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y Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We are fast approaching the conclusion of the Year of Faith, called by Pope Benedict XVI to strengthen our commitment to the New Evangelization “in order to rediscover the joy of believing and the enthusiasm for communicating the faith.” It was Pope John Paul II who defined for us this New Evangelization: “a commitment not to a re-evangelization but to a new evangelization – new in ardor, methods and expression.” What is not new is the timeless commission Christ gave to his church at the very beginning: “Go and make disciples of all nations.”

Vital to the work of evangelization today – of communiSALVATORE J. cating the faith so that Jesus CORDILEONE might be heard and known in a world so often deaf to him – are the tools of social communication. Paramount

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Faith, history draw visitors to Mission Dolores cemetery CHRISTINA M. GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

City sightseeing buses have slowed their pace after a busy summer tourist season, but the Mission Dolores cemetery is still swarming with visitors in late fall. And it has nothing to do with Halloween.

The mission and its ancient graveyard seem to hold perpetual appeal to visitors seeking everything SEE CEMETERY, PAGE 23

(PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Coastside harvest of plenty Two workers from the Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker House in Half Moon Bay help arrange pumpkins and squash Oct. 21 for a fall display at Potrero Nuevo Farm. The organic farm partners with Catholic Worker to bring fresh produce to area residents, many of whom help harvest the crops. Story on Page 5.

Smokey Mountain dancers: ‘We are people, and not trash’ EDISON TAPALLA CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

In October a group of Filipino artists from the 2 million-ton landfill known around the world as Smokey Mountain hosted performances and workshops around the Bay Area to raise funds for the performers’ nonprofit work.

Sponsored by the Filipino cultural heritage organization Makibahagi, the performers known as Children of Mother Earth (Mga Anak ni Inang Daigdig in Tagalog) draw attention to the plight of the global poor and environmental degradation through cultural performances.

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Generations ons of Filipino families are born and raised on the thirdlargest landfi ndfill in the SEE SMOKEY MOUNTAIN, PAGE 23

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NEED TO KNOW 40 DAYS PRAYER VIGIL: California has the most 40 Days for Life prayer vigil sites in the country during its fall campaign that continues through Nov. 3. The national pro-life campaign, which seeks to end abortion through prayer, fasting and peaceful vigil, has 38 locations in California, including two in the Archdiocese of San Francisco at Planned Parenthood clinics in San Rafael and San Francisco. Visit 40daysforlife.com.

ARCHBISHOP URGES ACTION ON IMMIGRATION REFORM: Uniting himself with “leadership of the church in the U.S.,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone issued a letter to pastors Oct. 16 about the continuing need for immigration reform. Pope Francis’ recent exhortations with regard to the deaths of hopeful immigrants who died in Italy in a shipwreck hold a special example of the need here for comprehensive immigration reform, calling on everyone to “contact your congressional representatives to urge them toward” such legislation and quickly. Sample text for Sunday bulletins urged the faithful to support “a just and workable immigration policy that addresses the 11 million undocumented men, women and children who live in our midst” and to learn from the U.S. bishops’ website www.Justiceforimmigrants.org.

CARMELITE SISTERS’ JAM FOR SALE: The Carmelite sisters of Mother of God Monastery in San Rafael began selling strawberry, plum, peach, apricot, blackberry, marionberry and mixed “bumbleberry” preserves Oct. 23. Jam-making is one of several cottage industries the sisters work to sustain their life of prayer for priests and others.

Jams and pickles are available for $4, $6 and $8.

Ring the bell at the monastery at 530 Blackstone Drive or call (415) 479-6872. Look for a pictorial feature on the cloistered community of six sisters in an upcoming issue of Catholic San Francisco.

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An incorrect photo appeared in Catholic San Francisco Oct. 18 for St. Edith Stein, correctly shown here. The calendar item spoke of the saint’s being a model in upcoming talks for and about women Nov. 9 and Dec. 14 at San Francisco’s St. Brendan Church. Visit www.endowgroups.org.

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among these is your archdiocesan newspaper, Catholic San Francisco.

The paper, along with its evolving digital publications – watch for the eEdition in early November – supports the work of the New Evangelization in many ways. First of all, it is a primary means for me to communicate with you, the people of God living throughout the three counties of our archdiocese.

Home-delivered to registered parish members as a free service of the archdiocesan Pastoral Center, the paper reflects and nurtures parish life by reporting on liturgical celebrations, sacramental events, Catholic education, fellowship and the diverse ways that the people of God in our archdiocese live out their baptismal promise through vocations, charity and witness to the dignity and sanctity of life. The paper reports credibly on news about the church nationally and globally as well. In this sense it builds up the bonds of communion we share as members of the body of Christ in our local church of San Francisco and in the church universal.

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“The challenge,” the Pope told the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications September 21, “is to rediscover, through the means of social communication as well as by personal contact, the beauty that is at the heart of our existence and our journey, the beauty of faith and of the encounter with Christ.”

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Cross country conversation links students East and West TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Senior world religions students at Notre Dame High School, Belmont, talked with middle schoolers in Pennsylvania in a video conference Sept. 20.

Ryan Martin-Spencer, religious studies department chair at the school, said: “The Notre Dame seniors were able to practice formulating and articulating questions and answers about peace and faith in our world.” The event came to Hannah Say the schools through the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s “Face to Faith” program. The Pennsylvania school was Murray Avenue Middle School, a public school in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., just outside Philadelphia. “The students were very articulate and courageous to speak with a room full of high school senior girls,” Ryan said.

The pictured and elated Hannah Say celebrated her birthday the day of the conference and is seen smiling as the youngsters from the Keystone State sing “Happy Birthday” to her during a break in the dialogue. The next video conference for the Notre Dame women will be with high school students from a predominantly Muslim school in Indonesia, according to Ryan.

APPLAUSE: Behind the scenes and the scenery is Valerie O’Riordan, drama director and faculty member at Archbishop Riordan High School. Valerie, a native of Long Beach, is theater all the way through with degrees from Cal State, Long Beach and San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater. Val just couldn’t turn away from performing in Valerie the school’s recent “Lucky 13” O’Riordan that wowed audiences Sept. 2 and which she developed and directed. She took the stage to Stephen Sondheim’s “I’m Still Here” from “Follies” in tune with her 13 years at the school.

Helping her along musically and in a few laughs were soprano Kristin Knezevic, an original cast member of the popular Teatro Zinzanni and Curt Branom who has been in the cast of “Beach Blanket Babylon” for 11 years. The show raised almost $20,000 for an ongoing theater program scholarship.

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Pat, a carpenter, has been tireless in his volunteering at the camp, Steve said. Steve, too, is a former camp staffer as well as a former camper.

GOING THE DISTANCE: Students from Mercy High School, Burlingame; Notre Dame High School, Belmont and Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo hit the ground walking Sept. 14 for Catholic Worker House facilities in Half Moon Bay and San Bruno.

More than $4,000 and 100 pairs of socks were raised by the 135 women and men on the five-mile trek. Catholic Worker House provides meals, shelter, housing and resource connections for the poor. From left, Notre Dame freshmen Lorena Bravo and Angelina Sainez; Serra junior Erik Clark.

WORK WELL DONE: Congratulations to Pat Naughton on being named a recipient of a CYO Camp Alumni Volunteer of the year award. The presentation took place at the camp alumni Mass at CYO Camp Sept.22. Pat, a graduate of Holy Name School and Sacred Heart High School, was a camp staffer in the late `70s and has been at the forefront of camp rebuilding during the last three years, said Steven Cline, a member of the alumni committee.

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COMIN’ UP: Young adults age 18-40 plus “those young at heart” are invited to “Java, Jazz and Jesus,” Nov. 8, St. Ignatius Parish, Fromm Hall, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, 7 p.m. Maura Lafferty is among the St. Ignatius young adults organizing the evening. Maura has been frontline in the growth of outreach to young adults in the archdiocese and has already welcomed Angela Pollock, new archdiocesan young adult ministry director.

“Catholic young adults are seeking community and connection with people who share their faith and values,” Maura told me. “There are lots of strong, vibrant communities throughout the archdiocese.”

The program model and logistical support come from Christus Ministries, http://www.christusministries.org/, a program of the Jesuit Province providing emphasis and support for young adult ministry, Maura said. The emphasis on young adult ministry at St. Ignatius is due in large part to the efforts and support of pastor, Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio. If you are a young adult looking to connect put “Java, Jazz and Jesus” on your calendar. Maura says “Think green – BYOM (Bring Your Own Mug).” You can RSVP at these sites: facebook.com/groups/548083468597084/; siparishyoungadults@gmail.com; or call (415) 422-2188.

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Solidarity with needy expands coast harvest’s bounty VALERIE SCHMALZ

‘One of the most important things is our guests are connected to this – they get to help harvest food that is given away to lots more families. It is continuing that vision of more and more people sharing.’

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The Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker House in Half Moon Bay is partnering with an organic farm to share fresh vegetables and fruits with the poor, underemployed and homeless people of the San Mateo coast community.

“It definitely helps me out every week,” said Rick Barry, as he loaded pumpkins and squash on a wooden table for display, the sun peering through the fog and the blue-green grass of the hills forming a backdrop to the three acres of vegetable plots at Potrero Nuevo Farm. “It’s beautiful to just come down here. We get paid, but we also get to eat.”

Twice a week from May through November, the Catholic Worker House brings eight to 10 area residents to help harvest produce for distribution at free community breakfasts at Coastside Lutheran Church and a weekly Table of Plenty dinner at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish. The Catholic Worker House also teams up with the parish St. Vincent de Paul Society for its ministry of support to area poor.

A grant from Philanthropic Ventures Foundation provides a stipend, so the workers, usually unemployed farm workers and folks living in boats or cars in the harbor area, receive a wage and also can take home as much produce as they want.

“We try to live, to be conscious of the economy of abundance, the economy of grace, the economy you read about in the Gospels,” said Eric DeBode who runs the Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker

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Two men from Kelly Avenue Catholic Worker House help arrange pumpkins and squash Oct. 21 for display at Potrero Nuevo Farm in the Tunitas Creek Valley near Half Moon Bay. House, as he walked among the corn stalks, pumpkin vines, and piled-up cabbages and past the raspberry bushes of the Potrero Nuevo Farm.

“We didn’t get many strawberries this year,” he said. “The deer ate them.”

“I always need gas money,” said a second man arranging pumpkins, who identified himself as Todd. “It is a great way to pick up some supplemental income. We spend eight hours (a week). We get to take as much produce as we want, give it to other people.”

“I’ve definitely eaten a lot more vegetables recently, working in the fields,” Todd said.

The Potrero Nuevo Farm is owned by two former San Franciscans, Christine Pielenz and Bill Laven, who

moved to Half Moon Bay and bought the farm in 2008 to grow and share organic produce.

In 2012, the couple decided to just give away the produce they did not eat, rather than trying to sell it via a community produce association and farmers market. From the beginning, Pielenz said, they hired farm managers and the farm has never been about making money. The farm also contributes to an organization that helps farmworkers in nearby Pescadero.

Catholic Worker House serves a free community breakfast twice a week from Coastside Lutheran Church, and uses the produce to make breakfast.

“One of the most important things is our guests are connected to this – they

get to help harvest food that is given away to lots more families,” said DeBode. “It is continuing that vision of more and more people sharing.”

Pielenz and Laven have eaten at Coastside Lutheran’s community breakfasts. Seeing her produce on the table and being taken home by farmworkers and others in need, often those who helped harvest the same food, she said: “That’s nice. It’s a personal thing.”

The farm’s relationship with Catholic Worker is a good way to work for social justice, Pielenz said, saying farmworkers in Watsonville often can’t afford the produce they are picking. Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, not only believed in living among the poor and working for peace and justice, she believed in the “connection to the land,” Pielenz said. “I love the way it’s set up now. It’s not a handout.”

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Archbishop lauds NFP as key to evangelization VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

An organic, chemical and device-free method of family planning presented as part of Catholic Church teaching on marriage and family may well be one of the most effective ways of evangelizing the Gospel in our world today.

That was one of the surprising takeaways from a presentation on natural family planning to deacons, soon-to-be deacons and Dr. Lynn Keenan couples who do marriage preparation. The presentation Oct. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral met with enthusiasm from the about 100 attendees, who were urged to return to their parishes and incorporate NFP into marriage preparation and into Mass homilies.

“No other organization on the face of the earth has been dealing with marriage for as long and as extensively as the Catholic Church,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said during introductory remarks to the presentation by California Association of Natural Family Planning president Dr. Lynn Keenan. “For 2,000 years we

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Natural family planning is “a tool for building strong marriages and families, but it doesn’t have the billion-dollar advertising budget that other forms of ‘unnatural’ family planning have,” said Ed Hopfner, director of the archdiocesan Marriage and Family Life Office. “As our Holy Father says, quote ‘we must all take responsibility to evangelize,’” Hopfner said.

The church’s teaching on marriage, family and sexuality are based on the Gospel, guided by the Holy Spirit and are key to the new evangelization, Archbishop Cordileone said. The church’s teaching on responsible parenthood is “the bestkept secret,” he said, “because this is an area more than any other where the culture where we are living is so resistant, hostilely resistant.”

This is “precisely where we want to retreat, precisely where we are going to be most attacked for speaking boldly about it,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “It is precisely there that is the key to the new evangelization.”

Natural family planning uses a woman’s monthly cycle to chart her times of fertility.

There are several different methods, but all are organic and virtually free. NFP “empowers women to understand their own fertility,” said Dr. Keenan, a University of California at Fresno clinical professor of clinical medicine.

In contrast, artificial contraceptives “suppress the symphony” of a woman’s biological cycles by using two synthetic artificial hormones to replace all of the body’s natural hormones, Dr. Keenan said. “You can’t suppress a good, healthy part of a woman’s body without there being repercussions.”

The increased use of hormonal contraceptives correlates with a rise in women’s rates of heart disease, certain types of cancer, stroke, autoimmune diseases such as lupus, and dementia, Dr. Keenan said, citing a raft of studies (see box).

Beyond its user success rate of about 96 percent, NFP has demonstrated its usefulness as a diagnostic tool for infertility problems and even for discovering cancer and other life-threatening diseases, Dr. Keenan said in her presentation.

But the greatest advantage of using natural family planning, Dr. Keenan and Archbishop Cordileone said is that it works with the woman’s body, involves the husband, and fits with what Pope emeritus Benedict XVI called the hu-

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BLOOD CLOTS: Five-to seven-fold higher risk of blood clots with oral contraceptives (British Medical Journal, 2009).

CANCER: The World Health Organization has declared combination oral contraceptives a Group I carcinogen, the same class as tobacco (Lancet Oncology, Aug. 2005).

STROKE: A meta-analysis of 54 studies found the rate of stroke in current users of oral contraceptives to be 2.75 times more likely than women who have not taken the pill. (Journal of American Medical Association, July 5, 2000).

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“Human ecology is the principle that all different aspects of life are interconnected,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “It’s not as if we have our bodies here, and our relationships over here, and our souls over here, our emotions here – it’s all interconnected.”

The archbishop said “everything about the woman is about conceiving a new life, supporting that life, nurturing that life, so our bodies, and the sexual complementarity of our bodies is geared for life. When young people understand this, the typical reaction is – ‘why didn’t anybody tell me this before? It would have saved me so much heartache.’”

“That’s how de-Christianized our world has become,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “People can’t even understand the basic facts of life, the facts of nature.”

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Father Ken Hamilton, SVD, will be our Guest Presider and Homilist.

November 10 Monsignor James Tarantino, Charismatic Preacher, Evangelist and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will be our Guest Presider and Homilist.

November 17 Father Paul Gawlowski, OFM Conv. will be our Presider and Homilist and the worship service will be led

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WASHINGTON – Historians and journalists can play a direct role in helping the church and the world at large, Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City told a group of archivists and reporters Oct. 9 at The Catholic University of America in Bishop Wester Washington.

The bishop, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Communications, particularly urged reporters to see the long-term significance of their work amid daily tasks of “confirming facts, tracking down sources (and) meeting deadlines.� “You are writing the first drafts for historians, your notes are the first cuts,� he said during the keynote address at the one-day gathering “Catholic Archives in the Digital Age: A Conference for Reporters, Archivists, and Scholars.�

He noted that Pope Francis in particular has attracted media attention in the past six months since his election and said reporters should examine and highlight how the pope’s vision for the church can impact the modern world.

Bishop Wester suggested that the pope’s early themes should be further developed in news coverage that examines the church as more than an institution and also looks at its changing leadership style. He also suggested that reporters delve into implications for the church with its first pope from South America and should also focus on church efforts to promote the Gospel, the sacredness of marriage and God’s mercy.

He suggested that stories about the Catholic Church should not just reflect historic events that take place but instead cover the “church as a movement� or pilgrimage. He

also suggested that journalists take a closer look at the story of Latino Catholics, not forgetting the pope’s ties with the Catholic Church in South America.

The bishop noted how national media especially picked up on the pope’s interview published in America magazine in September, using headlines such as “The pope isn’t interested in talking about abortion, homosexuality or contraception.�

Bishop Wester said that view isn’t an accurate description and stressed that the pope is a “strong, unflinching advocate for life from conception to natural death and he remains a strong voice that promotes the church’s teaching on moral issues related to sexual ethics.�

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced a contribution in the amount of nearly $10 million was being made by the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Charities of Dallas, San Francisco 49ers co-chairmen and former co-owners Denise and John York and an anonymous Catholic High School alumnus, in support of the Little Rock school’s capital campaign. “Nobody lives a life of all highs, but this is a high,� Jerry Jones said during a school visit, his eyes welling with tears. “My family and I get to do something in the name of and for someone that we love.�

That someone is the late Msgr.

George Tribou, who was Catholic High School’s rector and principal for 35 years. Jones’ sons, Jerry Jr. and Stephen, and his son-in-law, Shy Anderson, graduated from the school in the 1980s and each shared a story of their encounters with Msgr. Tribou in their brief remarks. “He was right more times than most,� Jerry Jones Jr. said. “He stressed it was not about feeling good but being good.�

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 25, 2013

Elections, marriage and confirmation texts on bishops’ agenda CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Elections for a new president and vice president, a discussion and vote on a Spanish-language book of prayers at Mass, and a proposal to develop a statement on pornography are among the items awaiting the U.S. bishops when they gather in Baltimore for their annual fall assembly.

At their Nov. 11-14 meeting at the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott Hotel, the bishops also will hear a status report on their strategic/pastoral plan and vote on the final translations from the International Committee on English in the Liturgy on liturgical practices regarding marriage and confirmation.

As is customary, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States, will address the assembly.

The bishops will elect the next president and vice president to lead the USCCB for the next three years from a slate of 10 candidates. Their term begins at the close of the meeting.

The candidates are: Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans; Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia; Bishop Blase J. Cupich

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U.S. bishops, pictured here at Mass during their 2011 fall gathering, will meet Nov. 11-14 in Baltimore.

bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.

Under USCCB bylaws, a president will be elected from the full slate. The vice president will be chosen from the remaining nine candidates. If a candidate does not receive more than half of the votes cast on the first ballot, a second ballot will be cast. If a third round of voting is necessary, the ballot will include the names of the top two vote-getters from the second ballot.

The bishops will vote on accepting the “Misal Romano� from Mexico as the base text for the Spanish-language missal used in U.S. parishes. The bishops’ conference of Mexico received approval from the Vatican, or “recognitio,� to use the text earlier this year.

The U.S. version of the missal would be available by the end of 2014 or early 2015 under current USCCB plans.

Several adaptations in the missal also will be voted on by the bishops.

Other liturgical changes on which

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If adopted by the bishops, the order of celebrating marriage will be sent to the Vatican for “recognitio.� A second vote on four adaptations to the order also is planned.

The order of confirmation that will be considered is a retranslation from ICEL and would bring the order into accordance with the norms of “Liturgiam Authenticam� (“The Authentic Liturgy�), the 2001 document on liturgical translations from the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

The bishops also will vote for chairmen-elect of the committees on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance, Child and Youth Protection, Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Evangelization and Catechesis, and International Justice and Peace.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 25, 2013

Celluloid heaven: How popes took church, to the big screen CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – When Pope Benedict XVI joined Twitter in 2012 and Pope Francis appeared on Instagram the following year, media watchers may have thought they were witnessing a Vatican revolution. In both cases, however, the pontiffs were merely following in a long tradition.

The Catholic Church has a history of taking on major technological innovations that promote mass communication, such as the printing press in the 15th century and radio and television in the 20th. In fact, one of the very first motion picture films ever made was an 1896 reel of Pope Leo XIII. The brief black-and-white silent movie shows the elderly bespectacled pope sitting with guards and attendants at his side, adjusting his skullcap and blessing the camera.

In another scene, the pope gets off a horse-drawn carriage and walks slowly with his cane to a bench, where he takes off his sun hat, adjusts his glasses and again blesses the camera with long, liquid movements of his frail hand.

It was a blessing, not just to the world, but perhaps also to the birth of this new means of mass communication, said Claudia Di Giovanni, manager of the

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Pope Leo XIII is seen giving a blessing in a frame from an 1896 short that is the oldest film in the Vatican’s collection of more than 8,000 films.

Vatican Film Library, whose rich collection includes the film of Pope Leo. Di Giovanni said one of the most media-friendly popes in history was Pope Pius XII, who endorsed and made extensive use of radio, television and cinema.

Pope Pius was the first pontiff to star and act in a film, she said, when he let film crews into the Vatican for eight months to capture a sort of “day in the life” of a pope.

The film, “Pastor Angelicus” of 1942, was a great success all over Europe, she said, showing the pope to

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a public who otherwise would never have been able to see him.

Pope Pius did the film, Di Giovanni said, as a way “to be near the world,” especially those affected by the still-raging World War II. “It was a way of showing that the pope wasn’t a person who was closed up inside the Vatican but was a point of reference for everyone who looked to him for hope.”

The next pope, Blessed John XXIII, established the Vatican Film Library in 1959 – the same year he announced the Second Vatican Council – to collect and conserve films about the life of the church and the history of the papacy.

But the more than 8,000 films in its collections also include commercial releases, such as the 2001-2003 Lord of the Rings trilogy. A copy of Schindler’s List (1993) was a personal gift from its director, Steven Spielberg.

Some of the library’s rarest gems came from a collection amassed by a Jesuit identified only as Father Joye in the early 1900s. The priest taught high school history in Switzerland and used contemporary films to bring his lessons to life.

He tried to censor racy or indelicate scenes by shouting to divert the kids’ attention or by standing in front of the projector, but still got in trouble with the school principal and was kicked out of the school, Di Giovanni said.

The Joye collection includes the first film ever made about St. Francis, filmed in Assisi in 1911, and the sole remaining copy of a 1911 dramatization of Dante’s “Inferno.” The latter features pioneering special effects, such as emulsion smeared to produce what looks like fire raining on writhing sinners.

Di Giovanni said early movies were often based on religious themes because they were stories people knew and could follow more easily given the lack of dialogue in silent films.

VATICAN OFFICIAL REAFFIRMS TEACHING ON DIVORCED, REMARRIED CATHOLICS

VATICAN CITY – Amid rising expectations that the Catholic Church might make it easier for divorced and remarried members to receive Communion, the Vatican’s highest doctrinal official reaffirmed church teaching barring such persons from the sacrament without an annulment of their first, sacramental marriage. But Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, acknowledged that many Catholics’ first marriages might be invalid, and thus eligible for annulment, if spouses had been influenced by prevailing contemporary conceptions of marriage as a temporary arrangement. The archbishop’s words appeared in a 4,600-word article published in the Vatican newspaper Oct. 22.

Speculation about a change in practice has grown since Pope Francis told reporters accompanying him on his plane back from Rio de Janeiro in July that the next Synod of Bishops would explore a “somewhat deeper pastoral care of marriage,” including the question of the eligibility of divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion.

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CATHOLIC MEDIA BRING CHURCH CLOSER TO PEOPLE, POPE SAYS

VATICAN CITY – Catholic media are important not only as means of documenting church events, Pope Francis said, but especially as means for bringing the church and the Gospel closer to people.

Catholic media professionals must report news and share stories, “dialoguing with a world that has a need to be listened to and understood, but also needs to receive the message of true life,” the pope said Oct. 18.

In a message to employees of the Vatican Television Center, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church needs the best communications media available but they must be used as a service to the church and part of its evangelizing mission.

“We live in a world in which there is almost nothing that doesn’t have something to do with the universe of the media. Increasingly sophisticated instruments reinforce the almost pervasive role of communications technologies, language and forms in daily life, and not only among the young,” the pope said.

In the midst of all those words, sounds and images, he said, it is not easy to recount events related to the life of the church, “which is a sign and instrument of an intimate union with God and is the body of Christ, the people of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit.”

Catholic media professionals, the pope said, must have “a strong ability to read reality in a spiritual key,”

as well as a thorough understanding of and respect for the religious events they are covering.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION WORSENING, UK CHARITY STUDY FINDS

MANCHESTER, England – The persecution of Christians around the world has intensified over the last two-and-a-half years, according to a review of religious freedom in 30 countries.

Not only are Christians in the Middle East and Africa suffering increasingly from Islamist terror attacks, but they continue to endure severe persecution and hardship in Communist, Marxist or post-Communist states, said a 192-page report by the United Kingdom branch of the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need.

Christians also are persecuted by religious nationalists in some countries where they find themselves in a minority, said the report, which was published Oct. 17.

John Newton, a co-author of the report, told Catholic News Service Oct. 18 that the plight of Christians had deteriorated since early 2011, when the last biennial report on the global problem was published by the charity.

In an accompanying press release, John Pontifex, the report’s other coauthor, said persecution in parts of the Middle East has become so grave that the survival of Christians in the region was “now at stake.”

For Christians, the so-called “Arab

spring” has in many cases become what the report calls a “Christian winter,” the release said.

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VATICAN CITY – Interest in Pope John Paul I, remembered for his winsome grin and death after only 33 days in office and for introducing a new, down-to-earth style into the papacy, has been rising since Pope John Paul I Pope Francis’ election. That makes “A Passionate Adventure” (Tau Cross), a newly published compilation of essays and speeches by the “smiling pope,” of both contemporary and historical relevance.

Since most of the John Paul I’s writings have still not been translated into English, misconceptions are widespread about the man Time magazine called the “September Pope.”

According to Lori Pieper, the new book’s editor and translator, John Paul I “adhered to the teachings of

Vatican II,” and was neither a conservative nor a progressive.

Pieper says it is not true that thenCardinal Albino Luciani implicitly criticized Pope Paul VI’s encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” which condemned artificial birth control, by failing to speak in support of it.

“He adhered to the moral teaching of the church and he would not have changed the church’s teaching on birth control,” she said. “He recognized how contentious it was,” yet “always defended the pope on this.”

Pieper said that John Paul I also “got a lot of flak” for saying that God was more like a mother than a father.

Among the pope’s most significant actions during his short reign was his rejection of some of the “royal trappings” of office, Pieper said.

“He was the first pope in something like 1,000 years who was not crowned and never wore the tiara.”

“He did his best to get away from the sedia gestatoria,” a ceremonial throne used to carry the pope in processions, she said, “and just about demolished the papal ‘We,’” a royal self-referent used in papal writings.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 25, 2013

Archdiocese walks with violence victims’ families through ‘ministry of presence’ EDISON TAPALLA CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

In October 2012, the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco began the Restorative Justice Ministry for Victims and Families of Violent Crime.

Working closely with the city of San Francisco, the ministry helps the families of victims of violent crime navigate the period of time when a loved one is lost. In addition to helping with survivors’ loss and grief, the ministry also helps with funeral arrangements, translations, paperwork and – in cases of extreme need – expenses.

“We have always visited the jails and worked on programs for the perpetrators of crime, but (have) not done much at all for victims and the community who are deeply affected,” George Wesolek, who began the project as public policy director, said in an email.

In order to reach out to the community and promote healing, the ministry began its work with prayer vigils for victims at the locations of violent crimes. The ministry reaches out to the local community and clergy, inviting them to join the vigils.

The vigils vary in size, from a hand-

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A prayer vigil was held in the Alemany public housing project in San Francisco for Richard Wells, 27, who was killed in a homicide June 25. An archdiocesan ministry regularly supported by five to seven priests as well as by many laypeople prays at homicide sites and provides ongoing spiritual support to victims’ families. ful of laity and clergy up to more than 400 community members in the case of college sophomore Jacob Valdiviezo, a graduate of Archbishop Riordan High School. He was gunned down while

visiting family last March in front of his house in the Mission District of San Francisco.

One of the priests who regularly attends the vigils, Father Michael

Quinn, pastor of Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito, recalled the prayer vigil for Jacob. “Mrs. Valdiviezo was SEE HEALING, PAGE 13

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HEALING: ‘Ministry of presence’ supports homicide victims’ families FROM PAGE 12

going into her home, and she told me how much she wanted to hug each of the 400-plus people that came out to show love for her son,” he said.

Father Quinn said “it shouldn’t take an earthquake or a loss of life to bring out the community.”

Asked about the effectiveness of the prayer vigils, Father Quinn said, “Statistically, the person that committed the crime might be watching, and there is a real moment and potential for conversion.”

Five to seven archdiocesan priests regularly attend the vigils. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, and Msgr. James T. Tarantino, archdiocesan vicar general and moderator of the curia, also have prayed at sites where lives have been lost.

There were 68 homicides in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties in 2012, with 39 through midOctober this year.

Families that work with the ministry are invited to host healing circles in their homes, where they talk about the circumstances that led to the loss and how to work through the grieving process. When family members feel ready, they are invited to larger healing circles that take place on a monthly basis.

The larger healing circles include of multiple families also experiencing the loss of a loved one through violent crime.

These families are then invited to a retreat hosted by the archdiocese. The retreats give the family members tools and resources for healing. The latest retreat was hosted at Vallombrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park with 15 family members attending.

Julio Escobar, archdiocesan restorative justice coordinator, refers to the ministry as “a ministry of presence.”

“What that means is that if there is a funeral service, we are there, and represent love, care and compassion for the family,” he said. “We don’t have to say anything. We don’t have to do anything. We just need to be present, and that’s enough, and it says a lot. And that leads to healing.”

AT A GLANCE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE MONTH: November is international Restorative Justice Month. Visit www. sflifeandjustice.org for more resources.

ALL SAINTS’ MASS: Join the Archdiocesan Restorative Justice Ministry at St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Assumption for a special All Saints’ Mass celebrated by Bishop William J. Justice on Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. Small reception to follow at St. Francis Hall. Contact Carolina Parrales, (415) 614-5570 or email parralesc@sfarchdiocese.org.

GET INVOLVED: Contact Julio Escobar at (415) 8619579 or escobarj@sfarchdiocese.org to be added to the notification list for prayer vigils and events.

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Archdiocesan vicar general Msgr. James T. Tarantino attended a prayer vigil in San Francisco’s Excelsior District for Eric Mabry, 20, who was killed in a homicide Oct. 9.

The ministry also hosts an annual walk against violence in the Mission District in January. Last year’s inaugural walk was attended by more than 250 participants and crossed the neighborhood from St. Anthony of Padua Church to Mission Dolores Basilica with stops along the way to hear testimony from loved ones.

Jaime Gonzalez, restorative justice community coordinator, works directly with families. He makes the first phone call after the loss and maintains the relationship throughout the healing process.

Commenting on his interaction with Esperanza Bermudez, whose son Cesar was a homicide victim, Gonzalez told Catholic San Francisco: “The constant communication to this point, the openness to having

novenas at her house and coming to Bible studies, have led to major strides in her healing.”

The grieving mother does not just depend on the outreach for her healing but has become involved in the ministry to help others, attending vigils for other families who have lost loved ones to violence, Gonzalez said.

“I can’t but help believe that it is just God opening her heart to all that we are trying to do,” he said.

He noted that most families prefer not to discuss their ordeal with people outside their family.

The Catholic Church in California has long been involved in restorative justice ministry, visiting prisoners in jail and offering Bible study, support groups and Mass.

The model that is in place in the San Francisco archdiocese is different with its pastoral focus on presence and healing for families and communities.

Escobar said the ministry’s next step is to extend the ministry to presence to the families of perpetrators. He said the final goal is to unite in healing the victims’ and perpetrators’ families and the criminals themselves.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 25, 2013

Words to say, and avoid, to the grieving JESSICA PALL

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CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Helping others cope with their grief is difficult, even if you have experienced your own tragic loss, but knowing what to say or what not to say can help you comfort the griever without putting him or her in additional pain.

“Often, I think the cliches we use to try and comfort people puts a burden on them by requiring them to be strong, to not cry and to move on with life when they are in the middle of an incredibly difficult part of grief,” said Maureen Waldron, associate director of the Collaborative Ministry Office at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. Sometimes we encourage people to move on with grief because we’re uncomfortable being around the “depth of their pain,” she said in an e-mail to Catholic News Service.

The collaborative ministry office at Creighton University has posted online resources to help people through stages of grief: http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Grief/avoid-cliches.html. According to the material, individuals should say “I’m sorry” instead of “I understand how you feel.” Or “I don’t know why it happened” instead of “It all happened for the best.” Rather than trying to answer the bereaved’s unasked questions or provide philosophical reasoning, simply listening or expressing confusion and offering supportive help is appropriate. “How are you doing with all this; I’m here and I want to listen; you must really be hurting; take all the time you need; I’ll call tomorrow; and please tell me what you are feeling” are some of the appropriate phrases to say, according to the article.

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ACT NOT ON YOUR OWN COMFORT LEVEL but on what is required in order to minister.

ENTER THE GRIEVER’S PAIN and be willing to meet them where they are.

COMMUNICATE AFTER THE DEATH, especially on holidays and anniversaries, to show continued support.

DON’T SAY “I understand how you feel” or “It all happened for the best.”

Although it isn’t always easy to support a grieving person, people can be most helpful by entering into a griever’s pain and being willing to meet them where they are. Listening and talking from the heart is often the best approach. port a grieving person, people can be most helpful by entering into a griever’s pain and being willing to meet them where they are. “They don’t want to hear that it will get better,” Waldron said, “because right now their grief might make it difficult for them to even function, it could be very helpful for someone simply to be with them in that incredible grief, not to say I know how you feel.” She added that the grief process cannot be rushed and that everyone heals at different times. “Offering someone a safe place to express his/her grief, over and over again, could be the most healing thing we offer,” Waldron said. “The most important advice is to listen, not tell people what they should be feeling or how to deal with their grief.”

Donna McCarthy, who works as a consultant, specializing in oral and communication skills, said: “There isn’t a real formula for knowing what to say, but basically talking from the heart is often the best.”

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“It is a common temptation to use your life example and compare it to the bereaved,” McCarthy said, but “now is not the time to do it as their grieving situation is unique to them.” Above all, McCarthy said family and friends should listen as it is such a powerful communicator.

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“It is important to communicate with them after the death especially on holidays or anniversaries to show your continued support,” McCarthy said. “Although it is the American way to say get on with things, some people simply can’t do that … even for years. Stay in touch with your friends and family who lose their loved ones and continue to encourage them way beyond the time of the death.”

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Rituals for miscarriage and stillbirth promote culture of life October is both Respect Life Month and Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. This month the nonprofit apostolate Elizabeth Ministry International has connected these two causes with the publication of a new resource. The book “Pastoral Guide: Pastoral Possibilities With Families Experiencing Miscarriage or Stillbirth,” to be released Oct. 31, is a tool to help clergy and lay ministers provide pastoral care for families in the wake of pregnancy and infant loss.

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, approximately 20 percent of families who know they are pregnant will experience a miscarriage or stillbirth. However, in many cases, the babies and their families are not provided with services, rituals and burials that honor those lives.

Jeannie Hannemann, founder of Elizabeth Ministry International, says the current lack of awareness and resources for miscarriage and stillbirth is problematic for Christians.

“How can we convince the woman seeking an abortion that the child in her womb has dignity and worth when we do not proclaim that same message when a miscarriage occurs?” she asked. “It is ironic and hypocritical to show concern for the unborn child who dies through induced abortion, but have no resources to show the same concern for the unborn child who dies through miscarriage.”

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While there are rituals and blessings appropriate to miscarriage and stillbirth in official church ritual books, they are scattered and hard to find. “A pastor who is called to come to visit after a miscarriage would have to bring four different books with him in order to provide blessings and rituals for the family,” Hannemann says.

The new pastoral guide puts all of those resources in one place and fills in the blanks where resources do not currently exist.

Along with sample blessings and rituals, the book includes: – Handouts that assist bereaved parents, provide suggestions for support people, and raise awareness within the community – Sample letters, cards, Scriptures and reflections for pastoral ministers – Step-by-step instructions for developing support groups – Information on where to find miscarriage delivery aids and burial vessels that honor the dignity of these tiny lives – Free online downloads of customizable public memorial services, graveside services, funeral planning sheets and certificates The book may be pre-ordered via the Elizabeth Ministry website at www.elizabethministry.com.

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How children handle grief essential to their development ADESHINA EMMANUEL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – For many young children, it’s hard enough learning arithmetic and proper grammar. But grappling with grief after losing a loved one is in a whole other realm of difficulty.

Laurie Olbrisch, executive vice president of Rainbows, an international grief-support charity, said grieving children often experience low self-esteem and a sense of vulnerability that can impede their social and emotional development if left unchecked.

She said these feelings can put children at higher risk for developing patterns of risky behavior, such as drug abuse and promiscuity. “Maybe they’re only in third grade when the loss happens but if they’ve never had any support or help … maybe by the time they’re a teenager those things will really manifest themselves in their personality,” Olbrisch said.

She noted that children are sometimes uncomfortable talking to counselors or psychologists about their grief. That’s when a peer-based approach is better for helping them cope, Oldrisch said because they get to “talk about their loss in their own terms, on their own level.”

Hospice Support Care is a volunteer organization in Virginia that provides various services to seriously ill people and people suffering the loss of a loved one. Once a year, in spring, the organization hosts Camp Rainbow, a weekend bereavement camp for children ages 5 to 12. The camp aims to strike a balance between recreation and grief-specific activities. Campers play games and participate in outdoor activities, like fishing and hiking, but they also take part in group discussions where they can share stories and express their feelings.

Kim Rudat, Hospice Support Care’s children’s bereavement coordinator, said the camps reduce children’s sense of isolation and give them an environment where they can help each other cope with grief.

“They learn from other kids their age experiencing the same feelings and thoughts,” Rudat said.

“The big thing is they learn they aren’t alone.

When helping a child through their grief, it’s important to listen and let them ask questions. Prior to the loss of a family member, for many children death has only come up when it pertained to pets or plants.

They aren’t the only ones who don’t have a parent.”

Hospice Support staff determines if children are ready to come to the camp during an intake process where they get to know the child. Rudat said she doesn’t recommend someone attending until two or

three months after a loved one’s death, because some children are too numb to deal with their feelings, or too overwhelmed to address them in a group setting immediately after their loss.

The Rev. Lavender Kelley, a pediatric chaplain for Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, spends much of her time helping children through various forms of grief, including the loss of loved ones. She explained the different ways young children up to age 12 try to comprehend death. Infants don’t experience the same sense of loss that an older child might, because their minds are so underdeveloped, Rev. Kelley said.

And while children between ages 2 and 5 are aware of their loss, they sometimes struggle to grasp concepts such as time and forever, so it can be hard for them to understand death as a permanent state, Rev. Kelley said. She said it’s important to be somewhat frank when explaining this, however hard that might be. Being vague or using metaphors to explain death runs the risk of children indulging in fantasy and obsessing over something that will never change rather than addressing their feelings, Rev. Kelley said. “You want to use very concrete language. Don’t say things like, ‘they’re gone.’ You use terms like death and dead, and not analogies like, ‘vacation’ or ‘sleep’,” the chaplain said. “They’re going to try to figure out how to make (their loved one) come back. Or they’ll start to think that any kind of illness or any kind of accident is going to cause the same thing.”

When helping a child through their grief, it’s important to listen and let them ask questions. For example, a 5-year-old asking if they will get a new sibling after losing a brother or sister might sound bizarre, but it’s not out of the ordinary for a young child who is grappling with the concept of death, Rev. Kelley said. Prior to the loss of a family member, for many children death has only come up when it pertained to pets or plants.

“The absolute worst things you can say to a kid is, ‘You don’t need to need to think about that’, or, ‘Don’t ask questions like that’. Because they’re going to think about it even more. And it’s going to turn into this cycle of unanswered questions that turn into fears that mount,” she said.

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High court gives monks OK to make, sell simple caskets PETER FINNEY JR. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW ORLEANS – It took the U.S. Supreme Court to make the final decision.

But the nine justices simply confirmed Oct. 15 what Benedictine Abbot Justin Brown knew in his heart for the past six years: The Benedictine monks of St. Joseph Abbey in Covington were not breaking the law by handcrafting plain cypress caskets and selling them to Louisiana residents.

By refusing to review a decision in the monks’ favor issued earlier this year by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the Supreme Court gave the monks a victory in their legal wrangling with the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Homes.

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A monk lays out and attaches the inner lining to a casket during the manufacturing process at St. Joseph Abbey in St. Benedict, La., in 2008. The U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 15 confirmed the monks have a legal right to sell handcrafted caskets by rejecting a request by Louisiana’s board of funeral directors that the court overturn an appeals court ruling that said the monks can sell caskets without having to be state licensed funeral directors.

For many years, the monks had made the simple caskets to bury members of their religious community. They received regular requests for the caskets from people outside their community, but a decades-old state law protecting the funeral home industry required anyone selling a casket in Louisiana to be a licensed funeral home director.

The monks tried to amend the law by lobbying the state Legislature, but a bill that would have allowed them to sell their caskets got out of a Senate committee only once and was voted down by the full body.

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mental overreach, took the case on a pro-bono basis. The monks won a huge victory in 2011 when U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled the state law unconstitutional, allowing the monks to sell their caskets.

Still, the funeral home association pressed its case with the federal appeals court, which affirmed the lower court, and then with the Supreme Court.

Benedictine Abbot Justin Brown expressed elation and thanksgiving over the Supreme Court’s final decision.

“It’s more of a heart thing,” Abbot Justin said.

“We didn’t quite understand all the legal ramifications when we started this, but we certainly felt it was a common-sense thing that something was wrong with this law. It affected our ability to simply sell our caskets to someone who wanted to buy them.”

Abbot Justin said many funeral home directors in the area understood the monks’ motivation and have been gracious in dealing with them despite the legal case.

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The state funeral home association threatened the monks with hefty fines and a ‘cease and desist’ letter after a 2007 story in the Clarion Herald, New Orleans archdiocesan newspaper, detailed their casket-making operation.

“We really never intended to be in any kind of fight or adversarial relationship with the funeral directors,” Abbot Justin said. “But as we went into the case more and more, it became clear that according to the Constitution we did have a right to free enterprise and that the regulations in this case were not well grounded because of the fact that there were no health and safety issues. In fact, Louisiana doesn’t even require caskets for burial.

“All of those things added up in our minds that we really ought to continue fighting this.

It became clear that we were fighting not only for ourselves but for other people like us who encounter these kinds of regulations and keep them from going into business or to make an honest living.”

The state funeral home association threatened the monks with hefty fines and a “cease and desist” letter after a 2007 story in the Clarion Herald, New Orleans archdiocesan newspaper, detailed their casket-making operation. After several years of trying unsuccessfully to amend the law, the monks found legal help through the Institute for Justice.

“If it hadn’t been for the Institute for Justice, we couldn’t have pursued this case,” Abbot Justin said. “We really have a lot to be grateful for.

They certainly supported the idea of upholding the constitution and individual liberties.”

Deacon Mark Coudrain, who runs St. Joseph Abbey Woodworks on the abbey grounds, said the monks deliver about 20 caskets per month.

They make two models: one selling for $1,500 and another for $2,000. The money is used to support the abbey’s operations.

A special aspect of the casket-making operation, Deacon Coudrain said, is that the monks and the volunteers who help them regularly pray for the families who will use the caskets in the future. He said the positive publicity resulting from the legal fight – which went viral – “doubled” casket sales.

“It’s been very, very consistent,” Deacon Coudrain said. “Now we can begin to think about advertising and things like that. We have gotten a lot of support, even from funeral home directors, who thought this was an unjust law.”

Deacon Coudrain recently participated in a nationwide television show in New York with John Stossel, who interviewed small-business people who felt they were being unfairly regulated by the government. In addition to the monks’ casket-making operation, Stossel interviewed “Marty the Magician,” whose act includes pulling a rabbit out of his hat.

“The U.S. Department of Agriculture said he has to do an evacuation plan for the rabbit,” Deacon Coudrain said. “If he leaves town with the rabbit, he has to file paperwork. They have the right, 24 hours a day, to check on the rabbit without telling him. He couldn’t bring the rabbit to New York because there was so much paperwork.”

Deacon Coudrain made Marty the Magician an offer he couldn’t refuse.

“I told him when the rabbit dies, we’ll make his casket for him,” Deacon Coudrain said. “It may not be legal, but we’ll do it anyways.”

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A partnership between generations

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recent ad for a Swiss watch shows a wellgroomed father getting out of a first-class Pullman car and putting his arm around his 8-year-old son, also nattily attired in khakis, Docksiders and a sport coat. “You never actually own a Patek Philippe,” the ad said. “You merely look after it for the next generation.”

It was a little rich for my taste. But there were some things I liked about the ad. It showed a father in a positive light – something one rarely sees on Madison Avenue or in Hollywood. The fathers JOHN GARVEY there are typically absent, unconcerned or inept.

The ad also invoked a laudable concern for the next generation. Edmund Burke, in his “Reflections on the French Revolution,” wrote that society is “a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born.”

It was incongruous to see Burke’s sentiment used to sell watches. But at least it showed we haven’t forgotten about it entirely. So does the environmental movement, a political effort you might not associate with an instinctive conservative like Burke. In his 2013 inaugural address, President Barack Obama made a typical appeal for sustainable energy, saying, “Our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.”

How is it that we can invoke this intergenerational covenant to sell watches and to prevent possibly ruinous climate change over the next few centuries but ignore it in the face of certain fiscal ruin over the next two or three decades?

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The statue of Grief and History as seen near the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington Oct. 16 during the government shutdown. taxpayers. As the city’s economy and population declined, it failed to trim back its government workforce, maintaining one of the nation’s largest for cities its size.

The city kept promising larger and larger retirement benefits for employees. It even paid bonuses out of the retirement fund in years when it made good money in the market, even as it ratcheted up the tax burden on its ever-shrinking population.

When the market turned south, the fund became incapable of paying out what it had promised.

As a result, more than half of the Motor City’s $18 billion in debt is unfunded retirement benefits for public employees, who now stand to lose everything in the city’s bankruptcy. To put it in Burke’s terms, the retiring generation took on a debt their children could not pay.

Federal entitlement spending is, sadly, going in the same direction. Never mind the new health care law. Even without that, entitlement spending accounts for nearly two-thirds of the federal budget (twice what it was in 1960).

Most of this is for Social Security and Medicare – programs whose beneficiaries are defined by age, not need. We call them insurance programs, but they’re not. Today’s workers pay for today’s retirees and ask the next generation to support them.

But we’re asking too much of the next generation, because people are living longer, costs are rising and birthrates are falling. We aren’t leaving our children fancy watches. We’re leaving them debts they cannot pay.

Both of our major political parties have been equally guilty of making promises our children are being asked to keep, but probably cannot. Both are equally afraid to acknowledge the problem.

Unrealistic and false promises do not fulfill our duties of social justice. Surely our noble desire to care for the old and the sick can take a better form.

But these false promises persist as politicians keep putting the next election ahead of the next generation.

GARVEY is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington.

LETTERS When holy days were true holidays Re “Holy days in historical perspective,” Oct. 18: This article was interesting, although it missed a very important aspect of a traditional holy day: It was a day off from work!! It was a true holiday.

Work was prohibited by canon law in the same manner as on Sunday. In the past, such days provided festivals for the people and rest from their daily routine, this is why there were as many as 30 to 70 such days in various nations. There were no “weekends off.” With the advent of the “weekend off ” in modern Western culture, Western nations experienced a decrease in holy days (and holidays) and replaced them with the secular “Saturday off.”

One of the reasons for the decline in Mass attendance and festivals on holy days of obligation is the lack of a day off or holiday to celebrate communally. Thus, the “obligation” was no longer to be free from work (which the rulers and employers, especially Protestant and secular ones detested), but devolved into a “have to” attend Mass event. So, instead of a festival celebrated by the whole parish and town (e.g. Christmas), it is a poorly attended Mass celebrated out of “obligation.” Protestantism began the attack on the holy days, but secularization finished them off.

Father Clifford A. Martin Burlingame The writer is parochial vicar at St. Catherine of Siena Parish.

Gratitude for past vocations directors While Valerie Schmalz’ recent article about Father (David) Schunk ”Archdiocese welcomes fulltime vocations director,” Oct. 11) is commendable, I need to point out a glaring inaccuracy, namely,

your statement that “For the first time in decades, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has a full-time vocations director … .” Several of his predecessors in that ministry were full-time, namely, Msgr. Bruce Dreier, Father Craig Forner and Father Joe Bradley, among others, and they served in this ministry admirably. For me, though, the most notable previous full-time director is my classmate, Father Mario Farana, who served the archdiocese as director in the early 1990s in a most outstanding and effective way.

And like his predecessors whom I’ve mentioned here, he was full-time director. The archdiocese owes these brother priests, and all of those who were part-time directors, a debt of gratitude.

Father Joe Gordon Morgan Hill The writer is retired pastor St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto.

The miracle of Medjugorje is faith While the faithful prayed the rosary with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, a group of Catholics were returning from a small village in Croatia called Medjugorje. A visit to Medjugorje is said to open the hearts and minds of all people who take a break or make a pilgrimage or retreat in this most amazing Croatian area where it is believed by millions of people that in 1981 the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to local children. Between 20 and 30 million pilgrims have been to Medjugorje, including priests, bishops and cardinals.

This October St. Brendan Parish in San Francisco provided for a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, and the group of 35 or so petitioners from various parishes were blessed to attend daily Mass,

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confession, meditation, eucharistic adoration and visits to various sites where Mary has apparently appeared leaving messages for the chosen children to pass on to others. A typical Saturday night was attended by about 8,000 people from around the world. Daily Mass was said in many languages, and our own Father Daniel Nascimento was blessed to serve.

Granted there are always skeptics when it comes to the mention of miracles, but it was very evident that another miracle was occurring on a daily basis: the graces bestowed on the tens of thousands of people who flocked to Medjugorje every day along with the residents of this wonderful village where abortion does not exist, the homeless are cared for and the down and out given much support for recovery. Truly every night and for the seven blessed days we participated in prayer and Mass, the miracle was quite evident: faith!

Richard Bodisco San Francisco

CCD could be fertile field for vocations It is certainly a welcome development to emphasize recruitment for the archdiocesan priesthood, and I also applaud Archbishop Cordileone’s commitment to improving local seminary education.

I wish Father David Schunk, the new vocations director, a successful outcome to his coming efforts to be visible in our local parishes and Catholic schools.

However, I hope he will not overlook the CCD classes in his outreach visits, as vocations are also found among public school students, a fair proportion of whom are from Catholic families. It could be an inspiration to some of them to learn that both Blessed John Paul II, our soon-to-be saint, and Pope Francis, our new voice in the church, attended their local public schools as some part of their formative education. Perhaps their early exposure to a variety of viewpoints gave them a wider worldview that was productive to them in their lives as priests and popes.

Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

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Remembering a titan of the Second Vatican Council

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e recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. I was a young priest when the council began, and my heart was with the reform movement within the hierarchy of the church.

Cardinal Leo Jozef Suenens was the single most influential church leader in that momentous Catholic Church assembly. He was also an idol of mine throughout my life.

Cardinal Suenens found favor with Pope FATHER JOHN John XXIII long before CATOIR the council began. Pope John met him when he was an auxiliary bishop in the Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese in Belgium, and later asked him for his help in planning the council agenda.

It was known that during World War II, Cardinal Suenens had defied the Nazis while teaching at the Catholic University of Louvain; later his name was found on a death list.

Pope John not only made him one of the four moderators of the council, but followed his recommendation that the traditionalist papers presented by the Vatican Curia cardinals be replaced by a more reform-minded agenda.

After the cardinal’s death on May 6, 1996, Pope John Paul II, who was also present at the council, said that his Belgian friend had guided the church with care so that it would be faithful to its Lord and present to the modern world.

In 1970, Cardinal Suenens gave an interview to what was then called National Catholic News Service, saying: “The church will never be a welfare association, a sort of spiritual Red Cross. Christ founded her as an institution and a community. Conservatives are confusing tradition and traditions. Progressives are confusing liberty and anarchy.” He continued: “Between these extremes, we have to try to keep the middle of the road, the extreme center.”

In later years, Cardinal Suenens, describing his active retirement, told us about his devotion to Mary. With Pope John Paul II’s permission, he promoted a shorter form of the rosary, called the fiat rosary, designed to combine devotion to Mary and reliance on the Holy Spirit.

Mary’s words, “Be it done unto me according to the word.” Her intimacy with the Holy Spirit defines her role in salvation history.

It was during his retirement years that he recruited me to help him spread his message.

I was then director of the Christophers in the 1980s, and the cardinal loved our “News Notes,” which were brief, bright brochures ideal for ideas and inspiration. They were published 10 times a year. He saw them as tools for evangelization.

He even brought me to Europe to teach charismatics there to write and publish their version of the “News Notes,” all for the purpose of evangelizing the world. That same year, he introduced me to Pope John Paul II and the three of us offered Mass together in the papal chapel.

Cardinal Suenens said that after thousands of hours spent looking for answers to life’s questions in philosophy and theology books, he set them all aside and locked them up. What mattered to him, he said, was the sense of mystery, which goes beyond rational thought.

Mary asked only one question: “How can that be?” She received only one answer: The Holy Spirit will come upon you and cover you with his shadow.

That was enough for her, Cardinal Suenens said. He concluded that what matters today, too, is that the luminous shadow of the Holy Spirit is over us.

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A papal canonization doubleheader

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doubt that Pope Francis has heard of Ernie Banks, the Hall of Fame shortstop. But like “Mr. Cub,” whose love for baseball led him to exclaim “Let’s play two!” before Sunday doubleheaders in the 1950s, the pope from the end of the world seems to think that papal canonizations are better in tandem: hence the Sept. 30 announcement that Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II will be canonized together on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, 2014.

Predictably, the decision GEORGE WEIGEL caused some unhappiness in some quarters.

Some Poles wanted John Paul II canonized by himself. Some who welcomed the decision to canonize John XXIII are disgruntled that “their” pope has to share the billing with the pope they think hijacked John XXIII’s Vatican II. The aggrieved Poles should (and most will) recognize that, while John Paul II brought uniquely Polish insights and experiences to the papacy, he now belongs to the entire world church. The aggravated partisans of John XXIII should, but probably won’t, concede that the “John XXIII” they’ve have constructed in their imaginations bears little resemblance to the real John XXIII, and that the charge of council hijacking is ludicrous.

In fact, it might be reasonably speculated that Pope Francis liked the idea of a papal canonization doubleheader precisely because it will underscore the continuity between John XXIII’s intention and John Paul II’s authoritative interpretation of Vatican II: Vatican II was intended to prepare the church for the challenges of evangelization in late modernity, an intention realized

by John Paul II’s use of the council’s teaching to launch the world church into the new evangelization of the third millennium.

Vatican II differed from the previous 20 ecumenical councils in that it provided no authoritative keys for its proper interpretation. Unlike other councils, it defined no dogmas, condemned no heresies (or heretics), commissioned no catechism, wrote no new canons into the law of the church. Vatican II did give the church 16 documents of differing magisterial “weight,” but

it provided no interpretive keys to its body of teaching. The result was 20 years of argument, sometimes quite bitter. And in those arguments, as Benedict XVI put it, the idea of Vatican-II-asrupture-with-the-past (which seemed to detach the church of the future from its historical and doctrinal moorings) contended with the idea of Vatican-II-as-development-of-the-authoritativetradition-of-the-church (the tradition providing the reference points for grasping the true meaning of the council).

At the very outset of his pontificate in 1978, John Paul II said that the full implementation of Vatican II would be the program of his papacy.

He kept that pledge, providing authoritative interpretations of virtually all of the council’s documents through his own encyclicals, apostolic letters, and post-synodal apostolic exhortations.

Perhaps most importantly, he called a special meeting of the world Synod of Bishops in 1985, to assess what had gone right, and what had gone not-so-right, in the 20 years since Vatican II closed on Dec. 8, 1965. That synod, in turn, offered the church a connective thread with which the various pieces of Vatican II might be woven together into a full tapestry, by describing the church as a communion of disciples in mission.

Catholicism begins with Christ (hence discipleship); those disciples are joined in a community, a “communion,” that is different from any other association because it is the mystical body of Christ; that “communion” exists for mission – to spread the Gospel and offer men and women the possibility of friendship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

The liveliest parts of the world church today are found where Catholics have embraced this vision of a communion of disciples in mission; the dying parts of the world church are those that cling to the false idea of Vatican-II-as-rupture.

Pope Francis, who urges the church to avoid being “self-referential” and to get about the business of spreading the healing message of the Gospel, is very much a pope of the new evangelization, which he understands to be a fruit of Vatican II. And that’s why it’s entirely appropriate for him to canonize John XXIII and John Paul II the same day.

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

A whole-life approach to the Gospel message The following unsigned editorial from the Oct. 7-13 issue of the St. Louis Review, newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was redistributed by Catholic News Service to its clients as an example of current commentary in the Catholic press. The views or positions presented in this or any guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of CNS or Catholic San Francisco.

Pope Francis came across as a bit paradoxical in September, when in an interview he warned that focusing on moral teachings, including abortion, could undermine the church’s efforts to preach the Gospel. The next day, he affirmed the sacredness of unborn human life in a talk to Catholic gynecologists, saying that abortion is the product of a “widespread mentality of profit, the ‘throwaway culture,’ which has today enslaved the hearts and minds of so many.”

In his original interview, however, Pope Francis also said, “We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”

As Catholics, how do we find that balance between honoring the sacredness of unborn human life, but also proclaiming the Gospel message, especially with our work among those outside of the womb? The pope said that message must be “simple, profound, radiant. It is from this proposition that the moral consequences then flow.”

Put simply, we need to approach the Gospel message of Christ’s love for us in a whole-life way.

Too often we’re concerned with wedging our-

selves and others into small-minded categories.

The category in which we define ourselves as prolife in our work standing outside of the abortion clinic to defend unborn human life. Or the category in which we say we’re for social justice, through our help for the poor, marginalized and most vulnerable members of society.

Interestingly enough, when this publication carries stories about those dedicated to social justice issues, often we hear them say they’re doing so because it’s a pro-life issue. Similarly, those committed to the pro-life movement say their work involves seeking justice for the defenseless unborn human child.

It’s time we set aside our own prejudices and preconceived notions and remember that our individual contributions are important because they focus on the dignity of all human life.

We’re Team Whole Life.

Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, told those attending the Sept. 28 Missouri Catholic Conference Annual Assembly that “the church cannot afford divisions that have separated pro-life and social justice proponents. In the interest of practicality, we may concentrate our personal work in one area. But, in the end, may we come together as a grand coalition committed to God’s family and the life and dignity of each of his children.”

Pope John Paul II, in “Evangelium Vitae,” said that “the meaning of life is found in giving and receiving love. ... Society as a whole must respect, defend and promote the dignity of every human person, at every moment and in every condition of that person’s life.”

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SUNDAY READINGS

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus’ story of two men at prayer: ‘The one who humbles himself will be exalted.’

LUKE 18:9-14 SIRACH 35:12-14, 16-18 The Lord is a God of justice, who knows no favorites. Though not unduly partial toward the weak, yet he hears the cry of the oppressed. The Lord is not deaf to the wail of the orphan, nor to the widow when she pours out her complaint. The one who serves God willingly is heard; his petition reaches the heavens. The prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds; it does not rest till it reaches its goal, nor will it withdraw till the Most High responds, judges justly and affirms the right, and the Lord will not delay.

PSALM 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23 The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad.

The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

The Lord confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. When the just

cry out, the Lord hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them.

The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are crushed in spirit he saves. The Lord redeems the lives of his servants; no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.

The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8, 16-18 Beloved: I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. From now on the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but to all who have longed for his appearance. At my first defense no one appeared on my behalf, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them! But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the proclamation might be completed and all the

Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil threat and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

LUKE 18:9-14 Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity – greedy, dishonest, adulterous – or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’

But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’ I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Welcoming without condition is what matters most

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few years ago, I coached a fifth grade girls softball team. These girls were very good athletes, but as a softball team, were really, really bad.

It didn’t help that I was the coach. We were annihilated every game: The four-run-per-inning mercy rule was our greatest friend.

What amazed me, though, was that this didn’t bother those girls in the least. At times, I found this frustrating. I’d go to practice and try to get them to throw the ball to the person they were actually aiming at, but they’d start asking questions like, if this is softball, why is the ball so hard? Their biggest concern was making sure they had created interesting DEACON MICHAEL cheers for the next game.

After a while, I realized that MURPHY they were probably having more fun than any team I’d ever coached. We were terrible, but those girls played as hard as they could, they always supported each other, and they had a fabulous time.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS TO UNDERSTAND GOD, GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES

God’s love and the salvation offered in Jesus cannot be understood using intelligence alone and, in fact, trying to make it all reasonable can make one crazy, Pope Francis said. “When intelligence tries to explain a mystery, it always – always – becomes crazy,” the pope said Oct. 22 in the homily at his early morning Mass. The mystery of salvation “can only be understood on one’s knees, in contemplation,” he said, according to a report by Vatican Radio. To enter into a mystery one needs “intelligence, heart, knees, prayer – all together.”

Another key to understanding the mystery of salvation, he said, is to recognize how near God is to each of his creatures and how hands-on he is: “For me, what comes to mind is a nurse in a hospital: She treats the patient’s wounds one by one, but with her own hands.”

As is often the case, I learned a lot more from them then they ever learned from me. They showed me what really mattered, and it had absolutely nothing to do with winning or losing.

Keeping score was irrelevant as they focused on being there for each other and having fun with each other. It didn’t matter who could hit or catch or throw; everyone was accepted for who they are.

Errors were quickly forgiven and forgotten, while hits were celebrated with joy and often a great deal of surprise. What better image can all of us have of a Christian community, welcoming each other without condition while resolving to stand by each other?

In this week’s Gospel, we see the opposite of this. A Pharisee paints himself as a great sinner, not in order to repent and change, but rather to set himself over and above his neighbor. Jesus makes it clear that this man is way off base, as are all of us who insist on seeing ourselves as better than others, as winners in the game of life. He gives us simple yet beautiful guidance, saying that whoever exalts himself will be humbled, while the one who humbles himself will be exalted. As always, Jesus points out that it’s not about us, but about those we love and serve. It’s the wonderful contradiction that characterizes the life of every Christian; the less we look to ourselves, the better

and happier people we become, generous people of humility who change the world and make it a better place.

Of course, this might make us sound weak, because we’re all conditioned to be winners in a society that never stops keeping score. But if those girls of mine could get past it, and Jesus preaches it, who am I to argue? Imagine how liberating it would be if we really took the advice of our Lord to heart. We could accept ourselves for who we are, rather than trying to live up to some arbitrary standards that society sets. We could let go of all of the anxiety, anger and selfishness that result from a winner/loser mentality. Instead of always being critical and judgmental, we could become loving, supportive and compassionate.

We’d be able to see each other as Jesus meant us to, as brothers and sisters with a common father.

We’d be family, family that doesn’t care about keeping score or who wins or loses, but family that celebrates triumphs together and is there during tough times. Family, that loves each other, takes care of each other, has each other’s backs.

Family, just like that softball team was.

DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, OCTOBER 28: Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles. Eph 2:19-22. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. Lk 6:12-16.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29: Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 8:18-25. PS 126:1b-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. Lk 13:18-21.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30: Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 8:26-30. PS 13:4-5, 6. Lk 13:22-30.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31: Thursday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time. All Hallows’ Eve. Rom 8:31b39. PS 109:21-22, 26-27, 30-31. Lk 13:31-35.

FRIDAY, 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.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2: The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls). Wis 3:1-9. PS 23:13a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Rom 5:5-11 or Rom 6:3-9. Jn 6:37-40.

ALPHONSUS RODRIGUEZ c. 1533-1617 October 30 Alphonsus had to leave school when his father, a wealthy wool merchant in Segovia, Spain, died. He was put in charge of the family business at age 23, but it declined. He married and had children, but within a few short years lost his mother, wife, daughter and son. He was introduced to the practice of daily meditation by his sisters.

And, when he tried to join the Jesuits, he initially was rejected as too old and uneducated. But, in 1571, he was accepted as a lay brother, and served as doorkeeper at the Jesuit college in Majorca for 45 years. Alphonsus mentored St. Peter Claver and others, and is the subject of a sonnet written by another Jesuit, the priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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The academy and the pew

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here has always been an innate and healthy tension between theology and catechesis, between what’s happening in theology departments in universities and the church pew. Theologians and bishops are often not each other’s favorite people. And that’s understandable. Why? Theology and catechesis have different purposes, even as both are valid and both are needed.

Catechesis, in essence, is an effort to teach the fundamentals of the faith. Indeed, in its original Greek, catechesis means “echoing.” Thus FATHER RON catechesis is not so much ROLHEISER an effort to understand the faith as it is to simply “echo” it, namely, to transmit it as clearly as possible. A catechist then is not trying to prove the foundations of the faith, although he or she may be trying to give a certain apologetics or rationale for it. Catechesis does not search for intellectual difficulties or seeming contradictions in the doctrines it teaches; its intent is rather to teach those truths and dogmas to those for whom they are still relatively new. And its audience is precisely those for whom its truths are still relatively new, namely, the neophyte, the religious novice.

Catechesis is therefore, by definition, an essentially conservative endeavor. Its aim is not so much to stretch minds to new places as it is to teach the basics, to impart principles that help hold minds together. Catechesis tries to build a foundation inside of a person, not stretch that foundation.

Theology, on the other hand, does not simply try to echo the faith, it seeks to understand it and

Catechesis is like a greenhouse for young plants. Theology is a less protected place where the oak of faith grows. articulate it in a language that makes it palatable to a questioning and critical mind. For more than 900 years, for the most part, Christianity has accepted St. Anselm’s definition of theology as “faith seeking understanding.” If Anselm is right, then the task of theology is to critically examine the Christian faith, both in terms of what faith itself is and in terms of what is contained in our Christian dogmas, so as to produce a vision of both faith and dogma that can handle all the questions that can be thrown at them both from inside the church and from outside skeptics. Hence, the audience for theology differs from the audience for catechesis. Theology has three, ideal, audiences: churchgoers who are already catechized and are seeking a deeper intellectual grasp of their faith; the academy of learning (universities, colleges, the arts, intellectual centers) where faith and dogma are often questioned; and the culture and world as a whole where Christianity has to justify itself and justify itself intellectually. Theology therefore is an essentially liberal endeavor. Why? We say theology is liberal for the same reason that we never speak of a “conservative arts college.” That would be an oxymoron. Institutions of higher learning are, as Cardinal Newman classically articulated in his book on education, “The Idea of a University”: By definition liberal; they are intended to stretch people, to make them deal with difficult and critical questions, to bring them to a level of maturity within their discipline (faith and dogma, in this case) so as to leave them unafraid to face whatever issues arise,

Baptizing the child of nonpracticing Catholics Father Doyle is on vacation this week. This column originally was published in October 2011.

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About a year ago, I listened to a priest tell the story of how a relative of his asked him to baptize their infant child. The priest refused because the parents had not been attending Mass. Later, the parents started coming to Mass again, and the baptism was performed.

I was under the impression that we believe that, for a child to get into heaven, the child has to have been baptized. What are the church’s guidelines for baptism? Is it common for a priest to refuse a request for baptism if he feels that the parents are unworthy?

Your question is an interesting one because the answer involves (as in many pastoral situations) a blending of church teaching FATHER and tactical strategy. Here, KENNETH DOYLE the goal of every priest is the same: to bring the parents back to regular attendance at the sacraments so that their child will have the best chance of growing up a faithful Catholic. Priests will differ, though, as to how best to reach that goal.

I should probably clear up one misconception first that has to do with your belief that a child must be baptized to get to heaven.

In 2007, the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, said that the concept of limbo reflected “an unduly restrictive view of salvation,” that the mercy of God offers good reason to hope that babies who die without being baptized can go to heaven.

(Limbo, understood as a place of natural happiness but without communion with God, had been a common belief for centuries; significantly, though, it had never been defined as dogma and is not even mentioned in the current Catechism of the Catholic Church.)

Now, to the heart of your question: what to do about parents who rarely, if ever, come to Mass but want to have their child baptized.

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The relevant guideline is Canon 868 of the church’s Code of Canon Law, which states that “for an infant to be baptized licitly ... there must be a founded hope that the infant will be brought up in the Catholic religion.” The same canon goes on to say that “if such hope is altogether lacking, the baptism is to be delayed ... after the parents have been advised about the reason.”

The wiggle room, I suppose, is in the phrase “altogether lacking,” and that’s a subjective call on the priest’s part.

Surely, baptism does involve the pledge of the parents to raise and educate their child in the beliefs and practices of the Catholic faith. (The very wording of the baptismal ritual itself requires an affirmative response by the parents to that pledge.) So a priest acts properly when he seeks some assurance of that parental commitment before agreeing to do a baptism.

My own approach on this is to give to parents the benefit of the doubt. A week or two before the baptism, I meet for half an hour individually with each couple who are having their first child baptized.

I am particularly direct with those parents whom I haven’t seen regularly in church, and we talk specifically about their willingness to support the child’s growth in faith by their own practice. And I have to say that only on one or two occasions have I ever sensed that this commitment was “altogether lacking.”

I know that some priests would differ, and I grant them that right. I’ve even seen parish websites that demand, for example, that in order to have their child baptized, parents must “show their willingness to practice their own faith by attending Mass each Sunday for at least three months” and must verify their attendance “by placing a note in the collection basket.”

These, I think, are special times for tenderness. A priest’s response at a moment like this can dictate a family’s relationship to a parish – and even to the church – for years down the line.

Baptisms are the ideal occasion for evangelization, for blessing marriages in the church, for lifting lost sheep onto your shoulders and bringing them back.

Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY, 12208.

and to help them to be leaders in their field. Catechesis seeks to produce an orthodox disciple; theology seeks to produce an informed leader. The church needs both. It needs to emphasize both catechesis and theology, focusing both on those who need to learn the essentials of their faith and on those who are trying to make intellectual sense of their faith.

There is, admittedly, an innate tension between the two. The pew invariably feels that theologians are too liberal; while theologians tend to look wearily at the pew, concerned that the hard questions are not being addressed. However, it should never be a question of either/or; but always both/and. The church needs people who are solidly catechized, who know clearly the essentials of their faith, even as it needs people who have tried to articulate that faith at a more critical level and have stared without fear or denial into the fierce storm of intellectual objections to every kind of protest against the faith.

Orthodoxy is important, but it’s meant to be as much a trampoline from which to spring as it’s meant to be a container that holds you. For example, the word “seminary” comes from the Latin, seminarium, meaning a “greenhouse.” A greenhouse isn’t a place to grow an oak tree. It’s a place to put young, tender, seedling plants that need protection from the harsher outdoor climate. It’s a place to protect a young plant or to grow a very tender plant, but it isn’t a place to grow a huge tree.

The relationship between catechesis and theology might be characterized in the same way. Catechesis is the seminary, a necessary place to start and protect young and overly tender plants, whereas theology is a less protected place where you ultimately grow the oak tree.

OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Pope: Greed destroys CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Money by itself isn’t a problem, but greed and an attachment to money cause evil and destroy families and relationships, Pope Francis said.

“Money is needed to bring about many good things,” he said in his morning Mass homily Oct. 21, “but when your heart is attached (to money), it destroys you.”

“How many destroyed families have we seen because of money problems, sibling against sibling, father against child,” he said during the Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, according to Vatican Radio.

“When a person is attached to money, he destroys himself, destroys the family” and destroys relationships, he said.

The pope focused on the day’s Gospel reading (Luke 12:13-21) and Jesus’ parable of the rich man. God admonished the rich man and said a person who stores up treasures for himself will not be rich “in what matters to God.” In the Gospel reading, Jesus warns people to “guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.”

Pope Francis said what is destructive is “not money, but the attitude called greed.”

“Greed makes you ill because it makes you think about everything only in relation to money.””Greed is an instrument of idolatry” because “you play god out of vanity” and because “it leads to the path that is opposed to what God did for us,” the pope said.

Jesus made himself poor to enrich humanity, and the path to God is through Christ’s same humility and “lowering oneself in order to serve,” he said.

When Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters,” one can either serve God or money, Jesus was asking people to trust in God to provide, Pope Francis said.

However, he said, walking the path of poverty isn’t for poverty’s sake; poverty is an instrument to help people remain focused on God, who is the only master, “not the idol of gold.”

“All the goods we have, the Lord gives us” in order to help the world and humanity progress, and to help others, the pope said.

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SMOKEY MOUNTAIN: Artists call attention to plight of global poor FROM PAGE 1

world. Families navigate dangerous waste to the dump for sheet metal and other materials they can sell or recycle, bringing in less than five U.S. dollars daily.

The group, made up of some 50 performers ranging from 13 to 40 years old, raises funds for their environmental work in the Philippines and to put the artists through school.

The artists share their message of stewardship with young people in high schools and colleges where they perform. Founded by Divine Word Missionary Father Ben Beltran, the group hosted events for youth in Redwood City and Skyline College in San Bruno, discussing life on Smokey Mountain and global climate change. Father Beltran was a visiting priest at St. Bruno Parish, where the group stayed with host families during their October tour.

“When people think of Smokey Mountain, they think of trash,” JonJon, one of two original members still touring, told Catholic San Francisco in an interview at the church. “They imagine the smell and the noises of the garbage dump, and when they think of the people of Smokey Mountain, they often see them as trash.

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Members of Children of Mother Earth, young Filipino dancers who call attention to the plight of the global poor, rehearse at St. Bruno Church, San Bruno, during their recent Bay Area visit.

“We want the world to know that we are people, and not trash, and that even from a garbage dump like Smokey Mountain, you find beauty,” Jon-Jon said. “And we show that beauty in our dance. “ The Catholic bishops of the Philippines in the Philippines designated the performers as global ambassadors for peace and the environment for their social justice work. The Department of Natural Resources of the Philippines awarded the artists 67 acres for reforestation at the Marikina Watershed in

Montalban, Rizal. The group intends to plant over a million trees over the next five years to help restore the mountain watershed.

In 2007 the Filipino government moved most of Smokey Mountain’s 20,000 residents to low-cost housing projects nearby. But there is not enough housing for all landfill residents, who continue to face threats from toxic waste, gang violence, drugs and exposure to natural disasters.

The artists have visited the United States six times. During this recent visit

the group parked its van at Serramonte Mall in Daly City. While the performers were shopping, their passports and other valuables including money, electronics and luggage, were stolen from the vehicle. The group filed a police report but no leads have surfaced.

News of the group’s misfortune spread on social media and an outpouring of support came in over the next few days. Organizations and individuals from around the area donated money and needed personal items.

When the youths went to the consulate general of the Philippines to report their stolen passports, the office expedited their request for replacement paperwork at no charge.

Despite the setback, the youths gathered at the end of the day and sang “Lift Up Your Hands” as each member shared a prayer, giving thanks to God for their blessings and that no one was hurt.

The young people also forgave the thief or thieves. “Maybe the people that stole from us needed it more than we did,” one member said.

After touring Southern California, the group leaves for Smokey Mountain Oct. 28. The group is in discussions to tour New York later this year and Colombia for the first time in 2014.

CEMETERY: Faith, history draw visitors to Mission Dolores graves FROM PAGE 1

from an opportunity to sit quietly and pray for the dead to an historical connection to the city’s earliest Catholic decedents to a chance to stand in Jimmy Stewart’s shoes where an iconic movie was made.

According to staff, many of the mission’s 300,000 annual visitors taking self or guided tours come specifically to visit the storied cemetery. Here a reported 11,000 persons were laid to rest between 1776 when the mission was founded and 1890 when Catholic burials were moved to cemeteries outside the city limits.

That figure includes 6,000 Ohlone Indians buried anonymously in a common grave long ago.

“People are fascinated with the graveyard,” said Cathy Bogdan, a longtime gift shop volunteer. “We hear a lot of wild stories,” she said, detailing reports of ghostly sightings and other mysterious occurrences.

Not all have the same motivation for visiting the cemetery; faithful Catholics, history lovers, genealogy trackers, film buffs and even graveyard and ghost story aficionados each have a unique draw to the cemetery in the middle of which looms a statue of Franciscan Father Junipero Serra. Serra, the founding father of the California missions, was mentor to Frey Francisco Palou, who founded Mission Dolores.

Margaret Logan of Paraguay is a Catholic history buff and newlywed biking her way around the Bay Area on her honeymoon. During a recent visit to the cemetery, she gazed thoughtfully at the carvings on each gravestone and snapped photographs while her more reluctant husband peered over the gate.

“It is incredible to read about Father Palou,” she said after reading the plaque on the wall of the 237-year-old mission. She explained that there was an important Palou in the history of her country too. “I’m excited to find out if there is a connection.”

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(PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA M. GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Honeymooner Margaret Logan of Paraguay finds a headstone for a person from Chile. Many of the dead buried in the mission cemetery are natives of Ireland, although people of Mexican, French, Italian and Scottish backgrounds also are represented.

Visitors view the simple wooden marker for an Ohlone couple who were baptized, married and buried at Mission Dolores. Like thousands of other indigenous people who died during the mission era, they are buried in a common, unmarked grave. the mission cemetery experience. The largest gravestones read like a San Francisco street map: de Haro, Guerrero, Estudillo, Noe and Sanchez (the surnames of five mayors or “alcaldes” of early San Francisco under Mexican

Statue of a weeping woman in prayer in a section of the cemetery where children are buried.

rule); and Arguello, the first governor.

Other prominent early San Francisco citizens at rest in the cemetery are John and Mary Tobin, who started Hibernia Bank, and the ranching Tanforan family.

William Alexander Leidesdorff, San Francisco’s first U.S. diplomat of African-American descent, president of the first public school in California and by all accounts the wealthiest man in the state during the 1840s, is one of only three people entombed in the floor of the Old Mission rather than in the graveyard.

The Barbary Coast era contributed a handful of colorful cemetery citizens to the population of the deceased, including gambler Charles Cora, a victim of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee. His wife Belle, a former prostitute, was buried next to him six years later.

Irish names dominate the cemetery landscape. A sad number of markers show babies and mothers with the same date of death. An average of life spans seen in the cemetery would probably not reach 35.

Perhaps the best-known inhabitant of the cemetery to modern day visitors is, ironically, the fictional Carlotta Valdes of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” The 1958 classic starred Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. Carlotta’s prop department gravestone remained in the graveyard for years after filming until the church removed it out of respect for the actual dead in the mission cemetery.

Fifty-five years later Hitchcock fans are still asking mission staff: “Where’s Carlotta’s grave?”

“That’s one of the top three questions I’m asked,” laughs Bogdan, who says the pop culture curiosity is more blessing than curse.

No matter what their reason for visiting the mission, she says, “People are exposed to the enduring beauty of our faith.”

Self-guided mission tours are available Sunday through Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (winter hours). Enter through mission gift shop facing Dolores Street. Organized tours of groups of 10 or more, including school groups, are by appointment only.

Email curator Andy Galvan at chochenyo@aol.com. Suggested donation is $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors.

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Around the archdiocese MERCY HIGH SCHOOL BURLINGAME: Twenty students, teachers and staff members voluntarily had their long hair cut Oct. 10 to be used to make wigs for cancer patients who have lost their hair because of chemotherapy. The hair is donated to Locks of Love and Pantene Beautiful Lengths, said school spokeswoman Carol Fraher. Elizabeth Ferraro, who graduated in June, started the event five years ago. “The girls do it to honor someone in their life who has been affected by this terrible disease,” said Fraher.

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NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI: Shrine rector Capuchin Father Harold Snider blessed police dogs and horses – in addition to a menagerie that included turtles, parrots, doves, chickens, pigeons, cats and fish – during the Blessing of the Animals Oct. 5. The annual event celebrating the feast of St. Francis draws animals and their caretakers from around the Bay Area.

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USF LEADERS MEET JESUIT SUPERIOR GENERAL: On Oct. 11, Jesuit Adolfo Nicolás, superior general of the Society of Jesus, met for the first time with all presidents and board of trustee chairs of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States.

During this historic meeting at Loyola University Chicago, Father Nicolás shared his thoughts on how the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Society of Jesus) can inspire the presidents’ and chairs’ leadership of their institutions today. Father Nicolás is pictured with, left, Tom Malloy, chair of the USF board of trustees; and, right, USF President Jesuit Father Stephen A. Privett.

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ST. BRENDAN SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The school celebrated Mass Oct. 4 for the Missionary Childhood Association. Pictured are the school’s fifth graders, who sponsored the Mass.

October is regularly celebrated as Mission Month. Christina Tenhoff teaches fifth grade and Carol Grewal is principal.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 26 FEAST DAY MASS: St. Elizabeth Church, Wayland and Somerset streets, San Francisco commemorates the feast day of St. Elizabeth, 4:30 p.m., with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant.

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RELICS: “Treasures of the Church,” an exposition of sacred relics at St. Thomas More Church, Brotherhood Way at Junipero Serra Boulevard, San Francisco, 6:15 p.m., (415) 452-9634.

Presented by priests and brothers of Companions of the Cross. Also on hand will be a piece of a veil alleged to have belonged to the Blessed Mother and what is said to be a piece of the Calvary cross.

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MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, St. Sebastian Parish, Bon Air Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Greenbrae, 7 a.m.

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ST. PETER MASS: Memorial Mass for all who have served or been part of St. Peter Parish, 24th and Alabama streets, San Francisco, 2 p.m., with reception following. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice Justice, a former pastor of St. Peter, is principal celebrant. Father Manuel Estrada, pastor, will concelebrate.

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ALL SAINTS’ DAY MASS: “Todos los Santos,” 11 a.m. Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant. (650) 756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

REUNION MASS: St. Paul High School alumnae homecoming Mass and luncheon, honoring class of ’64, with Mass at 11:30 a.m., St. Paul Church, 29th and Church streets, San Francisco. Lunch follows in parish hall. $40.

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SUNDAY, OCT. 27 CONCERT: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 7:30 p.m., with Italian tenor Pasquale Esposito. Tickets $35. (408) 538-6308; www.PasqualeEsposito.com.

LATIN MASS: Traditional Latin Mass, extraordinary form, is celebrated at Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. Additional Masses in the extraordinary form: All Saints’ Day, Nov. 1, 7:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2, 10 a.m. with Gregorian chants; Nov. 4-8, 6:30 p.m. Park behind church entering through gates on Eighth Avenue.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 29 USF DINNER: The USF California Prize Dinner begins 6 p.m. at the school’s Memorial Gymnasium. Drs. Tricia and Richard Gibbs, founders of the San Francisco Free Clinic now in its 20th year, will be honored with the school’s USF California Prize for Service and the Common Good. The couple met at Yale University Medical School. They have five children.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 8 ‘JAVA, JAZZ AND JESUS’: “Shifting Focus: Finding God in the Busy,” with Jesuit Father Radmar Jao at St. Ignatius Parish, Fromm Hall, 650 Parker Father Radmar Ave., San Jao, SJ Francisco, 7 p.m. Talk is followed by small-group discussions and an open forum. St. Ignatius Parish invites all young adults, 18-40 years old, and those young at heart to a special evening of warm ambiance, relaxing music and meaningful conversation in the Maraschi Room. Think Green – BYOM (Bring Your Own Mug). RSVP, not required but helpful, at facebook.com/ groups/548083468597084/; siparishyoungadults@gmail. com; (415) 422-2188.

SATURDAY, NOV. 9 2-DAY CHRISTMAS FAIR: All Souls Church, Miller and Walnut avenues, South San Francisco, Saturday, Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch Saturday at 11 a.m., breakfast and pictures with Santa follow Sunday’s 9 a.m. Mass.

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DOROTHY DAY: “Dorothy Day: A Life and Legacy,” a look at the journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert whose focus was the poor and homeless. Robert Ellsberg, Orbis Books, which published Day’s diaries and letters, will speak. Explore issues of nonviolence and a commitment to the poor by reflecting on the life of Dorothy Day with speaker panels from the Bay Area Catholic Worker community, talks by USF faculty, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco main campus behind St. Ignatius Church along Parker Avenue. Free and open to the public. Day is sponsored by the USF Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought. Email lanecenter@ usfca.edu or visit www.usfca.edu/ lanecenter/; (415) 422-5200.

RESPECT LIFE: “Love Made Medicine: Christian Answers to Health Care Challenges,” Respect Life Conference, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, conference center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Speakers include Dr. Mary Davenport on effectiveness and rewards of NFP and pro-life infertility treatment; Dr. Ryan Nash director of Ohio State University Center for Bioethics on palliative care and meeting the spiritual needs of the patient at the end of life; and Dr. Thomas Cavanaugh, professor of philosophy, University of San Francisco, with an historical and philosophical perspective on the influence of Christianity on Hippocratic medicine. Event sponsored by San Francisco Archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Con-

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ALL-SCHOOL REUNION: “Blue and Green Bash” for graduates of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School at San Francisco Design Galleria Center 101 Henry Adams St., an evening of food, dancing drinks, a night to reconnect, Patrick Kealy, alumni relations manager, (415) 775-6626 ext 682; pkealy@shcp.edu. Tickets are $80 and $65.

NEW PLAY: “The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold” featuring Maripat Donovan of “Late Nite Catechism” fame, St. Veronica Parish Center, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco, appetizer reception, Falcon Hall, 6 p.m., curtain 7:30 p.m. Tickets $50 preferred seating; $45 general; $40 senior general.

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ICF DINNER: ICF Branch 173, 50th anniversary at the Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco, no-host bar 3 p.m., dinner 4 p.m. $50 adults, $9 under 12.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 25, 2013

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of September HOLY CROSS COLMA Nicomedes Irao Abello John Barajas Rose Bastian Donald J. Bergin Joan M. Bertani Maribel Bonilla Bone Dorothy Bongi Vivian Mae Brien Marie Brown-Ellis John F. Brown, Jr. Vincent S. Bruno Francisca M. Cabanela Josephine Cassetta Concepcion A. Castellanos Phyllis Cecchettini Giovanni (John) E. Cesca Esther M. Chacon Toscano Yuk Ching Chan Chung Katherine F. Cissell Mary Valerga Cocconi Edith Cocilova Anne P. Cordes Anne Darcy Michael Darcy Hermelinda De La Mora De Navarro Chrysantha Faye De Peralta Wilhelmus (Willy) deDood Amalia Lara Del Rosario Aldo A. DeTomasi Marie E. Doran Rene Escorcia Mark Thomas Espinoza

Sandra Viedma Estrada Sr. Rita Fantin Joseph W. Fera Herminia Fernandez-Gallmann Jane Genevieve Flanagan Luisa M. Galli Guida Gonsalves Octavio Gonzalez, Jr. John “Jack” Heffelfinger William Francis Heggli Nubia Hilby Juliana Jimenez Marguerite E. Kroffe William Y. Kwok Mary Basilla LeTourneau Rodrigo Macabeo Francis Joseph Maher Celedonia M. Mangilaya Melva “Mel” Marinelli Katherine McCauley James T. McCrohan Betty Louise McGuire Sean Paul McKenna Jack McNulty Talitonu T. Meafua, Jr. Eugenia V. Mendoza Alberta Rose Michelson Robert M. Nash Gualberto Paul Nocum, III Mary Ita O’Reilly Juan “Ralph” Ortega Rafael M. Ortega Jennie Palace Ron Palmieri Young Kyu Park Carmen Ramirez

Beatrice Reyes Alicia Rodriguez Lorraine K. “Lori” Roebling Dorothy E. Rosi Bridgie Aileen Considine Rundle Michele Marie Sattui Beryl Scapatici John Patrick Smalley Melvin Sweeney Nancy Bie Chun “Mae”Tiu Eliseo V. Tolentino Helen Treinen Lilian T. Valle Herman C. Villanueva

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK John Richard Chaput Enrique De J. Dorn Holmann Catherine O’Day Judge Rose Camahort Korsak Walter Schafheitle Velma R. Stratta William L. Ward

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Joseph Scotto di Cesare Clyde G. Lucero John G. Mac Phee, Jr. Grace Esther Silva Barbara Ann Yetter

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA ALL SOULS DAY MASS – TODOS LOS SANTOS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013 HOLY CROSS MAUSOLEUM CHAPEL – 11:00 AM ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE CORDILEONE, MAIN CELEBRANT Dedication of John Paul II Columbarium Refreshments and fellowship following dedication.

VETERANS DAY SERVICE – MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2013 Star of the Sea Section – 11:00 a.m.

Chaplain C. Michael Padazinski COL, USAF Chancellor, Archdiocese of San Francisco

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.