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No ‘Damascus moment,’ but many inspiring models

Rachel Yan’s career path includes Kenya, Carnegie Hall

Knowing history can draw us closer to mysteries of faith

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Thousands of Catholics walked through the city of San Francisco with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Oct. 12, singing hymns and praying the rosary, and then gathered near Civic Center for the archdiocese’s third annual rosary rally and Benediction. “Next year, everyone bring a friend and we will double our numbers,” the archbishop told the crowd at United Nations Plaza, many of whom had knelt in prayer on the pavement during the benediction blessing and prayers before the Eucharist, displayed in a gold monstrance. “We bishops are asking our people of America to pray the rosary now, now before we reach the dire dark moments the church has known in the past when she took recourse to the mother of Our Lord in the holy rosary,” Archbishop Cordileone said. He cited threats to peace and to religious liberty, marriage, the family and “the disregard for the sanctity of human life in so many different ways wherever human life might seem inconvenient, an imposition, or on the margins of society.” “This moment of history is a time of grace the Lord is giving us; yes, we could call this a grace period. A period to seek him in prayer and ask him to turn our hearts and minds back to him while there is still time,” the archbishop said. “Do not underestimate the power of the rosary.” By far the greatest number of participants were from the Latino community, who started the day with a 9:30 a.m. Spanish-language Mass celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral, where the procession began. A close second were members of the SEE ROSARY, PAGE 21

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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led thousands in the city’s third annual rosary rally and Benediction Oct. 12. “We bishops are asking our people of America to pray the rosary now, now before we reach the dire dark moments the church has known in the past when she took recourse to the mother of Our Lord in the holy rosary,” the archbishop said.

California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a sex abuse damages bill, agreeing with opponents that it was an “unfair” extension of the statute of limitations. SB 131 would have reopened the statute of limitations against private employers for child sex Gov. Jerry abuse for a period of Brown one year, and at the same time would have forbidden lawsuits against public schools, other government agencies and the actual perpetrator of the abuse. In particular, SB 131 would have forced private schools to defend claims as much as 40 years old but would have blocked victims from suing any public school for abuse that may have occurred before 2009. “We are grateful that Gov. Brown chose to veto SB 131. It was unfair to the vast majority of victims and unfair to all private and nonprofit organizations,” said Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gerald Wilkerson, president of the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. “There comes a time when an individual or institution should be secure in the reasonable expectation that past acts are indeed in the past and not subject to further lawsuits,” Brown said in his Oct. 12 veto message, noting the concept of the statute of limitations dates to Roman law and was enshrined in English common law. SB 131 goes back “to the only group, i.e., private institutions, that have already been subjected to the unusual ‘one-year revival period’ and makes them, and them alone, subject to suit indefinitely,” he wrote.

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NEED TO KNOW CCCYO FALL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Catholic Charities CYO in the archdiocese needs volunteers and donations for fall events. The following organizations are requesting volunteers and gift cards for Halloween festivals: Maureen and Craig Sullivan Youth Services; Rita da Cascia, San Carlos Adult Day Services, San Francisco Adult Day Services; St. Joseph’s Family Center; Star Community Home; Treasure Island Child Development Center; 10th and Mission Support Services; Derek Silva Community; Leland House. Additionally these organizations are requesting volunteers and donations for separate fall celebrations and anniversaries: Canal Family Support; Edith Witt Senior Community; Omni Senior Center. Contact Clint Womack at (415) 972-1297 or email volunteer@cccyo.org. PEACE PRAYER: A prayer service bringing together religious leaders serving Christians from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan will be held Nov. 3 at 5:30 p.m. at St. Thomas More Church, One Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way, San Francisco. The service features Mother Agnes-Mariam, who has spoken around the world on the search for peace in the Middle East. Call (415) 452-9634. PARISHIONERS FILE SUIT: A group of All Souls parishioners sued in San Mateo Superior Court Oct. 1 against the city of South San Francisco and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte to halt the opening of a downtown clinic. The action by Respect Life South San Francisco, Rosa Gomez, Vera Priego and Teresita Valido also seeks to throw out the city Planning Commission’s approval of the clinic. That decision, which the suit says ignored state environmental laws and did not adequately address land-use concerns, was upheld by the City Council in a 3-2 vote Aug. 28. DONATIONS SOUGHT TO BRING PRO-LIFE SISTERS TO WALK: The Walk for Life West Coast is raising money to bring as many as possible of the Sisters of Life, a New York-based order that works with women in crisis pregnancies, to the walk’s 10th anniversary Jan. 25 in San Francisco. Walk organizers are asking supporters to donate airline points to buy tickets or buy tickets directly for the sisters’ travel. Donations sent directly to the sisters are tax-deductible, said walk organizer Lisa Hamrick. Contact Hamrick at WFLWC@live.com or (415) 218-0248. JESUIT TALK: “Shifting Focus: Finding God in the Busy,” a talk with Jesuit Father Radmar Jao, will be held Nov. 8, 7 p.m.,at St. Ignatius Parish, Fromm Hall, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, followed by group discussions and an open forum. Young adults 18-40 and those young at heart are welcome. To RSVP, not required but helpful, facebook.com/ groups/548083468597084/; siparishyoungadults@ gmail.com; (415) 422-2188.

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Grandmother’s great devotion helped instill priestly vocation I was born and raised in San Francisco. My home parish is Sts. Peter and Paul Church, where I also went to elementary school. I attended Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and did my undergraduate studies at San Francisco State University. After finishing college, I entered Saint Patrick’s Seminary & University, where I am currently in my second year of theological studies studying for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Reflecting on my journey toward entering the seminary and studying for the priesthood, I did not have a Damascus moment where God dramatically and unexpectedly called me to become a priest. Instead, my journey was one where God has gradually fostered my vocation through the different people and circumstances in my life. I was blessed to have had a solid Catholic upbringing at home. I was raised in a devout Catholic family. My family and I always went to Mass together every Sunday, on holy days of obligation and during the Easter triduum. My grandmother, who took care of my younger brother and me when my parents were working, taught the two of us the basics of the faith. She taught us some basic catechism, showed us how to pray and to make the sign of the cross, and made sure that we would pray before meals and before going to bed. My grandmother instilled in me a great devotion to the holy Mass and to Our Lady. Even today when I talk to her on the phone, she always reminds to pray the Mass devoutly and to keep up a strong devotion to the Blessed Mother. The parish environment at Sts. Peter and Paul, made up of the church, the school and the Salesian Boys’ and Girls’ Club, also played a huge role in fostering my vocation. The Salesian Sisters provided us students with a solid religious education, as they were women who were full of love and joy. Serving as altar boy, and having that close contact with the priests at the parish, I was attracted to their example of holiness and piety. The late Salesian Father John Malloy was of particular inspiration for me. As a high school freshman unfamiliar with the church’s moral teachings and growing up in an increasingly secular culture that saw the mayor at the time (Gavin Newsom) first issue same-sex marriage licenses, it was Father Malloy’s work in the area of defending life and traditional marriage that provided me a moral compass as to how to live a solid Christian life. And I was drawn to Father Malloy’s message precisely because it was not a message of hate

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OUR SEMINARIANS The paper will carry occasional articles by and about the 16 men who are in formation for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week’s article is by St. Patrick’s Seminary & University seminarian Alvin Yu. or condemnation, but one of love as he never lacked charity and humility. So when most kids at a young age say they want to be an astronaut, firefighter or a baseball player, I told people that I wanted to become a priest. During my college years, with the help of good priests who challenged me, I continued to pursue those thoughts of priesthood. I attended vocations retreats and also discerned religious life. With the help of a spiritual director and the vocations director I applied to study at the seminary during my final year at San Francisco State, and entered the seminary in August 2012. It has been a wonderful journey at the seminary marked by many graces and also challenges. I am blessed to have had the wonderful support of many people, from the faculty and staff at the seminary, the priests and parishioners of the archdiocese, and of course my brother seminarians, those from the archdiocese and elsewhere. My advice for anyone who is discerning their vocation is to be open and attentive to the many different ways that God can be calling us. Coming to know God’s will for us requires that we foster a relationship with him. I recommend spending some time in quiet prayer, perhaps going before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, frequenting the sacrament of penance, going to daily Mass and having a devotion to the Blessed Mother who always cares for us and leads us to her son. I am also reminded by what Bishop Tom Daly of San Jose warned against at a vocations retreat. He said that men and women should watch out for the danger of becoming a perpetual Internet discerner. I recommend finding a good spiritual director and contacting the vocations director, who are people who can be of assistance in fostering a prayer life, and be of guidance toward realizing what is God’s will.

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SI student musician’s path includes Kenya, Carnegie Hall Rachel Yan is a cellist on her way to Carnegie Hall. The senior at St. Ignatius College Preparatory made music and friends in Kenya in July. Rachel is a graduate of St. Matthew School in San Mateo. Her parents are Nora and Richard Yan. The two-week Kenya trek “forever changed my values as I realized that there is so much more to life than money, fame, or material items,” Rachel told Catholic San Francisco in an email interview. Service and music are always on the front burner for Rachel. She has played the cello for 14 years and the piano for 12. Rachel is founder of Kujali, which means caring in Swahili, a social justice club which raises money for food and school supplies for impoverished public schools in Nyeri, Kenya, the town where she set down with nine other students from the SI music program for what she called “an indescribable music exchange and service trip.” The SI musicians bunked at a boarding school in Nyeri where they performed for and played with the student body, gave students music lessons and repaired broken instruments. “More importantly, we broke stereotypes and made lifelong friends who we soon realized were so much like us,” Rachel said. The trip took a ministry turn when the group traveled deeper into Nyeri. “We visited impoverished public elementary schools and played music and showed our instruments to the children, many of whom had never seen a violin, trumpet, or cello before,” Rachel said. “Even with nothing in their classrooms, some with no shoes on their feet, and playing with a ‘football’ made of cloth strung together they were the happiest kids I have ever met in my life.” Language was no barrier. “High fives, waves, and smiles were the only way we could communicate with each other but the connection was warm and

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We asked the Catholic high schools of the archdiocese to share profiles of noteworthy seniors this fall. This week’s story is about Rachel Yan, Class of 2014, St. Ignatius College Preparatory. unpretentious. My trip to Kenya is just one example of how SI really instills our motto that everything we do should be for the greater glory of God.” Rachel takes the stage at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in April with others from the SI chamber orchestra. The ensemble will also perform an outdoor concert in Manhattan’s Central Park and have a

music clinic with a conductor from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The invitation to be part of the New York International Music Festival at Carnegie Hall goes to only six schools in the nation. Rachel said it was SI’s music director, Gillian Clements, who “helped me grow from just playing the cello for myself or for school but to also use my talents to give back to the community.” The nurturing resulted in Rachel’s beginning a string quartet “Montalvo Strings” which plays for weddings and charitable events, as well as liturgies at SI and St. Matthew Church. “All of these could not have happened if I did not have my music or the many resources and teachers at SI, especially Dr. Clements.” The college Rachel will attend is still not known but her academic path is set. “I am interested in majoring in international relations with a regional development focus on Africa because I want to better understand and do something about problems of human rights and moral ethics in our world.” Music and service continue to be locked in for Rachel. “Wherever I go, I will definitely be involved in campus ministry, especially with my music, and also joining social justice and human rights clubs as they are my biggest passions.”

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

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Our beloved Holy Father, Pope Francis, has shown himself to be a great teacher with the heart of a missionary. Like Jesus, he teaches by word and example, keeping the poor, the troubled and the vulnerable in clear view at all times. In that spirit I write to you today. Our Catholic Church, at every level and by her very nature, is missionary. Her origin is in the very mission of Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit. It is in Christ alone that salvation is offered to all people, as a gift of God’s grace and mercy (see Ephesians 2:8; Romans 1:16). In every nation, World Mission Sunday will be observed on the weekend of October 19-20. This is the opportune time for us to be inspired by the heroes of our Church who serve God’s beloved children in places of poverty, injustice, even outright persecution. The priests, religious, and lay missionary groups make it possible for the most needy to encounter Christ and his Good News and thus share in the hope of heaven. The theme for the United States’ observance of this day is: “Do Good on Earth.” This is taken from the words of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the young Carmelite Sister who is the Patroness of the Missions. It is a call to put faith into action! The materials prepared by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith highlight the missionary efforts of the Salesian Sisters in Chennai, India, and their pastoral work among young women and girls who are victims of trafficking and slavery. The Sisters save the girls’ lives, and with love they teach and celebrate the Faith. It is an inspiring glimpse into missionary realities today. As the Holy Father’s chief missionary arm, providing resources for more than 1,150 mission dioceses the world over, the Society for the Propagation of the Faith oversees the worldwide celebration of this most important day. At a time when the needs in the Missions have grown substantially, and the urgency of the cry of the poor is all the more pronounced, I ask for the gift of your generosity. With mutual efforts of our clergy and faithful, every parish in this local Church should embrace a concern to do the very best for those most in need. Let us pray that World Mission Sunday will touch each of us deeply, and that we will be united in providing assistance where it is needed most, for the sake of Christ! I thank you in advance for your generous response to the needs of others. In the end, the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church instruct us: “It is by what they have done for the poor that Jesus Christ will recognize his chosen ones” (CCC, 2443).

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco

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Bill Mendieta is now playing Ricky Ricardo in the musical “I Love Lucy Live Onstage” in cities around the nation. His first steps toward acting as a profession though were taken on the stage of Archbishop Riordan High School’s Lindland Theatre. “Riordan is where I found the joy and love for theater,” Bill told me in an email from his home in Los Angeles. InBill Mendieta juries sustained as a member of the Riordan football team, including a broken leg, led Bill to give up the sport. “Instead, I auditioned for the high school play where I discovered a love for the craft of acting,” he said. The 1986 Riordan alum saw action in several productions at the school, the latest of which was this year’s “Lucky 13” which brought Bill and many Riordan connected performers together Sept. 2. “Doing plays at Riordan was wonderful for me as a teenager,” Bill recalled. “I think doing theatre is wonderful because kids get to work on a project together, learn teamwork, responsibility, social skills and goal setting in order to mount the production.” Bill’s studies after Riordan included classes and shows at San Francisco State University as well as an apprenticeship at Berkeley Repertory Theater and a scholarship to the British American Drama Academy. He said his current show is a “love letter” to “I Love Lucy” fans. Audiences are comprised of people from many generations, he said, giving testimony to the Ricardos’ icon-like 60-year presence in the American eye. “It is a dream job,” Bill said. The actor recently read for a TV pilot with Ed Asner and Marion Ross and has appeared on daytime’s “Days of Our Lives.” The Riordan reunion show has a special place with Bill. “What I enjoyed most about the Riordan show was seeing so many returning alumni collaborating with current students. It shows the appreciation for the place that sparked our interests in high school which helped navigate our career paths.” Visit http://BillMendieta.com. JUST LIKE HER: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 173 has named Capuchin Father Michael

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BOOKMARK: The women of Mercy High School, San Francisco hosted “Shanghai Girls” author Lisa See Sept. 19. The New York Times bestseller’s novel tells of two sisters leaving home in Shanghai as well as their difficult transition to living later in arranged marriages in the United States. The book was named to be read by all students at Mercy during the summer. “The Mercy SF tradition of reading an all-school book, integrating it throughout the curriculum, and meeting with the author on campus has been going strong for 10 plus years,” said Teresa Abney, school communications director. The writer, who lunched and spoke at the school, is seen here with, from left, juniors Mireya Napoles, Gohar Zakian, Bridget Keith; senior Maciell Cole; juniors Cody Dick, Charlotte Theriault. Mahoney, pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, and ICF chaplain, to receive the 2013 Mother Teresa Award. Like the honor’s namesake, Father Michael is all about “dedication and boundless love,” said Kelli Benz, of the ICF and OLA. Father Michael is “approachable and after one interaction he will remember your name, guaranteed,” Kelli said. Father Michael “He encourages spiritual growth Mahoney, OFM throughout the lives of all that Cap. come in contact with him. His engaging homilies are always delivered with love, compassion and a little humor.” SNEAKERS: Blisters and $7,000 for the needy were rewards of “Walk a Mile in My Shoes,” a fundraiser for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County Sept. 28. The purpose of the event, which actually covered two miles, was “to raise awareness and funds for the underserved and forgotten in our community,” Jodie Penner, SVdP director of public relations, told me in a note to this column. More than 100 people took part. Pictured post-walk are Noelle Bianchi; SVdP executive director Lorraine Moriarty; board member Ken Bianchi and Jodie.

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Archbishop: Educating young key to future of marriage VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Catholic Church has taken some hits on the marriage front legally â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone says the task remains the same now as it was before the U.S. Supreme Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twin marriage rulings in June. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Educating our people, especially our young people,â&#x20AC;? about human sexuality and marriage is the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main task for their happiness and for the good of society, the archbishop said Oct. 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about formationâ&#x20AC;? in high schools, in religious education classes, as well as of parents and teachers, and in the seminary and in clergy education, he said. Speaking at a roundtable discussion with a group of communications directors of state Catholic conferences, including representatives from Illinois, New York, Maryland, Florida, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, Archbishop Cordileone took questions on how to defend marriage on a playing field that is shifting ever more against the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teaching that marriage is between one man and one woman. The archbishop spoke at the Catholic Conference Communication Directors annual meeting, a national conference gathering of state communications directors, hosted in San Francisco by the California Catholic Conference. As chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, Archbishop Cordileone works closely on the issue nationally but also with various state Catholic conferences. For 10 years, Americans have been told it was inevitable that marriage would be redefined to allow same sex couples to marry in the law, he said, but until the last election no state had voted in favor of same sex marriage. In 2012 voters in Minnesota, Maine, Maryland and Washington voted in favor of same-sex marriage.

In June, in addition, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, and said that supporters of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal the federal district court decision that ruled Prop. 8 unconstitutional because it discriminated against those who wanted to marry someone of the same sex. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to appear intolerant and bigoted but they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to handle the conversation,â&#x20AC;? the archbishop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Archbishop inevitable, it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to stop Cordileone there.â&#x20AC;? Marriage will cease to have meaning and young people in the next century may look back and say â&#x20AC;&#x153;marriage is such a second-millennium concept,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The trends are already showing we are going to lose interest in marriage in general.â&#x20AC;? Weddings are down, he noted, and even when same sex couples can marry legally, only about 3 percent do because the argument is not about marriage but about societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perception of equality and social status, Archbishop Cordileone said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marriage unites a man and woman to each other and to any children they may haveâ&#x20AC;? and that is what we have to try to teach our children, the archbishop said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like beginning with biology because you cannot deny what is in material reality â&#x20AC;&#x201C; how a man and womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bodies work to bring new life.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think young people are more open to the argument on biology,â&#x20AC;? Archbishop Cordileone said. And he stressed emphasizing the three goods of marriage: permanence, fidelity and openness to children. Promiscuity, cohabitation, artificial contraception and no-fault divorce have eroded those basic concepts of marriage, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Again, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about formation for our young people.

We need to support them in living the virtue of chastity,â&#x20AC;? Archbishop Cordileone said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really, it is essential for our young people if they are going to be happy, they have to be capable of fidelity in marriageâ&#x20AC;? whether or not they ever marry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basically chastity education which calls us to love in the sense of what love really is.â&#x20AC;? On the political front, Archbishop Cordileone said it is important not to allow proponents of same-sex marriage to hijack the language of the debate. He suggested not even using the term gay marriage because he said a legal union between two people of the same sex is not a marriage. He particularly commended Catholics for the Common Good for its talking points on marriage. For example, in response to the question, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why are you opposed to gay marriage?â&#x20AC;? the archbishop suggested, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why are you opposed to every child having a mother and a father?â&#x20AC;? Social science statistics show that children thrive best when raised in a home with their two loving biological parents, he said. At the same time, Archbishop Cordileone said it is very important to be sensitive to those with same-sex inclinations and to single parents, who are doing what they can in difficult circumstances often beyond their control.

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Bishop: New California laws mean big jump in number of abortions CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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SACRAMENTO – New California laws allowing non-physicians to perform abortions and repealing some building regulations that govern abortion clinics “dramatically increase the availability of abortion” in the state, said the president of the California Catholic Conference. “We oppose abortion, and until it becomes illegal, we will oppose measures which expand it – especially when it is at the expense of the girls and women undergoing the procedure,” said Auxiliary Bishop Gerald E. Wilkerson of Los Angeles. On Oct. 9, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a measure that permits a nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife or physician assistant “to perform an abortion by aspiration techniques during the first trimester of pregnancy.” These non-physician medical professionals must complete “specified training” and comply with “specified standardized procedures or protocols.” “This change in the law will effectively create a two-tier health system,” Bishop Wilkerson said in a statement released Oct. 9 by the Sacramentobased conference, the public policy arm of the Catholic bishops. “Physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives – with eight week’s training – can now

perform first trimester abortions in primary care clinics not designed for surgery,” the bishop said. “Most of their clients will be women and girls who are poor, whereas women and girls with means will seek out physicians with surgical skills and hospital-admitting privileges for their abortions.” Brown also signed into law a bill that repeals certain regulations and sections of the California Building Standards Code that treat primary clinics differently depending on whether the clinics provide abortion services. Bishop Wilkerson said the bishops were disappointed with both measures becoming law in their state, where “12 percent of Americans reside but 29 percent of all the nation’s abortions occur.” “The often-repeated mantra of those supporting abortion rights is that abortions ought to be safe, legal and rare,” he said. “With this change in California’s law, abortions are merely legal – no longer safe. We pray for the day when abortion is no longer legal.” Two polls showed that no demographic group in California supported creating such a two-tiered abortion system, said California Catholic Conference executive director Ned Dolejsi. “No one sees it as a good thing for women’s health,” Dolejsi said. Valerie Schmalz contributed.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 18, 2013

Study: Most Catholics aren’t looking for spirituality online CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Most U.S. Catholics are not looking for spirituality online, in fact, half of them are unaware the church even has an online presence, according to researchers at Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. The most widely used communication tool in Catholic Church is the parish bulletin, folAT A GLANCE lowed by a diocesan newspaper or magazine – in print form – Key findings from a new which one in four adult study on U.S. Catholics’ Catholics have read in by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Re- the past three months, CARA reports. search in the Apostolate: Narrowing the focus on Catholics who attend THE MOST WIDELY Mass each week, CARA USED COMMUNICAsaid 13 percent of them TION TOOL in Catholic read Catholic blogs Church is the parish and 17 percent view bulletin, followed by a religious material on diocesan newspaper or YouTube. magazine – in print form These findings and – which one in four adult other trends among Catholics have read in U.S. Catholics were the past three months. presented Oct. 10 by CARA’s Melissa Cidade, AMONG WEEKLY director of pastoral MASSGOERS, 13 assistance surveys and percent read Catholic services, and Mark blogs and 17 percent Gray, director of Cathoview religious material lic polls, to a group of on YouTube. editors in Washington attending a Catholic MULTICULTURAL Press Association/ PARISHES number Catholic News Service about 6,700 among the Liaison Committee more than 17,400 U.S. meeting. parishes. CARA’s communication findings were of THREE IN 10 PARparticular interest ISHES celebrate at to the group. Robert least one Mass a month DeFrancesco, CPA in a language other than president and editor English or Latin. and associate publisher of The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Phoenix diocese, said the study affirms the good work the Catholic press is doing and also highlights the work they still have cut out for them in balancing print and online efforts. He said it reveals how “younger Catholics are not clamoring for news online” – which could be particularly disheartening to Catholic journalists who focus on their online product, but also needs to be balanced with the finding that one in four Catholics overall have read a diocesan paper recently – primarily in print – and eight in 10 readers described these papers as good or excellent. The fact that print versions of diocesan papers still reach so many Catholics is something to

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 18, 2013

St. Paul all-laity panel to review church policies on abuse CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A newly formed Safe Environment and Ministerial Standards Task Force will conduct a full review of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ policies and

practices and “any and all issues” related to clergy sexual misconduct. This includes examining how allegations of clergy sexual misconduct have been handled and what must be done to address any gaps in the process.

The findings and recommendations of the independent lay group will be released publicly when its final report is complete, according to an Oct. 6 archdiocesan statement. The creation of the task force comes amid sexual misconduct allegations in Dominican the media concernFather Reginald ing certain priests in Whitt the archdiocese and how their cases were handled by archdiocesan officials. “These allegations must be addressed urgently, transparently and with truly independent review,” Archbishop John C. Nienstedt said. “Addressing these serious allegations is the top priority for the archdiocese.” The archbishop has appointed a new vicar for ministerial standards, Dominican Father Reginald Whitt, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He will assume full responsibility for all issues related to clergy sexual misconduct, the archdiocese said. Father Whitt is appointing the members of the all-layperson task force, which was expected to convene soon. It will consist of at least six people from a variety of backgrounds – none of whom is employed by the archdiocese or any of its parishes. Father Whitt will receive the task force’s report and ensure it complies with both civil and church law. He will publish the final findings and recommendations as well as implement the recommendations, which the archbishop has pledged to accept.

The task force will operate independently of both the vicar for ministerial standards and the archbishop. It will have full authority and all the resources needed to complete its work, the archdiocese said. “Whatever they recommend to me as reasonable for them to perform their task, it’s my business to see that they get it,” Father Whitt said. Archbishop Nienstedt said there is “no room for misconduct among our clergy and our standard must be zero tolerance for abuse of minors and vulnerable adults. We hold a sacred trust. Our very vocation requires the highest standard of conduct so that all may be drawn to the person of Jesus Christ through our witness.” While the archbishop retains his authority in the archdiocese, he has committed that he will not interfere in the work of the vicar or the task force. “There is great concern and confusion about recent media reports alleging that the archdiocese has mishandled investigations into misconduct by priests,” the archbishop said in his Oct. 10 column for the archdiocesan newspaper, The Catholic Spirit. “This situation is sad and frustrating, and I have heard from many of you that you are deeply pained as you watch and hear these reports in the news.” He was referring to news reports accusing church officials of mishandling allegations of child pornography found on computer files once belonging to an archdiocesan priest. The St. Paul Police Department began an investigation then closed it, citing lack of evidence. But on Oct. 8, the police announced the case was being reopened.

ARCHBISHOP: VATICAN II CONTINUES TO MARK ECCLESIAL LIFE TODAY

tum Concilium,” or the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, one of the best known documents of Vatican II, and its place in the world today 50 years after it was issued. The council “has marked our ecclesial life so much that very little of the church today would be as it is had the council not met,” Archbishop Marini said. Vatican II did not give the world static documents, he told the liturgists. He said that in an ever-evolving culture, the Catholic liturgy is incomplete unless it renews communities of faith. “The council is not behind us. It still precedes us,” he said.

ERIE, Pa. – Archbishop Piero Marini, a Vatican official who as a young priest took part in the Second Vatican Council, said he feels “a great nostalgia and a desire to understand more fully and to experience anew the spirit of the council.” Archbishop Marini, who is president of the Pontifical Commission for International Eucharistic Congresses, addressed the nearly 200 people gathered Oct. 7-12 for the annual national meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. The conference explored “Sacrosanc-

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 18, 2013

Foreign strike against Somali militants needed, church leader says FRANCIS NJUGUNA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NAIROBI, Kenya â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Foreign intervention in the fight against al-Shabaab militants in Somalia is necessary, but not an absolute requirement, said the leader of the Catholic Church in Somalia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes some strike is necessary,â&#x20AC;? Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti, apostolic administrator of Somaliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only Catholic diocese, Mogadishu, told Catholic News Service in an email when asked about a U.S. military raid on a suspected al-Shabaab leader in the town of Baraawe Oct. 5. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The strike was also recognized by the Somali government,â&#x20AC;? Bishop Bertin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With criminals we have sometimes to react in the most appropriate way.â&#x20AC;? The U.S. raid appeared to be an attempt to capture suspected militant leader Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, a Kenyan citizen of Somali origin and an expert in logistics, according to intelligence experts. Abdulkadir escaped and even though at least two al-Shabaab fighters died in the gunfight with U.S. Navy Seals, the failed mission is likely to boost morale and further embolden the organization, Omar Jamal, first secretary of the Somali mission to the United Nations, told Time magazine. The al-Shabaab organization has claimed responsibility for attacking a Nairobi shopping mall Sept. 21. The Kenyan government has said the four-day siege resulted in 72 deaths and dozens of injuries. Al-Shabaab leaders said the attack was in â&#x20AC;&#x153;retributionâ&#x20AC;? for Kenyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to help the Somali government defeat it. Bishop Bertin also expressed sorrow for the loss of more than 300 migrants, many from Somalia and neighboring Eritrea, when a boat carrying African migrants sank Oct. 3 in waters near Lampedusa, Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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A woman prays during a service at a church in late September for victims of the attack by Somaliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s al-Shabaab militia group at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti, who also serves as apostolic administrator of Mogadishu, Somalia, said foreign intervention in the fight against al-Shabaab is necessary though not an absolute requirement. southernmost island. He called human trafficking in the Horn of Africa a major challenge. Another accident involving a loaded migrant boat Oct. 11 claimed at least 27 lives in the same waters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in this issue, the church cannot do much. ... it can only keep people and the authorities aware of the problem,â&#x20AC;? the bishop said. He added that the Catholic Church remained committed to providing human services to Somaliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suffering population. In Baidoa, he said, a health clinic founded by Caritas Internationalis now is run by SOS Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Villages. The situation in Baidoa, 160 miles northwest of Mogadishu, remains fragile, but the clinic has been respected over the years by the â&#x20AC;&#x153;authorities who control the locality,â&#x20AC;? Bishop Bertin said. In earlier interviews, Bishop Bertin said a missionary presence in the region is difficult to maintain. He said

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 18, 2013

POPE SAYS MATERNITY ‘SPECIAL’ BUT WARNS NOT TO RESTRICT WOMEN

Nuns’ community ‘shining forth in charity’

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said women’s “vocation and mission” today remain essentially connected to their capacity for motherhood, but warned against unjustly restricting their participation in the church or civil society on that basis. The pope made his remarks Oct. 12 in a speech to participants at an academic conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Laity to mark the 25th anniversary of Blessed John Paul II’s apostolic letter “Mulieris Dignitatem” (“The Dignity of Women”). Pope Francis described it as a “historic document, the first of the papal magisterium dedicated entirely to the subject of woman.” Pope Francis warned there are two ways of betraying women’s inherently maternal role: “two opposed extremes that demolish woman and her vocation.” “The first is to reduce maternity to a social role, to a task, albeit noble, but which in fact sets the woman aside with her potential and does not value her fully in the building of the community. This is both in the civil sphere and in the ecclesial sphere,” he said. “I suffer – I speak truly – when I see in the church or in some ecclesial organizations that the role of service – which we all have and should have – that woman’s role of service slips into a role of servitude,” he said. But the pope said there is also the “other danger in the opposite direction: that of promoting a type of emancipation which, in order to occupy spaces taken away from the masculine, abandons the feminine with the precious traits that characterize it.”

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SAINT-LOUP-SUR-AUJON, France – The moment a monstrance bearing the Blessed Sacrament was fixed high over an altar in a convent church in a remote French valley, a nun stepped forward to start the process of eucharistic adoration – one the sisters hope will continue day and night, week after week and year after year. Mother Marie Xavier McMonagle thus began the perpetual adoration of the “Tyburn Nuns,” an order of enclosed contemplative Benedictine nuns established to worship the “eucharistic heart of Jesus.” In so doing, she also closed a day of ceremonies to install the order’s newest community, situated near Dijon, France. This community, the 12th to be established in less than a century, has eight members, each of whom will spend a minimum of one hour a day in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Sometimes they will be assisted by lay Catholics. A founding charism of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre is the unceasing eucharistic adoration, which continues round-theclock when the community is large enough for its members to physically and mentally sustain such prayer. At present there seems to be no shortage of women expressing an interest in such devotion because the opening of the convent Sept. 29 represents the latest expansion of a female religious order which – like the Nashville Dominicans in the U.S. – is growing rapidly while others decline.

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Maria Santoro walks through the gardens with Mother Marilla Aw, an Australian nun of Chinese descent, outside the convent of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre in Saint-Loup-sur-Aujon, France, Sept. 29. Mother Marie Adele Garnier founded the order in Paris in 1898, and it had a rocky start. Initially, its members were struck by unseen blows and showered with altar breads, among a range of terrifying supernatural attacks they attributed to the devil. France’s Law of Associations, which forbade the existence of religious groups unregistered by the state, eventually caused them to move to London. In 1903 the nuns established a convent close to the site of the Tyburn gallows, where at least 105 Catholics were martyred during the Reformation. Of more than 90 professed sisters and some 30 novices in the French convent, about half are from Australia and New Zealand, including the mother general, but new houses in

Latin America are creating increased interest in vocations. The nuns see a deeper significance in their new convent than simply sustained growth. For them, it heralds a sort of homecoming more than a century after they were driven from the land of their foundress. The eight nuns forming the new community come from around the world: Ireland, France, Peru, Ecuador, Australia and New Zealand. In welcoming the nuns, Bishop Philippe Gueneley of Langres, who had written to the mother general requesting their presence in his diocese last November, paid tribute to their openness to the will of God. “You are building a community that is shining forth in charity,” he said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cardinal Dolan lauds pope’s ‘new strategy’ FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ recent warning against overemphasizing moral teachings against abortion, same-sex marriage and contraception means that U.S. bishops should emulate his positive approach to evangelization, not shift the priorities of their public policy agenda, said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York. “What he’s saying is that if the perception of the church is of a scold who’s always nagging and always negative and always fearful, we’re not going to make many converts, because nobody wants to join the church out of fear or (join a) a paranoid group,” the cardinal told Catholic News Service Oct. 8. “If we emphasize the positive, the gracious, the embracing, the warm, inviting side of the church, then we’re going to attract people,” he said. “And that of course is what Pope Francis is saying and doing on steroids.” Cardinal Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican Oct. 7, along with Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., conference vice president; Msgr. Ronny E. Jenkins, general secretary; and Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield, associate general secretary. The cardinal said the group told the pope about some of the U.S. bishops’ “pastoral priorities,” including support for immigration reform and objections to the Affordable Care Act, “because it excludes the baby in the womb and the undocumented worker, and also because the implementation of it would place a severe burden on our religious

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AT A GLANCE POPE FRANCIS’ ‘URGENCY’ in addressing the problems families face is behind his decision to call an extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family in October 2014, said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family. THE DECISION “demonstrates how quick the pope is in responding to the important problems that exist in our families,” he said. IN ADDRESSING CONCERNS about the family, the pope “is underlining a journey we all must set out on with great wisdom, intelligence and boldness, standing alongside him.” with Pope Francis both days are designed “to say that despite everything, families are society’s most important resource, but more importantly, they are the most beautiful thing in the world,” the archbishop said. Conventual Franciscan Father Gianfranco Grieco, a council official, also announced Oct. 10 that in time for the plenary, the council will publish – in Spanish and Italian – a collection of 35 speeches, homilies and texts by the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on family-related themes. The material from 1999 up until his election as Pope Francis demonstrates how his teaching method hasn’t changed, Father Grieco said. The texts are marked by “clear, immediate and direct concepts that sensitize hearts, shake dozing consciences and provoke people’s intelligence,” he said. It’s a step-by-step process that “starts from people’s hearts, from wanting to touch hearts.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 18, 2013

Polish bishops apologize for clergy sexual abuse of children CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s Catholic bishops apologized for sexual abuse of children by priests and defended the Polish church’s record on tackling abuse. During their plenary meeting in the Polish capital, the bishops also announced that they had tightened procedures for handling abuse allegations. “The pedophilia problem is appearing in schools, sports clubs and facilities for education and upbringing, but also, it pains us to admit, in church circles,” the bishops’ conference said in a statement Oct. 9 at the close of the meeting. “We apologize for those clergy who have harmed children and are doing everything in our power so such situations are not repeated in future. We offer and will continue to offer pastoral and therapeutic help to harmed children and young people, and we stress there is no tolerance for pedophilia,” the bishops said. The statement called pedophilia a “most serious offense” that “cried to heaven for vengeance.” It added that Polish society needed a “thorough education” on how to protect children, but said media coverage of pedophilia should respect privacy and avoid “harming third parties

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TARRAGONA, Spain – A Vatican official moved more than 500 Spanish Civil War martyrs closer to sainthood during a special beatification Mass in Tarragona, the archdiocese that suffered most under “the Red Terror.” An estimated 20,000 people from throughout Spain as well as small contingents from Portugal and France attended a special outdoor Mass Oct. 13 celebrating the beatification of 522 members of Catholic religious orders as well as laypeople. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, celebrated the Mass. The ceremony was held in Tarragona because nearly 150 people, including Auxiliary Bishop Manuel Borras Farre, and 66

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wife, mother and a career as a social worker. She was one of the founders of the archdiocese’s first Respect Life Office in the 1970s and recalls Archbishop Joseph McGucken walking through the chancery himself to find a spot for the office. The St. Brendan parishioner also served as president of the National Council of Catholic Women from 1983-85 and worked for the human life amendment – an effort to place protection for the unborn into the text of the U.S. Constitution.

Catholics engage in the world – reaching out to share their faith and their beliefs – in many different ways. To highlight Respect Life Month, Catholic San Francisco offers these short profiles of just some of the many Catholics who are living their pro-life convictions, particularly in working against abortion.

Bea Smalley

The longtime president of United for Life, San Francisco’s main pro-life organization for decades, is part of the “greatest generation” from the early days of the pro-life movement. Smalley “spent one Lent in jail” in the 1990s, with a number of others from Operation Rescue who were protesting an abortion clinic in Sunnydale. She and her husband John, who died this year, and many others prayed the rosary outside Planned Parenthood clinics in the city for many years, joined in demonstrations such as Life Chain, and supported others’ pro-life efforts including sending students to the March for Life in Washington, D.C., every year. She was the main force for many years behind United for Life’s annual banquet which features pro-life speakers and raises money for pro-life causes.

Rosa Gomez

A member of All Souls Parish, this longtime advocate for life is one of several people who have formed Respect Life South San Francisco to fight a Planned Parenthood clinic in the city’s downtown.

Patsy Gonzalez

A volunteer with The Gabriel Project of the archdiocese, she arrived 20 years ago from the Philippines – “a Catholic country where the unborn child is protected by its constitution from the moment of conception,” she says. That, and a crisis pregnancy in her own family, moved the Church of the Nativity parishioner and her children first to sidewalk counsel outside abortion facilities and later to counsel at the St. Juan Diego Women’s Center in San Jose and to volunteer with The Gabriel Project. Says Gonzales, “I discovered very early in my pro-life involvement that a woman never freely chooses to have an abortion, it is often fear, rejection and isolation that leads her to the most unnatural choice of aborting her child. When she feels there is hope, even from a caring, nonjudgmental stranger and realizes that there are resources available to her, she will choose to keep her baby.”

Jeff and Laura Patino

Parents of nine children, they are the Culture of Life couple for the Knights of Columbus’ Marian Council 3773 at Church of the Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Jeff was recently appointed California Culture of Life chairman to the California state council Knights of Columbus and is working to raise money to donate free ultrasound machines to pregnancy centers. So far the

Vivian Abellana

A member of St. Robert Parish, San Bruno, a student at San Francisco State University and former student body president at the College of San Mateo, she testified against Planned Parenthood’s clinic in South San Francisco at a City Council meeting in August. She told the council: “I pray you guys make the right decision.” Abellana, 22, won the 2008 San Mateo ProLife essay contest and goes to the Walk for Life West Coast every year with her family. She is the fourth of seven children.

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Jefffery and Karen McLaughlin, left, and Jack Gergurich, far right, pray outside a clinic in San Francisco.

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Knights have donated 29 of the machines in California. The Patinos have participated in the Walk for Life West Coast for the past five years and have been participating in the 40 Days for Life each year as well. “We bring our children with us to pray in front of Planned Parenthood, and include them in all of the culture of life work that we do,” Jeff says.

at Notre Dame High School, Belmont, and teaches a senior bioethics course that provides an introduction to the field as well as to Catholic teaching about the sacredness of human life. He is also the faculty moderator for a student-initiated and student-led club called Club LIFE (Life Is For Everyone). The club has raised money for First Resort Free Pregnancy Centers, participated in the local 40 Days for Life prayer vigil campaign, and conducted a petition drive to demonstrate the school’s support for Proposition 34 on last November’s state ballot, which would have repealed the death penalty in California. The club also organizes the school’s annual participation in the Walk for Life West Coast. “The students with whom I work give much hope and inspiration to me and are part of a growing movement of young people who courageously proclaim the value and importance of all human life,” MartinSpencer says.

like private cord blood banks, the Joanne Pang Foundation accepts cord blood from all qualified donors and makes all banked units part of a national registry accessible to any patient looking for match. The married mother of four children was previously involved for many years with Birthright of San Francisco.

Ryan Mayer

A registered nurse, she prays each Wednesday for an hour or more during adoration at Holy Name of Jesus for the women who will enter the UCSF Mount Zion facility to begin the process of a second trimester abortion. Testani retired from UCSF Mount Zion about a year ago, but before that had exercised her conscience rights by formally requesting to be removed from the hospital’s abortion work, which began about five years ago: “I said, ‘This really bothers me and I won’t get the patients ready.’” Her example emboldened several other nurses, as did the death of a woman who hemorrhaged

Thomas Cavanaugh

A University of San Francisco philosophy professor with a specialty in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, he lectures frequently on medical ethics. In his latest book, “Hippocrates’ Oath and Asclepius’ Snake,” Cavanaugh presents a contemporary articulation of the philosophical, religious and historically grounded basis for a medical ethic that regards human life as inviolable.

Nyna Pais Caputi

The Indian-born filmmaker is working with her husband Gino on an independent film, “Petals in the Dust,” about the genocide of girls via sex-selective abortion and other abuses in India. She is also an organizer of the annual Walk for India’s Missing Girls in San Francisco.

Vicki Evans

As longtime respect life coordinator for the San Francisco archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, her responsibilities include directing community activities –most notably archdiocesan cosponsorship of the Walk for Life West Coast

– educational programs and legislative advocacy in diverse pro-life areas including abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, bioethics and the death penalty. The Benemerenti papal honor was conferred on her in 2011 for her volunteer work in pro-life ministry.

Jamie Blinn, Ruth Ann Cawley, Mari Pautler

They are three of the main organizers of 40 Days for Life in Marin County. Blinn and her husband Matt moved to California last year with their four children, 2,4,6, and 8, and wanted to join a 40 Days for Life campaign because they were involved in sidewalk counseling in the past, including the first 40 Days for Life campaign in College Station, Texas. Cawley, also married, has three grown children and first became involved in the pro-life movement through her parish of St. Hilary in Tiburon when she and Mari would set up the bus for the parish to go to the Walk for Life West Coast. Mari Paulter, married with two grown children, says, “I was born in Ireland to a single woman at a time when a pregnant single girl was considered an embarrassment to her family and friends.” Her mother died shortly after she was born and she was placed in an orphanage, and then adopted. “My birth mother had courage to continue her pregnancy out of love for me I thank God for her strength and am a witness to the option of adoption.”

Ryan Martin-Spencer

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He teaches a bioethics course at Marin Catholic High School, moderates the school’s Respect Life Club and participates in various pro-life activities, including joining the kickoff of 40 Days for Life Sept. 22 in San Rafael.

Sally Brien Holper

She is president and board member of the San Francisco-based Joanne Pang Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the number of umbilical cord blood units available for life-saving transplants. Un-

Jeff and Laura Patino

Jeannette Cook

A real estate agent who is openly pro-life, she told the South San Francisco City Council that a Planned Parenthood clinic would hurt property values. She is president of the San Mateo Serra Club.

Jeremy Perlas

A member of St. Augustine Parish, South San Francisco, 13-year-old Jeremy testified against the Planned Parenthood clinic planned for South San Francisco.

Angela Testani

Vivian Abellana after the abortion of twin boys, she said. By the time she retired, Testani said about five nurses had exercised their conscience rights to be exempted from the abortion process. Today, she volunteers with the Missionaries of Charity in San Francisco, helping at a home for unmarried mothers, cooking on Thursday nights and helping as needed. “My heart is for all the mothers,” she says.

Ronald Konopaski

He began praying outside abortion clinics before his retirement as a dentist in 2000 but became much more involved after retirement. A member of United for Life and now a board member, he also recently began leading Life Chain, an annual pro-life event each October. He is active in 40 Days for Life of San Francisco. He says the pro-life movement “totally changed my life” and he has met many wonderful people and become “much closer to the Lord and the church.”

Mary Alba

A volunteer with The Gabriel Project and former longtime volunteer, director and board member of Birthright of San Francisco, the native of Ireland raised five children with her husband and is a parishioner at St. Agnes.

Mary Ann Schwab

Her leadership of the Project Rachel postabortion healing ministry in the archdiocese as a volunteer is just the latest chapter in a life of service for life including being a

He has prayed outside abortion clinics in San Francisco since moving to the city in 2003. Before that, the accountant was active in San Diego from just a few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. In San Francisco, he prayed outside the Eddy Street clinic every Saturday morning until it closed, and prayed with San Francisco 40 Days for Life three days a week outside the Valencia Street Planned Parenthood.

Karen and Jeffery McLaughlin

The recently married couple are frequently seen praying for life. Karen is one of the original organizers of the Walk for Life and continues her work with the annual January event in San Francisco.

Jessica Munn

She distributes pro-life materials via tables or booths at parishes, shopping malls, colleges, city festivals and the county fair as part of San Mateo Pro-Life. At St. Matthew Parish, she helps with the pro-life bulletin board, poster and pamphlet displays. She prays with others in front of Planned Parenthood clinics, especially during the 40 Days for Life, writes letters, sends emails, visits politicians, attends hearings, circulates petitions and participates in the Walk for Life. She also works with The Gabriel Project, attends daily Mass and prays.

Stephen Alexander Sanchez

The Holy Cross Cemetery worker told the City Council in South San Francisco that he has had some rough times, including spending time homeless and losing a child to abortion. “It is not a good thing – I want no one else to go through it,” he said.

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Respect life – every life

espect life! Every October the Catholic Church issues this clarion call. But what exactly does it mean to respect life? For many Catholics respecting life means that we should pray and work to protect unborn babies from murderous abortion. With the brutal dismembering of over 1 million aborted unborn brothers and sisters annually in the United States, and the killing of TONY MAGLIANO approximately 55 million unborn babies worldwide every year, our efforts to end this grave evil should be maximized and ongoing. Most every Wednesday, I join several other people near an abortion mill in Baltimore, to witness to the humanity of the unborn and to pray for an end to abortion. Putting an end to the killing of unborn babies is a priority for me, and it is a priority for the Catholic Church. But it is not the only priority. The concern of Christ and the Catholic Church for the suffering of the world, is not limited to any one group of people – born or unborn. Our deep and active concern must be directed to all. For in the words of Blessed John Paul II “we are all really responsible for all.” So we are not to rank pro-life, social justice and peace issues – we are to link them. It’s what the Catholic Church calls the “consistent ethic of life.” In 1983, as head of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, the late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin championed the early church’s consistent pro-life ethic. During an address at St. Louis University, Cardinal Bernardin said, “The case for a consistent ethic of life – one that stands for the protection of the right to life and the promotion of the rights, which enhance life from womb to tomb … is both a complex and demanding tradition. “It joins the humanity of the unborn infant and the humanity of the hungry; it calls for positive legal action to prevent the killing of the unborn or the aged and positive societal action to provide shelter for the homeless and education of the illiterate.” So therefore, not just the unborn, not just the poor, not just the hungry, not just the homeless, not just the war-torn, not just the undocumented, not just the medically uninsured, not just condemned prisoners, not just the environment and not just future generations, but all of the above deserve our care. Everyone’s life and dignity needs to be fully protected and respected. Catholics, and all Christians, cannot ignore the Lord’s call to consistently build up the kingdom of God – the kingdom Jesus calls for in the last judgment scene of Matthew’s Gospel – where the hungry are fed, the thirsty are refreshed, the strangers are welcomed, the naked are clothed, the sick are cared for and prisoners are visited. In retired Pope Benedict XVI’s words, “Love for widows and orphans, prisoners, and the sick and needy of every kind, is as essential [to the church] as the ministry of the sacraments and preaching of the Gospel” (“Deus Caritas Est,” No. 22). During this time when so many of those who hold political and economic power are cutting anti-poverty assistance programs and waging war on the born and unborn, the followers of the God of life and the prince of peace, must prophetically proclaim: “Thus says the Lord, respect every life! And give priority to the poor and vulnerable!” MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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The Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background is seen from Ryder Bay near Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica, in this undated handout photo. A report released Sept. 27 by the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – concludes that scientists are 95 percent sure humans are the “dominant cause” of global warming.

Climate crisis calls for moral awakening This unsigned editorial titled from the Oct. 6 issue of The Catholic Register, the Toronto-based national Catholic Canadian newspaper, was redistributed by Catholic News Service as a sample of current commentary from around the Catholic press. The views presented by this guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of Catholic News Service or Catholic San Francisco. In their darkest warning yet, world scientists have predicted an inevitable increase in storms, droughts, heat waves, floods and, ultimately, deaths due to global warming, which they boldly now confirm is caused by humans. Climatologists have long suspected human activity is behind the steady rise in global temperatures. But they used to hedge their bets. No longer. A report released Sept. 27 by the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the world authority on climate – concludes that scientists are 95 percent sure humans are the “dominant cause” of global warming. Even if this is no surprise, it is alarming. They say global warming is “unequivocal” and, due to the extent of the atmospheric pollution, the damage will be irreversible for decades, if not centuries. Slowly but surely, mankind is transforming God’s creation. The air and the seas are being mutated by our relentless release of greenhouse gas emissions. The poor, as usual, are most at risk. The IPCC report was a scientific finding but beneath the layers of data was a moral indictment of Western society. The West’s insatiable appetite for

consumer goods and services, its quest for wealth and its desire for comfort and pleasure at almost any cost stimulate a demand for the fossil fuels that wind up as greenhouse gasses spewing into the atmosphere. Mankind is called to be a steward of God’s gift of creation but instead of stewardship the industrialized world has too often strutted with hubris, defiance, exploitation and willful neglect as it inflicted grave harm on his planet. Instead of dignity and respect for the environment, instead of showing humility or providing care, generations of wealth-seekers and government leaders have acted with indifference and sometimes disdain. For decades, the church has warned of a rampant culture of consumerism that dominates modern society. Pope Francis calls this a “culture of waste” and it prevents us from respecting God’s creation because we too often allow our lives to be ruled by money, pleasure and possessions, not Christian values. “Man is not in charge today, money is in charge, money rules,” he said. Pope Benedict called it our “grave duty” to be stewards of the earth rather than regard ourselves as “creation’s absolute master.” Pope John Paul II said that our daily actions “should not be dictated by an unlimited and unrestrained quest for material goods without regard for our surroundings.” Society tends to regard the environmental crisis as something to be solved by science, industry and government. But the issue is larger than that. It is rooted in choices we all make and fixing it requires a vast moral awakening to the destructive consequences of our me-first consumer culture.

LETTERS In August 1945, no good way to end the war The recent commentaries on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and the just-war concept in Catholic San Francisco are the latest in the almost 50-year-old debate on this issue. If anything, the use of the atomic bombs against Japan has been over-debated. In the air war against Nazi Germany and imperial Japan, both we and the British crossed the moral line (a line which the Axis powers had never observed at all) by firebombing civilians in Hamburg in 1943 and Tokyo in 1945, not in Dresden in 1945 and Hiroshima and Nagasaki later that year. The latest letter to the editor claims that MacArthur, Eisenhower and Leahy were against using the atomic bombs. In fact, MacArthur was going to command the invasion of Japan, an invasion that would have surpassed D-Day in size and scope. He ignored his own intelligence reports on the strength of the Japanese defenses on Kyushu. Eisenhower wrote to a friend that he had no idea of what was happening in the Pacific in 1945. As for Leahy, David McCullough wrote in his biography of Truman that at the Potsdam Conference

there was a consensus among the main participants (including Leahy) that the bomb should be used. Their after-the-fact expressions of regret should be taken with a grain of salt. In fact, the planned Japanese defense of the Home Islands, was designed for the last suicidal battle that would have destroyed Japan. Millions of Japanese, as well as many thousands of Americans, would have been killed. Contrary to some claims, the Japanese were not on the verge of surrender. For readers who are interested in studying this controversial topic, the best place to start is “Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire” (1999) by historian Richard Frank. The atomic bombings were truly horrible, but the other alternatives to ending the Pacific War, such as blockade or bombing the railroads that would have starved millions of Japanese to death, were even worse. In August 1945 there was no good way to end the war. Jonathan Ritter San Francisco

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A meditation on the film ‘Gravity’

lfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity” is the most visually arresting movie since “Avatar.” Its special effects have been quite rightly characterized as revolutionary and groundbreaking. But what is perhaps most surprising about this stunning film is its clear and profound religious import. The movie opens with a splendid vista of the Earth viewed from outer space. As we are taking in this delicious vision, we begin to notice a vehicle moving toward our point of vantage. We then make out around the FATHER ROBERT craft a crew of astronauts BARRON busily working, fixing and exploring. The sheer wonder of human technology, our capacity to master our environment, is vividly on display. But trouble quickly comes. The debris from a series of shattered satellites, we learn, is moving rapidly toward the craft. Before the crew can fully brace for impact, the space station is struck and catastrophically compromised. Most of them are killed instantly, but two figures – mission commander Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) and Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) – are left alive but in desperate danger. After a series of unfortunate accidents and coincidences, Kowalski is left clinging to Stone as she clings to the remains of an abandoned Soyuz Soviet space station. It becomes clear that Stone can survive only if Kowalski detaches himself from her. Despite her tearful protestations, he lets go and drifts lazily off into space and certain death. The last word we hear from him – and it is the first hint of the movie’s spiritual

ambitions– is his serene comment that the Ganges looks beautiful with the sun glinting off of it. As he performs the supreme act of love (“greater love hath no man than to give his life for his friend”), he contemplates one of the most religiously charged locales on the planet. Freed from Kowalski, Stone makes her way into the Soyuz and finds the pod on which she hopes to fly to a Chinese vehicle, which will finally take her home. But to her infinite chagrin, she discovers that there is no fuel in the Soviet pod and that she is, accordingly, surely doomed. With tears and much hesitation, she commences to pray, though she admits she doesn’t really know how to pray, and at this point, we notice an icon of St. Christopher on the instrument panel of the pod. Her prayer apparently unanswered and resigned to her demise, she then allows the oxygen to run down, so as to commit suicide by hypoxia. But just as she starts to drift into unconsciousness, Kowalski, to our infinite surprise, suddenly opens the hatch and bursts in. With bravado and confidence, he switches on the lights, turns on the oxygen and shows Stone how to activate the pod. However, just when we thought that the day had been saved by this deus ex machina, we discover, in the next scene, that Stone is still alone. Had Kowalski’s appearance been just a hallucination produced by oxygen deprivation, or had it in fact been a visitation from a figure now in heaven, or was it, perhaps, the latter by means of the former? At any rate, she took it to be a link to the transcendent, for she immediately asked Kowalski to communicate her love to her four year old daughter who had died some years before in a freak accident. None of the vaunted technology that she had mastered had ever allowed her to contact her beloved daughter, but now she had found, precisely through a figure who had manifested perfect love,

LETTERS Article brought Serra’s tireless work to life Thank you for giving us Christian Clifford’s valuable words on his visit to Huntington Library’s exhibit on Father Junipero Serra (“Junipero Serra: Created to amaze,” Oct.4). He brought to life Father Serra’s astounding efforts in early California of performing 10,000 baptisms at 21 missions. It’s great to see the respect of a Serra High School theology teacher for the tireless work of one of California’s great heroes. This engaging report shines brightly beyond the space given two weeks ago to that Australian tattoo artist who had no place in this paper. In place of the pseudo-religious know-nothing with an Angel Gabriel tattooed on his back, you kindly give us what a Serra high teacher shares about Junipero Serra, himself. Robert Jimenez Burlingame

American Catholic poll results What Bill Donohue (“Polls show most U.S. Catholics have favorable view of pope,” Oct. 11), failed to disclose when he faulted the recent Quinnipiac poll (Oct. 4) for “failing to distinguish between those who go to church monthly and those who no longer go to Mass” when reporting on Catholic support for marriage equality was that this distinction was made in the poll results: “More devout Catholics, who attend religious services about once a week, support samesex marriage 53-40 percent, while less observant Catholics support it 65-26 percent.” See fourth paragraph in this press release: www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/ national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1961). Jim McCrea Piedmont

a route of access, a means of communication to a realm beyond this one. Inspired by her supernatural visitation, Stone summons the courage to fly to the Chinese spacecraft and hurtle on it back to earth. While she navigates the vessel, she sees, over its instrument panel, a little statue of the smiling Buddha – the third explicitly religious symbol in the film. After splashing down in an unidentified body of water, Stone crawls to shore, grasps the wet sand in her hands, and mutters the final word of the movie: “Thanks.” The one who had admitted that she didn’t know how to pray utters, at the end, a beautiful and altogether appropriate prayer. The technology which this film legitimately celebrates is marvelously useful and, in its own way, beautiful. But it can’t save us, and it can’t provide the means by which we establish real contact with each other. The Ganges in the sun, the St. Christopher icon, the statue of the Buddha, and above all, a visit from a denizen of heaven, signal that there is a dimension of reality that lies beyond what technology can master or access. The key that most effectively opens the door to the reality of God is nothing other than the kind of self-forgetting love that George Clooney’s character displayed, for God, as the first letter of John tells us, is love. In and through that love, which permeates and animates the whole of the creation, we find connection to everything else and everyone else – even to those who have passed from this life to the next. How wonderful the technology that allows us to explore the depths of space, but infinitely more wonderful is the love which, in Dante’s unforgettable phrase, “moves the planets and the other stars.” FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

Misreading Murray, yet again

rom his present location in the communion of saints, Father John Courtney Murray, SJ, who died in 1967, is probably indifferent to the various ways his work on Catholicism and American democracy is misconstrued in the 21st century. But those who think that Murray still has something to teach Catholics about the American experiment in ordered liberty must regret that Murray’s thinking continues to be misrepresented in some Catholic quarters and misapplied in others. The most recent example of the latter came in the Sept. 23 GEORGE WEIGEL issue of America, in an article titled “Murray’s Mistake” by my friend Michael Baxter. As I understand Dr. Baxter’s argument, it goes something like this: 1) Murray urged American Catholics to more active involvement in public life because Catholics still “got” the ensemble of truths on which American democracy rested, while the old Protestant mainline and secular America had long since abandoned that foundational moral consensus; 2) Catholics did what Murray suggested; 3) Catholic unity in the United States has subsequently fractured because of political differences. I’m not buying. I don’t doubt that ecclesial unity in the church in America has fractured in ways that no one could anticipate when Vatican II convened in 1962. But to blame that current disarray on differences of political opinion (and on Murray) would seem to ignore the obvious historical fact that Catholics were bitterly divided over political questions in the past, but without the fractures in ecclesial unity that both Baxter and I regret today. Catholics fought on both sides of the Civil War; but unlike other Christian communities, the Catholic Church didn’t split into northern and southern branches. There were Catholic America Firsters and Catholic interventionists before World War II; but there were no serious fractures in ecclesial unity. There were Catholic disagreements about what racial justice required in the 1950s; aside from the excommunication of a few recalcitrant segregationists, there was no fracture of ecclesial unity.

What may appear to be politically induced fractures in the unity of the church in the United States today are the result of something else: Too many Catholics in the United States, including prominent public figures, have ceased to believe and profess “all that the holy Catholic Church believes, teaches and professes to be revealed by God” (which is what converts confess when they enter into full communion with the Catholic Church). That dissonance is why unity within the church in the United States is so fragile these days. Vatican II never, ever taught that Catholic faith is a do-it-yourself thing. Yet too many Catholics in America learned from the council (or its alleged “spirit”) that Catholicism is something other than an embrace of Christ, who is truth, and the truths authoritatively taught by Christ’s church: Truths that are then embodied in a Gospel-centered way of life that touches family, culture, society and politics. The fractures in the church that Michael Baxter rightly deplores have far less to do with Obamacare or Syria policy than they do with the fact that a not-insignificant number of U.S. Catholics deny to be true what the Gospel and the church authoritatively teach to be true. My friend Baxter is certainly right that it is much harder to live an integrally Catholic public life in the United States today than it was 50-some years ago, when Murray wrote “We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition.” And it may be that, in the decades ahead, Catholics of integrity will go into active opposition to American culture and society in unprecedented ways. That possibility cannot be excluded. But the unity of the church in the U.S. will not be recomposed by a retreat into micro-communities that, as Baxter suggests, reject the modern nation-state; John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and their successors in future generations are not going to follow the late Dorothy Day and Michael Baxter into the desert. And in any case, fractured unity can only be recomposed by recommitment to “all that the holy Catholic church believes, teaches, and professes to be revealed by God.” WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time The parable of the persistent widow: Jesus teaches the necessity ‘to pray always without becoming weary.’ LUKE 18:1-8 EXODUS 17:8-13 In those days, Amalek came and waged war against Israel. Moses, therefore, said to Joshua, “Pick out certain men, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” So Joshua did as Moses told him: he engaged Amalek in battle after Moses had climbed to the top of the hill with Aaron and Hur. As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight, but when he let his hands rest, Amalek had the better of the fight. Moses’ hands, however, grew tired; so they put a rock in place for him to sit on. Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so that his hands remained steady till sunset. And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. PSALM121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. I lift up my eyes toward the mountains; whence shall help come to me? My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

May he not suffer your foot to slip; may he slumber not who guards you: indeed he neither slumbers nor sleeps, the guardian of Israel. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. The Lord is your guardian; the Lord is your shade; he is beside you at your right hand. The sun shall not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. The Lord will guard you from all evil; he will guard your life. The Lord will guard your coming and your going, both now and forever. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 2 TIMOTHY 3:14-4:2 Beloved: Remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it and that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good

work. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power: proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching. LUKE 18:1-8 Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’ For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’” The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

The unjust judge, and persistence in prayer

ave you ever felt like you were being ignored? That no one was paying any attention? That your words were falling on deaf ears? There is probably no one who has not had that experience at one time or another with children, parents, teachers, students, bosses, (pastors, parishioners). Have you ever had that experience with God? Have you ever prayed earnestly for something, believing that if you just pray hard enough it will happen – and then did not? “It’s not fair,” we say. “We’ve prayed so hard – and nothing.” In one parable Jesus compares God to an unjust, corrupt judge. We are less FATHER WILLIAM encouraged by the widow NICHOLAS who appeals to this judge as many of us would appeal in prayer to God. The corruption of the judge makes the widow’s situation appear all the more hopeless and pointless. Nevertheless, the widow succeeds. Our focus should be not so much on the judge,

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POPE FRANCIS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ‘CATHOLIC’

Professing that the church is “catholic” means accepting its teachings, accepting the gifts it offers to help one grow in holiness and accepting the fact that it is composed of different people with different gifts and opinions, Pope Francis said Oct. 9 at his weekly general audience at the Vatican. “Let’s ask ourselves: Do we live in harmony in our communities? Or do we fight among ourselves?” the pope asked.

on his “corruption,” or even on the widow, but rather on her persistent demand for justice. The judge, in the end gives her justice, if for no other reason than to get rid of her. This persistence can be found in saints like Monica, who closely resembles the widow of the parable. Having so much stacked against her in a pagan, Roman society, she faced failure as a Christian mother when her son, Augustine, strayed from the faith. As a saint, she is honored principally for her unrelenting tears and prayers to God (and, no doubt, nagging her son to a fair degree). Augustine would credit his eventual conversion to this persistence. Also, it was also the relentless haranguing of St. Catherine of Siena that persuaded Pope Gregory XI to return the papacy to Rome after 70 years in Avignon, France. Our prayers, however, are not always granted in the manner or degree that we would have them answered. Jesus does not limit God’s granting of prayers to simply whatever we pray for. In looking at this parable one must remember that the “justice” demanded by the widow and denied by the judge is paralleled at the end of the Gospel to the “rights” and “justice” granted by God. God responds according to his own standards, and Jesus teaches that God gives us the grace, holiness and perseverance in living the Gospel.

In another part of the Gospel Jesus says, “Ask and you shall receive.” But he does not say we will receive what we ask for. “Seek and you shall find,” but not necessarily what we are looking for. “Knock and the door shall be opened,” but it may not be the door on which we are knocking at the time. Paul points out that God has already granted us many answers in the Scriptures and the teachings we cling to. We only need the resourcefulness to recognize them. The Gospel message is clear: Persevere, never give up. Never give in to discouragement when things don’t seem to go our way. Never lose hope when disappointment comes, when we take some knocks because our values are at odds with the mainstream. When God appears to be ignoring our endless cries for justice, grace and strength we must be persistent. We must persevere in faith that God will hear and answer our prayers in a manner suited to his purpose. Jesus ends the parable of the unjust judge with a simple question. Does that type of faith indeed still exist? If Christ were to return today, would he find such faith on earth? FATHER NICHOLAS, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is on temporary assignment as parochial vicar at St. Rose of Lima Parish, Simi Valley. His website is frwcnicholas.com.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, OCTOBER 21: Monday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 4:20-25. Lk 1:6970, 71-72, 73-75. Lk 12:13-21. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22: Tuesday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Blessed John Paul II. Rom 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21. PS 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17. Lk 12:35-38. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23: Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John of Capistrano, priest. Rom 6:12-18. PS 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8. Lk 12:39-48.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24: Thursday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret, bishop. Rom 6:19-23. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. Lk 12:49-53. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25: Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time; 40 Martyrs of England & Wales (Eng & Wal). Rom 7:18-25a. PS 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94. Lk 12:54-59. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26: Saturday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 8:1-11. PS 24:1b2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Lk 13:1-9.

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Holy days in historical perspective

oly days are usually regarded in terms of obligation or imposition. But wouldn’t it be wiser to consider them as graced times of opportunity to mark a special mystery of our faith? In recent years holy days have come in for a good deal of discussion, evaluation and renewal. As early as the fourth cenBROTHER JOHN tury St. John M. SAMAHA, SM Chrysostom was concerned about the celebration of holy days in Constantinople. This father and doctor of the church commented in a homily that “many people celebrate the holy days and know their names; but of their history, meaning and origin they know nothing.” Today this challenge persists and needs to be addressed anew. We might respond to that bishop of Constantinople in the words of our earliest forebears in the faith: How can I know the meaning and history of the holy days and other feasts “unless someone explains it to me” (Acts 8:31). What is a holy day of obligation? A simple answer is that a holy day is an important feast of Our Lord, Mary or the saints that Catholics are morally obliged to observe by participating in the celebration of the Eucharist and abstaining from unnecessary servile work. These days are made solemnities like a Sunday in terms of festivity and observance because of their special importance and meaning for the local church. Understanding holy days presumes an appreciation of the liturgical year and its representation of our salvation history. It is difficult to enjoy something of which we know little. Our American Catholic history tells

2013 HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION ALL SAINTS’ DAY: Friday, Nov. 1 CHRISTMAS: Wednesday, Dec. 25

Fra Angelico, “The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs,” (about 1423-24) us why the six U.S. holy days have special significance. Why do we observe six of the 10 once prescribed by church law? Why do other countries observe different feasts? Before we received the current 1983 Code of Canon Law, holy days were regulated by the 1918 code. The same 10 holy days were required by both codes. Exceptions were made by the Holy See in special arrangements with various countries. When the 1918 code became effective, the U.S. church was permitted to continue observing the six holy days designated by bishops at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884. Sunday, the Lord’s day, is the focus of the liturgical year, the day we celebrate our salvation in Christ’s death and resurrection. We are asked to celebrate a holy day with the same solemnity as the Lord’s day. By honoring another mystery of Christ, or by honoring Mary or a saint of local significance, we are celebrating the same as we do on a Sunday, but

with a special orientation. In coming together as a community of faith for the celebration of the Eucharist we declare the importance of the feast in the life of the particular church. For this reason parishes are urged to celebrate holy days with all their resources as they do on Sundays. A deeper understanding by pastors and faithful of the nature and meaning of each holy day helps to elicit a more appreciative celebration and a commitment to excellence for these special occasions. A real appreciation of the history, doctrine and liturgy of each U.S. holy day leads to a deeper realization of how holy days help the church to celebrate special events. In turn this can develop a more festive celebration when we gather for Sunday Eucharist. Each ethnic group that planted the faith in American soil lived its own distinctive expression of Catholicism. The six holy days we now observe are a distillation of the liturgical calendars followed by the English, French and Spanish colonists in the

16th and 17th centuries. In England, Catholics observed 34 holy days – reduced to 11 in 1777 by Pope Pius VI. Considering that Catholics were persecuted in all 13 American colonies (even in Maryland, which had been founded by and for English Catholics), how could they celebrate 34 holy days? Catholics were often dispensed from the obligation, not only because of persecution, but because they were widely scattered from the churches of the time. With the insertion of parts of New France (Canada) and Mexico into the new republic the number of American Catholics increased, and with them came new customs and feasts. French America and Spanish America gave us the observance of Mary’s Immaculate Conception as a holy day, and this became the patronal feast of our nation. This diversity of origins resulted in almost every U.S. diocese following its own calendar of holy days until 1884, when the Third Plenary Council approved the uniform calendar of six holy days now observed: Immaculate Conception of Mary; Christmas; Mary, Mother of God; Ascension of the Lord; Assumption of Mary; All Saints. In a pluralistic and secular society this history will influence how we observe holy days. Will we see them as opportunities to draw closer to the mysteries of faith? American Catholic pastoral creativity and ingenuity are equal to the challenge. MARIANIST BROTHER SAMAHA lives in Cupertino.

The sinner is the saint’s wounded part

hat are we ultimately, saints or sinners? What’s deepest inside us, goodness or selfishness? Or, are we dualists with two innate principles inside us, one good and one evil, in a perpetual dual with each other? Certainly, at the level of experience, we feel a conflict. There’s a saint inside us who wants to mirror FATHER RON the greatness ROLHEISER of life, even as there is someone else inside us that wants to walk a seedier path. I like the honesty of Henri Nouwen when he describes this conflict in his own life: “I want to be great saint,” he once confessed, “but I don’t want to miss out on all the sensations that sinners experience.” It’s because of this bi-polar tension inside us that we find it so hard to make clear moral choices. We want the right things, but we also want many of the wrong things. Every choice is a renunciation and so the struggle between saint and sinner inside us often manifests itself precisely in our inability to make hard choices.

The sinner in us is not a separate person: It’s simply the wounded part of the saint. But we don’t feel this tension only in our struggle to make clear moral decisions; we feel it daily in our spontaneous reaction to situations that affect us adversely. Simply put, we are forever bouncing back and forth between being petty and being big-hearted, spiteful and forgiving, whenever we are negatively impacted by others. For instance, we all have had this kind of experience: We are at work and in a good emotional state, thinking peaceful and patient thoughts, nursing warm feelings, wishing harm to no one, when a co-worker comes in and, without good reason, slights or insults us in some way. In one instant, our whole inner world reverses: A door slams shut and we begin to feel cold and spiteful, thinking anything but warm thoughts, seemingly becoming different persons: moving from being big-hearted to being spiteful, from being saints to entertaining murderous feelings. Which is our true person? What are we really, saints with big hearts or petty, spiteful persons? Seemingly, we are both, saints and sinners, since goodness and selfishness both flow through us. Interestingly, we don’t always react

in the same way. Sometimes in the face of a slight, insult, or even positive attack and injustice, we react with patience, understanding, and forgiveness. Why? What changes the chemistry? Why do we sometimes meet pettiness with a big-heart and, other times, meet it in kind, with spite? Ultimately there’s deeper reality at work in all of this, beyond our emotional well-being on a given day. How we react to a situation, with grace or spite, for the most part depends upon something else. The church fathers had a concept and name for this. They believed that each of us has two souls, a big soul and a petty soul, and how we react to any situation depends largely upon which soul we are thinking with and acting out of at that moment. Thus, if I meet an insult or an injury with my big soul, I am more likely to meet it with patience, understanding, and forgiveness. Conversely, if I meet an insult or a hurt while operating out of my petty soul, I am more likely to respond in kind, with pettiness, coldness, and spite. And, for the church fathers, both of these souls are inside us and both are

real; we’re both big-hearted and petty, saint and sinner. The challenge is to operate more out of our big soul than our petty one. But we must be careful to not understand this dualistically. In affirming that we have two souls, a big soul and a petty soul, the church fathers are not teaching a variation of an old dualism, namely, that there are inside us two innate principles, one good and one evil, perpetually fighting for control of our hearts and souls. That kind of struggle in fact does go on inside us, but not between two separate principles. The saint and sinner inside us are not separate entities. Rather the saint in us, the big soul, is not only our true self, it’s our only self. The sinner in us, the petty soul, is not a separate person or separate moral force doing perpetual battle with the saint, it’s simply the wounded part of the saint, that part of the saint that’s been cursed and never properly blessed. And our wounded self shouldn’t be demonized and cursed again. Rather it needs to be befriended and blessed – and then it will cease being petty and spiteful in the face of adversity. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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Doctrine of infallibility; woman’s scriptural blog

What is the church’s foundation for declaring itself to be infallible when the pope speaks “ex cathedra” and with the entire magisterium supporting him? I understand that the church made this declaration around 1870 A.D., and it seems a little curious to arrive at that conclusion nearly 2,000 years after the life of Christ. How many teachings on faith and morals have been declared infallible, and what are some of them? And if something has not been defined as infallible, are we free to question and discuss? (Hudson, Wis.) The doctrine of infallibility, while sometimes misunderstood by Catholics and others, is clearly FATHER defined by the church’s Code KENNETH DOYLE of Canon Law. Canon 749, Section 1, explains that the pope may teach infallibly when he proclaims by definitive act that a certain doctrine of faith or morals is to be believed by the faithful. He must clearly state that he intends to teach that doctrine as infallible and irreformable. The consensus among theologians is that only

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twice in the church’s history has the Holy Father by himself exercised this prerogative: in 1854 with the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and in 1950 with the Assumption. But there is a second manner of infallible pronouncements (Canon 749, 2), and this happens when the college of bishops, joined in an ecumenical council, proclaim that a certain truth is to be held by all the faithful. An example would be at Nicaea in 325 A.D., when it was declared that Jesus is “of the same substance” (nature) as God the Father. The doctrine of infallibility did not suddenly appear in 1870. Rather, it is founded on Christ’s promise to the apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit, who “will guide you to all truth” (John 16:13). That secure sense of protection from error on fundamental teachings was part of the early church as reflected in St. Augustine’s fifth-century statement, “Rome has spoken; the case is concluded.” Infallible declarations have been issued only sparsely during the church’s two-millennium history and have usually been formulated in response to particular issues that had been disputed. But, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains (No. 892), even the ordinary teaching of the bishops, are to be followed “with religious assent.” So where does that leave Catholics as to their freedom “to question and discuss” noninfallible teachings? The answer seems to depend on the particular teaching – how fundamental it is and how solidly embedded in the history and tradition of the church.

For example, in 1994, when Pope John Paul II said in “Ordinatio Sacerdotalis” that the church lacks the authority to ordain women, the word infallible did not appear. But the pontiff did say that this teaching should be “definitively held” and suggested that further debate was pointless. But on the issue of mandatory celibacy for clergy, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the new papal secretary of state, noted recently that this is a matter of church discipline and not dogma, that the early church had married priests and that the matter is therefore open to discussion. Is there anything wrong with a woman writing a reflection on the readings for the Mass each day on her own personal blog? I am the volunteer coordinator for Catholic ministry at a local women’s prison and teach an RCIA class for those inquiring into the faith. (Indianapolis) I applaud what you are doing and encourage you to continue it. True, Canon 767 of the church’s Code of Canon Law says that “among the forms of preaching, the homily, which is part of the liturgy itself and is reserved to a priest or deacon, is pre-eminent.” But what you are doing is apart from the context of the Mass and is clearly not a homily. You are simply reflecting on the daily readings – and you have every right to do that; I would think that many might benefit from a feminine perspective.

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Msgr. James Tarantino, archdiocesan vicar general and moderator of the curia, addressed the rosary rally crowd gathered in United Nations Plaza. “Today is an action of faith to our world that God is alive,” he said.

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Legion of Mary, the organization which revived the rally in 2011, the 50th anniversary of Father Patrick Peyton’s Family Rosary Crusade in the polo fields that drew a half million people in 1961. The Knights of Columbus served as honor guard, festive in plumed hats and uniform garb. Auxiliary Bishops William J. Justice and Robert W. McElroy, were on hand, as was archdiocesan vicar general and moderator of the curia, Msgr. James Tarantino, who told the crowd: “Today is an action of faith to our world that God is alive.” “So much of what we believe as Catholics, so much of what we believe as Christians is the opposite of what the world believes,” Msgr. Tar-

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Among the thousands praying the rosary at the rally were an Archbishop Riordan High School football player and a Missionary of Charity novice. antino said. “God asks us however to not necessarily try to be popular, but he asks us to be courageous and to be brave witnesses of his word.” Two busloads of Archbishop Riordan High School students, including a number of varsity football players, school president Joe Conti, principal Vic Anastasio and several religion teachers joined the procession at the cathedral. Buses brought parishioners from St. Matthew of San Mateo and St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto. Marin Catholic High School also sent students to the rally. Retired parish priest Father Francis Filice, 91, heard a steady stream of confessions in Spanish and English on the side of U.N. Plaza throughout the rally, sitting in

a folding chair near a big black and white sign “Confessions.” Maira Lindstana, came with her husband Chris and son from St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco. “We are members of the Legion of Mary so we want to support the rosary,” said Lindstana. “We are all soldiers of mama Maria, so praying the rosary, everything will be possible.” “I believe in the rosary; I believe in mother Mary,” said Maria Machado of St. Augustine Parish in South San Francisco, noting she and her husband pray the rosary daily. “She is amazing, amazing.” A father and daughter from St. Patrick Parish in San Francisco were just walking by, said Jean Bustos. “We see here that they pray the

A group from St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, participated as part of the archdiocesan Spanish pastoral organization. rosary for mama Mary. He wanted to join the prayer,” said the young woman, translating for her father Fred Bustos. “We just passed by so we decided to join.” Throughout, Archbishop Cordileone repeatedly sounded notes of hope and belief in the power of prayer, particularly of the rosary. “I ask you, I implore you, I plead with you. Pray the rosary every day. Pray the rosary together as a family,” the archbishop said. “We are heirs of Father Peyton and his compatriots as we reclaim the power of the rosary for peace here in the city of the saint of peace, our beloved patron St. Francis so that God will smile upon us with mercy and grant us peace, peace in our families, peace in our neighborhoods, peace in our world.”

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“This extraordinary extension of the statute of limitations, which legislators chose not to apply to public institutions is simply too open-ended and unfair,” Brown said in his veto message. In 2003, the state of California created a one-year window that waived the statute of limitations, leading to massive settlements with victims by Catholic dioceses who encouraged any-

one who might have been harmed to come forward for what it believed was a one-time event. California dioceses paid damages of more than $1 billion. “The fact SB 131 discriminated against victims clearly played a major role in prompting a veto, but at the same time, we hope the way the Catholic Church in California has responded to the abuse crisis over the last 10 years, and ‘walked the walk’ with respect to protecting young people and reporting allegations to

law enforcement helped play a role, too,” Bishop Wilkerson said. The bill would have opened nonprofits and religious institutions to civil liability for alleged sexual abuse that occurred before Jan. 1, 2004, but for which victims only discovered injury after that date. In addition to the Catholic organizations, nonprofits as diverse as the YMCA, Little League, Boy Scouts and private schools could have faced additional abuse claims. Before final approval by the law-

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

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SATURDAY, OCT. 19 PRO-LIFE WALK: “Alpha Pregnancy Center Walk for Life,” 10 a.m., check-in 9 a.m., Alpha Pregnancy Center, 5070 Mission St., San Francisco Ending at John McLaren Park with barbecue at 12:30 p.m. Registration $30; after Oct. 5, $40. Register online at www. alphapc.org. (415) 584-6800. CASINO TRIP: Thunder Valley & Feather Falls Casino bus departs St. Veronica Parish parking lot 6:45 a.m. and returns to St. Veronica at approximately at 9 p.m. Breakfast provided, bingo on the bus. $40 per person. Josefina Pablo, (650) 270-8320; (650) 952-5787 by Oct. 1. Proceeds benefit St. Veronica capital campaign. www.stveronicassf.com. AUGUSTINIAN PERSPECTIVE: Augustinian monk Walter Hilton is the focus of Paulist Father Terry Ryan’s talk 9 a.m.noon, Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco. Coffee and treats begin at 9 a.m. The workshop is free but free-will donations welcome. (415) 288-3844.

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3-DAY FESTIVAL: “County Fair and Fall Festival” Oct. 18, 19, 20, St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae. Carnival rides, games, food, drink, chili cook-off, pie-eating contest, raffle, silent auction. Champagne brunch on Sunday. Friday 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday noon–8 p.m. (650) 6974730 or email secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org. 3-DAY GARAGE SALE: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 19, Oct 18, 19, 20, 225 Wildwood Drive, South San

VINCENTIAN FAMILY MASS: The St.Vincent de Paul Society will gather with Vincentian family members at the Cathedral of St. Mary of The Assumption, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco to celebrate the 200th anniversary of their founder, Blessed Frederick Ozanam. The program, which features excerpts from the movie “Les Miserables,” will begin at 3 p.m. with registration at 2:30 p.m. followed by Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant, followed by a simple supper. Contact

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TUESDAY, OCT. 22 SEPARATED, DIVORCED: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7 p.m. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

THURSDAY, OCT. 24 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City, featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today. Oct. 24: “Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy” with retired Father David Pettingill, pastor, seminary professor, retreat director. Sister Norberta (650) 361-1411, ext. 115; srnorberta@pius.org.

FRIDAY, OCT. 25 GOLF TOURNAMENT: Alumni and friends of Archbishop Riordan High School are invited to tee off for a fun day at Presidio Golf Course. Event will support the Crusader athletic program. Tickets: $275/person; $1,000/foursome. Sponsorships available. www.riordanhs.org; alumni director Marc Rovetti, (415) 5868200, ext. 357.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 26 FEAST DAY MASS: St. Elizabeth Church, Wayland and Somerset streets, San Francisco commemorates the feast day of St. Elizabeth, 4:30 p.m., with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant. Reception in Cantwell Hall follows. (415) 468-0820. RELICS: “Treasures of the Church,” an exposition of sacred relics at St. Thomas More Church, Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, 6:15 p.m.. (415) 452-9634. Presented by priests and brothers of Companions of the Cross. On hand will be piece of a veil alleged to have belonged to the Blessed Mother and what is said to be a piece of the Calvary cross.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 25 RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests, 11:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco: Proceeds benefit Father David Priests RetirePettingill ment Fund of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Father David Pettingill, retired pastor, St. Gabriel Parish, San Francisco and among those being honored, will give keynote talk. Call (415) 614-5580, email development@ sfarchdiocese.org for information regarding tickets and sponsorship opportunities.

TUESDAY, OCT. 29 USF DINNER: The USF California Prize Dinner begins 6 p.m. at the school’s Memorial Gymnasium. Drs. Tricia and Richard Gibbs, founders of the San Francisco Free Clinic now in its 20th year, will be honored with the school’s USF California Prize for Service and the Common Good. The couple met at Yale University Medical School. They have five children. Individual tickets are available for $350; proceeds benefit USF service-learning programs. www.usfca.edu/ca_prize; (415) 422.2697.

OKTOBERFEST: Good Shepherd Guild Oktoberfest Luncheon and bingo at Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Tickets at $40 include a three-course lunch and bingo cards. Jeannette Gregory, (415) 5176768. Proceeds benefit Good Shepherd Gracenter.

Luncheon, Parish Center, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco with traditional Thanksgiving meal noon-1 p.m. and bingo, 1-5pm. Pre-sale $20 includes buy-in, lunch and a raffle ticket; at door $25 includes buy-in and lunch. Register online www.stveronicassf.com; Terri (415) 519-1748; must be 18 to play. Proceeds benefit St. Veronica Capital Campaign.

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SILENT RETREAT: “All Souls Day and the Body of Christ” with Dominican Father Michael Dodds in Tiburon, 9 a.m., with Evening Prayer and Mass ending the day at 3:30 p.m. Social hour follows. Sacrament of reconciliation will be available. $25 with lunch included. Reserve by Oct. 29. Marilyn Knight, (415) 435-1524, tiburonmarilyn@gmail. com; Father Bruno Gibson, (415) 2721866, brunogibsonop@gmail.com.

FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal. MARRIAGE RETREAT: Marriage Help – Retrouvaille has helped thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage. The program consists of a weekend and post sessions. For confidential information or to register for the program on Nov. 1-3 call (415) 893-1005, email SF@Retrouvaille. org or visit www.Retrouvaille.org. ASSISI CONCERTS: Franciscan Friar Alessandro, the “Voice of Assisi,” performs Nov. 1, 2 at the National Shrine of St. Francis, Columbus and Vallejo, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. Ticket information available at www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com; (415) 434-8700; email event@knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

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RESPECT LIFE: “Love Made Medicine: Christian Answers to Health Care Challenges,” Respect Life Conference, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, conference center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Speakers include Dr. Mary Davenport on effectiveness and rewards of NFP and pro-life infertility treatment; Dr. Ryan Nash director of Ohio State University Center for Bioethics on palliative care and meeting the spiritual needs of the patient at the end of life; and Dr. Thomas Cavanaugh, professor of philosophy, University of San Francisco, with an historical and philosophical perspective on the influence of Christianity on Hippocratic medicine. Event sponsored by San Francisco Archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. Tickets at $50, $60 after Oct. 31, include continental breakfast and buffet lunch plus conference materials. Scholarships available for students. Continuing Professional Education credit for nurses though Dominican University for an additional $10. Vicki Evans, (415) 6145533; vevans1438@att.net.

PEACE PRAYER: A prayer service bringing together religious leaders serving Christians from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan, St. Thomas More Church, One Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m. Mother Agnes-Mariam, who has spoken around the world on the search for peace in the Middle East, is featured. (415) 452-9634.

ALL-SCHOOL REUNION: “Blue and Green Bash” for graduates of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School at San Francisco Design Galleria Center, 101 Henry Adams St. An evening of food, dancing drinks and a night to reconnect. Patrick Kealy, alumni relations manager, (415 7756626, ext. 682; pkealy@shcp.edu. Tickets $80 and $65.

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