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Pope beatifies Blessed Paul VI, the ‘great helmsman’ of Vatican II FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Beatifying Blessed Paul VI at the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops on the family, Pope Francis praised the late pope as the “great helmsman” of the Second Vatican Council and founder of the synod, as well as a “humble and prophetic witness of love for Christ and his church.” The pope spoke during a homily in St. Peter’s Square at a Mass for more than 30,000 people, under a sunny sky on an unseasonably warm Oct. 19. “When we look to this great pope, this courageous SEE PAUL VI, PAGE 23
US cardinal says family synod came to ‘real consensus’ FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington said the Oct. 5-19 Synod of Bishops on the family came to a “real consensus” after two weeks of animated debate, and that its final report will serve as a solid basis for the world synod on the family in 2015. “What we saw and what we ended up with was the result of a free and open process. The pope at the very beginning said speak with clarity and charity and listen with humility and that’s what happened,” Cardinal Wuerl told Catholic News Service Oct. 20. The cardinal said the only “glitch” in the process came with the synod’s Oct. 13 midterm report, which made headlines with its strikingly conciliatory language toward people with ways of life contrary to Catholic teaching, including divorced SEE WUERL, PAGE 22
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Members of religious communities gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 20 for evening prayer in honor of the opening of the Year of Consecrated Life, with a reflection by Presentation Sister Stephanie Still and remarks by Archbishop Cordileone.
Prayer service honors consecrated life TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
More than 100 men and women religious representing more than a dozen religious communities attended a prayer service inaugurating commemorations of the Year of Consecrated Life at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 20. “It was wonderful,” said Presentation Sister
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“expressing their gratitude to religious as educators, in health care and their presence in their lives,” Sister Rosina said. In his remarks Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone focused on Pope Francis exhortation to live in the joy of the Gospel. “Archbishop Cordileone was very generous in his gratitude to the religious for their service and presence in the archdiocese,” Sister Rosina said. Sister Stephanie Still, president of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, gave a reflection. She has been a religious for more than 30 years. She said that if described in a song, her vocation would include thanks, hope, freedom, joy and love. “And so it should,” she said, “because today I stand here, you stand here, not just expressing our own vocation and call but as witnesses to a rich tradition of all our brothers and sisters who have lived this life before us.”
APRIL 25, 2015: Mass for Consecrated Life with recognition of men and women religious celebrating jubilees, St. Mary’s Cathedral, 11 a.m.
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Members of religious communities gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 20 for evening prayer in honor of the opening of the Year of Consecrated Life, with a reflection by Presentation Sister Stephanie Still and remarks by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. In 2013, Pope Francis declared that a Year of Consecrated Life be celebrated throughout the world, officially starting on the First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 30.
NOV. 22, 2015: Mass at the cathedral to close the year, with Archbishop Cordileone as principal celebrant and retired Archbishop John R. Quinn as homilist. A religious will offer a reflection at each event.
NEED TO KNOW BONE MARROW DONORS SOUGHT: Estevan Gonzales, a parishioner at St. Ignatius Parish, has acute myeloid leukemia and only a 10 percent to 20 percent chance of survival without a bone marrow transplant. According to Delete Blood Cancer, only 4 out of 10 patients can find a match on the National Bone Marrow Registry. It is even harder for people like Estevan, who is of Spanish and Mexican descent, because patients with a diverse ethnic background are underrepresented on the registry, the parish announced. The University of San Francisco and the parishes of St. Ignatius, St. Agnes, Star of the Sea and St. Peter are sponsoring bone marrow donor drives on the following dates: Sunday, Nov. 9, USF campus, 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Fromm Hall, Room 115; Tuesday, Nov. 11, USF campus, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Gleeson Plaza; Sunday, Nov. 23, St. Peter Parish, 1200 Florida St., after the 9 a.m. and noon Masses. Registration for the National Bone Marrow Registry takes 10 minutes and may save a life. Donors must be between 18 and 55 and in good general health. For more information, contact Maria Boden, bonemarrow@pacbell.net. ONE-WOMAN PLAY ABOUT DOROTHY DAY:“Haunted by God,” a one-woman play about Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, will be performed Sunday, Nov. 2, at 2 p.m. at Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco. Suggested donation $10 to $20, but no one will be turned away because of lack of funds.
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Expert: New biblically based spirituality could revitalize parishes in archdiocese VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
In church circles, and just about everywhere else, stewardship has become just another tired word to make the pitch: Please write a check. But that’s not what it should be – Catholic stewardship begins with the truth that we “are created by God, for God,� said a national expert on stewardship invited by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Father Andrew to speak to the priests of the archKemberling diocese during the clergy study days Oct. 13-16. “Stewardship is not about money or all these other commitments, it’s about evangelization – true conversion to be a disciple of Christ,� said Father Andrew Kemberling, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in the Archdiocese of Denver. “The greatest need we have is to thank God for all the blessings God has given us.� Catholic stewardship rejects the secular fundraising model of “giving to a need� and begins with each person’s God-given “need to give,� said Father Kemberling, who co-authored with Mila Glodava the book “Making Stewardship a Way of Life: A Complete Guide for Catholic Parishes� (Our Sunday Visitor, 2009). Catholic stewardship is “a practical spirituality for growth and holiness and Christian living in the world,� Archbishop Cordileone told the about 50 priests attending the Oct. 15 session. Embracing Catholic stewardship transforms parishes into vibrant, growing communities of faith, hope and love, said Father Kemberling. “We need a conversion, an ongoing conversion, an ongoing spirituality to be convinced that every good thing comes from the Lord. He just lends it to us so we can be a good administrator of all he gives to us,� said St. James pastor Father Jose Corral, who attended the clergy study days. Stewardship becomes a way of life by trusting in God, Father Kemberling said. “You cannot outdo God in generosity. You cannot. Try it,� Father Kemberling writes in “Making Stewardship a Way of Life.� “Trusting in God is based upon the belief in our own powerlessness. We realign our belief in God’s almighty power and his total but hidden control to bring about what’s best for us in the midst of a struggling world. We ‘let go’ and ‘let God,’� Father Kemberling writes in his book. “Peace of mind is the end result of trust brought about by acceptance.� Peace doesn’t mean sitting still. Embodying stew-
PRINCIPLES OF STEWARDSHIP Stewardship is a way of life and a spirituality. It promotes tithing and the need to give rather than giving to a need. It has biblical foundation and is supported by the Catholic Church, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Stewardship is a means to an end, and that end is evangelization. SOURCE: FATHER ANDREW KEMBERLING AND MILA GLODAVA, “MAKING STEWARDSHIP A WAY OF LIFE�
ardship is prayer and action, the Denver priest told the priests.
“When we serve our people we have to be able to say yes – to be a ‘can do’ church, not a ‘can’t do’ church,� Father Kemberling said. The parish priest is “engineering Catholic culture� as an antidote to the postmodernist world that rejects absolute truth, the existence of God and the fact that each person has a soul. “I’m building the city of God. I’m building Catholic culture,� he said. “People think – ‘you don’t have a need for me, so I’m not going to give of my time,’� Father Kemberling said. As servant leader the pastor must be in charge but that does not mean barking orders but eliciting and guiding parishioners’ ideas and help, he said. However, egalitarianism and team leadership that does not acknowledge the priest’s role as leader is destructive, and against church teaching, Father Kemberling said. “As you build those programs, people then start coming back to the parish,� Father Kemberling said. SEE EXPERT, PAGE 5
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Marianist identity continues as Riordan hallmark TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
There is no more important an element of the foundation of Archbishop Riordan High School than its formation around the tradition of the Marianist fathers and brothers under whose leadership the school was established in 1949. The congregation’s superior general, Father Manuel Cortes, SM, and assistant for education, Father Manuel Brother Maximin Magnan, SM, Cortes, SM visited the San Francisco school Sept. 25. Marianist Brother William Bolts a 1953 Riordan alumnus, and Marianist Brother David Betz, both members of Riordan’s board of trustees, escorted the guests around. “It had rained overnight, but San Francisco and Riordan gave them the most sunny welcome,” Bro. Maximin Brother Bolts said. Magnan, SM Father Cortes and Brother Magnan had done a bit of homework before the trip having read the school’s history “Young Men Dream Dreams” as well as its latest yearbook. “The visit may have lasted for one day but the superiors got an excellent impression of how Archbishop Riordan is fulfilling its Catholic and Marianist mission,” Brother Bolts said. The day was packed with activity from the moment school leadership and students met the guests at the school entrance. Next stop was the President’s library for an overview of Archbishop Riordan as a Catholic and Marianist school. Riordan’s administrators described the student body, the curricular offerings, campus ministry, and extracurricular activities. A focus throughout the day as everyday at Riordan was how the school breathes the principal characteristics of Marianist education including formation in faith; quality education; family spirit; service, justice and peace, and adaptation and change. The visitors toured the school’s Chapel of the Assumption, archives; campus ministry office, Lindland Theatre, and gym. They visited classrooms and interacted with students and faculty and that was only the morning schedule. “Father Cortes and Brother Magnan learned about our curricular offerings, the incredible dynamic between faculty and staff, and experienced Riordan hospitality,” Joseph Conti, Rior-
GIVERS ALL: Our Lady of Angels School was honored Sept. 23 by the St. Vincent de Paul Society for its “continued support, contributions and donations for the organization and the people they help,” the school said. OLA students instituted a Wee Care program in 1993 as a branch of SVdP. Pictured from left are fifth grade teacher Donna McMorrow; eighth grader Bailey Doyle; Vincentian Len Privitera; principal, Amy Costa; eighth grader Caroline Smith; and Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor. dan president, said. “This was a great day in the history of our school.” The afternoon included a meeting with more than 50 students from Riordan’s Marianist Life Community, a faith-building club found at Marianist schools around the world. The theme of the meeting was water conservation, and Father Cortes and Brother Magnan jumped right into the conversation. The afternoon continued through conversations with faculty who had participated in national Marianist Teaching as Ministry workshops throughout the year. Father Cortes and Brother Magnan have visited Marianist schools and communities on five continents. “They were impressed by the friendliness of the students, rapport between students and faculty, dedication of students, faculty, staff, and parents, and the Catholic and Marianist symbols and spirit on campus,” Brother Bolts said. CLASSMATES: Class of 1947 alumnae from Presentation High School, San Francisco will gather Oct. 28 at the Olympic Club Lakeside. The women have steered away from the usual five and 10 year markers for reunions and are more guided by class president Mary June King Swalen in picking times to regroup. “Whenever Mary June bangs her gavel we meet,” classmate Alice Marshall Ravano told me with a laugh. Mary June told the girls she did not know class prez was a lifetime job but still enjoys every moment of the work. About 20 members of the class have already signed up for the outing. Alice and her husband Louis are parishioners of St. Philip
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Cathedral honorees John and Maryanne Murray, second and third from left, are the recipients of the 2014 Assumpta Award from St. Mary’s Cathedral, given by the Board of Regents of the cathedral to a person or persons who have shown great leadership and service to the archdiocese. Mercy Sister Esther McEgan, far left, received the cathedral’s 2014 St. Patrick Patron Award, honoring a person in recognition of evangelization performed in the true spirit of St. Patrick who fearlessly and tirelessly spread the word of God. Maureen Kelly, second from right, received the cathedral’s St. Francis Award and Mary Schembri, far right, the St. Joseph Award. Also pictured at the awards ceremony Oct. 15 is Msgr. John Talesfore.
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“My goal for them is to come back to the property at least one other time, other than Sunday Mass: for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, a Bible study, a social event – I want the parish to become the center of people’s social and spiritual life.” Stewarding young people’s vocations, particularly to the priesthood and religious life, is important, Father Kemberling said. That includes nurturing respect and honor for individual priests, encouraging children to pray for their parish priests for instance, he said. In addition to attending the clergy study days, Father Corral was one of five priests and one deacon who accepted the archbishop’s invitation and
attended the International Catholic Stewardship Council in Orlando in early October. At the conclusion of the study days, 16 priests accepted the archbishop’s invitation to attend next year’s national conference on stewardship in Chicago. Father Corral noted the Bible says to tithe 10 percent before allocating any other income. “We are going to be a joyful people, more joyful parishes and the Lord is going to multiply what we give. He is also going to be very generous to us, to our families and to our parishes,” Father Corral said. “It’s a foundational paradigm switch,” said Father Kemberling, drawing the analogy to Mary’s yes to becoming the mother of Jesus. “We are God’s hands and feet; we are really participating and cooperating with him.”
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Reading the monthly magazine First Things “is like doing a graduate degree” as one admirer put it. Published 10 times a year by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, First Things is an ‘interreligious journal’ that was founded in 1990 by the late Father Richard John Neuhaus “to confront the ideology of secularism, which insists that the public square must be ‘naked,’ and that faith has no place in shaping the public conversation or in shaping public policy.” Neuhaus, who died in 2009 at the age of 72, was a Lutheran pastor who converted to Catholicism and was ordained a priest shortly after the journal’s founding. First Things continues to be a journal of faith and reason that defends life and marriage, as well as commenting on current political, cultural and intellectual topics, said editor R.R. “Rusty” Reno during a visit to San Francisco in early October. “We’re especially committed to building a culture of life and renewing a culture of marriage,” Reno said. “But we’re also engaged in literary and intellectual topics.” “The biggest challenge is that we live in an intellectual culture that thinks religious faith hinders our intellectual development,” Reno said. In fact, he said, “Actually, faith, Catholic faith, Catholicism in general has turned out to be the great proponent of reason in the postmodern West – a great irony.”
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First Things editor R.R. “Rusty” Reno is pictured during a recent visit to the archdiocesan Pastoral Center. “We have to renew trust in the power of reason to discern truth about the human condition,” said Reno, a former Creighton University professor of theology and ethics and an Episcopalian who entered the Roman Catholic Church in 2004. “And, we have to defend the weak in a society that has made a god of economic success,” Reno told Catholic San Francisco. “Then we have to defend marriage in a society that sees sex and relationship too much in terms of choice and personal fulfillment.”
St. Anthony’s Relics Visit Northern California From October 26 to November 2 A Messenger of Hope from padua, italy San Francisco - San Pablo Santa Clara - San Bruno St. Anthony will be visiting us in the form of two precious relics from his Basilica in Padua, Italy. The relics will be accompanied by Fr. Mario Conte OFM Conv. from the Messenger of St. Anthony.
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Dallas bishop: Decision to house those monitored for Ebola ‘right thing to do’ Bishop Farrell said that he and several other people, including Troh’s pastor at Wilshire Baptist Church, had spoken with the family earlier in the day. He confirmed that local officials called him after exhausting alternatives for a suitable place willing to take the family. He said he debated for about 15 minutes before saying that he followed the example of Christ and said “yes.” “I knew that they had tried to find other places and they just couldn’t find
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DALLAS – Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell said that he followed the teaching of Christ and stepped in to house the fiancee of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan and three others for several weeks at a diocesan facility because no one else would. The bishop’s acknowledgement Oct. 20 coincided with the lifting of the 21day quarantine for nearly four dozen people being screened for the Ebola virus with none showing any signs of the disease. It also capped nearly a month of a scrambling by local, state and federal officials in trying to both combat the virus and calm the public’s fears about its spread. During the time, two nurses who had contact with Duncan tested positive for the virus after his death. And with the growing health concerns, officials also faced a national public relations headache as they acknowledged missteps in the handling of the crisis, including not initially banning those self-monitoring themselves for symptoms from traveling or coming into contact with the public. In between, there were various condemnations from nurses about the hospital staff not being properly trained to handle such a crisis, calls for travel bans to the United States from people from the four West African countries hardest hit by the virus, and prayer meetings and candlelight vigils observed at various churches in the Dallas area for Duncan and those impacted by the virus. Still on Oct. 20, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, among other officials, spoke at an early morning news conference at the Dallas County office building, saying that 43 people being monitored for the virus had not shown any symptoms of the disease and were free to return to their normal lives without fear that they carried or would develop the disease.
one. I was then moved by their dedication and concern. I too was concerned,” the bishop said. “I felt it was the right thing to do and am so pleased that we did. “It is an example of what it means to care for our brothers and sisters, irrespective of where they come from, what race or what religion they are,” he said. “We help people because they are people. We help people because we are Catholic, not because they are Catholic.”
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Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell answers questions from media Oct. 20 about what will happen to the diocese’s building in South Dallas where Ebola victim Thomas Duncan’s financee and her family were quarantined. They also spoke about area residents being compassionate and welcoming of those who had been self-monitoring themselves or, as in the specific case of those who came into direct contact with Duncan, that they be accepted back into the society. Duncan had traveled to the United States from Liberia in September to visit his fiancee and went to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas after feeling sick. He was sent home, but was returned in an ambulance several days later and tested positive for the Ebola virus. He had been staying with his fiancee, Louise Troh, her son and two nephews in an apartment in an area of the city where many refugees from Africa make their home. As Duncan was isolated at the hospital, officials planned to decontaminate their apartment, but the family could not be moved to a suitable location. That’s when the county judge and the mayor asked Bishop Farrell about finding a place for them. He and his staff worked with local officials to transfer the family from their apartment to a building at the far end of the Catholic Conference and Formation Center in South Dallas. At a mid-morning news conference outside the gated retreat center,
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 24, 2014
COURT BLOCKS LAW THAT HAD CLOSED MOST TEXAS ABORTION CLINICS
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court Oct. 14 blocked a Texas law that had meant all but seven of the state’s abortion clinics were closed because they failed to meet new standards. The block will remain in effect while the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considers a legal challenge to the law itself. It will allow at least 12 clinics that were closed to reopen. In a brief order posted after normal business hours, the Supreme Court granted requests by some of the affected abortion clinics to block parts of the law. It blocked statewide the requirement that abortion clinics meet standards of an ambulatory surgical center, which a majority of the Texas abortion providers could not meet. For clinics in McAllen and El Paso only, the order also blocked a provision requiring abortion clinic doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of the clinic. Emily Horne, legislative associate at Texas Right to Life, told Catholic News Service that the Supreme Court stay is a “discouraging decision, but of course it’s not the ďŹ nal one.â€? The 5th Circuit has not yet scheduled arguments on the lawsuit challenging the provisions, and Horne said the court typically gives several weeks’ notice before argument dates.
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PHOENIX – A U.S. District Court judge’s ruling that Arizona’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional “overturns the will of Arizona voters and reects a misunderstanding of the institution of marriage,â€? the state’s Catholic bishops said Oct. 17. “For centuries, marriage has been recognized as the lifelong union of a man and a woman that beneďŹ ts the common good by respecting the unique and complementary gifts of both a mother and a father in the lives of children,â€? they said. “As Catholic bishops, we remain committed to affirming the truth about marriage and its goodness for all of society.â€? The Catholic bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, echoed his Arizona counterparts in a statement released late Oct. 17 after a federal judge that afternoon ordered that state to allow same-sex marriage. U.S. District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl stayed his decision until Oct. 23 to allow the state to appeal. “A true understanding of the nature of marriage prohibits any institution, secular or religious, from redeďŹ ning marriage,â€? said Bishop Paul D. Etienne. “As church, we will continue to promote the understanding that marriage
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is a union of one man and one woman, a covenantal relationship instituted by God.â€? With regard to the Arizona ban, Judge John W. Sedwick Oct. 16 struck down an amendment to the state constitution approved by voters in 2008 that deďŹ ned marriage as a union between one man and one woman, saying it was unconstitutional because it denied same-sex couples equal protection under the law. The judge also refused to stay his decision, adding that he felt any appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “would not succeed.â€? On Oct. 9, Sedwick said he thought an Oct. 7 ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit that struck down same-sex marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada applied to Arizona, which is in the geographic area covered by the circuit court. He had given the parties that fought Arizona’s ban and the Alliance Defending Freedom, a group defending the law, until Oct. 16 to respond. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne Oct. 17 said the state will not appeal Sedwick’s ruling. In a letter to the clerk of the court for Maricopa County Superior Court, Horne said the state’s courts “can no longer treat marriage exclusively as ‘a union of one man and one woman’ under state lawâ€? and he directed clerks to immediately begin issuing marriage
licenses to same-sex couples. In their statement, Arizona’s Catholic bishops reiterated their “pastoral concern for all people, including our brothers and sisters with same-sex attraction, and denounce any unjust discrimination toward anyone.� “It is our fervent hope that the Supreme Court will eventually reconsider the issue of marriage in the future. In the meantime, we pray that the church may continue to serve as a loving and joyful witness of the truth about the family and human sexuality,� they said. Signing the statement were Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares of Phoenix; Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson; Byzantine Bishop Gerald Dino of the Holy Protection of Mary Eparchy of Phoenix; and Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, New Mexico. In his statement, Bishop Etienne retired Catholic teaching that upholds “the dignity and sanctity of every human person. This belief is rooted in our understanding that every human person is created in the image and likeness of God. Every person is deserving of this respect, even those with same-sex attraction.� “The Catholic Church also teaches that marriage is by nature a union of a man and a woman. It is perhaps the single oldest institution of society, and as such, the primary and natural starting point of family life,� he said.
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Christians must treat others with gentleness, love, says priest MARIE MISCHEL
Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe pointed out that so much of the ministry of Jesus was about touch: ‘He touches lepers. He touches the sick. He touches people you weren’t supposed to touch.’
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SALT LAKE CITY – Scripture, sexual ethics, and a healthy dose of wit and personal stories helped Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe convey that people are a combination of body, soul and spirit during an Oct. 10 presentation in Salt Lake City. London-based Father Radcliffe, a well-known author and lecturer who led the international Dominican order from 1992 to 2001 and wrote the 2005 book “What Is the Point of Being A Christian?” stressed that Christians are the hands, feet, ears, face and touch of Christ. He noted that in the Acts of the Apostles, the account of the lame man’s healing is “an incredibly physical story. It’s about listening, it’s about singing, it’s about touching, it’s about dancing,” he said. “Christianity is a profoundly bodily religion,” although modern society is very ambiguous about bodies, presenting both the “cult of the body beautiful” but also embracing Descartes’ idea of ‘I think, therefore I am,’ “as if we were really minds, and so our bodies are unimportant,” he added. By contrast, St. Thomas Aquinas defined man as one substance, body and soul. “I think we discover most beautifully what it is to be a body at the Last Supper, when Jesus takes the bread and he breaks it and he says, ‘This is my body, given for you,’” Father Radcliffe said. Married couples give their bodies to each other “with the generosity, the fidelity and the vulnerability of Jesus,” he said, adding that similarly, parents caring for children, adult children caring for aging parents, doctors and nurses caring for the ill – all give away their physical strength and make a gift of themselves. Bodily senses are important, he added, pointing out many biblical stories that begin with listening: God calls Abraham out of his homeland, he calls
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Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe signs a copy of one of his books for Adrian Comollo following an Oct. 10 presentation in Salt Lake City. Moses from the burning bush and Samuel in the temple. Sight also figures prominently in biblical imagery. Jesus sees Nathaniel under the fig tree; he recognizes that Levi is a good man despite being a tax collector and he notices the widow putting her mite into the treasury. “Nobody else would have seen her,” Father Radcliffe said. “The beginning of all Christian ministry, a proclamation of the Gospel by every one of us, is learning how to look at people with tenderness, with gentleness, with love. Unless you do that, all our preaching the Gospel is an entire waste of time.” The priest also pointed out that so much of the ministry of Jesus was about touch. “He touches lepers. He touches the sick. He touches people you weren’t supposed to touch.” He also recounted his own recent experiences
where he said he saw the face of God in strangers. Early this year, he was in Algeria with Bishop Jean-Paul Vesco of Oran, Algeria, when fighting broke out on the road and they were forced to stop. As angry people began to surround the car, the priest saw a young man getting ready to throw a large rock at the windshield. “His face was contorted with hatred, and I thought, ‘If I can engage his eyes, he might remember that I am a human being too.’ ... But beneath all the hatred you could see fear.” Bishop Vesco saw a break in the hostile crowd and was able to speed off. “Always have a bishop as your driver,” the priest said. The two drove off and later that day at an oasis they asked some other men about road conditions. The men said their car wouldn’t handle the road, but they went on anyway. When the road became too rough, they stopped and found that the men from the oasis had followed them and offered them lodging for the night, a kindness that Father Radcliffe recalls gratefully. “It was as if, in these three young Muslims, I saw the face of God. I’ll never forget their faces,” he said.
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Career as undertaker calls parish priest to late-life vocation CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Father Andrew Spyrow heard the call to priesthood after walking into the morgue of a funeral home he was running at the time. The new parochial vicar at St. Raphael Parish had heard its whisper some 40 years earlier but postponed that early call for what he described to Catholic San Francisco on Oct. 8 as Father Andrew a long and satisfying career as Spyrow an undertaker. Then one day in 2005 after decades in the funeral business, he walked into a room lined with bodies awaiting cremation or burial. “I said to myself: ‘I’m going to be on this shelf one day,’” Father Spyrow recalled during an interview at the palm-shaded parish office adjacent to the historic mission church in downtown San Rafael, where he arrived three months
ago to serve as one of four parish priests. “Am I doing what God wants me to do?” He was ordained on June 7 by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the age of 54. Spyrow was exposed to the funeral business as an adolescent growing up in Concord, the fourth of five sons born to a Greek Orthodox father and a Mormon mother of Celtic descent. He was educated in local Catholic schools and earned a degree in business administration and religious education from St. Mary’s College in Moraga before entering the funeral home business. By his late-40s he had been attending to the needs of the dead and their grief-stricken families for 25 years for some of the Bay Area’s leading funeral homes. He loved being able to use what he called his “gift of compassion” to help a family or a person – Catholic, non-Catholic or with no faith tradition at all – navigate all the details of a loved one’s death. He also came close to opening his own funeral business. But while doing paperwork in his office one
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Visiting the cemetery during the month of November into visible signs of our faith in the resurrection. Throughout our Catholic cemeteries, you will also find particular burial sections and mausoleum corridors named for different saints. The saints are represented by beautiful statues, paintings and stained glass windows. Why do we name sections in cemeteries after saints? In dedicating a particular section or hallway to a saint, we commend those interred there to the intercession of that saint. We choose saints that represent the different communities, parishes and traditions throughout our archdiocese. In doing so, we are reminded of that community of faith to which we all belong. We, the living, entrust our beloved dead to the intercession of the saints. This year, on Nov. 1, we will honor the saints in a special way. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma on
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FATHER SPYROW: Priest’s late-life vocation for help with Father Konkel’s passing and funeral services. “My first role as student body president was to take care of the dead,” he said. “I closed his eyes and set his features.” A long line of seminarians was already lining up to pay their respect. When he went to the funeral home, clothed Father Konkel and placed him in the casket, he said he wished he could have brought some seminarians with him. “I wanted them to have that experience,” he said. “It was interesting how my formation and even what I left behind could be brought in at that moment,” said Spyrow, who hopes to help
his parishioners grieve “in the context of their faith.” “Death is the ultimate mystery,” he said. “Without faith, what is it? Our faith tells us to look to Jesus Christ, to follow behind him.” “If we look at the passion of Jesus Christ, we have a life, a death and a resurrection,” Spryrow said. His resurrection is what he gave us to give death meaning. “If we grieve outside the context of our faith, death is all there is, it’s a final moment.” He said that for some people, death is difficult, only about suffering and loss. “But I say, no, no, no! Jesus showed us the way with his own death. If we can get out of the despair, what’s ahead is incredible.” Spyrow joked about the similarities between his past and his present. “As a funeral director I’m on call all the time and as a priest I’m on call all the time, too,” he said. But he appreciates one important distinction. “I’ve been able to help many families through difficult times, he said. “Now I am able to share in both difficult and joyous times.”
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hosted by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Leading the questions was Oblate Father Andrew Small, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States. “In the very beginning, we found out that the street children ... were calling for our attention to do something for them,” said Bishop Padilla. “They come from the countryside, especially the children who run away from home, and so we had to do something for these children.” Bishop Padilla was one of three missionary priests sent to Mongolia in 1992 to rebuild the church after the country was liberated from the grip of communism under Russian rule. St. John Paul II extended an invitation to the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to establish a mission in Mongolia that would lend physical and spiritual support to the population. When he arrived, Bishop Padilla said, he found people “searching for holiness.” “When we arrived here, there was no church structure, there was no church building. And then, not even a single Mongolian was baptized,” he said. “Since we started from zero we had to see how the society was at the time when we arrived.” With help from the U.S. Department of State, Bishop Padilla and the other missionaries, none of whom spoke Mongolian, learned more about Mongolian society and the troubles the people there were facing. They were able to implement programs that have led to positive changes in the capital city and the lives of people living there. “To compare the society 22 years ago and now, it is a very stark difference,” said Bishop Padilla, who gave the interview as part of the Catholic Church’s observance of October as Mission Month. This year, World Mission Sunday was Oct. 19. There are currently 1,019 baptized Mongolians in Ulaanbaatar, Bishop Padilla said, and the church has between 20 and 50 more people joining each year. Despite the increase, the present society provides a somewhat discouraging atmosphere for the church’s continued growth. “We are struggling with the fact that Mongolia is becoming a materialistic society,” Bishop Padilla said. “So my feeling at the moment, especially here in Ulaanbaatar, (is) we have ... to sow the seeds of Christianity in the hearts of the people.”
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of September HOLY CROSS COLMA Delfa R. Alcairo Concordia Peña Almy Ruben V. Alvarado Henry J. Arata Maria A. Arnal Mathias L. Ayon Teresa M. Balestrieri John T. Bennett Berta Beutelrock Louis Bischoff Esther Bruneman William W. Bruner, II Juventino Camacho George D. Campos Maria Refujio Campos Frances M. Cancilla Alma Canepa Maria E. Carballar Luis B. Carballar Ruth Carlson Melvin Paul Cavalier, Jr. Alvaro Cazares James E. Cornett Sr. Maria De La Paz Corona Marian A. Daly Maria F. Menjivar De Aldana David Kevin De Ceoursty Rosemarie A. De Soto-King Dean James DeRanieri, D.D.S. Michael Descilo Rafael De Leon Diaz Lorraine Leonardo Dimayuga Richard T. Dwyer Naomi Eagleson John Joseph Eberle Anna Liza Espadilla Peter Francis Espino Liwayway M. Espino Evelyn M. Ferranti Norma E. Fleming Dorothy L. Furay Diego Galindo Joanne M. Garvey
Ann Rocca Andrew H. Rocca Marie A. Romo Rosetta “Auntie Rose” Sangiacomo Joseph T. Sarto William A. Segale Manuel S. Sequeira Frank Joseph Silici Albert Wing Hung Soo Lucille C. Theis Joan K. Thieman Doris Tognela Raul B. Valadao Joselito Vitug John P. Ward Rashawn A. Williams, Jr. Doris Wilson
Sr. Jacqueline C. Golden, SND Vera M. Grado Lourdes (Nenita) Q. Gregson Bruno Grenci Anne Guerin Sinforiano Gutierrez Oscar Gutierrez-Morales Chiu Lam Ho Cristina S. Hora Marcella Mary Hurley John Pierre Indart Norma Kathryn Johnson Lester J. Jones, Sr. Joseph F. Kennel Lawrence “Larry” Kerrigan Elisabeth M. Koblenz Mercedes M. Kow Frances V. Landucci Carolyn Le Tourneau Dr. Wilson Sy Lim Vincent Michael Lopez Jesusa R. Lovina Lina Lucchetti Cornelius Patrick Lyons Patrick P. Maniscalco August J. Marino Michael J. Markovich Robert B. Martinez Florence McCaffery William Francis McDonagh, Jr. Thomas Michael McQuade Florencia (Bita) Mendoza Transita Minero Mary Helen Monroe Francisco G. Morales Anthony Morales Maureen O’Malley Selso Oliva Angela Orellana Ruben Ortiz Robert Pelletier Mary I. Peschilli Richard Pizzorno Pamela Pizzorno Patricia Realini Roberto Efrain Renderos Mark Alan Rizzo
MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Frederick Runkel Burrell John Patrick Farley Timothy Daniel McCarthy Kenneth James Pitto William F. Toepfer Jiacinto “Chico” Valsecchi
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UN nuncio decries growing violence against children around world CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
UNITED NATIONS – Millions of the world’s children today are victims of armed conflict, pornography and sexual trafficking, and still more “are denied the most fundamental right to life,” said the Vatican’s nuncio to the United Nations. “Prenatal selection eliminates babies suspected to have disabiliArchbishop ties and female children simply Bernardito Auza because of their sex,” Archbishop Berardito Auza said Oct. 17 in a statement to the U.N. Social, Humanitarian and
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nity to refocus on the role of the family in development.” It is a chance to reflect on what the family, which he termed a “primordial institution,” can do to face the multiple challenges threatening the children’s development in all countries. He said the Vatican and its U.N. delegation “attaches great importance” to the commemoration. In 1994 to mark the celebration of the International Year of the Family, St. John Paul II issued a “Letter to Families’’ in which he told families the love and acceptance they show for each other are society’s first-line defense against attacks on human dignity. For its part, Archbishop Auza said in his remarks, the Catholic Church, “mainly through its more than 300,000 social and educational institutions around the world, especially in depressed and war-torn regions, will continue working daily to ensure both education and food for children, as well as the reintegration of the victims of violence into their families and into society.” He also noted that the U.N. in November will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which he said “remains a prominent standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child.” The document, he said, “contains such fundamental principles as the protection of the rights of the child before as well as after birth, the family as the natural environment for the growth and education of children, and the right of the child to health care and education.” The world’s governments and civil society in general “should encourage all initiatives and activities aimed at the promotion and protection of the rights of the child,” Archbishop Auza said. In this regard, he said it was fitting that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was jointly won by Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education, and Kailash Satyarthi of India, who campaigns against child trafficking and child labor.
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Cardinal says balancing truth, mercy always difficult, always needed CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, one of the Catholic Church’s best known cardinal-theologians, said the Catholic Church must hold together truth and mercy, even if it is criticized for its attempt. The cardinal, editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the son of divorced parents, led one of the small working groups at the Synod of Bishops on the family. He spoke to reporters Oct. 16 about the groups’ attempts to improve the synod’s midterm report, which had garnered attention around the world for its seeming openness to people living in situations the church traditionally has labeled as irregular or sinful. As synod officials were set to modify the midterm report to draft the synod’s final report, all 10 working groups called for a clearer presentation of church teaching and a greater emphasis on how Catholic families striving to live according to that teaching are a blessing for the church and for their societies. To ensure people do not think the church is watering down its teaching on marriage and sexual morality, Cardinal Schonborn said, “many of the synod working groups said, ‘Attention! We do not want to forget doctrine in those situations” in which people must be accompanied on the way to a fuller Christian life. “The first place where the results of original sin are manifested is the family, where we live,” he said. But the synod preparatory document wanted to emphasize “the beauty and the necessity of the family. For this reason, we were invited to look attentively at the reality around us. I think this was the idea of the questionnaire sent around the world: ‘Tell us how the family is doing.’” To understand the work synod members are trying to do, he said, people must understand what Pope Francis means when he talks of “accompanying. Many times he has
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Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna arrives for the morning session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 16. said, ‘Don’t judge; accompany.’ Is that relativism? No, certainly not.” Still, Cardinal Schonborn said, the synod itself mirrored the differences one might find in a family’s approach to new situations. “It often happens in a family that the mother says, ‘It’s too dangerous,’ and the dad says, ‘No, don’t be afraid.’ We’re in a big family and some say, ‘Attention!’ and they are right, it’s dangerous. But others say, ‘Don’t be afraid.’” Different emphases are normal, he said, because “there are different aspects to consider: There is doctrine and the clear word of the Gospel and there is the evident action of Jesus showing an attitude full of mercy and compassion. How to unite the two is a perennial challenge for the church, its pastors and all of us.” When the church addresses situations in which people have fallen short of the Gospel ideal, he said, it must “speak the truth,” but “it does so with compassion and with an invitation to undertake a journey of faith.” At the meeting with the press, the cardinal was asked whether he thought the Catechism of the Catholic
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Cardinal Schonborn said different emphases are normal because ‘there are different aspects to consider: There is doctrine and the clear word of the Gospel and there is the evident action of Jesus showing an attitude full of mercy and compassion. How to unite the two is a perennial challenge for the church, its pastors and all of us.’ Church would have to be rewritten after the synod; among other things, the catechism teaches that homosexuality is a “disordered” inclination and that homosexual acts are sinful; it also says that those who are divorced and civilly remarried may not receive Communion without an annulment. The cardinal said the catechism “is a synthesis of what the church believes and lives” and he sees no reason to change it, although “there are developments” of Catholic doctrine and there have been throughout history. As an example of a “notable development of doctrine” he cited St. John Paul’s “theology of the body,” which he said was the first systematic theological discussion of the human body and its role in relationships.
POPE: HUNGER IN WORLD OF PLENTY A TRAGIC PARADOX
VATICAN CITY – Providing food aid to people in need is not enough to eradicate world hunger, Pope Francis said. An overhaul of the entire framework of aid policies and food production is needed so that countries can be in charge of their own agricultural markets, he said. “For how long will systems of production and consumption that exclude the majority of the world’s population even from the crumbs that fall from the tables of the rich continue to be defended?” he asked. “The time has come to start thinking and deciding based on each person and community and not from market trends,” he said. The pope made his comments in a message marking the Oct. 16 celebration of World Food Day, a commemoration sponsored by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization to highlight the global fight against hunger and the need to help farmers and farm workers. The theme of the 2014 celebration was: “Family Farming: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth.” The U.N. organization estimates that 842 million people are chronically hungry, but that many more die or suffer the ill effects of inadequate nutrition. Close to 7 million children die before their fifth birthday every year, 162 million children under 5 are stunted, while at the same time, 500 million people are obese, its latest figures say. In his written message, Pope Francis said it is “one of the most tragic paradoxes of our time” that there can be so many people going hungry in a world where there is an “enormous quantity of food wasted, products destroyed and price speculation in the name of the god of profit.”
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‘Redefining’ marriage?
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n the current debate over gay marriage, people sometimes ask: Who should define marriage? Democrats or Republicans in Congress? The Supreme Court? Should it be put to a referendum, allowing the majority to choose a definition? We can identify two kinds of “definitions” when it comes to marriage. The first touches on the essence, the objective reality, or the truth about marriage. The second involves a legal or political position, advanced through the media, judicial decisions, or other legislative means. While these secondary definitions of marriage can be of interest, their true level of importance is properly gauged only in reference to the first and objective definition. Notable errors are someFATHER TADEUSZ times made in these secondPACHOLCZYK ary definitions of marriage. In the mid-1960s, to consider but one example, prohibitions existed in more than a dozen states which outlawed persons of different races from marrying one another. A white man and a black woman could fall in love in those states, but could not legally tie the knot. The Supreme Court overturned those restrictions in 1967, recognizing that the ability to enter into marriage doesn’t depend on the skin color of the man and woman getting married. Gay marriage advocates today sometimes attempt to draw a parallel between such mixed-race marriage laws and state laws that would prevent two men (or two women) from getting married to each other. They suggest that legally forbidding two men from getting married stigmatizes those men in much the same way that preventing a black man from marrying a white woman stigmatized both of them. Yet there is really no parallel at all between the two cases. While marriage as an objective reality is certainly
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New spouses exchange rings as Pope Francis celebrates the marriage rite for 20 couples during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Sept. 14. color-blind to the racial configuration of the spouses, it can never be “genital-blind,” because male-female sexual complementarity stands squarely at the heart and center of marriage itself. To see this fundamental point about marriage, however, we have to step beyond the cultural clichés that suggest that marriage is merely an outgrowth of emotional and erotic companionship. The institution of marriage does not arise merely out of loving sentiment. It is born, rather, from the depths of the commitment assumed by a man and a woman as they enter into the total communion of life implied in the procreation and education of children flowing from their union. To put it another way, marriage arises organically and spontaneously from the radical complementarity of a man and a woman. Sexual intimacy between men and women involves the possibility of children. No other form of sexual or erotic interaction encompasses this basic, organic, and complementary possibility. Without parsing words, professor Jacques LeClercq put it this way
more than 50 years ago: “The human race is divided into two sexes whose reason for existence is physical union with a view to continuing the species.” More recently, professor Robert P. George similarly described marriage as “a union that takes its distinctive character from being founded, unlike other friendships, on bodily unity of the kind that sometimes generates new life.” There are many kinds of love, ranging from maternal love to brotherly love to love of friends to love of neighbor to romantic love, but only one that is proper and integral to marriage, namely, spousal love with its inscribed complementarity and potential for human fruitfulness. Marriage teaches us that men need women and women need men and that children need both mothers and fathers. In this sense, marriage and the family represent foundational realities, not constructs that can be invented, defined, legislated, or determined by popular vote or culture. Marriage, in fact, is the “primordial first institution,” flowing out of the intimate and creative union of male and female. It precedes other societal institutions and conventions, and is essentially ordered towards creating and caring for the future in the form of the next generation. Marriage is a given reality that we come to discover in its authentic design, not a concept for us to“define” according to our own agenda or desires. Gay marriage proponents deny these foundational truths about marriage. Through vigorous legislative efforts, they are striving to impose a profoundly false redesign for marriage upon society so that, in the words of George, marriage becomes “an emotional union for the sake of adult satisfaction that is served by mutually agreeable sexual play,” thereby undermining its intrinsic connection to complementary bodily union between men and women. This forced reconfiguration of marriage is no more defensible than the efforts of those who socially or legislatively attempted to impose a notion of “racial purity” upon marriage or society in former times. FATHER PACHOLCZYK, PH.D., is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center, Philadelphia.
LETTERS Critics miss the point Re Special report on Faithful America, Sept. 12, 19, 26: I read the three-part series that investigated the attacks on Archbishop Cordileone for his participation in the march supporting marriage and family life, and the letters that followed, both pro and con. The articles were designed to make three points: (1) the archbishop is not a bigot; (2) the group which sponsored the march is not a “hate group”; and (3) the archbishop’s detractors have their own agenda, which is to demonize anyone who disagrees with them. Reasonable people can differ as to whether the articles succeeded in that purpose. However, rather than focus on the merits of the articles, the critical letters by and large attacked church teaching on homosexual acts and suggested that faithful Catholics are not obliged to follow that teaching, or that the church has no business making its voice heard in the public square on that issue. I think those critics miss the point: The series was not intended to debate the rights and wrongs of the church’s teaching on homosexual acts, or even its position on same-sex marriage, but rather to expose what happens when a bishop publically espouses a church teaching that is politically incorrect. That is a game two can play. If a “conservative” bishop in a liberal city can be forced into silence regarding marriage and family issues, then a “liberal” bishop in a conservative city can also be silenced on issues such as immigrants’ rights, capital punishment and social justice. Roger Ritter San Francisco The writer is a member of St. Cecilia Parish.
ISIS and Neville Chamberlain Re “Bombing Islamic State is fueling the violence,” Tony Magliano, Oct. 10: Well, Tony Magliano can wait until they come to behead him if he likes, but I’d like to see ISIS stopped before they kill many more people, even if it means some innocents are killed in the process. After all the reporters and others they’ve beheaded
were innocent too. Magliano talks about collective amnesia but he apparently never heard of Neville Chamberlain and the “Peace in Our Time” agreement he negotiated with Hitler, and look at how many millions Hitler killed before he was stopped by the Allies. Does Magliano think we were wrong to go after Hitler? Or was that different? Virginia Hayes San Francisco
Moved to tears I wanted to thank all of the people that worked so hard to make the rosary rally (Oct. 11) such a beautiful witness. It moved me to tears to see the archbishop process into U.N. Plaza holding the Blessed Sacrament, leading the faithful through the streets of San Francisco. The reverent silence of the crowd, as older people (some with walkers) and young families, knelt on the sidewalk in expectation, reminded me the faith is alive and thriving in the city of St. Francis. A special thanks to the priests who tirelessly heard confessions throughout the day and to the Riordan Crusaders who created an honor guard for the body of Christ. God bless you all. I look forward to next year. Dolores Meehan San Francisco
In defense of the truth Some comments on the letters these past few weeks about the “culture wars”: I disagree with those who want the church to stay out of these sensitive issues. There are many topics on which it’s assumed Jesus was silent, but he consistently affirmed the moral teachings from the Old Testament and actually went further. Moreover,
he warned about not speaking in defense of the truth. Therefore, we must stand firm in defense of the truth. I agree we must be charitable. But I’ll ask just one question (I could pose many): If we don’t take a stand, what’s to stop the enemy? Wake up. Our enemy Satan wants us to back down, and the church is under attack all over the world. Examples: the HHS mandate; our government leaders marginalizing and sometimes ridiculing people of faith, especially the Christian faith; our culture, which once supported the family and marriage, is undermining the family itself. Finally, those who disregard the moral teachings want to be included in the church’s life, but without seeing that Jesus calls all of us to repentance and holiness. If they cannot accept the need to turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel, exactly how could they return to the sacraments? Wouldn’t everyone quickly see that Jesus’ call to holiness is still being ignored and the sacraments would be invalid? J. Hermann San Mateo
Speaking truth in love With all respect to the Holy Father, Pope Francis, and his words, I believe his words were taken out of context by many. Father Godfrey, for example, says “disputed matter” (Letters, Oct. 10). Is marriage a disputed matter, or are the teachings on the matter clear? Is “moral teaching evolving” or is their development of the doctrine “don’t continue the culture war” leading us to surrender to the culture of death? We need to be loving sinners, not embracing sin-lovers by not speaking the truth in love. Ted Kirk San Francisco
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Praying for the dead
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n her wisdom the Catholic Church calls each Catholic to pray for the dead, a spiritual work of mercy. Prayer for the deceased both richly grounds us in our faith and encourages us to make progress on our journey of faith, which started at baptism. Prayer for the dead is a gift as well as an act of trust and reverence. MONICA The Second WILLIAMS Book of Maccabees, which was written only about 100 years before the birth of Christ, contains a reference to sacrifices offered for the dead (2 Maccabees 12:43). In addition, prayer for the dead is recorded in the Roman catacombs, the burial sites of the early Christians. St. Monica, mother of St. Augustine, implored her son at the time of her death to “remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be” (Confessions IX). In this instruction, we see both a well-established tradition of prayer and the comfort and consolation it offers. St. Augustine went on to write extensively on the merits of prayer for the dead. Referring to offices, which are services performed for someone, he says: “I shall fulfill these offices for my dear departed ones as my final duty toward them and as a balm to my own aching heart. And moreover … (I) will faithfully, regularly, and frequently procure for them those blessings which never fail to succor the souls of the departed, namely, Masses, prayers, and almsdeeds” (Sermon 172). The services mentioned by St. Augustine are Masses, prayers and almsdeeds, and they are still a part of our Catholic practice today. In a few months, our parishes will open their new “Mass Books.” The Mass Book is where intentions for Masses in the parish are registered. Parishioners come and make
Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers
Monuments at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. a donation to have Masses offered for a family member or friend, especially for those who have passed away. The family member or friend may have died recently or many years ago. In the latter case the Mass is to be celebrated on that anniversary day of the person’s death. The Catholic cemeteries also offer regular monthly Masses for all the faithful interred there. When a person dies, many people also send “spiritual bouquets” (prayers or Masses offered) or donations to a charitable organization. St. Augustine refers to his services, especially prayer, as “a balm to my own aching heart.” While we believe that our prayers aid the departed, we also know they bring us comfort. When we pray for the eternal peace of our loved ones, we too find peace in our own hearts. In these moments of prayer we occasionally think ahead to a time when we pass
from this life and we are comforted by the realization that others will pray for us when it is our time. Sometimes a popular movie comes along that manages to convey a profound truth. Last year, the movie “Gravity” entered theaters. A science-fiction thriller, it had big Hollywood stars in Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Surprisingly it displayed deep spiritual sensitivity and an extraordinary message about the importance of prayer. At one point in the movie, Sandra Bullock’s character is stranded. Sensing death because her oxygen is running out, she says to the only person who could hear her: “No one will mourn for me. No one will pray for my soul. Will you mourn for me? Will you pray for me?” It is startling in our contemporary culture to hear a person voice such thoughts. This character reveals that in
our very deepest selves we want to be remembered and prayed for. Catholics are also encouraged to pray for those unknown to us, especially those who have no one to pray for them. Referring to the unknown deceased, Bishop John M. Quinn of the Diocese of Winona and Episcopal Moderator of the Catholic Cemetery Conference, recently noted: “Those are loved ones to someone. Even if we don’t know who they are in this life, they are loved ones to Jesus.” As illustrated in the rich words of the Prayer of Commendation, recited by the priest at the gravesite or, in the case of a cremation, at the columbarium, our prayers for the dead are an act of charity, consolation, faith, and hope: “Into your hands, Father of mercies, we commend our brother/sister in the sure and certain hope that, together with all who have died in Christ, he/she shall rise with him on the last day. We give you thanks for the blessings which you bestowed upon him/her in this life: they are signs to us of your goodness and of our fellowship with the saints in Christ. Merciful Lord, turn toward us and listen to our prayers: open the gates of paradise to your servant and help us who remain to comfort one another with assurances of faith until we all meet in Christ and are with you and with our brother/sister forever.” Prayer for the dead is a gift first and foremost to our beloved dead, who we commend to the mercy of the God and the powerful intercession of our Blessed Mother and all the saints. It is a gift also to family and friends of the deceased, since it brings comfort both to them and to the person offering prayers. Finally, prayer is an act of complete trust in the triune God, because by prayer we entrust our dear ones to His loving care, returning back to Him the cherished gift He shared with us. This All Souls’ Day, and throughout the month of the Holy Souls, let us us pray devoutly for all our loved ones who have gone before us and also for those who have no one to pray for them. WILLIAMS is director of Catholic cemeteries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
An extraordinary synod, indeed
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last major institutional hold-out against the triumph of the sexual revolution, would finally admit the error of its ways and join the rush into the promised land of sexual liberation, symbolized in this instance by a Catholic cave-in on the nature of marriage. What ought to have gotten the world’s attention – the witness of African bishops to the liberating power of monogamy and lifelong marital fidelity – got sadly short shrift, though Third World women are the principal beneficiaries of the truth about marriage the church received from its Lord. 2. The 2014 synod demonstrated the extraordinary self-confidence of bishops from dying local churches who nonetheless feel quite comfortable giving pastoral advice to local churches that are either thriving or holding their own. Many northern European bishops and theologians (and bishop-theologians) acted as if the blissful years when they set the agenda for the world church at Vatican II had returned. That these same bishops and theologians and bishop-theologians have presided over the collapse of western European Catholicism in the intervening five decades seemed not to matter to them in the slightest. Happy days were here again.
3. The 2014 synod was extraordinary, or at least the media claimed it was, for an unprecedented public display of discord among cardinals. Perhaps those who found this either unprecedented or unseemly could consult Galatians 2.11, where Paul reports that he “rebuked” Peter “to his face.” Or ponder the fierce arguments among North African bishops during the Donatist controversy. Or look into the quarrel between Bishop Cyprian of Carthage, a doctor of the Church, and Pope Stephen, Bishop of Rome. Or read the debates at the first session of Vatican II. The 2014 controversies were indeed noteworthy, in that otherwise intelligent men whose position had been pretty well demolished by fellowscholars were incapable of admitting that they’d gotten it wrong. But upon further review (as they say in the NFL), that isn’t so new either. 4. The 2014 synod was extraordinary in that a lot of theological confusion was displayed by elders of the church who really ought to know better. The idea of the development of doctrine was especially ill-used by some. Of course the church’s self-understanding develops over time, as does the church’s pastoral practice. But as Blessed John
Henry Newman showed in the classic modern discussion of the subject, all authentic development is in organic continuity with the past; it’s not a rupture with the past. Nor is there any place in a truly Catholic theory of doctrinal development for rewriting the words of the Lord or describing fidelity to the plain text of Scripture as “fundamentalism.” 5. The 2014 synod was extraordinary in its demonstration that too many bishops and theologians (and bishoptheologians) still have not grasped the Iron Law of Christianity in Modernity: Christian communities that maintain a firm grasp on their doctrinal and moral boundaries can flourish amidst the cultural acids of modernity; Christian communities whose doctrinal and moral boundaries become porous (and then invisible) wither and die. 6. One more thing: why were no representatives of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute on Marriage and the Family invited to a synod on the family? Extraordinary, indeed: in both Vatican-speak and plain English. WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
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and more meaningful if it is also connected to chastity. Artemis declares that claiming your solitude and experiencing friendship and other forms of intimacy are not a substitute for sex but one of the rich modalities of sex itself. Thomas Moore, in describing Artemis, writes: “Although she is the most virginal of the goddesses, Artemis is not asexual. She embodies a special kind of sexuality where the accent is on individuality, integrity, and solitude.” As such, she is a model not just for celibates but also for people who are sexually active. For the sexually active person, Artemis is the cautionary flag that says: I want to be taken seriously, with my integrity and independence assured. As well, Moore suggests that, irrespective of whether we are celibate or sexually active, we all “have periods in life or just moments in a day when we need to be alone, disconnected from love and sex, devoted to an interest of our own, withdrawn and remote. (Artemis) tells us that this preference may not be an anti-social rejection of people but simply a deep, positive, even sexual focusing of oneself and one’s world.” What’s taught by this mythical goddess is a much needed lesson for our world today. Our age has turned sex into a soteriology, namely, for us, sex isn’t perceived as a means toward heaven, it is identified with heaven itself. It’s what we’re supposed to be living for. One of the consequences of this is that we can no longer blend our adult awareness with chastity, nor with the genuine
Saturday October 25, 2014 Location: Walk starts at 9:15 am from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City; and ends at 1:00 pm approx. at St. Dominic’s Church (Home of the Shrine of Saint Jude), 2390 Bush St., San Francisco.
Gospel for October 26, 2014 Matthew 22:34-40 Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A: yet another attempt to trap Jesus in a point of law. The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle.
Transportation: Buses will be running from St. Dominic’s Church to O.L. of Perpetual Help Church from 6:30 am to 8:30 am only.
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Parking: Available at St. Dominic’s Church parking lot. Route: Exiting O.L. of Perpetual Help Church, start walking towards Mission St. Turn right on Mission St., right on 14th Street. Turn left on South Van Ness Ave. to Van Ness Ave., left on Pine St. and left on Steiner St. (Approx. 8 miles).
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complexity and richness of sex. Rather, for many of us, chastity and celibacy are seen as a fearful self-protection, which leave one dry, sterile, moralistic, anti-erotic, sexually uptight, and on the periphery of life’s joys. Tied to this too is the notion that all those rich realities so positively highlighted by Artemis (as well as by the classical Christian notion of chastity), namely, friendship, nonsexual forms of intimacy, nonsexual pleasures, and the need for integrity and fidelity within sex, are seen as a substitute for sex, and a second-best one at that, rather than as rich modality of sex itself. We are psychologically and spiritually impoverished by that notion and it puts undue pressure on our sexual lives. When sex is asked to carry the primary load in terms of human generativity and happiness it cannot help but come up short. And we are seeing that in our world today. Of course, as Christians, we have our own goddesses of chastity, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and many women saints. Why not draw our spirituality of chastity from these women, rather than looking towards some pagan, mythical goddess? Well, for the most part, we do look to Christian models here. Moreover, I suspect that both the Virgin Mary and all of our revered virgin saints would, were she actually a real person, very much befriend Artemis.
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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.”
The answer is right in front of us
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people I met during my training, including fellow deacon candidates, their wives, and the people I encountered in my various ministries, I came to understand that living out our faith is not simple, easy or obvious. I’m a white, Irish, middle-class male who grew up in the California suburbs. My wife is a fiercely independent woman of Filipino heritage who was raised in an economically disadvantaged town in Hawaii. We’re both strong Catholics, yet there are definitely times when we view the world and our faith very differently. When I talk to my middle school students, all of whom have grown up in a world that’s very unlike the one I came of age in, I feel as if we’re often speaking entirely different languages when it comes to God and religion. Yet I know from experience that they are good, loving, compassionate people who are contributing mightily to the building of God’s kingdom. I’ve come to understand that many things affect how we view and relate to God, our Catholic faith, and to each other. These include gender, age, race, life experience, sexual orientation, to name just a few. It can all get very complicated and may, at times, lead to anger, disagreement, disillusionment and alienation. I seriously doubt this is what the Lord had in mind when he commanded us to love God and neighbor.
So what should we do? It may appear simple, especially when it comes to our neighbor. We all know the platitudes and proper words to say, but in reality it can be extraordinarily complicated and challenging. As always, however, the answer is right in front of us as we look to Jesus to be our model and guide. Just like he did with everyone he met, as thankfully he does with each of us, we should reach out and embrace all of our brothers and sisters, without exception. We need to recognize that even those we disagree with are a good and holy people; that the spirit of God, the spirit of love, is alive and well in them. We must drop our self-righteousness (nothing annoyed Jesus more), and in our daily lives welcome everyone, accept everyone, include everyone, without condition. Kindness, compassion, understanding should take the place of anger, resentment, condemnation. Instead of looking to others to change, we are the ones who must grow and become the loving people the Lord knows we all can be. Loving God and loving neighbor is not always easy: One merely needs look to the pages of Catholic San Francisco to see how challenging this can be! Yet we can do it. Let’s start today! DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS POPE FRANCIS REMEMBERING ALL THE LORD HAS DONE FOR US
VATICAN CITY – Do not forget to praise God for all he has done and how he is there to guide people, lowering himself like a loving father who bends down to help his child learn to walk, Pope Francis said in a morning homily.Giving the Lord praise “brings us joy, to be happy before the Lord” and find safety and comfort in his “paternal and tender” embrace, the pope said Oct. 16 during his morning Mass. When people pray, they usually know quite well how to ask God for things and how to give him thanks, he said. But prayers that give God praise are “a little more difficult for us; it’s not quite customary to praise the Lord,” he said, according to Vatican Radio. Giving praise comes easier when people think about all “the things that the Lord has done in our lives” and remember how God has been holding everyone in his heart since before time began.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27: Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. EPH 4:32-5:8. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. LK 13:10-17.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28: Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles. EPH 2:19-22. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. LK 6:12-16.
Listed among the Twelve Apostles in the New Testament, Simon is “the Canaanite” to Matthew and Mark and “the Zealot” to Luke; Jude is “Thaddeus” to Matthew and Mark, “Judas of James” to Luke, and “Judas, not Iscariot” to John. After Pentecost, they disappear. However, according to Eastern tradition, Simon died peacefully in Edessa, while Western tradition has him evangelizing in Egypt, then teaming up with Jude, who had been in Mesopotamia, on a mission to Persia, where they were martyred on the same day. Simon is the patron saint of tanners; Jude is the patron of desperate causes, possibly because early Christians would pray to him, with a name evoking Judas Iscariot, only when all else failed.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29: Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. EPH 6:1-9. PS 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14. LK 13:22-30. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30: Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. EPH 6:10-20. PS 144:1b, 2, 9-10. LK 13:31-35. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31: Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. All Hallows’ Eve. PHIL 1:1-11. PS 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. LK 14:1-6. SATURDAY, 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 5:1-12a.
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WUERL: US cardinal says family synod came to ‘real consensus’ FROM PAGE 1
and remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and people in same-sex unions. The midterm report was “seen by many as not being as balanced as it should have been. At least from their perspective, it wasn’t as reflective of the balance in the discussions,” the cardinal said. As a result, he said, “it was really important that that final (report) be a consensus document.” Cardinal Wuerl, who served on the 11-member team that drafted the final report, said “there were a number of things that you see in this final document that were only lightly touched upon (in the midterm report), and then there were things you see in that (midterm report) that aren’t in here at all.” He said the synod’s working groups commonly objected to the theological concept of “graduality,” which the midterm report used, among other ways, to suggest the positive value of “irregular” relationships such as cohabitation. “You don’t see that in the final document because the small language groups said, ‘Yes, it was said, but it didn’t garner support,’” the cardinal said. Synod fathers voted on each of the final report’s 62 paragraphs. All received a simple majority, but three – on especially controversial questions of homosexuality and Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried – failed to gain the two-thirds supermajority required for approval of synodal documents.
Archbishop Kurtz urges more transparency at next family synod CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, said the October 2015 world Synod of Bishops on the family should return to the practice of Archbishop previous synods Joseph E. Kurtz in publishing participants’ interventions, for the benefit of their discussions and the information of the outside world. The archbishop, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, spoke with Catholic News Service Oct. 19, the last day of the extraordinary synod on the family Pope Francis called to prepare an agenda for next year’s assembly. This year’s synod departed from established procedure by requiring participants to submit written interventions in advance. The texts were not distributed,
The final report was a “consensus document, to the best of the ability of
not even to synod fathers, whose brief remarks in the hall were not reported to the press, another departure from previous practice. “There was the sense, I guess, that (publishing the interventions) would inhibit people from speaking out, but I don’t think that’s the case,” Archbishop Kurtz said. “My fond hope, and really my urging, if people ask me about this, would be to say, no, return to that process so that that’s another level of transparency.” The archbishop said the synod’s final document, approved by the assembly Oct. 18, represented an improvement on its Oct. 13 midterm report, which stirred controversy with strikingly conciliatory language toward people with ways of life contrary to church teaching, including divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and those in same-sex unions. “The initial document left people with many questions,” he said. “We didn’t want to leave the synod with that lack of clarity.”
everybody working on it,” Cardinal Wuerl said. “And you know what veri-
fies that for me? Every single one of those paragraphs received a majority and only a handful didn’t receive the two-thirds.” “What I think Pope Francis succeeded in doing was letting the synod fathers, letting the synod participants, actually come to a real consensus even though it’s a weak consensus in some areas,” the cardinal said. The final report will serve as the working paper for the October 2015 world synod on the “vocation and mission of the family in the church and the modern world.” “Between now and next October, I think there is going to be so much fruitful discussion in the church,” Cardinal Wuerl said. Following the often-contentious discussion of sexual ethics and how to reach out to people in “irregular” unions during the synod, preparation for the next assembly, the cardinal explained, would give more attention to the challenges and virtues of traditional families. “We’ve had such an airing, such as expression of the problematic,” Cardinal Wuerl said. “I think we are going to be hearing more and more the positive side ... the wonder of what the church has experienced and presented from the beginning.” He added, “We are going to be able to celebrate that and find there are a lot people living it, struggling to live it, and I think they’re going to be witnesses to the next synod. They’re going to be the ones in the next synod who will be bearing witness to what’s ahead of us and what we can be.”
Synod dynamics recall the Second Vatican Council FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Even before the start of the Oct. 5-19 Synod of Bishops on the family, observers were likening it to the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. In both cases, an innovative and charismatic pope called an assembly in the first months of his pontificate, seeking to preach the Gospel in terms of contemporary culture and apply Catholic teaching with what St. John XXIII called the “medicine of mercy.” As it turned out, history also repeated itself in the institutional dynamics of this year’s event, as bishops from around the world asserted their collective authority, leading the assembly’s organizers in Rome to revise some of their best-laid plans. A classic history, “The Rhine Flows into the Tiber,” recounts the first tumultuous week of Vatican II, when bishops rejected the Vatican’s handpicked candidates for the commissions that would write the council documents. “It was not a revolutionary act, but an act of conscience, an act of responsibility on the part of the council fathers,” recalled Pope Benedict XVI in 2013. Then-Father Joseph Ratzinger attended Vatican II as a theological adviser to Cardinal Josef Frings of Cologne, Germany, one of the leaders of the bishops’ resistance. More than 50 years later, bishops at the synod on the family reacted strongly after the Oct. 13 presentation of an official midterm report by Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest. Cardinal Erdo’s report, which was supposed to summarize the assembly’s first week of discussions, made headlines with its strikingly conciliatory language toward people with ways of life contrary to Catholic teaching, including divorced and remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and people in samesex unions. Immediately after the cardinal spoke, 41 of the 184 synod fathers present took the floor to comment. A number objected that the text lacked certain necessary references to Catholic moral teaching, particularly regarding homosexuality and cohabitation. Bishops also remarked on the midterm report’s scarce references to the concept of sin.
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Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, Australia, left, and Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, Poland, president of the Polish bishops’ conference, right, talk with an unidentified bishop during the opening session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 6. Archbishop Gadecki told Vatican Radio that the synod’s controversial midterm report was not acceptable to many synod fathers and reflected an ideology hostile to marriage. “Three-quarters of those who spoke had some problems with the document,” Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, told Catholic News Service. He called the report tendentious, skewed and without sufficient grounding in Scripture and traditional doctrine. “A major absence was Scriptural teaching,” Cardinal Pell said. “A major absence was a treatment of the church tradition,” including teaching on the family by Pope Paul VI, St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. At a news conference Oct. 13, Cardinal Erdo distanced himself from the midterm report, identifying Italian Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto, the synod’s special secretary, as responsible for a particularly controversial passage on same-sex unions. Later that afternoon, the synod fathers divided into 10 working groups to discuss the midterm report and suggest amendments for the synod’s final document.
The midterm report was “seen by many as not being as balanced as it should have been,” Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington told CNS. Cardinal Wuerl, one of 11 members of a team that drafted the synod’s final report, said one common objection was to the theological concept of “graduality,” which the midterm report used, among other ways, to suggest the positive value of “irregular” relationships such as cohabitation. “You don’t see that in the final document because the small language groups said, ‘Yes, it was said, but it didn’t garner support,” the cardinal said. The synod’s leadership, under Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, who served as general secretary, planned not to publish the working groups’ individual reports but provide them only to the drafters of the final report, along with their approximately 450 suggested amendments. But on Oct. 16, the bishops insisted that the working-groups’ reports be made public. “We wanted the Catholic people around the world to know actually what was going on in talking about marriage and the family,” Cardinal Pell said. On the same day, the drafting committee was expanded to increase its geographic diversity, with the addition of Cardinal Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban, South Africa, and Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, Australia. Just as bishops from a cluster of northern European countries had been leaders of change at Vatican II, some of the more outspoken synod fathers this year were from the Englishspeaking countries and Africa. The synod’s final report, which the pope ordered published almost immediately after the assembly finished its work Oct. 18, featured many more citations of Scripture, as well as new references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the teachings of Blessed Paul VI, St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Synod fathers voted on each of the document’s 62 paragraphs. All received a simple majority, but three – on especially controversial questions of homosexuality and Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried – failed to gain the two-thirds supermajority ordinarily required for approval of synodal documents.
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PAUL VI: Pope Francis beatifies ‘great helmsman’ of Vatican II FROM PAGE 1
Christian, this tireless apostle, we cannot but say in the sight of God a word as simple as it is heartfelt and important: Thanks,” the pope said, drawing applause from the congregation, which included retired Pope Benedict, whom Blessed Paul made a cardinal in 1977. “Facing the advent of a secularized and hostile society, (Blessed Paul) could hold fast, with farsightedness and wisdom – and at times alone – to the helm of the barque of Peter,” Pope Francis said, in a possible allusion to “Humanae Vitae,” the late pope’s 1968 encyclical, which affirmed Catholic teaching against contraception amid widespread dissent. The pope pronounced the rite of beatification at the start of the Mass. Then Sister Giacomina Pedrini, a member of the Sisters of Holy Child Mary, carried up a relic: a bloodstained vest Blessed Paul was wearing during a 1970 assassination attempt in the Philippines. Sister Pedrini is the last surviving nun who attended to Blessed Paul. In his homily, Pope Francis did not explicitly mention “Humanae Vitae,” the single achievement for which Blessed Paul is best known today. Instead, the pope highlighted his predecessor’s work presiding over most of Vatican II and establishing the synod. The pope quoted Blessed Paul’s statement that
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Left, clergy wait for the start of the beatification Mass of Blessed Paul VI celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19. Right, an image of Blessed Paul VI is seen on a banner prior to the Mass. he intended the synod to survey the “signs of the times” in order to adapt to the “growing needs of our time and the changing conditions of society.” Looking back on the two-week family synod, Pope Francis called it a “great experience,” whose members had “felt the power of the Holy Spirit who constantly guides and renews the church.” The pope said the family synod demonstrated that “Christians look to the future, God’s future ... and respond courageously to whatever new challenges come our way.”
The synod, dedicated to “pastoral challenges of the family,” touched on sensitive questions of sexual and medical ethics and how to reach out to people with ways of life contrary to Catholic teaching, including divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and those in samesex unions. “God is not afraid of new things,” Pope Francis said. “That is why he is continually surprising us, opening our hearts and guiding us in unexpected ways. He renews us; he constantly makes us new.”
Beatified pope inspired ethical method to overcome infertility VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae” inspired a Midwestern obstetrician and gynecologist who is the one of the pioneers of ethical and effective fertility regulation as well as developing a revolutionary method of helping couples overcome infertility known as NaProTechnology. Dr. Thomas Hilgers, founder of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha, Nebraska, offered the Prayers of the Faithful at Blessed Pope Paul VI’s beatification Mass Oct. 19. Hilgers developed the Creighton method of fertility regulation, and NaProTechnology, which assists couples with fertility problems. The Creighton Model Fertility Care System is one of several effective forms of natural regulation of conception by charting the signs of fertility in a woman’s body. The Creighton Model builds on the Billings Method, devised by Australian neurologist Dr. John Billings and his wife Dr. Lyn Billings, who discovered that a woman’s body has a number of signs of fertility that can be charted. There are three Creighton model teachers in the archdiocese, said Ed Hopfner, director of marriage and family life. The ethical methods of birth regulation can also help couples conceive, said
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A banner referencing “Humanae Vitae,” the 1968 encyclical of Blessed Paul VI, is seen in the crowd at the conclusion of the beatification Mass of Blessed Paul celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19. The Mass also concluded the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family. Blessed Paul, who served as pope from 1963-1978, is most remembered for “Humanae Vitae,” which affirmed the church’s teaching against artificial contraception. Hopfner, who added “Roughly one in every eight couples has trouble conceiving.” “Reading ‘Humanae Vitae’ was a transformational moment for me personally and professionally,” Hilgers said in a 2011 interview with Catholic World Report. He was a senior in medical school at the University of Minnesota in 1968 when the encyclical was published. “It was as if the pontiff was speaking directly to me when he wrote about
the pastoral directives calling ‘men of science’ and ‘doctors and medical personnel’ to study the natural rhythms of the body in search of answers,” he said. For more information on archdiocesan teachers of natural family planning, contact Ed Hopfner, director of marriage and family life at hopfnere@sfarchdiocese.org or (415) 614-5547.
Paul VI was pope of firsts, a pope of dialogue, cardinal says CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Retired Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who comes from the same diocese as Pope Paul VI did and worked for him in the Vatican Secretariat of State, described the late pope as a man rich in spirituality, a thinker and a pastor “very sensitive to the challenges of the modern world.” Speaking to reporters Oct. 17, two days before Pope Francis was to beatify Pope Paul, the cardinal said his concern for modern men and women and his awareness that the majority of the world’s people were not Catholic, also made him “a great man of dialogue.” Pope Paul exemplified “a dialogue respectful of others, one that listens to others and, therefore, trusts that there are values in the other, but also a dialogue that aims to proclaim God’s love for all and to proclaim the truths of the Gospel,” the cardinal said. Pope Paul led the church from 1963 to 1978. After
St. John XXIII died in 1963, Pope Paul reconvened the Second Vatican Council, presided over the final three of its four sessions and oversaw the promulgation of all of the council’s documents. He also led the process of implementing the council’s reforms. Cardinal Re told reporters that Pope Paul was a “pope of firsts” ... the first pope to take a plane, the first pope since St. Peter to visit the Holy Land and the first pope to give up the papal tiara. The cardinal said the pope’s renunciation of the crown was a sign that his authority did not come from earthly power and that he did not want earthly glory. “He served the church and deeply desired that the church would serve humanity,” the cardinal said. Redemptorist Father Antonio Marrazzo, the postulator or promoter of Pope Paul’s sainthood cause, told reporters that the now 13-year-old boy involved in the miracle accepted for the beatification would not attend the Mass, nor would his parents, who have asked that their identities not be revealed. The postulator confirmed, however, that the miracle occurred in the United States – reportedly Califor-
nia – and involved a pregnant woman whose life was at risk along with the life of her baby. Advised by doctors to terminate the pregnancy, she instead sought prayers from an Italian nun who was a family friend. The nun placed a holy card with Pope Paul’s photograph and a piece of his vestment on the woman’s belly. The baby was born healthy and continues to be “completely healthy,” Father Marrazzo said. The Redemptorist said that during the beatification Mass, the relic offered to Pope Francis is one of two wool undershirts Pope Paul was wearing in Manila, the Philippines, in November 1970 when a Bolivian painter, dressed as a priest, stabbed him in the chest. Father Marrazzo said he did not know why the pope was wearing two undershirts that day, but both are stained with blood. Born Giovanni Battista Montini in 1897 in the northern Italian province of Brescia, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1920 and was named archbishop of Milan in 1954. Elected pope in 1963, he died at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo on Aug. 6, 1978.
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OBITUARY SISTER MAURA PURCELL, BVM, 88
Sister Maura Purcell, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, died Oct. 1 at her congregation’s Caritas Center in Dubuque, Iowa, at age 88. A funeral Mass was celebrated in the sisters’ chapel there with interment in Mount Carmel Cemetery. Born in Nebraska, Sister Maura entered the BVM congregation Sept. 8, 1944. She professed first Sister Maura vows March 19, 1947, and final Purcell, BVM vows Aug. 15, 1952. Sister Maura taught at Most Holy Redeemer in San Francisco from 1952-54 as well as in schools in Chicago; Butte and Missoula, Montana; Des Moines, Iowa; and Boulder, Colorado. She served in pastoral ministry in Michigan. Remembrances may be sent to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003, or online at www.bvmcong. org/whatsnew_obits.cfm.
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PRO-LIFE: Pray at 435 Grand Ave., South San Francisco, 10 a.m.-noon, Saturdays in October. Rosa, (650) 5890998; Romanie, (650) 583-6169. VICTIM ASSISTANCE: Survivors of clergy sexual abuse are invited to a Day of Mindfulness at Mercy Center, Adeline Drive, Burlingame led by Catherine Regan, Ph.D. For reservations contact Renee Duffey, (415) 614-5506. DIGNITY OF WOMEN: A special one-day presentation of educating on the nature and dignity of women, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $35 fee includes study materials and lunch. Scholarships available. Talks explore the life of Edith Stein, also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Contact Maria Martinez and Pauline Talens, endow. sf@gmail.com; to register, go to www. endowgroups.org and click under the events tab. PAROL MAKING: Parol-making workshop, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., St, Monica Church hall, 470 24th Ave., San Francisco. Parol kits $7. Parol reminds Filipino Christians of the star of Bethlehem, the triumph of light over darkness. nelliehizon01@gmail.com; (415) 699-7927; Peter and Estrelle Chan, soler35jade@gmail.com. GRIEF SUPPORT: “Working Toward Inner Peace,” Good Shepherd parish, 901 Oceana Blvd, Pacifica, 10-11:30 a.m. suzannechinn1@sbcglobal.net; tonilyng@aol.com; www.sfarchdiocese.
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group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.
SUNDAY, NOV. 2 ST. PETER SCHOOL: Mass and reception honoring San Francisco school’s deceased classmates, religious, lay staff, 2:30 p.m. St. Peter Church, 24th and Alabama Bishop William streets, San J. Justice Francisco, with former pastor, Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant. Honorees include Fred Clark, a volunteer instructor at St. Peter, and Toni Ortengo, who has served at the school for more than 40 years. www.sanpedro.org/alumni.
SATURDAY, NOV. 15 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant and homilist at Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support
Christmas Fair, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. both days. Email allsoulswomenscub@yahoo.com.
FRIDAY, NOV. 7
TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on first Fridays at Mercy Center since 1983. Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan, (650) 340-7452. MARRIAGE HELP: Are you frustrated or angry with each other? Do you argue? Retrouvaille helps couples through difficult times in their marriages. For confidential information about or to register for the program call (415) 893-1005; email SF@RetroCA.com; visit www.HelpOurMarriage.com.
OUR LADY MASS: Visiting Archbishop Paciano B. Aniceto, retired from San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines is principal celebrant at Mass commemorating the Virgen de los Remedios, patron of Pampanga, 1 p.m., St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, San Francisco. www.facebook. com/VirgenDeLosRemediosInNorCal.
TUESDAY, NOV. 11 VETERANS DAY SERVICE: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma, Star of the Sea section, 11 a.m., Msgr. Michael Padazinski, colonel, U.S. Air Force, chancellor and canon law head, Archdiocese of San Francisco, will preside. (650) 756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
SATURDAY, NOV. 8 YOUTH RALLY: The San Francisco Interfaith Committee for Life ecumenical event for youth, seventh through 12th grades, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., San Francisco’s Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 999 Brotherhood Way. Admission is $10 per person with registration due by Oct. 30. Call (415) 308-4851; email fr.aris@yahoo.com; visit www.sfinterfaithcommitteeforlife.org/. GRIEF SUPPORT: All Saints’ Day Mass of remembrance, Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd, Pacifica, 1 p.m., light reception follows; suzannechinn1@ sbcglobal.net; tonilyng@aol.com; visit www.sfarchdiocese.org/home/ministries/grief-consolation. No charge. BOUTIQUE: Women’s Club, All Souls Catholic School, South San Francisco
THURSDAY, NOV. 13 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets second Thursdays except December 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Worner Center, 138 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.
FRIDAY, NOV. 14 BOUTIQUE: Sisters of Mercy at Marian Oaks Annual Holiday Boutique, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. both days. Delicious homemade jams, baked goods, fudge, handcrafted items, perfect holiday gifts, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. Enter at Hoover gate, follow Lower Road to Marian
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MISSION TRIP: One-day pilgrimage to Mission Santa Cruz and Mission Santa Clara from St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco. $100 fee includes transportation, lunch and mission entrance fees. June Heise, (650) 871-7738.
SUNDAY, NOV. 16 FASHION SHOW: San Francisco Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians fashion show, luncheon and raffle; 11 a.m., no host cocktails, with lunch at noon, San Francisco United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Ave. $55 adults, $15 children. RSVP by Nov. 10 to Pam Naughton, (415) 566-1936.
FRIDAY, NOV. 21 FAITH CONFERENCE: Faith Formation Conference, Santa Clara Convention Center, liturgy, workshops, and exhibits for catechists, parish leaders, parents, youth and young adults. Registration: www.faithformationconference.com.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3 KOHL CHRISTMAS: Mercy High School, Burlingame Alumnae Association’s Christmas at Kohl 2014, 5-9 p.m., Kohl Mansion on the Mercy campus 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, with more than 60 vendors plus docent presentations of the mansion at 6:30 and 7. Musical entertainment, and light refreshments will be available for purchase. Tickets $10 adults/children free at the door. Visit www. mercyhsb.com for information on the event and parking/shuttles.
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