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Cardinals and the faithful hold candles during a prayer vigil for the Synod of Bishops on the family attended by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 3.

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VATICAN CITY – The world Synod of Bishops on the family is not a parliament where participants will negotiate or lobby, Pope Francis said, but it must be a place of prayer where bishops speak with courage and open themselves to “God who always surprises us.”

Opening the first working session of the synod Oct. 5, the pope said the synod’s 270 voting members

need courage, “pastoral and doctrinal zeal, wisdom, frankness and to keep always before our eyes the good of the church and of families and the supreme law – the salvation of souls.”

Arriving about 15 minutes before the session began, Pope Francis welcomed to the synod hall the members, delegates from other Christian communities and the men and women who will serve as experts and observers.

The synod is not a convention or a parliament, Pope Francis said, “but an expression of the church;

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Syriac Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan celebrates the Divine Liturgy at St. Toma Syriac Catholic Church in Farmington Hills, Michigan, Sept. 21.

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Signing of assisted-suicide bill called ‘dark day’

Opponents of doctor-assisted suicide condemned Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature Oct. 5 of a measure that will allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients.

“This is a dark day for California and for the Brown legacy,” Californians Against Assisted Suicide said.

“Governor Brown was clear in his statement that this was based on his personal background. As someone of wealth and access to the world’s best medical care and doctors the governor’s background is very different than that of millions of Californians living in health-care poverty without that same access – these are the people and families potentially hurt by giving doctors the power to prescribe lethal overdoses to patients.” The coalition against the bill said it “is reviewing at all of its options.”

In his statement on signing Assembly Bill ABx2-15, Brown said, “I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. And I wouldn’t deny that right to others.”

A statement by the California Catholic Conference, which strongly opposed the bill, was pending Oct. 5.

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FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan – It’s a situation reaching biblical proportions: Thousands of refugees fleeing religious persecution, leaving behind their homes, their memories and their lives.

With Iraqi and Syrian Christians escaping the terror inflicted by radical Islamic extremists, Syriac Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan made a plea to Western Christians to save his people, his culture and his homeland during a pastoral visit to the Detroit area Sept. 19-21.

The spiritual leader of the world’s 158,000 Syriac Catholics spoke at St. Toma Syriac Catholic Church in Farmington Hills Sept. 21, briefing the congregation on the situation in the Middle East and what needs to be done to save thousands of Christians in the region.

it is the church that walks together to read reality with the eyes of faith and with the heart of God.” Synod members must be faithful to church teaching, “the deposit of faith, which is not a museum to be visited or even simply preserved, but is a living spring from which the church drinks to quench the thirst and enlighten” people, he said.

The synod hall and its small working groups, he said, should be “a protected space where the church

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World Apostolate of Fatima begins with a 10 Mass at Keynote Speakers: St. Mary’s Cathedral, celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and concelebrated by cathedral rector Father Arturo Albano. Following Mass, the archbishop will lead a eucharistic procession to U.N. Plaza, where the rally will begin at noon. The pilgrims from the cathedral will be met by an awaiting group of Catholics.

After the procession’s arrival, there will be exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, followed

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Secular Franciscans celebrate 100 years of ‘Franciscan joy’ Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

They’ve been quietly feeding and clothing the poor in San Francisco and sometimes not so quietly standing up against injustice and violence for 100 years. On Oct. 3, the St. Francis Secular Franciscan Fraternity and the local Franciscan community celebrated 10 decades of living out the Gospel with a daylong “Franciscan Day of Joy” at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco.

The event was attended by more than 150 Franciscans and their friends who came together in fellowship on the eve of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi to celebrate Mass, gain inspiration from Franciscan speakers and celebrate the Transitus – an annual prayer service remembering the passing of Francis from this life into God. “We are known as people of penance,” said Christine Morrison, a retired teacher and the fraternity’s current vice minister. Like some others in the fraternity, she lives in or near the Tenderloin in order to be more accessible to the homeless and sick who live there. She has marched against war and has championed the poor at city hall.

“We are regular people who agree to follow Francis’ teachings and live the Gospel life of Jesus.”

The Secular Franciscan Order, formerly known as the Third Order of St. Francis, is an official order within the Catholic Church, established by St. Francis of Assisi himself early in the 13th century.

This third order was devised by St. Francis as a sort of middle state between the cloister and the world for those wishing to follow in the saint’s footsteps.

Secular Franciscans go through a formal formation program and once professed, are part of the Franciscan family of friars, brothers and Poor Clare nuns and sisters. They do not live in community but live in families and perform jobs out in the world, gathering in fraternities on a regular basis.

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The Franciscan Day of Joy began with Mass at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district on Oct. 3.

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St. Francis Fraternity formation director Tim Gallagher wears a Tau cross like many Franciscans. ciscan Fraternity, founded at St. Boniface in 1891, saw its first professions in 1915 and is part of an international fraternity of about 400,000 Secular Franciscans.

According to Morrison, the fraternity has always helped to meet the needs of the times. During World War II, for example, members held a Day of Prayer for Peace and raised money to aid lepers in the Philippines. In the 1950s members were instrumental in supporting Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddeker in the opening the St. Anthony’s Dining Room. More recently, members marched for peace against war in the Middle East.

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The centennial celebration and Franciscan Day of Joy began with

morning Mass, celebrated by Franciscan Father John Hardin, provincial of the Santa Barbara Province of Franciscan Friars, where the filled-to-capacity sanctuary sang in praise St. Francis’ “Canticle of the Sun.” Featured presentations were made by Franciscan Father Jack Clark Robinson and Franciscan Sister Margie Will and a short video on the history of the fraternity was shown during lunch.

“We accept people for who they are,” said Arlene Zamora of San Francisco, a St. Dominic parishioner who professed in 2012. Her friend and fellow fraternity member Pat Dolan, also of St. Dominic, sat by her side.

Tim Gallagher, RCIA director for St. Boniface and formation director for the St. Francis Fraternity, said that members live out their charism quietly.

“Our purpose is to be at the street level with those that are hurt, bruised and disenfranchised and need to be lifted up in any way,” he said. He said he has three new candidates in formation currently.

Gallagher, who dropped out of seminary and monastic life, fingered his Tau cross, a symbol of the Franciscan order and described what being a Secular Franciscan means to him.

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A native San Franciscan, Sister Helen taught in schools in cities including Belmont, San Jose, Santa Clara and Santa Barbara and more recently served at John XXIII Senior Center in San Jose. She is grateful for her Notre Dame family she says, as well as “all the friends I’ve known and loved in my 75 years as a Sister of Notre Dame.”

70 Years Sister Barbara Hanagan, SNDdeN

Sister Barbara especially enjoyed teaching high school students especially at Star of the Sea School in Honolulu. Sister Barbara said “the presence of God is the greatest – in the ordinariness of life, the small miracles, in community and in the quiet of prayer.”

Sister Bernice Heinz, SNDdeN

Sister Bernice always went above and beyond for her students including those at Madonna del Sasso School in Salinas where she taught for 27 years.

She is also a musician. “God has been holding my hand all my life,” she said.

Sister Peggy Offley, SNDdeN

Sister Peggy entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur after high school in San Francisco. She has especially liked teaching fifth grade: “They were happy and happy to learn and mostly well behaved!” she said. “The special blessing of my life in Notre Dame is the way I was led closer to God.”

60 Years Sister Joan Bernhart, SNDdeN

Sister Joan has taught in elementary schools and Notre Dame high schools in Belmont and San José. She has also served at her congregation’s Notre Dame de Namur University. Sister Joan views her life as one in which “everything has been a gift. God is with us in all the ups and downs of life.”

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Sister Jacinta Martinez, SNDdeN

Sister Jacinta entered religious life from Notre Dame High School, San Francisco. She has a long tenure teaching in Catholic schools and later as a chaplain and at St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco.Sister Jacinta said: “I’ve done it all, and all of it is grace and gratitude.”

Sister Sharonann Skain, SNDdeN

Sister Sharonann is a native of San Francisco and has taught at schools in San Carlos, San Francisco and Millbrae. She has served for 22 years as RCIA director at St Christopher Parish in San Jose. Sister Sharon said: “Thank you, thank you Holy Spirit, for the gift of joy to celebrate 60 years as an SND among your people.”

50 Years Sister Sharon Joyer, SNDdeN

Sister Sharon served in Appalachia, West Virginia. She taught all grades at Big Laurel School, served as emergency midwife, buried the dead and responded to other unexpected challenges. “The Spirit has worked marvels in my life. It is a grace to be here,” Sister Sharon said.

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aged hundreds of future educators during her years in the Education Department at Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont. She also worked with teams of teachers in organizing retreats. “We proclaim by our lives even more than by our words that God is good,” Sister Nancy said.

Sister Louise O’Reilly, SNDdeN

As a teacher, principal, and development director, Sister Louise has served in Notre Dame schools in California and Hawaii. A favorite ministry was as pastoral associate, helping adults to grow as effective liturgical ministers. Sister Louise is grateful “for our Notre Dame community, the many people I’ve worked with and learned from, and my own family’s example of fidelity and lives well-lived.”

40 Years Sister Liane Delsuc, SNDdeN

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’On Fire NorCal Jam’: Drew 3,500 youth, young adults, and chaperones from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and eight additional Northern California dioceses to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Sept. 19. The day included Mass, workshops in English and Spanish for youth and young adults, an evening concert and of course the rides and fun of the amusement park experience. Local parishes represented included St. Matthias, St. Peter, St. Pius, St. Kevin, St. Boniface, St. Andrew, Mater Dolorosa, St. Mark’s and St. Timothy, as well as students from Archbishop Riordan High School and Mercy High School, San Francisco. Up next is an Archdiocesan Youth Rally and Youth Mass Oct. 18, 2-6 p.m., Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City. Bishop William Justice is principal celebrant and homilist, said Ynez Lizarraga, associate director of youth ministry for the archdiocese. Left, students from San Francisco’s Mercy High School and Archbishop Riordan

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High School at “On Fire NorCal Jam” Sept. 19. “Of course, everyone’s hearts were on fire through big drops, twists, and turns on the myriad thrill rides the Discovery Kingdom celebrates–a truly Spirit-filled experience for all!” the schools said. Right, Gino Castiglioni, Rebekah Karlegan, Carly Ippolito and Jacob Rodriguez attended NorCal Jam from Mater Dolorosa Parish, South San Francisco.

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‘Carbon neutrality’ goal of USF’s new sustainability coordinator Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

A University of San Francisco graduate who earned a master’s degree in environmental management in 2013 is back on campus as the school’s first sustainability coordinator.

Richard Hsu was hired by his alma mater to lead the newly created office of sustainability. He is responsible for implementing a “climate action plan” completed late last year by the university’s Sustainability Council aimed at achieving carbon neutrality and cultivating a new generation of ecologically aware citizens in the process.

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With just over 10,000 students and almost 1,000 staff and faculty, the university is “like a small city” that includes multiple heat- and waste- generating and water-using structures, a vehicle fleet and hundreds of campus commuters, Hsu said.

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It also calls for a full-time sustainability coordinator.

Hsu plans to develop co-curricular and extracurricular projects, particularly in the upgrade of antiquated structures and energy systems, making the campus a living laboratory for students.

In the long run, the climate action plan will also help the university achieve “fiscal sustainability,” but the effort is not as much about money as morality.

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Religious freedom called critical to health of world’s societies

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate passed legislation to reauthorize the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Sept. 30, but the measure was awaiting action by the House. A day earlier Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, urged Congress in a letter to pass the bipartisan measure quickly so the commission could continue its “vital mission” to protect religious freedom, which he called “critical to the health of societies around the world.”

“The Catholic Church has long viewed protection of religious freedom as a ‘cornerstone of the structure of human rights’ since it is rooted in the dignity of the human person,” said the bishop, writing as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace.

House passes measure to defund Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON – The House Sept. 29 passed the Women’s Health and Public Safety Act to give states the authority to defund Planned Parenthood. Speaking from the House floor in support of the measure, which was sponsored

by Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wisconsin, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, cited the pope’s Sept. 24 address to a joint meeting of Congress.

“Pope Francis admonished a joint session of Congress to follow the Golden Rule – to ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ – and said that the Golden Rule compels us to ‘protect and defend human life at every stage of development,’” Smith said. State and federal funding of Planned Parenthood has come under By Paul Larson scrutiny after a series of videos, filmed

undercover, were released by the Center for Medical Progress, based in Irvine, California. The videos show physicians and others associated with Planned Parenthood describing the harvesting of fetal tissue and body parts during abortions at their clinics.

Also discussed are what researchers are charged for the tissue and parts.

Obama appoints 2 Catholics to faith-based panel

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has appointed two Catholics to his third Advisory Council on FaithBased and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Kevin Ryan, CEO and president of Covenant House International, and Stephen Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America, were among the 18 appointed. The appointments were announced Sept. 24.

Ryan has led Covenant House since 2009. From 2008 to 2009, he served as chief operating officer of the U.N. Special Envoy for Malaria. From 2006 to 2008, he was the first commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.

Prior to his government service, he served as director of the youth advocacy center at Covenant House New Jersey. From 1992 to 1997, Ryan worked as a Skadden fellow and staff attorney at Covenant House New York.

Schneck has been at the helm of Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at Catholic University since 2005. From 1996 to 2005, he was chair of the university’s politics department, and from 1990 to 2005, he has been an associate professor of politics.

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Silence and indifference to migrant crisis lead to complicity, pope says Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Indifference to the crises and tragedies today’s migrants and refugees are facing heads to complicity when people remain silent or refuse to act, Pope Francis said.

Jesus’ call to welcome the stranger and show mercy is clear, the pope said in a message released at the Vatican Oct. 1.

“Yet there continue to be debates about the conditions and limits to be set for the reception of migrants, not only on the level of national policies, but also in some parish communities, whose traditional tranquility seems to be threatened,” he said.

The pope made the comments in his message for the 2016 World Day for Migrants and Refugees, which will be celebrated Jan. 17 in most countries.

In the United States, National Migration Week will be celebrated Jan. 4-9.

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A migrant woman waits at the transit camp near Gevgelija, Macedonia, Sept. 29.

Pope Francis chose “Migrants and Refugees Challenge Us. The Response of the Gospel of Mercy” as the theme for next year’s commemoration.

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All migrants are “our brothers and sisters in search of a better life, far away from poverty, hunger, exploitation and the unjust distribution of the planet’s resources, which are meant to be equitably shared by all,” the pope said in his message.

They are seeking the same thing everyone seeks, he said, “a better, more decent and prosperous life to share with our loved ones.”

“Unacceptable humanitarian crises” in many parts of the world force greater numbers of people to flee for their lives, he said.

But “indifference and silence lead to complicity whenever we stand by as people are dying of suffocation, starvation, violence and shipwreck.”

“Whether large or small in scale, these are always tragedies, even when a single human life is lost,” the pope said.

“Today, more than in the past, the Gospel of mercy troubles our consciences, prevents us from taking the suffering of others for granted, and points out a way of responding” with practical works of spiritual and corporal mercy, the pope said in his message.

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Pet owners in Lima, Peru, celebrate St. Francis of Assisi by having their mascots blessed by a Catholic priest Oct. 4.

Ukraine church: Time for cautious diplomacy is over

VIENNA – The head of the Ukrainian Catholic church has urged the Vatican to show greater support for his country, as a senior Vatican diplomat warned the country risked becoming “a kind of Somalia. I would have expected a lot more involvement by the Vatican – the time for cautious diplomacy is at an end,” said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

“The fact that 70 percent of Ukrainian army regulars fighting against separatists and Russian soldiers have Russian as their mother-tongue shows the unity of our people and our army. What we are seeing is a foreign invasion of Ukrainian territory by Russian troops,” he said. . Meanwhile, a former Vatican nuncio to Ukraine warned the country risked becoming “a kind of Somalia in the middle of Europe. Ukraine desperately needs support from abroad, so it doesn’t become a so-called failed state – this risk is unfortunately very great,” U.S. Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, who was nuncio in Kiev from November 2011 until early September, told Vatican Radio Oct. 2.

Hunger a ‘scandal,’ a ‘sin’ in a world of plenty, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Hunger is a “true scandal” that threatens the life and dignity of millions of people while tons of food go to waste, Pope Francis

said. “We must face this injustice, this sin,” the pope told more than 7,000 volunteers and coordinators of Italian food banks, along with representatives from food banks in other countries.

Pope Francis met the volunteers and coordinators Oct. 3 in the Vatican at a meeting sponsored by the Italian Food Bank Foundation. He praised their efforts “to fight the waste of food, recover it and distribute it to families in difficulty and to the poor.”

Vatican priest’s synod-eve decision called ‘irresponsible’

VATICAN CITY – On the eve of the start of the Synod of Bishops on the family, a Polish monsignor who works in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, publicly declared he is homosexual and has a stable partner.

Msgr. Krzysztof Charamsa, 43, gave interviews to Polish and Italian media Oct. 2 and planned a news conference the following day outside the offices of the congregation. The conference, however, was moved to a restaurant nearby.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said Oct. 3 that Msgr. Charamsa and his reflections on his life and sexuality were deserving of respect, but “the decision to make such a pointed statement on the eve of the opening of the synod appears very serious and irresponsible, since it aims to subject the synod assembly to undue media pressure.”

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The family is the answer to world’s brokenness, blandness, pope says Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – The family is the answer to the two extremes facing the world – fragmentation and “homogenization,” in which everything is forced to be the same, Pope Francis said.

The family based on marriage between a man and a woman is the answer because “it is the cell of a society that balances the personal and communal,” he said at his general audience Sept. 30 in St. Peter’s Square.

The family also can be “the model of a sustainable management of goods and the resources of creation” against today’s culture of consumerism, he added.

The pope dedicated his audience talk to reviewing his Sept. 19-27 trip to Cuba and the United States, where he visited Washington, New York, the United Nations and Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.

He thanked Cuban President Raul Castro, U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for their warm welcomes and extended his thanks to all the bishops and everyone who worked to make the trip possible.

The pope made special mention of Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia “for his commitment, piety, enthusiasm and his great love for the family,” which were seen in his work organizing the main focus of the pope’s trip – the World Meeting of Families.

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Pope pleads for commutation of death sentences

WASHINGTON – Less than a week after Pope Francis told a joint meeting of Congress that he backs U.S. efforts to abolish the death penalty, news came of his U.S. nuncio’s letters to authorities in two states appealing on the pope’s behalf to commute death sentences.

On Sept. 29, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano unsuccessfully appealed on the pope’s behalf to Georgia officials to commute the death sentence of Kelly Gissendaner, who was executed shortly after midnight the next day. Within hours of receiving the letter on the pope’s behalf, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected Gissendaner’s request for clemency and her execution proceeded.

Earlier, speaking for Pope Francis, the nuncio weighed in Sept. 19 on another highly publicized execution scheduled in Oklahoma for Sept. 30, that of Richard Glossip, whose challenge to the state’s lethal injection protocol was rejected by the Supreme Court in June. In the letter to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, Archbishop Vigano cited both Pope Francis and St. John Paul II as well as Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley.

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Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 30.

but was providential that the message, rather, the witness of the World Meeting of Families took place at this time in the United States of America, that is, the nation which achieved the highest economic and technological development in the last century without renouncing its religious roots.”

“Now these same roots are asking that we begin again from the family in order to rethink and change the model of development for the good of the whole human family,” he said.

The pope said the family, which is “the fruitful covenant between a man and a woman,” is the answer to the great challenges of our world. person’s life and would contribute to a society more cognizant of the mercy that God has bestowed upon us all,” wrote Archbishop Vigano.

Vatican: Meeting with Kentucky clerk not endorsement

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ meeting with Kim Davis, the county clerk from Kentucky who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses, does not equate support for her “position,” the Vatican spokesman said after discussing the issue personally with the pope.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the spokesman, issued a statement Oct. 2 saying the pope had met with “several dozen persons who had been invited by the nunciature to greet him” in Washington and that “such brief greetings occur on all papal visits and are due to the pope’s characteristic kindness and availability.”

Father Lombardi made a distinction between the brief greetings and more official meetings by saying, “The only real audience granted by the pope at the nunciature was with one of his former students and his family.”

Late Oct. 2, Father Lombardi said in a statement that the former student was Yayo Grassi of Argentina.

Grassi, an openly gay man, was accompanied by his partner, his mother and several friends in the meeting

The challenges, he said, are “fragmentation and homogenization, two extremes that coexist and build on each other, and together support the consumerist economic model.”

The family can play a major role in a sustainable, “integral ecology,” he said.

The human couple, “united and fertile, placed by God in the world’s garden in order to cultivate it and safeguard it,” displays the two fundamental principles human civilization is based upon – communion and fruitfulness, he said.

The pope said that during his trip to Cuba, he was able to share the people’s hope in fulfilling St. John Paul II’s dream that “Cuba open up to the world and the world open up to Cuba. No more closed doors, no more exploitation of poverty, but freedom in dignity” and responsibly serving and caring for others and the most vulnerable.

He said flying from Cuba to Washington was “symbolic – a bridge that, thanks be to God, is being rebuilt. God always wants to build bridges. We are the ones who build walls. And walls always crumble.”

He said he reminded the United States that its greatest asset is its “spiritual and ethical patrimony, that is, that all men and women are created equal by God and endowed with unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

The religious and moral foundation upon which the United States was founded and built can continue to nurture the nation to be “the land of liberty and welcome, and to cooperate for a world that is more just and fraternal,” he said. at the nunciature Sept. 23. As noted in the past, the pope, as pastor, has maintained many personal relationships with people in a spirit of kindness, welcome and dialogue,” the statement said.

Pope: Devil tricks with promises of wealth, power

VATICAN CITY – Every day, the devil tries to trick and seduce people with promises of riches, grandeur and power, Pope Francis said.

Satan “sows snares and is a seducer. He seduces with charm, with diabolical charm, he leads you to believe everything. He knows how to sell with this charm, he sells well, but he pays badly in the end,” the pope said in a morning homily.

Pope Francis celebrated Mass Oct. 3 for the Vatican gendarmes, the police force that works together with the Swiss Guard to protect the pope and provide order and security at papal events. The Mass was celebrated in honor of the gendarmes’ patron saint, St. Michael, the Archangel, whose feast day was Sept. 29.

In his homily, Pope Francis told the gendarmes that the future battle St. Michael is envisioned to lead against Satan is a war that is being waged everyday throughout history – in the hearts of men and women, Christians and non-Christians.

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Synod: Pope says bishops’ meeting a place of prayer, openness to God FROM PAGE 1

experiences the action of the Holy Spirit.”

Synod members need “an apostolic courage that does not allow itself to be afraid in the face of the seductions of the world” that are attempting “to extinguish in human hearts the light of truth” and replace it with “little and temporary lights,” he said.

However, at the same time, Pope Francis said, apostolic courage does not tremble in fear “before the hardening of certain hearts that despite good intentions drive people further from God.” Trust-filled prayer is an attitude of openness to God and silencing one’s own preferences “to listen to the soft voice of God who speaks in silence,” Pope Francis told the synod members. “Without listening to God, all of our words will be just words that don’t quench or satisfy.” Without prayer, “all our decisions will be just decorations that instead of exalting the Gospel cover and hide it.”

Throughout the synod, members will offer a brief meditation during the morning prayer. Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucipalpa began Oct. 5, telling the bishops: “We are not a church in danger of extinction, far from it. Neither is the family, although it is threatened and struggling.”

The synod, he said, is not a place “to mourn or lament” the challenges families face, but to rejoice and seek perfection and to help families do the same.

The discussions aim at “the unanimity that comes from dialogue,” he said, but can be disturbed by “ideas defended to the extreme.”

Looking at the situation of families around the world, one of the primary challenges is economic. Too many families do not have food, shelter or employment, said Hungarian Cardinal Peter

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Prelates attend the opening Mass of the Synod of Bishops on the family celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 4.

Pope: Fidelity, truth, love must guide church outreach

VATICAN CITY – In a world filled with challenges to marriage and family life, the Catholic Church is called “to carry out her mission in fidelity, truth and love,” Pope Francis said at the Mass opening the world Synod of Bishops on the family.

Formally opening the synod Oct. 4 with a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope said the church must encourage families and

Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, chosen by the pope to introduce the discussion. Young people delay marriage and parenthood because they do not have or think they do not have the means to support a family. Millions of families are torn apart by war and migration.

defend faithful love, the sacredness of every human life and “the unity and indissolubility” of marriage.

At the same time, he said, the church must carry out its mission with charity, not only “not pointing a finger in judgment of others,” but also seeking out all who are lonely and in pain, caring for “hurting couples with the balm of acceptance and mercy.”

The Catholic Church at every level, he said, must affirm the missionary role of families, ensuring married couples are part of marriage preparation programs, family support groups and outreach to families in crisis emotionally or economically.

Turning to the widely debated topic of the pastoral care of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, Cardinal Erdo said pastors must be ready to help couples verify whether or not their church marriage was valid. If it was a valid marriage, he said, it is indissoluble, as Jesus himself taught.

Cardinal Erdo said the synod would be called to examine more carefully the idea of offering a “penitential path” to such couples, a path that would lead to their receiving absolution and having access to the Eucharist, perhaps gradually. But, he said, his opinion was that such a path necessarily would require a promise of sexual abstinence.

Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, one of the synod presidents, told reporters, “If you are looking for a spectacular change in church doctrine you will be disappointed.”

Syria: Patriarch says Christians ‘begging’ West to help refugees FROM PAGE 1

“The situation is very devastating and tragic,” Patriarch Younan said, speaking in both English and Arabic.

“For Iraq, this has been happening for two generations. For Syria, the war has been taking place for the last three years, with no hope on the horizon for Christians in the area.”

Patriarch Younan spoke before media members and the St. Toma congregation following celebration of the Divine Liturgy – what Eastern Catholics call the Mass – describing the atrocities taking place at the hands of the Islamic State, including the destruction of churches, the trafficking of women and girls as sex slaves, and the forced conversion of Christians to Islam.

“The crisis is evolving into more killings, more hostages and a struggle with no end in sight,” said Patriarch Younan, who was elected as patriarch in 2009 after serving as the first eparch of the Newark, New Jerseybased Syrian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance. “We’ve been through these struggles for 14 months, since the fall of Mosul on June 10, 2014. Since then, all the Christian communities in northern Iraq have been wiped out.”

With the destruction of their ancestral homeland and faith, thousands of Iraqis and Syrians have reluctantly left their homes for neighboring Ara-

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Migrant children look through a fence as they wait permission to cross the border between Greece and Macedonia Sept. 15. bic states and Europe, forced to live as refugees.

Patriarch Younan believes the rise of the Islamic State is a direct result of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath regime in Iraq in 2003 and the current opposition to President Bashar Assad’s Ba’ath government in Syria, actions that have been encouraged by Western countries.

“The flow of immigrants is a very direct result of the politics taken by Westerners,” Patriarch Younan said.

“These nations must accept refugees.

Surely, refuges are not the best way to solve the crisis. But if the world

believes in freedom of movement and the right of immigration, then these countries must welcome the refugees from policies they helped create.”

Pope Francis also spoke in direct terms to the U.S. Congress Sept. 24, encouraging aid for people fleeing such violence. Before his visit to the United States, Pope Francis offered the Vatican as a home for refugees.

Patriarch Younan said Syrian and Iraqi Christians don’t want to leave their land, but do so out of fear of Islamic State militants. He said the solution is for Western powers to use their economic, political and even

military strength to stop ISIS and promote stable governments in the Middle East that protect the rights of religious minorities.

“We are begging the West to stand for the rights of all citizens in Iraq and Syria,” Patriarch Younan said.

“The West can’t be just about introducing democracy when you have a majority of Muslims who don’t want a separation of church and state.”

The patriarch explained radical Islam must be eradicated and a clear definition of the role of church and state must be established before Middle Eastern states can establish democratic republics.

“The idea that democracy will bring in stability is a fantasy,” Patriarch Younan said. “Stability will only happen in the region when there is a government strong enough to protect the rights of everybody and not simply for the majority.”

Patriarch Younan finished his address by appealing to Westerners to save Christianity in the Middle East.

“The Middle East is the cradle of civilization, and Christians have been at the center of the civilization for millennia,” Patriarch Younan said.

“We’re going against all the odds. We don’t have the numbers, we don’t have the oil and we don’t have the terrorists that Muslims seem to inspire. But we do have our faith and the hope our Western Christian brothers and sisters will come to our aid.”

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Life after the convent: Finding the courage to start over

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here is no scrapbook of Kathy Webb’s life as a Dominican sister. No picture frames or friendship bracelets, no nun memorabilia perched in a closet or buried in a trunk. The only artifact from her convent days is the long apron she wore to protect her white habit, bearing her former identity on a tiny tag sewn onto the back: “Sister Cora Marie 558.”

The rest is Christina muscle memory: Capecchi the smell of the incense, the sound of the high-pitched bells, the memorized prayers that still flow out of her. “O sacred banquet in which Christ is received…”

There is her intimate knowledge of the sisters, idiosyncrasies perceived amid the uniform: the prioress general’s brisk walk, Sister Marie Josephine’s incurable cough, the way Sister Marie Caritas’ veil crinkled up and Sister Mary Angela’s veil stuck out and Sister Mary Kevin’s veil lay over her shoulder.

There were 275 Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in their Nashville convent when Kathy Webb lived among them, and during her first two years, it felt like home.

But when she professed her first temporary vows on a Sunday morning in August 2010, becoming an official Catholic sister, everything changed. The Mass was supposed to mark the culmination of a call the 28-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky, had first experienced in high school, a public and unabashed yes to the Lord.

As the Mother Superior placed her hands on Kathy’s, a feeling of dread seized her. “Whatever grace had sussee cappecchi, page 17

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Jailed for defending marriage

im Davis, the now famous clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who became known for her refusal to issue marriage licenses, was arrested and incarcerated. She had refused to affix her signature to licenses being sought by two people of the same sex, even after the Supreme Court had legalized gay marriage, noting that this would force her to act against her conscience father tadeusz and her pacholczyk deeply held religious convictions. Her resolve to stop issuing licenses under these circumstances needs to be grasped for what it really is, namely, a morally coherent course of action that respects the authentic nature of marriage and recognizes the duties of an informed conscience.

Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western University noted that Davis “asked to be the person who issues marriage licenses. And the state defines who is eligible to marry,” and sometimes “the eligibility changes.”

In point of fact, however, he only begs the question under dispute.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision stress that the state does not determine the nature of marriage; instead, it is nature that makes that determination through the radical complementarity of man and woman, a reality entirely outside the purview of the state to redefine or negate. The unique and exclusive eligibility of one man and one woman to marry each other cannot be changed

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by court order any more than gravity can be overturned by court decree.

Commenting on the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, Ed Peters, a canonist in Detroit, explains it this way: “Five justices imposed on marriage (true marriage, natural marriage, traditional marriage, whatever pleonastic phrase one wishes to use) the lie that marriage includes the union of two persons of the same sex. … The Court has published a naked, gross falsehood that tears simultaneously at the fabric of law, language, family and society. The word marriage has, and will always have, an objectively true meaning – no matter how many times it has been degraded.”

Davis resolutely declined to lend her signature, and the authority of her office, to affirm this falsehood.

Even so, various commentators have tried to insist that Davis was elected to serve as a government official, and should carry out the provisions of the law even if she might not agree with them. But this argument is flawed on at least four counts.

First, the claim that public servants have a stringent duty to uphold the law tends to be selectively applied by those who make the claim. Nearly 18 months before Davis was jailed, and 15 months before the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, another public servant in Kentucky named Jack Conway, the state attorney general, failed to carry out his duty of defending the Kentucky Constitution that affirmed marriage to be between one man and one woman. He publicly refused to defend the law of the Commonwealth before the Supreme Court; and Conway was praised and celebrated for his decision by numerous voices in the national media and in the legal establishment. Conway’s refusal to perform this duty clearly contravened Kentucky law KRS 522.020; nevertheless, he was neither punished nor incarcerated for his failure to uphold the fundamental

marriage laws of the state.

Second, it would be wrong to suppose that workers and employees are mere cogs in the machinery of governments or corporations, mindlessly following orders. Many German government officials and workers seemed to make this assumption during World War II. Officials and employees are rather called to assist their employers in an attentive and collaborative way, so that the work of the institution or corporation they represent is marked by integrity and sound ethics. Davis sought to conscientiously protect the integrity of marriage and the work carried out in the clerk’s office by declining to issue licenses to two people of the same sex.

Third, when Davis was elected to the office of clerk in Rowan County, gay marriage was still illegal, so she was elected to a position where, some time later, the ground beneath her feet abruptly shifted, and a new job description requiring her to violate her conscience was suddenly thrust upon her. Simply put, she hadn’t signed up for this.

Fourth, legality does not automatically equate to morality. If workers or officials are asked to perform a gravely immoral activity, even one sanctioned by a legislature, a parliament, or a Supreme Court, they must instead advert to a higher law, and individual conscience rights must be safeguarded to assure that they are not forced to comply with serious wrongdoing.

In sum, Davis’ measured actions at the clerk’s office in Kentucky offer a coherent and courageous response to chaotic attempts to undermine marriage and the rule of law. Our society needs more of her coherence and courage, not less.

Father Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. www. ncbcenter.org.

Communication and mercy: A fruitful encounter Vatican Information Service

VATICAN CITY – “Communication and mercy: A fruitful encounter” is the theme chosen

by Pope Francis for World Communications Day. The choice of theme this year has clearly been determined by the celebration of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, and the Holy Father undoubtedly desired that World Communications Day would provide the appropriate occasion to reflect on the deep synergy between communication and mercy.

In the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee Year, in paragraph 12, the pope affirms that the church is commissioned to announce the mercy of God, the beating heart of the Gospel, which in its own way must penetrate the heart and mind of every person. He adds that her language and her gestures must transmit mercy, so as to touch the hearts of all people and inspire them once more to

‘Her language and gestures must transmit mercy’ In paragraph 12 of the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis sets the tone for World Communications Day. The church is commissioned to announce the mercy of God, the beating heart of the Gospel, which in its own way must penetrate the heart and mind of every person.

The Spouse of Christ must pattern her behavior after the Son of God who went out to everyone without exception. In the present day, as the Church is charged with the task of the new evangelization, the theme of mercy needs to be proposed again and again with new enthusiasm and renewed pastoral action. It is absolutely essential for the Church and for the credibility of her message that she herself live and testify to mer-

find the road that leads to the Father.

It is helpful, in this regard, that communication is a key element for the promotion of a culture of encounter.

The pope, on this occasion, refers to the

cy. Her language and her gestures must transmit mercy, so as to touch the hearts of all people and inspire them once more to find the road that leads to the Father.

The Church’s first truth is the love of Christ. The Church makes herself a servant of this love and mediates it to all people: a love that forgives and expresses itself in the gift of oneself. Consequently, wherever the Church is present, the mercy of the Father must be evident. In our parishes, communities, associations and movements, in a word, wherever there are Christians, everyone should find an oasis of mercy.

Source: www.iubilaeummisericordiae.va/content/gdm/en/giubileo/ bolla.html

language and gestures of the church but the context makes it clear that all men and women in their own communications, in their reaching out to meet others, ought to be motivated by a deep

expression of welcome, availability and forgiveness.

The theme highlights the capacity of good communication to open up a space for dialogue, mutual understanding and reconciliation, thereby allowing fruitful human encounters to flourish. At a time when our attention is often drawn to the polarized and judgmental nature of much commentary on the social networks, the theme invokes the power of words and gestures to overcome misunderstandings, to heal memories and to build peace and harmony.

Once again, Pope Francis is reminding us that, in its essence, communication is a profoundly human achievement. Good communication is never merely the product of the latest or most developed technology, but is realized within the context of a deep interpersonal relationship.

World Communications Day, the only annual worldwide event called for by the Second Vatican Council, is celebrated in most countries, on the recommendation of the bishops of the world, on the Sunday before Pentecost (May 8, 2016).

The pope’s message for World Communications Day is traditionally published on Jan 24, in conjunction with the memorial of St. Francis de Sales, patron of writers.

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Issues beneath issues at synod 2015 requires challenge as well as compassion and mercy.

ince Pope Francis announced that two synods would examine the contemporary crisis of marriage and the family and work to devise more evangelically dynamic responses to that crisis, a lot of attention has focused on issues of Catholic discipline: How does the church determine that a marriage never existed and thus grant a decree of nullity? What is to be done about the sacramental situation of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics? How does the church best prepare george weigel its sons and daughters for marriage?

Beneath these visible questions lie more basic questions of the church’s self-understanding. So one hopes that synod 2015 will focus some of its attention on these very serious matters “beneath the surface” of the current debate...

3. Are there any stable reference points in the church’s self-understanding?

The call to “take people where they are” has frequently been accompanied by the claim that “history” is somehow decisive for the church’s self-understanding on, say, the nature of marriage. Many Catholics get divorced; this historical datum, say certain northern European theologians and bishops, is the prism through which we should “read” (and then find a way around, or through, or past) what has long seemed to be the stable truth, given by the Lord himself, that marriage is indissoluble. But what judges what here? Does the church still accept that there are “sacred givens” in its life: truths given to it

by Christ, truths that are the permanent standard by which proposed pastoral initiatives and reforms are measured? Or is “history” (which in the case of the church leadership in Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland seems to mean “what’s happening right now”) the real standard?

1. Can Catholics be both sinner and saved?

Proposals to admit divorced and remarried Catholics to Holy Communion, after a penitential period but without a decree that the prior marriage never existed (an “annulment”), seem to some to reflect Martin Luther’s old claim that Christians are always “simul iustus et peccator,” “both sinner and saved.” Fifty years of ecumenical dialogue and serious theological work have not found a way to square this claim with classic Catholic understandings of sin and grace. Would the admission of the divorced and civilly remarried to Holy Communion eviscerate the church’s classic understanding of God’s life within us, how we can reject that grace by certain grave sins, and how we are restored to friendship with God?

2. How does the church help its people climb the ladder of love?

Many pastoral proposals floating around the Synod begin with the assertion that the church “must take people where they are.” That seems

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4. Should the church recognize an “intermediate” level of teaching authority, between the Bishop of Rome and the bishop in his diocese?

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Pope Francis carries a crosier as he leaves opening Mass of Synod of Bishops on the family in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 4.

obvious; where else would the church “take” (or better, begin to evangelize and catechize) people?

But the entire point of “taking people where they are” has always been to invite people to climb higher on what St. Augustine called the “ladder of love.” In that climb, we all stumble and miss rungs. Still, centuries of pastoral experience, and the lives of the saints, suggest that it’s by keeping the higher rungs on the ladder in view that we learn to climb higher and love more truly. And keeping those higher rungs in sight

Both John Paul II and Benedict XVI rejected the idea that national or regional conferences of bishops could exercise some form of real teaching authority, because this was not, in their judgment, the mind of Vatican II (or the tradition of the church). Today, it’s proposed (again by some German churchmen) that, irrespective of the Synod and the pope, local churches should make their own judgments about issues like the conditions for the worthy reception of Holy Communion. “National churches” have always been deeply problematic for the Catholic Church; now, when we have the opportunity to be a true “world church,” are we returning to tried-and-failed notions from the past?

It’s going to be a full three weeks, here at the synod.

Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

Innocence, complexity, and sanctity

ome years ago, I officiated at a wedding.

As the officiating priest, I was invited to the reception and dance that followed upon the church service. Not knowing the family well and having church services the next morning, I left right after the banquet and the toasts, just as the dancing was about to start. When I was seemingly out of earshot, I heard the bride’s father say to someone: “I’m glad that Father has gone; now we can celebrate with some rock music!”

FATHER ron I didn’t take the remark rolheiser personally since the man meant well, but the remark stung nevertheless because it betrayed an attitude that painted me, and others like me, as religious but naïve, as good to sit at the head table and be specially introduced, but as being best out of sight when real life begins; as if being religious means that you are unable to handle the earthiness and beat of rock music, as if church and earthy celebration are in opposition to each other, as if sanctity demands an elemental innocence the precludes human complexity, and as if full-blood and religion are best kept separate.

But that’s an attitude within most people, however unexpressed. The idea is that God and human complexity do not go together. Ironically that attitude is particularly prevalent among the over-pious and those most negative towards religion. For the both the over-pious and the militant-impious, God and robust life cannot go together. And that’s also basically true for the

rest of us as is evident in our inability to attribute complexity, earthiness, and temptation to Jesus, to the Virgin Mary, to the saints, and to other publicly-recognized religious figures such as Mother Teresa. It seems that we can only picture holiness as linked to a certain naiveté. For us, holiness needs to be sheltered and protected like a young child. As a result we then project such an over-idealization of innocence and simplicity onto Jesus, Mary, and our religious exemplars that it becomes impossible for us to ever really identify with them. We can give them admiration, but very little else.

For example, the Virgin Mary of our piety could not have written the Magnificat. She lacks the complexity to write such a prayer because we have projected on to her such an innocence, delicacy, and childlikeness so as to leave her less than fully adult and fully intelligent. Ultimately this has a negative effect religiously. To identify an unrealistic innocence and simplicity with holiness sets out an unattainable ideal that has too many people believe that their own red blood, with its restless stirrings, makes them bad candidates for the church and sanctity.

In the Roman Catholic rite of baptism, at a point, the priest or deacon pronounces these words: See in this white garment the outward sign of your Christian dignity. With your family and friends to help you by word and example, bring that dignity unstained into the everlasting life of heaven. That’s a wonderful statement celebrating the beauty and virtue of innocence.

But it celebrates an innocence that has yet to meet adult life.

The innocence of a child is stunning in its beauty and holds up for us a mirror within which to see our moral and psychological scars and the missteps we have taken as adults, not

unlike the humbling we can feel when we look at bodies in a mirror when we get older. The beauty of youth is gone. But the disquiet and judgment we feel in the presence of a child’s innocence is more a neurosis and misconception than a genuine judgment on our sanctity and moral goodness. Children are innocent because they have not yet had to deal with life, its infinite complexities, and its inevitable wounds. Young children are so beautifully innocent because they are still naïve and pre-sophisticated. To move to adulthood they will have to pass through inevitable initiations which will leave more than a few smudges on the childlike purity of their baptismal robes.

A friend of mine is fond of saying this about innocence: As an adult, I wouldn’t give a penny for the toward a second naivete purity of a child, but I would give everything to find true childlike innocence inside the complexity of my adult life. I think that what he means is this: Jesus went into the singles’ bars of his time, except he didn’t sin. The task in spirituality is not to try to emulate the naive innocence and non-complexity of our childhood. That’s an exercise in denial and a formula for rationalization. The task is rather to move, a post-sophistication which has already taken into account the full complexity of our lives. Only then will we have again the innocent joy of children, even as we are able to stand steady inside the rawness of rock music, the power and complexity of human sexuality, the concupiscent tendencies of the human heart, and the uncanny and wily maneuverings innate inside the human spirit. From there we can write the Magnificat.

Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

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Sunday readings

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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PSALM 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!

Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Return, O Lord! How long?

Have pity on your servants!

Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!

Fill us at daybreak with your kindness that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.

Make us glad, for the days when you afflicted us, for the years when we saw evil.

Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!

Let your work be seen by your servants and your glory by their children; and may the gracious care of the Lord our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands!

Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!

HEBREWS 4:12-13 Brothers and sisters: Indeed the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart. No creature is concealed from him, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

MARK 10:17-30 As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.” He replied and said

to him, “Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.” Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, “You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” At that statement his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” The disciples were amazed at his words. So Jesus again said to them in reply, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.” Peter began to say to him, “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.”

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Content Christians tend to be joyless the pope said in Vatican City, celebrating an early morning Mass Oct. 1, the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux.

The day’s reading, recounts the people of Israel together to listen to the “the book of the law of God.” “The people not only found their city, the city where they were born, the city of God. This people heard the law, found their identity and for this reason they were joyful and wept.”

Thursday, October 15: Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila, virgin and doctor of the church. Rom 3:21-30. PS 130:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab. Jn 14:6. Lk 11:47-54.

died 222 12: MonMonday, October feast – October 14 day of the Twenty-eighth Week According to St. Hippolytus, in Ordinary Time.

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The church can light up the darkness of humanity Vatican Information Service

“When life proves difficult and demanding, we can be tempted to step back, turn away and withdraw, perhaps even in the name of prudence and realism, and thus flee the responsibility of doing our part as best we can,” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 3.

Addressing a large number of faithful, the pope spoke about the human fear that the prophet Elijah experienced and how he got up and fled for his life and recalled that “just a year ago, in this same square, we invoked the Holy Spirit and asked that – in discussing the theme of the family – the synod fathers might listen attentively to one another, with their gaze fixed on Jesus, the definitive Word of the Father and the criterion by which everything is to be measured.

“This evening, our prayer cannot be otherwise.

For as Patriarch Athenagoras Metropolitan Ignatius IV Hazim reminded us, without the Holy Spirit God is far off, Christ remains in the past, the church becomes a mere organization, authority becomes domination, mission becomes propaganda, worship becomes mystique, Christian life the morality of slaves,” he said.

The pope continued, “Let us pray that the synod will show how the experience of mar-

riage and family is rich and humanly fulfilling.

May the synod acknowledge, esteem and proclaim all that is beautiful, good and holy about that experience. May it embrace situations of vulnerability and hardship: war, illness, grief, wounded relationships and brokenness, which create distress, resentment and separation. May it remind these families, and every family, that the Gospel is always ‘good news’ which once again enables us to start over. From the treasury of the church’s living tradition may the fathers draw words of comfort and hope for families called in our own day to build the future of the ecclesial community and the city of man.”

The pope emphasized that “every family is always a light, however faint, amid the darkness of this world. Jesus’ own human experience took shape in the heart of a family, where he lived for 30 years. His family was like any number of others, living in an obscure village on the outskirts of the empire.”

He gave the example of Charles de Foucauld who “came to understand that we do not grow in the love of God by avoiding the entanglement of human relations. For in loving others, we learn to love God, in stooping down to help our neighbor, we are lifted up to God. Through his fraternal closeness and his solidarity with the poor and the abandoned, he came to understand that

it is they who evangelize us, they who help us to grow in humanity.”

The pope encouraged the faithful to enter into the mystery of the family in order to be able to understand it. “The family is a place where evangelical holiness is lived out in the most ordinary conditions,” he said. “There we are formed by the memory of past generations and we put down roots which enable us to go far.

The family is a place of discernment, where we learn to recognize God’s plan for our lives and to embrace it with trust. It is a place of gratuitousness, of discreet fraternal presence and solidarity, a place where we learn to step out of ourselves and accept others, to forgive and to be feel forgiven.

“Let us set out once more from Nazareth for a synod which, more than speaking about the family, can learn from the family, readily acknowledging its dignity, its strength and its value, despite all its problems and difficulties,” the pope said. “In the ‘Galilee of the nations’ of our own time, we will rediscover the richness and strength of a church which is a mother, ever capable of giving and nourishing life, accompanying it with devotion, tenderness, and moral strength. For unless we can unite compassion with justice, we will end up being needlessly severe and deeply unjust.”

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Father John Ward, 86 Father John Ward, retired pastor of Blessed Sacrament Parish, San Rafael, died Sept.

26 at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo. He was 86 years old.

Born in Oakland, Father Ward Father John attended Catholic Ward schools there until entering the seminary as a high school freshman.

He was ordained from St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park at St. Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop John J. Mitty on June 11, 1955.

He served at parishes including

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St. Paul, San Francisco, Mater Dolorosa, South San Francisco and St. Charles, San Carlos before being appointed pastor of Our Lady of the Pillar Church in Half Moon Bay where he served for 15 years.

He was named pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in San Rafael in 1990 retiring in 1995. He lived at the Marin Catholic Faculty House until moving to Serra Clergy House in 2006.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 2 at St. Gregory Church, San Mateo.

Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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tained me while I had been there was completely gone,” Kathy said.

She didn’t dare articulate that awful feeling, so she proceeded in social mode, posing in group photos with a tight smile on her freckled face, catching up with friends, eating with her grandparents.

When she retreated to her room for the night, she tried to explain away her feelings – typical jitters, sure to diminish – and eventually fell asleep.

It wasn’t until the following week, when she had begun losing sleep and struggling with her new teaching position, that Kathy shared her concerns with her superior, beginning a painful process of discerning out of the vocation she had once felt so sure of. It seemed liked a strange reversal. Was she now saying no to God? Had she fallen from grace?

Four months after professing her vows, Kathy moved into her parents’ basement.

She attended daily Mass with her mom, experiencing a profound wave of peace each time she received Communion. She started to rebuild her life.

Today, after five years, heaps of prayer, regular spiritual direction, countless convent dreams and some counseling, Kathy loves life again. She lives with a friend in an apartment near Minneapolis, teaches preschool, attends a Catholic studies master’s program and communicates with guys on CatholicMatch. Marriage, is a genuine desire of her heart not a default vocation. She’s waiting on God’s perfect timing.

Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and the editor of SisterStory.org.

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ENCYCLICAL: Jesuit Father John Coleman on the papal encyclical, “Laudato Si’” (“Our Care for our Common Home”) exploring our ecological relationship with and responsibility to the world around us, 9:30 a.m., St. Anselm Church, Shady Lane and Bolinas, Ross, Maureen Dear (415) 456-9732.

SISTER HELEN PREJEAN: The author of “Dead Man Walking” at St. Luke Episcopal Church, 1755 Clay St. between Polk and Van Ness, speaking about those on death row today, 6 p.m., admission free, reception follows; ecumenical prayer service precedes the talk; (415) 305-2124; www.philipworkman.org.

SUNDAY, OCT. 11 CONCERT: Mission Dolores music director Jerome Lenk is featured artist for the Basilica Centennial Organ Series, Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th and Dolores streets, 4 p.m., performing works of Bach, Elgar and other artists, free admission / donations encouraged.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 15 60th REUNION: Archbishop Riordan Class of 1955, Presidio Golf Club, 11 a.m., $60; Jack McCloskey, (650) 9929139 or seanabu@att.net.

ROSARY RALLY: The National Pilgrim Virgin statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be installed on stage in U.N. Plaza beside the altar as early as 10:30 Archbishop a.m. to await Salvatore J. the arrival of Cordileone the procession from St. Mary’s Cathedral led by Archbishop Cordileone. Immediately after Benediction that marks the end of the rally, the statue will be moved to a prepared table on the grounds, after which veneration may begin.

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PASTA LUNCH: Immaculate Conception Church, Folsom at Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, noon, with meal of all you can eat pasta, meatballs, $10; beverages available for purchase, a tradition of the local church for more than 50 years.

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ST. JUDE PILGRIMAGE: Annual walk ends at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco for noon Mass with Bishop William J. Justice, principal celebrant. Walk begins 10 a.m. from Immaculate Conception Church, Folsom Street off Cesar Chavez Street, San Francisco, parking in St. Dominic lot, shuttles take pilgrims to start site 7- 9 a.m., info@ stjude-shrine.org; www.stjude-shrine.org; (415) 931-5919, (415) 333-8730.

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Parishioners

10% Discount to Seniors & Parishioners Residential 10% Discount Serving the Residential

Commercial Commercial

Plumbing Works San Francisco ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND BONDED & INSURED

415-205-1235

10% Discount 415-710-0584

CA License 819191 BHEFFPAINTING@sbcglobal.net Seniors & Office 415-731-8065 Commercial

HOLLAND CA LIC #817607

Cell 415-710-0584 Office 415-731-8065

Bay Area for Seniors over 30 Years

& Parishioners

Serving the Bay Area for over 30 Years

fences & decks Serving the Bay Area for over 30 Years

Bill Hefferon

John Spillane

• Retaining Walls • Stairs • Gates • Dry Rot • Senior & Parishioner Discounts

650.291.4303

Lic. #742961

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Irish Help at Home

High Quality Home Care Since 1996 Home Care Attendants • Companions • CNA’s Hospice • Respite Care • Insured and Bonded San Mateo 650.347.6903

San Francisco 415.759.0520

Marin 415.721.7380

www.irishhelpathome.com