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Poll: Death penalty support lowest in nearly 50 years CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Voter support for the death penalty as punishment for serious crimes in California is at its lowest point in nearly 50 years, according to the latest Field Poll report released on Sept. 12. The Field Poll, a San Francisco-based independent and nonpartisan survey of public opinion, has been tracking California voter’s views on the death penalty since 1956. The latest telephone poll of 1,280 registered California voters was completed Aug. 14-28 in six languages and dialects. It found that 56 percent of voters polled are in favor of the death penalty and 34 percent opposed. SEE DEATH PENALTY, PAGE 2 (CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
Elderly people, including religious sisters, wait for the start of Pope Francis’ encounter with the elderly in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 28.
Pope warns on ‘hidden euthanasia’ of elderly CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis warned against the abandonment and neglect of the elderly, calling it a “hidden euthanasia” rooted in today’s “poisonous” culture of disposal and an economic system of greed. In the presence of his predecessor, Pope Francis also thanked retired Pope Benedict XVI for staying to live at the Vatican and being like “a wise grandfather at home.” “A people who don’t take care of their grandparents and don’t treat them well is a people with no future. Why no future? Because they lose the memory (of the past) and they sever their own roots,” he said. The pope’s comments came during a special encounter and Mass for older people in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 28. Some 40,000 grandparents, retired men and women, and their families attended “The Blessing for a Long Life” event, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Family. Pope Francis specifically invited Pope Benedict to attend the event,
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“Our mission is to show each person the love of Christ,” Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said in the U.S. bishops’ statement for Respect Life Month. Cardinal Sean “As uniquely O’Malley created individuals, we each have unique gifts which we are called to use to share Christ’s love. We are continually given opportunities to do so in our interactions … We may never know how much a simple gesture of compassion may affect someone’s life.” making it the third time since his retirement in 2013 that the German pontiff has made a rare appearance in public with his successor. Carrying a cane and looking
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strong, the 87-year-old pope arrived about one hour into the event, which featured music and testimonies from families. About 10 minutes later, while the famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sang “Con te partiro” (“I’ll Go With You”), Pope Francis made his entrance with a small group of families. He immediately went to greet and embrace Pope Benedict, who only stayed for the next hour, leaving before the start of Mass. Addressing him as “Your Holiness,” Pope Francis thanked the retired pontiff for his presence, telling the crowd, “I really like having him living here in the Vatican, because it’s like having a wise grandfather at home.” The wisdom and love of older people are instrumental for building the future, and they can even cheer up grumpy teenagers, the pope said. “It’s very good for you to go visit an older person. Look at our kids. Sometimes we see them being listless and sad; (if) they go visit an older person, they become happy,” he said.
As soon as Rebekah Chaveste swallowed the RU-486 pill at a Planned Parenthood clinic, she regretted it. “I was crying and I was alone,” recalled Chaveste, a 20-year-college student who lives in the Sacramento area. “Thank God for smartphones,” she told Catholic San Francisco. Sitting in her car outside the Planned Parenthood, “I googled RU-486” and found a website for RU-486 reversals, abortionpillreversal.com. Chaveste thought it was fake, but called anyway and even though the website was for an organization based in San Diego, the woman at the end of the telephone found a doctor nearby to help her, Chaveste recalled. Abortionpillreversal.com is a website of Culture of Life Family Services
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NEED TO KNOW ITALIAN MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant of the 11:30 Mass on Oct. 5 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. on Washington Square, San Francisco, commemorating the feast of Madonna del Lume, patroness of those who working the seas. Sts. Peter and Paul is especially happy to welcome the archbishop on this occasion: “His excellency’s father was a Sicilian fisherman and was baptized here in the parish,” a bulletin notice said. BISHOPS REFLECT ON DROUGHT: Marking the feast of St. Francis of Assisi on Oct. 4, California’s Catholic bishops commented on water conservation and water management efforts in the face of the state’s drought and urged that “the solidarity and compassion that guide these efforts must become abiding habits of the heart as we discern the best way to ensure a sustainable future for the present and future generations of Californians.” In a reflection posted on the California Catholic Conference website, the bishops said, “Let us also ask the intercession of St. Francis of Assisi so that we can all be better stewards of God’s creation. As we work to mitigate the impact of the drought on our sisters and brothers, let us take encouragement from the words of St. Francis: ‘Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.’” YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE: Pope Francis has called upon all men and women religious “to wake up the world” with their testimony. To answer that call in the 2015 Year of Consecrated Life, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations, with representatives from the three national coalitions of religious orders, are presenting a set of initiatives that focus on bringing together consecrated religious men and women and families, particularly young adults, the bishops announced Sept. 30. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco the first event in a series of activities planned for the year will be evening prayer Oct. 20 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presiding. For more information contact Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto at (415) 614-5535.
CORRECTION ‘PAROCHIAL SCHOOL RETROFITS LIKELY,’ SEPT. 26: Larry Kamer was incorrectly identified. He was a spokesman for the archdiocese.
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DEATH PENALTY: Poll shows support dropping FROM PAGE 1
This may not appear to be good news for opponents of capital punishment, but the opposition is down 12 percent from the 69 percent who voted in favor of the death penalty in 2011. In 1965, public support for the death penalty was at a low of 51 pecent. In a phone interview with Catholic San Francisco Sept. 29, Matt Cherry, executive director of Death Penalty Focus, a nonprofit working to move public opinion against the death penalty, said support for the death penalty has never dropped so quickly. “Voter support for the death penalty has dropped as much in the last three years as it has in the previous two decades,” he said. Cherry said the seemingly sudden drop in support has several possible explanations, including a federal judge’s ruling this summer that California’s use of the death penalty is “dysfunctional and violates the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.” U.S. District Judge Carmac J. Carney’s defendant had been sentenced to death in California in 1995, making him one of 748 people in the state on death row. Like 40 percent of those, he said, the condemned man had been there 19 years or more. “In California, the execution of a death sentence is so infrequent, and the delays preceding it so extraordinary, that the death penalty is deprived of any deterrent or retributive effect it might once have had,” he wrote July 19. “Such an outcome is antithetical to any civilized notion of just punishment.” Cherry said that while his ruling only applied to that case and the state is expected to appeal, “It cast the whole system into doubt.” He noted that the system was already in doubt, however. In 2006 a federal judge halted executions in California after finding flaws in the state’s execution protocols after a number of disastrously botched executions. A judicial review of a new execution chamber and new methodologies is pending. When asked about the judge’s ruling about the death penalty and the length of time it takes to carry out an execution, the poll report found voters more divided. Voters were asked whether the state should work to speed up the process for execution or do away with the
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Protesters gather at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta during a vigil for death row inmate Troy Davis before his Sept. 21, 2011, execution, one of two that prompted 200 Catholic theologians, scholars and social justice advocates to call for abolishing the death penalty death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole. Statewide, 52 percent supported speeding up the process while 40 percent favored life in prison without parole. Another 8 percent had no opinion. In a recent blog post, former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti said that in his 32 years as a prosecutor he had sent many people to death row believing he had served the people of the county by seeking justice. Fifteen years later, he said, “I know the death penalty is a costly charade that doesn’t make us any safer or deter crime. And it will always carry with it one fatal risk: executing an innocent person.” Someone like San Quentin State Prison inmate Crandall McKinnon, perhaps. He has been on death row since 1999 for a murder that he says he did not commit. The prisoner wrote Catholic San Francisco in August saying, “I have no idea if you are aware of the issues around California’s broken death penalty system and how it affects individuals like myself.” He said lengthy delays can and have caused the loss of important evidence, witnesses and files. “I do not wish to live out my life here while lawyers engage in procedural wrangling,” he wrote. In a separate call to the paper his mother, Jamie McKinnon of Fontana, said the family cannot afford the kind of legal representation that could help her son. In 2001, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg commented: “People who are well-represented at trial do not get the death penalty.” Cherry said that programs such as California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty are adding “new and unexpected voices to the growing chorus against the death penalty.” “The district attorney assured me
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
Mother and daughter, reunited, share a Mass together for immigrants LUIS E. BAZAN SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO
Just two days after Yeni Escobar was released from a Texas Immigration detention center, she joined her mother Dorila Pereira at St. Peter Church in San Francisco at a Mass to pray for immigrants. The Sept. 26 Mass was celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. Yeni started her journey to the United States after her sister Melissa Escobar helped her to escape from her home because she was a victim of domestic violence. The sisters ran away from their town in Honduras because Yeni’s abuser promised he would kill both if he found them again. They came to live in San Francisco with their mother, who lives in the Mission District and is a parishioner at St. Anthony of Padua Church. In their journey to the United States, they were kidnapped and eventually rescued at the border and held at a detention center. Melissa remains in detention. Yeni, released after seven months, is seeking a humanitarian visa. At the Mass at St. Peter, Yeni noted the words of Bishop Justice in his reference to Ecclesiastes: “There is a time for everything under the sun, and today our immigrant families live in fear and maybe they feel trapped in a cycle where they cannot escape.” Bishop Justice finished his sermon saying that Christ is the way out of hopelessness. “Once we receive his mercy we can change the world and time,” he said.
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Above, pictured Sept. 26 at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, at the archdiocese’s second monthly Mass for immigration reform are, from left, Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish; Msgr. Adolfo Valdivia; Father Moises Agudo, archdiocesan vicar for Spanish-speaking; Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice; Deacon Mario Zúniga. Right, Yeni Escobar and her mother Dorila Pereira, a parishioner at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, San Francisco, are pictured at the Mass. Yeni, who arrived from Honduras to flee domestic violence and death threats, was freed last week from immigration detention after seven months. The little girl in the picture is Nicole, 8, a U.S. citizen whose father has been in immigration detention for seven months and whose release is being sought by advocates for the family.
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Tony Rouse’s life compass has pointed him toward good work in all directions. Today, he is chief financial officer for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County and a volunteer member of the parTony Rouse ish SVdP conference at St. Matthew’s in San Mateo. He celebrates his 40th year as a Vincentian in January. Tony, the fifth of 10 children, grew up in St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto. “My life experiences in East Palo Alto were important to choosing a life of service and trying to make a difference in the lives around me,” Tony told me in an email. He said he’s “always wanted to serve God and everyone.” Not unlike Mother Teresa, he looks to “small good acts” as the best he can give. Helping the poor face to face was among the highest ideals of St. Vincent de Paul Society founder Frederic Ozanam. Home visits modeled on that principle continue that today. “When I am welcomed into a home I am given the chance to serve the very real family of God,” Tony said. “When I go to a home I try to help with the same enthusiasm I would have in helping my own siblings and family.” Tony’s inspiration on home visits are the words “I was in need and you helped me.” He said they express his gratitude in being able to help another. Among his priorities is trying to listen. “In many cases they only want to share their need and I do not press for more.” As chief financial officer for the San Mateo County council of SVdP, Tony sees giving from both sides – wanting to give and how much giving is possible. “We are stretched to our limits to provide resources,” Tony said. “It is painful to see a family or individual unable to afford the necessities of
LOTS OF THANKS: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County honored volunteers and supporters at its Ozanam Liturgy and Awards Brunch Sept. 20. More than 300 people were on hand for the Mass and festivities. Pictured from left are Dominican Father Christopher Fadok, pastor, St. Raymond, Menlo Park; Deacon Martin Schurr; Deacon Abel Mejia; Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; Basilian Father Anthony Giampietro, director of development for the Archdiocese of San Francisco; Capuchin Father Brian McKenna, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Angels. life or see them suffer from physical or mental illness. We do as much as we can handle trying to affirm each person’s dignity and not let them feel alone.” “Our parents Francis and Elaine Rouse taught us and gave us the example of devotion to the family at home and the family of God.” ANSWERING CALL: Megan Branch Rathgeb is a 1988 graduate of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, later earning a degree in nursing from Seattle University. “Megan is a certified oncology nurse and has dedicated a majority of Megan Rathgeb her career to taking care of patients with a cancer diagnosis,” NDV said. She and her husband Cristian married seven years ago. Their children Joaquin and Noemi are current NDV students. CROSS REF: The race is on for
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St. Ignatius marks anniversary as church, parish CHRISTINA GRAY
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St. Ignatius Parish will celebrate the centennial of the church and its 20th anniversary as a parish October 4 with a trio of commemorative activities open to the public. The parish will bury a time capsule containing historic and contemporary objects memorializing the first 100 years of the church at 4 p.m. followed by a centennial Mass at 5 p.m. A fundraising gala dinner for parishioners and honored guests in the University of San Francisco’s Memorial Gym is at 6 p.m. “We’ve been knocking it out of the park for 20 years,” Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio, who was installed as fourth pastor of St. Ignatius Church in 2012, told Catholic San Francisco. The twin-spired church located on a bluff on Fulton Street at Parker Street on the USF campus is the legacy of a continuous Jesuit presence in San Francisco since 1849, when three Italian Jesuit priests arrived to minister to the swelling gold rushera population. Dedicated in 1914, the church today serves as the spiritual center for a diverse parish community of 1,200 households that includes families, single professionals, empty-nesters, retirees and USF students. The centennial church is the fifth in a succession of St. Ignatius churches built after the founding fathers opened the first church in a small wooden structure in the new city’s sand dune-covered center in 1855. The first church location included a small schoolhouse that became St. Ignatius Academy, USF’s predecessor. The history of St. Ignatius Church and the school, run parallel to each other. Today, USF students and St. Ignatius College Preparatory students enjoy concerts, lectures and graduations in addition to attending Mass there. St. Ignatius Parish moved to a larger three-story brick school building that was built adjacent to it in 1862. The new church attracted Catholics away from other established parishes in San Francisco, leading to a dispute between St. Ignatius’ first pastor Jesuit Father Anthony Maraschi and Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, who stripped St. Ignatius of its parish status in 1863. The third and grandest St. Ignatius Church was constructed at Hayes Street and Van Ness Avenue in 1880. It thrived until 1906 when it was destroyed not by the earthquake but by the subsequent “ham and eggs fire,” so-called because it was started by a resident cooking breakfast in her fireplace. The church and college lost nearly everything in the fire except the steel church bell which can be heard today ringing in the Italian-style campanile. The fourth St. Ignatius Church was a small, stucco building near Golden Gate Park. Engineer John E. CASA FUGAZI 678 GREEN STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133 TEL: 415.362.6423 FAX: 415.362.3565 INFO@ITALIANCS.COM WWW.ITALIANCS.COM
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An aerial view of St. Ignatius Church, a landmark in San Francisco since it was built in 1914. Pope convinced the Jesuits to acquire a piece of land he envisioned as a perfect site to construct a church “with towering outlines visible from all parts of the city.” Architect Charles J. I. Devlin began drawing plans for the current church in 1909 built in a style that has been called “Jesuit Baroque,” an eclectic mix of Spanish and Italian Baroque and classic Greek and Roman designs. The new church was dedicated on Aug. 2, 1914. Interior artwork shows scenes from Jesuit history and other art reflects Jesuit spirituality, which places great emphasis on the use of concrete imagery in spiritual reflection.
St. Ignatius is one of two Jesuit parishes in San Francisco. St. Agnes is the other.
Father Bonfiglio said that St. Ignatius, which was reinstated as an archdiocesan parish in 1994, has a “vibrant liturgical life.” The parish is also distinguished by the number and breadth of outreach ministries and social justice programs, he said. “Four things that the parish does really well are the Get on the Bus, Shelter Meals, The Gubbio Project and Support Life ministries,” he said. When asked what he see as the road map for St. Ignatius as it heads into its second century, Father Bonfiglio said: “There is a vast part of San Francisco that remains un-churched. We have a responsibility to change that.”
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He said that not only are Christians in the minority, they often find themselves caught in the middle of the warring factions on either side of the conflict. More than 70,000 people – mostly civilians – have been killed and more than 3 million Syrians have been displaced since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011. In addition, some 1.1 million people have taken refuge in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. (CNS PHOTO/MURAD SEZER, REUTERS) “The problem is you Syrian Kurdish refugees walk have Palestinians on with their belongings Sept. 29 one side, Arabs on the after crossing into Turkey. other, and the Christians are stuck in the middle,� Father Miranda said. “Both sides have preconceptions about the other,� he added. “People have their own beliefs and they don’t understand or appreciate the other’s style of life.� While “everyone receives some form of help from the United Nations,� Father Miranda said Christians must rely solely on the Catholic Church for support. “Our mission (in Syria) is to evangelize the culture,� Father Miranda said. “We are trying to bring Christ to the people. We go to the places where the church can’t go due to circumstances.�
about what is happening in Syria, Father Rodrigo Miranda was impressed that a 13-year-old girl was one of the first to respond. “She came up to me and immediately asked: ‘What can we do to help?’� said Father Miranda, a priest of the Institute of the Incarnate Word. As the current pastor at the cathedral in Aleppo, Syria, Father Miranda is hoping that all Catholics would be just as quick to generously respond to the needs of fellow Christians in the Middle East. For the past three years, he said, Aleppo has been embroiled in a violent civil war that has destroyed the once-thriving Syrian city that is home to about 2.5 million people. While the vast majority of inhabitants are Muslim, Father Miranda said there is a small contingent of Christians living in Aleppo. “A few years ago, I’d say maybe 15 percent of the population was Christian,� Father Miranda told The Anchor, newspaper of the Fall River diocese. “Now, I think it’s closer to 10 percent, if not less. We are clearly the minority within the community.�
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
Father Tolton’s sainthood cause heads to Vatican CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
CHICAGO – With prayers, songs and sealing wax, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago formally closed the investigation into the life and virtues of Father Augustus Tolton Sept. 29 in a ceremony in the St. James Chapel Father Augustus at the Archbishop Tolton Quigley Center.
The prayer service marked the binding and sealing of the dossier local research aimed at sainthood for Father Tolton, who was born a slave in 1854 on a plantation near Brush Creek, Missouri, and later became the first African-American diocesan priest. Cardinal George opened the cause in 2010. The cause for canonization now moves to the Vatican, where the documents collected by supporters of his cause in the Archdiocese of Chicago will be analyzed, bound into a book
called a “position,” or official position paper, and evaluated by theologians, and then, supporters hope, passed on to the pope, who can declare Tolton “venerable” if the pope determines he led a life of heroic virtue.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
Eucharistic congress: Don’t let faith get ‘watered down’ PATRICIA L. GUILFOYLE AND SUEANN HOWELL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Attendance at Mass remains central to Catholics’ faith because they must be nourished by Jesus’ body and blood or they will not remain strong Catholics, said Bishop Peter J. Jugis of Charlotte. “Take a moment to ask yourself: Why do you go to Mass?” he said in his homily for the closing Mass of the 2014 Eucharistic Congress in Charlotte. He emphasized that Catholics need the Eucharist to remain focused on Christ and keep their faith alive. “You need the Eucharist. You need Jesus. If you think you can live a Christian life without Jesus, you are mistaken,” he said at the Sept. 20 Mass. “You are not really living. A Catholic without the Eucharist will not remain a strong Catholic for long. One’s faith will become watered down, if he is not constantly being fed by Jesus.” The 10th annual congress, organized by the Diocese of Charlotte, focused on the theme “Behold, I make all things new,” from Chapter 21,
Verse 5 of the Book of Revelation. It drew an estimated 13,000 people to the Charlotte Convention Center for Mass and eucharistic adoration, confession, educational talks and music Sept. 19-20. “Sometimes if we are not careful,” Bishop Jugis said in his homily, “our Mass attendance can become routine,” a habit that Catholics don’t really think about. Catholics cannot live as “watered down Christians,” he noted, echoing Pope Francis’ words. “After all, why did Jesus give us the Eucharist? He wants the Eucharist to be a real part of our life – not just something we do once in a while” but an essential part of our lives. Receiving the Eucharist also renews us, he said. “Jesus is always doing new things: Lifting up those who have fallen down, forgiving sins and giving us a new start, healing the wounded. ... There is no limit to his ability to make all things new. And in the Eucharist he lifts us up, he renews us, he fills us with his love, he refreshes us, he makes us new.”
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Children receiving first Communion scatter rose petals during a eucharistic procession through downtown Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 20. That message was echoed by the congress’ two other keynote speakers: Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, and Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Cardinal O’Brien spoke following the Sept. 19 sacred music concert that traditionally opens the congress. “Before the words of consecration, there is simply bread and wine,” he said. “After the words of consecration, all the senses attest that only bread
and wine remain. No proof did Jesus offer of what he said about that bread and wine at the Last Supper – no supporting proofs or evidences of his divinity similar to those he had provided earlier through his many miracles. “Then as now, only faith justifies us receiving the bread and wine not as the bread and wine but as he insisted: ‘This is my body. This is my blood. Here on the altar my body is real food, my blood real drink. Only if you eat this food and drink this drink will you have life in you.’” Cardinal O’Brien noted that for some followers of Jesus this was too much, and many walked away. But others remained, saying, “Lord, You have the words of everlasting life, to whom else should we go?” Catholics today are called to exercise that same confident faith, he said. “Ours is a call to a mono-maniacally consuming vocation. There is a single standard of holiness for all of us: the uncompromised and uncompromising following of Jesus.” The beauty, goodness and truth of the Eucharist are what attract people to Jesus, he noted, and Catholics must not let themselves become numb to the profound truths of their faith.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
Orange cathedral design lets people ‘know they are loved by God’ ELISABETH DEFFNER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
GARDEN GROVE – Christ Cathedral has a multilayered mission – and with the rollout of the new design plans that will transform the former Crystal Cathedral into the mother church of the Diocese of Orange, it has taken a big step toward realizing that mission. “We’re trying to create a place that is welcoming to Catholics, certainly, but to people of all faiths, and even of no faith at all,” said cathedral rector Father Christopher Smith at a news conference Sept. 24. “(To let them) know that they are loved by God. That was the central message of Rev. Robert Schuller.” Designed by architect Philip Johnson to serve Rev. Schuller’s ministry, the iconic structure is the centerpiece of a 35-acre campus that includes seven buildings. When the diocese purchased the campus from Crystal Cathedral Ministries in 2011, it began the long process of transforming it to meet the needs of Orange County’s Catholic community. The first building to be renovated, the Arboretum, is where Christ Cathedral Parish celebrates Sunday Mass; weekday Mass is celebrated in the neighboring Art Gallery. The diocesan pastoral center has moved onto the campus, and Christ Cathedral Academy is now in its second year of educating students from preK through eighth grade. The Tower of Hope – where Eternal Word Television Network and Immaculate Heart Radio will have studios, and the Pontifical Mission Societies will have an office – is under renovation. And the transformation of the church itself, which closed to visitors late last year, is in progress.
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Christ Cathedral, the former Crystal Cathedral, will be transformed into a mother church for the Diocese of Orange.
“It’s probably the first time in the history of the Catholic Church taking a major building of worship from the Protestant Reformed tradition and transforming it into a Catholic church,” said Msgr. Arthur Holquin, episcopal vicar for divine worship. “And not just any Catholic church, but a cathedral.” The great challenge is to respect the original cathedral’s iconic design while transforming the space into a Catholic church. Incorporated into the new design are the elements of a Catholic church, including pews and kneelers, as well as those that make a cathedral a cathedral: the altar, the ambo, and the cathedra, or the bishop’s chair. “Those symbols will speak loudly, clearly, unambiguously” to the church’s catholicity, said Msgr. Holquin. Christ Cathedral will seat 2,100 in an antiphonal design: Worshippers will be seated on the east and west sides of the church, to the side of the altar. It’s a design that hearkens back to both ancient Roman basilicas and the monastic tradition, Orange Bishop Kevin W. Vann said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
Archbishop: Vocation directors vital to future of church CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. – Archbishop Jorge Patron Wong, secretary for seminaries at the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy, understands the need to affirm, assist and support priests involved in vocation ministry. During his weeklong participation at the 51st annual convention of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors, held Sept. 19-26 in Long Island, the archbishop made sure he connected with as many priests as he could, to encourage their efforts in helping men to respond to God’s call to the priesthood. Their work is vital to the future of the church, Archbishop Patron told Catholic News Service. “Pope Francis says if the younger generation answers God’s call, Christ’s call, they’re going to renew the church,� the archbishop said. “Our hope is that the new generation – guided by good priests, good staff at the seminaries, good formators, good spiritual directors and good vocation directors – will renew the church with their energy, with their enthusiasm and the ideas the Holy Spirit is placing in their hearts.� The convention drew 280 participants, including 16 bishops and 230 vocation directors from the U.S., Australia, Canada, England, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Scotland. Each day featured opportunities for prayer, education and fellowship. Archbishop Patron’s attendance
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Priests pray at Mass Sept. 23 at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y., during the 51st annual convention of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors. was a welcome sign of papal support for priests who face a variety of challenges as they look to generate priestly vocations for their respective dioceses and eparchies. One of the biggest challenges is making prayer a priority in their ministry, according to Father Paul Hoesing, who is president of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors and vocation director for the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska. “We have to learn how to be disciples ourselves and then learn how to disciple others,� the priest said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
Vatican official: UN best way to fight terrorism CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N.’s framework provides the “only viable way” of dealing with the global nature of modern terrorism “which knows no borders,” the Vatican’s secretary of state told the U.N. General AssemArchbishop bly Sept. 29. Parolin “This reality requires a renewed United Nations that undertakes to foster and preserve peace,” said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, emphasizing that recent terrorist activity is “criminal behavior that is not envisaged by the juridical configuration of the United Nations charter.” He stressed that this policing role should be taken up by the U.N. Security Council since there is no “juridical norm which justifies unilateral policing actions beyond one’s own borders.” New forms of terrorism engage in military actions on a vast scale and are “not able to be contained by any one state,” the cardinal said in his address. He said terrorist activities in northern Iraq and in some parts of Syria are part of a “new phenomenon” threatening all states by “vowing to dissolve them and replace them with a pseudoreligious world government.” Their actions, he said, should “compel the international community to promote a unified response,” which should address the “cultural and political origins of contemporary challenges” and consider the “effectiveness of international law today.” particularly how it is used by the U.N. to prevent war, stop aggressors, protect populations and help victims. Cardinal Parolin noted that after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many people oversimplified what happened by blaming the attack on a “clash of civilizations,” which he said ignored the “long-standing and profound
experiences of good relations between cultures, ethnic groups and religions.” He also said the “attempts to find socalled legal remedies to counter and prevent the surge of this new form of terrorism” have not always “respected the established order or particular cultural circumstances of peoples who often found themselves unwillingly at the center of this new form of global conflict.” “These mistakes, and the fact that they were at least tacitly approved, should lead us to a serious and profound examination of conscience,” the cardinal said, adding that the challenges posed by new forms of terrorism “should not make us succumb to exaggerated views and cultural extrapolations” but instead should “spur a renewed call for religious and intercultural dialogue and for new developments in international law, to promote just and courageous peace initiatives.” He said the U.N. include must promote dialogue and understanding among cultures and remember that it is not the role of international organizations or states “to invent culture, nor is it possible to do so.” Instead, the cardinal stressed that international organizations and states must promote and support “in a decisive way, and with the necessary financial means, those initiatives and movements which promote dialogue and understanding among cultures, religions and peoples.” “Peace, after all, is not the fruit of a balance of powers, but rather the result of justice at every level, and most importantly, the shared responsibility of individuals, civil institutions and governments,” he said, adding that this means “understanding one other and valuing the other’s culture and circumstances. It also entails having concern for each other by sharing spiritual and cultural patrimonies and offering opportunities for human enrichment.”
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
DEFUSE GOSSIP ‘BOMBS,’ POPE TELLS VATICAN SECURITY
VATICAN CITY – The biggest threat facing the Vatican isn’t a bomb or bullet from the outside, but the insidious work of mischiefmakers within, who plant discord and resentment, Pope Francis told the Vatican’s security force. “There are bombs in here, very dangerous bombs in here,” he told security personnel. “Please, keep your eyes open, because in the darkness of so many wicked lives, the enemy has sown weeds,” he said in his homily at a Mass for security personnel in the chapel of the office governing Vatican City State Sept. 27. The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published excerpts from the homily Sept. 29, the feast of the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. “The worst bomb inside the Vatican is gossip,” which “threatens the life of the church and the life of (the Vatican) every day,” he said, because it “sows destruction” and “destroys the lives of others.” While there are many religious and laypeople in the Vatican who are “sowing good seed,” the devil is still getting his way by using others “to sow weeds.” Even the pope is not immune to this temptation, he said; it’s a danger “for me, too,” because “the devil gives you that yearning.” Whatever gripes or problems people have, they should take them directly to the people involved without also complaining to the world, he said. The sower of weeds meets a bitter end, he said, in “burning furnaces” and condemned to “disgrace and eternal abomination.”
Pope calls for unity among Paraguay’s Catholics as he dismisses bishop CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – After a Vatican investigation, Pope Francis removed a Paraguayan bishop from his post as head of the Diocese of Ciudad del Este because of “serious pastoral reasons.” Bishop Rogelio Livieres Plano, 69, was told to step down as head of the diocese effective Sept. 25. Bishop Ricardo VaBishop Rogelio lenzuela Rios of VilLivieres Plano larrica del Espitiru Santo will temporarily administer the diocese. A Vatican statement said the “onerous decision” to dismiss Bishop Livieres was made after a “careful examination” of the findings of a Vatican investigation conducted by the congregations for Bishops and for Clergy. An apostolic visitation to the diocese in July was led by Spanish Cardinal Santos Abril Castello, archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major. The order for Bishop Livieres, a member of Opus Dei, to step down was based on “serious pastoral reasons” and motivated by “the greater good of the unity of the church in Ciudad del Este” and among Paraguay’s bishops, the Vatican statement said. In the exercise of his ministry protecting unity among bishops and the faithful, Pope Francis “asks the clergy
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and all the people of God” in the diocese to accept the decision “with a spirit of obedience, docility and a neutral attitude,” it said. The pope also “invites the entire church in Paraguay, guided by its pastors, to a serious process of reconciliation and to overcome all divisiveness and discord so that the face of the one church” not be deprived of “the joy of the Gospel.” While the Vatican did not list specific reasons for the bishop’s dismissal, it came just a few months after the Vatican had ordered him to stop ordaining priests amid ongoing allegations of sexual abuse committed by a high-ranking diocesan official. Just days before Cardinal Abril went to the diocese to conduct the canonical visit, Bishop Livieres removed Msgr. Carlos Urrutigoity from his post of vicar general of the diocese “on the grounds of needing him to take on other tasks,” according to a comment July 30 by Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman. Prior to moving to Paraguay in 2005, Msgr. Urrutigoity, an Argentine priest, held posts in Argentina and Winona, Minnesota. He was accepted into the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1997. A 2002 federal lawsuit claims that while in Scranton, living at St. Gregory’s Academy in Elmhurst, Msgr. Urrutigoity slept in a bed with a student to whom he “directed inappropriate sexual contact.” The suit did not say whether the plaintiff was a minor at the time of the alleged incident. The case was reportedly settled in 2005 for a sum of $400,000.
After the suit was filed, thenScranton Bishop James C. Timlin sent Msgr. Urrutigoity to Canada for psychological evaluation. A statement posted on the Scranton diocesan website in March said Msgr. Urrutigoity “was identified as posing a serious threat to young people.” Diocesan leaders “expressed grave doubts about this cleric’s suitability for priestly ministry and cautioned the bishop of the Diocese of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, to not allow Father Urrutigoity to incardinate into his diocese.” In July, a spokesman for the Ciudad del Este diocese referred Catholic News Service to a statement that called the accusations against Msgr. Urrutigoity a “harsh campaign of libel and slander” coming from the United States. That statement suggests the accusations against Msgr. Urrutigoity were a political tool to discredit Bishop Livieres because, in 2012, he had attempted to open a new seminary that would “seek a more radical application of the guidelines of the Second Vatican Council.” The statement said the formation of the seminary surprised and angered Paraguayan church leaders, who then tried to dismantle it. “A separate chapter in this history of opposition to our bishop and the new seminary is undoubtedly the attack on Father Carlos Urrutigoity,” the statement said. “His case was used as a workhorse to question the pastoral achievements in the diocese.” The statement said all allegations of inappropriate conduct were false.
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‘FAMILY’ IS THEME FOR WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
VATICAN CITY – As the family gets special focus in two upcoming synods and an international gathering in Philadelphia next year, Pope Francis is highlighting the beauty and value of the family in his message for World Communications Day. “Communicating the family: a privileged place of encounter with the gift of love” will be the theme of the church’s celebration of World Communications Day, which most dioceses will mark May 17, the Sunday before Pentecost. The pope’s message for the day is expected to be released Jan. 24, the feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications, in a Sept. 29 announcement of the pope’s choice of the theme, said the news points out many of the difficulties facing families today and “often times, cultural changes do not help us appreciate how much the family is a good for society.” The challenge facing the church and its work in communications is figuring out how to share with the world, especially those who are hurting, the beauty of love, life and marriage between a man and a woman. “Today the church must learn again how to show that the family is a great gift, something good and beautiful” and to show this gift of love “more vividly,” the council said.
OPUS DEI LEADER BEATIFIED IN MADRID
MADRID – A Spanish bishop who worked as an engineer before becoming first prelate of the Opus
Dei movement has been beatified in his native Madrid. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said Bishop Alvaro del Portillo was known for his “prudence and rectitude in evaluating events and people, his justice in respecting the good name and freedom of others, his fortitude in facing up to physical or moral difficulties, and the temperance shown in his sobriety and interior and exterior mortification.” “He was not a talkative person – his engineer’s training gave him Bishop Alvaro habits of intellectual rigor, concisedel Portillo ness and precision, enabling him to go straight to the essence of problems and solve them,” Cardinal Amato said at the Sept. 27 beatification Mass, held outdoors. Blessed Alvaro, who died in 1994, succeeded St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer as head of the personal prelature of Opus Dei. Beatification is a step toward sainthood.
ENGLISH BISHOP RESIGNS, ADMITS AFFAIR WITH WOMAN
HOVE, England – An English Catholic bishop has resigned after admitting that he has been “unfaithful to his promises as a Catholic priest.” Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton, chairman of the Department of Evangelization and Catechesis of the Bishops’ Conference of England
and Wales, said in a statement that he would step down “with immediate effect.” “I would like to reassure you that my actions were not illegal and did not involve minors,” Bishop Conry, 63 and a bishop since 2001, said in a statement read out in parishes of his diocese at Masses Sept. 27 and 28. “I want to apologize first of all to the individuals hurt by my actions and then to all of those inside and outside the diocese who will be shocked, hurt and saddened to hear this,” he said. The day after the statement was released, the Mail on Sunday, a London-based newspaper, carried an article that alleged that Bishop Conry was having an affair with a married mother of two, who was pictured leaving his home and shopping with him, but who was not identified. The article revealed extracts from “love letters” between the 43-year-old woman and the bishop, leaked to the newspaper by the woman’s husband. The woman’s estranged husband hired a private detective to track his wife, who accompanied Bishop Conry on outings to the ballet, the British Museum and a Matisse exhibition. The bishop told the newspaper, however, that he was resigning in connection with an affair he had with another woman six years ago.
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New “Cross” Scholarships Will Bene t Kenya Kids Eager to Attend School Cross Catholic Outreach’s launch of a new scholarship program for the poor (see story on opposite page) is poised to have a major impact halfway around the globe in the African nation of Kenya. The bene ts will bring blessings to both the poor and two of the country’s most effective Catholic schools. “This is a signi cant story in light of the recent teachings of Pope Francis and the excitement building around the Church’s call to a New Evangelism,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross Catholic Outreach. “Our plan is to help American Catholics establish inexpensive
Why is the scholarship so important? The answer is simple. Without this support, children would simply go unschooled. scholarships to lift up the neediest children in Kenya.” In addition to helping hundreds of young children gain a primary education, Cross Catholic’s efforts will have an important second bene t. It will encourage and empower the priests and nuns behind two of the nation’s most exciting outreaches — the Brother Beausang Catholic School and St. Andrew Nkaimurunya School. Both are located near the city of Nairobi. “The priests and nuns who established these Catholic schools have made tremendous personal sacri ces to extend Christ’s love in
the communities they serve. When American Catholics step forward and fund a $110 scholarship to their schools, it will be incredibly encouraging to them. It will show them that we American Catholics are grateful for their work and want to help them in their noble cause of educating the poorest of the poor.” Why is the scholarship so important? The answer is simple. Without this support, children would simply go unschooled. Families subsisting on only a few dollars a week can’t afford the luxury of sending a child to school. “Those who establish a scholarship are helping put a child in school for a full year and the daily classroom experience also includes a meal — sometimes the only meal that child eats all day,” Cavnar said. “And what is the alternative? Leaving a child illiterate and without hope? Is that really an option? I doubt Pope Francis would see it that way.” Some will ask if there is a way to support the goal without funding a full $110 scholarship for a school year. The answer, Cavnar emphatically said was “yes!” Donors who contribute to the scholarship fund in any amount are helping to build the general scholarship pool which will also fund students in need. “Every gift, large or small, will make a difference,” Cavnar said. “As we collect up to $110, another scholarship will be funded. As a newspaper reader responding to this need, you can have a profound impact on the poor with any and every gift they make toward this cause.” Proceeds from this campaign will
Children will walk miles to attend school — if they are given the opportunity to learn.
be used to cover any expenditures for this project incurred during the current calendar year. In the event that more funds are raised than needed to fully fund the project, the excess funds, if any, will be used to meet Cross Catholic Outreach’s most urgent needs. To support the Cross Catholic Outreach scholarship program
for the poor, use the ministry brochure enclosed in this issue of the paper or mail your donation to Cross Catholic Outreach, Dept. AC01109, PO Box 9558, Wilton, NH 03086-9558. Please write “SCHOLARSHIP” in the comment line of the brochure to ensure your gift is routed to the proper fund.
Visit the website of Cross Catholic Outreach (www.CrossCatholic.org) and you will notice three indisputable strengths of the organization — its cost effectiveness, its impressive Catholic leadership and its emphasis on funding projects that have speci c and tangible bene ts for the poor. Cross Catholic Outreach is clearly having an impact both overseas and here in the U.S. “Donors most often notice our
Cross Catholic Outreach has the endorsement of some 60 U.S. dioceses and the list has been growing steadily through the years. effectiveness. They want their donations to be used wisely and to have impact, so they appreciate the fact that nearly 95 percent of donations are used for program services and that so little of our expenses are allocated to fundraising and administration,” explains Cross
Catholic Outreach’s president, Jim Cavnar. “The second thing they look for is integrity in our leadership, and they nd that in the seven bishops and archbishops who serve on our board of directors. It shows we aren’t just a charity fundraising from Catholics. We are a Catholic outreach, and we promote Catholic teachings and values through our work.” This fact has been noticed by Catholic bishops and archbishops in the U.S. and they have endorsed the charity as a result. As of this moment, Cross Catholic Outreach has the endorsement of some 70 U.S. dioceses and the list has been growing steadily through the years. Results are one reason for this attention. Cross Catholic Outreach has a history of effectively supporting existing Catholic parishes and programs overseas, and thereby empowering the Catholic Church worldwide. “When we dig wells, build homes or launch medical clinics, the people in the community associate those things to the Catholic Church. Selfpromotion isn’t our goal. Our goal
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Pope Francis recently met with Cross Catholic Outreach’s president, Jim Cavnar.
is to empower the Catholic Church — the priests, nuns, parishes and lay leaders already working in the
community,” explains Cavnar. “Many of Pope Francis’ recent teachings support that approach.”
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$110 Scholarships for Catholic Education Can Lift African Children from Hopeless Poverty A door of opportunity is opening for impoverished African children, and whether or not they will pass through that door will largely depend on the generosity of American Catholics. The “door” to this brighter future is a scholarship, and its availability is tied to sponsors who fund the certi cates at a cost of just $110 for a full year of schooling. “This year, Cross Catholic Outreach established a unique new scholarship program to ght illiteracy and poverty in Africa and if it is successful, we may extend the program to Latin America and the Caribbean regions too. The Cross Catholic Scholarship Outreach was established to help unschooled children aged 4 to 12, and it allows us to provide a life-changing education for a boy or girl at a cost of just $110 for the full school year,” explains Jim Cavnar, president of the relief organization, Cross Catholic Outreach. Now that the program is in place, we need benefactors to step forward and fund a scholarship in their family’s name. Mr. and Mrs. Jones family can create the Jones family scholarship, for example. Dr. Smith can establish the Mary Smith Scholarship to honor his mother. Each scholarship can be for a single school year or renewed annually to keep the gift going as part of a family legacy to bene t the poor. “With a gift of just $110 you can launch a scholarship with a life-changing impact on a child in need,” Cavnar explained. “A
“When Catholics focus their compassion on meeting a speci c need, amazing things can be accomplished.” — Jim Cavnar, President of Cross Catholic Outreach certi cate is sent to you, the donor, to commemorate the new scholarship, and the child overseas is blessed with the grant of aid. It’s really a priceless gift you are giving — an education brings opportunities, new hope and self dignity. Those are things you can’t buy off a shelf but they come with this outreach.” How many scholarships does Cross Catholic Outreach hope to launch this year? Their initial goal is to educate 5,000 needy youngsters who are currently “on the outside, looking in.” Some children are literally in that position. They stand outside schools and watch longingly as others enter. They’re fearful they’ll forever be left outside the educational system. “When you travel to places like Haiti, Kenya, Zambia or the Philippines, you encounter the terrible hardships of the poor and you see how hungry they are for hope,” Cavnar said. “In some of the countries where we serve, children literally stand outside schools praying to get in.
These kids are illiterate, but they’re wise enough to know an education provides new opportunities and a way out of the slums. They pray the school door will someday open for them — but most realize that is only going to happen if their families get help. Their parents are too poor to afford even the few, meager expenses needed to attend.” The new Cross Catholic Scholarship Outreach meets this need. It serves as a “golden ticket” — opening the door to a quality education. Amazing, considering the scholarships can be provided for just $110 per year. And, despite the low cost, the quality of the education is high. “In establishing this scholarship program, we started by choosing quality institutions that could qualify as Cross-accredited Catholic Schools,” Cavnar says. “These
schools are also monitored to ensure they continue to meet our standards. We insist each school has a strong Catholic identity, hires a capable staff of teachers, includes spiritual teachings within the curriculum and provides students with a broad, practical education. It’s important that our scholarship students end up with a solid education — one that gives them greater opportunities in their communities.” Some potential benefactors are likely to be surprised at the low cost of establishing a scholarship. Most of us are only familiar with U.S. college scholarships which are typically valued in the thousands of dollars. The difference, Cavnar admits, is startling. But, he adds, it also makes the program affordable to virtually everyone who wants to help the poor. “Who among us can deny the value and impact of this program? The Catholic schools overseas are extremely ef cient. The teachers who work there are also sacri cing. Many work for a few dollars a day in order to ensure these children get an education. When a donor contributes his or her portion by funding a scholarship, amazing things are being accomplished,” he says. “So my hope is that many will step forward. I envision Cross Catholic Outreach offering a young boy or girl
the Williams Family Scholarship, or the Brown Family Scholarship, or a scholarship in your family’s name. If just a few dozen of this newspaper’s readers make that decision, the impact will be profound. It will turn lives around. It’s a simple fact. When Catholics focus their compassion on meeting a speci c need, amazing things can be accomplished. I’ve seen it happen again and again and again.” This optimistic view of Catholic charity avors everything Cross Catholic Outreach does. It was founded more than ten years ago to create a stronger link between American
Catholics and Catholic mission work being done overseas, and its efforts have produced impressive results. Catholic priests and nuns working “in the trenches” have been empowered by Cross Catholic Outreach and its U.S. benefactors to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, provide safe water to the thirsty, house the homeless, protect the orphaned and — as this case demonstrates — educate the poor. The ministry has accomplished these outreaches in more than 40 countries worldwide, and it does its work in an extremely cost effective way. Less than 6 percent of its resources are used for administrative or fundraising expenses — nearly 95 percent are spent on program services to bene t the poor. “Of all of the work we do, we consider educational outreaches among our most important and effective,” Cavnar says. “Why? Because a Catholic education has three critical bene ts to the poor. It elevates the poor out of illiteracy. It opens doors of opportunity that help create self-reliance — teaching a man to sh, as the saying goes. And, just as important, it communicates Catholic truths that transform lives from the inside out. That is why we encourage donors to establish these scholarships. They are one of the most valuable gifts a donor can give.”
How to Help: To fund a Cross Catholic Outreach scholarships for the poor, use the postage-paid brochure inserted in this newspaper or mail your gift to Cross Catholic Outreach, Dept. AC01109, PO Box 9558, Wilton, NH 03086-9558. Write “SCHOLARSHIP” in the comment linee of the brochure to ensure your gift is routed properly. If you identify an aid project, 100% of the proceeds will be restricted to be used ed d, for that specific project. However, if more is raised for the project than needed, funds will be redirected to other urgent needs in the ministry.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
Vatican official calls for shared responsibility in protecting planet CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
UNITED NATIONS – A sense of “shared responsibility to protect our planet and the human family” must influence how nations react to the reality of climate change, the Vatican’s secretary of state told the United Nations Sept. 23. In a statement during the U.N. Climate Summit, Cardinal Pietro Parolin observed that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal. It is a very serious problem which ... has grave consequences for the most vulnerable sectors of society and, clearly, for future generations.” He noted that from the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has emphasized the importance of protecting the environment, “which all too often, instead of using for the good, we exploit greedily, to one another’s detriment,” Cardinal Parolin said, quoting the pope’s March 2013 address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See. Prudence must prevail in the face of the risks and costs of the increase of greenhouse gases caused by human activity, said Cardinal Parolin said. This requires political and economic commitments by the nations of the world, including the Holy See, he added. He again quoted Pope Francis, from a general audience in May, when he said a risk lies in the “considering ourselves the masters of creation. Creation is not some possession that we can lord over for our own pleasure, nor, even less, is it the property of only
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Mercy sisters join hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in the People’s Climate March in New York Sept. 21. An estimated 310,000 people rallied to urge global action to reduce carbon emissions that threaten the environment. some people, the few. Creation is a gift, it is the marvelous gift that God has given us so that we will take care of it and harness it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.” Cardinal Parolin said that over the decades since the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, there has been increasing awareness that the entire international community is interdependent. “There is no
room for the globalization of indifference, the economy of exclusion or the throwaway culture so often denounced by Pope Francis,” he said. A collective response, “based on a culture of solidarity, encounter and dialogue,” should be the basis of interactions of every family, including the human family, he said. “States have a common responsibility to protect the world climate by means of mitigation and adapta-
tion measures, as well as by sharing technologies and ‘know-how,’” said the cardinal. He warned that market forces alone, “especially when deprived of a suitable ethical direction,” cannot resolve the interdependent crisis of global warming, poverty and exclusion. Ethical motivations behind complex political decisions, such as those required to address climate change, must be clear, said the cardinal. “Within this perspective, an authentic cultural shift is needed which reinforces our formative and educational efforts, above all in favor of the young, towards assuming a sense of responsibility for creation and integral human development of all people, present and future. He noted that the Vatican City State, “though small, is undertaking significant efforts to reduce its consumption of fossil fuels through diversification and energy efficiency. He added that the Holy See’s delegation to the U.N.’s climate change conference in Warsaw, Poland, last November said that “talking about emission reductions is useless if we are not ready to change our lifestyle and the current dominant models of consumption and production.” Cardinal Parolin said the Holy See and other Catholic entities are committed to environmental responsibility, “in the conviction that the deterioration of nature is directly linked to the culture which shapes human coexistence. Respect for environmental ecology is a condition of, and conditioned by, respect for human ecology in society.”
Help wounded, drop theoretical baggage, pope says CAROL GLATZ
The pope said it is ‘heartbreaking’ to see ‘so many wounds, moral wounds, existential wounds, wounds from war’ every day, but then to see Christians trapped in ‘byzantinism,’ that is, engaging in complicated ‘philosophical, theological, spiritual’ arguments and reasoning among themselves when instead ‘we need a spirituality of going out.’
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VATICAN CITY – With so much spiritual, social and moral suffering in the world, the church has “no right” to stay locked up in an ivory tower, engaging in “byzantine” philosophical reflection, Pope Francis told members of the Focolare movement. “We have to go out! So that – I’ve said this before – the church seems like a field hospital,” where the first order of the day “is heal the wounds, not measure people’s cholesterol. That comes later. Got it?” he said to applause. The pope met at the Vatican with 500 people from 136 countries; they were attending the Focolare general assembly in Rome Sept. 1-28. During the assembly, members reelected Italian Maria Voce for a second six-year-term as president, and elected Spaniard Jesus Moran Cepedano as the new co-president. In his audience with members of the movement Sept. 26, Pope Francis said the new evangelization must go out to everyone, “starting with the poorest and excluded,” so they, too, may experience “hope, brotherhood and joy in humanity’s journey toward unity.” Focolare members, like all Catholics, can contribute to “this new season of evangelization” by being creative in the ways it brings God’s word to the world. This work demands “contemplation, going out, and formation,” he said. “Today more than ever before, we have to contemplate God and the wonders of his love,” Pope Francis said. By recognizing and letting Jesus dwell in them, he said, Catholics can
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Pope Francis reaches out to grab a baseball thrown by someone in the crowd as he leaves his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 24. The pope signed the ball, which according to a YouTube video was thrown by a member of the Koeppel family from St. Edward’s Church in Palm Beach, Florida, in the hope of raising money for their parish. avoid narcissism and can share him with others. Going forth means doing what Jesus did as he always was “walking and sowing anew,” freely and generously, the pope said. This takes “aiming high and expanding one’s gaze” beyond one’s own horizons, he said. With God’s help, people will have the courage to face reproach as they look for the Lord “outside the camp” and their comfort zone, he added.
“He is waiting for us in the tribulations and wailing of our brothers and sisters, in the wounds of society and in the questions from today’s culture,” he said. The pope said it is “heartbreaking” to see “so many wounds, moral wounds, existential wounds, wounds from war” every day, but then to see Christians trapped in “byzantinism,” that is, engaging in complicated “philosophical, theological, spiritual”
arguments and reasoning among themselves when instead “we need a spirituality of going out.” “Go out with this spirituality; don’t stay inside under lock and key. This is not good,” he said. “We have no right to byzantine reflections. We have to go,” he said. Finally, he said, formation is key so that people, especially the young, can see God, “fall in love with him” and follow him while facing life’s challenges. “Without adequate formation for younger generations, it is misleading to think that a serious and long-lasting project that serves a new humanity can be realized,” he said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 3, 2014
A new push for legalizing assisted suicide in California VICKI EVANS
The state of California has passed some of the most permissive laws in the country on social issues including abortion, contraception coverage, and embryonic stem cell research. The one issue on which it has been unable to gain traction is physician assisted suicide, but it’s not for lack of trying. In 2007, California’s most recent assistedsuicide bill called the Compassionate Choices Act failed. This marked the sixth time since 1988 that assisted-suicide advocates have failed in their attempts to transform the crime of assisted suicide into a medical treatment in California. There are reasons for their past lack of success. One is an effective coalition formed in the early 2000s called Californians Against Assisted Suicide, whose members include the California Catholic Conference, disability rights advocates, medical professionals and religious and civil rights organizations. Another is the fact that the history of the right-todie movement is somewhat macabre. Compassion & Choices, a nationwide organization that has the dubious honor of being the leader in promoting “aid in dying” legislation is intent on providing it to Californians. Formerly called the Hemlock Society, Compassion & Choices is now trying to change its image from one of merchants of death to one of … compassion and choices. Their motto: my life, my death, my choice. One of the best ways to accomplish their goals is to go mainstream and do so with the backing of the elite. High society was present in force at the Compassion & Choices “annual empowerment luncheon” in April 2013 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. It was “designed to raise funds and awareness for patients’ rights and end-of-life decision making.” In February 2014, Ann
Formerly called the Hemlock Society, Compassion & Choices is trying to change its image from one of merchants of death to one of … compassion and choices. Their motto: my life, my death, my choice. REASONS TO OPPOSE PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
Catholic teaching condemns physician-assisted suicide because it, like murder, involves taking an innocent human life: “Suicide is always as morally objectionable as murder. The church’s tradition has always rejected it as a gravely evil choice: To concur with the intention of another person to commit suicide and to help in carrying it out through so-called ‘assisted suicide’ means to cooperate in, and at times to be the actual perpetrator of, an injustice which can never be excused, even if it is requested. In a remarkably relevant passage St. Augustine writes that ‘it is never licit to kill another: Even if he should wish it, indeed if he request it because, hanging between life and death, he begs for help in freeing the soul struggling against the bonds of the body and longing to be released; nor is it licit even when a sick person is no longer able to live’” (“The Gospel of Life,” no. 66).
Policymakers and the public are not always receptive to appeals to Catholic moral teaching. Fortunately, well-established principles of medicine and bioethics provide sound and abundant grounds for opposing physician-assisted suicide. In fact, the chief argument – that assisted suicide is needed to avoid the excruciating pain and suffering that may accompany a terminal illness – is based on a fallacy. Advances in pain management now make it possible to control pain effectively in dying patients; only rarely is it necessary to induce sleep to relieve pain or distress in the final stage of dying. Excerpted from an article on the U.S. bishops’ website by Dr. F. Michael Gloth III, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Visit www.usccb.org/issuesand-action/human-life-and-dignity/ assisted-suicide/ for a full list of U.S. bishops’ resources on the topic.
Getty hosted a luncheon for Compassion & Choices’ major donors. And two months later, the Nob Hill Gazette sponsored their 2014 lun-
cheon at $150 per head, with U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein serving as honorary chair. The organization has been busy placing numerous
It’s hardly a surprise that the Prop. 8 campaign provoked a revolution and that individual consciences even of loyal Catholics prompted such a vigorous response in terms of political advocacy. It seems unlikely that Prop. 8 if put before our voters here today would be approved. So why are we continuing to devote the majority of our precious news space to listing donors whose donations, as your article stated, are not illegal? Maybe Father Rolheiser’s “reptile part of our brain” has affected the judgment of what to emphasize in this very tense and critical time in our nation’s history? We are at war. People are hurting everywhere, Muslims, too. I hope for more constructive articles on the many different issues facing us at this time. Please! Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield
has been the defining LGBTQ issues of our times, and the media portray this as being the optimal goal in the quest for equality, yet for most LGBTQ people marriage is not high on their priority list. It is of little benefit to the disproportionate levels of poor and homeless LGBTQ people, and viewed by many as the great red herring of equality. It distracts from important, life-and-death issues this marginalized population is facing. Recent studies have found that 29 percent of the overall homeless population in San Francisco is LGBTQ. This was stunning even to social service providers! Many studies across the nation have found that up to 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBTQ. It saddens me to say, but “highly religious” families are found to be more likely to reject their LGBTQ kids and kick them out of their home. I found this to be distressingly true in my experience working with hundreds of homeless LGBTQ youth. The gay rights movement has made it where the average age a person “comes
op-eds of end-of-life stories carefully selected to evoke the desired emotional response in the public. They have also hired a new Latino legal director and are approaching city councils to support local resolutions regarding “death with dignity” and end-of-life decision making. Unfortunately, these tactics are hitting close to home. In November 2013, Foster City sponsored a “Senior Showcase Information Fair” at the Foster City Recreation Center. Compassion & Choices was advertised as one of the planned exhibitors, but thanks to the proactive efforts of San Mateo Pro-Life, they did not show up. Annually they attempt to lure San Francisco archdiocesan Catholic schools to participate in their high school essay contest. There is actually a Compassion & Choices glossy magazine. Their online petition to “bring end-of-life choice to California” asks signers to declare, “We feel strongly that terminally ill, mentally competent adults should have the right to medication that they can use to achieve a peaceful death.” Expect the introduction of new assisted suicide legislation here in the not-too-distant future or a California ballot initiative in 2016. EVANS Is respect life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
LETTERS Deeply impressed Re Special report on Faithful America, Sept. 12, 19, 26: I am deeply impressed by the hard work and journalistic detective work that Val Schmalz had to do to follow the evidence in the three-part feature about the Faithful America campaign. This high-level journalism is what I look for in a publication, and I am grateful to you for having someone of Ms. Schmalz’ caliber on staff. I have shared this article with hundreds of people. I do hope that the impact factor of this article will be felt far and wide as an aid to Catholics waking up to the forces against them. You have done our community and the church a great service by running this feature. I do believe you have earned back my respect. Your paper has earned a higher ranking in my estimation. Frances Peterson San Francisco The writer is a member of St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco.
Rolheiser inspiring Father (Ron) Rolheiser’s column of Sept. 19 (“On how we react to criticism and opposition”) made the most sense to me out of the plethora of pages in your last two editions when pondering over the expose of contributors to gay-rights causes including same-sex marriage.
Gay and homeless The series “Gay rights money funding archbishop’s critics” has been disconcerting for me to read. The reason for my concern is that, yet again, the focus is on a small faction of wealthy, powerful and outspoken gay rights activists. This fails to acknowledge the marginalized population of LGBTQ people disproportionately experiencing homelessness and abuse. The same-sex marriage movement
out” is no longer post-grad, rather it’s now 15 or 16, when they don’t have the means to support themselves and the homeless LGBTQ youth population is increasing dramatically as a result. After same-sex marriage passed in New York the youth shelters saw a 40 percent increase in homeless youth seeking shelter. These kids are currently a casualty in this battle to preserve traditional marriage. No one in these battles, neither gay rights activists nor defenders of traditional marriage, seems to want to “see” the disproportionate levels of homelessness and abuse impacting our LGBTQ brothers and sisters. It doesn’t fit either of their narratives in this heated political battle. This political fighting perpetuates the social stigma and demonization of LGBTQ people in the Catholic community. It’s irresponsible and reckless to be so outspoken against same-sex marriage while not speaking out about SEE LETTERS, PAGE 18
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Wanted: A synod of affirmation
ope Francis has called a special session of the Synod of Bishops, which will meet Oct. 5-19 and prepare the agenda for the ordinary session of the synod that is scheduled for the fall of 2015; both sessions will focus on the family. In my view, the synod should focus on two related themes: Marriage GEORGE WEIGEL culture is in crisis throughout the world; the answer to that crisis is the Christian view of marriage as a covenant between man and woman in a communion of love, fidelity and fruitfulness. To focus the conversation elsewhere is to ignore a hard fact and a great opportunity. The collapse of marriage culture throughout the world is indisputable. More and more marriages end in divorce, even as increasing numbers of couples simply ignore marriage,
cohabit and procreate. The effort to redefine “marriage” as what we know it isn’t, and to enforce that redefinition by coercive state power, is well-advanced in the West. The contraceptive mentality has seriously damaged the marriage culture, as have well-intentioned but ultimately flawed efforts to make divorce easier. The sexual free-fire zone of the West is a place where young people find it very hard to commit to a lifelong relationship that inevitably involves sacrificing one’s “autonomy.” And just as the Christian understanding of marriage is beginning to gain traction in Africa, where it is experienced as a liberating dimension of the Gospel, European theologians from dying local churches are trying to empty marriage of its covenantal character, reducing it to another form of contract. Rome, we have a problem. Pope Francis understands the crisis of marriage culture in its multiple dimensions, just as he understands that the family, which begins in marriage, is a troubled institution in the postmodern world; that’s why he’s summoned two synods on the topic of the family. And that’s why the synod, fully aware of the gravity of the situation, should
begin, continue and end on a positive note, offering the world a pearl of great price: the Christian understanding and experience of marriage. The synod discussion, in other words, should take the crisis of marriage and the family as a given and then lift up Christian marriages, lived faithfully and fruitfully, as the answer to that crisis. The synod should begin with what is good and true and beautiful about Christian marriage and Christian family life, and show, by living examples, how that truth, goodness and beauty respond to the deepest longings of the human heart for solidarity, fidelity and fruitful love. It’s quite obvious that the church faces real pastoral challenges in dealing with broken marriages and their results. But to begin the discussion of marriage and the family in the 21st century there is to begin at the wrong end of things. For it is only within the truth about marriage, which was given to the church by the Lord himself, that compassionate and truthful solutions to those pastoral problems can be found. The synod might also do well to reflect on another piece of good news: The
church has far more tools with which to try and help fix what’s broken in 21stcentury marriage culture than it did 40 years ago. John Paul II’s theology of the body has given Catholicism the world’s most compelling account of sexuality and its relationship to marriage: A vision of the nobility of human love that is far more attractive than anything on offer in Playboy and Cosmopolitan, not to mention what’s being taught about “marriage” by jihadists. And John Paul’s teaching is having an impact – it’s hard to find a college or university campus today that doesn’t have a theology of the body study group, often self-organized by students. We’ve also come a long way since “marriage preparation” involved choosing music and quarreling with the pastor about rice-throwing on the church steps. Couple-to-couple marriage prep is a major development in alert dioceses and parishes, and a great expression of Pope Francis’ call that all Catholics understand themselves as missionary disciples. So, message to synod: Think positive. WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
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the “throwaway” LGBTQ youth and adults. It’s neglectful that LGBT support is not a higher priority in the Catholic community, particularly here in San Francisco! Kelley Cutler San Francisco The writer is a member of St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco.
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Newly married couples kneel as Pope Francis celebrates the marriage rite for 20 couples during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Sept. 14.
Frowns do not defend marriage This unsigned editorial titled “Frowns do not defend marriage” from the Sept. 18 issue of The Tablet, a London-based international Catholic weekly, was redistributed by Catholic News Service as an example of current commentary in the Catholic press. The views or positions presented in this or any guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of Catholic News Service, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops or Catholic San Francisco. Smiling Pope Francis has brought about a vast change in the way the Catholic Church is regarded by its ordinary members. He has made it seem not just fit for human habitation, but warm and welcoming. It is becoming clear that he wants to see a similar shift in perception with regard to marriage. Thus when he conducted the wedding of 20 couples in Rome, they had been selected to make a point. Some had been cohabiting, a state which used to be called “living in sin”; some had been married before. Both kinds had children, who were made welcome at a ceremony that the pope said was realistically representative of modern marriage. Many of the couples expressed surprise and delight that he was eager to preside at their wedding, because their perception of the church was that
it disapproved of anyone who did not live up to its own strict norms. It is well known in Britain that a high proportion of couples who ask to be married in a Catholic church are already cohabiting, though many of them like to give their parents’ (separate) addresses to spare their own, and perhaps the priest’s, embarrassment. Church rules also require them to attend some marriage preparation classes, when they have already embarked upon that journey in all but name. Pope Francis’ gesture announces to the world that henceforth the church will address marriage as it really is not some abstract state of perfection. And that is obviously designed to set the tone of the forthcoming extraordinary Synod on the Family, the first of two. Accepting marriage as it is means accepting people as they are, warts and all – and their relationships as they are, stressed, broken, or harmonious and calm. Those running marriage preparation courses often encounter individuals who have little idea of what problems the future may bring, and less still of what the church expects of them. The perception is widespread that in the eyes of the church, only perfection is good enough. That sets up a great barrier. Cardinal Vincent Nichol of Westmin-
ster, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, told the annual conference of the Marriage Care advice agency that the Catholic bishops of England and Wales wanted to strengthen both marriage preparation and the help available to couples when they run into difficulties. But people will not seek that help if all they expect is disapproval. So the synod next month has to find the ways and means to send a different signal: That marriage is not just for the good and saintly but for the ordinary and average, and that church teaching on marriage is not just a set of irksome rules and prohibitions but an invitation to share in the deep joy of an intimate, loving relationship with each other and with Christ. Those whose marriages, nevertheless, fail must still feel as welcome as ever and receive not rejection but support. That turns attention to how the church treats divorce and remarriage. The present rules can heap further pain on those already wounded and struggling. Similarly, the church’s official teaching on contraception makes no contribution toward Pope Francis’ goal of making the church a welcoming and family-friendly place. It is the difference between a smile and a frown. And that difference says it all.
We, the laity, are being asked to reach out and welcome people into, and especially back into, the church. My parish and others in our archdiocese have so much spiritual richness to offer, that it ought to be an “easy sell.” However, when the media so often reports that a gay person is fired for being civilly married, or a child was removed from one of our schools for simply having gay parents, heavy obstacles are placed in our path. While the teachings of the magisterium on sexual morality are clear, the American bishops’ fixation on gay marriage has not been without cost. LGBT Catholics, their families and friends have become estranged from the church and we have allowed ourselves to be identified with those who engage in calumny, fear-mongering and hysteria toward LGBT people and who have supported draconian anti-gay legislation in countries like Uganda and Russia. Wedges have been driven between us and our natural allies on other issues such as immigration, poverty and racism. Our bishops need to stop throwing good resources after bad, get out of the culture-war business and lead us forward with the new evangelization. Greg Smith San Francisco The writer is a member of St. Monica Parish, San Francisco.
Pope Francis, city of St. Francis Is anyone from San Francisco going to invite Pope Francis to visit San Francisco and the (National Shrine of St. Francis) on Vallejo Street? Luigi Fabiano Santa Rosa
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SUNDAY READINGS
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
‘Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.’ MATTHEW 21:33-43 ISAIAH 5:1-7 Let me now sing of my friend, my friend’s song concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside; he spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted the choicest vines; within it he built a watchtower, and hewed out a wine press. Then he looked for the crop of grapes, but what it yielded was wild grapes. Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard: What more was there to do for my vineyard that I had not done? Why, when I looked for the crop of grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes? Now, I will let you know what I mean to do with my vineyard: take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled! Yes, I will make it a ruin: it shall not be pruned or hoed, but overgrown with thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not to send rain upon it. The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished plant; he looked for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry! PSALM 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20 The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel. A vine from Egypt you transplanted; you drove away the nations and planted it. It put forth its foliage to the Sea, its shoots as far as the River. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.
Why have you broken down its walls, so that every passerby plucks its fruit, the boar from the forest lays it waste, and the beasts of the field feed upon it? The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel. Once again, O LORD of hosts, look down from heaven, and see; take care of this vine, and protect what your right hand has planted the son of man whom you yourself made strong. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel. Then we will no more withdraw from you; give us new life, and we will call upon your name. O Lord, God of hosts, restore us; if your face shine upon us, then we shall be saved. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel. PHILIPPIANS 4:6-9 Brothers and sisters: Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me. Then the God of peace will be with you.
MATTHEW 21:33-43 Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: “Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce. But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned. Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way. Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’ They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?” They answered him, “He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the proper times.” Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes? Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.”
No one is irreplaceable
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hil Jackson, the head coach of the basketball world champion Los Angeles Lakers during their years of dominance in the NBA, once benched one of his all-star players for an infraction of team discipline. All his players were stunned at his decision. But Jackson stood his ground, saying, “All of you are important to this team, but none of you is essential.” The passion to win would only be accomplished if each player obeyed the rules and contributed to the team. The investment that the Lakers organization had made in each player, salary and all, could not be taken for granted. In return, the players were expected to play to win. DEACON Our Old Testament and FAIVA PO’OI Gospel readings today point to a similar idea. Through God’s grace, God’s people have received abundant blessings, protection and opportunities. In return for this investment in each
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of us, God expects us to work toward accomplishing his plans in the world. All of us are important to God and to his purposes in the world. But none of us is so essential to the success of this that we are irreplaceable. In both parables, told by Isaiah and Jesus, God’s people are compared to a vineyard. But notice the elaborate care and preparation of the owner of the vineyard. He chooses the most fertile soil for his best vine. He removes the rocks from the ground, builds a protective wall around the vineyard to keep out animals and thieves, and constructs a watchtower from which he can oversee the vineyard’s protection and cultivation. The vineyard is then leased to tenant farmers with every good reason to expect a bountiful harvest. This parable was clearly directed toward the religious leaders of Israel. But it also has meaning for your life and mine. In a very real sense, we are like those tenant farmers. We have been entrusted with a part of God’s vineyard, perhaps for a few days, a few weeks or months, or perhaps several years. But ultimately, we are accountable to God, the owner, for what we do to and with what has been entrusted to us. The moment we forget that reality, our troubles begin. Look at what we have done and continue to
do to the vineyard. We have eroded its soil; we have polluted its air. We have contaminated its rivers, and lakes and even its oceans. We have devastated much of its beauty. Perhaps if we viewed our earth as the vineyard of the Lord, we would love it more deeply, treat it more kindly, use it more responsibly, and share it more freely. Whenever we look, wherever we look, we can see our earth as a sacramental sign. We can see it in the stars above, in the soil beneath our feet. We can feel it in the breeze that brushes our face. We can hear it in the sound of the falling rain. All of these elements of nature, whether visible or invisible, audible or silent, give testimony to the eternal truth that this earth belongs to God. The psalmist wrote, “The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.” With due respect, I would broaden that ancient line of poetry. I would expand it to read, “The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel and all creation.” The handiwork of the Lord is the whole earth. You and I are just the temporary tenant farmers. God is the eternal owner. May the holy Eucharist help us by giving us the intelligence to recognize this truth and the integrity to make good use of our stewardship. DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS POPE FRANCIS DROP THE MELODRAMA, PRAY FOR STRENGTH
Avoid the melodrama and self-pity over minor problems in life, Pope Francis said. Instead, use life’s inevitable difficulties to pray for strength and pray for those who are suffering real tragedy, he said in a morning homily in Vatican City Sept. 30. “Our life is too easy, our complaints are melodramatic complaints” compared to the many people suffering from debilitating disease, hunger and persecution, he said in remarks reported by Vatican Radio, reflecting on the Book of Job.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6: Monday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bruno, priest; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, virgin. GAL 1:6-12. PS 111:1b-2, 7-8, 9 and 10c. LK 10:25-37. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7: Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. GAL 1:13-24. PS 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15. LK 10:38-42. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8: Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. GAL 2:1-2, 7-14. PS 117:1bc, 2. LK 11:1-4. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9: Thursday of the Twenty-
seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Denis, bishop and martyr and companions, martyrs; St. John Leonardi, priest; Bl. John Henry Newman (Eng/Wales). GAL 3:1-5. LK 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75. LK 11:5-13. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10: Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. GAL 3:7-14. PS 111:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. LK 11:15-26. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11: Saturday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John XXIII, pope. GAL 3:22-29. PS 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. LK 11:27-28.
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Mentors for a restless youth
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lthough I grew up in a loving, safe, and nurturing family and community, one of the dominant memories of my childhood and teenage years is that of being restless and somehow discontent. My life always seemed too small, too confined, a life away from what was important in the world. I was forever longing to be FATHER RON more connected ROLHEISER to life and I feared that other people didn’t feel that way and that I was somehow
singular and unhealthy in my restlessness. I entered the Oblate seminary immediately after high school and carried that restlessness with me, except that now, entering religious life, I felt even more worry and shame in carrying this disquiet. However, midway through that first year of training, a year which religious congregations call novitiate, we received a visit from an extraordinary Oblate missionary named Noah Warnke, a man who had received numerous civic and church awards for his achievements and who was widely respected. He began his address to us, the novices, by asking us these questions: “Are you restless? Feeling isolated in this religious house? Feeling lonely and cut off from the world?” We all nodded, yes, he’d clearly struck a live
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chord. “Good,” he replied, “you should be feeling restless. My God, you should be jumping out of your skins, you’ve all that red blood, and fire, and energy and you’re holed up here away from everything! But that’s good, that restlessness is a good feeling, you’re healthy! Tough it out with the restlessness, it’ll be worth it in the long run!” It was the first time in my life that someone had legitimatized how I was feeling. I felt like I had just been introduced to myself: “Are you jumping out of your skin? Good, you’re healthy!” Immediately after that novitiate year, I began my theological training and one of the persons we studied in depth was Thomas Aquinas. He was the second person who helped introduce me to myself. I was 19 when I first met his thought and, although some of his insights were a bit beyond my young mind, I understood enough to find in him not just some legitimization for how I was feeling but also, more importantly, a meta-narrative within which to understand why I was feeling the way I did. Aquinas asks: “What is the adequate object of the human mind and heart?” In other words, what would we have to experience in order to be fully satisfied? His answer: All being, everything! What would we have to experience to be fully satisfied is everything. We would have to know everything and be known by everybody, a human impossibility in this life, and so it shouldn’t be a mystery as to why we live in perpetual disquiet and why, as Pascal says, all the miseries of the human being come from the fact that we can’t sit still in a room for one hour. The third person that helped introduce me to myself was Sidney Callahan. Reading her book on sexuality as a young seminarian, I was struck by how she linked sex to soul, and how desire, not least sexual desire, has deep roots in the soul. At one point she makes this simple statement. I don’t have the exact
quote, but it is words to this effect: If you look at yourself and your insatiability and worry that you are too restless, oversexed, and somehow pathological in your dissatisfactions, it doesn’t mean that you are sick, it just means that you are healthy and not in need of any hormone shots! These were liberating words for a restless, over-sensitive 20-year-old. A couple of years later, I was introduced to the writings of Henri Nouwen and he, perhaps more than anyone else, gave me permission to feel what I feel. Nouwen, as we know, was such a powerful writer because he was so honest in sharing his own neediness, restlessness and disquiet. He had a singular talent for tracing out the restless movements within our souls. For instance, in describing his own struggles, he writes: “I want to be a saint, but I also want to experience all the sensations that sinners experience. Small wonder, that life is a struggle.” Finally, of course, there’s St. Augustine and his famed opening to the Confessions wherein he summarizes his lifelong struggle in the words: “You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” We carry infinity inside us and thus should not be surprised that we will never find full consummation and peace within the finite. Augustine also gave us that wonderful rationalization that we all use to put off into the indefinite future some of the things that we need to do now: Lord, make me a chaste Christian, but not yet! Some people talk about the five people they would like to meet in heaven. These are the five people who have helped me understand what it means to walk on this earth. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
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ELDERLY: Greed, throwaway culture fuel ‘hidden euthanasia’ of aged FROM PAGE 1
“Older people, grandparents have an ability to understand very difficult situations, a great talent. And when they pray about these situations, their prayers are strong and powerful.” But there are many who instead prey on their fragilities, and the pope warned against the “inhuman” violence being waged against the elderly and children in areas of conflict. Harm can also be waged quietly, he said, through many forms of neglect and abandonment, which “are a real and true hidden euthanasia.” People need to fight against “this poisonous throwaway culture,” which targets children, young people and the elderly, on “the pretext of keeping the economic system ‘balanced,’ where the focus is not on the human being but on the god of money.” While residential care facilities are important for those who don’t have a family who can care for them, it’s important these institutes be “truly like homes, not prisons,” the pope said, and that their placement there is in the best interest of the older person, “not someone else.”
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Pope Francis greets emeritus Pope Benedict XVI during an encounter for the elderly at the Vatican Sept. 28. These retirement homes should be like “sanctuaries” that breathe life into a community whose members are drawn to visit and look after the residents like they would an older sibling, he said.
The pope also thanked an older couple from Qaraqosh, near Mosul, Iraq, for their presence and urged people to continue to pray and offer concrete aid to those forced to flee from such “violent persecution.” Married for 51 years with 10 children and 12 grandchildren, Mubarak and Aneesa Hano said they were chased out of their Iraqi town by Islamic State militants. “The cities are empty, homes destroyed, families scattered, the elderly abandoned, young people desperate, grandchildren cry and lives are destroyed from the terror of the shouts of war,” Hano said. He said he hoped the world would finally learn that “war truly is insanity.” Hano told the pope that, for 2,000 years, the bells tolled in their parish churches until the militants invaded the northern Iraqi plain and replaced the crosses on top of their places of worship with black flags. Because the bells no longer ring in these abandoned villages, the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled instead at the end of Hano’s testimony. Pope Francis then concelebrated Mass with 100 elderly priests from around the world.
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which has a nurse on call 24/7, a toll-free telephone number (877) 558-0333, and a network of 200 participating physicians around the country. Miraculously Chaveste was able to save her baby – because of a recently developed medical protocol that has been able to save more than half of babies whose mothers had been administered the first pill for a RU-486 chemical abortion and received the reversal therapy. Chaveste’s son Zechariah turns 1 on Oct. 20. “The conventional wisdom of the abortion industry is that there is no way to stop the RU-486 procedure once it is started. This, however, turns out to be false. Chemical abortions can be reversed and the procedure has been effective in more than 23 states to date, including California,” said Vicki Evans, Archdiocese of San Francisco respect life coordinator. The San Diego-based Abortion Pill Reversal Program has also helped women in six foreign countries. “There have been more than 50 deliveries of healthy babies with no birth defects after the reversal protocol and more than 100 other women are pregnant with apparently normal pregnancies after successful reversals,” said Dr. George Delgado, medical director of the Abortion Pill Reversal Program. Delgado is co-author with Bay Area obstetrician Dr. Mary Davenport of a medical journal article on RU-486 reversals, “Progesterone Use to Reverse the Effects of Mifepristone,” published in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, December 2012. Delgado developed the protocol now in use. Davenport, of El Sobrante, is immediate past president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Delgado is the medical director of the Abortion Pill Reversal Program and Culture of Life in San Diego. RU-486 was hailed and is still touted as the answer to those seeking a discreet, safe abortion in the first nine weeks of pregnancy. RU-486, also known as mifepristone, is always administered in a clinic or doctor’s office. It blocks progesterone and the lining of the uterus breaks down making it inhospitable to the developing embryo. The second drug, misoprostol, causes uterine contractions to expel the fetus and is taken about two days later at home. Misoprostol has been shown to cause birth defects in a small number of women, Davenport said. Women who choose medical abortion and regret it within the first two days before they take the second drug have a chance to save their baby, Davenport said. The RU-486 reversal procedure has been successful in 59 percent of cases from May 2012 to June 2014, according to statistics collected by the Abortion Pill Reversal Program, headed by Delgado and nurse manager Debbie Bradel. With RU-486 reversal, doctors administer mega doses of progesterone to counter the effects of RU-486. The progesterone megadoses act as an antidote to mifepristone, replacing
‘There have been more than 50 deliveries of healthy babies with no birth defects and more than 100 other women are pregnant with apparently normal pregnancies after successful reversals.’ DR. GEORGE DELGADO
Medical director of Abortion Pill Reversal Program
Rebekah Chaveste is pictured with her son Zechariah, who was born after Chaveste was treated with progesterone to counteract RU-486. the progesterone that the mifepristone blocks. Davenport and Delgado both trained in NaPro Technology, a pro-life fertility method, at the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha, Neb. Since RU-486 was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration in 2000, medical abortions rose to about 23 percent of all abortions in 2011, according to the Guttmacher Institute’s July 2014 abortion fact sheet. There are about 200,000 RU-486 abortions each year in the U.S. Although Planned Parenthood tells women, and states on its website, that trying to halt the RU486 procedure will result in a deformed baby, that does not appear to be true in the babies born after progesterone RU-486 reversal therapy, Davenport and Delgado said. “The medical literature does not reflect that RU-486 causes birth defects and we know that progesterone reversal therapy does not cause birth defects,” Delgado said. Dr. Matthew Harrison, a pro-life doctor in Charlotte, N.C., was the first to successfully reverse RU-486 about eight years ago for 20-year-old Ashley. Ashley and her little daughter appeared at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., last January.
The St. Juan Diego Women’s Center in San Jose has launched a campaign to publicize the RU-486 reversal to those who enter the Planned Parenthood clinics, many of whom come for RU-486 abortions. “We stand outside the abortion clinics and tell them it is not too late to change their minds,” said St. Juan Diego sidewalk counselor Patsy Gonzalez. The RU-486 reversal protocol has energized the center’s volunteers, many of whom are Spanishspeakers and reach out to the Latino women who come to the clinics, Gonzalez said. “A core strategy of St. Juan Diego is to develop sidewalk counselors outside the abortion mills,” Gonzalez said. “Your chances of helping a woman are much better outside the abortion mills.” “When you regret taking the first pill, Planned Parenthood tells you, you have to finish what you started; tells you that you are going to have a deformed baby,” remembered Chaveste, who said she hopes that emergency rooms and hospitals would stock the large doses of progesterone necessary for RU-486 reversal. “It was so great and life-changing” to be able to save her son, Chaveste said. “I know I cannot be the only one who could have taken that and had a regret.” Rebekah Chaveste and another woman who successfully delivered babies after receiving the RU-486 reversal therapy will tell their stories at the St. Juan Diego 28th anniversary banquet Oct. 25 in Santa Clara. Visit jdwcenter.org. For help after taking RU-486, visit abortionpillreversal.com.
HOW RU-486 WORKS The abortion pill works in a two-step process. On the first day the pill, called mifepristone or methotrexate, originally developed for chemotherapy, is taken. The pill blocks the hormone progesterone, which is necessary to sustain pregnancy. Without progesterone the lining of the uterus breaks down, the cervix softens, and bleeding begins. On the third day a second drug, misoprostol, is taken. This drug induces labor by causing uterine contractions along with thinning of the cervix. If the embryo is not expelled by day 14, a surgical abortion must be performed. VICKI EVANS, respect life coordinator, Archdiocese of San Francisco
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Book on women religious deserves wide, respectful readership REVIEWED BY RACHELLE LINNER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
“NEW GENERATIONS OF CATHOLIC SISTERS: THE CHALLENGE OF DIVERSITY” BY MARY JOHNSON, SND DE N; PATRICIA WITTBERG, SC; AND MARY L. GAUTIER. Oxford University Press (New York, 2014). 216 pp; $29.95. “New Generations of Catholic Sisters” is an important and sober study about a topic that,
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too frequently, is written about in polemical language. Well-written and grounded in impeccable scholarship – the authors are all accomplished social scientists and academics – the book is, nonetheless, accessible to the general reader. They base their conclusions on findings from two major national studies of religious life. One, in 1999, focused on sisters who had entered religious life between 1965 and 1980. A 2009 study analyzed the responses of women who entered after 1993. (The survey questions are included as an appendix to the book.) The authors provide important information about the contemporary religious landscape. “How do we distinguish between religious institutes and other ways of life in the church that are becoming more visible in some parts of the country and the world?” These include ecclesial movements, secular institutes, different forms of consecrated life – including consecrated virgins and hermits – and associations of apostolic life. They only briefly discuss recent Vatican investigations of women religious, but note that “tensions between the hierarchy and religious institutes are not new.” The authors summarize recent church documents on religious life – three from the Second Vatican Council, as well as St. Pope John Paul II’s 1996 encyclical, “Vita Consecrata” (“Consecrated Life”). These documents, written without any input from religious themselves, provide a much different vision than statements from the first World Congress on Religious Life, held in Rome in 2004. Conflict is a natural outgrowth of the lack of a “mediating structure” to provide “constructive engagement” between the priestly and prophetic roles in the church. “Because of this vacuum, an authoritarianism can develop on the part of the hierarchy when they presume they alone know what the charism of religious life is, and a parochialism can develop on the part of religious when they presume that the charism of religious life is the concern of religious alone,” the authors write.
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Within this context, their main focus is the importance, and impact, of generational differences on the future of religious institutes. Sociologists use the concept of generations as “a social location” – such as one’s class, gender and hometown – “that determines the kind of experiences one will have growing up.” “In a fundamental and basic way, we are the products of the eras in which we grew up,” the authors write. This is particularly true for different generations in the church. The pre-Vatican II generation (born before 1943) grew up in “solidly Catholic subcultures ... and had little contact with non-Catholics.” The church of the Vatican II generation (born between 1943 and 1960) “was in constant and invigorating flux. They welcomed its changes.” The experience of the post-Vatican II generation (born between 1961 and 1981) “was often of an institution in constant and disorienting flux, unable to articulate anything worth believing in.” The millennials (born since 1982) “are the least knowledgeable about Catholicism.” In general, the millennial generation is “only tenuously attached to their faith” but its “minority generational subculture” is fiercely devoted to the church and thus most likely to be drawn to religious institutes. These candidates are drawn to orders that wear habits and live in community, tend to spiritualize the challenges of religious life, and use “spousal” and “bride of Christ” imagery to discuss their vocational choice. How communities of different generations deal with this group will determine the future of religious life. The millennial generation also must contend with structural factors that include declining family support for religious vocations and the burden of educational debt. “New Generations of Catholic Sisters” is an honest and courageous book. It refuses to hide from the complex challenges facing religious life. “Whatever its cause, the predicted demise of all or most of the religious institutes of women in the United States has ominous implications for American Catholicism, should it come to pass.” This important book, written in the service of religious life, deserves a wide and respectful readership.
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The diverse cultures of Mission Dolores will be on display Oct. 12, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at the 23rd Fiesta carnival in the mission parking lot, 3321 16th St., San Francisco. The event will showcase a variety of international foods, dance, music and carnival games. Proceeds will be used toward scholarships for students at Mission Dolores Academy, a K-8 school next door to the mission in the heart of the Mission District. The celebration will feature multicultural food and drink including Latin American, Filipino, and East African fare reflecting the diversity of the Mission and the academy’s student body; scheduled live performances including fully costumed Aztec and Polynesian dance troupes, violin and dance performances by academy students, a DJ, and more; carnival games, face painting and a bounce house; a raffle with $2,500 in prizes, including a $1,000 grand prize, $500 first prize and four $250 prizes. Raffle tickets may be purchased online through the e-Contributions link at missiondolores.org.
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More than 400 Catholic charismatics from various prayer groups and parish communities came together at St. Mary’s Cathedral Sept. 20 for the 2014 Holy Spirit Conference and closing liturgy. The conference featured simultaneous tracks in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. Participants in all tracks gathered for the evening healing service and to celebrate the closing liturgy. The main celebrant was Father Robert Mendonca from the Diocese of Oakland, parochial vicar, St. Raymond Church, Dublin. Concelebrating were Father Ricardo Giraldo Monera from Columbia, also a speaker in the Spanish track; Father Darwin Espinal Estrada, Father Dominic Thuong Nguyen from the Oakland diocese; Deacon Mario Zuniga from Mission Dolores Basilica Parish; and Father Raymund Reyes, current charismatic renewal liaison and San Francisco archdiocesan vicar for clergy. English-track keynote speaker James J. Archer, part of the pastoral service team for charismatic renewal in West Virginia and a member of the national service committee for Catholic Charismatic Renewal, said that the millions of Catholics who received the baptism in the Holy Spirit should exercise the graces and charisms they
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OBITUARIES HOLY NAMES SISTER MARY BARBARA CARROLL, 88
Around the archdiocese SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL, SAN FRANCISCO: The girls volleyball program participated in its second annual Serve It Up Founders Classic this past weekend at Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento, engaging Lasallian student-athletes on the court and in the community. “This is a unique tournament because you get the chance to interact with your opponents in a different setting and learn that they are not your enemies, but are people just like you,” said Aaron Adams ‘15. Some students also volunteered at the Front Street Animal Shelter in Sacramento, where they assisted in the pet food pantry.
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MOST HOLY REDEEMER PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: Mary Geracimos retired as parish bookkeeper after 36 years of dedicated service. Precious Blood Father Jack McClure, pastor, presented the apostolic blessing plaque to Mary after the 10 a.m. Mass Sept 21. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared Sept. 22, 2014, Mary Geracimos Day. Pictured are Mike Poma, parish business manager; Mary Geracimos; Father McClure; Marc Colelli, finance council chair.
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Holy Names Sister Mary Barbara Carroll died Sept. 18. She was 88 years old and a religious for 67 years. “Sister Barbara was a native San Franciscan whose pride for her beloved ‘city’ lasted a lifetime,” the Sister Barbara Sisters of the Holy Carroll, SNJM Names said. Sister Barbara was a graduate of St. Monica School and Presentation High School. Sister Barbara had 47 years of dedicated ministry as music teacher, classroom teacher or principal in Catholic schools including St. Cecilia’s from 1950-1953, 1962-1963 and 1970-1973. She also taught at elementary schools in Oakland, Hayward, Fremont, Santa Cruz and Southern California. Sister Margaret Spiller, SNJM, in her reflections at the funeral Mass Sept. 25 described Sister Barbara: “Her professionalism, her demanding standards, her insistence on cleanliness and order, her insistence on proper decorum – all contributed to her reputation as a demanding principal and teacher. And at the same time, her loving and perceptive responses needs of individuals, especially children and beginning teachers, were evident in the focus and attention she generously showered on them which inspired them to move ahead and become something great.” Sister Barbara also served nine years as California Province archivist in Los Gatos where she did an outstanding job of caring for the sisters’ precious heritage, the sisters said. Sister Barbara was a lifelong fan of
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Deacon Bob Bertolani died with family at his side at his South San Francisco home Sept. 21. He was 78 years old and ordained to the diaconate in 1990. Deacon Bertolani served at St. Augustine Church, South San Francisco, for more than 20 years and was also known for his service as a chaplain at San Francisco International Airport and Seton Medical Center. “Bob was a mentor and example for many of the deacons who came after him,” said Deacon Mike Ghiorso, director of the archdiocesan diaconate office. “His smile and ‘down-to-earth’ homilies continued to be an inspiration and a standard for others to follow. Bob will be missed but not forgotten.” Deacon Bertolani is survived by his wife of 57 years, Helen, and their children Susan Elizabeth (Andrew) Juner, Nance Marie (R. Michael) Juner, William Frederick (Jana) Bertolani. He was predeceased by a son, Robert. A memorial Mass was celebrated Sept. 26 at St. Augustine Church with Father Eugene Tungol as principal celebrant. Bishop William J. Justice was present in the sanctuary. The jams help pay the stipends of 22 priests from three different dioceses who offer daily Mass at the suburban monastery. Thirty fruit trees on the property supply much of the fruit while additional produce, bottles, pectin and sugar come from generous local donations. The sisters are also now accepting All Souls’ Day requests. Names of loved ones provided to the sisters are kept on the altar and will be remembered in private prayer. Requests may be sent by email to sram@motherofgodcarmel.org; regular mail at Carmel of the Mother of God Monastery, 530 Blackstone Drive, San Rafael 94903; or left in the vestibule at the monastery.
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FRIDAY, OCT. 3 TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on Sister Suzanne first Fridays at Toolan Mercy Center with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan since 1983; (650) 340-7452.
SATURDAY, OCT. 4 ‘COCKTAILS AT TIFFANY’S’: Evening in gardens of Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, with wine, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres beginning at 6 p.m. benefits St. James School, San Francisco. Tickets $35. Special raffle tickets $25; live and silent auction also on schedule. Email dalton_ constance@yahoo.com; (415) 642-6130. SVDP RUN: Friends of the Poor walk and run, 8:45 a.m., McLaren Park, Wolsey Street entrance, San Francisco; refreshments served; allhallowssvdpsf@ gmail.com; (415) 267-6962. PRO-LIFE: Pray at 435 Grand Ave., South San Francisco, 10 a.m.-noon, Saturdays in October with opening rally Oct. 4. Rosa, (650) 589-0998; Romanie, (650) 583-6169. FREE HEALTH FAIR: Pacifica Health Fair, St. Peter Church gym, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., with information about all areas of health and health care. www.stpeterpacifica.org/. ANIMALS BLESSED: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Greenwood School parking lot, 17 Buena Vista Ave., Mill Valley. Catherine DiPietre, olmcmv@gmail.com; (415) 388-1008; www.mountcarmelmv.org/.
SATURDAY, OCT. 4 GOSPEL JAZZ MASS: Now an annual St. Mary’s Cathedral tradition, this year’s Gospel Mass will have the Bay Area Gospel/Jazz Mass Choir leading song under the direction of Rawn Harbor. Bishop William Bishop William J. J. Justice Justice is principal celebrant. Paulist Father Bart Landry is homilist. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org; call (415) 567-2020; 5:30 p.m.
PEACE MASS: St. Augustine Church, 3700 Callan Blvd., South San Francisco, 9 a.m., Father Rene Ramoso, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.
SUNDAY, OCT. 5
CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., retired Sulpician Father Michael Strange, in residence St. Stephen Parish, Father Michael San Francisco, Strange, SS principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 7562060; www.holycrosscemeteries. com.
THURSDAY, OCT. 9 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets second Thursdays except December 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Worner Center, 138 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome; Jessica, (650) 572–1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.
PRO-LIFE: Life Chain 2 p.m., get signs at Geary Boulevard and Park Presidio Boulevard, San Francisco. (415) 567-2293.
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ROSARY PROCESSION: St. Catherine of Siena Church, Bayswater at El Camino Real, Burlingame, noon, to Burlingame Avenue to pray rosary for peace. BOUTIQUE: Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, Oct. 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Oct. 12, noon-5 p.m. Goods available for purchase from more than 30 vendors. Breakfast burritos are on sale Saturday with lunch on sale both days.
SUNDAY, OCT. 12
ROSARY: Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary with Dominican Sisters of San Rafael to pray the rosary 8 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, between Acacia and Locust. www.sanrafaelop.org; CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org.
3-DAY FESTIVAL: St Gregory Church, 2715 Hacienda at 28th Avenue, San Mateo; events and activities include carnival rides, food booths, games and entertainment for the whole family. Saturday night dinner and Sunday pancake breakfast. Friday, 6-10 p.m., Saturday, 2-10 p.m. and Sunday, 1-6 p.m. (650) 345-8506; www.saintgregorychurch.org.
REUNION: St. Gabriel School, class of 1969, 4:30-9:30 p.m., City Forest Lodge, 254 Laguna Honda Blvd, San Francisco, open bar, buffet dinner, dancing. To be put on the invitation list saintgabes69@yahoo.com.
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VICTIM ASSISTANCE: Survivors of clergy sexual abuse meet, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the lower hall of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Renee Duffey, victim assistance coordinator, (415) 614-5506.
ROSARY RALLY: A Call to Prayer, noon at San Francisco’s U.N. Plaza, Market and Seventh Streets. Keynote speakers and prayer leaders include Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Franciscan Father Andrew
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REUNION: Class of 1954, St. Cecilia School, San Francisco, noon, Casa del Amor, Hillsborough; Don Ahlbach, dahlbach@pacbell.net; (650) 348-5577; Mary Rudden, maryellenrudden@att. net; (415) 824-7695.
FRIDAY, OCT. 10
FIESTA: Mission Dolores School, 16th Street at Church, San Francisco, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. with raffle, games, bounce house, live entertainment, international food and drinks, face painting, a DJ, and more; www.mdasf.org. Stacey McNeill, staceym@mdasf.org; (415) 628-6213. YOUNG ADULT RALLY: Our Lady of Angels Parish, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame, with guest speaker Paul J. Kim and his music and comedy. youthministry@olaparish.org.
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TUESDAY, OCT. 14 SCRIPTURE STUDY: Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher on achieving gratitude and a joy-filled heart as well as reflections on Pope Francis “Joy of the Gospel,” 9-10 a.m., Marian Room of St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco. SaintStephenSF. org; vwong-ststephen@att.net.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca.edu. GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of the cathedral. These sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Facilitator is Deacon Christoph Sandoval. Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.
FRIDAY, OCT. 17 3-DAY FESTIVAL: “Wizard of Oz” Fall Festival, Oct, 17, 18, 19, St. Dunstan
Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae. Enjoy carnival rides, games, food and drink, chili cook-off, pie eating contest, bingo, raffle, silent auction, and Auntie Em’s Country Store filled with handmade items and treats; Friday 5-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. (650) 697-4730; secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org. ANNIVERSARY: Marin Pregnancy Clinic celebrates its 30th year with a wine and cheese gala. (415) 892-0558; www.marinpregnancyclinic.org.
SATURDAY, OCT. 18 REUNION: St. Gabriel School, San Francisco, 1974 graduates. Please respond to sg74reunion@gmail.com. REUNION: All Hallows School, San Francisco, class of 1964, dinner at Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco. lindacassanego@gmail. com; (818) 889-4543.
RETIRED PRIESTS’ LUNCH: Luncheon and program honoring retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and retired priests of religious Father Kieran orders serving McCormick in the ADSF, St. Mary’s Cathedral Patrons Hall, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $125 with proceeds benefiting the Msgr. Maurice Priests’ RetireMcCormick ment Fund. (415) 614-5580; Development@ sfarchdiocese.org. Father Kieran McCormick is retired pastor of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos. Msgr. Maurice McCormick is retired pastor of Mission Dolores Parish.
REUNION: Holy Name of Jesus School, San Francisco, class of 1974, Mass in Holy Name Church 5 p.m. followed by school tour and reception and dinner at 6:30 p.m. in parish Flanagan Center, visit Holy Name reunion website at http://holynameclassof74.myevent. com. Dave Petrini dpetrini@accountnowinc.com; (415) 302-5608.
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SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY: Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, 659 Pine St., San Francisco, celebrates 90 years beginning at 3 p.m. with Mass at 5 p.m. in Notre Dame des Victoires Church behind the school on Bush Street across
SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY: San Francisco’s Our Lady of the Visitacion School, 785 Sunnydale Ave., celebrates 50 years beginning with Mass at 10 a.m. All who have attended OLV School or who have taught or worked
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RETREAT: Spiritual direction is focus at St. Matthias Parish, Father Lacey Hall, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, 1:30-4:30 p.m. followed by 5 p.m. Mass. Speakers include Vivian Clausing, Sharon Erro, Sister Dee Myers and Tim Valderrama on how spiritual direction can help on faith journey. Liz Vugrinecz, aff@stmatthiasparish.org, (650) 366-9544, ext. 12 to register. No fee.
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