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SF ballot measure addresses housing crisis Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
It will take two-thirds of San Francisco voters to pass a $310 million housing ballot proposition aimed at buying, rehabilitating and preserving housing that middle income residents could afford as renters or homeowners. Proposition A on the Nov. 3 ballot would also fund rehabilitation of public housing and public housing infrastructure. The proposition is endorsed by Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic Charities and the San Francisco Interfaith Council, as well as a broad range of housing activists, unions, nonprofits and business interests including the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco Labor Council and San Francisco Housing Action Coalition. The Libertarian Party and the San see prop, A, page 2
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Pope canonizes 4 saints, hails ‘joy of quiet service’
Nuns wait for Pope Francis to lead the Oct. 18 Mass in St. Peter’s Square for the canonization of four new saints, including Louis and Marie Zelie Guerin Martin, parents of St. Therese of Lisieux. The pope said “genuine authority” in the church comes from “the joy of quiet service.” Story on Page 10.
California bishops exploring options to repeal doctor-prescribed suicide law Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
California bishops are supporting “the right and duty” of citizens who have started a signature gathering campaign to repeal the physicianassisted suicide act signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month. The U.S. bishops are likely to take up the issue at their November meeting in Baltimore, said Richard Doerflinger, associate director, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities. With Brown’s signature Oct. 5, all three Pacific
‘We are reviewing the options. This is a dark day for California and for the Brown legacy.’ Tim Rosales
Californians Against Assisted Suicide Coast states have legalized physician assisted suicide. Only two other states have physician assisted suicide: Vermont and Montana. The California bishops issued a supplementary statement Oct. 12 that said they were looking at all the options available, including the referendum
and legal action. The bishops earlier issued a statement condemning the law Oct. 5, the day that Brown signed the End of Life Option Act. A group called Seniors Against Suicide filed papers with the state attorney general’s office Oct. 6 to seek a referendum to overturn the
measure on the November 2016 ballot. The group would have 90 days, or until Jan. 3, to collect the signatures of about 400,000 registered voters. If the group is successful, the ballot proposition will “allow the people of California in November 2016 to do what Gov. Brown should have done – veto this dangerous legislation,” said Doerflinger. “Concerned opponents of physicianassisted suicide have already started the process for a referendum. We affirm and support them in that deci-
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Need to know Cardinal Turkson featured at SCU conference Nov. 3-4 on “Laudato Si’”: Santa Clara University is hosting a conference Nov. 3-4 in response to Pope Francis’ call to engage in dialogue on the environment and the global challenge of climate change. The conference, “Our Future on a Shared Planet: Silicon Valley in ConverCardinal sation with the Environmental Turkson Teachings of Pope Francis,” will be headlined by Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and widely acknowledged as one of the most influential Vatican authorities on the pope’s climate encyclical “Laudato Si’.” Public events Nov. 3 will include a liturgy at 11:30 a.m. celebrated by Cardinal Turkson, followed by a 3 p.m. keynote address by the cardinal. Both events will be in Santa Clara University’s Mission Church, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. Public events Nov. 4 ($25 admission/free for students) will take place in the university’s Paul L. Locatelli, SJ, Student Activity Center, and include talks by San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo; UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography atmospheric and climate science professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan; Stanford environmental science professor Gretchen Daily; and former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers green-tech investment manager John Denniston, who has created the startup Shared-X to invest in and advance sustainable agricultural practices, and is also president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul District Council of San Mateo County. A full list of events and registration information is available at www.scu.edu/ ourcommonhome/events.cfm. Veterans Day Service: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, will pray for armed services veterans and their families Nov. 11 in a Veterans Day prayer service at 11 a.m. Msgr. Michael Padazinski, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, will preside with other priest chaplains assisting. The cemeteries department hosts Mass and rites similar to the Veterans Day event throughout the year, all at 11 a.m. Oct. 31: Todos Los Santos/All Saints Day Mass, Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel, Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant and homilist. Refreshments following Mass; Nov. 2: All Souls’ Day Mass, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Father Michael Quinn, pastor, Star of the Sea Church, Sausalito, principal celebrant and homilist; Dec. 12: Christmas Remembrance Service, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Msgr. John Talesfore, pastor, St. Matthew Church, San Mateo, and presider of this holiday rite since its inception, will again lead. What might be called a refreshing curve in the cemetery’s calendar is its first Classic Car and Motorcycle Show, Dec. 13, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. www. holycrosscemeteries.com; (650) 756-2060.
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Francisco Taxpayers Association oppose the measure. The city controller estimates the highest annual cost for property owners of the general obligation bonds will be $56.24 a year in additional property taxes on a $500,000 home. Proposition A was placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, with one supervisor, David Campos excused. The board of directors of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic Charities, which includes board president Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, unanimously voted to support Proposition A. “Catholic Charities rarely takes public positions on ballot measures, however the housing crisis in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area directly impacts the very people Catholic Charities seeks to serve as well as the staff it relies on to provide these services,” said Jeff Bialik, Catholic Charities executive director. The San Francisco Interfaith Council is – for the first time ever – endorsing a housing bond, also by a unanimous vote of the board of directors, said executive director Michael Pappas. The Interfaith Essential Housing Task Force, created by the council last fall, also unanimously supports Proposition A. “We call it the missing middle,” said Pappas, who said the Interfaith Council’s support grew out of its work to combat income inequality in the City and County of San Francisco. The council, founded 26 years ago to build interfaith cooperation, includes Auxiliary Bishop representatives of Jewish, Baptist, William J. Justice Buddhist, Baha’i, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Episcopalian, Orthodox and other congregations. Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, who represents the archdiocese on the Essential Housing Task Force, said the bond issue addresses a “critical” need – helping teachers, firefighters, police officers and others live in the city they serve. Mayor Ed Lee asked the Interfaith Council to back Proposition A, Pappas said. “The reason we passed it is because it is so much in keeping with the mission of this task force,” Pappas said.
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About Proposition A The San Francisco ballot measure would authorize the city to issue up to $310 million in bonds to: – Finance the construction, development, acquisition, and preservation of affordable rental housing near established transit corridors or within priority development areas – Acquire, rehabilitate, and preserve existing rental housing to prevent the loss of rental housing and the displacement of long-time city residents, with priority for vulnerable populations such as San Francisco working families, veterans, seniors, disabled persons – Repair and reconstruct dilapidated public housing or provide infrastructure improvements that allow for the repair or improvement of public housing sites – Fund middle-income rental housing units – Assist middle-income city residents, including teachers, in purchasing their first homes in the city – Acquire, rehabilitate, preserve, construct, and/or develop affordable housing in the Mission Area Plan area Visit www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=2969 for full information on the measure from the San Francisco Department of Elections. In announcing its support for Proposition A, the council said, “Grounded in our varied faith traditions, we stand together in supporting an inclusive San Francisco. Housing affordability is not only an economic crisis in our city, but a shared moral and spiritual crisis.” The council created the Interfaith Essential Housing Task Force following a September 2014 dinner meeting to discuss income inequality hosted by Archbishop Cordileone at his residence, Pappas said. “It was from that dinner that the decision was made to form this task force and to become proactive, for the faith community to make a contributive and positive response to the housing affordability issue here in San Francisco,” Pappas said. The SF Interfaith Essential Housing Task Force is still pursuing its initial goal of finding faith community owned property that could be used or converted to affordable rental housing for middle class residents particularly firefighters, police officers or those in the helping professions or working for nonprofits, Pappas said.
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Dominican Father Bruno Gibson, Marilyn Knight and Lucille and Tony Sanchez-Corea are pictured at the Order of Malta’s Silver Chalice Awards Dinner.
Order of Malta raises $170,000 toward clinic The Order of Malta joined Oct. 13 to raise $170,000 toward expanding the hours of its Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California in Oakland. The Silver Chalice Awards Dinner held at the St. Francis Yacht Club honored Tony and Lucille Sanchez-Corea for their leadership and generosity in the establishment and maintenance of the facility. The mission of the clinic is to “provide free medical care to the working poor and needy who do not have any form of medical insurance, without regard to race, creed, or religion,” according to the Order of Malta. “The board for the Order of Malta Clinic, and all its supporters, were
thrilled to honor the Sanchez-Corea family, as they truly embody the values this order was founded upon,” said John Christian, president of the clinic’s board of directors. “Their selflessness, service, and generosity enable us to care for those who need it most in our community.” Since opening in 2008 the clinic located adjacent to the Diocese of Oakland’s Cathedral of Christ the Light has provided more than 19,000 primary care treatments to new and returning patients. The clinic accepts no fees for its services, nor does it receive public funding. Efforts now underway would have the clinic operating five days a week from half that.
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Holy Name pastor’s music proclaims his life in Christ Tom Burke
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Father Arnold Zamora, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, San Francisco, likes to sing. He has recently released “My Life in You,” a 12-song CD of which 10 are his own compositions. “My initial idea was reaching out to Father Arnold the young people as Zamora a way of evangelization through songs of hope, love, faith, praise and inspiration,” Father Arnold told me via email on his reason for the recent work. He noted though that he hopes the completed songs will serve all generations. The CD is not an overnight effort. It was almost a decade in the making, he said. The writing was done over his ministry as a parochial vicar at Star of the Sea and St. Brendan parishes and completed and recorded at Holy Name where he has been pastor since 2009. Father Arnold holds a degree in music and headed seminary and diocesan music programs in the Philippines. Father Arnold did consider a career in music. He had his own music studio and production facility. “I was writing and arranging songs for local artists,” he said. “There was a time that I was more of a musician than a priest. But the calling to the priesthood is higher than my passion in music. My coming to the states realigned my vision and mission. God has redirected my path to what I am first supposed to be, a priest.” He keeps his hand in music though. He plays and leads the parish choir when he is not on the altar and is still writing songs. “I wrote the theme song of the convocation of priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2012 titled ‘One Heart, One Priestly People in One Lord.’” He has also written with Paulist
HOME RUN: Hats off to the sixth grade baseball team at St. Dunstan School in Millbrae. The players wanted to find a way to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month so coach Kevin O’Neil, gave his OK to their wearing pink shirts underneath their jerseys. “They’ve proudly worn their shirts to the last two practices, and will be wearing them to their games during the month of October,” Gabrielle O’Neil said in a note to this column. Pictured back from left: Anthony O’Neil, Jack Alaraj, Timothy Jang, Nico Chapman, Joseph Opalenik, Alex Green; and front from left: Nicolas Saenz, Joshua Park, Matthew Lam, Nicholas Ingargiola, Matthew Maldonado, Christian Martinez Father Ricky Manalo and in July wrote “When God Called My Name,” for the 40th priesthood anniversary of Father Eugene Tungol, pastor, Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco. Father Arnold’s other works include “Chosen in His Love,” for his 25th priesthood anniversary; “Blessed Be God,” popular Mass songs arranged for a cappella choir; and “The Joy of Christmas.” His current CD, “My Life in You,” is available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify as well as the St. Mary’s Cathedral Gift Shop, McCoy’s Religious Goods and Holy Name. Father Arnold had two opportunities to see Pope Francis in September. He was in Rome and part of an audience earlier in the month and then concelebrated Mass with the Holy Father at Madison Square Garden in New York City during the pope’s U.S. visit. Father Arnold was asked to be part of the Mass by his good friend and classmate Archbishop Bernardito Auza, apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. “Concelebrating the Mass at Madi-
son Square Garden was ‘being with the pope’ and more special than just ‘seeing the pope’ in Rome two weeks ago,” Father Arnold told me. “In Rome he was closer to my sight, in New York, he was closer to my heart!” BALANCED BOOKS: Cassandra Miller, a senior at Mercy High School, Burlingame has been named a commended scholar in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. Karen Hanrahan, head of school, announced Cassandra the honor at the Miller school’s recent Mercy Day Liturgy. Cassie and I spoke via email on what she called “the commended scholar thing” and how she stays on track with school and everything else. “I do study a lot but like to think that I have a pretty good balance,” Cassie said, “I also tutor middle schoolers and volunteer for an organization called Reading Partners.” She intends to attend
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REMEMBERING THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED
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Salesians celebrate jubilees 75 years Father Armand Oliveri, SDB
Father Armand is a 1935 graduate of Sts. Peter and Paul School in North Beach. He has served as pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul, where he currently resides, and Corpus Christi Parish, San Francisco. Though retired, he has celebrated 76 weddings and well over 100 baptisms since 2003, many being the third generations of local families.
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Father Mario served in China for almost a decade during World War II.
Jubilee conference Nov. 7 at St. Dominic marks 800th year of Order of Preachers
As part of celebrations for the 800th worldwide anniversary the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, St. Dominic’s Jubilee Conference will take place Nov. 7 at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. The day is for people of all ages including
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE FORMATION WEEKEND? The Formation Weekend is for: • Persons already involved in this ministry • Communities wishing to start Retrouvaille • Couples and priests who are currently preparing to work in this ministry in existing and new communities • Couples and priests who wish to discern how they may help the Retrouvaille ministry by their involvement
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WASHINGTON – Martin Doblmeier, the writer-director behind the new public television documentary “Chaplains,” said chaplains in hospital, prison and corporate settings are worried about how their service is judged. “How do you justify the value, how do you quantify the spiritual care? How do you quantify the income? You can’t,” Doblmeier said. “They feel they’re making a contribution to the whole person – body, mind and spirit. And there’s very little documentation on that: ‘Provide to us your productivity and we’ll decide.’” But “you see the benefits everywhere,” Doblmeier said. He should know, as his two-hour documentary goes into the worlds of hospital, corporate and prison chaplaincy, as well as the milieus of the military, police, nursing homes and even NASCAR drivers. “We proposed it for two hours, and public television liked it. They thought there was enough material, and it’s serious enough to go and do it,” Doblmeier said in an Oct. 12 telephone interview with Catholic News Service. “It’s the kind of film which I prefer to do, to take your faith out into the real world.”
“Chaplains” opens with military service in one of the most difficult places to serve: Afghanistan. There, Father Paul Hurley, as senior chaplain for U.S. forces stationed there, is profiled, even as he reminds his fellow chaplains, regardless of their religion, to take enough time for themselves so they can serve in a highstress situation. “You’re out there, you’re with the soldiers, wherever they are,” said Father Hurley in the film. A priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, he was confirmed in March as chief of chaplains for the Army, promoted to major general and installed in his new post in May, and transferred to the Pentagon. “Some of these guys have been there for 13 years” as chaplains in those places, Doblmeier told CNS. Among other Catholic chaplains featured in the documentary is Jesuit Father Pat Conroy, chaplain for the House of Representatives, whose dream as a young man was to be elected to Congress. “My life went a different way,” he said in the film, adding it was the wish of outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, himself a Catholic, to have a Jesuit in the role. “My even being a candidate here had nothing to do with me personally. It had see CHAPLAINS, page 13
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Immigrants ‘need our loving response,’ St. Louis archbishop says
ST. LOUIS – In what he called a “pastoral statement on immigration and mercy,” Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis said, “Our Catholic communities and public squares are replete with new faces of immigrant sisters and brothers Archbishop who need our loving Carlson response. As the local bishop and pastor of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, I am aware of the painful stories of immigrants whose ongoing sufferings and sacrifices reveal to us the presence of Jesus crucified.” The Catholic “journey and pilgrim identity is marked by a profound commitment to serving those around us, especially the most vulnerable, the poor and the migrant,” he said in a statement Oct. 12, adding that Catholics understand by serving “the least among us, we have touched the face of Christ.” Archbishop Carlson noted how “in our country, the church has been responsive to the waves of immigrants that have graced our American shores. The Irish, the German, the Italian, the Polish, and other European immigrants have found a generous hospitality in our Catholic churches and institutions.”
No human being ‘can be reduced to a problem,’ Archbishop Wenski says
EVANSVILLE, Indiana – Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami cut to the chase about halfway through his Oct. 8 keynote at a Respect Life celebration sponsored by the Diocese of Evansville.
“The story of the Holy Family is instructive,” said Archbishop Wenski, who devoted his remarks to migration and immigration. “Joseph took the child and fled with Mary to Egypt. Jesus was a refugee. And you can be sure that Joseph did not waste any time trying to get a visa to go into Egypt. So Jesus was just as illegal as the illegals we hear about on our talk show programs we love to listen to.” Earlier in the day, during a news conference with Evansville Bishop Charles C. Thompson, the chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development minced no words when describing long-standing church teaching on human dignity. “No human being ... can be reduced to a problem,” Archbishop Wenski said.
Planned Parenthood says it will deny payments for fetal tissue
NEW YORK – The president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said Oct. 13 that the organization’s clinics will no longer accept reimbursement for fetal tissue procured in abortions and provided to researchers. Cecile Richards said the decision was made “to completely debunk” a series of 11 videos released in recent weeks by the Center for Medical Progress showing physicians and others associated with Planned Parenthood describing the harvesting of fetal tissue and body parts during abortions at their clinics. The revelation has prompted investigations by state and federal officials into Planned Parenthood’s activities across the country and has led to calls to end state and federal funding for the organization. Catholic News Service
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Catholic san francisco | October 22, 2015
Synod observers call for empathy, support for struggling families Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Couples attending the Synod of Bishops called for empathy and support from the church to families suffering difficult circumstances. Several lay couples and a missionary sister addressed the synod Oct. 15-16, highlighting various issues facing families in their countries and abroad. Anthony and Catherine Witczak, the international ecclesial team of the Worldwide Marriage Encounter, stressed the need for better programs for engaged and married couples in the church. They also said couples should not be separated when taking part in parish ministry, “but rather let their sacrament shine by allowing them to work as a team.” Anthony Witczak also called for a priestly formation that is geared to living a closer relationship with families in their parishes. “If a church is meant to be a family of families, then we should encourage our seminarians to be priests in love with their people, not merely priests in charge of a parish,” he said. “Our faith is based on relationship with God, but it is learned and lived out in relationship with others.”
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U.S. couple Anthony Paul and Catherine Wally Witczak, center, and other delegates leave a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 15. The couple are observers at the synod. The president of Parents Centres New Zealand, Sharron Cole, said that while the church’s teaching on conjugal love and responsible parenthood in “Humanae Vitae” has “great beauty and depth,” couples who struggle with either low-income, mental health problems or other difficulties find it hard to abide by those tenets. “As an ex-board member of Natural Family Planning, I know that this method of contraception
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Catholic san francisco | October 22, 2015
Families have a mission in the church, archbishop says Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The family is not just an object of church discussion, but must be a subject – an actor – that shares its life and witness with the wider Christian community, said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky. At the Synod of Bishops on the family, he said, members agree that “the family is also meant to be an agent and instrument Archbishop of mercy,” promoting healing Joseph E. Kurtz and reconciliation among their members and in reaching out to others, both their neighbors and strangers. Archbishop Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he would return home from the synod with a commitment to finding new ways to “call forth families” and to give them the formation they need to continue to strengthen their relationships at home and with others. The archbishop, who for years worked for Catholic
Gomez: Synod members are helping families
VATICAN CITY – While “a few problems” are grabbing media headlines, members of the Synod of Bishops on the family are highlighting the good things happening in the Catholic Church and identifying programs they think should be done better, said Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles. “For me, it’s a little bit frustrating to talk about just a few problems when we have so many things out there we need to address in the future,” the archbishop told Catholic News Service Oct. 16. One of the often discussed issues at the synod is marriage preparation. In the synod’s first week, many calls were made for a more extended program of preparation for marriage. Archbishop Gomez said it is an essential part of the church’s response to challenges facing marriages and the family today. Pope Francis noted how long seminarians prepare for the sacrament of ordination and how, in some places, preparation for the sacrament of marriage is just one weekend. Archbishop Gomez emphasized “how important it is for young people to understand that God has a plan for the human person and for marriage.”
Charities with a wide variety of families in difficult situations, said the ministry of the church begins with “presence. We need to look at the way we speak, but we know the best priests, the best pastoral ministers are the ones who know how to be present with others.” The Catholic Church must be careful and precise with its doctrinal language, he said, but members of the synod also seem to agree that it would benefit from a greater use of biblical language, which often is more accessible than the philosophical sounding words of church doctrine. In the United States, he said, people may find it difficult, for example, to understand the church’s use of the phrase “intrinsically disordered” to describe same-sex attraction. It is “a philosophical description of what it means for love to be oriented in a certain way in God’s plan for marriage and for openness to children,” the archbishop said. At the same time, he said, the Catechism of the Catholic Church also speaks of human dignity, respect and the fact that every person is a child of God. Archbishop Kurtz said, “Those are not things we have to make up; they are already part of our teaching.” The use of language requires care, he said.
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Catholic san francisco | October 22, 2015
Canonizing 4 saints, pope urges people to serve others with joy Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called on people to replace their thirst for power with the joy of quiet and humble service, as he proclaimed four new saints, including the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux. All of Christ’s disciples, especially its pastors, are called to model themselves after Jesus and “suppress our instinctive desire to exercise power over others, and instead exercise the virtue of humility.” The pope said the new saints – a Spanish religious woman, an Italian priest and the first married couple with children to be canonized together – “unfailingly served their brothers and sisters with outstanding humility and charity in imitation of the divine master.” On World Mission Sunday Oct. 18 in St. Peter’s Square, during the Synod of Bishops on the family, the pope created the following new saints: – Louis Martin (1823-1894) and Marie Zelie Guerin Martin (1831-1877), the French parents of St. Therese of Lisieux. They had nine children; four died in infancy and five entered religious life. During their 19-year marriage, the couple was known to attend Mass daily,
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While the pope’s homily pointed to the new saints as inspiring examples of joyful servants who completely trusted in God, he dedicated the bulk of his reflection on the day’s readings and the Christian meaning of authority and hierarchy. He said the prophet Isaiah said the servant of the Lord “is not someone of illustrious lineage; he is despised, shunned by all, a man of sorrows. He does not do great things or make memorable speeches; instead he fulfills God’s plan through his humble, quiet presence and his suffering.” It was Jesus’ life and attitude of profound service that “were the cause of our salvation and the reconciliation of mankind with God,” the pope said. Jesus invites everyone to follow him on this same path of love and service, he said, and to “reject the worldly temptation of seeking first place and commanding others.” Those who exercise “genuine authority” in the church and the Christian community are those who serve others and “lack real prestige.” Jesus calls people “to pass from the thirst for power to the joy of quiet service,” the pope said. Jesus’ teaching and example clearly show there is “no compatibility between a worldly understanding of power and the humble service, which must characterize authority.”
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Synod: Observers at world bishops’ meeting call for empathy, support for struggling families FROM PAGE 8
take control, to replace God, to arrange salvation here, in this world,” she said. The church, she added, is called to protect the faithful from these dangers through evangelization and conversion. “The church’s mission is to save souls. Evil, in this world, comes from sin,” she said, “not from income disparity or ‘climate change.’” Sister Carmen Sammut, a member of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and presi-
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Catholic san francisco | October 22, 2015
Pope calls for ‘synodal’ church where all listen, learn, share mission
VATICAN CITY – Marking the 50th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis outlined his vision for a church that is “synodal” at every level, with everyone listening to one another, learning from one another and taking responsibility for proclaiming the Gospel. “The journey of synodality is the journey that God wants from his church in the third millennium,” the pope said Oct. 17. “A synodal church is a listening church, aware that listening is more than hearing. It is a reciprocal listening in which each one has something to learn.” Before Pope Francis spoke, five cardinals, an archbishop and the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church spoke about the blessings and challenges of the synod process over the past 50 years. “We must continue on this path,” Pope Francis told them. “The world in which we live and which we are called to love and serve, even with its contradictions, requires from the church the strengthening of synergies in all areas of its mission.” Using the synod on the family as an example, the pope said it would have been impossible for the 270 bishops and priests who are voting members of the assembly to speak to real needs and concerns without listening to and trying to learn from Catholic families. “It was that conviction that led me when I asked that the people of God be consulted” before the synod, the pope said. “How would it have been possible to speak of the family without calling upon families, listening to their joys and their hopes, their pains and their suffering?”
Synod not manipulated, says cardinal
VATICAN CITY – The Synod of Bishops on the family is not being manipulated, rather the distortion rests
in how it is being depicted or seen by a number of people, said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington. “I don’t think the synod itself has been tainted, but the lens through which it is being seen by many, many people has been tainted, and so I suspect that that will have some impact,” he said in an interview Oct. 18 with the Jesuit magazine America. “It’s not going to be a long-term impact because you can only paint Cardinal Wuerl something in false tones and have it remain understood incorrectly for so long, after a while the church wins out,” he said, adding that “the truth is great and it always wins out, even with all of this propaganda and all of this distortion.” The cardinal said he has participated in seven synods, and he also attended the very first general assembly in 1967 as a secretary to a synod father. He said much-welcome changes have been made to the synod on the family that “allow the bishops to come together and to speak very openly and very clearly about whatever they think needs to be said.” The bishops themselves have long been asking for less time spent listening to written speeches being read aloud and more time for small-group discussions “because that’s where the real debate takes place,” he said. The 13 small groups elect their own representatives who then hand in summaries that have been approved by the group to a 10-member writing committee charged with drafting a final document the synod will vote on and give to the pope. Cardinal Wuerl, who is on this papally appointed drafting committee, told America, “I don’t see how you can manipulate all of those groups and all of the people leading them.”
In fact, the creation of a larger drafting committee was an improvement on a previous process that was not “working very well,” he said. “I don’t see any of that as manipulative. I see it as widening the participation of the bishops,” he said. “Now there are some bishops whose position is that we shouldn’t be discussing any of this anyway. They were the ones at the last synod that were giving interviews, and denouncing and claiming there were intrigues and manipulation,” he told the magazine. Such accusations, he said, do not have “a foundation in reality. I just think that these are people who have their own position and they just want to articulate that.”
Vatican: Help integrate migrants, protect their dignity
VATICAN CITY -– The international community must help protect the human rights and dignity of migrants regardless of their legal status, said a Vatican official. “The dignity of the human person always takes precedence over partisan interests and economic considerations” regardless of the challenges the influx of migrants may pose on the societies that accept them, said Father Gabriele Bentoglio, undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers. He spoke at the Eighth Global Forum on Migration and Development in Istanbul, Turkey Oct. He said the increasing number of migrants is evidence of the unjust distribution of the Earth’s resources, “which are meant to be equitably shared by all.” Migrants move in hope of ensuring a decent life for their families, taking a leap of faith many times at great personal cost, he said. Catholic News Service
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Chaplains: ‘You see the benefits everywhere,’ says documentarian The film follows Roque as she attends to a family whose infant son needs a bone-marrow transplant, and whose 5-year-old daughter is a match. “The prognosis is good,” she tells the parents before the procedure. “It does not mean the process is not risky.” Afterward, both “baby Edward” and his big sister Brisa are happy and healthy. “Chaplains” also goes to Hamtramck, Michigan, a small city surrounded by Detroit that St. John Paul II visited in 1987. Doblmeier was working on presentations during that papal trip, so he said he has “a sense of the madness that goes on” in conjunction with such a trip. Then, St. John Paul visited Polonia – the Polish diaspora – in what was then a heavily Polish Catholic town. Today, Hamtramck is half Muslim, with half of those Muslims being born outside the United States. Twenty languages
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to do with me being a Jesuit. I was assigned by my superior,” Father Conroy said. “As they say here, I had the votes.” While some “take umbrage” at the notion of clergy serving as chaplains in a government role given the First Amendment’s separation of church and state, Father Conroy said, he sees it differently: “If a man or woman is called away from home where they would normally exercise their religion in service to this country, they (chaplains) should be provided to meet the needs where they are.” “Chaplains” also examines the service of Margarita Roque, a Catholic chaplain at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington. “You have to gain their trust,” she says in the film of the young patients and their parents. “That’s the first step.”
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Catholic san francisco | October 22, 2015
Assisted suicide: California bishops exploring options to repeal law FROM PAGE 1
sion,” said the bishops of the archdioceses of San Francisco and Los Angeles and dioceses of Fresno, Monterey, Oakland, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Stockton Oct. 12. “What next?” is a big question for opponents of physician-assisted suicide. “We are reviewing the options,” said Tim Rosales of Californians Against Assisted Suicide, a statewide coalition of organizations opposed to physician assisted suicide, which issued a statement saying, “This is a dark day for California and for the Brown legacy.” Diane Coleman of Not Dead Yet, an organization of people with disabilities, said outreach to people contemplating or threatened by physician assisted suicide is critical with passage of “this terrible law.” “We need to work to ensure that there is a way for abuses to be reported by patients who feel pressured or by loved ones who see pressures being applied on someone,” said Coleman. “I am advocating the option of litigation under laws prohibiting discrimination based on disability,” said Coleman. “The truly serious discrimination inherent in assisted suicide laws is that non-disabled people get suicide prevention while disabled people – terminal or nonterminal – get suicide assistance. “ Millions of Californians do not have access to palliative care and effective pain relief under Medi-
Cal, the California Catholic Conference said. “As citizens of this state, we all have the right and, we would emphasize, the duty to ensure that the voice of the people, especially those most vulnerable, is heard,” the California bishops said. The exact path forward has not been formalized yet, said Steve Pehanich, director of communication and advocacy for the California Catholic Conference. The bishops “want to look at all options available,” he said. “Justice and promotion of the common good demand that every conceivable legal remedy to the unwise legalization of assisted suicide be given due consideration. We are in that process of such consideration now,” the California bishops said in their Oct. 12 statement. The law allows a physician to prescribe a lethal dose of narcotics to someone who is diagnosed with a terminal illness with six months to live. Suicide itself is legal in all 50 states. Any referendum effort in California would require large amounts of cash to hold its own against the deep pockets of physician assisted suicide advocate Compassion & Choices. However, despite decades of advocacy by Compassion & Choices, the laws have only been implemented in four states. In Montana, the courts ruled there was not a legal obstacle to physician assisted suicide. In July, the California bill appeared to have stalled for the year in an Assembly committee. The “End of Life Option Act” was introduced in an August special session called to address a $1 billion gap in Medi-Cal funding and other health financ-
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letters Defending tenants’ rights
I write about our situation in the area surrounding our parish in the Mission District, but certainly in defense of all local communities under threat of displacement. Speaking to Gabriel Medina from the Mission Economic Development Association (another great Riordan graduate), and Francisco Herrera, long active in Mission District parishes, taught me that 1,400 families with children, and a total of 8,000 people, many on fixed income or disability after working for many years, have been evicted over the past 10 years in the Mission District, even though they are good tenants who pay their rent. I personally have been involved with many families or fixed income individuals who unjustly are given eviction notices. Just as we are now at the 50th anniversary of the United Farm Workers grape boycott to bring humane working conditions for farm workers, we now must organize the rights of working families, the elderly and the disabled, who pay their rent, to not be evicted from their own homes that they have lived and raised their families in for many years. Opponents say you must let free enterprise work, but what we have now are hedge funds who invest in real estate and hire lawyers who specialize in using deceptive tactics to evict people who have been good tenants for many years. I would not call this free enterprise. I would call it David vs. Goliath, or even versus an algorithmic Leviathan. Please support the “I Love the Mission” movement to come to a negotiated agreement about development linked with affordable housing, community stabilization and allowing people to remain living in their homes. Father John Jimenez St. Charles Borromeo Church, San Francisco
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The Hungarian Bishop Laszio Kiss-Rego seems paranoid and upset at the influx of Muslim refugees entering Europe. He disagrees with the appeal made by Pope Francis asking for compassionate and humanitarian treatment to the refugees, and he ignores Christs’ teaching to love thy neighbor. The bishop and the Hungarian prime minister are arrogant and bigots and can hardly claim to be Christian, judging from their insular, selfish and uncharitable attitude in this humanitarian crisis. The bishop portrays Islam and Muslims – and not unlike some European leaders who earlier did the Jews – as the enemy and a threat to Europe and out to colonize the continent. He feels threatened by the Muslims bringing in their faith – bearing an attitude the more devout a Muslim, the more likely he or she is a terrorist – unlike a devout Christian who is a saint or a holy person. He fails to realize they are not extremists but victims of it. The refugees from the Middle East are those running away from war which destroyed their homes and livelihood and are seeking shelter as they are in real danger of being killed. Many of those migrating are young and eager to work and come to a safer place to educate their children. Little does the bishop realize in Europe’s own history, Islam has often been a more tolerant, civilizing force than the Christians, and that this century’s bloodiest wars, resulting in the death of millions of people – including World War I and World War II, Vietnam, Korea, Bosnia were neither instigated by nor perpetrated by Muslims. Why then single out Islam and Muslims as a threat to Europe? The path toward tolerance and understanding can only be taken with fairness and sincere desire for the truth. Lenny Barretto Daly City
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Worshippers march in the Rosary Rally Oct. 10.
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‘Our Lady, Untier of Knots’ Archbishop Cordileone gave this talk at the fifth annual archdiocesan Rosary Rally, Oct. 10 at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco.
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he recent visit of Pope Francis to our country was a moment of tremendous grace for all of us, and I think we all still feel deep gratitude to our Holy Father for his pastoral outreach to us here in the United States, and especially his understanding of the very many struggles that families are dealing with these days, and the challenges that people of faith face in living a life of wholehearted devotion to Jesus and of integrity with his teachings. Pope Francis’ presence and words of encouragement are a tremendous support for us all. Archbishop You may be aware that Pope Salvatore J. Francis has a particular devotion to an image of the Blessed Cordileone Mother under the title, “Our Lady, Untier of Knots.” The idea was first expressed in a painting by the baroque German artist Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner around the year 1700. The image depicts the Blessed Virgin Mary standing on the crescent moon surrounded by angels, with the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove hovering above her as she unties knots into a long strip and at the same time rests her foot on the head of a “knotted” snake. This is not just a touching devotional idea; its theological roots go back very far. In fact, they go back to the very beginning, for the serpent represents the devil, and Mary’s treatment of him fulfills the prophecy in Genesis 3:15, which we just heard in our Mass earlier this morning: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.” The great bishop and theologian of the second century, St. Irenaeus, in his classic work Against Heresies, sees in this scene in Genesis a parallel between
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Eve and Mary, and describes how “the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the Virgin Mary set free through faith” (Book V, Chapter 19). Like me, you may sometimes find that your rosary beads get tangled up. If I get frustrated when trying to undo them, the problem only gets worse. If I approach the problem calmly and patiently, the chain of beads becomes untangled almost without effort. This is a wonderful lesson for our lives, and for the importance of the rosary. And, I believe, it is a lesson Pope Francis wants us to learn. He fostered this devotion in Argentina, and, happily, we can claim to have a special connection with it here in the United States, for the image of the Blessed Mother standing on the crescent moon is the usual way of depicting Mary under her title of the Immaculate Conception – the Patroness of the United States. As we pray through the joyful, luminous, sorrowful and glorious mysteries, we contemplate with Mary the great events in her Son’s life. By means of this contemplation we see fulfilled the words of St. Paul: “God has given us the wisdom to understand fully the mystery, the plan He was pleased to decree in Christ” (Ephesians 1:9). When we see the combination of light and shadow in the lives of Jesus and his Mother, we are in a better position to understand the joys and sorrows in our own lives, and in the events taking place in the world around us. We see so much anger and frustration around us, and it is easy for us to get all worked up over it. When we do, the tangled knots in our lives only get worse. The prayerful recitation of the rosary is a powerful antidote to this: The rhythm of the words and the images of the mysteries of Christ’s life that each decade suggests soothe us, calm us, and allow us to be open to the breath of God’s Holy Spirit. When we conclude this prayer, we possess the serenity that allows us to untangle the knots in our lives calmly. Or better yet, to allow God to do the job. What disobedience has tied into the knots of sin and selfishness is undone by a faith like Mary’s. Let us ask her to intercede for us, so that we might have a perfect obedience like hers, and so be set free through faith.
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he Buddhists have a little axiom that explains more about ourselves than we would like. They say that you can understand most of what’s wrong in the world and inside yourself by looking at a group photo. Invariably you will look first at how you turned out before looking at whether or not this is a good photo of the group. Basically, we assess the quality of things on the basis of how we are doing. Rene Descartes must be smiling. He began his FATHER ron philosophical search with rolheiser the question: What’s the one thing that’s indubitable? What’s the one thing, for
sure, of which we can be certain. His answer, his famous dictum: I think, therefore I am! Ultimately what’s most real to us is our own consciousness. And it’s so obsessively real that, until we can find a maturity beyond our natural instincts, it locks us inside a certain prison. What prison? Psychologists call it narcissism, an excessive self-preoccupation that keeps us fixated on ourselves and on our own private headaches and idiosyncratic heartaches. Like the Buddhist commentary on the group photo, we worry little about how others are doing; our focus is first of all upon ourselves. And this condition is not a childish thing that can be brushed off by glibly affirming that we have grown up, are beyond ego, and are unselfish. Ego and its child, narcissism, do not go away simply because we consider ourselves mature and see rolheiser, page 19
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Death in a Christian perspective
hen someone departs from this life we say that person has died. What do we mean? St. Paul says the person fell asleep in the Lord. Others say those persons passed on. Other biblical allusions say they are in peace; he takes them to himself; they shall also live with God; death no longer has power over them; it is the will of my Father that they have eternal life. We say that a deceased person has died. What do we mean? We recall that Jesus died and was in the tomb for three days before his resurrection. But during those brother john three days he was contacting m. samaha, sm Adam and Eve and the other departed who were awaiting their entrance into paradise, and reassuring them that the time had finally come. Jesus was not dead. His body had died and was lifeless in a tomb until it was reunited again to his spirit, made alive again in a resurrection. When we gaze into an open casket at a wake or
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Humans have great difficulty finding suitable words to express the realities of this world in which we live because everything is mystery. Even more do we lack adequate language for that other world for which we were made, for which this one is but a preparation. At a funeral we gather to praise God for calling the deceased to a closer union with his creator and redeemer, to a fuller and unending life, to a joy and satisfaction beyond our ability to conceive. We say someone has died, but that is not what we mean. Earthly death is not the extinction of being; it is not going out of existence; it is not returning to the nothing from which we came. It is the separation of the material that we are from the spiritual that we also are. The deceased will be given a marvelously better body described in the creed as the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. The deceased still lives, but in a wondrously different way. The preface of the funeral liturgy reminds us that “life is changed, not ended.” Death is a birthday into a new form of being, to the fullness of life. That is what we commemorate and celebrate at a funeral. Marianist Brother Samaha lives in Cupertino.
Annulments: What is really changing?
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n Sept. 8, 2015, Pope Francis issued “Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus” (“The Lord Jesus, Gentle Judge,”) a document revising the marriage nullity process. The mass media, including even some Catholic news outlets, have reported a great deal of misinformation about the changes. In question-and-answer format over the next few weeks, I would like to reflect on various aspects of this new “motu proprio” responding to some logical questions which have been raised since publication. It is my hope that this will help to clarify some msgr. Michael misinformation about the Padazinski new legislation while reassuring the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco that our own metropolitan tribunal, which is comprised of wonderful canonists and other canonical officials, will do all it can to insure the proper, just and timely implementation of these new norms governing our universal church. It is important to state at the outset, that there are still questions abounding among canonists and what follows will hopefully be of assistance to any who are interested in the new laws regulating the marriage nullity process while acknowledging that further guidance from Rome to assist local tribunals with the new praxis is anticipated. The entire article containing 21 questions and answers has been posted online at www.catholic-sf. org. This is the fourth of five installments scheduled to appear in the print paper. Previous installments covered the definition and purpose of the marriage nullity process; and elimination of automatic appeal. The final installment will concern fees and implementation of the new law.
13. What is the new shorter process?
Even before the reforms, there are shorter processes that can be used in special cases when the nullity of the marriage is obvious and indisputable. The “documentary” process involves cases when an official document (e.g., a marriage certificate proving a previous marriage bond) proves the nullity of a marriage beyond a reasonable doubt; in some cases it can be finished in a matter of weeks. The so-called “lack-ofform” process, which deals with Catholics who marry outside the church without a dispensation, is not even a judicial process at all but a simple administrative verification of facts; in most cases it can be finished in days. However, there are certain cases—rare and exceptional, but not nonexistent—that are not “lack of form” cases and that do not qualify for the documentary process, but in which all the relevant facts are readily available and clearly demonstrate the nullity
of the marriage. In such cases, some of the more timeconsuming formalities of the ordinary process could safely be omitted without compromise to the integrity of the process. For cases such as these, Pope Francis has created a new, shorter process.
14. Who qualifies for the shorter process?
The shorter process is designed only for those rare cases when it can be employed without injustice. Three strict qualifications have to be met. (1) Both spouses have to petition for it together, or if not, then the other party must at least consent to it. (2) The nullity of the marriage must be manifest. Most marriage nullity cases deal with a defect in marital consent, i.e., with an invisible, internal act of the will placed by the spouses, often several years prior. Clearly, it would be exceptional for such a defect to be patently obvious today. (3) All the facts that make the marriage manifestly null have to be readily available. Unlike the documentary process, the shorter process can involve the questioning of both parties and knowledgeable witnesses, but this is to be done all in one session when possible. In general, the first criterion is not uncommon, but the second and third are both rare, especially in conjunction. The fact that the diocesan bishop has to oversee the process personally is an indication of just how rare and exceptional Pope Francis envisions the shorter process to be.
15. How does the shorter process work?
First, the parties (or one of them with the consent of the other) have to submit a petition for a declaration of nullity, which in addition to all the information normally contained in a petition, has to demonstrate why the shorter process could be used, i.e., why the nullity of the marriage is manifest and also how it will be proven by readily available evidence. If the case is admitted to the shorter process, the judicial vicar issues a decree stating the grounds in the case, nominating an instructor (an official in charge of gathering the evidence) and an assessor (an official in charge of advising the bishop) and citing them along with the parties and the defender of the bond to come to a session at the tribunal within 30 days. At that session, the parties will be questioned along with their witnesses, and other evidence may be presented. Afterward, the defender of the bond and the parties have 15 days to present their closing arguments in the case, at which point the whole case is presented to the bishop for judgment. If, based on all the evidence presented, he is certain beyond a reasonable doubt that the marriage is invalid, he can issue a sentence declaring the nullity of the marriage. If he is not morally certain, the case is admitted to the normal process, starting from the beginning. Appeal against the bishop’s affirmative decision can be made by either party or the defender of the bond. According to the norms, an appeal would be lodged within 15 days to the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province in which the diocese is located or to the Dean of the Roman Rota. However,
in our case, since we are the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of San Francisco the appeal would be lodged within 15 days with the senior suffragan bishop of the province, who at this time is Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire.
16. How long does the shorter process take?
A number of news outlets reported that the shorter process will last 45 days. Some of them even reported that number as if it applied to all marriage nullity processes! This is simply untrue. If you read the new law carefully, you’ll see that the number 45 doesn’t appear anywhere, and you don’t need to speak Latin or Italian to know that. So where does that number come from? Probably from adding the 30 days in which the session must be held to the 15 days for the presentation of arguments. But this number is inaccurate and arbitrary. In the first place, the law allows up to 30 days to review and admit a petition. The law also allows 30 days for writing the sentence once the case has been decided. And the sentence cannot be acted on until the window for appeal has passed, another 15 days. In all, that’s 120 days from start to finish, not counting the possibility of delays. In my humble opinion, nobody, no matter how strong his or her case, is going to get a declaration of nullity in 45 days.
17. Do I qualify for the shorter process?
Statistically speaking, probably not. Based on a cursory review of the cases heard in our tribunal over the past several years, well over half eventually received an affirmative decision, but only two or three appeared in retrospect to meet the qualifications for the use of the shorter process. If your case is pending and the tribunal has not already contacted you about the possibility of the shorter process, it means you don’t appear to qualify. In any case, no one needs to be overly anxious to qualify for the shorter process: as it is, the cases that would qualify for the shorter process are already the cases that are completed the fastest, and qualifying for the shorter process is no guarantee of an eventual declaration of nullity.
18. Why is it important for both spouses to agree to the shorter process?
There is a common misconception that if both spouses agree that the marriage is invalid, a declaration of nullity is somehow automatic or guaranteed. This has never been true, and the new law does not change that. Actually, it is the facts of the case, and not the spouses’ agreement or disagreement on the matter that determines whether the marriage has been proven invalid. So why does it matter whether they both agree to the shorter process? This requirement helps protect both spouses’ right to defend the validity of their marriage, including by insisting on the full, ordinary judicial process. Msgr. Padazinski is the chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and judicial vicar of the metropolitan tribunal of the archdiocese.
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Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. …’ MATTHEW 22:34-40 EXODUS 22:20-26 Thus says the Lord: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans. “If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body. What else has he to sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate.” PSALM 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 I love you, Lord, my strength.
I love you, O Lord, my strength, O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. I love you, Lord, my strength. My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold! Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies. I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord lives and blessed be my rock! Extolled be God my savior. You who gave great victories to your king and showed kindness to your anointed. I love you, Lord, my strength. 1 THESSALONIANS 1:5c-10 Brothers and sisters: You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but
in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath. MATTHEW 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
Throwing aside the garment of worldly attachment
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hat must I do to be saved? To ask this question – truly, authentically, honestly, in the depths of our hearts – is already a profound gift of grace from Jesus Christ. How often do we ask this question? How seriously do we take this question? Do we realize it is possible not to be saved? This question about eternal salvation is asked frequently in the Bible. It is a question that Jesus wants us to ask. The purpose of His life, death, and resurrection is to answer this question. If we don’t ask the question, Jesus isn’t relevant to us! We need to ask the question! The story of Bartimaeus, which we have in our Gospel this Sunday, is meant to stir Father Joseph our hearts both to ask and Previtali to answer this deeply important question of salvation. Bartimaeus, we are told by St. Mark, was begging on the side of the road near Jericho. As Jesus passes by, Bartimaeus calls out for Him, persevering in his crying for Jesus even when he is discouraged by the bystanders. Do we yearn for Jesus? Do we shout for Him in the darkness of our spiritual blindness? Do we keep on
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crying for Him even when our sins and demons try to keep us silent? Bartimaeus will not be silenced by his shame. He perseveres in begging for Jesus to have mercy on him. How humble is this cry for mercy! Bartimaeus is admitting that he needs mercy, that he needs salvation. He is admitting that he has sinned and that he cannot save himself. Do we acknowledge humbly that we have sinned? Do we know that we cannot save ourselves? Do we cry out for mercy? Jesus rewards Bartimaeus for his perseverance and calls him to approach. Bartimaeus seizes upon the opportunity, throwing aside his cloak, springing up, and coming before Jesus. St. Bede the Venerable comments on this dramatic willingness of Bartimaeus that “he throws away his garment and leaps, who throwing aside the bands of the world, with unencumbered pace hastens to the Giver of eternal light.” Am I willing to throw aside the garment of my attachments to the world? Do I spring forward out of mediocrity, ready to hear what Jesus would command? Am I ready to love Him? Here Jesus asks His provocative question, “What do you want me to do for you?” Behold here the great wisdom of Our Lord, Who is teaching us what we must do to inherit eternal life. “Could He who was able to restore sight be ignorant of what the blind man wanted?” St. Bede asks. “His reason then for asking is that
prayer may be made to Him.” Here we arrive at the climax of Jesus’s encounter with Bartimaeus and Jesus is teaching us the necessity of prayer. Indeed, Bede continues, “He puts the question, to stir up the blind man’s heart to pray.” Do I pray? Do I pray daily? Do I pray humbly and perseveringly, with faith and trust? “Master, I want to see.” Domine, ut videam! Lord, that I may see! Bartimaeus teaches us how to pray. To be saved, we must pray with desire, with perseverance, with willingness to turn away from sin and follow the command of Jesus. To be saved, we must pray for salvation, for the sight that leads to Spiritual Light. To be saved, we must beg Our Lord for His grace. This is the deepest meaning of Bartimaeus’s story for our lives. October is the Month of the Holy Rosary. There is no better daily personal prayer than this “compendium of the Gospel,” which combines the best of vocal and mental prayer. Meditating on the mysteries of our salvation in the Heart of Mary, we stir up in our hearts the holy desire that gives birth to the humility and eagerness with which Bartimaeus received his salvation from Jesus. The daily recitation of the Holy Rosary will make us to follow the good example of Bartimaeus, which we must do if we wish to be saved. Lord, that I may see!
in Ordinary Time. Rom 9:1-5. PS 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20. Jn 10:27. Lk 14:1-6.
St. Martin de Porres, religious. Rom 12:5-16ab. PS 131:1bcde, 2, 3. Mt 11:28. Lk 14:15-24.
Father Previtali is parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, Half Moon Bay.
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, October 26: Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 8:12-17. PS 68:2 and 4, 6-7ab, 20-21. Jn 17:17b, 17a. Lk 13:10-17. Tuesday, October 27: Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 8:18-25. PS 126:1b2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. See Mt 11:25. Lk 13:18-21. Wednesday, October 28: Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles. Eph 2:19-22. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. Lk 6:12-16. Thursday, October 29: Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 8:31b-39. PS 109:21-22, 26-27, 30-31. See Lk 19:38; 2:14. Lk 13:31-35. Friday, October 30: Friday of the Thirtieth Week
Saturday, October 31: Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 11:1-2a, 11-12, 25-29. PS 94:12-13a, 14-15, 17-18. Mt 11:29ab. Lk 14:1, 7-11.
Wednesday, November 4: Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, bishop. Rom 13:8-10. PS 112:1b-2, 4-5, 9. 1 Pt 4:14. Lk 14:25-33.
Sunday, November 1: Solemnity of All Saints. Rv 7:2-4, 9-14. PS 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. 1 Jn 3:1-3. Mt 11:28. Mt 5:1-12a.
Thursday, November 5: Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 14:7-12. PS 27:1bcde, 4, 13-14. Mt 11:28. Lk 15:1-10.
Monday, November 2: The Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls). Wis 3:1-9. PS 23:13a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Rom 5:5-11 or Rom 6:3-9. Mt 25:34. Jn 6:37-40.
Friday, November 6: Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 15:14-21. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. 1 Jn 2:5. Lk 16:1-8.
Tuesday, November 3: Tuesday of the Thirtyfirst Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of
Saturday, November 7: Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 15:14-21. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. 1 Jn 2:5. Lk 16:1-8.
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spiritual. They’re incurable because they’re an innate part of our makeup. Moreover, they’re not meant to go away, nor are they, in themselves, a moral defect. Our ego is the center of our conscious personality, part of our core make-up, and each of us needs a strong ego to remain glued together, sane, healthily self-protective, and able to give of oneself to others. But it usually comes as a shock to people when someone suggests that great people, spiritual people, have strong egos. For example, Francis of Assisi, Theresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, and Mother Teresa, for all their humility, had strong egos, namely, they had a clear sense of their own identity, their own giftedness, and their own importance. However, in each case, they also had the strong concomitant sense that their persons and gifts did not originate with themselves and were not meant for them. Rather, like Israel’s sense of itself as chosen people, they were clear that the source of their giftedness was God and that their gifts were intended not for themselves but for others. And, in that, lies the difference between having a strong ego and being an egoist. An egoist has a strong ego and is gifted, but he understands himself as both the creator and objective of that gift. Conversely, great persons have strong egos but are always aware that their giftedness does not come from them but is something flowing through them as a gift for others. The goal in maturing then is not to kill the ego but rather to have a healthy ego, one that is integrated into a larger self that precisely is concerned with the group photo. But coming to that maturity is a struggle that will leave us, too
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often, in either inflation (too full of ourselves and too unaware of God) or in depression (too empty of our own value and too unaware of God). Maturity and sanctity do not lie in killing or denigrating the ego, as is sometimes expressed in well-meaning, though misguided, spirituality, as if human nature was evil. Ego is integral and critical to our natural makeup, part of our instinctual DNA. We need a healthy ego to be and remain healthy. So the intent is never to kill or denigrate the ego, but rather to give it its proper, mature role, that is, to keep us sane, in touch with our gifts, and in touch with both the source and intent of those gifts. But this can only be achieved paradoxically: Jesus tells us that we can find life only by losing our lives. A famous prayer attributed to Francis of Assisi gives this its classic, popular expression: O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. Only by denying our ego can we have a healthy ego. Finally, some wisdom about ego from the Taoist master, Chuang Tzu: If you are crossing a river in a small boat, he says, and another boat runs into you, you will be angry if there is someone steering that runaway boat; but you will not experience that same anger if the boat is empty. Why no anger then? Chuang Tzu’s answer: A person who has let go of his or her ego “leaves no trace.” Such a person does not trigger anger in others. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The Class of 1965 celebrated a golden reunion Sept. 23, 24. Highlights included lunch at Original Joe’s, North Beach and Mercy Day Mass with the Mercy student body, faculty and staff. Classmates Anne Scully and Joanne Sehorn Cooper were among the organizers.
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St. Timothy School, San Mateo: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone visited the school Oct. 9 as part of his ongoing parish and school visits. On Oct. 11 he presided over the installation of the pastor, Father Al Uy Nambatac. During the question-
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Mercy JUBILEES: Mercy Sisters Mary Krista Ramirez and Eileen Pazmino both Mercy High School, San Francisco graduates celebrate their 50th year as religious in 2015.
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FRIDAY, OCT. 23 CONCERT: Lacuna Arts 24-voice a cappella chorale, Hymns to the Virgin, 8 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue San Francisco, $18 in advance www.LacunaArts.org; $20 at the door.
SATURDAY, OCT. 24 PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m., Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy, 3 p.m. All welcome; www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com; knightsofsaintfrancis@gmail.com. WALK A MILE: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County 2.3 mile “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” 11:30 a.m., near the Hilton San Francisco Airport to raise awareness and funds for those in need in our community, $10 entry fee; www.svdpsm.org to register. BOUTIQUE: Art fair, boutique, and baked goods fundraiser, Notre Dame High School, 596 S. Second St., San Jose, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Proceeds support work of Sisters of Notre Dame in Africa and Central and South America; visit www.HeartsAsWide.org. ST. JUDE PILGRIMAGE: Annual walk ends at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, for noon Mass with Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant. Walk begins 10 a.m. from Immaculate Conception Church, Folsom Street off Cesar Chavez Street, San Francisco, parking in St. Dominic lot, shuttles take pilgrims to start site 7- 9 a.m., info@stjude-shrine.org; www.stjude-
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SUNDAY, OCT. 25 FAITH FORMATION: Fromm Hall, north of St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Golden Gate avenues, 10:50 a.m., read between the lines of the Bible with Mary Burns; free and open to the public; free parking in all USF lots; jacoleman@usfca.edu; faloon@usfca. edu; (415) 422-2195 CONCERT: Lacuna Arts 24-voice a cappella chorale, Hymns to the Virgin, 4 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue San Francisco, $18 in advance www.LacunaArts.org; $20 at the door.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28 SVDP DINNER: The St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco honors Dominican Sister John Martin Fixa with its Brennan Award, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. program; Westin St. Francis, 335 Powell St., San Francisco; (415) 9771270, ext. 104; ljones@svdp-sf.org; www.svdp-sf.org. OKTOBERFEST: Good Shepherd Guild Oktoberfest luncheon and bingo at Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco, 11:30 a.m., $45 ticket includes include 3-course lunch, bingo cards. Judy Terracina (415) 753-2081.
TODOS LOS SANTOS: Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., Bishop William Justice, principal celebrant Bishop Justice and homilist, www.holycrosscemeteries.com, (650) 756-2060.
SUNDAY, NOV. 1 ST. PETER MASS: Annual liturgy for all deceased school alumni and those who have served there, 2:15 p.m., St. Peter Church, 24th and Alabama streets, San Francisco, Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant and homilist, reception follows, (415) 647-8662. PHOTO EXHIBITION: “A Long Journey Into Night,” Nicole Ahland, 12:30 – 2 p.m., Manresa Gallery preceded by artist lecture 10:45 a.m., Xavier Hall, Fromm Building, University of San Francisco campus, admission free, http://manresagallery.org.
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REUNION: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School all-class reunion for graduates of St. Anthony School, Immaculate Conception Elementary and SAIC, 6-9 p.m., auditorium, 299 Precita Ave., San Francisco; Constance Dalton, (415) 6426130; dalton_constance@yahoo.com.
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