevere in the struggle on, what St. John Paul II called, ‘the royal road of the cross.’”

Barbara’s talk Oct. 21 will focus on the mother of God. “We are her children and she loves us. So my focus will be on our Blessed Mother at Fatima who appeared in 1917, 100 years ago, to the little children in Portugal on six different occasions to unfold a message from heaven that still applies to us today!”

Barbara, whose history with EWTN goes back well more than a decade, said the influence of Catholic radio should not be underestimated. “I believe there is not a more awesome task than helping another human being to feel at home in the arms of God. That’s what Catholic radio can do and does,” she said.

She is also sure of how the media should be put

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Local parishes to host Peruvian ‘Milagros’ devotion Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Two local parishes will perpetuate a centuries-old Peruvian devotion to the sacred image of “Señor de los Milagros” (“The Lord of Miracles”) when they host traditional Masses and processions this month, according to longtime local organizers.

On Oct. 15, Mission Dolores Basilica will host a 1:30 p.m. Mass followed by a procession through the streets of the Mission District and a Peruvian reception. St. Timothy Church in San Mateo will host a similar event on Oct. 29.

“I think that people who have never seen this celebration before will feel very inspired by the whole event,” Zevedeo Heredia told Catholic San Francisco.

His mother Isabel, a native of Lima, organized the first San Francisco event in 1983 to mirror concurrent celebrations in her native city during which millions of pilgrims follow in procession behind a painted canvas with the venerated likeness of “The Lord of Miracles.”

Because of its large following, the devotion is sometimes referred to as “the world’s largest reli-

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Isabel Heredia, left, and Margarita Avila co-founded the San Francisco Hermanidad Senor de los Milagros in 1982 and are pictured here with an image used in the first San Francisco procession in 1983.

gious procession,” said Hernando Torres-Fernandez, San Francisco’s new consul general of Peru.

Torres-Fernandez is eager to share the devotion with not only San Francisco’s estimated 10,000 Peruvian immigrants but also with all Catholics.

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rican who had been taken from what is now Angola to Peru as a slave, Torres-Fernandez explained.

The detailed painting depicts the crucifixion under the watch of the Holy Spirit and God the Father. His mother Mary’s heart is shown pierced by a metaphorical sword of sorrow while St. Mary Magdalene weeps at the foot of the cross.

The painting’s name and the devotion that followed originated after an earthquake in 1655, just a few years later. It leveled most of the city and left thousands dead, but the small adobe building with the painted wall was completely unaffected. Many considered it a miracle.

In 1670, a terminally ill resident of the city desperate for help visited the image in faith and was healed. The image quickly became a pilgrimage site, but local authorities concerned with the commotion it caused and the general lack of liturgical order, ordered the image covered up.

According to historical accounts, a workman sent to scrape the image off the wall was overcome and was physically unable to destroy it. After two more persons sent to destroy the image were not successful, the ruling leader relented and allowed the image to remain and in fact, authorized a Mass to be celebrated that is at the root of the devotion today.

For literally hundreds of years since then in Peru, the month of October is entirely given over to the celebration of The Lord of Miracles, with boulevards and pilgrims dressed each day in penitential purple.

The history of the local Peruvian celebration is see ‘milagros’, page 7

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far younger, according to Heredia. His mother Isabel, a recent immigrant from Peru in 1982, founded the San Francisco “Hermanidad de Senor de los Milagros” after Mgsr. Richard Knapp, now deceased, but then pastor of Mission Dolores Basilica Parish, agreed to host the first event the following year.

“Hermanidad” translates to a “brotherhood” of Peruvian men and women who are committed to carrying on the cultural and religious tradition of The Lord of Miracles.

“The objective of the brotherhood is to raise the funds to put on this special Mass and procession each year,” he said. San Francisco’s Hermanidad has about 80 members, he said, and is the oldest and the largest of Northern California’s other hermanidads located in San Mateo, San Jose, Concord, Fremont, Fresno and Sacramento.

Throughout the month of October, each regional Hermanidad hosts their event on alternating weekends, with

Peru’s Senor de los Milagros (“Lord of the Miracles”) devotion dates to a mural of Christ painted on a wall in Lima in 1651 by an unnamed African slave. This contemporary image represents the original painting.

The crowd in Lima, Peru, during the 2016 Senor de los Milagros celebration.

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Participants in the Mission Dolores

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Mass to be celebrated by Bishop Wilsolemnly and silently, Heredia said.

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Survey: Most Americans support Columbus Day

Santa Rosa’s Newman High School damaged in wildfire Catholic San Francisco

Cardinal Newman High School and several Diocese of Santa Rosa offices housed on campus were heavily damaged in the Tubbs Fire that devastated northern Santa Rosa neighborhoods Oct. 8 and 9.

The school at 50 Ursuline Road off Old Redwood Highway east of Highway 101 houses the diocesan retreat center and communications, youth ministry, religious education and social justice offices, diocesan spokesman Chris Lyford said.

Oct. 9, by coincidence, was the feast day of school patron Cardinal Newman.

No other diocesan or parish facilities were reported damaged but many parishioners have lost their homes or are displaced, Lyford said.

“I have met numerous folks who are in shelters and who have no homes to which to return,” Bishop Robert F. Vasa said in a statement posted on the diocese’s website Oct.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A new survey shows that almost six in 10 Americans, or 57 percent, believe that celebrating Columbus Day is a “good idea,” while only 29 percent oppose the holiday.

Almost two-thirds of respondents who said they were Catholic, or 65 percent, expressed a “favorable” or “very favorable” opinion of Columbus and the national holiday that honors him. Overall, the poll found that Americans support Columbus and the observance of Columbus Day by nearly a 2-to-1 margin.

The survey results were released Oct. 3 by the Knights of Columbus, which is based in New Haven. The Marist Poll conducted the survey, funded in partnership with the Knights of Columbus.

10. “The sense of great helplessness is palpable. That helplessness extends to the caregivers who know that short term solutions are necessary but also severely inadequate to meet the long-term needs.”

Bishop Vasa was set to meet Oct. 10 with diocesan staff at St. Eugene Cathedral in southeast Santa Rosa to assess the situation.

Lyford noted that an eighth grade class from a Catholic school in Hercules, in Contra Costa County, has offered to help with fire relief.

The Tubbs Fire, which began in Calistoga late in the evening of Oct. 8, burned 27,000 acres and destroyed 550 residential and 21 commercial buildings, according to Cal Fire.

Overall, 17 wildfires in eight Northern California counties had claimed 13 lives, destroyed more than 1,500 structures and burned more than 115,000 acres as of midday Oct. 10.

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WASHINGTON – Forty Catholic institutions, including the Belgian bishops’ conference and a leading church social welfare agency in South Africa, have decided to divest from fossil fuel companies.

In an Oct. 3 announcement on the eve of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the organizations cited the call of Pope Francis in his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” to take steps to protect the environment as well as the importance of making investments that lead to a carbon-neutral economy in an effort to address climate change.

Up to 97 percent of climate scientists have attributed climate change to human activity, at least in part.

In most cases, divestment is expected to take several years to accomplish. “What is clear is that momentum in fossil fuel divestment is growing a lot. This is a very concrete sign of the voice of the Catholic community,” said Tomas Insua, executive director of the Global Catholic Climate Movement, which organized the effort following a divestment conference in Rome earlier this year.

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Panel: Efforts to protect life at all stages have never been more important Kurt Jensen Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Stories from the lived experience of the speakers took the place of policy discussions during Georgetown University’s first “Lives Worthy of Respect” conference Oct. 2.

The mass killings in Las Vegas the evening before cast a pall over the event, which took place in the Dahlgren Chapel on campus and was sponsored by the university’s Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics. It was held to coincide with the opening of the fall Supreme Court session.

Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, the keynote speaker, observed of the shooting spree, “Such senseless acts of deadly violence boggle the mind.”

He led the crowd in a silent prayer to remember the 59 lives lost and the more than 500 injured.

“Today, many accept the premise – advanced in the media, public schools and even civil law – that the value of human life is relative, and that people have the power to choose which lives are worth living and which are not,” Cardinal Wuerl said in his address.

“What is the fruit of this culture’s ‘choice’ mentality? Human life is increasingly held cheap as violence stalks our communities, suicide is on the increase nationwide, and in some states, instead of saving lives, there are physicians who help to end lives,” he said. “The elderly and disabled, in addition to the unborn, are especially vulnerable in this climate.

“Once you accept the thesis that it is all right to kill human life before it is born, or as it nears its end, or for some other reason, at almost any time you accept two premises: that we, human beings, have the ultimate say over all life and who gets to live, and that such a decision is ultimately arbitrary.”

Cardinal Wuerl described “the choice offered by assisted suicide as “a false compassion, lacking true care and concern for the dying, as Pope Francis has noted. Instead of regarding suffering people as disposable and eliminating them, as one view asserts, we should accompany them with love and support them with access to better palliative care.”

The cardinal shared several experiences that he said taught him about the dignity of life, such as visiting a mother who had just given birth to sextuplets. As he blessed the six newly born children, he said, the mother told him “with pride in her voice and joy in her eyes” about each infant’s personality and characteristics.

The cardinal told another story about visiting a hospital in Peru, where he had the opportunity to hold a day-old infant. He said this experience taught him how strong the grasp of an infant can be.

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children reaching out to hold onto you and me, reaching out with all their strength.”

In talking about pro-life activism, Cardinal Wuerl said that “we cannot be silent. ... We dare not turn our attention away. We pray and march so that these innocents will have someone who will speak for them. We labor in order that unborn children will not be ignored, forgotten, invisible to people’s consciences, to remind the nation that behind the word ‘abortion’ and euphemisms like ‘choice’ and ‘reproductive health’ are real human beings.”

Panelists included U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, ROhio, Cincinnati Republican, who has introduced bipartisan legislation opposing physician-assisted suicide. He is working to strike down the Death With Dignity law enacted by the District of Columbia in December.

He told a story about his 12-year-old nephew and a school religion test. Asked to describe God’s presence in his life, he wrote about his closeness to his sister Katie, who suffers from CDKL5, a rare neurological disorder that leaves her unable to walk or talk.

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“But it is the greatest blessing I will receive in this life.”

Wenstrup, also a doctor of podiatric medicine, described treating his first AIDS patient in 1985. The patient died within hours, but he said he learned from that experience that “their life had meaning.

And that no one is better than anyone else. It told me it matters to the very last moment.”

The congressman is best-known for his quick action in June after Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, was shot by a gunman at an Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field. He applied a tourniquet credited with keeping Scalise alive before surgery, and he, along with Scalise, received a standing ovation in the House of Representatives when Scalise returned to work Sept. 28.

Panelist Helen Alvare, a law professor at George Mason University who describes herself as “a pro-life feminist,” said her activism is more for her “than just being anti-abortion.”

“Freedom is not, obviously, choosing anything you want,” she said. “Freedom is acting in accordance with what you are built to be.”

“Abortion is the antithesis of a virtuous act,” said panelist Tony Lauinger, vice president of National Right to Life. “It is not a matter of private morality. It is a public morality. Preventing abortions, he added, is “protecting the most vulnerable in our human family.”

He said the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, legalizing abortion on demand, made him feel like he “had been hit in the face by a two-by-four,” because it came just months after his first child had been born, and he remembered his wife telling him how their baby would move or kick during her pregnancy.

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Stewardship speakers examine faith practices of millennials Andrew Nelson Catholic News Service

ATLANTA – With two youngsters in tow for Sunday Mass, things can get forgotten, like cash, which Ryan Johnson admitted he rarely carries.

He’d love the option to use his mobile phone to donate to a cause at the parish on the spur of the moment.

“We like cashless, paperless, checkless,” said Johnson, a millennial Catholic. The family gives money to the church with an automatic electronic check from his bank.

Faith is so important to him that the 35-year-old Johnson knits it together with his career as an energy engineer by nurturing a network of Catholic young professionals with Catholic Charities Atlanta that he hopes to see grow.

Ryan and his wife, Caroline, 30, joined St. Ann Church in Marietta, selecting from five nearby parishes in part because they can use their phones to read its website, keep up to date with parish news by reading an electronic newsletter, and interact with the 2,500 Facebook followers.

“You want to feel like, if I am talking about the parish, the parish is listening. If I’m commenting sometimes (on the Facebook page), I want an answer.

I want to be engaged,” Johnson told The Georgia Bulletin, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

The leading edge of millennial-age believers is marrying and starting families. Parishes preparing for the future will evolve to meet the habits of this group, said a panel of four Atlanta millennials at the International Catholic Stewardship Council conference.

The conference drew some 1,100 to Atlanta Sept.

17-20. Church workers and priests attended scores of workshops during those four days on drawing people into a richer faith life.

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baby boomers in the national population, were well attended at the conference.

Churches need to be aware of trends to serve those born after 1980 in effective ways. These young adults use technology to streamline their lives, using mobile payment apps instead of cash, are passionate about issues and want to engage with an authentic and personalized community.

Millennials are increasingly important as they move into adulthood and start families, said Father Andrew Kemberling, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Church in Denver. The church must train this age group as good stewards since parents are the most generous of its members, he said.

Stewardship is “a way of life for people,” said Father Kemberling, chairman of the International Catholic Stewardship Council. “We want to offer the best of our tradition. We are not going for the dollars.

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Audience members anxious to draw these young adults into the pews and schools left the conference rethinking old ways.

Carol English, who works at St. Joseph School in Marietta, wants these young men and women to think about Catholic schools for their children. But after hearing that mass-marketing pitches fail, she said the school needs to rethink its outreach toolbox.

“We do have to make our online presence a higher priority, above and beyond,” English said, after learning how this tech-savvy generation lives online and relies on social media.

Schools and parishes could rethink events to appeal to millennial interests, replacing an afternoon of golf with a social event, for example, featuring craft beer and food, she said.

In Marietta, St. Ann Church made an investment in 2012 and again in 2016 to hire professionals to design the parish website, said Graham Kuhn, who is responsible for parish communications.

“You shouldn’t have to lower your standards to look at a Catholic church website,” he said in a phone interview.

A site needs to be attractive, engaging and informative to draw people in, he said.

“Our whole angle on everything is we are focused on building for the future,” said Kuhn.

The parish Facebook page can serve as a community bulletin board. Kuhn’s policy is to respond to all comments. When a parishioner who had a bad experience with a ministry posted it online, she received a call and visit from a pastoral staff person to talk, he said. And other parishioners offered words of encouragement.

Kuhn said he sees that as a strength of social media, when parishioners respond to people’s comments to “heal wounds and build unity.”

Retaining Catholic millennials is increasingly a challenge. The number of people who identify as having no religious affiliation continues to rise.

Fewer people in their 20s and 30s are interested in the Catholic Church. In 2014 the Pew Research Center found only 16 percent of millennials called themselves Catholic versus 23 percent of baby boomers.

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Red Mass homilist: Renewing America’s sense of ‘common humanity’ Kelly Sankowski Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez on Oct. 1 asked the Supreme Court justices, government officials, lawyers and other members of the judiciary gathered at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington to renew a commitment to a government that “serves the human person.”

He was the homilist at the 65th annual Red Mass in the nation’s capital. Celebrated the Sunday before the opening of the Supreme Court’s term, the annual Mass invokes the Holy Spirit upon those who are responsible for the administration of justice.

The Mass is sponsored by the John Carroll Society, a network that aims to enhance fellowship among Catholic leaders in the Washington area and serve the archbishop of Washington.

Archbishop Gomez spoke about St. Junipero Serra, the newest American saint who was one of the founding missionaries of Los Angeles as part of a string of missions in California and was canonized by Pope Francis during the pontiff’s 2015 visit to Washington.

By canonizing him, Archbishop Gomez said Pope Francis was making a point that “we should honor St. Junipero Serra as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States,” since the missionaries came here before the pilgrims and began their outreach before the nation’s first president was inaugurated.

“It reminds us that America’s first beginnings were not political,” he said. “America’s first beginnings were spiritual.”

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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration Oct. 6 issued interim rules expanding the exemption to the contraceptive mandate for religious employers, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, who object on moral grounds to covering contraceptive and abortion-inducing drugs and devices in their employee health insurance.

The contraceptive mandate was put in place by the Department of Health and Human Services under the Affordable Care Act. While providing an exemption for religious employers, the new rules maintain the existing federal contraceptive mandate for most employers.

President Donald Trump had pledged to lift the mandate burden placed on religious employers during a White House signing ceremony May 4 for an executive order promoting free speech and religious liberty, but Catholic leaders and the heads of a number of Catholic entities had criticized the administration for a lack of action on that pledge in the months that followed.

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Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, who is vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, delivers the homily during the 65th annual Red Mass Oct. 1 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington.

Those missionaries, along with the colonists and statesmen later on, laid the groundwork for “a nation conceived under God and committed to promoting human dignity, freedom and the flourishing of a diversity of peoples, races, ideas and beliefs,” said Archbishop Gomez, who is vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The reason the Red Mass is so important each year, Archbishop Gomez said, is because “there is a time for

politics and a time for prayer. This is a day for prayer.”

The readings for the Mass included the story of Pentecost, which Archbishop Gomez said “reveals the Creator’s beautiful dream for the human race,” where people from different nations were brought together through the Holy Spirit, who spoke to each of them in their native tongues.

“Every life is sacred, and every life has a purpose in God’s creation,” he said.

The Founding Fathers understood this teaching so well that they called the truths “self-evident,” said Archbishop Gomez.

Addressing the guests at the Mass, Archbishop Gomez said, “My brothers and sisters, you all share in the responsibility for this great government.”

He called public service a “noble vocation” that requires honesty, courage, prudence, humility, prayer and sacrifice.

“While at times our nation has failed to live up to its founding vision, Archbishop Gomez said, “that should not make us give in to cynicism or despair.”

“For all our weakness and failure: America is still a beacon of hope for peoples of every nation, who look to this country for refuge, for freedom and equality under God,” he added.

Jesus gave the Apostles the power to forgive sins, but he also is “giving every one of us the power to forgive those who trespass against us,” said Archbishop Gomez, who noted that this gift of forgiveness is “part of the unfinished revolution in American society.

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Poverty, violence hinder many women, girls, says nuncio Catholic News Service

UNITED NATIONS – Conditions in many parts of the world force women and girls to bear the burden of carrying out everyday chores for their families and communities, keeping many of them from getting even a basic education, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio said Oct. 6.

Females are often the victims of sexual and other violence, which prevents them from improving life for themselves and their families, said Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations. Migrant women and girls are particularly vulnerable to these situations, he added.

He addressed the issue of women’s advancement during a session at the United Nations of the Third Committee, which focuses on social, humanitarian and cultural issues.

“Young women in rural areas are disproportionately involved in unpaid domestic work and especially bear the greatest burden when access to clean water and sanitation is not readily available,” Archbishop Auza said. “They are forced to spend considerable time and effort collecting water for the community, and in doing so, their access to basic education is often thwarted, not to mention that, in many isolated places, they are also exposed to risks of violence.”

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A Palestinian woman harvests wheat by hand on a farm near Salfit, West Bank, in 2016. Education is essential in enabling women in every country “to become dignified agents of their own development,” said Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations Oct. 6 at U.N. headquarters in New York.

universal access to safe drinkable water “can undermine other human rights, as it is a prerequisite for their realization,” he said.

Pope Francis in his encyclical “Laudato Si’” points to “the abandonment and neglect … experienced by some rural populations which lack access to essential services,” Archbishop Auza said, quoting the document. In many areas, the pope noted, “some workers are reduced to conditions of servitude, without rights or even the hope of a more dignified life.”

Women and girls often bear “the heaviest burden from these deprivations,” the archbishop said.

Regarding education, “significant progress has been made toward parity between boys and girls from families of relative wealth or decent economic standing,” the archbishop said, but women and girls who live in poverty lack schooling, literacy skills and opportunities for adult education.

Adolescent girls “are at the greatest risk of exclusion from education due to social and economic hardships,” Archbishop Auza said. “Whenever young women and girls do not have access to education, they are hindered from becoming dignified agents of their own development.”

To change this reality, the “basic material needs of every school-age girl living in rural areas must be addressed,” Archbishop Auza said. One initiative that has “proven efficient,” he said, is providing school meals to reduce girls’ absenteeism. Such efforts should be encouraged “to guarantee access to education to each and every girl,” he added.

A current partnership between local farmers, including women, and the World Food Program of the United Nations to provide “homegrown school meals” in 37 countries is “a hopeful example,” Archbishop Auza said. The effort “attends to the needs of girls and boys, fosters education and increases market access for women, all at the same time,” he said.

Addressing the violence women and girls face, Archbishop Auza again quoted Pope Francis in saying that eliminating violence is impossible “until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples are reversed.”

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Eliminating gender differences ‘is not right,’ pope says Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – While societies must find a way to overcome the subjugation of women, pretending there are no differences between men and women or even using technology to change a person’s sex is not the answer, Pope Francis said.

Using science “to radically eliminate any difference between the sexes, and, as a result, the covenant between man and woman, is not right,” the pope said Oct. 5, opening the Pontifical Academy for Life’s general assembly.

“The biological and psychological manipulation of sexual difference, which biomedical technology now presents as a simple matter of personal choice – which it is not – risks eliminating the source of energy that nourishes the covenant between man and woman and makes it creative and fruitful,” the pope said.

Pope Francis offered several reflections for the academy’s consideration of humanity’s relationship with technology, particularly in a culture he described as egocentric and “obsessively centered on the sovereignty of man – as a species and as individuals – in relation to all of reality.”

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Pope Francis greets Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, during the general assembly of the academy at the Vatican Oct. 5.

“This approach is not harmless: It forms a person who is always looking at himself in the mirror, who can’t look others, or the world, in the eye,” the pope said. “This approach has negative consequences for all one’s affections and relationships in life.”

Although real scientific and technological progress should “inspire more humane policies,” the pope said that men, women and children today suffer “with bitterness and sorrow from the false promises of technocratic materialism.”

Relationships are essential, he said, noting that God entrusted “creation and history to the covenant between man and woman,” which is seen especially in marriage and the transmission of new life.

But the partnership between men and women goes beyond individual families, he said. “It is an invitation to become responsible for the world, in culture and politics, in the world of work and in the economy, and in the church as well.”

Meeting new challenges “is not simply about equal opportunity or mutual recognition,” he said. “Man and woman are called on not only to speak about love, but to speak to each other, with love, about what they must do to ensure that our lives together can be lived in the light of God’s love for every creature.

“Speak to each other, ally with each other, because neither man nor woman can shoulder this responsibility without the other,” he said.

And, in a culture where some people consider the transmission of

new life “a degradation of woman or a threat to societal well-being,” he said, the church is called to affirm new life “as a gift.”

“Generating life gives us new life,” he said, it “makes us richer.”

Compassion for children and the elderly is also crucial, the pope said, because there are “areas of the soul and of human sensitivity that demand to be heard and acknowledged, guarded and appreciated, by individuals and by the community.”

Pope Francis thanked the members of the Pontifical Academy for Life for their commitment to defending the “responsible accompaniment of human life from conception and throughout its years to its natural end” and engaging in dialogue with people and scholars with different views to “bring a more authentic wisdom about life to the attention of all peoples.”

“Open and fruitful dialogue can and must be established with the many who are seeking the true meaning of life,” the pope said.

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I gladly accepted and was honored to become a part of this historically significant organization. Nadia invited me to the next meeting which was Branch 403’s annual soup dinner. I met Nadia at Saint Dunstan’s Parish Hall where Branch 403 assembles every first Tuesday of most months.

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I faithfully attended all regular meetings and quickly learned to stumble through the traditional song, in Italian, “Noi Vogliam Dio”. I was a member for a good number of months when I was then asked to take on the board position of 2nd Vice President (knowing that I was a Past President of the

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She said “No Problem”. With out missing a beat, and in her Italian accent, she waved her arms, recited some seemingly magical words in Italian, and proclaimed: “You are no longer Paul Larson, you are now Paolo Larsoni”. Well, with that I felt privileged to be dubbed an honorary Italian and took on the position with no further questions asked.

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VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law is an instrument that must serve the church’s pastoral mission of bringing God’s mercy to all and leading them to salvation, Pope Francis said.

Just as the first full codification of Catholic Church law was carried out 100 years ago “entirely dominated by pastoral concern,” so today its amendments and apPope Francis plication must provide for a wellordered care of the Christian people, the pope said in a message Oct. 6 to a canon law conference in Rome.

Leading canonists, as well as professors and students from all the canon law faculties in Rome, were meeting Oct. 4-7 to mark the 100th anniversary of the first systematic Code of Canon Law, which was promulgated by Pope Benedict XV in 1917. Work on the code began under the pontificate of St. Pius X and was a response not only to the need to examine, systematize and reconcile often conflicting church norms, Pope Francis said.

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Legionaries pledge renewal as former rector admits fathering children

ROME – The Legionaries of Christ pledged its ongoing commitment to renewal and reform as it released information about a former rector who has publicly acknowledged being the father of two children.

Legionaries Father Oscar Turrion – who served as rector of the order’s seminary in Rome – informed his superiors of “his intention to leave priestly ministry” in light of the recent revelations, the order said in an online communique Oct. 6. “We are conscious of the impact that the negative example of a formator and rector has” on the Christian faithful and on those responsible for institutions dedicated to the formation of candidates to the priesthood, the order said.

“We are deeply saddened that the recent history of our congregation has quenched the fervor of some of our members. We are firmly committed to accompanying our brothers in moments of difficulty. Likewise, we reiterate our commitment to the path of renewal that we continue to follow led by the church,” it added. The Legionaries of Christ provided a timeline of events concerning Father Turrion, who also released his own letter describing the affair, offering his apologies and asking for prayers. Father Turrion had been a formator at the college since 2007 and was named rector in 2014 for a three-year term.

Philippine bishops deny trying to undermine Duterte anti-drug crackdown

MANILA, Philippines – Catholic bishops are not out to undermine the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte by offering sanctuary to several

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Father Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the public affairs office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, said church leaders should not be perceived as plotting against anyone.

“The church is not one to take steps to destabilize the institution (government) or to undermine the president,” he told ucanews.com.

He said some law enforcement officers sought the help and protection of the church so they could reveal what they know about drug-related killings.

About 3,500 alleged drug dealers and users have been killed in official police operations since Duterte took office following his election in 2016 while thousands more have died in vigilante killings, The Washington Post has reported.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II accused church leaders of hiding witnesses, hampering the investigations of recent killings, particularly that of three teenagers in the Manila suburb of Caloocan.

Aguirre charged that church leaders have been trying to obstruct investigations by withholding witnesses.

“Why are you intervening? ... Aren’t we all in favor of eliminating police scalawags who kill teenagers who are helpless?” he asked.

National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa also urged the bishops to turn over police officers who reportedly have information about the killings.

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Pope: Pledging church in fighting child abuse Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Acknowledging how often the Catholic Church failed to protect children from sexual abuse, Pope Francis pledged “to work strenuously and with foresight for the protection of minors and their dignity,” including online.

“As all of us know, in recent years the church has come to acknowledge her own failures in providing for the protection of children: Extremely grave facts have come to light, for which we have to accept our responsibility before God, before the victims and before public opinion,” the pope said Oct. 6.

Pope Francis welcomed to the Vatican participants from an international congress on protecting children in a digital world. Hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Center for Child Protection in partnership with WePROTECT Global Alliance, the congress Oct. 3-6 was designed to get faith communities, police, software and social media industries, mass media, nonprofits and governments working together to better protect minors.

At the beginning of the audience, Muireann O’Carroll, a 16-year-old from Ireland, summarized the congress conclusions “on behalf of all children.”

Participants appealed to governments, church leaders and tech companies to do everything possible to

remove online images of children and young people being sexually abused, identify and help those children, and end cyberbullying and “sextortion,” which is using sexual images to blackmail someone. They also asked people involved in health care to increase the training needed to know when a young patient is being abused and how to help them.

Pope Francis told the group that as a result of the “painful experiences” of seeing some of its clergy abuse children, but also as a result of “the skills gained in the process of conversion and purification, the church today feels especially bound to work strenuously and with foresight for the protection of minors and their dignity, not only within her own ranks, but in society as a whole and throughout the world.”

The 80-year-old pope said that with the explosive growth of digital technology, “we are living in a new world that, when we were young, we could hardly have imagined.”

“If, on the one hand, we are filled with real wonder and admiration at the new and impressive horizons opening up before us,” he said, on the other hand its quick and widespread development has created new problems.

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World Mission Sunday 2017 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Each October, the celebration of World Mission Sunday leads us to the heart of our Christian faith – leads us to mission, as Pope Francis explains in his message for this year’s celebration on October 22.

The collection on the next to the last Sunday in October is unique. It is truly a global effort for the entire Church. It is a central moment each year to provide for the building up of over one thousand local churches in Asia and Africa, the Pacific Islands, and parts of Latin America and Europe, an area that covers more than half the territory of the globe.

Through the work of these churches, and their witness to Christ, the poor receive practical help and experience God’s love and mercy, His hope and peace.

The materials for World Mission Sunday from the Society for the Propagation of the Faith facilitate this encounter, and encourage an ongoing formative relationship for mission, offering portraits of today’s missionaries inspired by the words of our chief missionary, Pope Francis.

I invite all of us in the Archdiocese to see World Mission Sunday as a special moment of encounter with the Pope’s missions throughout the world. Meeting the priests, religious and lay leaders who, day in and day out, witness to the Gospel and serve the poor will, as Pope Francis says, “enable the missionary heart of Christian communities to join in prayer, testimony of life communion of goods, in responding to the vast and pressing needs of evangelization.”

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St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, pastor Father Moises Agudo led a large group of pilgrims from Mission District parishes on a march to St. Mary’s Cathedral for the Oct. 7 rosary rally and consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. They joined pilgrims from other churches in the archdiocese in streaming into the cathedral to pray the rosary’s joyful mysteries together.

(Photo by Debra Greenblat/Catholic San Francisco)

Priests and deacons crest a hill as they process toward St. Mary’s Cathedral for the consecration Mass.

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Sisters join a group marching to the cathedral from the Mission District.

Archbishop consecrates archdiocese to Immaculate Heart of Mary Outlines Our Lady’s ‘threefold recipe for peace and salvation’: rosary, penance, adoration Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone consecrated the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Oct. 7, telling thousands of pilgrims packed shoulder-to-shoulder in St. Mary’s Cathedral that “her heart is the gate of heaven.”

The consecration combined the celebration of the centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917 with the archdiocese’s annual rosary rally procession.

Just as Mary had a special role in mothering God’s son, she has a special role in mothering each of us into life in her son, the archbishop said in his homily.

We don’t need Mary to point us to Jesus, he said.

“We know where he is,” the archbishop said. “He’s in the tabernacle, in the sacraments, in his word.

He is present in the church. Rather, what we need is someone to pick us up and carry us to him, because we are too weak to get there on our own.”

“In her maternal presence, Mary is there to advocate for us,” he said.

(Photos by Debra Greenblat/Catholic San Francisco)

The thousands attending the rosary rally and consecration Mass included a group from Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato.

Echoing the message delivered in a series of Marian apparitions a century ago near Fatima, Portugal, to shepherd children Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia, the archbishop outlined Our Lady’s “threefold

recipe for peace and salvation” and included a call to action. He asked every Catholic in the archdiocese to pray the rosary daily, to observe Fridays as a day of penance with more serious and frequent recourse to the sacrament of reconciliation, and to participate in regular adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Soon after 8 a.m., buses carrying parishioners from churches throughout the archdiocese lined the parking lot as the faithful – many wearing the same shade of blue – streamed into the cathedral to pray the rosary’s joyful mysteries together.

More than 1,500 pilgrims from Mission District parishes arrived together on foot in matching Tshirts, led by St. Peter pastor Father Moises Agudo.

The archbishop, Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice and a line of priests and deacons entered the sanctuary for 10 a.m. Mass to a bilingual “Immaculate Mary” processional hymn. In his homily, the archbishop said Fatima’s supernatural aspect has overshadowed the message Our Lady came to offer.

“For 100 years we ignored the message of Fatima,” he said. “This next century can be radically see mary, page 27

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Pilgrim voices: ‘I felt like I was on the mountain’ our Mother Mary relayed at Fatima to life here in San Francisco, a very secular, modern city, and calling her to lead us through her Immaculate Heart to Jesus is a beautiful thing.”

Paul Venables, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Mill Valley

Story and photos by Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

“I’ve been a follower. She is a model of faith, so this was an important event for me.”

Dinna Bayangos, St. Mark Parish, Belmont “I was honored and blessed to be here. I feel like I’m changed because of Our Lady’s protection and the consecration of the archdiocese to her Immaculate Heart.”

Vincent Levito, Contemplatives of St. Joseph, South San Francisco

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“We are honoring Mary and entrusting our lives to her as Mother and even placing the very future of our nation in her care.”

Steve Kasch, St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae “Bringing the messages of hope

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Ziara Matthews, an eighth grader at Belmont’s Immaculate Heart of Mary School, created the award-winning entry for her grade level in the contest’s Special Art Projects division in the Marian consecration art, essay and poetry contest.

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Rosemary Battaglia

“This is a pretty important event for our archdiocese especially on the 100th anniversary of Fatima. This was something I didn’t want to miss and I’m definitely glad I attended.”

Mitch Carey, St. Brendan Parish, San Francisco “It was so impressive to see so many Catholics gathered here today. I felt like I was on the mountain where our Lord did the Beatitudes. And no one was jeering at us today.”

Rosemary Battaglia, Our Lady of Loretto Parish, Novato

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Winners of the consecration art and writing contest gathered with Archbishop Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Oct. 7 as part of the day’s rosary rally and Mass consecrating the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Children and youths in archdiocesan schools, religious education programs and parishes participated in the contest.

500-plus children and youths create art, writing for Marian contest Catholic San Francisco

More than 500 Catholic school and faith formation students, along with other school-age parish members, submitted art, essays and poetry in a contest designed to celebrate and perpetuate the Oct. 7 consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

The contest, inviting children and youths to be aware of the consecration and to reflect on the role of the Blessed Virgin in their lives, was initiated by Father Charles Puthota, archdiocesan director of pastoral ministry and pastor of St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco.

Twenty-one schools and six parish religious education programs were represented in the contest. Judges in the archdiocesan Pastoral Center reviewed all entries.

Here are the first-place winners.

Art Contest

Kindergarten: Ada Vargas, Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont

First grade: Kennedy Frakes, Our Lady of Angels School, Burlingame

10th: May Mon Paing, affiliation not available

Second: Kavika Hall, Our Lady of Visitacion School, San Francisco

Canvas: Peter Nascimento, fourth grade, Holy Name of Jesus Parish, San Francisco

Third: Miley Salvatore, St. Veronica Parish Faith Formation, South San Francisco Fourth: Brooklyn Boeddeker, St. Gabriel School, San Francisco Fifth: Gloria Paola Giron, St. Bruno Our Lady of Fatima group Sixth: Jillian Growney, Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Redwood City Seventh: Timmy Consunji, Our Lady of Mercy School, Daly City Eighth: Cassidy Nicole Ravelo, St. Robert School, San Bruno Ninth: Beatriz Hernandez, St. Veronica Faith Formation

Special Art Projects

Stained glass: Iliana Patricia San Gabriel, sixth grade, Sts. Peter and Paul School, San Francisco Canvas: Theresa and Anthony Nathan, eighth grade, Our Lady of Mercy Religious Education, Daly City Canvas: Ziara Matthews, eighth grade, Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont Canvas: Brenda Gonzalez, eighth grade, Holy Angels School, Colma Canvas: Emmanuel Nascimento, seventh grade, Holy Name of Jesus Parish Group: Robin Tsai, Ariane Vidal, Lucas Woon, Ariana Zhao, eighth grade, St. Brigid School, San Francisco

Poetry/Prayer

Third: Michael Ordona, Our Lady of the Visitacion School, San Francisco.

Fourth: Ysabella Galvez, Our Lady of Mercy School, Daly City Fifth: Ilias Medios, Our Lady of the Visitacion School, San Francisco Sixth: Isabel Salinas, Sts. Peter and Paul School, San Francisco Seventh: Alana Gutierrez, St. Pius School, Redwood City Eighth: Ella Milante, St. Catherine of Siena School, Burlingame

Essay

Sixth: Jonathan Hsueh, St. Catherine of Siena School, Burlingame Seventh: Camille Eggen, Our Lady of the Visitacion School, San Francisco Eighth: Kira Cory, St. Robert School, San Bruno

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Missionaries of Charity novices provided music at the seventh annual St. John Vianney Luncheon, held Sept. 29 at St. Mary’s Cathedral event center. The annual event raises funds to support retired priests in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Archbishop lauds retired priests: ‘A treasure of wisdom’ Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

An enthusiastic crowd of more than 500 people turned out to support the retired priests who have served the Archdiocese of San Francisco at the St. John Vianney Luncheon on Sept. 29 at St. Mary’s Cathedral event center.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone thanked the retired priests for all their years of ministry, noting “just the treasure of wisdom there for their labor in the Lord’s vineyard.”

The archbishop used the occasion of the blessing of the meal to honor the retired priests, praying for God’s blessing “as we gather today to honor our retired priests who have given so generously with their entire lives in the church’s work of proclaiming the Gospel to all the world and of sanctification of the people you have made your own …

We thank you for their witness and their goodness to the faithful of our archdiocese.”

The archbishop also prayed for those who “have fallen asleep in Christ.”

Archbishop Cordileone presented plaques to each of the Milestone Priest Honorees: Msgr. J. Warren Holleran, Father Thomas Madden, Father William A. O’Connell, Father Michele A. Raimondi, and Father Armand Oliveri, SDB. Cardinal William J. Levada also gave a short speech as part of a tribute to Frank Heffernan, a longtime supporter of the archdiocese, who recently died and the archbishop presented his wife Lenore with flowers. Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory musicians and the Missionaries of Charity novices provided music.

A total of 530 people attended the luncheon, the seventh, which raised just under $300,000 on Sept. 29. The luncheon was created to honor the retired priests and to raise money for the priests retirement fund, and in the past seven years has cleared $1.3 million for the fund, according to the archdiocesan development office.

Archbishop Cordileone presents awards to five priests honored at the 2017 St. John Vianney Luncheon benefiting retired priests.

Left, Father Thomas Madden. Right, Father William A. O’Connell.

Left, Salesian Father Armand Oliveri. Right, Msgr. J. Warren Holleran.

Left, Father Michele A. Raimondi. Right, Lenore Heffernan, seated with Cardinal William J. Levada, and her late husband, Frank, were also honored.

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Healthy and unhealthy fear of God

s a theologian, priest and preacher, I often get asked: “Why isn’t the church preaching more fear of God anymore? Why aren’t we preaching more about the dangers of going to hell?

Why aren’t we preaching more about God’s anger and hellfire?”

It’s not hard to answer that. We aren’t FATHER ron preaching a rolheiser lot about fear because to do so, unless we are extremely careful in our message, is simply wrong. Admittedly fear can cause people to change their behavior, but so can intimidation and brainwashing. Just because something is effective doesn’t mean it is right. Fear of God may only be preached within a context of love.

Scripture itself seemingly gives us a mixed message: On the one hand, it tells us that “fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” even as it tells us that virtually every time God appears in human history, the first words from God are always: “Don’t be afraid!” That phase, coming from the

mouth of God or from the mouth of God’s messenger, appears more than 300 times in scripture. The first words we will hear every time God appears in our lives are: “Don’t be afraid!” So we must be careful when we preach fear of God. Fear of punishment is not the real message we hear when God enters our lives.

Then how is fear of God the beginning of wisdom? In our relationship with God, just as in our relationships with each other, there are both healthy and unhealthy fears. What’s a healthy fear?

Healthy fear is love’s fear: When we love someone our love will contain a number of healthy fears, a number of areas within which we will be healthily cautious and reticent: We will fear being disrespectful, fear despoiling the gift, fear being selfish, fear being irreverent. All healthy love contains the fear of not letting the other person be fully free. Reverence, awe, and respect are a form of fear. But that kind of fear is not to be confused with being frightened, intimidated, or dreading some kind of punishment.

Metaphorically, love’s fear is the fear that God challenges Moses with before the burning bush: Take off your shoes because the ground you are standing on is holy ground!

How are we to understand fear of God as the beginning of wisdom?

We are wise and on the right path when we stand before the mystery of God (and of love) with our shoes off, namely, in reverence, in awe, in respect, in unknowing, without undue pride, humble before an infinity that dwarfs us, and open to let that great mystery shape us for its own eternal purposes. But that is far different, almost the antithesis, of the fear we experience when we are frightened of someone or something that threatens us because the person or thing is perceived as being mercilessly exacting or as being arbitrary and punitive.

There is too a healthy fear of God that’s felt in our fear of violating what’s good, true, and beautiful in this world. Some religions call this a fear before the “law of karma.” Jesus, for his part, invites us to this kind of holy fear when he warns us that the measure we measure out is the measure that will be given back to us.

There’s a moral structure inherent in the universe, within life and within each of us. Everything has a moral contour that needs to be respected.

It’s healthy to be afraid of violating any goodness, truth or beauty.

We need to preach this kind of healthy fear rather than that God needs to be feared because of the punishment he might eventually deal out in some legalistic and exacting fashion. Whenever we preach this

Fencing with bigots … being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once imagined itself “the world’s greatest deliberative body”…

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en. Proudie: I note, Professor Valiant, that Catholic dogma plays a considerable role in your judicial thinking. That bothers me, frankly, because it would seem to threaten rights many people have worked long and hard to protect.

Perhaps you could relieve george weigel my anxieties?

Professor Valiant: “Catholic dogma” plays no role whatsoever in my theory of judging, Senator. It’s the job of the legislative branch, in either the states or the national government, to enact laws within the bounds set by the Constitution. It’s the job of a federal judge to determine those bounds and to give statutes their proper meaning. This approach to judging has nothing to do with “Catholic dogma.”

Sen. Proudie: Do you believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided?

Professor Valiant: As a lowercourt judge, Senator, I would apply all governing Supreme Court precedents in cases that come before me. Beyond stipulating that, I do not think it appropriate for a nominee to the federal bench to comment on issues on which I might have to rule.

But if you were to ask me a more general question, Senator, as to whether I think that the Supreme Court can get it wrong on occasion, I would say “yes.” I think the Supreme Court got it wrong in 1857 in Dred Scott v. Sandford, when it held that an AfricanAmerican whose ancestors had been brought to the U.S. as slaves could not be a citizen and thus had no legal standing. I think the Supreme Court got it wrong again in 1896, when the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld segregated public facilities in the states. Would you agree that the Supreme Court got it wrong in Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson, Senator?

Sen. Proudie: [Incoherent muttering.]

Sen. Gantry: Professor Valiant, I went to Catholic schools for years; loved those dear, sweet sisters, just loved ‘em. So I think I know what it means to be a good Catholic. Do you think you’re a good Catholic, Professor?

Professor Valiant: Senator, the state of my soul is surely a matter between me and my pastor, and between me and God. As I understand it, this committee room is a place for public inquiry by the judiciary committee into my qualifications for the federal bench. It is neither a confessional nor a rectory parlor for spiritual direction.

But I do remember, Senator, that, in the course of my own education in Catholic schools, we were required to read the Constitution of the United States; perhaps you were, too? And there I find, in Article VI, the unambiguous statement that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” So if you will

permit me, Senator, I regard your question as not merely impertinent but unconstitutional, and so I decline to answer it.

Sen. Gantry: [Splutters.] Well, I certainly didn’t mean to apply some sort of “religious test” to your qualifications for the federal bench, Professor....

Professor Valiant: Thank you for clarifying that, Senator. As an expression of my gratitude let me suggest that, out of respect for the Constitution, we just drop the subject. So I won’t inquire into precisely what you did intend.

Sen. Gantry: [Inaudible; something to do with “…da Bears.”]

Sen. Defarge: Professor, could you tell us what you think of Sen. John F. Kennedy’s speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association during the 1960s presidential campaign?

Professor Valiant: It’s not altogether clear to me, Senator, what my views of that speech have to do with my qualifications for the position to which I have been nominated. But I will say this.

John F. Kennedy faced deep-set, anti-Catholic bigotry in his run for the presidency. Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger Sr., who can hardly be accused of special pleading, once called anti-Catholicism the most entrenched prejudice in American history. So whatever I think of the way in which thenSen. Kennedy handled the bigots of his day, perhaps we could all agree that such bigotry has no place in the 21st-century United States?

Sen. Defarge: [Unintelligible expletive deleted].

Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

kind of fear, of a God who deals out hellfire, we are almost always also preaching a God who isn’t very intelligent, compassionate, understanding or forgiving. A God who is to be feared for his punitive threats is a God with whom we will never find a warm intimacy. Threat has no place within love, except if it is a holy fear of doing something that will disrespect and despoil. To preach hellfire can be effective as a tactic to help change behavior, but it is wrong in terms of the Gospel.

Fear is a gift. It is also one of the deepest, life-preserving instincts within you. Without fear, you won’t live very long. But fear is a complex, multi-faced phenomenon. Some fears help you stay alive, while others deform and imprison you. There are things in life that you need to fear.

A playground bully or the arbitrary tyrant can kill you, even if they are all wrong. Lots of things can kill you, and they merit fear.

But God is not one of those things.

God is neither a playground bully nor an arbitrary tyrant. God is love and a perpetual invitation to intimacy.

There is a lot to be feared in this, but nothing of which to be afraid.

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

Letters Renewing devotion to Mary

I very much appreciated the Aug. 17 CSF article about Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Archbishop Jose Gomez’ comments that “At Guadalupe, the Mother of God came to be the Mother of the Americas.”

On Oct. 12, 1945, Pope Pius XII declared Our Lady of Guadalupe as “Empress of the Americas” and composed a prayer on that occasion, adding to it: “For we are certain that as long as you are recognized as Queen and Mother, Mexico and America will be safe.”

With all the natural disasters and cultural chaos that both our countries face of late, perhaps this is a good time to renew our devotion to the Mother of God, asking her to intercede for us in all our troubles and to plead for her help.

Laurette Elsberry Sacramento

Dolan’s blast misdirected

Re “Dolan: Honesty about church’s flaws might win back defectors,” Sept. 28: Cardinal Dolan’s remarks in New Orleans to over 400 priests were a tragic revelation of an intellectual deflection and a spiritual vacuum.

How could such an educated guy miss the boat so badly?

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of the church, it is those in positions of trust like yours that are blemished.

The mystical church and Christ are inseparable.

You are not the church; you are separable from Christ and his church, just as I am.

More than one apology a week? That is going to get them pouring back!

You miss the point, those empty souls in the pews

want to be a part of the family. It is not the “stupid” church, as you assert, that people shy away from; it’s the leadership they are repulsed by.

Why did you mislead the young men picking up the mantle of priesthood willing to bear the burden of your failings for decades to come? These men will be subject to suspicious eyes and derisive words behind their backs. Your talk did them no favors.

Like all things Roman Catholic, progress is glacial. Cardinal Dolan’s perspective proves the point.

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Better he was honest with his audience and reassure them as those picking up the pieces and facing the challenge of their lifetime. Until and unless the USCCB and others get the message, not many will be accepting warts or imperfections.

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Catholic identity and San Domenico School

Re “San Rafael Dominicans discussing statue controversy as a community,” Sept. 14: It is with great sadness but little surprise that I read about the removal of sacred statues from the San Domenico campus. Forces to shed the school’s Catholic identity were already encroaching more than two decades ago when our first-born started her 14-year stint as an SD student. By the time our daughter graduated from the upper school in 2004, even the most persistent and positive of us diehard proponents of retaining the school’s Catholic heritage recognized the futility of our struggle. Thus, our younger daughter, who was completing her 10th year at San Domenico, did not apply to the SD high school, selecting instead schools that placed greater emphasis on faith formation. Since then, it appears San Domenico has moved even further from its Catholic roots. We pray the school and sisters find a way to move forward without abandoning their rich Catholic past.

Lidia Pringle Tiburon The writer was a member of the San Domenico Parent Service Association Executive Board, 1996-2004, and PSA president, 2000-02.

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In the examen, readers “give thanks to God for creation and for being wonderfully made” and “ask for the grace to see how my life choices impact creation and the poor and vulnerable.”

“We hope this ecological examen helps individuals in their homes, parishes, schools, universities and communities to examine their relationship with creation, to hear the cry of the earth and the poor and reflect on ways to reconcile their relationship with God’s creation,” said Cecilia Calvo, senior advisor on environmental justice at the Jesuit Conference.

Christopher Kerr, executive director of the Ignatian Solidarity Network, said, “Now more than ever, we need to reflect on the ways our care for the Earth impacts our brothers and sisters throughout the world.

This examen provides a prayerful way for institutions and individuals to engage in ways that lead us into deeper relationship with God, creation and others.”

“The beauty of the examen is that it takes repetition,” Jesuit Father Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference, said in a video introduction to the examen. “Our relationship with God takes time, and in that relationship, we’re called to conversion.”

The full examen, a one-page summary, prayer card and all related materials are available at ecoexamen.org.

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George Weigel’s ‘Lessons in Hope’

eorge Weigel’s latest book, “Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II,” is the third panel in a great triptych he has composed in honor of the most consequential Catholic figure of the second half of the 20th century. While the first two books – “Witness to Hope” and “The End BISHOP Robert and the BeginBarron ning” – are marked by careful analysis and thousands of footnotes, this last volume is more personal, filled with anecdotes and stories about the author’s many encounters with John Paul over the years. Taken as a whole, it is a magnificent reflection on the saintly pope’s observation that, in the final analysis, there are no coincidences, but rather only features of the divine providence that we have not yet fully understood.

Weigel shows the interweaving of his own life and John Paul’s as an operation of grace that served – as is always the case when grace is in play – to benefit both men.

His distant preparation for the encounter with John Paul commenced with his studies in philosophy as a young man. The introduction to the great Western philosophical tradition enabled him, many years later, to understand the work of a pope whose mind was formed in large part by Thomist metaphysics and the phenomenological method of Edmund Husserl. The apprenticeship continued with Weigel’s immersion in the sturm and drang of the postconciliar scene in both America and

Canada. Many intellectuals at the time were convinced that Vatican II represented, at best, a promising first step toward the full modernization of the church. Their program, accordingly, was radical accommodation to the current scene, not so much a “reading of the signs of the times” as a surrender to them. The inadequacies of the liberal theology of the 1970s caused Weigel to take a deeper look at the thought of Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger, three men who felt that the postconciliar conversation had gone off the rails and who would play a pivotal role in the papacy of John Paul II. A final and crucial propaedeutic to telling the story of John Paul was Weigel’s deep immersion in the political and intellectual culture of Poland in the years following the revolution of 1989. Interviewing ecclesiastics, politicos, labor union leaders, artists and ordinary folks, Weigel heard, over and again, that the key to understanding the transformation of life in Poland was the visit of John Paul to his home country in 1979. Speaking in public of God, of human rights, of sin and redemption, of the Incarnation and eternal life, John Paul, during that historic pilgrimage, awakened in his own people a desire for that most fundamental of freedoms: religious liberty. The cry, “We want God! We want God! We want God!” echoing for 15 minutes in the central square of Warsaw during John Paul’s homily gave expression to the aspirations of oppressed people throughout Eastern Europe and proved to be the beginning of the end of Soviet Communism.

The combination of these experiences were preparing Weigel for the fateful dinner that he would share in 1995 with Richard John Neuhaus,

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papal secretary Stanislaw Dziwisz, and John Paul II himself. Having read Weigel’s treatment of the Polish revolution of 1989, the pope was convinced that the young (ish) American scholar was the right person to compose the definitive biography.

With some gentle prompting and encouragement from Neuhaus, the pope, as it were, popped the question, and Weigel knew that his life would never be the same. One might think that the account of the composition of this enormous study would be a tad dry. On the contrary, Weigel’s anecdotes of interviews with some of the most significant figures in the Vatican are fascinating, and his stories of conversations with many of the pope’s Polish colleagues, especially the members of his original youth group in Krakow, are deeply moving and often quite funny.

Though he explored this theme in the previous two books on John Paul, Weigel brings out with particular clarity in this volume how the pope universalized many of his moves and initiatives as priest and bishop in Kraków when he took the chair of Peter, the series of World Youth Days being the most striking example.

In the second half of “Lessons in Hope,” Weigel several times describes lunches and dinners that he shared with John Paul and his inner circle. Marked by prayer, good food and wine, the speaking of a variety of languages, lots of laughter, a rich exchange of ideas, and vibrant discussion of the latest cultural trends, these meals served, it seems to me, as a symbol of John Paul’s vibrant papacy. Precisely because he was an ardent disciple of Jesus Christ, John Paul was a passionate humanist. His favorite passage from the Vatican II document “Gaudium et Spes,” cited again and again in his papal writings, is “The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light.” It was the pope’s Christian faith that enabled him, at a crucial moment in modern history, to propose to the world a correct and liberating anthropology. Through the grace of God, George Weigel was uniquely positioned to tell that story.

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Sunday readings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PHILIPPIANS 4:12-14, 19-20 Brothers and sisters: I know how to live in

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

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

MATTHEW 22:1-14 Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”’ Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.’ The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. The king said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’ Many are invited, but few are chosen.”

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Just behind the veil

t the conclusion of the novel “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (the fifth of the series), Harry is mourning the death of Sirius Black, his godfather and close friend. The manner of death was being blown through a mysterious stone arch, a thin veil covering the entrance, behind which could be heard faint, whispering voices. Seeking to comfort Harry in his loss his fellow student, Luna Lovegood, assures him that Sirius is not far, reminding Harry: “You heard them, just behind the veil, didn’t you ...They were just father william lurking out of sight, nicholas that’s all. You heard them.”

One of the most popular readings for funeral Masses is taken from a portion of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah known as the “Apocalypse of Isaiah” (Chapters 24-27). In it, the prophet declares a victory banquet on Mount Zion, a symbol of the heavenly Jerusalem. In addition to providing “juicy rich food and pure, choice wines” the prophet declares that God will “destroy death forever,” describing death as the “veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all the nations” (Isaiah 25:7-8).

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Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, October 16: Monday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Hedwig, religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin; St. Marguerite d’Youville. Rom 1:1-7. Ps 98:1bcde, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. Ps 95:8. Lk 11:29-32.

Tuesday, October 17: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr. Rom 1:16-25. Ps 19:23, 4-5. Heb 4:12. Lk 11:37-41.

Wednesday, October 18: Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist. 2 Tm 4:10-17b. Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 1718. See Jn 15:16. Lk 10:1-9.

Thursday, October 19: Memorial of Sts. Isaac Jogues and John de Brebeuf, priests and martyrs and companions, martyrs. Rom 3:21-30. Ps 130:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab. Jn 14:6. Lk 11:47-54.

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Friday, October 20: Friday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Paul of the Cross, priest. Rom 4:1-8. Ps 32:1b-2, 5, 11.

Ps 33:22. Lk 12:1-7.

Saturday, October 21: Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 4:13, 16-18. PS 105:6-7, 8-9, 42-43. Jn 15:26b, 27a. Lk 12:8-12.

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Father Nicholas: Scripture reflection FROM PAGE 24

Given that death, as understood in the Old Testament, was considered the ultimate alienation from God, a direct result of sin, the triumph of the messianic era prophesied by Isaiah can be seen as the ultimate triumph. The fact that Isaiah, a prophet of the pre-messianic era, describes death as he does is even more remarkable. As fearsome as it was - a true absence of life prior to Christ’s victory over it – death is, nonetheless described, not as a great wall, or a window, or even a door. Rather death is described as a “veil”; a thin boundary that separates the living and the dead.

With the crucifixion of Jesus, God has now entered into the experience of death itself. What was once regarded as the ultimate alienation from God is now saturated with God’s presence.

What was once the ultimate punishment for sin is now the inevitable path taken, not to the realm of the dead, but to the kingdom of eternal life.

As his death on the cross was the pre-requisite to the glory of the Resurrection, so too our path to rising with Christ is in joining Christ in death – sacramentally anticipated in baptism, sacramentally prepared for in the anointing of the

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sick (particularly extreme unction and the final apostolic blessing) – before ultimately following Christ, in God’s good time and according to his will, not over a wall, not through a door, but through a veil.

As church we proceed with this faith as we pray for those who are dying, and especially when we remember the faithful departed. While the death of a loved one is always a time of great sadness, our faith is a reminder that all that separates us from those who have passed on is the “veil” of death. Their passing from this world does not separate them from the larger community of God’s holy people. They are still a part of our families, and a part of the community of faith that is the church. We do not lose hope for those who have died, but rather pray for them, as we would pray for each other. We know that, in virtue of the victory of Christ over death, prophesied by Isaiah, those who die are not alienated from God, nor are they very far from us. They are lurking just out of sight. That’s all. They are “just behind the veil.”

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VATICAN CITY – Sin is a rebellious act against God that requires more than just a trip to the dry cleaners to wipe clean, Pope Francis said.

“If it was a stain, it would be enough to take it to the laundromat and have it cleaned. No! Sin is a rebellion against the Lord,” the pope said in his homily Oct. 6 during morning Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

The pope reflected on the day’s first reading from the prophet Baruch (1:15-22), in which the Jewish exiles in Babylonian captivity expressed sorrow and shame for having “sinned in the Lord’s sight and disobeyed him.”

Like the exiles, Christians must also recognize their own sinfulness and not hastily claim that they are righteous before God, the pope said.

“I would say that it is our first name: sinner,” he said. “Why are we sinners? We have disobeyed – always in relation with the Lord.

He said one thing and we have done another.

We did not listen to the voice of the Lord.”

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Seeing the presence of God with CRS in Tanzania Carolina Parrales

I feel so blessed to have been part of a Catholic Relief Services delegation that visited Tanzania at the end of August this year. For the past four years I have been promoting CRS programs for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, from Rice Bowl to Fair Trade products, disaster relief and breaking the cycle of poverty overseas. These are some of the ways CRS has been responding to our brothers and sisters overseas on behalf of the Catholic community of the United States.

Hot weather and poverty are not new to me. I was born and raised in El Salvador, where 73 is the average temperature year-round and signs of poverty are everywhere. But something different touched my heart while visiting Tanzania: The warmth, joy and vivacity with which we were welcomed in every village as well as the detachment on material things brought back to life the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.”

We arrived in the capital city of Dar es Salaam where we visited the local CRS office and met the staff including the country representative and the head of

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The welcoming committee greets the August 2017 Catholic Relief Services delegation at Intumpi village, Tanzania. programs for an overview of all the three main program areas in Tanzania – agriculture, health and water – and to learn more about the two regions we were scheduled to visit during the following seven days.

To the north we were visiting the region of Mwanza, close to the famous Lake Victoria, and to the south, the Mbeya region. The programs we were about to witness in action were Early Childhood Development; the Accelerated Stunting Reduction Project; an agriculture initiative called “Soya ni Pesa” (Soybeans are Money); the internal lending community groups known as SILC (Saving, Investing, Lending, Community); and the UNICEF WASH project in which CRS is an important partner focusing on access to water, sanitation and hygiene services that in Tanzania are highly inequitable.

Our role was not only to witness the different sessions but also to interact with the community. Most of the sessions included a large number of young women and small children who were delighted to hear the translator say that among us “The Americans” were also parents who shared the same concerns and wanted the best for our children. Part of every training or meeting was singing, clapping and dancing. The song lyrics were not separate from the main theme; they were actually a reinforcement of all key elements the children have just learned. Phrases such as “Tunawa penna watoto we tu,” which means “we love our children,” are repeated as a reminder of why they were there and what is the main purpose of the meetings. “Watoto Kwanza” – “children first” – was a phrase I brought back with me and still makes

me smile remembering the children’s joy while playing together with some handmade toys or recycling material.

Near the end of our visit, at Intumpi village, I was transported to Palm Sunday Mass while riding in one of CRS’ 4x4 Land Rovers. We encountered many people walking on the side of the road, and as soon as they heard the cars approaching they stopped and waved tree branches they carried in their hands and then ran behind us to join the other group already onsite, signing and repeating the word “Karibu” (“welcome”). At that same village we were offered a very precious gift: a sack of very tiny seeds. That community was giving us not only a material gift but also a lesson in stewardship. Because they see how their lives have improved and that mortality rates have dropped. They see in our CRS work the presence of God and are confident God will provide a good harvest in the near future and return them a hundredfold.

Parrales is administrative assistant for the director of Human Life and Dignity for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. She also serves as CRS diocesan coordinator.

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Animal blessing at Woodside Priory

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Father Juan Manuel hears confessions in the cathedral before the rite of consecration.

The Priory campus in Portola Valley was home to a blessing of many animals Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Benedictine Father Maurus Nemeth, here with Priory sophomore Gavin Thompson and his pet dog Zuri, presided. The school celebrates its 60th anniversary Nov. 12 with a Mass in the Priory school chapel at 9:30 a.m. followed by a reception.

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Worshippers pray during Marian devotions Oct. 7 in St. Mary’s Cathedral as part of the consecration of the archdiocese to the Blessed Virgin.

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different from the last one, but only if we heed the message and respond to the requests.”

The archbishop linked war, genocide and persecution of Christians and other religious minorities with gun violence, abortion, euthanasia, addiction and moral depravity, saying they result from the “spiritual disease” of worshipping the self instead of God. He noted the massacre in Las Vegas on Oct. 1.

“We are living in a time and place of intense spiritual battle, and only in taking up spiritual arms will we alleviate the spiritual disease that is at the root of so much of the physical and mental suffering in the world today,” the archbishop said. “It is time to leave the sensational aside, and respond to the requests of Our Lady at Fatima.”

Following Communion, with the archbishop leading, worshippers processed from the cathedral behind a three-foot statue of Our Lady, marching through neighborhood streets and reciting the Divine Mercy litany.

When the statue was carried back into the cathedral, a small crowd on the church steps waved white handkerchiefs after her – a pilgrim tradition.

The archbishop then went before the statue on the altar, incensed the image and prayed the Prayer of Consecration with the faithful responding in Spanish and English. The prayer was adapted from Pope Pius XII’s Prayer of Consecration of the World to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1942 at the turning point of World War II. “Queen of Peace, pray for us,” the archbishop said. “Give the world the peace for which all are longing.”

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The “extremely troubling things on the net,” he said, include “the spread of ever more extreme pornography, since habitual use raises the threshold of stimulation; the increasing phenomenon of sexting between young men and women who use social media; and the growth of online bullying, a true form of moral and physical attack on the dignity of other young people.”

In addition, he said, there is the phenomena of sextortion and the solicitation online of minors for sexual purposes, “to say nothing of the grave and appalling crimes of online trafficking in persons, prostitution and even the commissioning and live viewing of acts of rape and violence against minors in other parts of the world.”

“The net has its dark side – the ‘dark net’ – where evil finds ever new, effective and pervasive ways to act and to expand,” the pope said. “The spread of printed pornography in the past was a relatively small phenomenon compared to the proliferation of pornography on the net.”

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the profound impact of violent and sexual images on the impressionable minds of children, the psychological problems that emerge as they grow older, the dependent behaviors and situations, and genuine enslavement that result from a steady diet of provocative or violent images,” he noted.

“The spread of ever more extreme pornography and other improper uses of the net not only causes disorders, dependencies and grave harm among adults, but also has a real impact on the way we view love and relations between the sexes,” he said. “We would be seriously deluding ourselves were we to think that a society where an abnormal consumption of internet sex is rampant among adults could be capable of effectively protecting minors.”

While the Internet has given people greater access to information and a vehicle for self-expression, it is not simply “a realm of unlimited freedom” without consequence, the pope said. The freedom of the Internet “also offered new means for engaging in heinous illicit activities,” often with children as their victims.

“This has nothing to do with the exercise of freedom,” Pope Francis insisted. “It has to do with crimes that need to be fought with intelligence and determination, through a broader cooperation among governments and law enforcement agencies on the global level, even as the net itself is now global.”

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For consideration, please email resume and cover letter to: Archdiocese of San Francisco | Attn: Patrick Schmidt 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, Ca 94109 E-mail: careers@sfarch.org

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking a qualified leader to join the Archdiocese as the Director of Human Life and Dignity. This fulltime, Exempt Director position is a public policy position that reports directly to the Moderator of the Curia and Vicar for Administration. We offer a competitive salary in a non-profit environment plus an excellent Benefit package that includes Employer funded Pension plan, available Health Insurance, a 403-b Plan, “flexible spending” accounts and excellent benefits (including free, gated parking at our Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, Pastoral Center.)

This office specifically promotes “protect life” initiatives and more generally advances social justice. In addition to directing members of the Office of Human Life and Dignity, the Director also articulates how the work of various reporting units is rooted in and motivated by Scripture and Catholic teaching.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities • Supervises professional staff overseeing the following areas: Respect Life, Restorative Justice, Justice and Peace, Parish Organizing and Leadership Development, and Project Rachel.

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St. Robert Parish to dedicate new pipe organ St. Robert Parish in San Bruno will dedicate its new Reuter pipe organ on Nov. 5 at 3 p.m. Bishop William J. Justice will bless the organ and James Welch, organist of Santa Clara University, will play the dedicatory recital.

An anonymous donor paid the entire cost of the new instrument now called The Doris Elmore Memorial Organ.

The new organ was built for St. Joseph Church in New York City by Reuter in 1997. In 2016 it was purchased by St. Robert and rebuilt and enlarged again by Reuter. The organ has 26 ranks of pipes.

St. Robert pastor Father John Greene has played the organ most of his life, including 12 years in seminary.

He has assisted in placing new organs at parishes including St. Gabriel, Church of the Epiphany, St. Stephen and St. Monica, where as pastor he oversaw the rebuilding of the organ.

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The new Reuter pipe organ at St. Robert Church will be dedicated Nov. 5 at 3 p.m. with a blessing by Bishop William J. Justice and a recital by James Welch, organist of Santa Clara University. more than 20 years. He, like Father Greene is “very happy” with the new organ, Father Greene said.

St. Robert donated its electronic organ to St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in San Francisco.

Obituary Sister Marjorie Wakelin, SHF

Holy Family Sister Marjorie Wakelin died Sept. 17 at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family in Fremont.

She was 86 years old and entered the Sisters of the Holy Family from St. Mary’s Cathedral July 2, 1949.

She was Sister EuchaSister Marjorie rista until changing to Wakelin, SHF her baptismal name.

Sister Marjorie was a pastoral associate at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo,

from 1991-2002. She also served in religious education in parishes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and as executive director for the Northern California branch of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility from 1983-1988.

“Sister Marjorie was passionate about justice for the poor, a concern reflected in her work at ICCR as well as throughout her parish work and life in community,” the sisters said.

A memorial Mass for Sister Marjorie will be held at a date in the future the sisters said. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Family, P.O. Box 3248, Fremont 94539.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 13 FATIMA EWTN: EWTN will broadcast events commemorating the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima. EWTN is available on Bay Area channels including COMCAST 229, AT&T 562, WAVE/ASTOUND 80, SAN BRUNO CABLE 143, DISH 261 and DIRECT. www.ewtn.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 14 LAUDATO SI’ PROGRESS: Progress two years later, a conference led by Dominican Sister Patricia Siemen, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. $30 includes lunch. RSVP by Oct. 1, http:// bit.ly/LaudatoSi. (510) 933-6334.

YOUNG ADULT DANCE: Young Adult Harvest Ball, 7-11 p.m., St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon. A semiformal event for all young adults in their 20s and 30s, Catholic and non-Catholic. Salsa dance lesson at 8 p.m. DJ will play pop, salsa, swing, and country. $20 ticket includes wine, cheese, coffee and desserts. http://yaharvestball.eventbrite.com.

OKTOBERFEST: Enjoy the occasion with “3040s Group” of St. Dominic Parish, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 6 p.m. Food and beer available for purchase, tickets $15 in advance, $18 at door include $18 in tokens for food and drink, kids’ tickets just $7. Tickets at www.tinyurl.com/ sdoktoberfest.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 4 YOUNG ADULT RETREAT: Youth ministers and young adults work/ life balance retreat. For all youth ministers, core team members, and all young adults in the D.J. Bernal Archdiocese of San Francisco, Collins Center at St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco. $12 ticket includes lunch. Retreat leader is D.J. Bernal, who also presented at Steubenville NorCal.http://ymyaretreat. eventbrite.com.

SUNDAY, NOV. 5 ST. PETER SCHOOL MASS: Annual memorial Mass for graduates and friends of St. Peter School, 24th and Alabama streets, San Francisco, 2 p.m., in parish church, Father Agudo reception follows, Father Moises Agudo, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. (415) 647-8662.

SUNDAY, OCT. 15 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

FILIPINO GALA: “Heal the World Through Music,” 5 p.m., St. Mary’s

Cathedral, Patrons Hall featuring the spiritual significance music plays in bringing people together transcending boundaries, culture, language, religion, gender, age, color and politics.

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50TH ANNIVERSARY: St. John of God Parish, 1290 Fifth Ave. at Irving, San Francisco continues the celebration of its 50th anniversary, 10:30 a.m. Mass followed by reception. Limited parking.

Church is on N Judah Muni. stjohnofgod-sf@sbcglobal.net PERUVIAN MASS: A Mass in Spanish celebrating the Peruvian Catholic heritage will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco. The Mass is one of several with a Peruvian theme celebrated in the Bay Area every year.

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RIORDAN CLASS OF 1959: Reunion, Westlake Joe’s, 11 Glenwood Ave, Daly City, 11 a.m. cocktails, noon-2 p.m. lunch. $40 per person. To register, contact Director of Alumni Relations Paul Cronin, pcronin@riordanhs.org.

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

Gloria R. Allen Manuel O. Alonzo Richard S. Andersen Patricia L. Arata Mary C. Balestrieri Caitlin Hannah Bouey Harriet Branick Anne M. Brickley Alice Brogger Carl Brogger John W. Brown Pastora B. Cachapero Mary Irene Callanan Lillian Carrosio Angelique Jimenez Cartwright Salvador Casco Juanita Castellano Norma C. Catajan Ryan Ruetas Cayetano Inez J. Ciuffreda Clemencia Clifford Mary C. Crosat Alice A. Dalcolletto Maria De Loache Blanca I. De Trinidad Sergio Fernando Del Rio Priscilla Delacruz Ann M. Denham Barbara J. Deschler Donald L. Deschler Teresa Erfe Wanda Zanetti Facchini John C. Farrell William “Bill” Ferree Verna T. Freed Rina I. Gahara Michael F. Gallagher Fe D. Garcia Lawrence Gee George Ginilo Bobby R. Golondrina Miranda M. Gonsalves Richard A. Gonsalves John B. Guaraglia Donna Jean Gudaitis Lydia Guerrero William P. Hamilton

Laurie A. Hamilton Betty J. Hanlon Diana D. Heafey Malinda L. Hennessy Maria Teresa Hernandez Dorothy L. Isi Carolyn Jiminez Ethan H. A. Jung Mary H. Kasperowicz Louise Ryan Keats Vera Kovacic Delia M. Kutches Virginia Leishman Jose Lopez Clara J. Lyons Lois I. Maher Maureen A. Maloney Paul M. Martina Vilma Aida Mendoza Olmedo Frances Mier Llane H. Militar Raji J. Mogannam Jonathan Bradford Morgan Irene Mary Morgan Margaret E. Moyer Anton Mukatash Hector Murcia, Jr. Estelita Paz Navarro Kevin Francis O’Boyle Albert A. Parmisano Virgilio S. Perez Donald C. Phelps Maria J. Pisa Fred J. Pisa Alexandros Psarras Virginia I. Rajeski Daniel Ramirez Violeta V. Raval Veronica Blanca Razo Frances Robinson Ida L. Rodondi Felipa Rodriguez Ellen Rossi Mary Russo Margaret C. Ryan Beverly A. Salani Magdalena “Margo” Salumbides Helaneh Shatara Dorothy Skala Terry W. Smerdel

Kenneth R. Spalasso Susan M. Stapleton Joanne M. Stenberg Kenneth H. Stenberg Patricia L. Stone Thomas E. Teshara Ronald Joseph Tocchini Norma T. Vasquez Nick A. Verreos Edgar C. Vitug, Sr. Ethel I. Weidinger Maxine Wiggington Charlene A. Wiggins Rose C. Wong Mary Zamora Albert Zecha Jeanette Zecha

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK

Bianco Joseph Charles Bulanti Christopher Golson Erma Mae Mendes Bryan E. Reichert Jr. Edwin “Ed” Reynolds Jo-Ann Reynolds David Tudoni Susan Tudoni

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Gail Patricia Chavez Donald Jerome Crisanti Victor Ogtong Gomez Roy George Ottolini Vincent Shumski John W. “Jack” Stahl Patricia S. Trembley Charlie Uhl Frank (Francis) “Cic” Williams

TOMALES Patricia L. Ribbel

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HOLY CROSS Catholic Cemetery, Colma All Souls Day Mass: Thursday, November 2, 2017 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am

Memorial Mass: Honoring the month of the Holy Souls First Saturday Mass – Saturday, November 4, 2017 Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Refreshments and fellowship following Mass Veterans’ Day Service: Saturday, November 11, 2017– 11:00 am Star of the Sea Section Msgr. Michael Padazinski, Presider – Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve

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