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Deathly quiet neighborhoods in stunned Santa Rosa Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

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An aerial view of destruction in Santa Rosa is seen Oct. 11 after wildfires swept through the northern part of the city. Twenty-one major wildfires were active in Northern California at the peak of a swarm that broke out on hot, dry winds Oct. 8, burning more than 245,000 acres, destroying 8,400 structures and killing 42 people. Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties were hit hardest, with nearly 7,300 structures lost. The Tubbs Fire between Calistoga and Santa Rosa was the most destructive, destroying 5,300 structures and causing 22 fatalities.

Coffey Park, the Santa Rosa subdivision that the Tubbs Fire whipped through in minutes Oct. 8 after jumping six lanes of Highway 101, is “so quiet and so dark.”

Pat Gibson, the wife of a retired San Francisco firefighter, is back in her home with her husband Bernard.

Theirs is one of about 100 homes in the subdivision of modest wood homes that were saved, while 900 burned.

“There are no street lights,” Gibson told Catholic San Francisco. “All the street lights are burned up. It’s just so desolate. It’s dead quiet and of course it smells awful.”

Coffey Park was a subdivision of teachers and firefighters and police officers, many of them San Francisco natives and many commuting to the city for work. They moved north for affordable homes and sunshine.

Gibson’s children grew up with hundreds of children, trick-or-treating at Halloween, playing sports and celebrating with block parties.

“We’re going to rebuild,” Gibson said. “That’s our neighborhood. We want those memories back. I think the majority of them are going to rebuild their houses.” see aftermath, page 22

‘Rival’ school raises $25,000 for Cardinal Newman community Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Twenty-one miles and a longtime academic and athletic rivalry still separate St. Vincent de Paul High School in Petaluma and Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa. But for a night and perhaps evermore, the two Sonoma County Catholic high schools were on one team.

Two weeks after the Tubbs Fire seriously damaged and closed Cardinal Newman High School, displacing more than 100 school families and staff, hundreds turned out for a spaghetti dinner fundraiser hosted by St. Vincent de Paul High School Oct. 21.

Before dinner, the community packed shoulderto-shoulder into St. Vincent’s Msgr. Tillman Hall for a Mass celebrated by Santa Rosa Bishop Robert F. Vasa. Father William Donohue, pastor of St. Vincent

de Paul Parish in Petaluma and president of the school concelebrated accompanied by a choir led by three Marian Sisters from Santa Rosa.

“As Catholic schools we tend to compete against each other,” St. Vincent principal Patrick Daly said in his introduction. “But many times it takes certain acts to bring us together. We gather as two distinct communities but one community in faith.”

A box of colorful buttons hand drawn by St. Vincent art teacher Amy Waud-Reiter was passed up and down the rows with different messages, including “Sonoma County Strong,” “We Stand Tall Together,” “CN Strong” and a phrase that has become emblematic of the Wine Country firestorm, “The Love in the Air is Thicker Than the Smoke.”

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Eighth grade book relates personal stories of priests and their chalices

Need to know SPIRITUALITY SESSION: Dominican Sister Rose Marie Hennessy speaks on “Spirituality of the Harvest,” Nov. 4, 1-3 p.m., Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Chapel, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. $10 donation.

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Black Catholic History Month: Celebrate Black Catholic History Month at Mission Dolores Basilica on Nov. 11 with a 4 p.m. praise and worship concert with multiple gospel choirs followed by 5 p.m. Holy Mass with a gospel choir. A reception follows in the parish hall. Free and open to the public. Free secure parking in church lot (enter on Church between 16th and 17th). The event is sponsored by the Sacred Heart Gospel Choir at St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco. In 1990, the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus of the United States designated November as Black Catholic History Month to celebrate the long history and proud heritage of black Catholics.

Italian Mass: A Mass in Italian will be celebrated each Sunday, 9:30 a.m., St. Anthony Church, 3215 Cesar Chavez St. at Folsom, San Francisco. The Mass was celebrated for decades at neighboring Immaculate Conception Church.

Archbishop cordileone’s schedule Oct. 24-27: Priests Convocation 2017, Asilomar Oct. 28-29: Parish visit, Old St. Mary, Nicasio, and St. Cecilia, Lagunitas, St. Mary’s 150th anniversary Mass, 11:15 a.m.

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Father Dave Ghiorso’s chalice and paten were crafted by his father and a close friend who was a police officer. Father Andrew Ginter was bequeathed his chalice by his mentor Father Kevin Gaffey, who had died a few months before the young priest’s ordination. Father Peter Zhai received his chalice from the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City.

Twenty priests’ stories are chronicled in an Our Lady of Mount Carmel eighth grade class project, a book “Chalice: A Most Personal Grail,” written and produced with their teacher, Gina Furrer. The students graduated in May 2017. The book was sold as a fundraiser at the priests retirement luncheon Sept. 29. Proceeds of continuing sales will go to the priests’ retirement fund, said Our Lady of Mount Carmel principal Teresa Anthony. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice and Reno Bishop Randolph Calvo are among Church Candles Religous Gifts & Books the Goods priests&interviewed.

Every chalice and every priest has a story; a story that is often close to his heart because a priest’s chalice is the cup he uses to transform wine into the blood of Christ at Mass, Furrer said. The paten holds the hosts transformed into the body of Christ.

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Ghiorso, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo, San Furrer’s favorite story is that of the priest, Carlos. “The police officer he grew up with built ordained in 1938 in Ottawa, who was a priest at the the chalice,” Ty said. The wood chalice has silver parish during most of her childhood growing up in inside. “When he dies he wants the silver inside to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Father Domibe melted and made into crosses for his nieces and nique Desjardins. nephews,” Ty said. Father Ghiorso’s father made “Father Desjardins was a storyteller as well as the paten with a piece of the maple bench that was a listener, the story of him and his chalice is the on their family basketball court, he said. inspiration that brought the concept of this book to Father Larry Goode brought his sister-in-law life,” Furrer wrote in the book. with him to the interview because her father, a The chalice was the gift of a childhood friend who silversmith who created jewelry for City of Paris, was heartbroken when Father Desjardins entered Shreve’s and Tiffany, crafted his chalice, said Donothe seminary. He directed that after his death the van Growney, who with Maddy Perry interviewed chalice be sent back to the parish where the two the pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, East Palo Alto. “I young people had grown up, Furrer said. thought it was interesting, how his chalice and his That touching story inspired project, wrote Furrelationship with his sister-in-law made his chalice rer, but it was her students who brought the inspirawhat it was,” said Maddy. tion to life.

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Twilight rosary vigil draws hundreds at Holy Name of Jesus parish Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Several hundred people gathered to pray the rosary for all those hurting in a series of disasters, inside Holy Name of Jesus Church while outside the smell of the smoke from North Bay fires nearly 50 miles away mingled with the cool mist of the fog.

“I was just getting so sad, with everything going on in the world,” said Holy Name principal Natalie Cirigliano, saying she was first really hit by the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shootings, where 58 were killed, followed closely by the North Bay fires that began late Oct. 8. The fires were still burning when the parishioners and school families gathered for the Oct. 17 6 p.m. rosary vigil.

“There was too much sadness. I wanted to do something,” Cirigliano said, noting that she and her husband had planned to go to the Route 91 Harvest Festival, the site of the shooting, but cancelled so they would not miss the birth of her niece.

Cirigliano emailed pastor Father Arnold Zamora with the idea of the rosary vigil.

“He turned it into more than I could imagine,” she said. “It was beautiful.”

Each decade of the rosary’s sorrowful mysteries was dedicated to a different disaster: the Las Vegas shootings, the North Bay fires, hurricanes Irma and Jose, Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria.

The parish choir sang a hymn between each mystery and different groups of children and adults brought flowers to place before the statue of the Blessed Mother. Downstairs, a parish room was stockpiled with the fourth load of donations to go north in a truck to those affected by the North Bay fires, an initiative begun by preschool parents that was embraced by the school and the parish.

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Holy Name of Jesus pastor Father Arnold Zamora and school principal Natalie Cirigliano led hundreds in a twilight rosary Oct. 17, praying the rosary’s decades in turn for the Blessed Mother’s intercession for those affected by a series of recent disasters.

“First of all this month is the month of the holy rosary,” Father Zamora said, noting that the parish has a rosary group. “Our rosary is really important. You know the history of how we won the battle.”

Oct. 7 is the solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary, commemorating the 1571 victory at Lepanto, when Catholic forces turned back the forces of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. Pope Pius V had opened the churches of Rome to pray the rosary day and night for victory.

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“It is a powerful prayer for us, especially with what is going on in the world,” Father Zamora said.

“We have a lot of turmoil right now,” said Andrew Contreras, the school’s sixth grade language arts teacher, who attended the vigil with his wife Elizabeth and two children. “It is always good for a community to come together.”

The Catholic Church believes in the rosary and in the intercession of the Blessed Mother, he said.

“We’re having a lot of trouble right now,” Contreras said, “and she is the helper.”

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‘We have the truth on our side,’ says Sacred Heart grad now actor Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Christopher Meehan is in show business and along with his headshots, and resumes, his Catholic faith goes with him to every audition. In full disclosure, Chris is the brother of Catholic San Francisco assistant editor Valerie Schmalz, and for more than a decade a principal in the Meehan Brothers with siblings Michael Christopher Meehan and Howard. The trio made it to the semifinals in the NBC comedy reality program “Last Comic Standing” and were regulars on local stages and bandstands around the country. Chris, a 1987 graduate of San Francisco’s Sacred Heart High School, now makes his home in Southern California where he has acted in more than 100 commercials and TV guest spots.

While his answer to having commercials running now was “None at the moment – I need one soooon” – he does have a project currently on movie festival screens and shortly in wide release.

“The Dating Project” is a film produced by his friend and peer Megan Harrington that follows five Catholic singles including Chris as they try to find Mr. or Miss Right. The producers of “Braveheart” as well as Paulist Productions and Family Theater are among backers of the film. Chris said hopes are high for a major release of the film around Valentine’s Day 2018.

“There is a place for the Catholic voice,” Chris told me, “just can’t quite be on the nose about it or people will tune out. As Catholics we are used to that. And we, of course, have the truth on our side anyway.”

Chris said now is a good time for release of “The Dating Project” because the entertainment industry is currently wide open. “Everyone has access,” he said. “It’s a little like the microbrew business. Good, little stories made professionally with a lot of heart and sweat. It’ll eventually sell but maybe won’t be quite like Anheuser Busch.”

On my asking Chris if he got his own trailer on “The Dating Project” shoot for rest between scenes, he laughed. “They did buy me a nice lunch though,” he said.

“Swiping Mr. Right” is Chris’ one-man show about a guy looking for the love of his life in what he calls on his website “the over connected, disconnected digital world of dating.”

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REUNION: All smiles for their 40th reunion is the Class of 1977 from Mercy High School, San Francisco. The good time took place Sept. 23 at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco.

See a trailer from “The Dating Project” at www.thedatingprojectthemovie.com.

CIAO: The Mass in Italian at San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Church has moved but is not gone. A Mass in Italian will be celebrated on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. at St. Anthony Church, right across the street from the now closed Immaculate Conception. It is part of St. Anthony’s welcoming Immaculate Conception parishioners who have prayed the Mass in Italian for decades. janbonview@aol.com.

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YOUNG PALETTES, PENS: Congratulations to students from Novato’s Our Lady of Loretto School on their success at the state level in the art and essay contest brought to the school by the Catholic Daughters, Our Lady of the Miracle Court #1707 and open to fourth through eighth graders: Gabriella Tarantino, third place for art; Blythe Powaga, first place for art; Dylan Eshoff, first place for essay; Zoe Bauer, first place for photography. Pictured from left are: Catholic Daughters Bev Pierson and Paula Caldwell, Gabriella, Zoe, Dylan, Blythe, and principal Kathleen Kraft.

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Vetoed reproductive health bill called ‘massive overreach by NARAL’ Catholic News Service

SACRAMENTO – Religious freedom advocates and prolife leaders praised California Gov. Jerry Brown for vetoing a bill called the Reproductive Health Nondiscrimination Act that targeted religious employers and their faith-based Gov. Jerry codes of conduct for Brown employees.

Assembly Bill 569 would have made it illegal for a California employer to discipline or fire employees for “their reproductive health decisions, including, but not limited to, the timing thereof, or the use of any drug, device or medical service.”

Alliance Defending Freedom said the bill would have prohibited churches, religious colleges, religious

nonprofit organizations and pro-life pregnancy care centers “from having faith-based codes of conduct with regard to abortion and sexual behavior.”

The government “should not and cannot tell” employers that they cannot live out their beliefs within their own organizations, said Elissa Graves, legal counsel for the alliance, which is a nonprofit legal group that advocates for religious freedom and sanctity of life and on marriage and family issues.

“Gov. Brown was right to veto this immensely unconstitutional bill, which would have been an unprecedented overreach on the part of the state of California,” she added in a statement about the governor’s latenight action Oct. 15.

“The First Amendment doesn’t allow the state to order churches and other faith-based groups to violate their most deeply held convictions,” Graves said. “They have the freedom

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The California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, called the measure “a massive overreach by NARAL” and an attack on religious liberty. NARAL Pro-Choice America advocates for legal abortion and for expanding access to it.

After AB 569 was passed by the California Legislature as its 2017 session ended Sept. 18, the Catholic conference urged Catholics to send a message to Brown calling for him to veto it.

It said the bill “deliberately” targeted religious employers “in a false effort to stop widespread ‘reproductive discrimination’ but supporters cannot cite a single case in California where such discrimination has actually occurred.”

“There are no substantiated claims

of discrimination in the secular workforce against women who are pregnant or exercise ‘reproductive choices’ because such actions have been illegal for decades under the Fair Employment and Housing Act,” the conference said.

It noted the bill’s supporters could only point to one case in the state in the last decade “implicating a religious employer” and “that matter was settled out of court.”

“In a reach unknown in any other legal system, supporters (of AB 569) have expanded those who can allege discrimination in court to include anyone in the employee’s family and holds supervisors personally and legally responsible for enforcing the policy of employers,” the conference said.

“With no restraint in sight,” the conference said, the bill did not allow employers to enforce codes of conduct, “even those negotiated with employees as part of union contracts.”

Priest among 6 arrested at pipeline construction site

Lancaster Against Pipelines, the protests were designed to slow if not stop construction on a leg of the 183-mile Atlantic Sunrise pipeline being built by Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Williams Partners to carry gas from the Marcellus Shale in northeastern Pennsylvania.

The Adorers have resisted the pipeline routed through farmland the order leases since it was proposed, but have not endorsed the protest because of their lawsuit challenging the project on religious freedom grounds.

“We don’t have any other option to stop this. Civil disobedience is a powerful spiritual tool,” Father Pickard, who recently joined the Catholic Worker community at Mary House in New York City, told Catholic News Service.

Four other Catholic Workers and a Mennonite minister were among those arrested.

WASHINGTON – A priest arrested for protesting a natural gas pipeline being built through land owned by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in Pennsylvania said he acted because he agreed with the sisters that the project is desecrating the earth.

“We just want to support them and symbolically stop the pipeline and put our lives on the side of justice,” Father Bill Pickard, 70, a retired priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, said Oct. 23, two days after the protest.

Father Pickard was one of six people arrested and charged with defiant trespass during the second nonviolent protest in a week at the sisters’ property in Columbia, Pennsylvania, southeast of Harrisburg.

They were arrested after stretching a quilt across the entrance of the construction site.

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Supreme Court lets ruling stand preventing Ten Commandments display

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal about an order to remove a Ten Commandments display outside City Hall in Bloomfield, New Mexico.

The refusal to hear the case, announced Oct. 16, lets the lower court ruling stand.

In 2014, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that Bloomfield City Hall must remove the outdoor display because it violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, representing the city of Bloomfield, said the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the case gives “anti-religion advocates a license to challenge any monument that they see and offends them.”

“Just because we disagree with what something says, does not mean we can ban it from the public square,” the group said in an Oct. 16 statement.

They also said the court failed to resolve confusion in lower courts about public monuments.

The Ten Commandments display was placed at the Bloomfield City Hall in 2011. It is 6 feet tall and weighs approximately 3,000 pounds.

Texas bishops criticize ACLU’s support for teen immigrant’s abortion

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas bishops criticized the American Civil Liberties Union for backing an abortion for a teen immigrant in the country illegally and also praised government officials for their defense of the unborn.

On Oct. 20, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit declined to order the federal government to allow the pregnant teenager under federal custody to get an abortion. Instead, the court gave the

Two days earlier, a federal judge had ruled that the teenager had the right to get an abortion, but the case had moved to a federal appeals court since the Trump administration argued that the government is not obligated to facilitate an abortion for someone in the country without legal documents.

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WASHINGTON – A 40-foot-tall cross memorializing soldiers who died in World War I that sits at a busy intersection in the Washington suburb of Bladensburg, Maryland, is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Oct. 18.

The monument “has the primary effect of endorsing religion and excessively entangles the government in religion,” said a 2-1 ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Richmond, Virginia.

The case was heard by a three-judge panel made up of Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory and Judges Stephanie D. Thacker and James A. Wynn Jr. Gregory, who dissented, said the government is not required by the First Amendment to “‘purge from the public sphere any reference to religion.’”

The First Liberty Institute said the decision “sets dangerous precedent by completely ignoring history.” The group, which supports religious freedom, represented the American Legion, the defendant in the case, and plans to appeal.

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Archbishop says Katrina ordeal prompted pastoral visit to Harvey victims James Ramos Catholic News Service

TEXAS CITY, Texas – Meandering slowly, retired New Orleans Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes greeted each student and teacher inside the Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Texas City.

If it weren’t for different logos on their uniforms, students of True Cross Catholic School in Dickinson were blending right in with Our Lady of Fatima students.

True Cross students are meeting for classes and activities at Our Lady of Fatima while the Dickinson parish works on repairing damage to its facilities after Hurricane Harvey decimated the school and church. Nearly all 153 students made the temporary transition to Our Lady of Fatima’s campus in nearby Texas City. The New Orleans archbishop visited the schools Sept. 25.

Harvey dumped nearly 44 inches of rain in Dickinson, swelling the nearby bayou straight into True Cross. Our Lady of Fatima was spared, but Texas City still saw nearly 30 inches of rain.

Both cities sit less than a half-hour drive from the Gulf Coast.

The experience of recovering after a disastrous hurricane was nothing new for Archbishop Hughes, who was at the helm of the New Orleans archdiocese when Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Crescent City in 2005. The stories and images from Houston reminded the archbishop of his experiences during Katrina and he felt called to help.

“I tried to draw them out of their own experiences of Harvey,” the 84-year-old archbishop said of meeting with the students.

Students and staff of True Cross suffered flooding at their homes, many be-

(CNS photo/James Ramos, Texas Catholic Herald)

During a Sept. 25 visit to Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Texas City, Texas, retired New Orleans Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes blesses a student from True Cross Catholic School who broke her arm evacuating during Hurricane Harvey. Students from True Cross in Dickinson, Texas, are temporarily meeting at Our Lady of Fatima while their school is being repaired. ing rescued by boat after being stranded by high water. He also met with a teacher from Puerto Rico who became emotional as she told the prelate about her struggles about not hearing from her family members on the island.

“Some told me about their struggles and their stories,” he told the Texas Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.

As he evacuated to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during Katrina, his own rectory took on more than 6 feet of floodwater in 2005. He said he personally knows the experience and feeling of not being able to return home for months on end and the jarring change of life after a storm.

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The archbishop invited the students to sing for him, which they gladly did.

One song was a hymn to Our Lady of Fatima, an anthem for students of the Texas City school. Apparently True Cross students quickly learned it and sang the hymn for Archbishop Hughes, who used the song as a teaching moment for the students.

“The song talks about praying on bended knee before Our Lady of Fatima to promote harmony and unity,” he said. “I urged them amidst the challenges they faced to have faith and hope and an assurance that God is with them.”

Archbishop Hughes gave students from True Cross a small cross, and he gave Miraculous Medals to Our Lady of Fatima students.

The archbishop was even able to give a blessing to a True Cross student who had broken her arm while evacuating during Harvey.

Father Clint Ressler, pastor of St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal, said “it’s very meaningful,” to have Archbishop Hughes visit. “Knowing that there’s a sympathetic heart, who has the compassion from having himself lived through it, knowing that he knows intuitively what we’re going through makes a difference.”

Before visiting the Texas City school, Archbishop Hughes met with other Harvey-stricken survivors across the archdiocese, including in shelters and from other damaged parishes. He also celebrated Mass with the two schools Sept. 26.

On Sept. 24, Archbishop Hughes celebrated an 8 a.m. outdoor Sunday Mass with the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, a devastated parish in northeast Houston. At least 4 to 5 feet of water rushed into the church sanctuary and destroyed much of the church and parochial school. Students were displaced to nearby Resurrection Catholic school. The parish previously flooded during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.

Under a tent erected with the help of the Galveston-Houston Chapter of the Knights of Columbus and St. Justin Martyr Council 8293, sounds of clapping, joy and praise during Mass flowed into nearby streets of the neighborhood. Archbishop Hughes, principal celebrant of the Mass, shared his own experiences of Katrina’s devastation.

Katrina was an invitation for him and his city to begin anew, Archbishop Hughes said in his homily.

“We are invited to re-experience his victory that the Lord Jesus has won over powers of darkness and to draw hope in the midst of our present challenges and trials,” the archbishop said.

“He wants to provide his saving grace and the strength to help us move from death to life.”

At the end of the Mass, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, who was in attendance, said to the congregation: “It is obvious from the way you worship, your faith is alive.”

He then presented Father Martin Eke, a Missionary of St. Paul, who is pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, with a $25,000 check to support the parish.

The Knights of Columbus also supported Dickinson’s Father Roach Council 3217, Shrine of the True Cross Catholic Church, the Archdiocesan Harvey Relief Fund and other causes, totaling to $224,000.

“Things like this happen so that we can see God can use us,” Father Martin said. “Everything happens for a purpose. Spiritual activities continue and hope is high. We thank God we have these Knights who have come to be with us. We are blessed by this gift.”

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Parish’s ‘Apple Pie Ambassadors’ welcome new neighbors Kevin Wondrash Catholic News Service

MONONA, Wis. – “Hello, we’re from Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Monona. We understand that you recently moved into the area. We just wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood.”

That greeting – along with an apple pie, a bulletin and a smile – are what the parish’s “Apple Pie Ambassadors” have given out nearly 50 times since May. Earlier this year, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Council came up with the idea for the ambassadors to serve as a “welcome wagon” for people who recently moved into the area, both Catholics and otherwise.

They are invited to check out the parish, which is in the Diocese of Madison, and they also are informed of some of the bigger events that have a presence in the neighborhood such as the parish festival and fish fries.

An Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner who is a realtor sends program leader Sharon Coffey a list of the new homes sold in Monona every month.

“We’d eventually like to get to the whole parish boundaries,” Coffey told the Catholic Herald, Madison’s diocesan newspaper. “Right now, we’re just getting started and we kind of want to feel our way through these houses (in Monona).”

From there, she assigns which of the dozen ambassadors – ranging in age from their 30s to 60s – is to make the visit, typically close to their own residences.

The visits are typically done in pairs and usually on Saturdays when people are likely to be home. Parishioners’ children sometimes go along, too.

Coffey said she hopes the ambassadors will make a

(CNS photo/Kevin Wondrash, Catholic Herald photo)

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Speece will give the standard welcome, offer the pie and bulletin, and “we just got into conversations from there.”

He added that religion topics didn’t come up unless the new neighbors would talk about it. “It was more a friendly visit,” he said, but added that he’s hoping to see them at church soon.

He seconded the fact that ambassadors meet a variety of people while making the visits, saying conversations typically last between five and 15 minutes.

Those he met included a business owner who told his success story, a woman from Africa who came to the U.S. to help her daughter who is expecting her first child, and even some people he had previously met at a neighborhood block party and were looking for a church.

Some also have been Catholic, but not active Massgoers.

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Church can’t turn away from people with special needs, pope says Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church must be welcoming and creative in finding ways to not let people’s physical, psychological or intellectual limitations keep them from encountering God, Pope Francis said.

“The church cannot be ‘mute’ or ‘tone deaf’ when it comes to the defense and promotion of people with disabilities,” he told differently abled individuals, their families and pastoral workers and professionals who work with them.

Words and gestures of outreach and welcoming must never be missing from any church community, so that everyone, particularly those whose journey in life is not easy, can encounter the risen Lord and find in that community “a source of hope and courage,” he said Oct. 21.

The pope spoke during an audience with 450 people taking part in a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization.

The gathering Oct. 20-22 was dedicated to sharing best practices in engaging and catechizing persons living with disabilities – a topic Pope Francis had specifically asked the council to look into, conference organizers told Catholic News Service.

Fortunately, the pope told the group, there has been progress over the past decades in recognizing the rights and dignity of all people, especially those who are more vulnerable, leading to

“courageous positions on inclusion” so that “no one feels like a stranger.”

However, attitudes that are often “narcissistic and utilitarian” still abound, marginalizing people with disabilities and overlooking their human and spiritual gifts, he said.

Also still too pervasive is an attitude of refusal of any potentially debilitating condition, believing it would be an obstacle to happiness or the full realization of oneself, he said.

It’s an attitude, the pope said, that is seen in today’s “eugenic tendencies to kill unborn children who display some form of imperfection.”

But “in reality, all of us know many people who, even with their serious frailties, have found – even with difficulty – the path of a good life, rich in meaning,” he said, and “we know people who are outwardly perfect” yet full of despair.

“It’s a dangerous deception to believe in being invulnerable,” he said, since vulnerability is part of the essence of being human.

Two participants from the United States, who were part of the conference organizing committee, and a father of a young woman with Down syndrome told CNS that the usual approach of “special programs” for people with particular needs should change because they can become a form of segregation.

For example, Sister Kathleen Schipani recalled how dark and lonely it was going to an empty school late every

(CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano)

Pope Francis greets a woman in a wheelchair during an audience with catechists and people with disabilities at the Vatican Oct. 21.

Wednesday night for a parish program meant for children with disabilities.

Sister Schipani, who leads the office for persons with disabilities and the deaf apostolate at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, said the model they are pursuing is to have one parish religious education program for everyone, but with options for smaller breakout groups, one-on-one instruction or other methods that can address individuals’ particular needs.

Janice Benton, executive director of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability based in Washington, D.C., said too much focus on providing special programs also has meant

some people get turned away from their neighborhood parish because the church doesn’t have a program accommodating a specific disability.

“The first thing is welcome the person,” she said, and speak with them; the church is more than a collection of programs, it’s about relationships with each other and with God. “It’s not so much having the skills or having the professionals, it’s knowing the person and then just an ordinary way of expressing how they belong to the church” in catechetical formation, participating in the liturgy in some way or parish activities, said Sister Schipani, a member of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Also, a policy for creating media should be that it is planned from the start with everyone in mind, so that a video, for example, has both visual captions and audio narration since digital platforms “can get less accessible” if they rely too much on one style or format, said Benton.

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The question he always asks, he said, is why don’t dioceses put more focus on “how day-to-day parish life, religious education, schools, liturgy” can include people with various disabilities rather than come up with activities that sideline them.

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In letter to Cardinal Sarah, pope clarifies new translation norms Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is not to “impose” a specific liturgical translation on bishops’ conferences, but rather is called to recognize the bishops’ authority and expertise in determining the best way to faithfully translate Latin texts into their local languages, Pope Francis said in a letter to Cardinal Robert Sarah.

In the letter, released by the Vatican Oct. 22, Pope Francis said he wanted to correct several points made in a “commentary,” which Cardinal Sarah sent him and which was published on several websites in a variety of languages.

Cardinal Sarah is prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments. The pope’s letter noted that most of the websites “erroneously” cited Cardinal Sarah as the author of the commentary.

Holy Land Christians must work together, pope tells patriarch

VATICAN CITY – As minorities living in a troubled land, Christians in the Holy Land must forgive each other for past mistakes and work together for the future of their communities, Pope Francis told the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem.

Patriarch Theophilos III made an official visit to the Vatican in late October, meeting Pope Francis Oct. 23 and praying with him for peace.

“How good it would be to say of Catholics and Orthodox living in Jerusalem v

The commentary looked at changes Pope Francis made to the Code of Canon Law in the process for approving liturgical translations. The changes were ordered in the pope’s document, “Magnum Principium” (“The Great Principle”), which was published Sept.

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Pope Francis, saying he wanted to “avoid any misunderstanding,” insisted the commentary could give an erroneous impression that the level of involvement of the congregation remained unchanged.

However, while in the past “the judgment regarding the fidelity to the Latin and the eventual corrections necessary was the task of the congregation,” the pope said, “now the norm concedes to episcopal conferences the faculty of judging the worth and coherence of one or another term in translations from the original, even if in dialogue with the Holy See.”

what the Evangelist Luke said of the first Christian community: ‘All who believed were together ... one heart and soul,’” the pope told the patriarch.

Better cooperation is especially needed “in supporting Christian families and young people, so that they will not be forced to leave their land,” the pope said. “By working together in this delicate area, the faithful of different confessions will also be able to grow in mutual knowledge and fraternal relations.”

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Pope’s pro-life challenge: Respect all life, oppose death penalty Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

Backgrounder and analysis.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ recent statement that the death penalty is incompatible with the Gospel focused less on a government’s role in protecting its people and more on the need to defend the sacredness and dignity of every human life.

At least from the time of Blessed Paul VI in the 1960s, the Catholic Church has been increasingly critical of the use of capital punishment, even while acknowledging centuries of church teaching that a state has a right to punish offenders, including with the death penalty.

St. John Paul II, in his 1995 encyclical letter, “The Gospel of Life,” wrote of his alarm at “the extraordinary increase and gravity of threats to the life of individuals and peoples,” but said one sign of hope was the increasing opposition around the world to capital punishment.

“There is evidence of a growing public opposition to the death penalty, even when such a penalty is seen as a kind of ‘legitimate defense’ on the part of society.

Modern society, in fact, has the means of effectively suppressing crime by rendering criminals harmless without definitively denying them the chance to reform,” he wrote.

Two years later, Pope John Paul had the Catechism of the Catholic Church revised to strengthen its antideath penalty posture. The text now says that, “given the means at the state’s disposal to effectively repress crime by rendering inoffensive the one who has committed it, without depriving him definitively of the possibility of redeeming himself, cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender ‘today ... are very rare, if not practically nonexistent.’”

Opponents of the death penalty cheered St. John Paul’s move, and theologians recognized it as a “development” of church teaching.

Marking the 25th anniversary of the catechism at the Vatican Oct. 11, Pope Francis said the catechism’s discussion of the death penalty, already formally amended by St. John Paul II, needs to be even more explicitly against capital punishment. The death penalty, no matter how it is carried out, “is, in itself, contrary to the Gospel ,” he said, adding that it “heav-

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ily wounds human dignity,” is “an “inhuman measure” and extinguishes the possibility that the person, recognizing his or her errors, will request forgiveness and begin a new life.

Death penalty opponents welcomed Pope Francis’ stronger position against capital punishment, but his words set off a debate between those who saw his position as a further development of church teaching and those who saw it as a “change” that contradicted both the Bible and the traditional position of the Catholic Church.

Edward Feser, a professor of philosophy at California’s Pasadena City College and author of “By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment,” told Catholic News Service that St. John Paul’s teaching was “a nonbinding prudential judgment,” which was in line with centuries of church teaching recognizing the right of states to impose the death penalty.

And, writing in Britain’s Catholic Herald Oct. 15, Feser said that if Pope Francis “is saying that capital punishment is always and intrinsically immoral, then he would be effectively saying – whether consciously or unconsciously – that previous popes, fathers and doctors of the church, and even divinely inspired Scripture are in error.”

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Pope Francis took a further step forward, Father Dacok said. The pope “did not change church teaching, but places it on a higher level and points out the path toward its perfection.”

“What is accomplished with the death penalty?” the Slovakian Jesuit asked. “Do you obtain the true repentance of criminals? Do you offer them the possibility of correcting their ways, of asking for forgiveness?”

“No,” he said. “With the execution, the death, you irreversibly cancel the entire dynamic of hope” for repentance, conversion and at least some attempt at reparation.

“Obviously, Pope Francis cannot change the laws of individual countries, because that’s the competence of legislators,” Father Dacok said. “But he can continually encourage respect for the sacredness of every human life, because the death penalty truly is not necessary.”

Because security and justice can be served without capital punishment, he said, the urgent matter today is to demonstrate respect for the sacredness of every human life, “even the life of public criminals responsible for the death of others.”

Father Robert A. Gahl Jr., a priest of Opus Dei and a professor of ethics at Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, said Pope Francis “continues the recent development of doctrine regarding the centrality of mercy for the Christian faith and the urgency to promote a culture of life in today’s throwaway culture,” where abortion and euthanasia are widely accepted.

“Pope Francis wants the church to offer a radical example of the defense of all human life,” Father Gahl said. And “without condemning all past practices, he vigorously demands the elimination of the death penalty.”

The priest noted the church’s historic concern for the impact of the death penalty not just on the criminal, but also on judges and executioners.

In fact, the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which was in effect until 1983, listed as those generally barred from priestly ordination “a judge who passed a sentence of death” and “those who take up the task of (execution) and their immediate and voluntary assistants in the execution of a capital sentence.”

On the question of whether Pope Francis’ statement marks a “development” or a “change,” Father Gahl said the pope probably intended to “shake up theologians and to force us to reconsider traditional formulations of permanent teaching in light of this new and authoritative development of mercy and human dignity.”

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It happened more than 40 years ago in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, a small city near the center of Westmoreland County and about 25 miles east of Pittsburgh. 14-year-old Joe Stinson school at 1 p.m. to go up to the Catholic church for their weekly instruction.

"I was running a little ahead of them and we had to cross the four big tracks that went through town," Stinson said. His friends decided they were going to play hooky but Joe couldn't and continued on to catechism.

"We are up there in that class for about 45 minutes and when we all came out, we headed to the bridge a little further down that crossed en we all see it. is big train is stopped and everybody is talking about how two kids got killed by the train. And then it hit. I knew."

Joe's friends had followed the steel rails a good way down, long past the spot where a bridge serves as a safety guide over land which curves down. Eventually they turned around and came back into an area called "Dead Man's Cut," where two hillsides grow at such a degree, ey were hit from behind.

"Back then, what to do about grief didn't exist," Stinson said. "And at that age, you go through what you go through. I went to the funerals and it was horrible. When you are 14, these are your brothers. We were extremely close."

"After their deaths, one family was a little distant to me," Stinson said, "because I was the one that lived. But the other family brought me in." er high school, that the young man from Jeannette was really able to move on from what happened and start to see a need. Now a grief counselor, funeral director and the CEO of Colma Cremation and Funeral Services, Stinson said, "It was because of this life-changing event, that I took up the baton of funeral work."

Joe started in the funeral business with part-time work at a local funeral home while attending Robert Morris University. (With special thanks, he wants to note here, to his dear and recently departed friend John Dobrinick.)

Following college and his subsequent graduation from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, Stinson began his internship in Pennsylvania. But when the girl of his dreams moved ew out West and he and Christine were married in at was in 1967, the Summer of Love!"

Stinson went to work for Gates, Kingsley & Gates (Funeral Directors) in Santa Monica, e couple stayed a year; then returned to their hometown when rst ey have two "wonderful" daughters and two "fabulous" grandsons.) In 1969, Stinson received his Funeral Director and Embalmer

license. In 1975, through the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Organ Donor Team, ed in eye enucleation surgery for cornea transplant. While working full time as a funeral director, he donated his time to transplant teams at three area hospitals. For this work he received the Distinguished Service Award. He was additionally an Associate in Hospital Pathology, as well as a Deputy Coroner and an Associate in Forensic Pathology. In 1978, he pursued eld of grief and bereavement ed as a Bereavement Facilitator.

"When I originally entered the funeral business, the type of work I did was traditional," Stinson said. "But one day a family came in that I knew like my own family. I greeted them the way erent reaction and that's because I wasn't educated on grief. When individuals go to school to get their license in medicine, psychology, health care, ministry, sociology, funeral service – if they want to specialize in end of life care or grief work, they have to add the study of grief as part of their discipline, because it is not naturally taught as part of their discipline."

"In this country, we really learned about grief from the family members of Vietnam Vets ese family members were really getting sick because they could never grieve. And grieving is about health."

But before Stinson really learned about "grief," he said he did what many professionals elds which deal with illness and/or heartache – he did everything he could to be liked by the person experiencing grief.

"Once you understand how grief works, you know that you are not there for these people so they can watch your performance and your hope is that they like you," Stinson said. "People are going to talk to you about things they can't talk to any other human being about. When you are not a grief counselor, you don't want to ask them how they are, because if they tell you, you won't know what to say. In the understanding of grief, we have taken it from a psychological issue to a physiological issue and so it becomes about wellness and health and this puts us on the 'Kübler-Ross ' side of things."

Swiss-born psychiatrist Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) was a pioneer in "near-death" studies. In her 1969 book "On ve stages of grief, as it relates to the news of one's impending death – denial, anger, bargaining, ve stages have also since been recognized as applying to the survivors of a loved one's death.

"When one goes through grief and trauma, it changes the way the hormones are produced in the body," Stinson said, "and you are going to have these symptoms. One is loss of memory, way more than is comfortable, regardless of age.

Children have it too. You are going to have a hard time following a thought process and completing ve

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Grief counselor and funeral director Joe Stinson senses are actually diminished, so things are not at's where you hear people say they are numb. Your immune system drops, so you are more susceptible to disease and you have feelings of being overwhelmed. When someone comes in, I am going to talk to them about this.

Because the more that person grieving knows this, the more they know there is nothing wrong with them. What they are going through is a normal process. A big part of what we do here, is give individuals all kinds of coping skills."

Since being educated on grief, Stinson has fully embraced teaching what he knows. He een years. He teaches ed continuing education courses for health providers. He designed a course, "Death, Dying, Loss and Survival," which he teaches to elementary school students through university students. He is a frequent guest on eatre of the Mind" podcast.

At one point he created and was the host of "Good Grief Radio," where his guests included Frank Ostaseski, the creator and founding director of Zen Hospice Project, and Father Miles Riley, PhD, a wellness speaker known for his radio ministry.

In 1987, with their daughters in or about to enter college, Joe and Christine headed back to California, this time to the Bay Area.

"Among our top reasons for moving here is that 'here' is where (American rock band) the Grateful Dead lived and we're huge fans," Stinson laughed, adding that he wasn't kidding. Also, Joe needed some new challenges. Having grown up in Jeannette, and having been at one time a wellknown school athlete, he felt things were too ofe family moved and Joe's sister and brother-in-law made the move as well.

Stinson, a Nationally Certified Beareavement Facilitar worked in various funeral homes, then bought Colma Cremation and Funeral Services in the early 90s. Joe and Christine’s daughter Amy Stinson, also nationally certified as a Bereavement Facilitator, is the company’s manager, Associate Funeral Director and EDRS specialist. The staff also includes Desiree Samora, EDRS specialist and Arrangement Counselor, Dylan Mayer, Luciana Morris, Karla Carrasco and Kathy Jacobson , Arrangement Counselors.

Christine, also certified as a Bereavement Facilitator, is Family Services Manager at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery but is involved in the family business with accounting and the on-line store.

"We nurture each other through our journeys here." Stinson said.

Colma Cremation and Funeral Services is a grief-based practice, though that service, grief ered – green burials, pre-planning, memorial service planning, transportation from place of death, funeral coach (hearse), caskets, urns, form explanation and processing, cremation and burial options. Since day one, the company's goal has ordable solutions for funerals ere is no embalming.

"Embalming is not required by California law, but you do have to have refrigeration," Stinson said.

Embalming is expensive. It requires an embalming room and it must be in compliance with OSHA guidelines. No state or province in North America requires the routine embalming of bodies. (As needed, CCFS can hold someone in refrigeration for a month.)

"Today we are seeing more processes of a natural death," Stinson said. "Less people are in an ICU. Many people are dying natural deaths at home or in nursing homes. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to take a person who has just experienced a very natural process, that we are designed to do, to die, like we are designed to be born, and then proceed with embalming, a horribly invasive procedure which when done, leaves the deceased not looking anything like they did in life. " "Many funeral homes will tell loved ones that they have to have that," Stinson continued.

"But that is misinformation. And I am saying that out loud to the entire world. Embalming has nothing to do with anything." rming. "When a person dies, you have had them in your life, and you want to keep them in your life," Stinson said. "And there is an understood promise that you make to your loved one – that you will take care of yourself. And when you take care of your health, by taking care of your grief, you will continue to get the messages that they are sending you. When you are not healthy, the messages will be there, but you will never hear them."

Jean Bartlett is a features writer for the Pacifica Tribune and other Bay Area Papers. This article originally ran in the "February 20 – 27, 2013" issue of the Peninsula Progress and is printed [6/5/2017] with permission from the author.

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Pope urges Christians to think about what they say in the Our Father Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – To pray the Lord’s Prayer and believe what one is reciting takes real courage, Pope Francis said.

One must be bold “to truly believe that God is the father who accompanies me, forgives me, gives me bread, is attentive to everything I ask,” Pope Francis said in a filmed conversation about the Our Father.

The Italian bishops’ television station, TV2000, was to begin airing a nine-part series Oct. 25 featuring Pope Francis’ conversation with Father Marco

Pozza, an Italian prison chaplain and theologian. A long trailer for the program was released Oct. 18.

The original idea for the project was that Father Pozza would explain the Our Father phrase by phrase and discuss its meaning and implications with a handful of famous Italians from the world of culture and entertainment.

But, the priest told reporters at a news conference, when he told one of the prisoners in Padua about it, the man said, “If he knew about it, Pope Francis would participate, too.”

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In the program’s trailer, Pope Francis ponders whether most people who recite the Our Father really believe any of it.

“We say that we are Christians, that we have a father, but we live – I won’t say like animals – but like people who don’t believe either in God or in humanity,” the pope says. Not only do people act as if they have no faith, but “we live not in love, but in hatred, competition and wars.”

Pope Francis asked if believers really could say that God’s name is “hallowed” in “Christians who battle each other for power” or who “don’t care for their own children?”

Christians pray the Lord’s Prayer and do so together – saying “our” even when they pray alone – because they know the effort required to truly believe and to try again each day to demonstrate their belief, the pope said. “That is why it is so beautiful to pray together, because we help each other to try.”

In addition to the television program, Pope Francis’ conversation with Father Pozza will be published as a book, which will be released in Italian in late November.

In the preface, the pope writes that Jesus gave his disciples the Lord’s Prayer not simply as a formula for addressing God, but also so they would learn how to live as God’s children and as brothers and sisters to one another.

“Jesus shows us what it means to be loved by the Father and reveals to us that the Father wants to pour out on us the same love that from eternity he has had for his son,” the pope said. “I hope that each one of us, as we say, ‘Our Father ...,’ increasingly discover that we are loved, forgiven and bathed by the dew of the Holy Spirit so that we in turn are able to love and forgive every brother and every sister.”

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Irish folklife expert says Halloween traditions began in Ireland Sarah Mac Donald Catholic News Service

DUBLIN – As the seasonal carving of pumpkins gets underway, an Irish folklife expert said there is evidence that the tradition, which is synonymous with Halloween jack-o-lanterns in the United States, actually began in Ireland.

Clodagh Doyle, assistant keeper at the Irish Folklife Division of the National Museum of Ireland, told Catholic News Service that records in the folklore archives at University College Dublin document what people traditionally did at Halloween in the past.

One tradition recorded, dating to the 19th century, is the making of Halloween lanterns, usually with a turnip but sometimes a large potato.

The Museum of Country Life in County Mayo, where Doyle is based, has two examples of these lanterns as part of its exhibition on Irish customs and traditions associated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, the predecessor of the modern Halloween holiday.

The ghost turnip, with its pinched angry face, was made for Halloween. the museum has a plaster cast made of the original turnip lantern, which was close to disintegration.

“The records we have for the lantern from Donegal show it was donated in 1943 by a schoolteacher in the village of Fintown, who said she was donating it because nobody was making this type of lantern anymore, though it was a tradition that was remembered in the area,” Doyle explained. The teacher’s lantern dated back 40 years, which would date it to the turn of the 20th century.

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Left, a Halloween gallery display is pictured at the Museum of Country Life in County Mayo, Ireland. Above, a 19th century jacko-lantern from Fintown in County Donegal, Ireland, is part of the display.

Samhain’s association with winter and death in nature made it a time for remembering those who had died and a time for seeking protection for the home and the family. Holy water was sprinkled on and around the threshold and on the family, animals and the farm.

One Halloween tradition that has not survived is the making of small wooden or straw crosses. Four of these Halloween crosses are currently on display in the Museum of Country Life.

“I think it was about protecting yourself from the dark season of the year, because it was a time of death for everything on the land,” Doyle explained.

Halloween also was known as “ghost night” or “spirit night,” when the souls of the dead were expected to return to the family home. This, Doyle points out,

was linked to the remembrance of the faithfully departed on All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2.

“There was a belief that the dead of your family might want to come home on that night, so people set out a place or food as a welcome to them,” Doyle said. “People believed that there were a lot of souls of the dead walking around, trying to find their way, and that not all of them were going to be good – there could be evil spirits too.”

For children, the feast was mostly about games, while the young adults went about at night playing tricks on one another or on neighbors.

One side of Halloween that is no longer popular is the sacrament of confession.

“Practically to a person, all the adults

went to confession that evening because they were doing the plenary indulgence for the holy souls on Nov. 2,” said Father Father John McHale of Enniscrone parish in County Sligo.

He said he thinks that, as the standard of living in Ireland has improved, Halloween has become far too commercial and laced with imports from the U.S. “I never heard the expression ‘trick or treat’ when I was growing up,” he said.

“And I never heard of evil spirits being around on Halloween night; what I did hear related to the souls of the family that needed prayer, because of the strong belief in purgatory and a belief in the power of indulgences to set them free from purgatory. You had that duty to make sure that you prayed for the souls of the dead on Nov. 2.”

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When is it a sin to make a referral?

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uring World War II, if a contractor had been asked to construct a building knowing that it would serve as a gas chamber in Auschwitz, it goes without saying that he ought not agree to do it. By laying the foundation and supervising the plumbing, electrical and duct work, he would be contributing to, or enabling, the subsequent commission of atrocities against prisoners in the concentration camp.

But significant concerns would also arise if he were to reply: “I’m sorry, I have a moral objection to building this structure, but let me put in a call to a colleague who is a contractor, and he will do it for you.” By placing the call, he would still be a part of the causal chain father tadeusz leading to the building of pacholczyk the facility, and to the subsequent evils that would be carried out in it. By making a referral to engage someone else’s services for something immoral,

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Making a referral can also convey a sense of tacit acceptance and approval of that evil, and therefore the referring provider can also become guilty of wrongdoing by giving scandal. we can still be involved in, and responsible for, the commission of grave evils.

Among medical professionals, situations can likewise arise in which they may be tempted to make a referral for an immoral procedure, supposing that because they are not doing the procedure themselves, they are now morally “in the clear.”

For example, a pharmacist who lives and works in a state or jurisdiction where physician-assisted suicide has been legalized may be asked to fill a prescription for suicide pills. By declining to fill that prescription, he or she avoids immediately cooperating with a customer’s immoral decision to commit suicide. But it would still raise moral concerns if the pharmacist said to the customer: “Let me pass this prescription to my co-worker, because, although I cannot fill it, he can help you

out.” The first pharmacist remains a contributor in the chain of events leading up to the carrying out of the evil act, and he would be cooperating in evil by making the referral to his co-worker.

A “referral” in moral terms is when the person who refuses to do the immoral procedure himself or herself directs the requesting person to another individual or institution because the other individual or institution is known or believed to be willing to provide the immoral procedure in question. The decision to offer the referral indicates that the one doing it is choosing, at least implicitly, to help the requester carry out the evil act, and such implicit willing of evil acts can never be morally acceptable.

Making a referral can also convey a sense of tacit acceptance and approval of that evil, and therefore the referring provider can also become guilty of wrongdoing by giving scandal. Someone who gives scandal helps to form the immoral will of another. In fact, the term “scandal” in theology refers to any action, word or deed that leads another to sin.

Of course, a pharmacist could simply decline to fill a suicide pill prescription. He may have to pay the consequences for his refusal, but it certainly see Pacholcyzk, page 19

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Close the distance, not the gate

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obel prize-winning author Toni Morrison, assessing the times, asks this question: “Why should we want to know a stranger when it is easier to estrange another?

Why should we want to close the distance when we can close the gate?”

Except this isn’t a question, it’s a judgment.

It’s a negative judgment FATHER ron on both our rolheiser society and our churches.

Where are our hearts really at? Are we trying more to close the distance between us and what’s foreign, or are we into closing gates to keep strangers estranged?

In fairness, it might be pointed out that this has always been a struggle.

There hasn’t been a golden age within which people wholeheartedly welcomed the stranger. There have been golden individuals and even golden communities who were welcoming, but never society or church as a whole.

Much as this issue is so front and

center in our politics today, as countries everywhere struggle with their immigration policies and with what to do with millions of refugees and migrants wanting to enter their country, I want to take Morrison’s challenge, to close the distance rather than close the gate, to our churches: Are we inviting in the stranger? Or, are we content to let the estranged remain outside?

There is a challenging motif within Jesus’ parable of the over-generous vineyard owner which can easily be missed because of the overall lesson within the story. It concerns the question that the vineyard owner asks the last group of workers, those who will work for only one hour. Unlike the first group, he doesn’t ask them: “Do you want to work in my vineyard?” Rather he asks them: “Why aren’t you working?” Their answer: “Because no one has hired us!” Notice they don’t answer by saying that their non-employment is because they are lazy, incompetent, or disinterested. Neither does the vineyard owner’s question imply that. They aren’t working simply because no one has given them the invitation to work!

Sadly, I believe this is the case for so many people who are seemingly cold or indifferent to religion and our churches. Nobody has invited them in! And

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that was true too at the time of Jesus.

Whole groups of people were seen as being indifferent and hostile to religion and were deemed simply as sinners.

This included prostitutes, tax collectors, foreigners, and criminals. Jesus invited them in and many of them responded with a sincerity, contrition, and devotion that shamed those who considered themselves true believers. For the so-called sinners, all that stood between them and entry into the kingdom was a genuine invitation.

Why aren’t you practicing a faith? No one has invited us!

Just in my own, admittedly limited, pastoral experience, I have seen a number of individuals who from childhood to early or late midlife were indifferent to, and even somewhat paranoid about, religion and church. It was a world from which they had always felt excluded. But, thanks to some gracious person or fortunate circumstance, at a moment, they felt invited in and they gave themselves over to their new religious family with a disarming warmth, fervor and gratitude, often taking a fierce pride in their new identity.

Witnessing this several times, I now understand why the prostitutes and tax collectors, more than the church people at the time, believed in Jesus. He was the first religious person to truly invite them in.

Sadly, too, there’s a reverse side to this where, all too often, in all religious sincerity, we not only don’t invite certain others in, we positively close the gates on them. We see that, for example, a

number of times in the Gospels where those around Jesus block others from having access to him, as is the case in that rather colorful story where some people are trying to bring a paralytic to Jesus but are blocked by the crowds surrounding him and consequently have to make a hole in the roof in order to lower the paralytic into Jesus’ presence.

Too frequently, unknowingly, sincerely, but blindly, we are that crowd around Jesus, blocking access to him by our presence. This is an occupational danger especially for all of us who are in ministry. We so easily, in all sincerity, in the name of Christ, in the name of orthodox theology, and in the name of sound pastoral practice set ourselves up as gatekeepers, as guardians of our churches, through whom others must pass in order to have access to God. We need to more clearly remember that Christ is the gatekeeper, and the only gatekeeper, and we need to refresh ourselves on what that means by looking at why Jesus chased the moneychangers out of the Temple in John’s Gospel.

They, the moneychangers, had set themselves up as a medium through which people had to pass in order to offer worship to God. Jesus would have none of it.

Our mission as disciples of Jesus is not to be gatekeepers. We need instead to work at closing the distance rather than closing the gate.

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would be a valid and courageous option for him to give witness to the injustice of assisted suicide laws. But that may not be the only way to approach the situation. A conscientious pharmacist could also say to the customer, “There may be other pharmacies around here that can assist you,” or even, “there may be others working at this pharmacy who can assist you,” and leave it at that. This would not be a referral, but a simple statement regarding commonly available public knowledge. The pharmacist could then return the prescription to the customer, rather than passing it to a co-worker, and the customer would then have to initiate a new “causal chain” or series of choices as he or she seeks to obtain the immoral medications, looking around and inquiring about who might fill the prescription. This removes the original pharmacist from the causal chain, avoids making a referral to a colleague, and diminishes or eliminates responsibility for any subsequent evils that the customer may end up committing.

Regrettably, pharmacists and other health care professionals today are coming under increasing fire from the culture around them as they are being told, as part of their job description, that they have to ignore their wellformed consciences and fill prescriptions for suicide pills, the abortion pill or contraception. Yet a double standard is clearly at work, for if the prescription were for something

a pharmacist knew would be used as a date rape drug to take advantage of a woman at a party, everyone would declare the pharma cist to be a moral hero for refusing.

To sum up, then, a great deal of care, vigilance and determination is needed not only for us to avoid committing certain evils, but also to avoid making a referral for those evils to be carried out by others.

Letters Radio commentary disappoints

When I read the title of the article on Catholic Radio, “Catholic Radio helps listeners ‘feel at home in arms of God,’ EWTN host says,” (“On the Street Where You Live,” Oct. 12), I was confused. I listen to a lot of Catholic Radio, specifically Immaculate Heart Radio, and the radio station doesn’t make me “feel at home in the arms of God.” I find the commentators think that their listeners are not capable of intelligent reasoning. They provide very simplistic answers to complex questions. Their No. 1 topic is abortion, not poverty, not homelessness, not the growing international situations. Where are the Catholic institutes of higher education?

Not on Catholic Radio.

Sister Miriam once told a woman to pray for her alcoholic husband but she and her children shouldn’t leave her husband. I had an aunt who followed such advice many years ago, and her life and those of her children were destroyed. I heard an explanation by Patrick Madrid as to why women can’t be priests. He said it would be the same situation if he wanted to bear children. He could want to do it all he wanted, but he was biologically not able to give birth to children. And then he actually said that it was the same reason why women couldn’t be priests: They were not biologically able to become priests. I almost drove off the freeway.

I was taught to critically think when someone makes such an outrageous statement. I am always very disappointed in Immaculate Heart Radio.

Richard Morasci San Francisco

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Where does the statue controversy end?

A debate over public memory of pioneers, padres and native Californians Christian Clifford

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he San Francisco Arts Commission voted unanimously Oct. 2 to consider the removal of the “Early Days” sculpture of the Pioneer Monument near Civic Center. One of the three figures on the sculpture is a Franciscan priest.

The timing of the push to remove the statue coincided with the removal of Confederate statues in the South; anti-Columbus Day news, when many were celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month; and the recent vandalism of memorials of the 18th-century Franciscan St. Junípero Serra, who brought Catholic Christianity to California.

Are those demanding removal of “Early Days” barking up the wrong tree?

St. Junípero Serra, the founder of the California missions knew history and wanted to distance himself from the conquistadors and encomienda system. He wanted to change hearts and minds with the Gospel, not the sword. His heroics were recognized by the monuments benefactors in 1894 with a portrait medallion near the “Early Days” statue. George Yagi Jr., professor of history at San Joaquin Delta College, is not the first to argue how Junípero Serra defended the California Mission Indians against Spanish military abuse. Like any institution, the California missions had its saints and sinners and all types in between. The greatest tragedy was an unin-

Accusation does not mean guilt.

California Mission history is complex and generalizations, when looking at any history, should be avoided. tended consequence of the cultural exchange – the majority of the Mission Indians died due to diseases for which they had no immunity.

The plaque “California Native Americans” added in 1994 to the Pioneer Monument rightly notes that pre-contact with Europeans, the California Indian population was estimated to be 300,000.

Scholar Barry Pritzer estimates that by the early 19th century there were 200,000. By the end of the century there were 15,000. The near annihilation of the California Indians came during the Gold Rush from the 49ers and with the blessing of the government of California. The native got in the way of so-called progress and genocide ensued.

Accusation does not mean guilt. California Mission history is complex and generalizations, when looking at any history, should be avoided. It would be crazy to believe that all Pueblo Indians were bad because of Popé, the religious leader who headed the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 that killed 400 Spanish and relocated 2,000 settlers. Yet Popé

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The “Early Days” statue in San Francisco is under review by the San Francisco Arts Commission as a first step toward possible removal. Part of the Pioneer Monument, a legacy of philanthropist James Lick, the statue depicts a vaquero, a Spanish padre and an indigenous man from a 19th-century European pioneer perspective. It survived a previous public debate in the 1990s, which was resolved with the addition of a plaque describing colonizers’ devastating impact on the native population, especially after gold was discovered in 1848.

has been honored with a statue in Washington, D.C. If city officials are really set on righting a wrong of history, maybe they should demand that the San Francisco 49ers change its name. If they are really serious about removing offensive monuments, then they should consider the monument to the Lincoln Brigade. The Republican forces (the side they fought for) in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) murdered 6,844 Catholic clerics and religious.

Yale University historian David Blight, an expert on slavery, and other historians presented a very sensible criterion when judging historical monuments: “… discussions [should] weigh many factors, among them: the history behind when and why the monument was built. Where it’s placed. The subject’s contribution to society weighed against the alleged wrongdoing. And the artistic value of the monument itself.”

Maybe this will help San Francisco officials avoid politicization when it comes to the fate of the “Early Days” statue of the Pioneer Monument.

Christian Clifford is a veteran Catholic school teacher and author of three books about Catholic Church history in Spanish-Mexican California. Clifford’s writings have appeared in Aleteia, California Teacher, Catholic San Francisco, Catholic Standard, Crux, Patheos and Today’s Catholic Teacher. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and son. For more information, visit www.Missions1769.com.

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Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time EXODUS 22:20-26 Thus says the Lord: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.

My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans. “If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body. What else has he to sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate.”

PSALM 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 I love you, Lord, my strength.

I love you, O Lord, my strength, O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold! Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

The Lord lives and blessed be my rock! Extolled be God my savior. You who gave great victories to your king and showed kindness to your anointed.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

1 THESSALONIANS 1:5C-10 Brothers and sisters: You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not only in

Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

MATTHEW 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

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onathan Livingston Seagull” is Richard Bach’s allegorical story about our search for meaning and perfection. Jonathan is a young seagull-student passionate about flying.

His old wise teacher named Chiang has great influence on him. The day comes when Chiang has to go away forever. Jonathan wonders what advice Chiang might have for him. The teacher gives him the parting message, only in four words: “Keep working on love.”

Let us picture Jesus in our imagination as he is ready to return to his father. With the assurance “I’ll be with you always until the end of time,” he sends his disciples out to the whole world to father charles preach the good news. What puthota is the good news? Love. That God loves us in Jesus Christ and that we should love one another. In other words, Jesus wants us to keep working on love.

Isn’t it true that God himself is at work in loving us? God’s perfect love is revealed in all our

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changing circumstances of life. In our joys and sorrows, in our holiness and sinfulness, in our physical strength and illnesses, in our hope and despair, in our capabilities and helplessness, God’s love shines forth in a dynamic, continuous way. In patience and gentleness, God’s love comes to us through incredible mercy and generosity.

God is engaged in our lives – here and now – in an ongoing way, and that is why – and that is how – God keeps working on his everlasting love for us. In creation and redemption, in history and evolution, God is working on love and guiding the destiny of the whole universe.

If God is working on love, what about us his children? Our mission is to keep working on love.

Because our love is far from perfect, we are to be engaged wholeheartedly in this mission of love, to see how we can grow in love, to be purified in love, to be consoled in love, and to be sharers of love. Being “rooted and grounded in love” is the call of life for us.

The word of God calls us to keep working on love. In the time of Jesus, people wanted a summary of “the whole law and the prophets.” Jesus’ summary is done by combining the “shema” of Deuteronomy 6:5 about loving God with all one’s heart, soul, and mind with the call to love neighbor as in Leviticus 19:18. Jesus forges an intimate and essential connection between love of God and

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, October 30: Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 8:12-17. Ps 68:2 and 4, 6-7ab, 20-21. Jn 17:17b, 17a. Lk 13:10-17.

Tuesday, October 31: Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. All Hallows’ Eve. Rom 8:1825. Ps 126:1b-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. See Mt 11:25. Lk 13:18-21.

Wednesday, November 1: Solemnity of All Saints. Rv 7:2-4, 9-14. Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. 1 Jn 3:1-3. Mt 11:28. Mt 5:1-12a.

Thursday, November 2: The Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls). Wis 3:1-9. Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Rom 5:5-11 or Rom 6:3-9. Mt 25:34. Jn 6:37-40.

Friday, November 3: Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres, religious. Rom 9:1-5. Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20. Jn 10:27. Lk 14:1-6.

Saturday, November 4: Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, bishop. Rom 11:1-2a, 11-12, 25-29. Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, 17-18. Mt 11:29ab. Lk 14:1, 7-11.

Sunday, November 5: Thirty-first Sunday in Or-

dinary Time. Mal 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10. Ps 131:1, 2, 3. 1 Thes 2:7b-9, 13. Mt 23:9b, 10b. Mt 23:1-12.

Monday, November 6: Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 11:29-36. Ps 69:30-31, 33-34, 36. Jn 8:31b-32. Lk 14:12-14.

Tuesday, November 7: Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Bl. John Duns Scotus, priest.

Rom 12:5-16ab. Ps 131:1bcde, 2, 3. Mt 11:28. Lk 14:15-24.

Wednesday, November 8: Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 13:8-10. Ps 112:1b-2, 4-5, 9. 1 Pt 4:14. Lk 14:25-33.

Thursday, November 9: Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12.

Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17. 2 Chr 7:16. Jn 2:13-22.

Friday, November 10: Memorial of St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor. Rom 15:14-21. Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. 1 Jn 2:5. Lk 16:1-8.

Saturday, November 11: Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, bishop. Rom 16:3-9, 16, 22-27. Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 10-11. 2 Cor 8:9. Lk 16:9-15.

neighbor. One cannot practice one and neglect the other because love of God impels us to love others, and the love of neighbor will lead us to the love of God. In Exodus reading God anxiously asks us to care for the alien, widow, orphan and the poor. We cannot love God without loving others, especially those on the fringes of society, those who cannot help themselves. God has a preferential love for them and so should we. This is God’s desire and demand. If we want to love God and worship him, as God reminds us through the prophets of the Old Testament, we ought to practice justice, which is a form of love. Without our love for those languishing in peripheries, all our claims of love have to be reviewed and re-evaluated.

John of the Cross says, “In the evening of life we will be judged by how well we loved.” In Matthew 25, in the final judgment, we shall be judged by how well we loved those who are most in need – with whom Jesus identifies. We begin our love with family and friends and extend it to larger circles of those in need. Let’s keep working on love.

Father Puthota, currently on sabbatical and who filed this reflection from Rome, is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco, and director of pastoral ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

pope francis Good works are response to, not reason for God’s forgiveness

VATICAN CITY – Christians are holy not because of their good works but because they recognize their sins before God and receive his forgiveness, Pope Francis said.

In his homily at Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae Oct. 20, the pope said that good deeds are “the answer to the freely given love of God, who justifies us and forgives us always.”

“It is the Lord; he is the one who has forgiven our original sin and who forgives us every time we go to him,” the pope said. “We cannot forgive our own sins with our works, only he can forgive. We can respond to this forgiveness with our works.”

The day’s Gospel reading from St. Luke, in which Christ warns his disciples about the dangers of hypocrisy, speaks of people trying to appear holy to others, while remaining “all dirty” within, the pope said.

“These people put makeup on their soul, they live off makeup, holiness is makeup for them,” he said. “Jesus always asks us to be truthful, but truthful in our hearts.”

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(Photos courtesy Bruno family)

Left, a scene on Sweet Gum Street in Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood in the wake of the Tubbs Fire. Right, gathering in the fire’s aftermath are, from left, Bernard Gibson, Kathleen Bruno, Pat Gibson, Liz Bruno, Rachelle Gibson, Kevin Gibson, Shawn Canepa, Chad Canepa and young Cameron Canepa in Chad’s arms. The Gibsons live in Coffey Park and their home was among the 100 surviving of the neighborhood’s 1,000 homes. The Brunos jumped into immediate action after the fire with moral support and a vanload of supplies for affected families.

Aftermath: Deathly quiet neighborhoods in stunned Santa Rosa FROM PAGE 1

Pat Gibson’s younger sister Kathleen Bruno marveled that the Gibson house was the one where Petaluma firefighters chose to take a stand against the fire – because there was a fire hydrant in front and the four houses on Sweet Gum were still standing.

“It was in front of Pat and Bernard’s house,” Bruno said. “They had no idea he was a retired firefighter.

How many times did he put his life on the line? How many times did he save other people’s lives?”

Bruno, a parishioner at St. Catherine of Siena in Burlingame, and her sister Liz Bruno organized a 15-passenger van of donations that filled within hours as friends spread the word via email and Facebook.

“They love with their heart and their soul,” Kathleen Bruno said.

“They have a huge community. All their best friends lost everything.”

Gibson was in tears as she described a young woman, 29, she used to babysit. The woman fled the fire with her husband, a state firefighter, along with their children ages 3 and 15 months and her grandfather. Her husband raced up the hill to rescue the older man from a nearby memory care facility, saying, as Gibson re-

‘The fire is chasing them. The embers were the size of bricks.’

Pat Gibson

Resident of Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood called, “‘I’m going to get your grandfather.’”

As the mother began backing out of the driveway, her husband “came barreling down the street,” Gibson said.

“The fire is chasing them,” she said.

“The embers were the size of bricks.”

There was a traffic jam in leaving the subdivision, and the parents made a pact that if the fire got to the car, as the young mother related to Gibson, “I was going to put my grandfather in the walker, backward, and my husband would grab the kids.”

“If we have to run for it,” she told her husband, “you take the kids.”

Fortunately, Gibson said, the family and everyone else in vehicles escaped the fire. Police cars had arrived to direct traffic.

“I am sure there are thousands and thousands of those incredible stories,” Gibson said.

Meanwhile, Gibson’s son Kevin, who had just moved to San Francisco, posted on Facebook, “My hometown is in flames” and that he was gathering donations.

Bruno saw her nephew’s post, called St. Rose Parish in Santa Rosa and left a message. Parochial vicar Father Jose Isaac Alejandro de la Cruz returned the call and told them they could bring donations.

“I said to my sister, ‘I know where to rent a van, we’re ready to go,’” Bruno recalled. “She said, ‘We don’t have anything.’ Within 24 hours we had filled the van.”

Father de la Cruz said people started helping immediately.

“People started coming from San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, and many people from this area,” he said. “I said, ‘who told them we have this open for people?’ They said, ‘I looked it up and saw it on the Internet (that) Santa Rosa Catholic church is open to bring gifts for people who lost their house.’”

“Their belief in God, their belief in Jesus, their belief in helping each other, is the best way we can do on earth, “ Father de la Cruz said. “In this moment, I can see many people have feeling for each other.”

“It was a beautiful effort that converged,” said Bruno of her family’s outreach, adding that one man sent her an email to say he was giving $1,000 to the fire relief effort after receiving her note. “The outpouring of generosity we saw in 24 hours was unprecedented.”

For Pat Gibson, one of the most emotional moments was when her friend walked out of church on Sunday as Gibson stood talking with her two sisters and son. She had asked Kathleen to set aside suitcases so her friend would have somewhere to put the clothes she had purchased because the fire had burned everything.

The two women, who had gone on vacations together with their families all their lives in the town, saw each other and fell into each other’s arms, crying.

“I feel so guilty, even though it’s not my fault,” Gibson said. “That our life is intact and theirs in shambles.”

Bruno said then her sister’s friend walked over to Bruno and said, “Are you collecting nonperishables? And then she said, ‘Oh, honey go to the car and get the stuff we brought.’”

“There’s a woman who’s lost everything, and she’s giving,” said Bruno.

“The goodness of the human spirit knows no bounds.”

Residents return home: There isn’t one Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, RSM

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he end is not the real end in the story of any tragedy when “good persons” are left behind. Rather it is “our middle life,” when the reality of all we have lost becomes real and we know that no matter who we are, or where we are going, “backward is not an option.” Recognize that the adrenaline rush that has kept you going is beginning to fade, decisions regarding change and possibilities loom before you and the choices you make will live with you for life after the fire (or any tragedy) that has become a life event this year.

Grieving people were never asked: “Is this a good time? Are you

Facing sudden loss head-on is to be able to create new traditions while mourning what is no longer there. ready?” Rather life happens and we are expected to adjust using all the God-given gifts that rest within us. The reality of the holidays, fast approaching, can be another source of deep grief. You have been “robbed of your place of gatherings, your community of friends, your Thanksgiving table and traditions. Christmas trees, decorations, the stuff of family history is no longer in the “boxes of keepers” – the symbolic past times of ornaments and love reminders.

To face this head-on is to be able to

create new traditions while mourning what is no longer there. Look at your Thanksgiving table this year as a time of gratitude. See the people who are working beside you, family sending gifts of love and assistance, perhaps from afar, and all the promise of prayer that bolsters hope and gives comfort.

This year try a “Remembering Tree.” Write on colored paper or small ornaments all the losses you have experienced and wish to remember. Balance these ornaments by writing all the new people and

things that are happening to make the best of a difficult situation.

Look for quiet joy. Write your fears and worries, your concerns and your sadness and place these in the empty crib at the foot of the tree recalling that God, who wishes us true happiness, has never left our side.

Grief puts us in the middle of our life. No turning back. Forward is yet to be made clear. As faith-filled people God walks with us and has sent miracle people to stand beside us journeying with us into the “new.”

The message of the season is: Faithfilled people have hope. God is here.

Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher is ministry of consolation coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Napa parish becomes ‘rogue’ shelter in Wine Country firestorms Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

St. Appolinaris Parish in downtown Napa morphed from a church offering coffee and donuts after its morning Mass on Oct. 9 into an ad hoc fire relief shelter by nightfall.

The parish and school, one of the southernmost of the Diocese of Santa Rosa’s 48 parishes, was flanked by the distant smoke of two fires that morning; the Nuns Fire to the northwest and the Atlas Fire to the northeast. The fires broke out within minutes of each other about 10 p.m. Oct. 8.

But the flames moved more quickly than the Mass. By the time Mass was over, people who had left their homes in the nearby hills to attend were informed they could not return home, Father David Jenuwine, parochial vicar of St. Appolinaris told Catholic San Francisco.

By lunchtime, someone brought sandwiches and “it went from there,” he said. “It was really God’s work because we didn’t know what we were doing at first.”

Clergy, staff, school families and other parishioners – some of whom lost their own homes to the fires – worked around the clock in the early days of the fires to supply hot meals, water, bedding and, basic supplies to anyone in need. The parish also added a second daily Mass and offered an evening prayer service.

Father Jenuwine went to the U.S. National Guard site at the Napa County Airport and set up a folding table to offer Mass to the men and women called to duty for what is being called the largest and most destructive outbreak of wildfires in California history. As the fires grew over the next few days, displacing more people from their homes, the official Red Cross shelters in Napa became “absolutely overwhelmed,” said Father

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Father David Jenuwine, left and above, parochial vicar at St. Appolinaris Parish in downtown Napa, used a folding table to celebrate Mass at the U.S. National Guard site at Napa County Airport on Oct. 14. St. Appolinaris Church and school became an overflow emergency shelter for evacuated homeowners, vineyard workers and others affected by the Atlas and Nuns fires.

Jenuwine, a former automotive engineer who was ordained a priest in 2009 in the Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan, and spent seven years as a parish priest there before the Santa Rosa diocese assigned him to St. Appolinaris last year.

Officials asked the parish whether it could set up cots in the school gym to handle their overflow, and with that, St. Appolinaris became what Father Jenuwine called a “rogue shelter,” housing at its peak, 70 fire victims.

The origin of the word “rogue” comes from the Latin “rogare,” noted Father Jenuwine, which means “to ask or pray for help.”

“We were a body of sorts,” he said.

“Our pastor Father Balaswamy Govindu acted as the head with Adelina Gomez, business manager as the brains.” Youth minister Dominic Figueroa was the heart, he said, and parish secretary Valentina Deluna and her husband Deacon Jesse Deluna

were the hands and feet. Street evangelism leader Paul Obranovitch ran the kitchen with Sara Decreval and Pauline Seago and Nancy Haymond coordinated volunteers and loose ends. Maintenance man Chris Chavez “was everywhere” and “I handled communications, sort of like a spinal column,” he said.

“I don’t think any of us slept for eight days,” Father Jenuwine said. “It was God’s power that kept us going.”

Cardinal Newman: St. Vincent supports ‘rival’ in time of need FROM PAGE 1

community for supporting the Catholic schools hit hard by the wildfires just as the school year had begun.

St. Rose School in Santa Rosa also suffered major damage in the Tubbs Fire. Studying and learning in the weeks and months to come would be under “less than ideal circumstances,” he said.

“I can assure you that your offer to help and your participation here this evening is a sign of great encouragement to those who have suffered loss,” said Bishop Vasa. “They know the school community, the Christian community, and the diocesan community has not forgotten or abandoned them in their time of need.”

The evening, he said, also offered an opportunity to reflect upon the mission of the church in “bringing salvation to men” and the role of Catholic education in that mission.

“That’s what you are doing tonight, you’re allowing that light of the Gospel which shines in your heart to reflect out into a world darkened by the smoke of fire,” he said.

Spirits were high in the gym lined with long, tables decorated in Cardinal Newman and St. Vincent school colors. What appeared to be several generations of Cardinal Newman students and staff were seen in sports

(Courtesy photo)

The Marin Catholic High School student body donned red in solidarity with fire-damaged Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa. Marin Catholic raised $25,000 for Cardinal Newman relief through a “No-Go Fireman’s Ball” online-only fundraiser. apparel or red shirts with the motto, “One School Undivided.”

Cardinal Newman principal Graham Rutherford told Catholic San Francisco that despite some initial talk of his students, particularly seniors, finishing out their school years at St. Vincent or at Marin Catholic, “we do not believe students will need to go to any other school.”

“As one community we are working to provide a combination of online and onsite programs for the rest of this semester that will allow students to stay on track,” he said. Classes will

resume on Oct. 24 at four parish sites, one for each class level.

St. Vincent alum and board member Jeff Adams said that the pastor, principal, board of regents and the St. Vincent High School leadership team met after learning about the devastating damage to Cardinal Newman High School and organized the event which raised through dinner and raffle tickets and a silent auction, approximately $25,000 to aid school families, faculty and staff.

Vice principal Claudia Thompson and Marie Rodnick of the school’s

campus ministry, he said, were instrumental in the quick coordination of the event which also served to lift the spirits of the community after a couple of weeks marred by “chaos and the unknown.”

The past few weeks have been “disheartening, sad, chaotic and helpless” for so many individuals, families, and the whole community,” he said. “Last night I felt joy and hope again seeing the kindness towards others and hearing the laughter of children running around and playing. This too shall pass and we will be stronger for it.”

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Archbishop celebrates annual Red Mass for legal profession Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was principal celebrant of the St. Thomas More Society’s annual Red Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco, Oct. 12. The liturgy “seeks blessing and guidance for judges, attorneys, law school professors, law students, government officials and others involved in the legal and justice systems, and indeed for all who seek justice,” the Thomas More society said on its website.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne R. Bolanos was honored with the St. Thomas More Award. “Judge Bolanos has been a model of judicial excellence, as well as community service,” the society said in earlier announcements of the Mass. Homilist was Dominican Father Pius Pietrzck, an attorney and current chair of the Pastoral Studies Department at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

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Pictured, from left, at the Red Mass Dinner Oct. 12 are Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone; St. Thomas Award winner Judge Suzanne Bolanos with her husband, Al, and their twin daughters; San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kelly; Dominican Father Pius Pietrzck; Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor, Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, where Judge Bolanos and her family are members; Karen Kimmey, St. Thomas More Society president; and Jesuit Father John Piderit, vicar for administration for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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For a complete job description: Go to stignatiussf.org/post/sacristan-new-job-posting Full time, non-exempt, eligible for benefits Reports to: Senior Director of Parish Operations Qualifications: An active member of the Roman Catholic faith community. Working knowledge of the Catholic liturgical cycle and celebrations or the potential to learn it on the job. Ability to administer and perform the daily responsibilities of the position including the physical requirements.

To apply, send email with cover letter and résumé to Gary Price, grprice@usfca.edu

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MADONNA DE LUME CELEBRATION/STS. PETER AND PAUL CHURCH, San Francisco: The local Sicilian and Italian-American Catholic community came together Oct. 1 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach for the annual Festa della Madonna del Lume (Mother of Light and Patroness of Porticello, Sicily). The celebration, which included

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KNIGHTS OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI: The Knights were out in number for the Mass and Consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Oct. 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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YOUNG ADULT DANCE at St. Hilary, Tiburon: Young adults danced the night away at St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon, on the evening of Oct. 14.

More than 80 gathered for the event from parishes including Star of the Sea, Nativity, St. Dominic and St. Sebastian as well as the dioceses of Santa Rosa, San Jose and Oakland. “Thank you again for the dance; I can’t get over how much fun I had, and I’m pretty sure I can speak for the rest of my group,” Olivia Ramos of Star of the Sea told Amanda George, archdiocesan young adult ministry director in a thank-you email. George said upcoming events for young adults include a Work/Life Balance Retreat on Nov. 4. For information on young adult ministry in the archdiocese visit sfarch.org/youngadults; georgea@sfarch.org.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 28 PALLIATIVE CARE: Dr. Dawn Gross, a palliative care physician at UCSF, on creating a safe space to transform the experience of end-of-life conversations from dread to discovery, 11 a.m., St. Anselm Church, Centennial Hall, 97 Shady Lane, Ross, register with Sissy Ratto, (415) 453-2342; St.anselmoffice@att.net.

SUNDAY, OCT. 29 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

TUESDAY, OCT. 31 NOON MUSIC: Free classical concert 12:30 p.m., Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, www. noontimeconcerts.org, (415) 777-3211.

Freewill donations accepted.

FRIDAY, NOV. 3 FAITH FORMATION: “Santa Clara Faith Formation Conference: God is always with us,” Nov. 3, 4, workshops P in English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese on the word, worship and witness as key components to our ongoing faith. www.SCFFC.org.

Parishes paying for parishioners’ attendance must register their parishioners and staff prior to Nov. 3. On-site registration will only be available for cash, check or credit card.

ILLNESS SUPPORT: Strength for the Journey, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 1-2:30 p.m., for people with life threatening illness, free admission, Deacon Christoph Sandoval, facilitates. Sister Elaine Stahl, (415)

Precita Avenue, San Francisco, Mass noon with lunch following. Reservations $25 to Constance Dalton (415) 642-6130 or cdalton@saicsf.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 28 WOMEN’S RETREAT: “Taste and See: Praying with the 5 Senses” with Ginny Kubitz Moyer, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., University of San Francisco, Lone Mountain Campus, Del Ginny Kubitz Santo Reading Moyer Room, 2800 Turk Ave., San Francisco, $35, http://stignatiussf.org/event/ taste-and-see-praying-withthe-5-senses.

PEACE MASS: Church of the Epiphany, 827 Vienna St., San Francisco, 10:30 a.m., Father Eugene Tungol, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@ gmail.com.

SPIRITUAL GROWTH: Dominican Sister Rose Marie Hennessy with spirituality of the harvest, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose chapel, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont, 1-3 p.m., $10, registration required by Oct. 31, http:// bit.ly/2017HarvestSpirituality; (510) 933-6334.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 4 YOUNG ADULT RETREAT: Youth ministers and young adults work/life balance retreat.

For all youth ministers, core team members, and all young adults in the Archdiocese of D.J. Bernal San Francisco, Collins Center at St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Avenue at Vicente, San UFrancisco.

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ST. PETER SCHOOL MASS: Annual memorial Mass for graduates and friends of St. Peter School, 24th and Alabama streets, San Francisco, 2:30 p.m., in parish church, reception follows, Father Moises Agudo, principal celebrant and homilist; (415) 647-8662.

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VETERANS DAY MEMORIAL SERVICES ~ STAR OF THE SEA SECTION - OUTDOOR SERVICE ~ Rev. Msgr. Michael Padazinski, Presider Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve

PLEASE JOIN WITH US ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2017 AT 11:00 A.M. TO HONOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM....

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Uniformed Chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco will conduct the memorial ceremony accompanied by Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard.

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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, CA 415-479-9020

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero | 650-752-1679 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay | 650-712-1679 St Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas | 415-479-9021