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SACRAMENTO – California’s bishops expressed disappointment with Gov. Jerry Brown’s Oct. 5 signing of a measure legalizing physician-assisted suicide in the state, saying the law “stands in direct contradiction to providing compassionate, quality care for those facing a terminal illness.”

“This bill does nothing to validate the lives of the vulnerable,” said the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops, in a statement soon after Brown’s action.

The conference added that the legislation “isn’t compassion” and does not support or promote the common good. see assisted suicide, page 8

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Archbishop leads eucharistic procession to Rosary Rally

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led a eucharistic procession from St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco to U.N. Plaza to join an awaiting group of Catholics for the archdiocese’s fifth annual Rosary Rally. The day included exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, followed by Benediction for the benefit of the City of San Francis, remarks by cathedral rector Father Arturo Albano and a keynote speech by the archbishop. “As we pray through the joyful, luminous, sorrowful and glorious mysteries, we contemplate with Mary the great events in her Son’s life,” the archbishop said. “By means of this contemplation we see fulfilled the words of St. Paul: ‘God has given us the wisdom to understand fully the mystery, the plan He was pleased to decree in Christ’” (Ephesians 1:9).

Take a positive approach to families, synod members say Cindy Wooden and Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

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Pope Francis arrives to lead a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 9.

VATICAN CITY – The first week of the Synod of Bishops on the family ended with near unanimous calls to be more positive in describing family life today and to show more appreciation for Catholic families living close to the church’s ideals. But there were also widespread questions among synod participants about the work they are expected to produce.

After listening to speeches and working in small groups Oct. 5-8, synod participants listened to the small group reports Oct. 9.

“At times our work has seemed more muddled than methodical,” wrote Australian Archbishop Mark Coleridge on behalf of the synod’s English Group C. “Our hope is that fo-

cus, if not perfect clarity, will emerge as the synod unfolds and we become more assured about both task and method.”

During a press briefing Oct. 9, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, one of the synod presidents, told reporters that changes in the synod’s method created some confusion, especially for members who have attended past synods and were accustomed to drawing up a list of propositions to give to the pope. Instead, they have been asked to amend the synod’s working document.

The speeches in the synod hall the first week and the discussions in the small groups focused on the first chapter of the working document; all the small group reports offered suggestions for improving the text while some criticized it harshly, saying

much of the text was “flawed,” “inadequate, especially in its theology,” and too Western-centric.

But the working document is meant to be analyzed and ripped apart, Cardinal Tagle told reporters.

“In fact it is called a martyred document,” the cardinal said. “It must be ready to be martyred, to be shot.

Otherwise there is no point in calling 300 people (to Rome) just to say, ‘Yes, this is it.’”

The working document includes input from so many different people that the main aim in drafting it was to get everyone’s opinion in and not to produce “a synthetic, cohesive treatise on the vocation and mission of the family,” said Cardinal Tagle, who helped draft the text.

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need to know ‘Hope Uncorked’: Catholic Charities’ “Hope Uncorked,” an evening of wine, music and celebration takes place Nov. 5, 6 p.m., at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco.

Tasting of wines from California’s premier wineries is accompanied by live jazz. Silent and live auctions will raise money for programs that help some of the Bay Area’s most at-risk children. “Hope Uncorked” will feature live music from Lorca Hart Trio featuring Kenny Washington, as well as a silent auction featuring items ranging from affordable cases to rare wines from around the world. The event directly benefits youth suffering from abuse, neglect and emotional disorders who find safe haven at St. Vincent’s School for Boys. Other Catholic Charities children and youth programs helped include Canal Family Support in Marin; boys and girls homes, Treasure Island Child Development Center and Maureen and Craig Sullivan Youth Services in San Francisco; and Youth Club at St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto. For ticket and sponsorship information, visit www.

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The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco will honor Judge Kevin V. Ryan with its namesake award Oct. 22 in ceremonies around the annual Red Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. on Washington Square, San Francisco. Archbishop Salvatore J. Judge Ryan Cordileone will be principal celebrant.

Judge Ryan is a 1976 graduate of St. Ignatius College Preparatory and holds s law degree from the University of San Francisco. He served as a prosecutor with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office before beginning seven years as a judge on the San Francisco Municipal and Superior Courts.

President George W. Bush appointed Ryan United States Attorney for the Northern District of California in 2002. In 2008, he was appointed by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom as director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. During his ten-

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The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco was founded in 1937 and is the oldest fellowship of Catholic lawyers and judges in the West. Information about the Red Mass and dinner can be found at www.stthomasmore-sf.org.

World Mission Sunday 2015

‘ ‘Pope to canonize Junipero Serra amid controversy,’ Sept. 17, Page 11: The article incorrectly paraphrased Pope Francis so it appeared the pontiff was saying St. Junipero founded the California missions before the Mayflower arrived in North America.

In fact, Pope Francis said the Spanish arrived before the Mayflower. In the May 2 homily at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Pope Francis said of St. Junipero: “He ushered in a new springtime of evangelization in those immense territories, extending from Florida to California, which, in the previous 200 years, had been reached by missionaries from Spain. This was long before the pilgrims of the Mayflower reached the North Atlantic coast.”

On Page 13 of the Sept. 17 special section on St. Junipero, a map of the California missions incorrectly listed the date of the founding of Mission San Francisco de Asís or Mission Dolores. It was founded in 1776.

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upon us to live moral and upright lives and to protect the poor, the sick, the downtrodden, victims of crime, and those that have been marginalized or ignored.”

He remains grateful to his Catholic school education: “I was educated by the nuns at Stuart Hall, and by the Jesuit priests at SI and USF law school, and they not only helped to shape my faith, they gave me a fundamental understanding that as Catholics, we are obligated to view and react to many issues through the prism of our faith. I like to think therefore that my faith has impacted me in all things: marriage, fatherhood, citizenship, and the practice of the law.”

Ryan and Anne, his wife of 31 years, are members of the Order of Malta.

They are parents of two adult children, Patrick and William, and are very active participants at both St. Ignatius and St. Dominic parishes.

ure, the city witnessed a dramatic turnaround in homicides and other violent crimes.

“The St. Thomas More Society is pleased to present this year’s award to Judge Ryan, who has sought to follow the footsteps of our patron saint through a career dedicated to public service in law and personal service to family and the community,” said St. Thomas More Society president Tim Crudo.

Ryan and San Francisco Police Chief Gregory Suhr have known each other since boyhood. “If there were ever a man true to the tenets and beliefs of St. Thomas More, it would be Kevin Ryan,” Suhr said. “In the true Jesuit tradition, Kevin has been a man for others from the time we were altar servers at St. Brendan’s Church, teammates at St. Ignatius, throughout his legal career and in his personal life.”

“My faith has always played a central role in how I view and react to and with the world,” Judge Ryan told Catholic San Francisco. “Being a Roman Catholic is not an easy task, as our faith requires that we strive to live as Christ would want us too. This means, at a minimum, to strive to live in full recognition that Christ calls

My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Every year we remember in a special way our Baptismal call to mission as we celebrate World Mission Sunday, this year on October 18.

On this Sunday, we will gather at the Eucharist, as will Catholics throughout Archbishop the world, in a spirit Cordileone of love for Evangelization so that, through our prayers and concrete acts of solidarity, the gift of faith may be shared with all. This year’s celebration is further enriched as we mark the 50th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church (Ad Gentes) which proclaims, “The pilgrim Church on earth is missionary by its very nature,” reminding us that all of us are called to be on mission.

In his message for World Mission Sunday, Pope Francis writes, “Mission is part of the ‘grammar of faith, something essential for those who listen to the voice of the Spirit who whispers ‘Come’ and ‘Go forth.’ Those who follow Christ cannot fail to be missionaries…”

On World Mission Sunday, as our Archdiocesan family joins our brothers and sisters around the world, responding to the voice of the Spirit, we connect with our world on mission: …with Africa, where 6 million children receive an education in some 16,000 Church-run elementary schools …with Asia, where those who are sick are provided with loving care at 5,000 Catholics hospitals and small clinics …with the Americas, where catechists travel to remote areas to bring the Good News of God’s great love to families …with Oceana, where young men are supported in their studies for the priesthood, to bring the Lord’s healing hope and peace to those in need …with Europe, where new

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Franciscan Missionaries: Devoutly committed to the poor Misioneras Franciscanas de Nuestra Senora de la Paz, MFP

Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.

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Sister Hilda Sandoval, MFP

In the spirit of St. Francis the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady of Peace have been devoutly WAKE UP THE WORLD ! committed 2015 Year of Consecrated Life to serving the poorest of the poor since they were founded. Humility and simplicity of lifestyle have kept these daughters of St. Francis close to the lived experience of the people they so faithfully serve within the church.

Because of few priests and missionaries and the great need for evangelization in Baja California Mexico, Msgr.

Felipe Torres Hurtado, MSpS, invited Catarina de Jesus Rodriguez Lujan to found a religious congregation, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady of Peace, the first female Franciscan religious institute, founded in Baja California in the City of Ensenada on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 20, 1941.

On March 5, 1941, the petition to found a congregation was submitted to the Holy See. The petition was confirmed on June 20 the same year.

The Papal Approval as a Religious Congregation of Diocesan Right, was given in Rome on March 25, 1954 and was confirmed on Aug. 15 of that year

by Bishop Alfredo Galindo and Mendoza, first Bishop of Tijuana.

Our Mother Foundress, to ensure participation in the Franciscan Spiri-

When and where founded: Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, June 20, 1941 First arrived in the Archdiocese of San Francisco: Sept.

12, 1988 Original ministry: To make salvation present by being instruments of peace, with joy and Franciscan simplicity, in unity and mercy above all human suffering.

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady of Peace are pictured in a group portrait. tuality and Charism, with the approval of the Holy See adopted the Rule and Life of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. Affiliation was given on July 23, 1948, by the minister general of the Franciscan order, Fray Perantoni, OFM. The Rule of Life was approved and promulgated by Pope John Paul II on Dec. 8, 1982.

Father Alfred Boeddeker, OFM, of the Province of Santa Barbara was appointed by Father Allen, OFM, to assist Mother Catarina in formulating the first constitutions for our congregation. From that time, Father Alfred began a strong friendship with our founder Catarina de Jesus that lasted until her death.

In 1988 three of our sisters arrived in San Francisco. They lived on Pine Street in Madonna Residence, a house that was part of St. Anthony Foundation. One of our surprises when we arrived here in San Francisco was being

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surrounded by people of many different cultures, and hearing many languages other than English. This experience has helped us to be more open to people in our ministries. The sisters had the opportunity to attend school to learn English and had the great gift of being able to work with Father Boeddeker for several years; he was a man full of God’s love and great love for the poor.

In February 1989 our superior sent a letter requesting permission to found a Community in the Archdiocese; it was accepted by Archbishop John R. Quinn and since that time the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady of Peace have been serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Our community moved to the Mission District to a house rented by the

Current ministries: Evangelization, catechesis, pastoral work Number of sisters: 64 in congregation; two serve in archdiocese Jesuit Fathers. During that time the sisters attended the nearby parishes of St. Peter, St. Anthony and St. James; this gave them the opportunity to interact with a diverse community. Our sisters worked for St. Anthony Foundation and St. Anthony School, and in St. James Parish.

Sister Eva Camberos and Sister Hilda Sandoval are currently working as pastoral associates in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish/All Hallows Chapel, St. Paul of the Shipwreck in the Bayview District of San Francisco see missionaries page 5

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Dominican Sister John Martin Fixa will be honored Oct. 28 with the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s Brennan Award. Sister Johnnie will be recognized for her almost six decades as teacher and administrator and executive director of the sisters’ “Vision of Hope,” formed in 1995 to provide affordable Catholic education for children of inner-city Catholic elementary schools.

Sister John Sister Johnnie is a graduate of Martin Fixa, OP San Francisco’s St. James School and Immaculate Conception Academy where she met the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose.

“My elementary and high school teachers were my role models,” Sister Johnnie told me via email about why she chose the Dominican Sisters of MSJ. “They were happy people and so good with children. They had a real passion for their ministry, and they taught students how to love. I felt a real pull to their joyful spirit. And I wanted to be part of an education that was changing lives.”

For the last nearly 60 years she has been doing just that and perhaps especially during the last 20 years as head of “Vision of Hope.” She called herself “privileged and overwhelmed” on being named to receive the Brennan Award. “It’s an honor and an opportunity to tell the ‘Vision of Hope’ story. I feel my selection was God-directed. This is the 20th anniversary year for ‘Vision of Hope.’ We’re holding hands in a shared mission –– St. Vincent de Paul Society serves the poor outside the classroom, ‘Vision of Hope’ serves the poor inside the classroom.”

Sister Johnnie says she “can’t imagine a scenario with no Catholic schools.” Nationwide since 2005, 21 percent of Catholic schools have closed. “Vision of Hope” serves eight inner-city elementary schools statewide including San Francisco’s St. James and St. Anthony Immaculate Conception.

“Catholic education is integrated learning with an emphasis on faith and community, while fulfilling our obligation to keep up with academic trends and standards,” Sister Johnnie said. “We need to form leaders who have strong moral values, who have their faith to hold onto in knowing how to handle challenges and make the best choices.”

Sister Johnnie calls the founding of “Vision of Hope” among the greater of her moments as a religious. She remembers fondly how the sisters’ “unanimous ‘yes’” was the “beginning of making miracles” that have impacted the lives of thousands

EARNED HONORS: Notre Dame High School, Belmont has announced, from left, Gwendolen Hornaday, Serena Grown-Haeberli, Julia Montes-Laing, Bharathi Chinnakotla and Anya Knoth as Commended Students in 2016 National Merit Scholarship competitions. The young women are among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the contests. of students and families. The sisters’ call to “serve the young, the poor, the vulnerable” was tangible, Sister Johnnie said.

We all have a hand in good works, Sister Johnnie exhorted: “It’s hard to make the commitment, but the future of the church depends on our commitment to Catholic schools especially in the inner-city.”

SATURDAY, OCT. 24, YOUNG ADULT CONFERENCE: Daylong event at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.

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Blessing of the animals at local parishes

Parishes and schools throughout the archdiocese invoked the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi on the eve of his feast day Oct. 4 by inviting the local community to bring their beloved pets for an annual blessing.

Pet-loving parishes included St. Paul of the Shipwreck, left; St. Boniface, center; and St. Dominic, right, where pastor Dominican Father Michael Hurley joyfully released a dove after blessing it.

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Supporting marriage and family in the archdiocese Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Pope Francis has made it clear that supporting the family is a top priority of his pontificate.

From Oct. 4 – Oct. 25 the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops meets in Vatican City, with the theme “The vocation and mission of the family in the Church and in the contemporary world.”

Encouraging families, married couples, in their vocations, and young people to make the commitment to marriage and building a family is a recurring theme for the pontiff.

“From December through September, his Wednesday audiences have been on the family,” said Ed Hopfner, director of Marriage and Family Life, Archdiocese of San Francisco. “He came to the U.S. primarily to attend the World Meeting of Families” in Philadelphia. “… how important it is for us to share our home life and to help one another in this marvelous and challenging task of ‘being a family,’” Pope Francis said in his talk at the World Festival of Families Sept. 26 in Philadelphia. “God did not want to come into the world other than through a family.

God did not want to draw near to humanity other than through a home.”

Speaking to the bishops participating in the World Meeting of Families at St. Charles Bor-

romeo Seminary Sept. 27, Pope Francis said, “We are living in a culture which pressures some young people not to start a family because they lack the material means to do so, and others because they are so well off that they are happy as they are. That is the temptation, not to start a family.”

He called on the bishops to encourage families: “As pastors, we bishops are called to collect our energies and to rebuild enthusiasm for making families correspond ever more fully to the blessing of God which they are! We need to invest our energies not so much in rehearsing the problems of the world around us and the merits of Christianity, but in extending a sincere invitation to young people to be brave and to opt for marriage and the family.”

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, a variety of resources are available for married couples and families at various times of their lives, Hopfner said.

Retrouvaille: Retrouvaille is a weekend experience that offers practical tools for couples in troubled marriages to rediscover a loving relationship. It is designed for couples who are considering separation or divorce, or who are already separated or divorced and want marriage help. Joel and Sharon Walter, (415) 250-9851 or sfretro.walter@gmail. com.

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Covenant of Love (Alexander House): Monthly program of prayer, education and fellowship for married couples; St Hilary, Tiburon. Contact Ron and Melanie Ash; (415) 789-1145.

Parish ‘date night’: Bimonthly program of prayer, fellowship and education for married couples; Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park. Contact Deacon Dominick and Mary Ellen Peloso dominickpeloso@ aol.com; (650) 269-7794; (650) 269-6279.

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Marriage Mentorship ministry: Pairs newly married couples in the parish with ‘experienced’ married couples; St Dominic, San Francisco. Contact Laurine Garrity, (914) 819-8531; laurinemegarrity@gmail.com. see archdiocese, page 20

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel pastor Father Ulysses D’Aquila and St. Pius pastoral associate Franciscan Sister Norberta Villasenor led a procession of about 300 people protesting the evictions of families from an apartment complex in Redwood City.

“I’m very much in support of our people. They are really suffering,” said Father D’Aquila, who preached on the issue at the Spanish language Masses. The demand for housing by the tech companies and their employees is pushing out poor renters most of whom are Latino, the pastor said.

“I feel it is going to affect our community in a very serious way,” he said.

The Oct. 1 procession from El Camino Real to the complex at 1491 Hess Road concluded with a rally and prayers outside the complex. The sale of the complex was recorded Aug. 31 for $25.5 million, according to realtytrac.com.

“About a dozen families have received 30 and 60 day notices of eviction,” said Aracely Mondragon, a community organizer with San Francisco Organizing Project/Peninsula Interfaith Action, who noted the other families in the complex are worried they will be next. “We are standing with the families.”

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel pastor Father Ulysses D’Aquila spoke at an Oct. 1 prayer vigil held to highlight evictions of more than a dozen families at 1491 Hess Road in Redwood City. state law, Mondragon noted. State law requires that renters for less than a year receive a 30-day eviction notice and those renting for more than a year receive a 60-day eviction notice, Mondragon said.

The San Mateo City Council held a public hearing on the housing crisis Sept. 21 and formed a task force to examine the issue. No legislation is currently proposed and there is not a housing or tenant rights measure on the Nov. 3 ballot in San Mateo.

SFOP/PIA wants legislation that would limit the amount of any rent increase by a landlord, probably to the annual Consumer Price Index increase. SFOP/PIA backs a “just

cause evictions” law that would limit a landlord to evicting tenants for failure to pay rent, to damaging property or violating the lease and would otherwise only allow evictions if the landlord had a family member who was going to move in, Mondragon said. Now tenants can be evicted for any reason or no reason and there is no limit on the rent increases, Mondragon said.

The only city with a tenant rights law in San Mateo County is the city of East Palo Alto. Nearby San Jose and San Francisco have “just cause evictions” tenant law, said Mondragon.

SFOP/PIA backs construction of affordable public housing but “we also think there should be some preservation tactics to keep families who are already living here being able to continue to afford living here,” Mondragon said.

“It is such a sad situation and we heard a lot of people’s testimonials on their rents being doubled. Women with children, obviously there is no place people can find down here that is the least bit affordable,” Father D’Aquila said.

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“As Catholic bishops in California, we join hands with the disability rights groups, physicians, other health care professionals and advocates for the elderly in opposing physicianassisted suicide as the wrong way to advance the human dignity for those facing a terminal illness,” the conference said.

The prelates also pointed out that the 48 Catholic hospitals in California “provide excellent palliative care services as all medical facilities for terminally ill patients should but often do not.”

In a message the governor wrote to members of the California Assembly after signing the measure into law, he said he carefully read the “thoughtful opposition materials presented by a number of doctors, religious leaders and those who champion disability rights.”

Brown, who is Catholic, also said he considered the theological and religious perspectives about the “deliberate shortening of one’s life” and he read the letters and “heartfelt pleas” of those who support the bill. He said he discussed the issue with a Catholic bishop, his own doctors, former classmates and friends who “take varied, contradictory and nuanced positions.”

“In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death,” Brown wrote. “I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to

‘In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death. I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain.

I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. And I wouldn’t deny that right to others.’

California Gov. Jerry Brown be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. And I wouldn’t deny that right to others.”

“This is a dark day for California and for the Brown legacy,” Californians Against Assisted Suicide said. “Gov. Brown was clear in his statement that this was based on his personal background. As someone of wealth and access to the world’s best medical care and doctors the governor’s background is very different than that of millions of Californians living in health-care

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The coalition against the bill said it “is reviewing at all of its options.”

The California Catholic Conference said it was proud to work with Californians Against Assisted Suicide and its partners from the disability rights community, advocates for the elderly, physicians’ groups and other health care professionals during the debate on this measure, and said the bishops would “continue to stand with them in efforts to protect the most vulnerable Californians.”

The conference stressed that the legislation will “adversely affect the poor, as those with resources will always have access to palliative care.”

It also said the legislation places the elderly and disabled in “great peril” noting that “the option to offer the low-cost alternative of lethal drugs instead of proper medical care is a temptation not long resisted.”

The legislation requires that a patient with a terminal disease must be physically capable of taking medication that would end his or her life. It says that a patient must submit written requests for the medication, that two doctors must approve the request and that there must be two witnesses.

Other states with laws permitting physicianassisted suicide are Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont.

Brian Joseph O’Kane 1931 – 2015 Brian was born in San Francisco to Joseph and Madeline (Lucas) O’Kane, members of Holy Names Parish. His father died when he was eight years old. Albert, his younger brother preceded him in death (1985).

After the eighth grade Brian entered St. Joseph’s Seminary in Mountain View. Upon ordination in 1957 he joined the Sulpician order. Sulpicians are an order that originated in Paris, France. At St. Joseph’s he taught physics, chemistry, trigonometry, and athletics, for eight years. The following next three years were spent at the University of Wisconsin pursuing a doctoral degree in the History of Medieval Science. He returned to the Bay Area in 1971 to be a professor at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park.

He transitioned from active priesthood and explored a variety of employments. Some of his pursuits were: Beltramo’s in Menlo Park, working at Muir Woods, and tutoring students. He spent his later years working at Border’s Bookstore in Marin, satisfying his passion for the printed word, and retiring at age 80. He was a voracious reader and loved a good mystery.

Monthly, he visited former classmates in the San Jose area for lunch. Thursdays he met another group In San Rafael for Mass and breakfast. He enjoyed spending time with his cousins, especially Beryl and Jim Reilly, Alice and Don Kavanaugh, and Bob, Colleen, and Kathy McNichol.

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Sister: Pope’s prison visit should have broad impact

one class, taught together weekly inside the prison walls.

PHILADELPHIA – A woman religious who teaches a course at the Philadelphia prison Pope Francis visited Sept.

27 believes the pope’s outreach to prisoners will have an impact on the criminal justice system in America.

“He’ll be aware of Mercy Sister Elizabeth Linehan the injustices that may occur in the prison system,” and his presence will raise public awareness about prison systems around the country, said Mercy Sister Elizabeth Linehan, a professor of philosophy at Jesuit-run St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

“He’s aware of the United States’ reputation as ‘the great incarcerator,’ with our country having a higher percentage of our population in prison than any other country’s proportion,” she added.

She also said she hopes the pope’s visit to the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility will bring to light such injustices as men not convicted of a crime yet serving prison time while they await trial, and some others imprisoned without having bail set.

Sister Elizabeth has taught a course titled “Inside-Out” at CurranFromhold and other prisons in the Philadelphia area for several years.

The course brings together studentinmates from jails and university students from the outside world to form

Cuban-American finds Havana’s poverty unsettling

MIAMI – In just three years between the past two papal visits to Cuba, retired Miami academic Andy Gomez remains disturbed by what he said is an alarming uptick in poverty and urban decay in the island nation’s capital.

A retired assistant provost and dean of international studies at the University of Miami, where he also was a senior fellow at the university’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American studies, Gomez, his wife and several hundred South Florida Catholics made a Sept. 18-21 pilgrimage to Havana in support of the pope’s visit to Cuba before his U.S. trip.

With his wife, Frances Serantes Gomez, he delivered donations of humanitarian aid and religious items in September to the parish during the archdiocesan-sponsored pilgrimage in support of Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba.

“We were taken aback by the poverty around the neighborhood,” Gomez said, recalling a parish event and meal for local families at La Merced Sept. 19, the Saturday before the papal Mass in Havana. “They had to turn back families and kids that night because there was not enough room.”

Catholic, Lutheran leaders shaken by reports of harvesting of fetal body parts

ST. LOUIS – Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis and the Rev. Mat-

thew C. Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, said they were shaken and shocked by reports that the body parts of babies were being harvested.

In an Oct. 5 statement, the religious leaders cited the undercover videos released in recent weeks by the Center for Medical Progress showing Planned Parenthood officials and others discussing the transfer of body parts from aborted babies for research as cause for great concern.

“Like millions of Americans, including those in the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod, we have been shaken to the core by what we have

witnessed: intact babies, at times still alive, having their body parts harvested as a commodity,” the statement said. “We are shocked at the image of tiny hands and feet seen in a glass pie plate. We are horrified at what we have seen and heard. Such actions and attitudes have no place in our society.”

A series of 11 edited videos has been released by the Irvine, California-based Center for Medical Progress since July. The revelation has prompted investigations by state and federal officials into Planned Parenthood’s activities across the country.

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A native San Franciscan, Sister Helen taught in schools in cities including Belmont, San Jose, Santa Clara and Santa Barbara and more recently served at John XXIII Senior Center in San Jose. She is grateful for her Notre Dame family she says, as well as “all the friends I’ve known and loved in my 75 years as a Sister of Notre Dame.”

70 Years Sister Barbara Hanagan, SNDdeN

Sister Barbara especially enjoyed teaching high school students especially at Star of the Sea School in Honolulu. Sister Barbara said “the presence of God is the greatest – in the ordinariness of life, the small miracles, in community and in the quiet of prayer.”

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Sister Sharonann Skain, SNDdeN

Sister Sharonann is a native of San Francisco and has taught at schools in San Carlos, San Francisco and Millbrae. She has served for 22 years as RCIA director at St Christopher Parish in San Jose.

Sister Sharon said: “Thank you, thank you Holy Spirit, for the gift of joy to celebrate 60 years as an SND among your people.”

50 Years Sister Sharon Joyer, SNDdeN

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Sister Nancy McCarron, SNDdeN

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Sister Louise O’Reilly, SNDdeN

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Synod: Take a positive approach to families, members say FROM PAGE 1

The criticism, therefore, was expected and is “very much welcome,” he added.

Almost all the groups insisted whatever document the synod produced at the end would need to be clear, simple and realistic.

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told reporters at the briefing that his small group called for a text using understandable words that “inspired and attract.”

“If marriage is a vocation, which we believe it is, we can’t promote vocations by talking first about its problems,” said the report of English Group D, chaired by Cardinal Thomas C. Collins of Toronto with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia serving as secretary.

Several groups also insisted the document should include more quotations from Scripture, a clearer reaffirmation of church teaching and, according to one Italian group, ample citations from early church theologians.

Cardinal Tagle said even though the text would be rooted in the Bible, the language used should be “more edifying or encouraging,” and less verbose. There was a recognition that a final document would have to avoid so-called “church-speak,” especially if it was going to speak to young people whose formation might not be so sophisticated, he said. But because

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U.S. Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago participates in prayer at the start of a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family attended by Pope Francis at the Vatican Oct. 9. it is a work in progress, “We will see what will happen.”

Another Italian group, Group A, said its members want a document using “formulas that from the beginning leave no doubt that the only model of family that corresponds to church doctrine is that founded on the marriage of one man and one woman.”

Like the other groups, French Group C insisted the synod find the right language and tone to speak of the family. “There is a danger in talking about ‘family’ in the abstract, as a reality that is external to us,”

the members said. But, in fact, the families the bishops are talking about include the families formed by the bishops’ own parents, their brothers and sisters, cousins and nieces and nephews.

The bishops, the French group wrote, also are people of faith and pastors; faith in Jesus and concern for people in their family lives must be clear in what the synod produces.

French Group A said the synod’s text “must adopt a tone that promotes dialogue with our contemporaries.”

At the same time, the group reported, “we are aware that these next two

Synod changes: Making less time for speeches, more time for dialogue Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Although the public is given glimpses of what happens inside the Catholic Church’s world Synod of Bishops, the meetings themselves take place behind closed doors.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Synod of Bishops has been the object of a continual hunt to balance creating a protected space where bishops could speak freely – something that was especially important a couple of decades ago when some members came from Soviet-bloc countries – with letting Catholics at home know that their bishops were working prayerfully and seriously on issues they, too, would find important.

As a theologian, bishop and thenprefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Benedict XVI had attended 15 of the 20 general, special and regional synod assemblies held between 1965 and his election as pope in 2005. One of the first things he did as pope was to institute an hour of “free discussion” at the end of the synod’s evening session each day. Unfortunately, several synod members said, some synod participants insist on reading a text there, too, basically giving themselves the chance to make two formal speeches.

Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, synod general secretary, said this year’s synod will see participants spending more time working and discussing

issues in small groups and less time listening to speeches.

Because the number of bishops in the world – and at the synods – continues to grow, the amount of time they are given for speeches to the assembly has been reduced. Prior to 2005, they each had eight minutes.

For the 2008 synod, it was reduced to five minutes. This year it has been slashed to three minutes.

The three-minute limit means that the full texts are often shorter than the speech summaries the Vatican used to hand out. With the extraordinary synod on the family last year, the Vatican stopped distributing summaries.

But this year, Cardinal Baldisseri announced, synod participants are free to give interviews and to distribute or publish the complete texts of their speeches. However, it seemed most participants were not aware of the change and, of the first 72 speeches at the synod, only a dribble of texts found their way into the public sphere during the synod’s first week.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia posted his text on his archdiocese’s news site, catholicphilly.com.

The archbishop said that while part of the synod working document “did a good job” describing the modern family, overall “the text engenders a subtle hopelessness. This leads to a spirit of compromise with certain sinful patterns of life and (to) the reduction of Christian truths about marriage and sexuality to a

set of beautiful ideals – which then leads to surrendering the redemptive mission of the church.”

He urged the synod to affirm church teaching on marriage, sexuality and the family and demonstrate confidence in “the transformative power of grace and the ability of people to actually live what the church believes.”

“We need to call people to perseverance in grace and to trust in the greatness God intended for them – not confirm them in their errors,” Archbishop Chaput told the synod.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York published his text on his blog, cardinaldolan.org.

“The starting point of the synod,” Cardinal Dolan said, “must be what God has revealed to us about marriage and the family: that one man and one woman, united in lifelong, life-giving, faithful love, eager for God’s gift of babies, raised with tenderness in the sacred ‘communio’ of the family, is the premier relationship of this life, so holy that it reflects the interior love of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Most Blessed Trinity.”

The German bishops’ conference posted on its website Oct. 8 the text of Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin.

He spoke of the large number of couples who live together without marriage because they do not see it as important and of the need to give special attention to couples in which one spouse is Catholic and the other Protestant.

weeks will not be enough” to complete thoroughly the work the synod has been asked to do.

English Group C agreed. “To address the many issues that we have discussed will take more than the first week or even the three weeks of the synod. A longer journey stretches before us, just as an earlier journey has led us to this point – not just from late 2013 when Pope Francis announced the journey of the two synods but from the Second Vatican Council and all that led to it.”

Several groups also urged the synod to discuss “gender theory,” which argues that male and female characteristics are not biologically determined but are malleable social constructs.

Italian Group A said the synod must point out “the risks of gender ideology as well as its negative impact on educational programs in many countries.”

French Group C explained that sociologists and philosophers developed gender theories in an attempt “to analyze certain human and social phenomena to enrich our understanding of the world. But when these theories become absolute, they tend to produce a single thought system that tries to sweep away everything in its path. In seeking to impose a point of view that denies the relationship between gender and the sexual being that we are in our bodies,” it denies what is “most noble and humanizing” in the family, parenting and human love.

Mercy and fidelity on the road to Emmaus Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Showing mercy and accompanying people who are living in situations that go against church teaching entail helping to steer them in the direction that God wants, said two synod participants.

Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto said his presentation to the synod will focus on the true meaning of accompaniment by looking at the Gospel account of the journey on the road to Emmaus.

“Two elements must be there,” he told Catholic News Service Oct. 8.

“First we always must be with the people where they are, where they begin.”

But, just as Jesus was with the disciples on the road to Emmaus, “they were going in the wrong direction, actually, and they’re going into the night.”

Jesus’ fundamental message in this account is his call for repentance and conversion, and likewise, pastors and Catholics are asked to “help people to go where the Lord calls them to go.” see mercy, page 17

Father Rolheiser’s column will resume in the next issue.

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Pope Francis: A model ministry Editor’s note: This is an edited version of a commentary published Sept. 29 in The Jerusalem Post and written by Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. The rabbi and Imam Khalid Latif, the Muslim chaplain at New York University, offered reflections before Pope Francis spoke at a multireligious gathering Sept. 25 in Foundation Hall at the 9/11 museum. The article was redistributed by Catholic News Service in response to editors’ requests for a regular sampling of current commentary.

His words and actions remind us that the point of religion is not descriptive, to describe the world as it is, but rather prescriptive, to describe the world as it ought to be.

Pope Francis has shifted the conversation away from “who is out” to “who is in”; away from what behaviors will preclude you from the services of the church to how the services of the church must be better deployed to serve those at the periphery of society.

It is not so difficult to think of pockets of Jewish religious leadership who would do well to adopt Pope Francis’ posture.

Respecting tradition and “menschlichkeit” are not mutually exclusive propositions. It is this posture of inclusion, not exclusion, that should guide our efforts as a Jewish community.

Aside from the change of tone, what is most refreshing about Pope Francis is the inability of the media or political establishment to fit him into any ideological box.

He preaches on family values and environmentalism. He speaks to an ethic of personal responsibility and social welfare. He is tough on abortion and same-sex marriage, and he is also an unflinching advocate for immigrant rights. This pope isn’t really a conservative or liberal – his leanings don’t fit tidily into any chart – and I think that is great. Pope Francis is a powerful counterargument to

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Pope Francis and New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan pause for reflection at the edge of the South Pool memorial, site of the fallen south tower of the World Trade Center, in New York Sept. 25. the polarized debates of our time.

His model suggests that ideological consistency has nothing to do with political affiliation, but is rather a litmus test of a much higher integrity.

One of the many ills afflicting us this political season is the fact that a candidate cannot be, for instance, a social liberal and a fiscal conservative, or the other way around.

We don’t permit complexity in our leaders, but because this pope isn’t running for office, he is able to be complex. God is neither conservative nor liberal, Republican nor Democrat, hawk nor dove. This pope gets that and it is a model well worth considering.

The close listener can discern a thread that connects Pope Francis’ calls for environmental stewardship, theological humility, global responsibility, economic justice and more.

In each case, it is the abiding belief that every human being is cre-

ated in the infinite dignity of God’s image that demands that we care for our world and each other. No matter what our theological differences may be, in insisting on a rigid uniformity of belief we diminish the dignity of another person’s right to their beliefs. As stewards of God’s creation, we are obligated to care for our “common home” in a manner that speaks not only to our present needs, but to those of the unborn generations to come. So, too, in our attention to the plight of the poor and the refugee, our obligations are founded not merely on the golden rule of “do unto others,” but also on an awareness, as Pope Francis said to Congress, that as a nation of immigrants, America must be attentive to the present humanitarian crisis engulfing Europe. This is a message that the Jewish community knows well. It is our awareness that we were once strangers in a strange

land that calls us to care for the condition of the strangers in our own midst and era. As a Jewish community, we would do well to study the contours of Pope Francis’ vision to find points of common cause and collaboration.

The very fact that Pope Francis has insisted on speaking to the issues of the day is a model for us all. His words and actions remind us that the point of religion is not descriptive, to describe the world as it is, but rather prescriptive, to describe the world as it ought to be. In his insistence that faith be an instrument of peace, not violence, in his insistence that the church be “a field hospital after battle,” healing wounds and warming hearts, Pope Francis is reinvigorating the prophetic voice of faith in our communal discourse.

And he has done so with a deep and abiding humility. Having sat next to him, I can report his demeanor is not overbearing.

Whatever his rank may be, there is a humanity to the man, a humanity that strikes me as being deeply concerned with the condition not just of every human being, but of a common humanity.

Pope Francis has given all people of faith a model that we can aspire to emulate.

Annulments: What is really changing?

Elimination of automatic appeal Part 3 of 5

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n Sept. 8, 2015, Pope Francis issued “Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus” (“The Lord Jesus, Gentle Judge,”) a document revising the marriage nullity process. The mass media, including even some Catholic news outlets, have reported a great deal of misinformation about the changes. In question-andanswer format over the next few weeks, I would like to reflect on various aspects of this new “motu proprio” responding to some logical questions which have been raised since publication. It is my hope that this will help to msgr. Michael clarify some misinformation Padazinski about the new legislation while reassuring the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco that our own metropolitan tribunal, which is comprised of wonderful canonists and other canonicals officials, will do all it can to insure the proper, just and timely implementation of these new norms governing our universal church.

It is important to state at the outset, that there are still questions abounding among canonists and what follows will hopefully be of assistance to any who are interested in the new laws regulating the marriage nullity process while acknowledging that further guidance from Rome to assist local tribunals with the new praxis is anticipated.

9. What is the current requirement of a second conforming affirmative?

The whole marriage nullity process leads up

to the moment when the judges make their decision: Has the marriage been proven invalid or not?

If it has been proven invalid on a given ground, the judges vote in the “affirmative.” If any doubt remains, the judges vote in the “negative.” As an extra protection against unfounded declarations of nullity, an affirmative decision does not become “executory” (meaning the parties can act on it, usually by getting remarried) unless it is upheld on the same ground by an appellate tribunal. This requirement holds even when nobody appeals the sentence. Also, if there is a disagreement between the original tribunal and the appellate tribunal (affirmative/negative or negative/affirmative), the case has to be heard by a second appellate tribunal.

10. What does it mean that the requirement of a second affirmative is being eliminated?

Under the revised law, if nobody (i.e., neither party nor the defender of the bond) appeals an affirmative within 15 days, it becomes executory.

That is true at the first instance level or at any appellate level: one un-appealed affirmative sentence definitively establishes the nullity of the marriage.

This applies to cases whose final sentences are published on or after December 8, 2015. Note that there are still certain remedies against an affirmative sentence aside from appeal, and that two conforming negatives still extinguishes the normal avenues for further appeal.

11. Why is the requirement of a second affirmative being eliminated?

The requirement of a second conforming affirmative is a safeguard against unfounded declarations of nullity and other injustices, but it is not required by the divine law or by the very nature of the matter. For the better part of the last several centu-

ries, the requirement has been in place, but Pope Francis has discerned that the extra certainty it affords is disproportionate to the additional burden of time, energy, and resources that it entails. And since the right to appeal remains in force, everyone’s right to defend their marriage remains intact.

12. How long is the process supposed to last?

The marriage nullity process is not something that can be rushed: Marriages are complex and unique, and in order for the judge(s) to arrive at moral certitude whether a marriage is invalid from the start, it is necessary to gather a great deal of information. That means questioning the parties, interviewing witnesses, and collecting documents and other evidence. All the while, both parties’ rights have to be carefully protected, and all of this takes time. The law says that the process should normally be completed in a year in the first instance, but when delays arise it can take even longer. In many cases, it can be completed significantly sooner, and our tribunal aims at maximum efficiency, but never at the expense of the integrity of the process as a search for the truth.

Msgr. Padazinski is chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and judicial vicar of the metropolitan tribunal of the archdiocese.

Editor’s note: The full 21-point article titled “Annulments: What is really changing?” has been posted online at www.catholic-sf.org/files/digital_paper_201509185030.pdf. This is the third of five installments scheduled to appear in the print paper. Previous installments covered what the marriage nullity process is and why it exists; and how the nullity process is changing. Later installments will cover the abbreviated process; and fees and implementation of the new law.

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Sunday readings

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PSALM 33:4-5, © 2001 CNS 18-19, 20, 22 Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full.

Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.

Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you.

Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

HEBREWS 4:14-16 Brothers and sisters: Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin. So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.

MARK 10:35-45 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” He replied, “What do you wish me to do for you?” They answered him, “Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at your left.” Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” They said to him, “We can.” Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink, you will drink, and

CORRECTION Liturgical readings for the Oct. 1 issue of Catholic San Francisco were from weeks of another cycle and not for the Sunday presented. We apologize for any inconvenience.

with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared.” When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John. Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt. But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all. For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Sons of thunder: ‘We want power’

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ince the Second Vatican Council there has been a lot of confusion about power in the American church. To some Vatican II became an opportunity to “restructure” the distribution of power in Catholicism. They are motivated by desire for power (pride) or because of past abuses (fear). But Christ gives his apostles an innovative picture of authority.

In Cormac Burke’s book “Authority and Freedom in the Church,” the Opus Dei canon lawyer gives a surprisingly cogent and logical paradigm of how the church understands her hierarchy. Using a pyramid, Burke describes the world’s viewpoint: God is at the top of the pyramid, the pope, sister maria bishops, and clergy are just catherine, op underneath God. At the bottom lie the laity and the “unwashed masses.” He explains, “Everyone agrees that the advancement of the laity was a main aim of Vatican II. For those who conceive the church in terms of the pyramid, advancement of the laity can appear as a straight-

scripture reflection

Pope Francis Church and society must learn from families

Society and the church have much to learn from the family and, in fact, the bond between the church and the family is “indissoluble,” Pope Francis said Oct. 7 during his weekly general audience in Vatican City.

Families bring needed values and a humanizing spirit to society and, when they mirror God’s love for all, they teach the church how it should relate to all people, including the “imperfect,” the pope said. He asked the 30,000 to pray for the family synod.

forward matter ... It simply means raising the laity ‘upward’ into the structural level of the hierarchy.”

However, this perception insinuates that anyone “at the bottom” pursues holiness as mere advancement up the pyramid. With this model in mind, many have indicated that promotion up the ranks is the authentic means of renewal in the church.

In the Gospel, Jesus emphasizes that the brother’s desire is misconceived; Jesus has power, but more importantly he possesses authority. Authority calls for “free acceptance” from subjects in contrast to power, which implies physical force.

Ruling entails sacrifice, “Can you drink the cup …?” Burke says, “Authority in the church does not imply privilege, much less domination. It implies mission; it implies service.” A pyramid that more truthfully reflects the church’s hierarchy (from the root for “sacred order”) also begins with Christ at the bottom where his grace and example support the clergy. The laity come just above the clergy on the pyramid, then the world. The Father retains his position at the top. Vatican II’s revelation is that the laity are called to evangelize the world; the clergy exist to support the laity in this mission. Although there is more that can be said theologically about the interrelatedness of each vocation in this image, this is the outline of Burke’s thesis.

Taking Burke’s thesis as a point of departure, I have noticed that one of the reasons the hierarchy

exists that is often neglected, is for the laity’s safety and protection. As such, each level in Burke’s pyramid prompts sacrifice: Jesus sacrifices himself, the clergy lay down their own lives (as Christ did for the church) to support the laity, who make sacrifices appropriate to their vocation (possibly time, comfort, and/or money, etc.) to witness to the world. God, too, is reaching down through the world, the Christian faithful, and clergy to embrace his Son, who is reaching up through the clergy, laity, and others to his Father. In this rightly ordered hierarchy based on loving service, all people are truly a part of the eternal exchange of love between the Father and the Son. Even though James and John’s question appears direct to the point of rudeness, Christ responds according to the true paradigm of authority, “What do you wish me to do for you?” He responds ready to serve. In the end, James and John give their lives in service to the church. Christ’s love transforms their desire for recognition to satisfy their heart’s deepest longing– in the eternal exchange of love between the Father and his Son. Sister Maria Catherine, OP, is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. She is fresh from teaching high school English in San Francisco, and is pursuing her master’s in theology at Ave Maria University in Florida.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, October 19: Memorial of Sts. Isaac Jogues and John de Brebeuf, priests and martyrs and companions, martyrs. Rom 4:20-25. Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75. Mt 5:3. Lk 12:13-21.

Thursday, October 22: Thursday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John Paul II. Rom 6:19-23. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. Phil 3:8-9. Lk 12:49-53.

Tuesday, October 20: Tuesday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Paul of the Cross, priest. Rom 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21. PS 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17. Lk 21:36. Lk 12:35-38.

Friday, October 23: Friday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John of Capistrano, priest. Rom 7:18-25a.

PS 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94. See Mt 11:25. Lk 12:54-59.

Wednesday, October 21: Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 6:12-18.

PS 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8. Mt 24:42a, 44. Lk 12:3948.

Saturday, October 24: Saturday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret, bishop. Rom 8:1-11. PS 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Ez 33:11. Lk 13:1-9.

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mercy: Means steering people toward God, say Canadian, Ghanaian FROM PAGE 14

“Just to have accompaniment as people are moving in the direction away from the Lord is not enough. We need to be with them in order to help people to follow our Lord.”

“The truest compassionate mercy is a compassion that challenges,” he said. Receiving people as they are is the first step, he said, “but that is only the first thing. The second thing is to help them become what God wants them to be.”

Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, Ghana, told reporters after a synod briefing Oct. 8 that St. John Paul II highlighted how God is rich in mercy. However, he said, God calls the person and the whole church community toward conversion and conforming to his will. Justice and mercy are in balance together like a scale, he said.

The archbishop said being inclusive is letting the world know that God is the father of and for all people, and everyone is welcome to embrace that truth and God’s plan. But to stay with God, he said, requires personal conversion.

However, an approach of compassion and initial welcome toward homosexuals is very difficult to embrace for many African cultures, he told a press briefing earlier.

Even though the African bishops have made public statements upholding the inherent dignity of people with homosexual tendencies, the archbishop said these calls by the church will not change people’s attitudes “overnight.” In most African countries, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people hide their sexual orientation for fear of discrimination, persecution or criminal prosecution.

Negative attitudes in African cultures against homosexuals have existed for “millennia” and “it would be a bit deceptive to think” that those attitudes would change anytime soon, he said.

While the Catholic Church condemns homosexual activity and same-sex unions, the person’s dignity as a human being must be respected and their fundamental human rights upheld, the archbishop said. “We must underline that the rights of all sons and daughters of God are to be upheld by the church everywhere and we are trying.”

However, the “it takes time” for such a call to be heard. “Give the countries time to deal with the issues from their own cultural perspective,” he said. “Be patient with Africa. We’re growing.”

African bishops leave a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 9.

12th annual Pilgrimage for Saint Jude Thaddeus Saturday October 24, 2015 Location: Walk starts at 10:00 am from Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St., San Francisco; and ends at 11:30 am approx. at St. Dominic’s Church (Home of the Shrine of Saint Jude), 2390 Bush St., San Francisco.

SCRIPTURE SEARCH Gospel for October 18, 2015 Mark 10:35-45

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News from the Archdiocese of San Francisco Restorative Justice Ministry

The Restorative Justice Reentry Conference and Resource Fair took place on Saturday, September 26, 2015, hosted by the San Francisco Archdiocese’ Restorative Justice Ministry at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption Event Center to support people in Reentry.

VISIT TO DETAINEES AT CURRAN-FROMHOLD CORRECTIONAL FACILITY ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER Philadelphia, Sunday, 27 September 2015 Pope Francis speech: …Jesus comes to meet us, so that he can restore our dignity as children of God. He wants to help us to set out again, to resume our journey, to recover our hope, to restore our faith and trust. He wants us to keep walking along the paths of life, to realize that we have a mission, and that confinement is never the same thing as exclusion… It is painful when we see prison systems which are not concerned to care for wounds, to soothe pain, to offer new possibilities,” “It is painful when we see people who think that only others need to be cleansed, purified, and do not recognize that their weariness, pain and wounds are also the weariness, pain and wounds of society.”…

Saturday September 26th was a day to remember for many who attended the Reentry Conference. While Pope Francis was visiting the United Sates and a jail in Philadelphia speaking specifically about Restorative Justice, the Restorative Justice Ministry in San Francisco was holding its 2nd annual Reentry Conference and Resource Fair.

Over 300 people congregated on Saturday, September 26 to build new relations among formerly incarcerated people, some recently released from prisons that wanted help, families of those still in jails and prisons, crime survivors, and more than 30 organizations working in recidivism efforts. People from the Bay Area and other parts of California attended the conference. The 2016 Reentry Conference is scheduled on Saturday, October 1, in San Francisco. To volunteer in the Archdiocese Restorative Justice Ministry please contact Julio Escobar, 415 861-9579.

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Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice above, opens the Reentry Conference in San Francisco with a Restorative Justice pledge and a message for non-violence.

Discussion breakout sessions included: Criminal behavior: Lifestyles and addictions, Does San Francisco need a new jail? How to prepare for, identify, understand, and navigate barriers to reentry, incarceration’s impact on families, new priorities in a new criminal justice landscape (Californians for Safety and Justice), non-profit organization models serving reentry populations, treatment services for the mentally ill in jails and prisons, victim and offender education groups inside California prisons, working and caring for incarcerated veterans, and breaking the cycle of juvenile incarceration through faith and education.

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Secular Franciscans celebrate 100 years of ‘Franciscan joy’ Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

They’ve been quietly feeding and clothing the poor in San Francisco and sometimes not so quietly standing up against injustice and violence for 100 years. On Oct. 3, the St. Francis Secular Franciscan Fraternity and the local Franciscan community celebrated 10 decades of living out the Gospel with a daylong “Franciscan Day of Joy” at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco.

The event was attended by more than 150 Franciscans and their friends who came together in fellowship on the eve of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi to celebrate Mass, gain inspiration from Franciscan speakers and celebrate the Transitus – an annual prayer service remembering the passing of Francis from this life into God. “We are known as people of penance,” said Christine Morrison, a retired teacher and the fraternity’s current vice minister. Like some others in the fraternity, she lives in or near the Tenderloin in order to be more accessible to the homeless and sick who live there. She has marched against war and has championed the poor at city hall. “We are regular people who agree to follow Francis’ teachings and live the Gospel life of Jesus.”

The Secular Franciscan Order, formerly known as the Third Order of St. Francis, is an official order within the Catholic Church, established by St. Francis of Assisi himself early in the 13th century. This third order was devised by St. Francis as a sort of middle state between the cloister and

(photo by Christina Gray/catholic san francisco)

St. Francis Fraternity formation director Tim Gallagher wears a Tau cross like many Franciscans.

The Franciscan Day of Joy began with Mass at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district on Oct. 3.

the world for those wishing to follow in the saint’s footsteps.

Secular Franciscans go through a formal formation program and once professed, are part of the Franciscan family of friars, brothers and Poor Clare nuns and sisters. They do not live in community but live everyday lives, performing jobs out in the world, gathering in fraternities on a regular basis.

The St. Francis Secular Franciscan Fraternity, founded at St. Boniface in 1891, saw its first professions in 1915 and is part of an international fraternity of about 400,000 Secular Franciscans.

According to Morrison, the fraternity has always helped to meet the needs of the times. During World War II, for example, members held a Day of Prayer for Peace and raised money WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF FORMATIONin WEEKEND? to aidTHElepers the Philippines. In the

1950s members were instrumental in supporting Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddeker in the opening the St. Anthony’s Dining Room. More recently, members marched for peace against war in the Middle East.

The centennial celebration and Franciscan Day of Joy began with morning Mass, celebrated by Franciscan Father John Hardin, provincial of the Santa Barbara Province of Franciscan Friars, where the filled-tocapacity sanctuary sang in praise St. Francis’ “Canticle of the Sun.” Featured presentations were made

by Franciscan Father Jack Clark Robinson and Franciscan Sister Margie Will and a short video on the history of the fraternity was shown during lunch.

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Promote personal and couple healing Provide an environment for spiritual growth Create an empowering environment Teach the technique of dialogue Teach writing skills and develop the ability of couples and priests to write and present their story • Affirm the couples and priests, and help build their confidence • Help couples and priests to incorporate the values of Retrouvaille into their lives • • • • •

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RETROUVAILLE MISSION STATEMENT We, the members of Retrouvaille International, are united in the belief that the sacrament of marriage deserves an opportunity and has a God-given right to survive in a society that does little to support marriage.

We believe that the presence of God can make a difference in any marriage and that a reconciled marriage is preferable to divorce.

We welcome all who wish to join us in this ministry, and will work together to help alleviate the pain and begin the healing process in the marriages that come to Retrouvaille for help.

Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we will use our talents and gifts to promote and spread the healing ministry of Retrouvaille.

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‘Carbon neutrality’ goal of USF’s new sustainability coordinator WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE FORMATION WEEKEND?

Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

A University of San Francisco graduate who earned a master’s degree in environmental management in 2013 is back on campus as the school’s first sustainability coordinator.

Richard Hsu was hired by his alma mater to lead the newly created office of sustainability. He is responsible for implementing a “climate action plan” completed late last year by the university’s Sustainability Council aimed at achieving carbon neutrality and cultivating a new generation of ecologically aware citizens in the process.

Carbon neutrality is achieved by an individual or organization when it subtracts as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it generates. Carbon dioxide emissions, largely the result of the burning of fossil fuels, are implicated in the disruption of weather patterns that the pope said in his recent encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” will hit the planet’s poor the hardest.

“Our climate action plan ties in perfectly with our mission as a Jesuit university,” Hsu told Catholic San Francisco. “Our mission here is to educate leaders who will fashion a world that is more humane and just, a world that is shared by all and held in trust for future generations. That’s exactly what sustainability is.”

With just over 10,000 students and almost 1,000 staff and faculty, the university is “like a small city” that includes multiple heat- and waste- generating and water-using structures, a vehicle fleet and hundreds of campus commuters, Hsu said.

The Formation Weekend is for: • Persons already involved in this ministry • Communities wishing to start Retrouvaille • Couples and priests who are currently preparing to work in this ministry in existing and new communities • Couples and priests who wish to discern how they may help the Retrouvaille ministry by their involvement

The university’s climate action plan includes incremental changes in four areas over 35 years, with 100 percent carbon neutrality targeted for 2050. It The policy regarding changing presenting team starts with human behaviors composition in the Retrouvaille International By-Laws is as follows: and includes improving and choices • Non-Catholic members shall be practicing and accept and support the theChristians efficiency of older systems – in Catholicity of Retrouvaille.

• All teams must be in a marriage deemed many by replacing them with valid bycases the Roman Catholic Church. more energy-efficient revsions – using renewable energy where possible, and reducing emissions elsewhere to offset those that are unavoidable.

USF’s climate action plan is the direct result of a commitment to sustainability made by university president Jesuit Father Paul Fitzgerald. In 2014 Father Fitzgerald joined nearly 700 other university presidents nationwide in signing the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

All schools that sign the commitment pledge to conduct an institutional emissions inventory and to create a related climate action plan. USF’s 55-page plan, finalized last December, identifies operational and educational strategies to reduce carbon emissions. It also calls for a full-time sustainability coordinator.

Hsu plans to develop co-curricular and extracurricular projects, particularly in the upgrade of antiquated structures and energy systems, making the campus a living laboratory for students.

In the long run, the climate action plan will also help the university achieve “fiscal sustainability,” but the effort is not as much about money as morality.

“We are addressing a global problem with dire social, economic and political implications,” Hsu said. “It’s primarily about doing the right thing.”

who professed in 2012. Her friend and fellow fraternity member Pat Dolan, also of St. Dominic, sat by her side.

Tim Gallagher, RCIA director for St. Boniface and formation director for the St. Francis Fraternity, said that members live out their charism quietly.

“Our purpose is to be at the street level with those that are hurt, bruised and disenfranchised and need to be lifted up in any way,” he said. He said he has three new candidates in formation currently.

Gallagher, who dropped out of seminary and monastic life, fingered his Tau cross, a symbol of the Franciscan order and described what being a Secular Franciscan means to him.

“If I am going to meet our Lord, I want to be able to say ‘these are the jewels that you gave me, I didn’t bury them.’”

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The ultimate goal of Retrouvaille is solely to help save marriages.

Retrouvaille is not a retreat or marriage counseling.

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‘Whirlwind trip of grace’: MC’s papal pilgrimage Sister Maria Frassati, OP

When people speak disparagingly about “kids these days,” those of us who work closely with young people are able to share a kind of secret smile. We know the truth: Young people are eager, generous, and ready to give of themselves, if only someone calls this out of them. Pope Francis is just such a someone.

This September, the four Dominican Sisters who teach at Marin Catholic High School were privileged to take eight of their students to Philadelphia to see our Holy Father. This was no pleasure trip.

They slept on office floors. They ate at irregular hours. They walked miles of Philadelphia streets.

They endured extreme sleep deprivation. Most impressively, they all missed that highlight of high school fall: Homecoming weekend.

But did the students complain? Not in the least.

On the contrary, they took in the Philly sights with enthusiasm. They passed out holy cards left and right.

And they gave some of their trip to the Hawthorne Dominicans’ home for a service day with incurable cancer patients. There they had a chance to visit and pray with several patients. Though some of the patients were not able to communicate, the students were deeply moved by their joy in the midst of their suffering. Much of this joy was surely due to the dedicated and generous service of those who cared for them.

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Marin Catholic students and Dominican Sisters who teach at the high school are pictured in Philadelphia during their pilgrimage on the visit of Pope Francis.

God rewarded all of this generosity. Not only were the San Francisco pilgrims treated with the utmost hospitality by Our Lady of Lourdes Parish where they camped out in the halls, but all of Philly seemed determined to help them enjoy the city of brotherly love. They met beautiful families, old friends, new friends, and even saw the Holy Father pass by, blessing the crowds.

Pope Francis drew many people together, calling out the best in those who came. The students experienced this waiting for the pope as they met families from Africa, Kentucky, Oregon, Connecticut and around the nation. In no time at all, they were holding stranger’s babies and lifting up toddlers on their shoulders to see over the crowds. For a few days, there were no strangers in Philadelphia – we were all one in the church.

Our students had beautiful reflections on this whirlwind trip of grace. One student said that she was challenged by the pope’s message to love one’s family through small gestures of kindness even in trying circumstances. Another student responded that he was moved by the pope’s challenge to not only be Catholic in name but to really live out the faith in one’s everyday life.

“Kids these days” indeed. With moments of grace like this, these young people are truly what JPII called the “hope of the future.”

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Couples for Christ: Couples for Christ is an international Catholic lay ecclesial movement whose goal is to renew and strengthen Christian family life and values. Members meet regularly for education and formation. Celestino Marquez, cgmarquezjr@gmail.com.

Movimiento Familiar Cristiano (Christian Family Movement): Christian Family Movement is a national network of parish/neighborhood small groups of Catholics and their families, who meet regularly for education and formation. Contact Vicente and Reina Cortes (415) 577-6083; Fermín and Angelica Salas, angie_salas32@yahoo.com (650) 776-9538.

Pastoral Familiar Hispana: This is an archdiocesan-level formation and education program for Spanish-speaking couples and families. Currently about 100 couples are participating, in all three counties. Contact Temo and Sonia Alvarado (650) 5881970; temoysonia@sbcglobal.net.

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St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, San Francisco: Father Manuel D. Igrobay Jr. was installed as the parish’s eighth pastor Oct. 4, with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and many parishioners joining in the celebration.

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‘On Fire NorCal Jam’: Drew 3,500 youth, young adults, and chaperones from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and eight additional Northern California dioceses to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Sept. 19.

Local parishes represented included St. Matthias, St. Peter, St. Pius, St. Kevin, St. Boniface, St. Andrew, Mater Dolorosa, St. Mark’s and St. Timothy.

Up next is an Archdiocesan Youth Rally and Youth Mass Oct. 18, 2-6 p.m., Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City. Bishop William Justice is principal celebrant and homilist, said Ynez Lizarraga, as-

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sociate director of youth ministry for the archdiocese. Left, students from San Francisco’s Mercy High School and Archbishop Riordan High School at “On Fire NorCal Jam.” “Of course, everyone’s hearts were on fire; a truly Spirit-filled experience for all!” the schools said. Right, Gino Castiglioni, Rebekah Karlegan, Carly Ippolito and Jacob Rodriguez from Mater Dolorosa Parish, South San Francisco.

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ST. PHILIP PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: A “decade” or so of parishioners have begun a rosary ministry.

Most recently the group donated rosaries they made to the Maryknoll Sisters in Bolivia. “Our goal is to build awareness of the beauty and power of praying the rosary to those near and far,” the group said. On October 18th a Marian Mass will be celebrated with rosaries to all in attendance.

The assembly will include students from St. Philip School. Pictured from left are rosary makers Isabel Juarez, Danny Forchione, Carolee Lubin, Marily Frie(Back), Lorraine Weaver, Marian Dickey, Carmen Vargas, and Barbara McQuillan. Micaela Martinez and Sandy Kearney were unavailable for the photo.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 15 60th REUNION: Archbishop Riordan, Class of 1955, Presidio Golf Club, 11 a.m., $60; Jack McCloskey, (650) 9929139 or seanabu@att.net.

FRIDAY, OCT. 16 3-DAY FESTIVAL: St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae; rides, games, food and drink, chili cook-off, bingo, raffle, silent auction, and a Country Store with handmade items and treats; Friday 5-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday noon–8 p.m.; (650) 697-4730; secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org.

GOLF: Archbishop Riordan High School community golf, Crystal Springs, 1 p.m. tee off, individual golfers $250; foursomes $900; www. riordanhs.org, (415) 586-8200, ext.

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2-DAY WORKSHOP: Uncover your calling, those you’re meant to serve, and the message you embody in Christ. Friday 7-9 p.m., Saturday 10-4 p.m.; St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, registration required, $50 includes materials; www.breathoflifecenter. com/calling-discovery; Mary Smith (415) 297-1754.

SATURDAY, OCT. 17 OKTOBERFEST: St. Stephen Parish, Eucalyptus at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, 6 p.m., $45 adults, $10 children, under 12, dinner, dessert and dancing to German music plus raffle, Helga D’Arcy (415) 731-8211.

Saturday, Oct. 17 GOSPEL JAZZ MASS: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m., Father Arturo Albano, pastor, principal celebrant, Father Arturo Paulist Father Albano Bart Landry, pastor, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, concelebrating, all are welcome, Diane Crowther, director of music, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church; combined Bay Area Gospel Choir, including Inspiration Voices of Shipwreck, Sacred Heart/St. Boniface, Our Lady of Lourdes, San Francisco, St. Columba, Oakland; Doug Benbow, (415) 567-2020, ext. 220.

SUNDAY, OCT 18 FILIPINO GALA: Patrons’ Hall, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, theme is “Mission of the Family.” If interested in attending the event and/or placing an ad in the souvenir program book, Estelle Oloresisimo estelle.oloresisimo@gmail. com, (415) 595-9248; Edgar Estonina eestonina@comcast.com, (415) 370-9879.

YOUTH RALLY: Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City, 2 p.m.-6 p.m., for middle school and high school youth with youth speaker Ansel Augustine from New Orleans. Bishop William Justice is principal celebrant and homilist of Mass. Registration: http://sforeym.org/node/279.

FAITH FORMATION: Fromm Hall, north of St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Golden Gate avenues 10:50 a.m., the heart of spiritual life, Colette Lafia; free and open to the public; free parking in all USF lots; jacoleman@usfca.edu; faloon@usfca.edu; (415) 422-2195.

TUESDAY, OCT. 20 ST. JUDE NOVENA: Dominican Father Boniface Willard, preacher, St. Dominic Church through Oct. 28, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, rosary before all Masses, blessing with St. Jude relic after weekday Masses, 8 a.m., 5:30 p.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m., info@stjude-shrine.org; www.stjude-shrine.org; (415) 931-5919.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

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